Memorial Day

My boys and me
The kids, Grandma, and Nadja. (Nadja had to physically hold Alex in the frame of pic.)

Us girls and kids!

The traditional McDonalds Breakfast!

The kido table

My boys!

It's the time that we give thanks to all of our fallen hero's who gave up their lives for us Americans! Putting flowers on all our loved ones headstones. Visiting our friends that were taken from us way too soon! Getting teary eyed everytime you pass a headstone of a baby or small child! Memorial day is not my favorite holiday, but I get the concept, and am very greatfull!

Every year we meet up at the cemetery (every year we seem to meet later and later). We always "visit" our family members and friends who are burried in the cemetery and afterwards... Head to McDonalds! Going to McDonalds is a tradition that I remember doing ever since it was opened! Grandma and Grandpa Bowler took us there every memorial day and would buy us breakfast! Good times! I love tradition! Anyhoo, after Micky D's we went over to my mom's house and played Beatles Rock Band! Always a good time when good music is around ;). And, that was our memorial day! Nothing much, but great memories, for me at least....

My New Hobbie

Recnetly, I decided I needed to learn how to knit! So, my little sis and I went to Joanne's and I got me some yarn and a how to book, and some crochet hooks.(I totally didnt know there was a difference..) While reading my book, I learned that I was a dork and didnt have the right supplies. The next day I went to the local hardware store and picked me up some needles! I have totally become addicted! For me it is very relaxing! It's something you can do while watching t.v. that doesn't require a whole lot of thinking. If I didnt have kids I could sit for hours and knit. Sometimes I knit until my hands start to cramp. Anyhoo! I love knitting. It's something I associate with old people, tho.... My mom never knitted, but both grandmothers did, so I feel like I should be old and gray, walking around with a cane :) Heeeeheeeeheeee! I love it though!

Why I Love These Little Boys So Much!

MMMMmmmmm... Grilled cheese!
Sweet heart!

Mom, my nose is itchy!

LUVS!

These little guys are so sweet! Though, they are not perfect and are at times, down right ornery! They are truely little blessings!!! I have learned so much from motherhood, although patience would be nice! I have yet to learn patience.... They make me laugh everyday!

Alex is getting so smart! He knows most of his shapes, colors, some letters and some numbers. He once told me that the shape on the soccer ball was a pentagon! I dont think I tought him that one..... The other day he brought me a book (baby einsein) and he pointed at the word einstein and said "mommy, this is Little Eisnsteins"! He recognized the word einstein just from watching Little Einstein's on the Disney Channel. He knows all his colors aside from turqoise, marroon, or any "offset" color. He knows all the other colors but he just sees turqoise as being blue, marroon-red and so forth. I'm not really worried about it.... He recognizes everything else, so I'm ok with that! He brought me an easter egg yesterday and told me it was an oval. He is quite a.d.d. but he seems to learn really easily, and he doesn't forget, so i think he'll be ok when he starts school! Yes I worry about my kids struggling! I worry far too much about that kind of stuff!

Cam has officially started walking! He walks like a little old man and it is the cutest thing I've ever seen! He's also very smart! He has a little look in his eye that tells me he's up to no good! He is very mischievious and sneeky!! I dont know how, but he just knows stuff! He has figured out a way to lour me into the living room while he's in the kitchen climbing a chair! He's smart and sneeky, which makes it hard for me to take my eyes off him, even for a second! He doesn't talk much, at least not words I can understand... He says go "ga" momma, dada, i've heard him say Alex, only a couple times, tho. He calls the doggy dada , the kitty dada, most things are dada. Oh, I cant wait until he starts talking! I think he'll talk smack :) He is Alex's little Follower! He follows Alex and tries to do every thing Alex does. It's super cute!

I really love my little boys! They are crazy, hyper, sneeky, and oh so very sweet! They keep me running all day everyday! I'm exhausted! LOL!!

Clark County Fair, 2010

Alex in line for his first carnival ride, EVER!!
Picked out his horse!

