moving

So we were just told that we have a month to move out of the apartment that we are in because a family member of the owner needs a place to live. So wish us luck and keep us in your prayers as we look for something affordable that the five of us can be comfortable in.

Bottles, bikes and Bob

I think I am making progress getting Aubrie to take a bottle. Today before we left for town she nursed a little, and then I pumped about 2 ounces and brought it with us. She drank the whole bottle with no problems when we were in Walmart. Then when we got home I nursed her again a little (she quit herself when she feel asleep) and then she took almost a 4 hour nap. John and I just fed her another bottle, 3 ounces this time, and she took it with no problems. So I guess this is an answer to prayers because if she didn't take a bottle then I wasn't going to be able to go back to work. Even though it will be part time, I don't need to go to work bad enough that I make other people miserable listening to her cry because she wants to nurse so bad. I just hope now that she doesn't decide that she likes the bottle better and quits nursing. I don't think I am disciplined enough to pump for an extended period of time, so it is either nurse and pump milk for when I am working, or formula most of the time, and some breastmilk. So now instead of praying that she takes a bottle please pray that she doesn't like it toooo much!!! Since I typed this earlier in the day, I have since nursed her twice with no problem, so hopefully it will stay that way. A happy medium with bottle and breast.

Last night at our Bible study we had just a fellowship time. It was wonderful. We women need that time to just talk as we want about what we want! There were a few of us missing because of the summer schedules and stuff, but it was still a great group of women. One of the moms had a baby a week ago, a little early, but both mom and son are doing great! So cute he is! Aubrie wasn't the only baby girl there either, one of the moms had a daughter on the 27th of March, so they are only 2 weeks apart. And Aubrie rolled from her back to her stomach for the first time last night!!! She has been able to go from her stomach to her back for a long time now, but this was the first time that she has gone from back to stomach! It was super exciting! I tried to get her to do it today, but she will only scoot her self in a circle on the floor! Her head stays in pretty much the same place, but her lower body goes around and around and around! I have a couple of pics on the camera but it is in the car and it is raining, so you are going to have to wait a while!!!

Wyatte got a bike tonight! It has been sooo humid today and I couldn't stand being in the house anymore, so we headed into town. We needed to return some movies and so we did that and then went to Walmart. John headed right to the bikes and they started looking at the smaller ones. Wyatte picked out the "Spidey" one as he says! He could actually pedal it around in the store, so we will see how he does in the real world!!! I should have been looking at garage sales for one, but oh well!!! If it isn't raining tomorrow we are going to help him get going on it! So I will get pics up of that for you!

Bob the Builder is going to be in town tomorrow too, so will have pics of that hopefully!!!

Poll...

I have a poll over to the right, please answer...

Nevaeh's birthday invite

I can't get this to go into my email, and so I am putting this here so people know when to come!!!

This is what I get for cleaning...

So this morning I cleaned the living room. I mean really cleaned. I pulled all the chairs out the middle of the floor and vacuumed under them, I rearranged the toys, organized the books. The whole kit and kaboodle.

The kids did a pretty good job of keeping it clean for the morning. Granted there were a few toys out every once in a while, but for the most part it stayed clean.

I am also on my fourth or fifth load of laundry.

This is the rest of the story.....

I was in the bathroom folding the load of towels that were done drying. I could hear the kids in the living room. I had laid out a blanket on the floor and they were eating "cheese tacos" (cheese inside to tortilla shells then cooking in the microwave) and talking about the show that was on TV. I thought to my self "they are being really good, I think I might let them stay up a little before I lay them down for a nap. I then moved the clothes from the washing machine to the dryer and started the water in the washing machine for the next load. I walk out the living room/dining room/computer room to get the towels from when we went swimming last night and this is what I see...

For those of you that don't recognize this, that is what used to fill up a WHOLE jar of Lawry's Season Salt. Yes my wonderful kids decided to color mom's chair and floor orange. Nevaeh got in trouble first because she was the one holding the jar when I found them. Wyatte got in trouble next because he was there, and then he got in trouble again for lying to me about who did it. He told me that it was all Nevaeh, ok easy enough to believe because she is a bit of a trouble maker. Then I looked at his hands as he was walking past me, and they are more orange than the chair and the floor. Now they are both in bed.


So for those of you that read this and laugh at the escapades of my two kids, I am posing this proposition to you. PLEASE COME GET THEM FOR A WHILE!!!!!

little tidbits

Sorry no new pics, just words.....

