Our favorite moments

Growing up happens so fast! This year has been the fastest. After almost a year I think I have things almost figured out with schedules, being a mom, working.... then the kids start new skills and just grow up so fast. A Few years ago I about this very time I told jax to slow down... well look at us now. I was thinking it with em, but forgot to actualy tell her since it did no good with the first. So as We start a new year. already here are a few of our favorite moments.

Um she's little now and thinks she is so funny being where she's not supposed to be. I think to my self. "poor dishwasher, your gonna fall apart any day!" She just plays with the trays and spins the helicopter and has so much fun...had to capture the sheer joy of Growing up.

Look What I have! a fork and im using it, to feed myself..Yaay!



My toothless Smile! before I got my Chompers.

Look, I got a big Cheeky!

Pictures in the park

Not an easy task. We had a friend take some much needed Family Photos. Personalities are everchanging and growing. We wanted to share some of the fun we have been experienceing as parents. Smiles & giggles, walking & wiggles.

Just had to go back in time.

I just had to go back in time to show the Halloween we had this year. Halloween has never been my favorite holiday... until I had kids. This year we were a hodge podge of all sorts of things. The boys were cute as can be cowboys. Jax was finally able to fit into his handme down cowboy boots from the Family reunion and souvineer hat, Daddy's vest from when he was little, and mamma's collection of hankies. Em-was a little viking baby, not sure of the proper term. But she was given this cute hat as a gift...It was perfect timing for Halloween and so starts TUTU making. What she is wearing is a tutu made from scraps from a tutu she will wear in about 2 years. Mama was a thrown together gypsy! (not pictured)

Oh we love our brother. Em loves crawling all over Jax. Especially when he has snacks. To Jax, anytime we eat sitting on a blanket, it's a "picnic". We came home from errands and I gave him some snacks, he asked for a blanket for a picnic. He loves eating outside. Today of all things we had a picnic this afternoon in the warm sun. It was so warm we had to pull the blanket into the sun. He really loves playing outdoors.

So it's been Awhile.....

2010 I had good intentions of keeping up to date. It is now the latter half of 2011 and I don't intend to Catch up on the last year and a half.

Some Pictures to let you know we are doing well and living life. Jax has a love of trains and cannot get enough. We distract him by going to the park or places to play with friends. Learning to share just started. He can share most of the time with Mom, Dad and Elly. There are select toys for us. but of course Everything is "MINE"! Jax is a pretty good back seat driver. "red light-STOP....Green light-GO GOGO!!"

Oh Yeah..we Welcomed Emily to the Family in February. She makes the best Cooing sounds and has the cutest "toothless Smile" Chubby as Ever and rolling and scooting all over the place reaching for things she ought not to. She adores her big brother. He will push her in the swing that is already swiging and they just have a ball Laughing at each other till one of them gets the hiccups.

Off Hiatus

We've been on hiatus for awhile... almost all electronic communication. Wanted to give a quick update before I started putting pictures back up. Summer we had an awesome Family reunion, came home..packed up the house and moved across town. Worked on unpacking ...finding the computer..well we plugged it in and "poof" a literal poof of smoke and fire came out of the computer.....so we had to get that fixed....caught up on 78 emails......56 emails.......120 emails....Bills...Moved in ...So right about now we feel that we are getting settled and almost back to normal. Mike went on fishing trip and came with Cheese!

LAst week Jax started saying "Baby" Clearly it used to be "Daeby" so the timing is great because we just found out we are expecting a "GIRL" !

So we will keep you posted on our happenings.

Pismo Dunes

Memorial day weekend we went to the dunes. The weather was going to beautiful and the rhino was ready to go. We picked up ourselves a new toy for our long trip, a 32' toy hauler that we wanted to break in. Let me tell you it made camping a lot easier with the little one. The only problem is you spend too much time inside with some moddern conviences. I kinda missed when we tent camped you were actually camping "roughing it".

The little guy enjoyed the trip down, slept most the way thank goodness. That made our drive more enjoyable. He did such a good job he got to get out of the carseat when we arrived at the beach and aired down.

Playing in the sand is so much fun. We gave him the task of digging the fire pit. Dad had to help a little but he was right in there digging away.

The boys had fun on their trips out to the Dunes. Some of the guys Mike works with came down and had a blast. The new set up in the Rhino made things more fun and safer.

After the boys were done it was time for Mom and the boy to take a ride. The little guy wasn't to sure if he liked it. When we went down hills his eyes got really big. Mom rode in the back while dad drove, He was holding onto moms hand as tight as he could. Maybe a few more trips out he will start to like it.

We had a great trip the weather was beautiful, and the sand was soft.

So this is how the truck had to leave the dunes. Sad sight. Pulling into the dunes we had to drive across the dunes and there was an incline. The truck didn't want to make it, dad was trying harder and harder to make it until the transmission decided it didn't want to make it. So we sat there for about an hour trying to figure out what to do when a straight up "Redneck" in a big truck came up and offered to give us a tow. We told him the truck was dead and he wouldn't be able to tow us, he told us to hold while he got a buddy. It took two trucks to pull us to our camp spot where the we spent the next 3 days, and the truck sat there not going ANYWHERE.

So your probable wondering how we got home. Good question, all weekend dad was trying to figure that out, since it was a holiday weekend all the shops would be closed until Tuesday. Finally we called a friend back home and asked him to bring down his truck to tow the fifth wheel back and dad would take the truck to a shop.

So that was our fun adventure. It seams that every trip with us has a "good story". All those that have been with us know what we are talking about. There is always a story to look back on and go..That is so crazy.....and yet we still go year after year.

*** Spring has Sprung ***

Spring has Sprung and so has our little Boy!

-Clothes that used to fit..no longer do

- Independence is getting stonger each day

-Climb halfway up the stairs without making a peep

-Comes down the stairs like a pro!

-Definetly has his opinions about what he wants to do, even if Daddy says "no"

-Thinks its funny to walk the other direction when Mama says "Come here"

-Loves sitting in chairs his size and puts his sippy cup in the cup holder

-Always plays hide and seek with Dad's Charger

-Drinks out of the faucet/hose....like a pro

-Daily chore is to Help feed the dogs and Fill the dogs water bucket

-Everything with 4 legs is a Wuuf.

-Purposely drops food off the high-chair just to say"uuh oh"

-Offers the doggies their treats...after sampling a few

-Signs: more, milk.....or I WANT!

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