Happy Birthday Spencer! #8!!

This silly boy turned 8 today. He has had a great day! In this picture he is showing off the printing calculator that he got from G&G Anderson and the digital camera he got from us and G&G Nelson. He also got a train simulator game from us...he's been locked in the bedroom on the computer all afternoon. He said he is sooooo happy because he got the things he really wanted. I asked him if he was sooooo excited because he's going to get baptized...he said he was only some excited because it's not for another month and that he will get sooooo excited when time is closer. Funny kid.



So, Happy Birthday, Peppo! We love you!

Just a Little Cutie

I can not believe that she is getting so grown up! She's gonna be 15 months old!~Funny thing is...she is just barely 20 pounds. She's tiny...but still growing up. She says please and thank you...she plays with her brothers toys and plays dolls with her Mommy. She loves to sit on her Daddy's lap and play with his watch. And when Daddy comes home from work, as soon as he walks through the door, she says, "Hi Daddy!"

Tomorrow Spencer turns 8! Why does time have to go by so quickly???

Yesterday...after I went to the dentist to get my root canal finished up...we all went over to Travis's parents house and got started on digging up the old garden and also help do some pruning etc. We are excited to get started on our garden again this year. Since Elizabeth was so small last year we didn't do much, but this year we have big plans. Here are a few pictures of what we did. We all came home pooped out! That's a great feeling!

Connor has still been suffering from an earache lately, so I gave him my ear warmer thing to wear outside.

Little Miss having a break from all her hard work of...walking in the grass! It was kind of tall grass and she's not a super-pro with the whole shoe walking thing yet...so this was a well deserved break. (o:

Travis's folks have a giant old bush/tree/bunch of random shoots of bush/tree that is all bunched up in a big corner of their yard. It's dying from the inside out, so Travis started cutting and pulling out all the dead wood. The kids helped stack it all up in a pile. They (meaning Travis and our sons) are planning to made a little clubhouse in the middle of the bush/tree thingy.

Connor picked Mommy some 'flowers'.

I ended up digging about 3/4 of the garden myself while the others worked on the bush/tree thingy.

Joseph lookin' cool.

Here we were just getting started.
And here it is finished. We are going to let it dry out a bit and then we will have the kids help gather rocks and the big clumps of grass/weeds then we will add the fertilizer and stuff to it before we plant.

So...that's a good summary of what we did yesterday. I'm so glad it didn't rain. It was a gorgeous day..in the upper 60's. Perfect!

We'll post more pictures as we progress. We are sort of gardening novices...neither of us can remember how our parents did it when we were kids, so we are having fun learning and doing it our own way. (o:

Sick...sick...sick

So the last month we have been sick around here. We get over one thing just to have the next thing come on. It's been a real pain. We've been to the doctor and also just toughed it out. Oh, and then I woke up one morning with my face quadrupled in size on one side...infected tooth. I had to get an emergency root canal. That was fun! BUT...I would like to think that we are beginning to see the end of all the sickness. I have been washing everything and Lysol-ing everything in sight. I hope we can kill the germs and not be sick for a while.

Anyway...here are a couple of things that we have done lately....
Travis and I are working to help get Dick Muri elected for Congress to replace our current Rep. who is a schmuck! We really like Dick. I went to one of his meet and greet type meetings. It was great. The guy on the right is Dick and the guy on the left is Kirby Wilbur of talk radio fame. Travis had to work and was very jealous of me for being there. But wait...where were all the kids if I was at the meeting and Travis was at work???.......Well, they were.....

...at a party! Jake..the little boy that I watch on Mondays...turned 5 and had a little party at his house. He only invited our boys. They had an absolute blast!

Here they are at the party with Jake's dad. They were really sad to leave the party. I swear, Ellie (Jakes mom), got my kids more stuff than we gave Jake! She went above and beyond.

One sunny day we decided to go hiking at Discovery park. It was beautiful and we had a wonderful day enjoying nature.
Lastly...Elizabeth has decided that her favorite song is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". She can barely speak, but she can sing that song. It's super cute and we are determined to one day catch it on video. This picture is of her intently watching The Wiggles sing her favorite song.

