My husband rocks...

My kids love their dad!

ITS NOT GOUT!

Ok, so I accidentally told people my mom had gout... but really it was a bunion (sp?). She had surgery last Thursday! The above picture is Jonah with his Poppa waiting in the waiting room.
This is Nana hours after her surgery recovering at home. She is doing well... in a lot of pain (just hearing what they did to her foot made me want to go home and take pain killers).

My funny son!

Each day the kids have quiet time in their rooms... one day I walked in to find hunter no where. I knew he was in his room but I didn't see him right away...
Then I noticed the lump on his b ed under his gator... he did that to himself and fell asleep... Funny dude!

Park fun with the kids!

At the last minute we headed to the park for some much needed outside fun!
This is Jonah with friend, Zach! (what you don't see is Jane's hand helping Jonah to sit up)

Jonah, sitting in the swing!

Brothers

Friends... Zach, Nate, Hunter, Jonah and Nick

Taking pictures with three at this age is not fun!

Haley's first sleep over... and Hunter's interesting sleeping ways!

This Saturday Haley had her first friend spend the night... Isabel! All three, Hunter included... played so well!!! Right before bed, I had to hand out my children's meds... and Isabel must have felt left out because she begins to tell me she takes meds before bed... she then proceeds to fake cough... so I whipped out smarties (the candy) and gave her two "medicines".... right after she smiles big and tells me, "thanks... I feel so much better" Kids are cute!

Last night... this is what I found when I went to check in on Hunter before I went to bed... This is typical too! This is how he sleeps!!!

Happy 18th Jasen!

January 5, was my cousin Jasen's birthday! The hat jimmy is wear is a special hat Haley made me for Christmas :) It just fit Jim's head better :)

Us, poorly singing happy birthday! Lets just say, we wont be making any CD's anytime soon.

what we did...

We didn't do much this Christmas break. We were mostly sick the ENTIRE break... The above picture (which is hard to see) is us doing "school." BOTH haley and hunter wanted to do "school" with mom. SOmetimes we had a visitor to our "school", Grace from across the street.

Right before the sickness hit our family, we were able to get one hangout accomplished! Kelly and Jenn both drove in to town and we had a "small" play date at our house... I say small because it was a small amount of moms... and a TON of kids....

The older kids... Haley and Logan both 5 years old (two weeks apart, if that)

The three year olds... Nate, Grant, Jake and HunterAnd the babies... Zach, Luke, Jonah, and Drew.

Haley's tree protest.... Steve's B-day... Hunter and his ears

Haley was VERY upset when we took down our Christmas tree.... She stood in front of it like this and yelled NO. It doesn't help that the tree was dieing so we had to take it down sooner then later. In a compromise, I put the Christmas tree lights up around the inside of our living room. She loves them!

Hunter and his Thomas the Train friend. As soon as Hunter found out that Deron knew the different trains from back when he was young, Hunter now has a train buddy!!! It is really cute :).

My Uncle Steve's birthday is New Years Eve. Above is a picture of him with his older brother (my dad, Ken) and his mom (my grandma). This is before she went into the hospital with congestive heart failure.

Cousins!

Huntman had to go to the Urgent Care. He has two really bad ear infections.... AGAIN. :( This time they talked about tubes. At the urgent care, he had to bring Bill and Ben (Thomas trains of course) and had them sit on the table with him while he waited for the doctor... cute huh? Seriously, this is my son, day in and day out... THOMAS! They watch him eat all his meals... in fact, as I am typing this, he is replaying an episode of one of his Thomas movies on his train table. He doesn't watch the show much... I really try to limit that... but he does memorize them and replay them on his train table.

Jim's family lunch!

Jim and Haley met up with his mom and dad, Jenna and Len, Ruth (grandma), and his aunt Frieda and Gary.
Hunter, Jonah and I stayed home sick :(. I had no voice and Hunter was coughing and had snot everywhere.

Ruth! to Jim this is Grandma, and to the kids, GG.