Today was one of the worst days that we have had in a long time. Nevaeh didn't sleep well last night, I blame that on the heat (and John). He decided to sleep in my bed last night and so I slept on the couch. Nevaeh always comes into my room during the night and just crawls in and snuggles up to me and we go back to sleep. Well John doesn't like to snuggle and with the heat he really couldn't handle it. He got up and ate some left over pizza, then later (I think) got up and had a bowl of cereal. He couldn't sleep because of her and yelled a bunch of times. GRRRRRRRRRRRR anyways so she was pretty tired today and took two naps, but was still tired and crabby all day. Wyatte skipped a nap a few days ago and apparently it caught up to him today because he was horrible too. During our time out at the pool he pushed Nevaeh over in the driveway and scraped her knees and legs up pretty good. I am pretty sure I even laid him down for his nap with no lunch.

We went to the lake again tonight! I think the kids are getting braver, but still to scared to do much alone. I actually went under tonight and then was messing around with Nevaeh and ended up getting her head under the water and then she "puked" the water that she swallowed. Wyatte hung on John's neck for a while when John was swimming. Aubrie even got mostly wet. She didn't cry until I pulled her out of the water and the wind was making her cold! On the way home from the lake John saw a turtle on the side of the road and I made him turn around so the kids could see it. They were a little scared at first, but after a couple of minutes around it Nevaeh was ok to touch it! She loves turtles! I should be doing a turtle party for her, but she wants bears!!!

I am not sure if I told you this in a past post, but I am going back to work in a couple of weeks, but to do that I need to get Aubrie to take a bottle. So I pulled out all of the different bottles and bottle nipples that I have and have been trying them all. I even pulled out one of the sippy cups with a larger silicon nipple. None of them worked. She would chew on them, but not get anything. Then tonight I found one that she actually sucked on and drank the whole 2 ounces that I had pumped for her! I was really excited!!! I tried again after we came back from swimming, but I think I tired her out too much because she wouldn't take it, or me for that matter. So I laid her down and she was out! So I guess I will try later tonight when she wakes up, or put it in the fridge for tomorrow.

One little funny bit... The other day we were driving around in the van listening to the radio and all of a sudden I start really listening to what Nevaeh is saying. She usually just talks to her self and sings to herself. This is what I hear..."don't even know my last name..." for those of you that don't listen to country music that is a pretty popular song right now! I don't remember if it was on the radio, or if she was just remembering it, but apparently I need to start listening to better music if my two year old can remember songs that well. In the shower today I was singing "Jesus love me this I know" and she started singing along with me. Then continued to sing it all day! It was pretty cute!

new pool

I bought this kiddie pool last fall when it was 75% off! Have never put it up though, so last night I told Wyatte that we could get it out today and play in it if it was nice. So this morning I got it out, blew it up, hooked up the hose and then them go at it! The yellow ring is filled with water and is supposed to spray water up in the air, but we don't have enough water pressure...or my hose had a leak...and it just trickled out. Unless someone stood on it and then it sprayed up high!!! The only thing is you have to keep the hose hooked up to the pool to keep it full (the sides become unfilled with water when the hose gets shut off and then the water in the pool flows out) and as you are filling it up the water runs all over the yard, so you can't sit down in the grass! Oh well, the kids had fun!

Parks and swimming

Today was sooo hot! We only lasted about an hour at the park before one of the moms invited us to her house to swim in her pool. It was great! The kids had fun and cooled off nicely. Us moms got to sit in the shade and still enjoy the company!

When the kids woke up from naps we were going to set up a blow up kiddie pool in the yard and swim, but Daddy came home right then and wanted to go swimming too, so we headed to the lake. It was a little cold at first but it felt great. Nevaeh was again scared to go in the water, but holding my hand she would walk a little bit out. John tried to get her to go out with him, but she just screamed. She was content to just play on the shore and gather rocks. She did get brave at the end and walk out a little on her own. We were at Bass Lake in Cohasset and for those of you that don't know, you can walk out over 100 yards and still be only at your waist or shallower. It is a great lake to take the kids to because of that. The water is shallow for ever...

Now we are home enjoying some pizza and a movie (that we have seen about 100 times... Cars.) Pretty soon is going to be bed time for everyone though and I am looking forward to that!

A swimming day at Grandma's!

