Happy Birthday Andy!!

Happy Birthday Andy!!! To my wonderful hubby who is the love of my life and the father of our children (and a wonderful father at that!!). Love you!

Christmas Eve

I intended for a sweet photo of the boys in front of the tree but the excitement got the better of them and it was late anyway. Merry Christmas!!!!

Wintertime in Oregon

This was on Thursday when we went to get our Christmas tree. We ended up out near Carver and found a really nice tree farm but the weather was terrible!! :) There were no other customers there that morning ...just us and I only managed for one picture because of my total fear of soaking the camera. But it was worth going out, especially for the boys who enjoy the chance of lots of mud splashing!! Thank goodness that storm is over and the weather is very clear now but chilly. Speaking of which I need to go to work and I just looked outside and noticed it's going to take me awhile to warm up the car!!

Finally!! Pirate pictures!!

These are from Halloween and I figured I better get them up before it's actually Christmas!! :)

I also had to add my neighbor boys' picture to the post since they were so cute and their mom claimed that this was the only picture taken by anybody were they were standing together!! (I can totally understand that and I don't have twins!!)

Saturday

I just had to provide a quick link to my girlfriend Crystal's Stampin Up! site. In the art gallery section of the site you will see samples of cards that a bunch of us made on Saturday. She came up with the design and several girlfriends and I got together on Saturday afternoon and made a bunch of cards. It was a lot of fun and chit chat and we got homemade Christmas cards done too! I can't complain about that!! :) Lucky for me it was fun since that night ended up being not so pleasant. The night before (Friday night) Matthew had been sick but both boys were at Grandma's house spending the night (so sorry Leslee!)so I was kind of thinking we lucked out not having to deal with the worst of it. Sadly I thought wrong...Saturday after bedtime was all done Mason got totally sick in his crib (it's so time for a big boy bed!) and we got to spend the evening cleaning it up. Amazing what parenting does to you on your Saturday night!! ;)

pics from Melinda's birthday and other randomness

I haven't posted for awhile since I forgot my password and just didn't get around to finding it out!! anyway.... I had meant to at least put a few pictures up from Melinda's birthday party at Pump it Up! I almost cringe to admit that her party was the 6th trip this year that we made to Pump it Up. But the kids love it and it tires them out so who can complain about that?! I did include the picture of Matthew with one of his three girlfriends! Of course his first love is still Francie in his class and he is still in love with Teacher Stephanie at gymnastics but he also really loves Kylie (Melinda's sister)! As soon as she showed up to the party Matthew stuck to her side like glue!

The pics of Matthew, Mason, and Skyler up at the top were taken when Skyler spent a couple of days at our house when Skyler didn't have to go to school. And the patience tester picture? I don't think I even need to explain! Although kudos to my lovely girlfriend Crystal who discovered the shirt. Even her own 5-year old knew exactly who that shirt was for!!


oh yeah....I changed the template/background back to what I originally had for my blog and strangely an entry that I couldn't get to post earlier (from back in October) now posted!! I don't know what that was all about (don't think I really care) but check it out. Something about birthday meanings ...I read andy's out loud to him and at first he was amused and then I think he was a bit disturbed as his fit him completely!! hee hee.....:)