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Great Friends = Great Fun!! 8/09

2010-05-18T20:49:00.000-07:00

Thanks to our great friends and their fun toys, we get to spend some summer days on the water. It is always fun for all of us to get together and watch the kids (and adults) have such a great time. This was a blast. Thanks Woods!! We love you guys!

Noah's first day of 1st grade 7/09

2010-05-14T20:31:00.001-07:00

I can't believe my baby is in 1st grade. Boy is time flying...

Love the cabin 7/09

2010-05-13T20:23:00.001-07:00

My parents have a cabin in Island Park that we have been going to since I was young. It is so much fun to take my kids there now and let them enjoy the things that I loved to do as a child. It's the simple things in life really!!! Ü Oh how I love making memories....

The boys watching some sort of sport, I'm sure.

This would have been such a cute picture with

the flowers if only Emery would have cooperated.

Grandma needs more laps...

Ryan chillin' after a long day of, well, NOTHING!!

Emmers likes roasting marshmallows too.

Boys will be boys~

Getting ready to roast marshmallows

Grandma...What a nerd!! (But that is why we love her Ü)

mmmmm......Smores

My boys.

Who says you can't have fun on snowmobiles in July??

Happy 38th Birthday Ry!! 7/09

2010-05-13T20:11:00.001-07:00

We went to dinner with some friends and then came back to our house for some cake and Ice cream.

The boys wanted to help blow the candles out.

I am kindof a cake show junkie and they make it look

sooo easy on the shows so I wanted to give it a try. It turns

out that it isn't as easy as it looks, but it was still really fun. I made Ryan a

golf bag cake.

Happy 38th birthday honey!!!

4th of July 2009

2010-05-13T19:07:00.001-07:00

4th of July in Idaho Falls..

Noah and Rhyan with their sparklers

He loved it once he got the hang of it

Coley couldn't handle all the excitement

Cute Grandma

They were a little nervous for the fireworks so they got in the back of our car..and

still didn't know what to think..

Fireworks in Idaho Falls, Folks..

Anticipating the show....

All in a weekend at "black" grandma and grandpa's 7/09

2010-05-13T15:33:00.000-07:00

This is why my kids LOVE to go to grandma and papa's house.....

Playin' with dead fish...

awesome backyard...

Uncle Derek...

Thank goodness that toy is at grandma's house..

More Uncle Derek (They have the same facial expression Ü)

Noah learning how to do a flip..

Playing Go fish...

Eating yogurt..or maybe having a yogurt bath

Watching 3-D movies with grandma (she is the best!!!)

Playing with papa (Emery LOVES her papa!!!)

Swimming......

No wonder they sleep so well when we are there. Ahhhh, the memories!!!!

Ragnar 6/09

2010-05-11T16:24:00.000-07:00

So Ryan and I decided to do a relay race called Ragnar. I'm sure most of you know what Ragnar is, but for those of you who don't, it is a 12 man continuous relay race from Logan to Park City (that's 180 miles). Each person did 3 legs and it took us about 30 hours to do it. I must say, it was a HUGE accomplishment for me and it was absolutely a love/hate experience. Our group was awesome and we had a blast (except for the running part Ü).

Nate and Wendy

Team Heavy Breathers

Me and my girl Stac-!

Tribute to Wendy!! Go Celine! Ü

Who stunk more...the skunk or us??

What a picture

You go girl!

This is before the race..hence the smiles

Before my midnight run...

Chris was trying to beat this girl...Ü

That's my man...He trained all of 1 day..OUCH

St.George 5/09

2010-05-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

Our good friends, the Morleys, invited us to St. George for the weekend. It's always fun to get away for a weekend and the kids have a blast doing whatever.....

Noah and his grill!

What a fun group of kids....

Emery and Ava were hungry.

Thanks Morley's!!

A year, REALLY??