Helen! Proud mom/grandma!

Some Christmas Photos...

Good thing Jonah has some weight on him.... :)

Jonah is our smallest child :)... Funny huh?

Christmas day at the Vandegrift's...

Our Three Cuties...
We all were feeling a bit under the weather! Bummer!!!
I Hope all your Christmas' were filled with Joy and excitement :)... Love and most of all, filled with Jesus!!! :)

Leaf Fun!

Hunter's PreSchool Christmas Singing Thing

Hunter and Haley on the last day of school for the year 2007!

Isabel is TOTALLY singing, Hunter must not have liked this song :) He spent one song with his hands in his back making a frowning face. :) He is funny!

Hunter, Kaylee and Isabel.... Preschool friends (in different classes) :)

Mom's B-day, Crazy Christmas, Jonah 4 months....

My mom had a birthday this month!!!

Carrie and I all decked out for the holidays!

Jonah is four months old :) and totally losing his hair :( - cradle cap is crap :)

Hope you like sea food :)
Kiss anyone?
We took this ourselves.... Can you tell?

Updates....

This is my new due! It does lighten every time I wash it :). It is crazy. I don't recognize myself. I scared Haley the next morning waking her up for school.
What happened: Washing my hair after Jenny dying it, my hair turned purple. I decided to call a gal I know from mops (Robin) and ask her what home remedy I could do, or if I was doomed to be a purple people eater for Christmas. She told me to come in and that her and Gina would take care of me... and they did. I felt so blessed by them! I didn't bring a camera to the saloon, Gina took a picture with her camera and when I get a copy of it I will add it to my blog :)... Thanks Robin and Gina!!! From now on, I don't mess with my own hair! I will spend the money on it, it is worth it :).

Hanukkah with the Jones and Vandegrift's at Len and Jenna's. Jenna made a FABULOUS meal!!!

My three kiddos... I love them :).

Before and after...

This is a picture of it in the sun... to give you all an idea of what it looked like in all its glory :)Jenny covering my red :)Me in my kitchen just a minute ago... I know it is probably hard to see the color in the kitchen and me holding Jonah... Jenny did a good job covering up my redness. My hair still has a tint of red in it... but you saw what it was... how could it not still have some sort of hint of red in it?

Things I have learned about myself!!!!

This is how you are going to see me for a while, or until Jenny can help me fix my problem :). I have been trying to help us save money by completing tasks that I feel I can do without paying someone else to do... for example, I gave my dogs a lovely hair cut :) and saved us 80 dollars by doing so.

What I have learned is is that some tasks, there is a reason you pay someone to do it. They know how!

For example. A month or so ago I decided to cut my bangs. Why pay someone to do it... how hard could it be.... well, I spent the next three weeks or so pulling my bangs back because I did such a poor job cutting them! I kept trying to make them even and in doing so, cut them so short....

Ok, lesson number two that I have learned! When you die your hair, do not use hair die you have had in the cabinet for over two years. Last night I decided I was sick of my roots showing and didn't want to pay big bucks to have some professional die my hair brown. So I dug out this hair die... BROWN! I thought I would die it myself. The kids watched me, they thought it looked fun! Well, now I have purple/red hair that is so funny looking you can't help but laugh! OH MY GOSH!!!! When I blew my hair dry last night, Hunter looks up at me and says, "Mommy, I want red hair too!" so did Haley! Then Hunter said, "mommy, I think you look beautiful!" How sweet huh? Love is blind!!! :)

This morning Haley walked out of her room and took a double take... "Mama, I forgot that your hair is so red.... I still love you though!"

Anyways... fill free to laugh with me :) I am sure people think I am going through some mid life crisis or something... too bad I do this all the time and not just now! :) it is just hair and it will grow out or come out some time!!!

This picture doesn't even do it justice!!! It is BRIGHT and FUN :) (I write fun so I can feel better about it).. this picture makes it look cute... (as cute as this color could be on me)