Smiles

Ok so I am trying to stay up on the whole blog thing even though no one reads it but me. Ashlynn is getting so big so fast and she is already almost 7 weeks old which is crazy. Over the last couple of weeks she has started smiling and I have been trying to catch them on the camera with no success but today I was able to get a little one. I am so happy to finally catch it. She is such a good baby. Last night she slept from 9:30pm till 4:30am which was wonderful that is for sure. I was so happy to get the sleep but at the same time I am tired from sleeping to much Oh well.
So I guess I should include the pictures of her smiling as well as some new ones of Caden

Caden thinks that jumping on people is so much fun and Dan found out how much Caden enjoys if but if you are the one getting jumped on it isn't so much fun

So another update is last Thursday I had gone into the doctors for an appointment and we weighed Ashlynn. At 6 weeks old she weighed in at 10lbs 6 oz. She is one heavy piglet that is for sure. It seems like she is always eating and boy by that weight I would say she is getting enough to eat.
Well hopefully soon I will have some Halloween pictures. Caden is going to be a sheriff deputy, his uncle Sean is the Sheriff, and Ashlynn is going as the prisoner so it is pretty cute. I will have to post after I take some. Until next time.

Plane trip

Ok So for some time now I have been asking Dan to go to the east coast. Well I haven't been able to find any good deals on tickets until now. We are asking to lose our minds seeing as we will be flying with two kids two on our laps for 6plus hours but I think it will be so worth the trip. I am so excited seeing as I haven't been to the east coast in 5plus years so it will be so nice to see everyone while we are there. We are leaving seattle on Jan 6th and return on the 13th so we will have a nice long visit which will be so nice. Dan has never been so we will have lots of sight seeing to do. I can't wait.

Fall 2009

Ok so in the last two months we have been super busy in our house. On Sept 11th we welcomed a sweet little girl, Ashlynn Belle, into our family. She was born at 10:21am weighing in at 7lbs 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. She has been a joy to our family. Caden isn't so sure what to think of having a baby in the house but I think he is adjusting for the most part.

So to say the least I have been home enjoying my maternity leave with the kids. The weather has been pretty nice up until the last couple of days were it has turned bitter cold and has been raining off and on making it difficult to get Caden outside to play. With the weather being nasty the last week or so it left me with a lot of green tomatoes on my plants and rather than them go to waste I picked a big huge box of them hoping to find something to do with them. Well, being home and have oh so much free time(joking) I decided that I would try my hand at making green tomato mincemeat like my grandmother used to make. Well 4 hours of chopping/grinding and 7 1/2 hours cooking = 26 pints of yummy mincemeat. I am so excited seeing as this was my first attempt at it plus being home with the kids by myself made it out to be a very long process but man by last night my house smelled so good. We have plenty now for a while but I know I am going to have to share. It was well worth the hassle of finding suet as well as juggling the kids and getting everything done in a timely manner.

So I think Caden is begining to get used to me being home now during the day. We do watch a lot of movies but it is nice to be able to take him out to the park and color with him and things like that. I am hoping that next spring/summer I will be able to take him to the zoo because that would make for a wonderful outing. I am looking forward to being able to stay home with the kids and do things with them that I feel like I miss out on excepessally in the summer time seeing as I am always working. Well, I guess I should post some updated pictures. I still need to get some more recent ones seeing as Ashlynn is now 4 1/2 weeks old and I haven't taken any yet. Hopefully there will be more to come soon. Until then Enjoy

Long time no post

Ok so I am really bad about posting updates. Since my last post alot has been going on. Caden celebrated his first birthday, he started walking, he started talking a couple more words (ice, grandpa, juice, itty(kitty), doggie and a couple of others, Caden got his first haircut, he now has a mouth full of teeth, and I could go on and on. He is turning into a very active toddler that keeps us running that is for sure. So since the last post we also have found out that we are expecting a little girl in September. So excited that is for sure. Little bit of a surprise being a girl and so soon after Caden but a good one. We have also been doing some landscape changes to our yard(by we I mean Dan) We are putting in a new sprinkler system as well as redueing the grass seeing as we have none.
Between Dan and I we have both been busy with work stuff the last couple of months. Dan has been farming and I have still been doing my current job as a field rep for sweet corn seed. Both of us work some crazy hours some days but it isn't as bad as it could be. My borther Bert gets married this coming weekend so we are going to the westside of the state for that which is going to be nice seeing as family that we haven't seen in a while will be coming into town for it. Not looking forward to the drive being 34 weeks pregnant but it should be fun all the same. Well got to run but hopefully I will update again soon with more pictures


Caden in December 2008

Caden May 2009

Update - Family pictures

Hi all,
So it has been a longgggggggggg time since I updated this. I am not to good about keeping this blog up to date but I try to post updates when I can. Well we got family pictures done right before thanksgiving and I thought that I should share. Everyone was bugging up to have pictures done and so I was finally able to get Dan to participate so here they are. They came out pretty good for being Sears and we were really pleased. This weekend Dan is gone to a fire fighter training class so I am home alone for the weekend with a sick baby and decided that while he was gone I would go get a tree and decorate it. So that is what Caden and I did today. I had lots of fun decorating while Caden enjoyed pulling the needles off or chewing on the ornaments(don't worry they are plastic). We had a lot of fun needless to say. Dan should be impressed because I even had to re cut the end so that it would be able to get water. The tree isn't perfect but it will have to do for this year. Well I got to finish my xmas letter so that I can get cards out hopefully soon.

Halloween

So Today is Halloween and I wanted to get a costume for Caden but couldn't bring my self to spending money on something he will only wear once. So what are we doing tonight. Caden is sleeping and it is only 6pm. He only had one nap today so he is pretty tired and I am boring so he fell asleep which is fine with me as long as he sleeps tonight. We shall see on the sleeping tonight. But I hate to wake him seeing as he would be a complete monster for the rest of the evening. So here I sit waiting for Dan to come home. Dinner is cooking so at least that is in the works. So now I am just being boring and handing out candy to all the little trick or treaters.

Pictures

Caden playing in the laundry basket thanks to his Dad. He enjoys playing with laundry though Socks are his favorite


Caden's 6 month picture.
















Well that is it for now I will try to get some pictures of the new floors up soon. I have a feeling however that it is going to be awhile before the house gets completely done but we shall see Winter is coming and that means shorter work days and more house projects YAY.