2010-05-01T16:45:00.000-07:00

So, it's been a while since I updated my blog, and now I am back to where I was when I started my blog.....not knowing where to start. But since this is my way of journaling, I've got to catch up on the last year......so....here it goes!!

Noah's birthday

2009-05-10T14:30:00.000-07:00

So my baby turned 6 a couple of weeks ago. I CAN'T believe it has been 6 years already. In a moment of weakness, I decided to do a birthday party here at our house. We decided to do a Mad Scientist party. I know..sounds crazy, right? A bunch of kids and lots of mess was exactly what it was, but let me tell you, we had a blast. Well, the kids had a blast.

When they got here, Noah handed them their box with their lab uniforms in them (goggles and lab coat). Then we made marshmallow and toothpick structures, lava lamps, and slime. We played pin the goggles on the professor, and ended the party with an erupting volcano that Noah and I made and the famous diet coke and mentos experiment. Here are some pictures from the party.

goofy faces

My first attempt at an erupting vocano cake.

Erupting vocano

Diet Coke and mentos finale!!

Baseball

2009-05-10T14:17:00.000-07:00

Baseball season has started and Noah is playing machine pitch this year. I LOVE to watch his team play. Most of the kids are his friends from the neighborhood so they have so much fun together learning how to play. They are the Dodgers which made Ryan very happy. He bought he and Cole matching Dodgers hats to "support" Noah's team. Ü

JUST BECAUSE!!! She is sooo Yummy!!!

Easter

2009-04-28T14:07:00.000-07:00

I know....Easter was awhile ago but I am way behind so we have a lot to "blog" about!!!

EASTER
We had a great easter this year. On Saturday morning, we went to our neighbors house for a huge easter egg hunt/breakfast. Thanks Heather for working so hard...It was a bit cold, but nobody seemed to care and the kids had a blast. Emery didn't really get the idea, but it was fun to watch her try to figure it out.

That night we decorated easter eggs. It always sounds like a good idea, but turns out to be just a big disaster. Oh well..It's all about the memories, right? That's what I keep telling myself anyways...

Cole would rather eat the eggs than decorate them.

This is as good as we got on Easter pictures. I'm not sure why I even try but it does make for some good laughs.

The boys have been begging and begging for a pet. Since neither Ryan nor I like animals, the Easter bunny decided that fish would be our family pet. So Easter morning the boys came down to 4 pet fish. Apparently our family isn't the "pet" kind of family because all of the fish have already died. At least we tried huh?

Happy 1st birthday princess....

2009-03-23T15:32:00.000-07:00

WE MADE IT...to a year. Actually I should say Emery made it to a year. There have been many times that I wondered if she was going to make it (because of the boys of course), but she made it and we are even more excited to have her here now then the day she was born...It just keeps gettin' better. We love our little poopsie!!

We were going to have a princess theme, but couldn't find a princess cake pan so we settled on what they had...a butterfly and yes I made it so don't look to closely at it. After I got done making it, I realized the frosting wasn't going to be as fun as it should be for a 1 year old so we sent white grandpa to the store to get a cupcake that she could enjoy eating and we could enjoy watching. When he came home he had balloons for her. Who knew that balloons were soo exciting. Sorry about the sideways video, again... Thank you black and white grandma and grandpa for coming to Emery's birthday party. We love you!!!

The boys thought it was hilarious when she shoved her face into the cupcake

YUMMY!!!

White grandma and grandpa gave her this baby and stroller. She loves to walk her baby around the house.

Emery giving the baby a kiss.

