Little escapees

The above picture is Drew....he learned VERY early on how to lean out of the bouncy seat and get to things that he wanted. Most of the time it was into the dishwasher. It seems like Evan is finally taking after him in the escaping. The next few pictures where taken right before I hopped into the shower this morning. Evan recently decided that he doesn't like sitting in this chair. I only ever put him in it when I am in the shower. I really do make sure that he has toys. But today he wanted the trash. EW....bathroom trash. I am so glad that the straps are tight....he could have flipped himself right out.

The Dora Slide

Last night Kris decided to get out the Dora Slide. It is a Dora version of a little Slip n' Slide. The kids love it. Then somehow Evan ended up in it. I don't recall how the conversation went, and let's just say he didn't like it, but as you can tell from the picture of him wet and in Kris' arms...he sure liked it when he was done.

Kindergarden graduation for Drew

I know that this is LONG overdue, but I really havne't felt much like blogging lately. I just like to read everyone elses stuff. BUT at last I know that some people have been asking for more pictures. I really thought that I had a better handle on the camera taking, but I didn't. I can't believe that I didn't take more pictures....even at home. I will try to do better, not promising just trying.

Wow Drew has graduated from Kindergarten. Can you believe it? I am so excited for him.
We had the Grandma, and Kris' parents here for the big day. We always let the kids pick out what food we eat for dinner or lunch when it is a special day for them. Drew wanted Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich's....for everyone. He was even insisting that everyone had to eat ALL of the crust. He held his ground until the day before and then Kris managed to talk him to giving everyone a choice of Peanut butter and Jelly or meat. Boy was I ever grateful. Everything went great. He kept telling me that he was going to make me cry....AND I kept replying that I wasn't.....who was right? DREW was. I tried to hold it back, but I couldn't.
Here is when Drew got to "walk the bridge" to first grade, get his Kindergarten diploma and shake hands with the teacher. I think he forgot about the shaking hands part, he just kept trying to pull the paper out of her hand, it was like a little mini-tug of war.

Such an excited boy.

Just a little something Kris and him do.

This is Karina and Drew. We have mentioned her before. They are buds. Right after this picture was taken she turned to Drew and laid a big fat kiss right on his cheek.

Drew and Mrs. Anderson....I could not have dreamed of a better teacher for Drew!

My how people love to tag me.

I've been tagged again! These are pretty fun :)

A - Age: 30-not for too much longer
B - Bed size: queen. And sometimes it still doesn't seem big enough
C - Chore you hate: catbox, putting clothes away
D – Dessert: AH...yeah....all of them...tonight it was Bread Pudding from Famous Daves!
E – Essential(s) to start your day: Thyroid meds
F - Favorite flower: Orchids and Lillies
G- Gold or Silver: Silver, I guess, or white gold or platnium
H - Height: 5 feet and 4 inches
I - Instruments you play(ed): People beg me not to
J - Job you had in high school: Receiptionist at a hair place
K - Kid(s): Elaine 8, Drew-6, Izzy 4, and Evan-8 months
L - Lunch spots: my own kitchen
M - Mom's Name: Lynne
N - Newest item bought: crayons, craft sticks, stuff to make cheesecake, milk and chips.
O - Overnight hospital stay: 4 kids
P - Pet Peeve: when someone answers a question with a question....yes I do it too.
Q- Quote from a movie: Savor it
R - Right or left handed: Left
S - Siblings: Tyler
T - Time you wake up: when the kids are in school and on Sundays it is 7:20 with one hit of the snooze bar.....other days whenever
U - Underarm deodorant?: The Dove clinical one.....very good
V - Very surprising fact: I don't like surprises....other than that baby shower
W - Ways you run late: kids can't find there shoes, or Kris forgot to let the dog out
X - X-rays you've had: teeth, CT of head 2 times, ankles a lot
Y - Yummy food you make: garlic chicken
Z - Zoo animal: otters

I tag:
Tiffany

Oh and I promise I really do have pictures and other fun things to post....It will wait.

Taggged

People must know that I love these things....and this one is super short.

1. What is your favorite color? it varies...somedays its red, others yellow, I am doing orange a lot lately.
2. What is your favorite song? God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood
3. What did you do this month, that was your favorite? saw Drew graduate from Kindergarden
4. What is your favorite candy? Candy? Favorite....I love it all!
5. What is something that you really want to learn to do? quilt, play the piano, and knit
6. What is your favorite flower? orchids and lillies
7. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Europe without flying over the ocean

I tag...

everyone....if you're reading it....fill it out!

Evans first haircut

Evan just got his first haircut last night. I have trimmed the top before just to keep it even. Then sides were driving me CRAZY! In these first 2 pictures you can see how it sicks over his ears really bad on his left side.

We stuck him in the Bumbo chair and put a cape over him....you have to catch as much of the hair as possible so they don't itch. We had Drew holding Evans hands under the cape and Kris manning the camera..... soon enough Kris had to hold Evans head and Elaine was manning the camera. He did great! Never once cried, just wanted to see what was going on. I like it so much better!

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That'll teach him!

Evan doesn't like to feed himself......I figured this would work......it did wonders. He is truly one of the family now....he loves Oreo's. Are we supposed to feed them to him this young? I don't remember...no citrus, no strawberries, no real cows milk, and no nuts...right? Oreo's okay then? I think so.

