Backtracking

I finally downloaded pictures from my mom's camera so here they are...

Brooklyn's baby dedication

Here are a few from Georgia...

Halloween...carving pumpkins. Jeremy's costume scared a few kids.

Okay, I think that is it for old pictures. We're celebrating Parker and Jeremy's birthday this weekend. We're going to the park again. I asked Parker what he wanted to do for his birthday and he said that he wanted to play...easy enough. It's so hard to believe he's going to be 4...wow, time flies. He's getting so big and says the funniest things.

Easter was fun. It was Brooklyn's first Easter. She wasn't interested in too much. She found two eggs and would just hit them together for awhile and throw them down and pick them up again. Parker loved it of course. Parker loved dying the eggs too but Brooklyn threw them down so hard they would crack...so we didn't let her hold the real eggs.

Well, I guess I'm going to end for now. Brooklyn is fussy and Parker is waiting to watch a movie on the computer.

Slacking Off

I can't believe that it's been over a month since I have updated the blog...what a slacker I've been. So much has happened over the last month. Jeremy's still at work because they're doing inventory and the kids are asleep so I thought I better get on here and update while I was thinking about it.

Spring break, mom and I took the kids to visit Amy and her family in Georgia. Breaking up the trip into two days made it easy on the kids. They both did really good. Going up there was miserable because I was sick, but luckily it passed after a few days and I enjoyed the rest of our trip. We had a good time, of course, spending time with family. I have no pictures though. We used mom's camera because Jeremy had ours...he went on the church ski trip. I haven't gotten her pics downloaded and burned to a CD yet so hopefully I'll do that soon and post them in a later blog (hopefully before next month).

Jessica and Jody came to visit and go to the Rodeo. It was alot of fun. Once again...I have no pictures, so I saved these off of Jessica's facebook album. :) Thanks Jess.

I got home Sunday night from Georgia and Jess and Jody came in on Wednesday night. They had a little trouble getting here but they made it. We caught up on what had happened since we saw each other last, had a relaxing Thursday and Friday and headed to the rodeo. It was a fun weekend, but went by way too fast.

Brooklyn is walking so good now. She gets excited about something and will start walking really fast...and as long as she doesn't have shoes on, she usually doesn't fall down. It is hard for me to believe that she's 9 months old already and Parker will be 4 next month. I am kind of wondering if he's going to be disappointed on his birthday that he's only going to be 4. He has it in his mind that he's going to be 5 and get to go to kindergarten. He's rushing things a little too much for me.

We went outside to play earlier today and we had a few visitors...which were still there when it was getting dark outside.

I swear we are a magnet for strays. As soon as we were going into the backyard I see the dogs coming through the fence. We always get the strays that won't leave. I can throw rocks at them, shoot the bb gun at them...they don't leave, they just lay down and wimper. How do you get rid of a dog that does that?? The dogs were pretty cute so I just let them play around in the yard, but they started to get a little rough with Parker. They were just playing and it was pretty funny, but Parker was getting mad at them. They would follow behind him and nip at him and got him in the butt a few times and nipped at his fingers. I told Parker to pop them on the nose but he wouldn't do it. So...I decide I'll chase them off with the bb gun because Parker didn't want to be outside if they were out there. The dumb dogs just stand there so I had to actually hit them with the bb's to make them run off...but they only run under the shed so I really can't get rid of them. We decided just to go inside and hope they would go away. Here's a video of Parker playing with them...before he got mad at them.

Despite the dogs out there, the kids did have some fun. Brooklyn loved the dogs, she kept laughing at them.

I don't know if you can tell, but Brooklyn is sitting in one of Parker's dump trucks. She hated the sand touching her feet. She was trying so hard to get out of the sandbox but I was holding onto her trying to get her used to it. She started to cry so I thought we'd just try the dump truck...which she didn't really like either so I had to hold her up out of the sand. I guess we'll try that another day.

Here's a few more pics of the kids outside.

Here's a cute picture of Parker playing boxing on the Wii. He just figured that one out and he loves it, he's pretty good at it too.

Alright, well I hope that everyone was a wonderful weekend.