Black grandma and grandpa gave her this cute cabbage patch doll. Funny story about that...Everyone always tells me that Emery looks like a cabbage patch doll. I totally agree and have been looking for the exact replica of her. I know it's out there somewhere. My mom found this one with light brown hair and blue eyes. I wanted dark brown hair and blue eyes, but we we haven't found it yet, so the beautician in her decided that she would just dye the hair brown. Well after a full day of trying, she found out that plastic hair doesn't dye quite as easily as real hair. Oh well, Emery didn't care if the doll had dark brown, light brown or any hair, but thanks for trying anyways mom. Love you!!! Ü

Cabin fun

2009-03-09T16:31:00.000-07:00

Over President's Day weekend, we met Britney's family and my parents up at their cabin in Island Park. It has been a while since we have been up there and I forgot how fun, beautiful and COLD it is. It was so fun to see the cousins play just as we did as kids.....so many memories. It is my kind of vacation....eat, relax, play and eat some more. Noah couldn't get enough of the snow machines. He was pretty sure that he could drive it by himself but a 5 year old on a fast machine with lots of trees didn't seem like a good idea so we let him "drive" us around. He added a snow machine to his list of must haves...after a boat, motorcycle and a truck of course.

Noah giving grampa a ride...

It was Kannon's 2nd birthday so we had cupcakes to celebrate.

Our fam..
Let me out of here!!!!
So we dared Mckeyan to jump off the deck in his underwear....and he DID it. Except I don't think he thought about having to run back up to the cabin afterwards. It was really funny to watch.

Rhyan and Brinley

Coley bear

Kannon, Cole, Noah, McKeyan, Rhyan

Noah jumping off the deck

Rhyan and Crew

Noah and Cole

Grandpa's signature picture. Emery sure loves her papa.

4 kids on 1 bed. Looks comfy doesn't it?

From boys to men....kindof

2009-02-06T14:36:00.000-08:00

Cole got some shaving cream and a fake razor for his birthday, so shaving has become part of our morning routine. It has been so funny watching the boys shave. Cole gets it all over his face but Noah is very good. He is very serious about it and has to be perfect, if you can believe that.....

Here comes trouble.....

2009-02-06T14:23:00.000-08:00

I walked around the corner the other day to find Emery having a blast with this toilet paper. She is so much fun but I have a feeling she isn't going to be as sweet as she looks. I was hoping for ONE child that wouldn't be so busy, but I don't think it is going to happen. It's just not in our genes. BUT, she is so much fun and a great baby so I am not going to complain. We love her here at our house.

Happy birthday Cole-bear!!

2009-01-30T12:19:00.000-08:00

It was Cole's birthday this week. I can't believe he is 4 years old. He wanted to have a party so we invited a few of his friends and went to Jungle Jim's. They had so much fun and it was fun to sit and watch 5 boys run from ride to ride, giggling and laughing for 2 hours. They had pizza, ice cream and cupcakes. It seems like yesterday that all these handsome boys were little babies. What great kids.

Since Noah and dad weren't able to go to his birthday party, we had a little party of our own at home. Cole informed me all day that he didn't actually turn 4 until he blew out candles. So we ran to Harmon's and he picked out a cake. We went to Red Robin (his choice) and came home to open presents and blow out candles so he could be 4, finally!!

Thanks "white" grandma

Thanks "black" grandma

Ryan and I finally broke down and got Cole a Nintendo DS for his very own. I was tired of he and Noah fighting over Noah's. They have had a blast racing each other..

Noah got he and Cole Bronco's jerseys.

At times I wonder why this little guy is how he is, but I would never trade him or his one of a kind personality for the world. We love you bear!!!!

My baby is growing up too fast!!!

2009-01-09T13:53:00.000-08:00

Emery has decided that she wants to keep up with the boys or get away from them, I'm not sure which, but I can't believe it is time for her to start walking already. I mean, both boys were walking at this point, but it seems like yesterday that she was born. Boy how time flies!!! Please turn down your volume so you don't have to listen to my annoying "mom" voice...Ü

Christmas 2008

2009-01-04T21:53:00.000-08:00

All the Johnson grandkids.

