2 Little Monkeys

2 little monkeys jumping on the bed,

 

1 fell off (on PURPOSE) and (didn’t break) his head.       

Did I Mention…

…that it snowed 6 inches Friday night???

P.S. We had a total "Ralphie" moment when I got addie all dressed, snow boots zipped, gloves on...."Mommy, I have to go potty." Fabulous!

Typical Afternoon – A Photo Essay

Dozy kids, smiles, a few fights and tears, reminders to share, hugs and forgiveness. Typical afternoon with two toddlers.

Yesterday, Jeremy and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary!!! Our marriage by the numbers....

-2 Bachelor's Degrees
- Lived in 6 different places
- Driven 5 different cars
- Countless jobs!!!
- Visited NYC (twice), Cancun, Mexico, Canada, SoCal twice, Portland, Oregon (& the coast), Mt. Rushmore, Upstate New York, Washington DC, Ocean City, Maryland, Mt. St. Helens, Seattle, Washington, Omaha, Ne.......
-2 Kiddos

Some random pictures....

Jeremy and I when I was 17 and he was 19 after a day in the mountains. Just best friends. (I look lovely, I know, but I love this picture. 10 years ago!)

Two years later - me (20), Jeremy (21) - Jeremy visiting me in D.C.

Engagement Pictures (I don't know why the pictures scanned with that weird white blotch, I can't fix it. It's obviously not like that in the real photo.)

Wedding - again another weird splotch between the scanner and the computer. Oh well.

One of my favorites from that day - this wasn't even one our photographer took. It was just a candid shot somebody got and gave me the print.

My graduation at BYU-Idaho

Lots of trips and vacations with family

Me, 8 months pregnant with Addie. (I had a horrible mother moment when I was looking through all our photos for this post and I can't find a single belly picture when I was pregnant with Davis!)

Addison Grace, 1-12-07

Jeremy graduates!

Family of three - Halloween 2007. (No wait, there is my belly, 4 1/2 months pregnant with Davis!)

Davis Jeremy - 3-27-08

Two kids!!! (Addie, 14 months, Davis 3 days...)

Jeremy starts med school - 8-08

Concerts, fun just hanging out!

Family of four!!

1st Day of Preschool

Today was the first day of Addie's "preschool" - two hours, one morning a week. She was most excited about the backpack. Having those two and a half hours with just Davis was really great, but we were both happy when it was time to pick her up!

Trying to get a nice picture was not happening. They were not in cooperative moods and I waited until the very last minute to try and get something. Maybe next week???

Happy Fall

I guess it's time for a little blogging update. We have been busy with school and our church responsibilities, we haven't done a lot where I've taken pictures. I just have a few funny things that happened at home and I remembered to grab the camera.

I was busy a couple of weekends ago with my latest project - finding an old hutch and fixing it up to use as a bookcase. Here's the finished product - I love the color. It's Sherwin Williams Halcyon Green (even though its the perfect Robin's Egg blue color if you ask me, not at all green) if anybody's interested.


Anyway, after getting that finished, I needed to clean my neglected house. The kids were busily playing (quietly, which should have tipped me off) while I was able to get my kitchen cleaned and some loads of laundry done. When I finally checked on them, I realized the error of my ways....


Do you ever feel like you're working against yourself? (That's my binder of everything for my responsibilities at church and some red crayon that I LUCKILY found only on the bathtub. Oh my.)

Finally, these two have been having so much fun together. Davis always wants to do everything Addie does. Addie is obsessed with everything girly (necklaces, painting her fingernails) and princesses (thank you, cousin Camilla) which explains how I found them brushing their teeth the other night:

Yes, that's nakedness with just a necklace on. The girl loves her accessories.

He loves his big sister!

Also, watch for an update this week of Addie and her first day of preschool. We found a great little church literally up the street from us that does a one morning a week preschool for 2 year olds turning 3. She went to an orientation this week and fell in love with Miss Ashlie and Miss Stefanie.
A lot of my friends here in Omaha are homeschoolers, and through them I have found a great resource that I am going to start using with both of kids here at home. It's a site called "No Time For Flashcards" and she has the best ideas for crafts with toddlers/preschoolers as well as "letter of the day" lesson plans complete with corresponding book recommendations and craft projects. I'll let you know how it goes!

P.S. A week from today is Jeremy and I's (or is it me? I never know) 6 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Needless to say we have grand plans....maybe a Redbox and some takeout after the kids are asleep???

Family Pictures

My mom just sent me a copy of the family pictures we had taken when we were in Idaho last month and I had to share some of them! (I'm not sure why some of the pictures got all pixelated when they posted, but it's too late to figure blogger out.)

(And I'm squinting, but it's a cute picture of everybody else!)




(Isn't this the cutest picture - the photographer got all four kids to look AND smile - a miracle! These are my brother's kids...)