Isn't she a cutie?

Loving the Sunshine

The sun has come out to play the last couple of days so I've taken advantage of it we have gone out to play too. We went to Russell Road Park yesterday. Here are some photo's to prove that there is sun in Seattle.
Little picnic to give us some energy to play!

Joseph showing off his guns.

Spencer

Connor

Elizabeth...she didn't like the swing.

Her new snazzy shoes. She had to learn how to walk all over again! She loooooved the park though. She screamed a lot when we had to go.

Connor is a great climber.

Joseph looks so much like his Nelson cousins here.

I called this the 'chromosome'. Spencer had a difficult time getting up this thing at first, but I told him he wasn't allowed to say "I can't" and that he needed to practice. Within a half hour he had it mastered! That's my boy! With his hypermobility, he has a much more difficult time climbing etc, but he is really doing well.

We happened upon this little pirate ship park on the walk we went on after playing in the park. So, they got 2 parks in one day! Sweet!

My best attempt to get a group photo. I took about 5 and this is the closest I could get to seeing everyones face.

Before we left the boys had to draw in their Nature Notebooks.

Little Miss passed out at the pirate park. It was a great day!

Lately we...

Built a volcano out of homemade clay for science. We named it Mt. Vesuvius 2.

Celebrated Grandpa Nelson's 80th birthday!

Went to Costco and ate giant hotdogs.

Connor really likes Costco hotdogs.

Ate donuts from Krispie Kreme..(this is a chocolate Fling)

And a little toe jam too. (o:

Finally...we watched cartoons on our Directv.

That about sums up our life. Simple but wonderful. We have started a new math program and it is going wonderfully. That's about it.

Oh yah! I also enjoy wearing my Muggle shirt around and either getting funny looks or thumbs up from the cool people that get it. (o:

Helllllooooo????

So, we got a new computer...Elizabeth turned 1....I got a Nook and am addicted to it....Elizabeth can now walk~sort of~...I gave in and watched the Twilight movie~it was okay~....Travis still works at Walgreens and still loves it...we still go on drives to Seattle and Tacoma...the boys keep getting bigger without my permission...Elizabeth refuses to grow (10% weight at her 1 year checkup today)...I finally caved and am now reading all of Dan Brown's books and I like them...I still go to Weight Watchers, but thanks to all my stinkin health issues, I am stuck in the same place, but still determined...we are still sort of addicted to Facebook...I still love my husband and still have the cutest kids ever.

See, not much has changed, so you haven't really missed too much despite my extremely horrible blogging. I'll leave you with a picture of the family. (o:

Ta da!!!

Elizabeth likes to hit herself and say "ouch", but she wouldn't say it...but she did say ta daaaaaaa! (o:

A Little Bit....

Christmas has come and gone and good old Facebook has all the pictures! I seriously need to update this darn blog because it's been kind of my journal for the past couple of years.
My mom got all the kids Georgia shirts. Super cute! Elizabeth hates jackets though and threw a fit until I took this off. Booger!

I colored my hair because I found a hair that was a color that did not belong!

Mom bought them all matching outfits for church too. They all look pretty darn cute! Elizabeth doesn't like headbands as much as she used to though. Can you tell?

All in all it was a good Christmas. The kids got what they asked for and we have a job and our health. That's all you can ask for, right?

Christmas is coming...

Little Miss looking beautiful in her new Christmas dress from Grandma Teese!

This is my favorite one!

She knows she's cute!

We bought our tree at the Fred Meyer down the street. We were waiting for Daddy to go get the FM worker so we could pay for our perfect tree. The Santa hats were purchased at Walgreens. Travis has to wear one every day at work, so the boys wanted one too.

The tree all decorated up.

Most of my nativity scenes.

My snowmen and our stockings. The fireplace is full. (o:

Connor made a tree out of one of our traffic cones and a spare strand of lights. Very creative. (o: