Monday, March 30, 2009

Bachlerhood RIP

Eric and Kami planned out a great bachelor party for Blake. The boys had a ton of fun, us girls wished we could have watched it all! But just because I have the pictures I had to put them up on the blog for a good laugh. Blake had to go on a scavenger hunt and do all the embaressing things on his list. Some of the others he had to do that are not shown, was to pass out crayon drawings and tell couples that he hopes they can find true love like his and be as happy as him some day. He also had to find some older women and get marriage advice from them. He had to get a redheads phone number on a pink construction heart and the rest of the pictures / videos will explain the rest! Jeff said it was the best bachelor party he has ever been to!

Blakes t-shirt, he neeeded to get as many "hot" girls he could to sign it. Each signature counted as a $1.00 towards his dinner.
Blake needed to get a blonde to give him a good lipstick smacker! (looks like he is enjoying it :)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Let's go fly a kite

We had a very productive Saturday yesterday. We got raspberry bushes planted, the garage cleaned, the house cleaned up, got Jeff to watch Twilight with me ( he thought it was ok ) and the most important was we got to take the kids on a walk to the park and got to fly their kites.
They had a lot of fun, it was a perfect day to take the kites out and they had a lot of fun. I love watching Jeff with the kids he is such a good dad, he takes the time to sit with the kids and teach them how to do things, like flying a kite, and he has fun doing it to, where as I get frustrated to easily, he's a good example for me. Here is a few pictures of our fun time at the park.

Gabe and his airplane kite

Kelsi and her dragon kite

Jeff and Gabe flying his kite
Tory having fun outside.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Happy Birthday Tory

Our baby just turned a year old... man it went by fast and slow at the same time. Victoria is such a sweet little baby. She has the biggest most infectious smile and giggle. She has brought so much happiness to us and gray hair! Here are a few pictures of Tory on her birthday. I tried hard to get one of her smiling, guess she wasn't in the mood, to much other stuff going on!
Birthday girl!
Trying to figure out how to open presents
Enjoying her presents
Birthday cake!
Bath Time! Her favorite thing of the day! Sorry mom -- there was a nice chocolate and pink ring around her tub.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Batman Birthday Boy

Gabriel turned 4 years old yesterday. He had a great day. He had a totally packed Batman day! He even had us sing Happy Birthday Batman to go with his Batman cake. Here are a few pictures of Gabe on his fun day.
We had a few family and friends over to celebrate with us last night and we appreciate you for coming and celebrating Gabe and Tory's birthday with us!
Gabe's such a fun little boy, he makes us laugh and smile so much, we love this big guy. He is such a sweet and sensitive kid to, he is always the first in line to give us a "hug so tight it pops your head off" or to tell us I like / love you. Gabriel is in such an easy going kid. He is such a smart kid and trys his hardest to make us happy and to do what he is asked to do.
We hope you had a great birthday Gabe! We love you!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Randomish

Here is a bunch of random things all thrown together in one post.

Kelsi decided to tell us jokes the other day, it is funny how they come up with these things, here is a couple of her jokes.

Dad why was there only one car at the gas station? Cuz it was a girl car
Dad how come the flag was at the top of the post? Cuz it was watching the shapes in the clouds.
Dad how come Batman saved the kitty in the tree? Cuz he wanted to
Dad why did the car jump over the house? To play with the dog in the backyard
Dad why did the horse run over to his owner? Cuz it wanted to go on a horse ride
Dad why did the cereal get eaten up magically? Cuz the mouse ate it up

Crazy kids

She also wrote down a note to me dictated from Gabe... I love the way she is spelling and sounding out things. This note is in regards to the Batman Lego Game I mentioned earlier:

I Like thes - but I like the batman gam sow let me pla it naw mom and dad

Gabe had fun with his cousin on Saturday evening. My cousin Amanda came over to have dinner and play games with us... by the way kicked our can at Scene It Seinfeld, but we got them back with Scene It Harry Potter. Gabe took to Noah really well and had a lot of fun with him until Noah came downstairs because Gabe wacked him on the hand with a drum stick. When we were talking about it to him later Jeff said Gabe do you want me to hit you with this drum stick, holding the orange drumstick and he said no I did not hit him with that. So Jeff sits it down confused on what happened and picks up the yellow drumstick and Gabe announed oh yea I hit him with that one. After we got that taken care of they seem to have a lot of fun together. Gabe is asking where Noah is now.... hopefully he wont be to scared of Gabe and come back and play some time... I promise our kids should know better!

Other randomnish is an update on Tory, she is on Keppra right now which is an anti convulsive medication and it seems to be helping, she is a much happier baby and seems to be doing pretty good on it. The seizures have not stopped however, even on the medication. They are happening a lot less but are still happening, usually revolving around being hurt. AKA teeting has a new level at our house... so when she does have a seizure now they are longer, more intense and more draining on her. I talked to the neurologist again and they are concerned that she is still having them so we are taking her in for an MRI at the end of the month. Which I am relieved about, I have heard a few to many horror stories on if we had only done that test we could have caught this problem. Plus I know that anti convulsive are a good treatment for a number of different things, however we and the neurologist are wondering if we are treating an underlying neurological disorder since she has responded to the medication. So I guess more updates on that at the end of the month when we do the MRI

Tory is also almost standing on her own, she can do it for probably a few seconds until she realizes what she is doing and plops back down. I also just caught her climbing up the stairs and had to save her this morning from herself as she pulled a bowl of cereal milk on her head. She is definitly moving into the will mess up everything in your house stage.

We have a couple of birthdays this week, Gabriel turns four on Thursday and is having a Batman birthday and Tory is turning one on Saturday. Man times flies bye.

Anyways time to go my demanding little one is tired of her graham cracker and wants her attention or to go get into another mess which ever comes first.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Favorite Pastime

If Tory gets quiet you can be sure this is what she is up to


quietly unrolling the toilet paper
shredding the toilet paper
and proud of her accomplishment

Cute Pictures

These are a couple of pictures of our adventures in Applebee's

Gabe giving daddy a big hug

This one is a cute one of Tory and Jeff irritated at me for taking pictures at a restaurant

This is Tory sampling all the drinks