Friday, June 18, 2010
A Night Away
Ryan and I will be celebrating our 5th year anniversary this July. We decided to take advantage of spring rates and we headed up to Crystal Mountain for a day/night. I highly recommend that place to anyone! It was both of our first time there and it was so much fun and SO BEAUTIFUL! One night wasnt enough, as we could have found so much more to do. When I booked our trip, I booked just a regular hotel room. When we got there, they told us they upgraded us to a one bedroom condo, ON THE GOLF COURSE! It was so nice and relaxing being away with just my hubby. Much needed, and cant wait to do it again! Here are a few of our condo. Unfortunatly we couldnt get any good ones of the two of us. Oh well.
Pictures in the Park!
Last weekend we went to Spring Grove park in Jamestown with some friends. If you ever want some awesome pictures, GO THERE! It is beautiful. I didnt get any good ones of Alivia or Evan because they were SO tierd, but we did manage a few good family pictures.
A Day At The Lake
Last weekend Ryan's parents were camping out at Gun Lake with his mom's side of the family. We decided to head down there for most of the afternoon. What a nice place! The kid had tons of fun, but were so tuckered out. Here are a few of our afternoon there.
I must explain the the little boy in his undies! If you know Evan, you know he spends most of his day running around in just his undies, so he had no problem with this. We of course forgot the bag with all the swimsuits, extra clothes, ect...so this is what he wore swimming. Lol. Kinda funny because that is so up Evan's alley.
I must explain the the little boy in his undies! If you know Evan, you know he spends most of his day running around in just his undies, so he had no problem with this. We of course forgot the bag with all the swimsuits, extra clothes, ect...so this is what he wore swimming. Lol. Kinda funny because that is so up Evan's alley.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Livvy Bug
My little Livvy bug is now 9 months old..crawling everywhere, walking around furniture, saying mamma and dadda, ball and her own little version of "Evan." She is getting to be a little stinker too. She is a total diva, and loves to turn on the attitude when she doesnt get what she wants. She is a typical little girl in every way. She adores her big brother and follows him wherever he goes. Our little Livvy bug, we love you so much. You bring us so much joy everyday and we are so blessed to be able to call ourselves your parents. We cant wait to see what God has in store for you. We love you sweetheart!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Pictures are here!
Here are a few recents of our Livvy bug. She sure is a stinker lately! She is into everything, crawling...pulling herself up, and she absolutly loves getting into her brothers toys. Oh sibbling rivalry...:-) And its only the begining!
Evan playing outside in his cozy coupe...or he calls it, his van.
My little sweeties
Our weekend away to Cabela's/Splash Universe
Tulip Time 2010
Evan playing outside in his cozy coupe...or he calls it, his van.
My little sweeties
Our weekend away to Cabela's/Splash Universe
Tulip Time 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Pictures are coming! I have been so busy lately as always, I hardly have time for anything, let alone blogging!
We have been staying pretty busy. Between projects at home, or weekend trips...there is always something! :-) Its funny though, because we purposly make it that way. There is always something needing to get done.
Ryan has had off from school the last 2 weeks which have been amazing! Its so nice to see him every night, and not have to have him leave to do homework. While he has been home, he has been working in the basement alot. He just layed the flooring and we painted the play room. He is working on tileing the shower and floor right now. Hopefully it should be complete by the end of the month or mid june! Cant wait! It will be so nice to have more space! When the weather is actually good, he has started Evan's playset. The tower is built and he attatched the slide so Evan can go down it. Evan absolutly loves it! He could go down time after time again and not get sick of it. Its so much fun to have more things to do outside now! We are just waiting on some nice days to get the swingset part of it built.
A few weekends ago we took a weekend away and headed to Cabela's, Splash Universe and Ikea. What a great weekend away! It was so nice to get away and relax for a few days. Evan and Alivia LOVED the water park. Evan loved going down the slides. My wonderful husband decided it would be fun to send Evan down the enclosed twisty slide and see how he did. My poor little boy! He didnt cry when he came out, but he definatly didnt want to do it again, and now calls it the scary slide. Poor little peanut. I didnt even like it, so I cant imagine the thoughts that were going through his head.
We of course headed over to Cabelas as well. No big purchases there. Ryan has everything he needs for next hunting season so there wasnt much we needed to look at. Evan loved seeing the fish, and the animals, and Alivia just liked looking around. (Speaking of hunting! I forgot to mention, Ryan got his first turkey ever a few weeks ago! I am not real sure what he is going to do with it, but the meat is in the freezer....do people actually eat wild turkey?? Anyway...he was happy and now it looks like he has another hunting season in the spring! Oh joy!)
