the view outside my window....

while standing on my bed and chair.

Yep...thats a mountain view! I just now realized after a year of living in this house that we have a beautiful mountain view. although barely visable through the tree...lol

sorry about the darkness...its the screen..but look...it snowed last night. Not very much but enough to delay school by two hours.

Lizzy in all her glory!

Lizzy got her pictures done in preschool a couple of weeks ago and when i went in to pick her up they were in. Liz and Mrs. Campbell were actually standing at the door as I walked in. Mrs Campbell said the photographer said she was very photogenic.

I think this one is my favorite. It shows her playfulness.



In this picture you can see where i bashed her in the head with a door at red robin. I was leaning on it while she was in there and she tried to open it and i didnt know. The door lock was at the perfect height with her eyebrow. Im glad it didnt swell up!

She is just so dang cute!

jumperoo and bouncy chair

abby tried out her new jumperoo today. i think she will be spending alot of time in there.

she didnt like the bouncy chair as much though. she kept trying to get the bird in her mouth. she was actually sitting forward to get it.

lizzys field trip

today liz and i went on a field trip with her school to the bremerton fire department. we had lots of fun.


she is such a poser! lol


in the ambulance



those coats are heavy!

tour of the fire engine

she said she wants to be a firefighter when she grows up.

their tv room

randoms

abby fell asleep while chewing on her fingers. she is constantly chewing on them! maybe she will pop out a tooth some day.

she is holding her bottle in this picture. she has been doing this on and off since she was about 4 days old

here she is just being cute..she looks a little mad..dont worry that wetness all over rick isnt her drool (which she does alot of lately)..its his sweat from running or basketball.

this is a yummy salad that rick made me the other day...it was soooo good! i love the salads he makes me!

cuteness!!

These are new shoes I got abby. I just thought some of her outfits needed a little extra something. Once she is standing more then I will get the more flexible ones they say are better for their feet.

This is how I found her this morning. I guess she thought it was to bright in her room or something.

And this one was at naptime....a whole 30 minutes (or so) after the first one. I had put the monitor closer to her so I could hear her breath since she was on her stomach. When its in it's origianl postition all I hear is the sound machine. When I first saw her more of her hand was on it but after I got the camera she moved a little.

Oh and she is 13 weeks today.

getting rid of clothes

so lately i have had the need to get rid of stuff. well mike came in and told me he could fit any more stuff in his drawer so i decided to go through it. He had 39 shirts in his drawer! Ididnt know my son was a clothes horder (sp?). Ok like heather just said..he isnt the one that buys them..its me.

So here are his before and after pictures. We got rid of 25!




Now here is the pile from my room. Some of was the girls (not abbys though cuz im saving those incase bethy-bear has a girl!) some was ricks white t-shirts from work. we bought new ones and got rid of the dingys!



Here are the papers i went through. these are all to be shredded! or burned.these came from on of those portable filing cases (that was broken anyway). the only things left from that are our taxes and pictures.

12 weeks today!!

Today my baby turned 12 weeks! I cannot believe how much she has changed my life. I never knew how it felt to create another life with the person you love.

Today we decided to try and feed her cereal. They say that there are a few signs to when she is ready: sits with support, can move tongue back and forth, controls her neck muscles, and indicate when she is full. she can do all of that so i thought it was time to try some food. (plus i couldnt wait to buy the cute little bowls and spoons!)She did so good!

I hope this video works, it is my first time adding a video.

Old family photo

I found this picture in a box that my slave driver (heather) made me go through. I believe it was taken in 2003 because we didnt have liz yet and she was born december of 03. We only got an 8x10 of this shot...well of any shot, because the camera and lighting werent syncing or something like that so they could take a proper photo (you can see a shadow on my face). I think Rick and Mike look super cute! And Shirley too. I cant believe how little Shirley looks. For some reason Michael always looks the same to me, although he was really small in this picture.

This is also the last family photo we had done. Now that Abby has come along i think its time for a new one! I knew I waited to have one done for a reason.

MONDAYS TO-DO LIST

-wash and fold all bedsheets
-make beds
-safeway for wic
-take plastic bags to safeway

SUNDAY TO-DO LIST

-Dishes
-Empty garbage
-laundry (goal is 2 loads)
-vacuum downstairs
-go through baskets in closet
-put clothes to give to goodwill in a box
-put abbys clothes that are to small in a bin

All of this plus feed, burp, change, and entertain a baby, three kids and a husband so we will see how much actually gets done. Not that the baby, kids, and hubby have to do with it not getting done...thats my pure lazyness that gets in the way....lol!

yes thats right!!!

Two posts in one day! I just made white chicken chili. rick was so surprised i was actually making something new that he brought abby in to check out what i was doing. he told her that this doesnt happen very often so look now. The chili turned out really good! Rick ate it with out hot sauce..which is almost unheard of...and even the kids ate it. Shirley had two helpings of it, Michael didnt like it at first but decided he did and asked for another bowl. But we all knew Lizzy wouldnt like it but she ate most of her bowl. I didnt even put a whole ladel full of it in their bowl. I really liked it. It is not spicy. I didn't even get to have a second bowl. so maybe next time i will make double. I

t was fast and easy. Instead of cooking the chicken breast whole I cut them up and cooked it that way and followed the rest of the recipe.

Go check out the recipe in the link above...go ahead....do it!

misc. pictures

lizzy was not in these photos because she was cold and crying. so i put the picture of her with her socks on her hands. she couldnt find her gloves so she asked if she could use socks.

abyy is sitting up all by herself...well with the support of the couch pillows. she ended up flopped over and i had to 'gently' tell rick not to put her up like that if he wasnt gonna watch her.

abby loves her daddy.

this is the sweater and booties that my mom made for abigail. about an hour after we put these on her she spit up on them. so i had to wash them. my mom really should have measured her huge feet because the booties no longer fit.