Dont let go Daddy! He's afraid of heights!

Woo Hoo!

Please dont let me fall Daddy!!

"racin cars"

"Rockets is the winner"

YAY!

He had a blast on the "racin cars" as he called them!

The fire truck!

Again, he absolutly loved the fire truck!

He had a blast!

Cam wanted to go too!

We told Alex to steer the airplane, and he grabbed the gun to "steer".

Wow! This is so cool!

AAAHHHHH!! It's getting so high! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!

The fishies, or chichi's as alex calls them!

So cool!

His little head poking out was so cute!

Cam and Kissy! They're so cute together!

This year, the fair was the same as always, great food and medioker (sp) entertainment! Thursday night we went to the rodeo with Bonnie and Shane. The kids lost intrest pretty quickly! They enjoyed it for about an hour, or less..... They loved the small animal tent! Alex told me he wants a baby goat, baby lamb, baby piggy, baby duck, baby easter bunny, baby chicken, and a baby froggy?????..... He's a weird little duck! Friday afternoon we took Alex on the rides. He had a blast, but when we returned later to go on some rides with his cousins, he freaked out! I think one of the rides (probably the airplane) scared him and then he was just ,scared! We learned that he was afraid of heights! We didn't know that until he went on the merry-go-round! We tried to get him to go on the rides again on Saturday, but he was too scared, so we have tickets left over!

I was so glad to see the fair leave town! I know in a couple months I'll be anxious for it to come back! For now, I'm so gald it's over!

Hooray For Easter!

On our way to the easteregg hunt! (Sally likes sitting on Alex's lap whenever we go somewhere)

Jack Bird and Sally Sue playing!

Everybody with their full baskets!

The kid's baskets were so full of eggs, they had a hard time carrying them! They were heavy!

Woohoo! Easter Eggs!

Alex tip toeing toward the easter eggs

Pretty cool!

This year for Easter, we we all went over to Nadja and Nathan's house for our anual egg hunting party :). We let the little and A.D.D. (Alex) kids go first. The kids thought it was so cool that the Easter Bunny had brought all those treats!!! After the "hunt" we ate a yummy traditional Easter lunch! Ham, funeral potatoes, frog eye salad,and rolls. YUM! Great way to spend Easter! With family.

As of Late...

Good new's of sorts... Our plan to move to Georgia has been put on hold (not sure for how long..). Our new plan, can go one of two ways. Danny just turned in his resume to a soil company. He was told about it from a friend, they are looking to hire a foreman and are ok with inexpirience. We aren't completly sure what his job would be, but he'd get paid prevailing wadge. We'd make alot of money! He handed in his resume, sometime this week and we are now waiting to hear back from them!
Plan B. He has had a few projects, here and there, but only has one more house, that should be coming up with in the next couple months, and after that, we have no work and haven't even heard of any. If we dont get the soil company job, we'll stay for a while and as soon as we can, we'll head out of here to GA! Right now we do not have an exact plan, other than sit and wait. It can be very stressfull, not knowing what tomorrow will bring.
I am excited to know that we will still be here for Thanksgiving! We have three baby's coming into the family, one in Aug, two in Sept. I was sad thinking that I probably wouldn't see them until they were 3, but now I get to see them at Thanksgiving time. I'm so excited about that!

My Baby is 13 Months Old!

My baby boy, Doos, is now 13 months!


The things he can do...
Crawl like a bear was chasing him!
Express his feelings (real well!)
He can say a few words, Mama, Dada, Yah, and he tries to say Dash (our cat)
Climb! He climbs everything he can!
He's only somewhat social. He usually just play's by himself, next to other kids.

Not mastered yet....
He has not mastered walking yet. He just started to try only a couple weeks ago. He has no desire to get up and go, because he can crawl like a crazy man!

Dislikes...
Most foods! He's the pickiest 13 month old I've ever seen!
Our new puppy, Sally!
When big brother annoys him.
When mommy leaves the room (he's going thru the whole seperation anxiety phase)
Hearing other little kids cry.