Ikea was wonderful again as always. We didnt get a whole lot, mostly stuff for the kids rooms and little things here and there, but it is always nice to make a trip out there to see everything again. Good times.
The kids are growing like weeds!!! Alivia is crawling all over the place. She started doing that about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Her favorite word is Muumma which is awesome. :-) The little stinker is also pulling herself up on stuff now. I couldnt believe it when I turned around yesterday and she was standing next to her table. She has done it numerous times since then as well. Cant believe my baby is so grown up already!
Evan is basicly potty trained. Occasionally he will have a accident, or just doesnt get there quick enough but he is so much better about telling us when he has to go, or sometimes, just goes by himself. I LOVE IT! Its so nice not having to by two sizes of diapers everyweek!
Well...I think thats about all. Pictures will be coming!
We have been staying pretty busy. Between projects at home, or weekend trips...there is always something! :-) Its funny though, because we purposly make it that way. There is always something needing to get done.
Ryan has had off from school the last 2 weeks which have been amazing! Its so nice to see him every night, and not have to have him leave to do homework. While he has been home, he has been working in the basement alot. He just layed the flooring and we painted the play room. He is working on tileing the shower and floor right now. Hopefully it should be complete by the end of the month or mid june! Cant wait! It will be so nice to have more space! When the weather is actually good, he has started Evan's playset. The tower is built and he attatched the slide so Evan can go down it. Evan absolutly loves it! He could go down time after time again and not get sick of it. Its so much fun to have more things to do outside now! We are just waiting on some nice days to get the swingset part of it built.
A few weekends ago we took a weekend away and headed to Cabela's, Splash Universe and Ikea. What a great weekend away! It was so nice to get away and relax for a few days. Evan and Alivia LOVED the water park. Evan loved going down the slides. My wonderful husband decided it would be fun to send Evan down the enclosed twisty slide and see how he did. My poor little boy! He didnt cry when he came out, but he definatly didnt want to do it again, and now calls it the scary slide. Poor little peanut. I didnt even like it, so I cant imagine the thoughts that were going through his head.
We of course headed over to Cabelas as well. No big purchases there. Ryan has everything he needs for next hunting season so there wasnt much we needed to look at. Evan loved seeing the fish, and the animals, and Alivia just liked looking around. (Speaking of hunting! I forgot to mention, Ryan got his first turkey ever a few weeks ago! I am not real sure what he is going to do with it, but the meat is in the freezer....do people actually eat wild turkey?? Anyway...he was happy and now it looks like he has another hunting season in the spring! Oh joy!)
Ikea was wonderful again as always. We didnt get a whole lot, mostly stuff for the kids rooms and little things here and there, but it is always nice to make a trip out there to see everything again. Good times.
The kids are growing like weeds!!! Alivia is crawling all over the place. She started doing that about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Her favorite word is Muumma which is awesome. :-) The little stinker is also pulling herself up on stuff now. I couldnt believe it when I turned around yesterday and she was standing next to her table. She has done it numerous times since then as well. Cant believe my baby is so grown up already!
Evan is basicly potty trained. Occasionally he will have a accident, or just doesnt get there quick enough but he is so much better about telling us when he has to go, or sometimes, just goes by himself. I LOVE IT! Its so nice not having to by two sizes of diapers everyweek!
Well...I think thats about all. Pictures will be coming!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
I feel like the days are just flying by. I cant believe it has been another month, gone. Again...life is pretty much the same. We have been enjoying the warmer weather so much lately. Evan just loves being able to ride his bike, and drive around his cozy coup. When the weather was in the 70's last week, I had both kids out while I pulled a bunch of weeds. Alivia is loving the sunshine too. Its so much fun watching them both enjoy it so much.
Ryan's parents were so generous to get us playset for the kids this past weekend. We hopefully will be able to have a bluiding day on Saturday and get it together if we have everything stained. Evan has been so excited for it and talks about it all the time. We've told him that if he tries really hard to remember to go on the potty that Grandma and "Papa" will get him his playset. We are actually to the point with the potty training that we are more than comfortable taking him places. He hasnt had a diaper on in probably over a month. He is doing so well and we are so proud of him. Of course he still has the occasional accident. Most the time it is due to too much excitement that he forgets. We are still remiding him to go, and he does do well with telling us. That is something we are still working on though. Hopefully now that he has his swingset, we wont have a relapse!