Memorial Day Weeknd

We have had a great and very busy weekend. Starting Friday night we somehow managed to go out with some friends. It was a milestone for us....the first time leaving all, yes ALL of the kids with teenagers for babysitting! I must say they did a great job. Then on Saturday I got to shop the sales for a good part of the day....loved it, and I was very good at keeping to my list. Sunday after church we headed up to Edgerton to see Aunt Dawn and Uncle Brian, and we were so happy to see that even more of the extended family made it out too. It great catching up with everyone. I managed, or Kris managed to catch just a few pictures. I am hoping that next time we have a family thing we remember to get more pictures of everyone instead of just us. BUT hey at least I remebered the camera this time. Then on Monday we went to a VERY yummy pancake breakfast at a park with everyone from Church. We even had Waffles with this homemade Strawberry Syurp....delisous.....I asked for the recipe....simple....blend fresh strawberries and sugar....lots of sugar. It was suggested that I use between 1 and 1 1/2 cups of sugar for a normal size thing of strawberries, grocery store size, not Costco size. It is worth it.... I could of just drank the entire bottle. Here are a few pics from Sunday at the campground.



Izzy was already asleep on the way to the campground.....and boy they all were tired on the way home.

Elaine and Drew playin together.

Great Grandma Shirly and Great Aunt Jo with Evan

Grandma and Evan

The boy's

Evan was sitting with Kris at the computer and Drew decided to join in....so here is a pic of "THE BOYS".

Congradulations Kris!

Kris recently graduated from his Master's Program....Engineering Management, from Eastern Michigan University. We very excited to have it over with! Here are 3 pictures of the our party....yes only 3. Remember, I suck at being the camera man. I did try to get a picture of him grilling, but he put a stop to that fast, and so instead of trying so hard to be a good camera man I decided to join the party instead.

Letter to President

I couldn't have said this better myself. Do you people still support him like the once did???? There is just something about him.....I don't get it. I did try to call Kathleen, and it is a real #, but no one answered.

April 27, 2009

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington , DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America. You are responsible to the citizens of the United States.

You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth. I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?

Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century? Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of S audi Arabia. You don't show20Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia . How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey . You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What's the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members - on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer.

You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't! Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million - not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Every Real American

P.S. I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.............


PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all Americans to wake up!

Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade Teacher
Grandview Elementary School
11470 Hwy. C
Hillsboro, MO 63050
(636) 944-3291 Phone
(636) 944-3870 Fax

Quilt give-a-way

Well we all know that I L.O.V.E. a good quilt! AND here is one that is super cute. Check out her blog by fallowing the link below and sign up to win this one! Of course you will be able to view all the picutes of it. For those of you who have seen my house....wouldn't that yellow just be perfect with my walls?

Izzy and Evan well-child checks

Last week sometime....or maybe even the week before that. Izzy and Evan had their 4 year and 6 months well child checks. Here are the stats..... Izzy is 41 1/2 (80%) inches and 39 lbs (80%). Evan is 17 lbs 1/2 oz (45%) and 28 inches (90%) with the head circumference in the 25%. I forgot to ask about the actual measurement of it. So Evan is going to be a giraffe tall, skinny, with a little head....still cute.....still very cute.

Kids say the oddest things

Elaine has been quite the family funny one lately. It seems present itself on Friday's. Last Friday we were making Pizza and getting ready to have some friends over for homemade pizza and Family Movie Night.....she comes running into the kitchen and say "Oh no my toe nail is rotten." I'm thinking a rotten toenail???? What? Now you have to know Elaine we should have named her Melvin (from Madagascar) she is the family Hypochondriac . BUT she wasn't freaking out, so I checked her toe out and sure enough.....she had dirt stuck under her toenail. I thought it was hilarious....toenail rotting!

The next one just a bit ago.....we were getting the kids ready for bed, story, and family prayer. Izzy and Drew were ready (like always) we were waiting for Elaine and had started story without her.....we hear her making these noises from the bathroom.....continuously making this noise. BUT we don't think anything of it, it is Elaine after all. Then out of the blue she says "Hey I just accidentally burped the alphabet." Kris and I busted out laughing and I was trying to tell her that she needs to act like a lady. It isn't funny to burp the alphabet. Who ever heard of such of a thing?

Easter

Here is our Easter. Before Church I did the girls hair. They had been begging me to make it curly. We tried to get a few pictures of the kids together, but you can tell how that went. The kids were very excited about the new Easter clothes that Grandma Lynne and Grandpa Mark sent them. Poor Evan....I could barley button the onsie he had on. He is growing fast!

After Church we had an egg hunt in the front yard. The picture that is just of the yard has eggs scattered in the grass, but it is hard to see them. AND yes, those are trick or treat bags......they were handy.

In the afternoon we had Grandma Sylvia, Uncle Carl, Aunt Sandy, Aunt Teddy and Uncle Garry over for Easter dinner...it was very YUMMY.....I just love ham.

Evan loved Aunt Teddy....it was his first time meeting her. He was fascinated with a bow that she had on her shirt. Even to point of trying to eat it. I think that he loved the black and white contrast as well as the silky texture to it.

All in all we had a great time. Even if everyone was tired. At the end of dinner we just sat around being tired. No games like I wanted. I didn't even think about it....too tired.