We switch every year going to Idaho and California for Christmas and it couldn't be more different. It was Christmas in California this year. After all these years, it still doesn't seem right to me that there is no snow on Christmas morning, there are Christmas lights on palm trees and it is 60 degrees (and that is freezing to my peeps that live there). BUT, we have a blast and the kids CAN go out and play with there new toys so I guess I can't complain too much. Grandma and grandpa got all the grandkids pajamas so we thought it would be cute to get a picture of them all. That was a lot of work, but not as much work as trying to take a picture of the 3 newest additions to the family. Jack was born in February, Emery in March and Maycee in May. As you can see from the pictures, it didn't work out so well. Emery was trying to get away and didn't care who was in her way. We were all laughing at their expense of course.

We made sugar cookies for Santa. Cole licked the knife every time he dipped it into his OWN frosting bowl. We were sure to give Santa one of his cookies..

The boys were spoiled this year. I love Christmas time and I really love the looks on kids faces when they come down the stairs to see what Santa brought them. They were excited about everything they got, especially the Wii. We played a trading gifts game the night before Christmas. There were a bunch of little $2.00 gifts which included a tub of "flarp" (if you don't know what this is, be thankful) and a little fishing game. After the boys came down and saw all of their presents, the only thing Cole was concerned with was the $2.00 flarp and fishing game. If I had only known....

The boys enjoying the Wii. I think it is as fun for us to watch as it is for them to play...

Emery's noise maker...

All Cole wanted was this Flippin' frog game. I have no idea why

and I really tried to talk him out of it, but I

guess santa really wanted him to have it...

My greatest gifts...

Tis the season

2008-12-11T17:23:00.000-08:00

We have been trying to get into the Christmas spirit at our house. I have been a kindof a scrouge this year because there was only 3 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas and I thought it was silly to get all of our Christmas decorations out for only 3 weeks. But when you have kids, sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to....So we got out the decorations and Noah, Cole, and Emery HELPED (as much as 5, 3 and 8 month olds do) decorate our house.

The kids decorated the tree, then I redecorated it.

We decorated a gingerbread house. The boys had a lot of fun but it made a huge mess. I am still finding frosting on my table from it.

We went and saw Santa last weekend. It went so much better than last year (1st photo). Cole was nervous but kept telling himself that he wasn't scared. Noah jumped right up on santa's lap and Emery was fine until she looked up and saw that a strange guy with a hat was holding her, then she lost it. But it was at the very end so it all worked out. It was fun to hang out with the Jamieson's and the kids had a ball.

Tis the season!!!

Family pictures

2008-11-23T08:29:00.000-08:00

Thanks to my great friend and very talented photographer, Heidi (heidilynnphotography.blogspot.com), we got family pictures done for the first time in a very long time. I was pleasantly surprised with the results (thanks to Heidi) being how Noah was sick, Cole wouldn't stop pulling crazy faces and Emery wouldn't stop eating anything and everything around her. Here are a few of my favorites. Thanks Heid for putting up with us and making it look like it was easy, although we both know how it really was. Ü. You are the best!!

Halloween

2008-11-02T16:18:00.000-08:00

This year for Halloween, thanks to my sister's great idea, we decided on a Mario Bros. theme. And, thanks AGAIN to my very own Martha Stewart (mom). We made what I think are the cutest dang Mario Bros. & princess that I have ever seen. Every year our neighbors load up on a trailer and go trick-or-treating together. It is alot of fun for both the kids and adults. Our driver has mastered a plan that works quite well. He dropped us off at the top of a street and picked everybody up at the bottom of the street and grabbed the stragglers in between. Thanks to the Woods for dragging us around for almost 3 hours.