Ryan is finishing up this semester with Math and his CPR class. He will have about a 2 weeks window where he will have off, then start up his summer class of Math again. :-) Life is always crazy, but probably one of the best things he could be doing for our family right now. Tiara had another lay off about 3 weeks ago where he was laid off again for 2 weeks, and it is looking like after May 17 they dont have any work lined up. We will see but it just reinforces our dicison for a differnt career. Its funny how God leads us in the direction we are supposed to go when we never even imagined this is where we would be in life right now. He is so faithful.
Alivia is getting SO close to crawling. She gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth only to belly flop on her belly. She cant quite figure out how to get her knees infront of her yet. I think I remember Evan doing the same thing, then actually crawling around 8 1/2 months, so if it takes that long, FINE WITH ME! I know when she starts moving it is only going to be more chaotic in this house. Evan already is having problems with her wanting to play with his tractors. I think we will have a few fights to break up coming up!
We decided a while ago we needed to start searching for child care. It was getting to stressful for me to try and line something up every week and I hated having to ask my family all the time for help. We decided to hire someone to come to our home instead of bring them somewhere. This saves me SO much time in the morning. It was pretty exhausting trying to get two kids, fed and dressed and out the door, all while trying to get ready myself for work. And it is nice to have the kids be able to stay home in their own home, and play with their own toys. (Thank you to all of you who have helped me out, and have offered to help!! It means so much to me!)
ANyway...we hired a college student a friend of mine recommended. She used to Nanny and seems like she'd be a great fit for the kids. Only 2 days a week and she starts the begining of May. It could always change too depending on if Ryan gets laid off in May again...We will see!!!
Anyway...there...not much new, but thought I would update again. I would post pictures, but I havent had the camera out lately. My charger is MIA and my battery is about dead...if I cant find it soon i will have to order a new one...I hate not taking pictures of the kiddos!
Ryan's parents were so generous to get us playset for the kids this past weekend. We hopefully will be able to have a bluiding day on Saturday and get it together if we have everything stained. Evan has been so excited for it and talks about it all the time. We've told him that if he tries really hard to remember to go on the potty that Grandma and "Papa" will get him his playset. We are actually to the point with the potty training that we are more than comfortable taking him places. He hasnt had a diaper on in probably over a month. He is doing so well and we are so proud of him. Of course he still has the occasional accident. Most the time it is due to too much excitement that he forgets. We are still remiding him to go, and he does do well with telling us. That is something we are still working on though. Hopefully now that he has his swingset, we wont have a relapse!
Ryan is finishing up this semester with Math and his CPR class. He will have about a 2 weeks window where he will have off, then start up his summer class of Math again. :-) Life is always crazy, but probably one of the best things he could be doing for our family right now. Tiara had another lay off about 3 weeks ago where he was laid off again for 2 weeks, and it is looking like after May 17 they dont have any work lined up. We will see but it just reinforces our dicison for a differnt career. Its funny how God leads us in the direction we are supposed to go when we never even imagined this is where we would be in life right now. He is so faithful.
Alivia is getting SO close to crawling. She gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth only to belly flop on her belly. She cant quite figure out how to get her knees infront of her yet. I think I remember Evan doing the same thing, then actually crawling around 8 1/2 months, so if it takes that long, FINE WITH ME! I know when she starts moving it is only going to be more chaotic in this house. Evan already is having problems with her wanting to play with his tractors. I think we will have a few fights to break up coming up!
We decided a while ago we needed to start searching for child care. It was getting to stressful for me to try and line something up every week and I hated having to ask my family all the time for help. We decided to hire someone to come to our home instead of bring them somewhere. This saves me SO much time in the morning. It was pretty exhausting trying to get two kids, fed and dressed and out the door, all while trying to get ready myself for work. And it is nice to have the kids be able to stay home in their own home, and play with their own toys. (Thank you to all of you who have helped me out, and have offered to help!! It means so much to me!)
ANyway...we hired a college student a friend of mine recommended. She used to Nanny and seems like she'd be a great fit for the kids. Only 2 days a week and she starts the begining of May. It could always change too depending on if Ryan gets laid off in May again...We will see!!!
Anyway...there...not much new, but thought I would update again. I would post pictures, but I havent had the camera out lately. My charger is MIA and my battery is about dead...if I cant find it soon i will have to order a new one...I hate not taking pictures of the kiddos!
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