Growing

The weekend was so great. We worked in the garden on Sunday. You can see the kids gearing up!
New to our gardens this year....Strawberry plants. Hopefully next year or 2 we will get to eat them up!

I moved my indoor seedling outside for some sun tanning!
Emma wanted to help! Tyler was picking worms and i was planting beans. I am not sure which she was trying to do. She ended up just eating a handful of dirt.

Speaking of growing....here is Emma's new trick.

Homemade babyfood

Start with fruit!

Put it in the food processor
pour into ice cubes trays for freezing (lasts up to 6 months in proper storage container) or into a bowl to eat now!
YUMMY
Veggies are more of a pain but fruit is fun!

Reflecting on 2009

Like any year we saw ups and downs during the year. I was watching the news yesterday, as they recapped the events of 2009, everything was negative. So here is my POSITIVE list:

1) We met our sister

2) we met our daughter

3) we aged well!
Kristen's 30th and Tyler's 4th Birthdays
4) we enjoyed the rewards of our blood sweat and tears

5) we celebrated with Family and remembered with family

6) we ate well

7) opened our homes to others;
Max the bunny
Pheasants

8) we were pampered and took time for ourselves

9) We tried new things
Adk animal land
1st day of preschool
David using a push mower

10) we found hidden beauty:
Chitt. falls
our garden


11) we laughed

Baby Town!

Welcome to Baby Town!!!

Around here they come in groups!! Below is little Emma with Baby Brayden! They are only 44 days apart!



As you can see, even the two big brothers, Tyler and Logan are close in age!! THEY ARE SO PROUD!!


It all started in 2005, when Brenda had Logan in March. Tyler arrived 8 months later in November with Little Jenna in May of 2006. Between Brenda, Stephanie and I; we have had 6 kids in 4 years.

For the second "batch" of kids!!! we went in reverse order!! Stephanie had Carter in November 2008, 2.5 years after Jenna. I followed up with Emma in July and Brenda had Brayden last week!

Logan, Tyler, Jenna, Carter, Emma, Brayden equals:

Love
Tenderness
Joy &
Compassion for
Each
Baby


Last night as we introduced Emma and Brayden we noticed how close in size their feet were. Despite the 44 day age difference they can stand toe to toe and heel to heel! (Emma Left, Brayden on the Right, with their mommies hands!)

It works out well, each group of boys are the same age to play, with one girl to make into a tomboy! But Jenna and Emma still have Diva time....before long we will be taking them to have a pedicure or tea day! I asked Emma what she thought about all the babies to play with.....

Need I say more?

Monkey business

Well last week i attempted my hand at live blogging. It didnt work out too well!! So i will quickly recap our trip!! On friday we went to Adirondack Animal land. It was alot of fun. We all loved it. The drive was a little long for tyler...
Ty: mom/dad are we at the zoo?
Us: no tyler we have more to go.
Ty: But that is going to take a while.

My personal favorite moment was when david show ty all the trucks at the truck stop. Tyler asked why they were there. David told him to rest and eat. Ty responded: Daddy trucks dont eat food.

Finally we made it to the zoo!! Tyler loved the animals. I give them major props for putting the playgrounds in. This park must of been designed by a mom. After so many animals there was a place for the parents to rest and the kids to play on a slide or climb something or go in a little house. It was perfect.

First about me!! I feed a monkey by hand..shocking right? okay now that i have done that i never need to do it again! But my favorite part was the bears. Look how cute they are!! they had a brown and black one! the brown one would sit and whine for you to give it food by the food pipe!

The bears are at the top of the hill. But threw the tunnel were the giraffes. At first tyler didnt see them but when he did omg was he happy and surprised!



We must of feed them a half a brick of crackers!!
As you can see Emma really enjoyed her trip to the zoo!


Here is a fast update on the pheasants. After one got out things have been going well. They are so big and hide really good in the grass. Its hard to get a photo of them. If you look carefully below you will see two of them.
We are hoping to go see baby brayden today. He is going to be so small compared to our little round lady bug!! She is so alert now. Ugh i dont want to go back to work in 3 weeks.

Brayden

how exciting emma and tyler new bff! brayden hull was born yesterday. he was 8 lbs 7 oz. we can now wait to meet him

Look alike?

Everyone is talking about weather Emma and Tyler look alike. Look at these photos and you tell me!!

Vote for Emma

Vote for Emma!!

Please vote for Emma in the cutest baby contest!! The link is below!!

http://uticaod.upickem.net/engine/Votes.aspx?PageType=VOTING&contestid=8777

Above is the photo i submitted.