Froggy

2008-11-02T08:49:00.000-08:00

If you are wondering why there is a stuffed frog in most of the pictures from when grandma was here, here's why. Noah was star of the week last week and he got to bring home froggy. We had to take froggy everywhere we went and then document it so his teacher and class could see what we did. I'm telling ya, I am tired of school already and it has really just begun. That was the second project we have had to do already. The first was very difficult for someone who isn't a Martha Stewart, like myself. So I called the next closest thing to Martha, my mom. We were supposed to make a snake costume for zoo day. I couldn't figure out how to make a snake costume and after a sleepless night of thinking, my mom and I figured out what to do. Since my mom is in Idaho, it was up to me to put it together....Scary thought, I know, BUT I have to say that I am very proud of myself. It actually turned out. I took an old pillowcase, cut it up, tie dyed the top to look like a snake, sewed, stuffed, glued and there you have it, a snake. My brain actually hurt after it was done, but it worked and he was the cutest snake I had ever seen. Here are some pictures of froggy and the snake.

White grandma and grandpa's visit

2008-11-02T08:00:00.000-08:00

No wonder my kids love it when grandma's and grandpa's come to visit. This time it was Ryan's parents, aka white grandma and white grandma's grandpa. They got in on Friday night and we didn't stop playing until they left on Thursday morning.
On Monday, Grandma and Grandpa were brave and took Ryan, Noah and Cole to the movie. They saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Tuesday we went to Thanksgiving Point. The kids had a blast. There was so much for them to do. Here are just a few pictures from there. Wednesday we went to Trunk-or-treat and then they had to go. My kids were very sad to see them go. I'm not sure if they were more sad to see them leave or to get back to their regular boring life with just mom and dad. Noah came down crying at 7:15 am because he missed them already (it had been 3 hours since they left). Thank you grandma and grandpa for coming to spend time with us. You spoiled us rotten, but we loved it. We had a blast with you here.

We love you.

The many faces of Emery

2008-11-01T11:15:00.003-07:00

Emery was being so funny the other day. I grabbed the camera and started taking pictures of her silly faces. Here are a few.

Big brother

2008-11-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

The other day, I pulled a risky move and walked out of the room leaving Cole and Emery alone, together. I never do that because I never know what Cole has in mind. He loves her to death, and when I say that, I really mean it. He mauls her with his version of loves and kisses which to the rest of us means laying on her, poking her in the face, giving her very long, hard kisses on the cheek, etc. So I was very suprised when I walked in and he was reading a story to her. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Happy Birthday Black Grandma

2008-09-22T12:58:00.000-07:00

Happy 60th Birthday mom!! Thank you for coming down here to spend the weekend with Britney and I. I hope you had as much fun as I did. I feel very blessed to have you in my life and I only hope I can be even 1/2 the mother to my kids as you have been to me. I love you always!!!!

Cole's 1st day

2008-09-12T11:35:00.000-07:00

Cole started Pre-school this week. We went to his open house last week and it was so cute to see Noah take him in and show him around. He didn't miss a spot in the school. He even showed him both potties and said "and you don't even have to ask" to use them. On Tuesday, he had his backpack on all day and as we were driving to school, I kept hearing him say under his breath, "I am so sited to go to school". It makes it way easier to send him off when he is excited about it. I was really worried that he would be bored on the days that he doesn't have school, without Noah around, but he has been an angel and I have really enjoyed having him home by himself.

So big....

2008-09-06T11:32:00.000-07:00

Emery started sitting up last week. I Can't believe she is already 5 months old . If only she would let me put her down to get stuff done. Now that will be a milestone. And that face....Ohhh how I love her!!!

Noah's first day of school.....

2008-09-06T10:50:00.000-07:00

So Noah started kindergarten this week. I have had such mixed emotions about it but when it came down to it, he was soooo excited so it made me very excited also. On Wednesday (his first day) he came down at 7:00am with his kitar (guitar) shirt. He said "Mom, I picked out my clothes that I want to wear to school and I want to put them on and get my backpack and go wait for the bus." He is in afternoon school so I told him that he would be waiting for a very long time for the bus. When the bus came, I told him I would meet him at the school to show him where to go. He told me that I didn't need to go and he KNEW where his class was. So much for being my little boy anymore.