Yesterday the kids and I headed out to Grandma Kris' to spend some time with her and swim! Grandma wasn't home when we got there, so we hung out on the deck and I tried to get Aubrie to take a bottle. She didn't think that was a good idea and pretty much cried the whole time. Then Grandma came home and she tried too and got her to take a little bit, but all in all she didn't even drink a whole ounce of pumped milk. I am just going to have to keep trying! Then we got the kids dressed for the lake (somewhere between the dresser and the van I lost Nevaeh's swimsuit top, thus the shirt she is in!). Wyatte grabbed a couple of trucks from the house and headed to the beach that Grandma has. They played around a little in the sand and then Wyatte jumped right in! It took Nevaeh a little longer because at Paul's grad party she slipped off the dock and was found hanging on the side screaming. She sat with Grandma and splashed her feet a little and then she saw Wyatte having so much fun that she jumped in! Only when I would hold her hand though!!! We swam a little bit and then headed home for supper and Wyatte fell asleep on the way home. I told him that if he was good he could just rest on the couch instead of taking a nap in his bed. He laid on the couch most of the time that he should have been sleeping so I let him stay up. Apparently he was tired though because he fell asleep pretty fast in the car when we left!!!

Today is park day. So getting the kids dressed and ready to go, packing a lunch, and getting the odds and ends ready that I need for other errands in town are things on my list this morning.

I did have to get a new camera. My old one got lost. Thankfully I had my memory card in the computer. I forgot to take it out and remember taking a couple pictures on the camera, but haven't seen it since then. So I went to Target and got another Kodak this one is the V1003. It is a 10 megapixel camera, which takes a little bit better pictures than my old one which was only 8.2. It was on clearance for 127 and change. The other 10 mega pixel cameras were 249.99 and over. So hopefully I will enjoy this one and not lose it!!!

One last side note. I am going back to work in a couple of weeks. Three mornings a week; Monday, Thursday and Friday. Monday and Friday will be 4AM-12:30PM and Thursday will be 5AM-1:30PM. These were the hours that I worked before I had Aubrie and liked them because I was home with the kids more when they were awake. John is working a very good job, but this will be extra cash to hopefully use to pay off some old debts that he/we have. Hopefully it will work out for me to work for a while anyways. My mom said she could watch them some and John's mom and dad said they could also. John's two oldest nieces live right down the road too, and I asked them if they would be able to help out as well. I will keep you updated on that goings on as well!

Better run, the kids are starting to wake up!

Prayers about John and I

Ok, so this is a different post for me, and I hope that I don't get too much grief for it. What I am hoping for is some encouragement and ideas as to how to change things.

I am not sure exactly how to word this, so bear with me as I try to get it all out.

I am currently having a hard time dealing with a few/alot of things that John is doing. He is working full time and thinks that because I am currently a stay at home mom that means he doesn't have to do anything around here. Granted keeping the house clean is my job as a stay at home mom, but I think he needs to help a little bit. Even if it isn't much. He leaves his dishes all over the house (something that I am currently working on fixing myself{but when I leave something laying around not matter if I pick it up now or later I am still the one picking it up. I know that it is still not a very good example, but...}), he walks all over my house in his gross muddy work boots, he leaves his clothes laying all over the house, he sits in front of the tv for hours on end, he sends the kids to bed/or naps before they are ready just because he is tired and then yells at them and spanks them over and over because they aren't sleeping,

When John and I were working full time he still did nothing in the house, said he wasn't the one in a skirt. Even when he was laid off and I was working he did nothing around here... So I would get up, depending on the day, at 3 or 4 AM (being pregnant) and head to work, work a full 8, or more, hour day. Come home and have to do the dishes, do the laundry, cook, clean up the mess the kids made while John was engrossed in the TV, get the kids ready for bed... the whole thing. I CAN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE.

This last week he didn't work Tuesday or Wednesday. Father's day being the Sunday before that, I told him he should see if his dad wanted to go fishing one of the mornings. His dad had golfing plans for Tuesday , so John went with. Find with me that was because we go to the park on Tuesday's for a while with my mom's group. Well golfing took most of the day, and then they went to eat, and then shopping for something for the boat, and then they had to put it on the boat and by the time he told me we could come get him it was supper time. Then he tells me that he is going fishing with his dad and nephew on Wednesday. They left about 5 AM and called to tell me they were on there way home about 5 PM. I thought that we could hang out as a family, or he could help me around the house since he wasn't working, but instead we saw him less than we do when he is at work. Then Saturday he gets up and takes a 1 hour bath/shower and then gets dressed and takes the kids to his dads again for like 3 hours. Then home to take a nap (like every day), and then when I start to get the kids ready to go to Kirk's soccer game wonders what is going on. Then Sunday we went to church, ate lunch, he took a nap (again) and then we ran down to his parents to drop something off for his dad (a golf tournament brochure) and then asked his dad if he wanted to go golfing. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

