the weekend

About a month ago Jeremy's mom called and offered to watch the kids so we could go out of town for our birthday weekend. So we took her up on it. She also let us use their time share. Another bonus!!! We went to Squim (it's just south of Port Angeles). The Hoood canal bridge is closed and so we had to take the long way. Not a bad thing, it took longer yes, but it was a beautiful drive. We kept busy, we watched a strong man competition, went to Victoria,seen a movie, slept, went to the Olympic game farm, its a zoo type park, if you haven't been its pretty cool. You stay in your car and drive through. You can buy a loaf of bread to feed to the animals. You drive through the elk, buffalo, zebra and llama pastures. They will come right up to car and eat the bread out of your hands. They had bears that you can toss the bread to. They had a rhino, lions, tigers, cougars, wolves and even a baby bear. We will be going back, next time with the kids. We finished our trip by taking a walk along the Dungeness spit. It was fun to spend time together eventhough we missed the kids.

The girls had fun with Grandma and Grandpa too. They went to a hawaiian themed girls only party! They went to a BBQ, got to go to grandmas and grandpas ward, and they got to play with their cousins. They were tired when we got them home, but they can't stop talking about the fun things they did. So thank you again Cherie for the amazing birthday gifts!

Its Official

Well for those of you who may not know we are expecting our 4th Baby. Today was my first appointment. I was procrastinating, I wanted to find a new dr. Our friend told us about one in Auburn so I gave him a shot and he seems wonderful. He gave us a due date of Sept 1st! Yeah! We are excited and Jessie asked me yesterday, Mama are you pregnant? Cute to hear such a big word come out of her mouth. They are excited and Cassie told me to ask the dr for a baby brother. We will see.

Little Walker!

Yeah! Abby has decided she would like to be a walker. Nobody was going to rush her and she is still more than cautious. She is starting to say a few things too, she is saying dog and duck along with mama, dadda, uh-oh and gamma.

Stinker-itous

Our little Abby has been fighting a cold lately. She was sick last week, runny nose, sneezes and ear ache and this week she is Congested, and has a cough. I always feel so bad for little kids who are sick. It is so sad. We were hoping that it was productive sickness, like getting more teeth, but no signs of any new ones. Bummer.
Along with her cold she has picked up a case of stinker-itous. Her symptoms are, limpness, back arching, flailing of the hands, feet and rest of body, and oh yeah, screaming that will pierce your ears. She is impossible to please and has no idea what she would like. We are trying to keep her at home as much as possible so other kids will not catch this horrid little bug (or witness her in action).
We hope she will be back to our sweet little Abby soon!

Sleep the night

Cassie and Jessie have been wanting to spend the night at other Grandmas for quite some time now and it has been hard to coordinate schedules so it would work. They were able to spend the night on Friday. They had a blast! They watched a movie with grandma and grandpa, made popcorn (with grandpas popcorn maker, its a tradition they have whenever they go over), watched some more cartoons from what I have gathered, read two stories. Jessie told me one was about some girls at camp whose tent was leaking. Cassie and Grandma enjoyed some time together chatting, while Jessie and Grandpa dozed off. In the morning Grandma made pancakes and yellow eggs, and Cassie told me, "Grandma is a very good cooker." And to top their fun off Auntie Alissa painted their finger nails. Jessie said on the way home, Mama I forgot to say thank you to Lissa for painting my pretty nails. So all in all the girls had a fun time and we hope Grandma and Grandpa did too!

A Good Book

I read a really good book over christmas and wanted to tell all the ladies about it. First a little background. Jeremy loves to listen to talk radio. One day I got in the van to run errands and his station was on. The show that happened to be playing was Dr. Laura. I had never listened to her before, but I found myself intrigued by the advise she was giving her callers. She adverstised a book of hers and next thing I knew I was at the library checking it out. It is called, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. Super good book about how to let our men know that we love them and to show them we appreciate them. Not that we don't, but this book gave me better insite on how women and men are different and how to relate better to him as a man. I try to remember the things she suggested and our relationship seems to be better than ever. I hope you will read it. I enjoyed it and hope you do too. PS... she is very opinionated, but if you are like me, let your guard down a little and really try to have an open heart and mind.

Snow Fun!

Since the snow is still around and we have been suffering from cabin fever, we decided to take the girls down to grandmas to do some sledding. We went on Friday and they loved it so much, we did it again today.

(Nobody was hurt in the making of these videos:)