Wednesday was a big day for him. He went to school and that evening we went to get his stitches taken out of his chin. It was our first experience with stitches. The week before he and Cole were in the bath. I was putting Emery's p.j.'s on so of course I wasn't in there to see what actually happened. Noah started to cry and said that he fell. I went in and looked at his chin and knew we needed to go to instacare. He got 5 stitches under his chin. I felt so bad for him at instacare because he was really scared and nervous. He wasn't cooperating at all. So much so that the Dr. said she might have to send us to Primary's so he could be sedated. Finally, after much bribing, he settled down and was very brave. When we went to get them taken out, he was very aprehensive but as you can see from the picture, he did great.

Can you say OCD!!!

2008-08-25T07:31:00.000-07:00

So Noah has always been a little obsessive compulsive about things in his life, but his shoe issue is about to send me ver the top. I think White grandma understands now what I go through on a daily basis, several times a day!! While she was here, she bought the boys some school shoes. I told them that they couldn't wear them before school, but grandma said it would be ok to wear them from the store to our house. Little did she know how much drama she was about to cause. Grandma helped him put his shoes on, but he has to have 4 knots in EACH shoe and they have to be EXACTLY the same on each side. She got them all done and he did a test walk. NO GOOD. His foot was moving in the shoe, or something. So grandma untied all the knots, retied, test walk, no good. After several tries, grandma finally got it right. We still aren't sure what she did different, but hurray that she figured it out. We went to a couple of other stores and I wanted him to try some pants on. He threw a fit and didn't want to take his shoes off. I won of course, but when I put his shoes on, I couldn't tie them right so he had to go find grandma to tie them. That was the first pair of shoes she bought him. She didn't have quite enough fun with those so she bought him another pair of Nikes, WITH TIES. He wanted to wear them and gave me every excuse in the book why he needed to wear them, but my favorite was " i keep forgetting what they look like so I need to put them on to remember." Ryan told him we would take a picture so he could remember so he got his Nike clothes on to match his Nike shoes. We went through the whole 4 knot thing a couple of times and then he was ready. It was like we were at a model's photoshoot or something. He was posing for every shot. Running in place, jumping, etc. to show how fast and cool his shoes are. Here are a few pictures from our photoshoot. Thanks again grandma for making my little boys happy and for making me crazy!! Ü As crazy as it makes me, I wouldn't trade him for the world.....I would just maybe trade his shoes..

Notice the 4 knots!!

I'm a big boy now!!!

2008-08-23T09:58:00.000-07:00

So Cole decided that he didn't want to be the only memeber of the neighborhood posse that couldn't ride a bike, so he decided to teach himself. I tried to help him and he said "don't help me mom." I was talking to a friend outside and all of a sudden, here comes Cole, riding his bike. He taught himself how to start and ride in about 1/2 hour. My sister said that it shouldn't suprise me because he is such a stubborn, independant little fart, but he is only 3 1/2. Now he thinks there are no boundries and that he can go anywhere that little bike will take him.

I can't believe he is riding a bike. It seems like yesterday that Noah learned. How time flies!!!

It's that time.....BABY FOOD!!

2008-08-20T08:22:00.000-07:00

So I have held out as long as I can, but Emery was wanting to eat every 2 hours so I thought it was time.....I hate the whole baby food thing. It is messy and have you ever tasted that nasty stuff? No wonder more gets on her than in her mouth. I want to just skip to the french fries stage. Here are a few pictures from her first rice cereal feeding.

More Cali

2008-08-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

After a long, but very fun day at the lake, we headed to White Grandma's for the rest of the week. We went to the beach twice where I thought my boys would be a little scared. Noah wouldn't stay out of the water and Cole wanted to play in it but would run as soon as the waves came near him. He told grandma that he wanted the water to quit waving. As nervous as he was, he just couldn't let Noah have all the fun. Emery also really liked the beach. For the most part, she just sat in her bumbo and watched the waves and the boys. You couldn't ask for better, cheaper entertainment. It was a great time.

