Wednesday, June 25, 2008

My keyless moments....


Here is Hannah. Here is my laptop. Put them together and you now have a happy Hannah and a keyless laptop. More about this in a bit....
Doug and Sam left Monday morning for Utah for the week. Doug's dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a month ago and is undergoing surgery Thursday morning to have the cancer removed. They will be back hopefully Friday.
I have been writing down all of Hannah's "terrific two" moments of the past few days. The day we found out from the ultrasound that we were finally going to have a little girl, all I could think of was a little angel with pink frills. Well apparently we have a different breed of angels around here. Here are her latest adventures~

~Hannah climbing up on my lap during the passing of the sacrament during church and throwing her arms up and shouting "Ta Da!"

~(We get out of church at 4:30 pm-I know, not great for afternoon nappers) Hannah falling asleep at 5:30 pm and waking up at 1:00 am ready for the day!!

~Getting in to Grandma's egg carton and cracking 1/2 the eggs while grandma was gone. Thankfully she cracked them back in to the carton!

~Dumping dry cereal on the family room carpet and throwing it around the room as I shout, "No." My shouting seemed to increase her throwing speed.

~Getting in to my purse and taking out my car keys and when she sees me coming towards her, takes off running away in the opposite direction as fast as she can.

~Coming to me and announcing that she has "poopies" while she holds up her two hands that are covered with you-know-what! 2 x's so far this week.

~Trying out a pair of scissors on her tongue.

~Chasing her older brother, Max, around the backyard while trying to hit him with two handfuls of rocks.

~While her baby brother is laying on the floor, she loves to run and jump over him to see mom's reaction!

~Riding Max's training wheel bike with no shoes or helmet and trying to ride to the park 5 blocks away.

Well, that's all my sleep-deprived, frazzled brain can remember of this week's keyless moments....

Danny's new discovery


Danny has discovered his tongue. He just cracks me up everyday with his silly little tongue expressions! I just had to share.

Our friendly neighborhood SpiderMax!

SpiderNate also came to visit us!

Me and Danny enjoying the Eagle Fun Days parade a week ago.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Summer Begins!


Sam and his small wooden catapult he made at Scout Day Camp this week. He has had tons of fun seeing how far he can launch different objects at home. I finally put my foot down when the boys started using the catapult to launch things in to a floor fan to see how far the fan could launch things. Boys are amazing! My IPhone pictures aren't the best, but they'll have to do tonight!

Hannah in her workin' boots-Max's winter boots.

Max hanging out as Spidey all day. Life doesn't get any better than this!

Whats a little girl in a pretty dress got to do? Play in the dirt. Her brothers have taught her well.

Nate and Danny

Baby Danny

Max and Nate at Nate's Kindergarten graduation

We have posted!

We are officially blogging! I can't tell you how long I've wanted to get this started and life has just been, well, life! It seems that things have calmed down a tad bit lately (knock on wood); our new little Danny, aka DJ, is now 3 months and we're not moving this summer. Phew! Also, I won't have morning sickness like I did last summer which means I can get some more things accomplished around here...well, I'm hopeful.
On to our latest news: We've had quite an eventful week. Sam, Nate and Max finished school last Thursday for the summer. Sam finished 3rd grade, Nate finished Kindergarten and Max finished his first year of preschool. Thursday was a fun-filled, busy day as I went from one last-day-of-school activity to another. So this week, our first full week of summer, Doug had a four day work retreat to attend. No big deal, it's the beginning of summer vacation-life is good! But nope, not going to have that nice, happy dream when Sam puked Monday evening, the night before Doug was to leave. After Hannah puking on Sunday, I knew that we had a stomach bug just beginning! Gotta love the timing. So needless to say, I've had very little sleep the past two nights and hoping for a better nights rest tonight since everyone had it. And so it goes....
The silver lining this week has been the fun that Sam's had at Scout Day Camp the past two days. Also, finally got around to starting a job chart for the three boys and they've been really great about keeping up on their jobs. Why didn't I do this a long time ago?!