First Steps

Tory took her first steps last night, I can't believe she is getting so big. She also took them right after I told my mom she wasn't ready to start walking, shows what I know, kids like to make us liars! She still perfers crawilng to where she needs to go but she is starting to get brave on us. What a little sweetheart!

Things that make me happy

I have been in a blogging rut lately, I am sure you all dont want to hear all the fun I have every day of picking up toys, doing laundry and walking to school so I have spared all the boring details! But having things so nice and beautiful out and the Easter weekend made just made me happy so I wanted to list some of things that make me happy,

1. A Great, Sexy, Wonderful Husband... I love him so much, he makes me so happy
2. Kelsi, who is so happy and cheerful all the time, she works so hard at school and everything she does
3. Gabe, such a funny kid, he loves all the simple things in life
4. Tory, that great big smile every morning as I get her out of the crib
5. The pretty flowers I have growing outside
6. Kelsi and Gabe picking up the dog doo doo while I take a minute to blog
7. Great friends
8. Great parents
9. Motorcycle rides, they are so much fun
10. The Gym, I always leave feeling so much better
11. Tory's babbling
12. Kelsi's pictures of her family and letters telling us how much she loves us
13. Gabe putting his shoes away
14. A clean house
15. Almost no car payment
16. Stable jobs
17. The light at the end of the tunnel growing brighter
18. Walking outside without a jacket
19. Future plans and projects, its fun to dream
20. Cooking, I love cooking and trying new recipes

MRI Results

To continue on the update of Tory. We went into Primary Childrens this morning for her MRI. She had to fast for quite a while for a baby and held through that like a tropper. We had to be at the hospital at 6:30 in the morning, so we had an early morning. Tory went through the anesthic great and through the MRI well, or so they said, we couldn't be there. We were able to be with her after the MRI and waiting for her to come out of the anesthetic. She is still having a hard time today from the anesthic, she is really grouchy and very uncoordinated, she cant crawl around or sit without falling over. But that should be gone by tomorrow morning.
The results came in as perfectly normal. There is nothing that they could see on the MRI. We are really happy about this, as I am sure you can all imagine. But we still have no answers on the seizures, so I guess we will weather the storm and wait for her to grow out of it.

Thanks for all your support, questions and love about her. We have definitly felt it helping and stregthening us.

Wedding Luncheon

Blake and Madalyn had a beautiful wedding this weekend. I am so happy for them and entering into this new and exciting stage of their life.

I got a few pictures of the kids at the luncheon, they were so cute in their matching dresses and suites. Of course none of them were smilling or looking at us the same time, but heres a few pictures to get the idea.

Brody, Kelsi, Tory and Gabe all looking so nice!

Daddy and Tory

Mommy and Tory

Daddy, Mommy and Tory

Grandpa and Tory ---- We got a lot of Tory because she was the only one we could find most of the time :)

Gabe and Kami He did not want to dance he wanted to be held :)

And my favorite picture

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 :)

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.

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.