After all the swimming at the hotel, Jodi's, and the beach, and eating at all the places that you HAVE to eat at in CA (I only ate at In-n-Out 3 times) it was time to come home. Ryan flew back on Tuesday morning so somehow grandma got roped into driving back with us. It was pretty uneventful All I had to do was drive and grandma had to put up with the kids and the chaos. Now I know why Ryan doesn't mind driving to California!!! Doing the driving isn't the hard part. Thank you White Grandma and Grandpa for letting us come and stay. We really appreciate all you do and for all the memories you create with our kids. We love you!!!

California

2008-08-15T15:15:00.001-07:00

We went to California for Ryan's sister's baby blessing. It was a lot of driving, but well worth it. The boys had a blast. I think they were in some kind of water more than on land. We stayed in a hotel on Saturday and Sunday nights so the boys played in the pool every chance they got. The hotel was really nice....except for the fact that the fire alarm went off at 1:00 am one night, which by the way is no way to be woken up out of a very deep sleep. Neither Ryan nor I could figure out what was going on. I was more worried about my kids waking up than the fact that there might actually be a fire. Everything was fine and thanks to Ryan's quick thinking with a pillow to the alarm, the boys stayed asleep. What a night!!

On Monday we went to the lake

with Ryan's family....Thanks Uncle Christian and Heather for taking us...Noah & Cole learned how to "surf" on a killer lake wave and Emery just enjoyed basking in the sun. We had a great time spending the day with Jodi, Regan, Sally and fam.

Football Season

2008-07-30T14:18:00.000-07:00

As football season is getting closer, we are getting excited to watch the boys favorite team, thanks to dad, play. Noah wasn't sure that he wanted USC to be his favorite team since they weren't green, but eventually jumped on the USC family bandwagon. Funny story....We bought Noah and Cole USC hats and Jakers his favorite team, a Texas Longhorns hat (do you think the boys look up to their dads?). Anyways, one day Noah came in and was wearing his hat and said "Dad USC is the best team and the cows are lame, huh?" Ryan said "the cow's?" and Noah said "yeah, Jake's favorite team." Sorry Jeff. You are losing points bigtime.....slow blue motorcycle, lame cow's.....what's next? Gotta love our boys!

Finger Sucker

2008-07-30T14:06:00.000-07:00

Emery has decided that she would much rather suck her two fingers than a pacifier. It is so cute right now but it won't be so cute when she is 7 and still doing it. Hopefully it is just a phase she is going through. Her binki has become more of an accessory rather than a necessity.

And yes her headband is over her eyes. Ü

2008-07-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

So I have finally given in to the peer pressure and decided to do this blog thing. There is so much going on in our lives with our kids that our family is missing out on so I thought I would keep you informed this way, hopefully if I can keep up on it. So Noah graduated from preschool this summer. I can't believe he is going to be a kindergartner. It makes me sad but he is excited to start in September. Cole is going to start preschool in August. I don't know who is more excited about that one, me or him. He already knows all the teachers from taking and picking up Noah and the teachers already know what they are in for. He really has settled down a ton though.

The boys were busy with sports also. I can't believe it starts this early in life, but it has been really fun to go and watch. They both played soccer and Noah played baseball. He really loves baseball. He bats lefthanded but throws right. Go figure.

1st Haircut

2008-07-27T18:45:00.000-07:00

Ryan was holding Emery the other night and he said "you have really got to do something about this hair of hers. It looks like she stuck her finger in a light socket or something". She had just got up from a nap, I might add. So, after consulting her hairdresser, aka "black grandma", we decided to get rid of her mullet and trim the top. It looks a lot better now. She was happy at first but decided it wasn't much fun. I tried to tell her that this is the price you pay to be beautiful but she didn't care.