My husband is 30 years old and I do more picking up after him than I do the three kids. My dad and I don't get along the greatest, but I am working on it. One thing that I do remember about growing up that didn't suck was the fact that he was always doing something. Helping with supper, helping us kids with some project, doing some kind of work around the house... he hated the TV and I think now I know why. John can spend hours apon hours upon hours in front of the TV. I know that I have it on too much too, but to get anything done in the house with the kids home I need something to keep them busy and the TV is really handy. I am trying to shut it off more, or have it on music channels.

This is pretty personal, but it is the one thing that I have the most problems with right now, so I am going to share it with you. John sleeps on the couch. Has since before we got pregnant with Aubrie. At first he blamed it on his back hurting when he slept in the bed, so we both moved out to the pull out bed on the couch. Then we got rid of that couch and got a normal couch. He decided to still sleep on that couch. The only time he would come in the bedroom is to get dressed or when he wanted something.... you get my drift. He would then "spend the night" with me and we would go on about our normal lives. This was bad enough. Well now the only time he is in the bed room is to get clothes and when he wants something... only now he is only in the room long enough to get what he wants and then he leaves. Makes me feel like a call girl.

Ok, in tears now... this is enough for now and while it might or might not seem like much to you reading this.Think about the fact that I have a 3 1/2 year old, a 2 year old and a 3 month old to take care of too. That is enough work in and of itself.

So keep us in your prayers. Thanks

Today Kirk (my brother for those that don't know) had a soccer game here in town. And it was at a time that we could go watch! They are usually either late at night, or right in the middle of nap time and I don't get to go, so we took advantage of the game time today and went to watch. The soccer field is part of our sports complex here in town and there is a park just a few feet from the soccer field, so the kids got to play a little bit. John and I ended up watching the game from the end of the field because that is where the park is, but we still got a pretty good idea of what was going on! Kirk attempted goals a few times, but didn't connect with the goal, the team did end up winning 4 or 5 to 0, so it was okay! The kids really had fun today playing on the slides and the swings! Aubrie on the other hand didn't really enjoy herself. She has such a hard time falling asleep when she is being held, and apparently we went during her nap time. So she pretty much screamed the whole time we were there, I did get her to fall asleep finally right at the end of the game, and then we left, so she went into her carseat and that woke her up again... Wyatte wouldn't fall asleep unless you were holding him and Nevaeh and Aubrie both won't fall asleep unless they are laying down. I wish there was a happy medium.



Last night our young marrieds group at church got together. It usually takes us a long time to get out the door, but last night we were out the door in record time! So we ended up showing up really early. The church has a little playground in the back for the kids during the school year (they have a school in the church during the school year) and we spent a little time over there waiting for the rest of the couples to show up. It is made for a older kids we found out, but they were able to manage ok! Nevaeh can do anything that Wyatte does, just to prove that she can!!! We were going to play the "Newlywed Game" but it turned out that only 3 couples came, and one of the couples had the game questions. So we ended up just sitting around talking for the time that we were there. It was alot of fun!

Tip Alert!

So this is my new favorite laundry tool. Yes Softsoap Foaming Handwash for Kids! I couldn't find my stain stick, and this was close by and I tried it and let me just tell you that it gets anything out! I have tried a lot of products on baby poop (the bright yellow kind that they have when they are nursing) and nothing really worked. This will get it out even after it has dried. It gets grease stains out, dirt out, just about anything I have tried to get out with this it has done it! I am going to have to stock up!!!

My Beautiful Little Girl

Last night I actually got to shop alone! Granted I didn't leave the house until around 9 PM, but hey whatever works right! It was so peaceful and relaxing to walk the aisles alone, with no kids kicking me in the shins, or yelling at the kids in the next cart, or kids putting food that I don't want/need in the cart when I am not looking, no one trying to beat on their sibling (at least in my cart!), no baby crying when I took to long in the freezer, no gum/candy that I have to buy because my kids didn't listen and ended up opening the package at the check out lanes...

Then today we headed to North Country Care, the assisted living facility that my grandma lives at. She was sooo excited to us, well mostly she was excited to see the kids, but!!!

