What a day!

Noah is such a good baby and I am truly blessed. I'm sure this next one will be much more difficult. But last Monday we had one of those days. About half way through dinner I gave up trying to keep him semi clean. And after about thirty times of telling him to sit down and turn around in his high chair... I really gave up! So here he is sitting backwards and getting really messy! So I chose to just laugh instead of get upset. It started to be so funny with his new goofy smile that it turned into an evening of pictures...

See... really messy. Notice the food all over the front of him!


A bath was no option. It was necessary!

Smiling crazy again...

All clean and ready for bed. Back to the little angel I know and love!

Eternal Winter

I'm wondering if we are ever going to have summer at all. Last Thursday, I was outside picking up some tree branches and wood from the lawn when all of the sudden it started to rain!

I can handle a little rain but the rain quickly turned into hail that was bigger than peas! It was pelting us so fast that we ran for cover. We waited out the hailstorm. The thunder scared Noah and he woke up from his nap crying. I'm sure he'll get used to it eventually.

I hope our daffodils survive!

Memorial Day

We spent Memorial Day at the Merkley Family Farm. It was cold and windy so we spent most of the day inside. Noah finally figured out how to pull himself up on the furniture and spent the day scooting around and playing with Wendie's baby, Kerri. It was a fun day and so much fun to spend time with family.



Jesse doesn't look to happy to have his picture taken!

A yearly tradition

I guess it has become a yearly tradition to take a quick family snapshot in front of the Wisteria in Steve and Michelle's backyard. Quite a change from last year! We have two more babies, two more bellies and Garret is home! Hopefully next year there will be more additions and not just two more babies... hint, hint!!

Accomplishing something!

My mom always says to remember when to do something, associate it with something else. So, around Mother's Day, we try to find the best deal on strawberries to make strawberry freezer jam. I was telling Luke the other day that this was like candy to me and my siblings growing up! It was alot of work, but I managed to turn this...

INTO THIS!!!

Alright, it really may not look like that much, but it will feed a family of four for a year. And every time Noah heard the camera click and take a picture of the jam, he would do this silly smile and make a funny noise. I think it's his version of saying, "Cheese!" So I had to take a picture of him too... he is really getting into these crazy smiles. You'll see...

And to top it all off, my brother, Brent and his wife Julia wanted us to make jam with them. We repeated the whole process on Friday! When my brother saw how much sugar goes into the jam he said that he is going to stop putting a half a jar on a piece of toast. Told ya... candy!