After we took naps, Wyatte and I got the pool ready to swim in. It is just a little plastic pool, but the kids have fun! The water was still really cold, so all that happened today was filling it up, and then Wyatte gave his trucks baths. Well, when John came home him and Wyatte splashed each other, and John did dunk Wyatte a couple of times! I think Wyatte had fun. Nevaeh was still sleeping during this, and when she woke up she wanted to go in the "tub"! I think she decided to wait until the water was warmer when she did go in though!

Overdue Pics

Here are a few long overdue pics! Some of them are of my kids and a couple of them are of friends kids!

Today we had to bring John his lunch and the we got to stay for a while because they were taking a break. We ate our sandwiches there with him and then Wyatte started climbing the big sand hill that was a result of digging out the basement. There are a few pics of that in the slide show up above, but here is a video of him too...


Last night Wyatte got to stay up a little later than usual and watched "Jon and Kate +8" with us. One of the episodes that was on last night was about Kate getting her tummy tuck after the sextuplets were born. Well this morning Wyatte came into my room before I was totally dressed, I had pants and my bra on..., and walked up to me and squeezed the skin that is left over from having 3 kids in the last 3 years and told me that the man from TV could help me get rid of it like he did for the lady on the TV. So now even my son thinks I need to loose weight!

Please keep me in your prayers, I have been having some problems lately--I don't really want to go into details right now--and am trying to figure out what to do. Please just keep me in your prayers. Thank you!

Slideshows!!!

So I finally figured out how to put a slide show on my blog, but now need to figure out how to get it a little bigger!

My little golf lover

Today was another park day, and it was beautiful out! Yeah for us!

We got up, at breakfast, ran some errands and then headed to the park. We were the first ones there, but others showed up soon after. Quite a few of the moms from church showed up, about 15 or so, and most of us have two kids, with a few having three!!! So that was alot of kids there! They all had a blast. For those of you that know the town of Grand Rapids, we were at the Riverview Park, behind the old Riverview Elementary School. It is a great park, the kids really enjoy it!

After the park we headed towards home, but on the way stopped at my Aunt Marilyn's house for birthday muffins. My youngest brother turns 15 today!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRK!!! He took his written test this morning for drivers training and passed, so watch out if you are on the roads in GR!!! Just kidding Kirk! Anyways, we stopped there for some muffins and ended up staying for a while. While there we spent almost the whole time digging for pennies in the sand box. This is why.......When Marilyn did her son's grad party she hid about 10 dollars worth of pennies in the sand box. She figures only about 5 dollars was found, so she sent the kids to the sand box to look for them, and Wyatte wasn't finding any so I went to help. We ended up walking about with a little under a dollar worth of pennies!!!

Then it was off to home for naps and relaxation for me! Then John called and said they were going to work on the boat (he had the day off and went golfing with his dad...)and that he thought he might need a ride home and he would call me when he was ready. Well the kids woke up before he called so we just headed to the in-laws. They had finished the boat and Wyatte wanted to go for a boat ride, so they got the life jackets out and headed to the lake! I wanted some pics of the kids in the boat, but the young man that had the camera didn't think that those were the important shots!!! Instead we have shots of the house that John's brothers brother-in-law bought (did you get that whole connection?!?!?!?) and a loon. Oh well, there is always the next time! Then off to home.

Sorry I don't have any pics uploaded yet, but they all have pics of other people's kids and want to make sure it is ok with the moms before I put them up!

U.S. Open

So I know that you guys don't read this for a golf update, but I just can't believe what I watched! Tiger and Rocco Mediate just golfed an extra 18 holes of golf in a play off because their scores were tied at the end of regular play. That was intense in and of itself! Then at the last hole Tiger birdied and Rocco pared, so they went into sudden death! Tiger's first shot was in the fairway; his second shot landed him on the green and then he two putted for a par. It seemed that the excitement finally got to Rocco. His first shot ended up in a bunker (sandtrap for those that don't know), then from there he hit the golf path and took a drop. With that shot he aimed for the pin and ended up overshooting the hole about 20 feet. He missed that putt and would have bogeyed.

So Tiger wins his 14th major title!

You can see the whole story at nbcsports.com and click on the golf link on the left side of the screen.

Amazing Tiger shots

I finally found a video of Tiger amazing shots yesterday at Torrey Pines. It is a Youtube video and isn't the clearest, but very amazing nonetheless! http://youtube.com/watch?v=p4JI1_iUJRQ