Girl!

Well now that mom and Aunt Mary have a girl we thought we would have some fun, (it looked a bit like tourcher though)!
We can thank Ryan for the photos, I still can't upload photos. This is just last night at Mary and Ryan's place.
So we painted Fern's nails, Mary didn't have light pink, so we went for this great bright pink coral! The boys thought we were weird, but Jake wanted his done too, don't worry we didn't!








Here is Fern after, it looked so deferent with her nails pink! She still has not noticed them, or maybe she just does not care. But she looks so cute! In this picture you can also see her budding new top tooth, you may have to click on it to blow it up.

Thanks Ryan for your awesome photography, good practice for March! :)

Dan surprised us yesterday morning when he called and told us he was on a plane headed towards CA.! So he got into San Diego last night while we were off playing at Mary and Ryan's, good thing Daddy was able to go get him or he may have thought we didn't want him! :) So we are enjoying him today, then tomorrow we start the first leg of our journey. We will drive to Cedar, then Dan will fly out Thurs. morning back to Nebraska. Then the kids and I will be hanging out at Mom's. Thats all the news I know about yet, all the paper work is going well on the loan/house, so we are on track to be out there this month! Yea!

Fall!

Fall is my favorite season, I know most of you would guess summer, but nope I love fall, and I prefer "fall" over "autumn". Silly hu! And after we move I will actually get real falls! I am actually a bit irked I am missing any of it! Plus we can't even decorate, since I don't think my van needs decorating! :)



So the kids and I decided we would do some fun fall coloring. The boys LOVE Halloween, so we did some of that. I found this great site with some good templates, and then this site had some good pumpkins to color. The last one does not have a face so we used that one to make faces we might put on our pumpkins. So even though we will just be moved in, we will at least have some spooky decorations!

And Fern too!

Here is baby Fern too! :) This was her first trip to Grandpa's house. I can't believe she is 11 1/2 mo. old already! Time flys too quickly! Just thought you all would like to skip down memory lane with me!

Dan left today, we took him down to San Diego and now he is on his way to Nebraska to meet his airplane. He is so excited! The kids don't really get it yet, they are unusually mellow right now. Me... well I guess I just love my husband too much! :) The closing date on our house has been moved up a few days, we are hoping for a couple more, we'll see. So it looks as if we will be in Connecticut before the end of the month. We are excited and eager to get into our new house. I have been picking out paint, and planning on demolishing the kitchen a bit. Hopefully Dan's schedule will be light around then so I can use his muscles! Even Riley has started to get eager, it will probably get scaled back when he realizes just how long he will be in the car! :)

A few years back!

Well I am on a computer, but I can't load pictures, so I searched Daddy's computer and found these two cute babies!


This is Riley in our apt. in Costa Mesa, he was just 2. TOO CUTE!!










And here is Jake on our trip to Virginia, at Natural Bridge. He is 11 mo. in this picture. The same as Fern now. He loved playing in the leaves, good thing he has plenty in our new yard.


We are still vagabonds, we are hoping to move up the closing date on our house. We'll see. But we are in San Diego for a little bit longer, then we will head up to Utah. Email or cell phones are the surest way to find us these days. Love ya all!

Kids and Packing.

I don't think those two words should be in the same sentence! Although Fern and Jake are also being cute, Riley is having a hard time with it so no cute photos of him.

Here is Jake feeding Fern some rice, they both thought it was too funny. Fern has turned into a voracious eater in the last week.






I was packing this box in our closet and Fern thought it was not full enough, so she hopped right in, then every time I said her name she flashed me one of these grins! Too cute!









This is forlorned Fern in our mostly packed living room this morning. She looks a little lost, but Dan took this photo so I have no clue what was happening. :)


There may be large gaps in post for the next few weeks as the kids and I set out on our "journey into the wilderness". But instead we will be "dwelling" in the van. :) But there may be one here and there. :)

And you all thought we were bored!

So last night Jake thought we had nothing else to do, so we took a trip to the ER! He was standing on one of our many boxes around here, and then fell, jumped, whatever and landed on his head on the very sharp edge of the fire place. Yea blood everywhere. So then thankfully Grandma was here to watch Fern and Riley, and off we went to the ER. And 3 stitches, a few tears, and a balloon glove later we got home. He had 1 stitch inside and 2 on the outside.




Jake is very proud of his Lightning McQueen band-aid. He told Papa M. that he bumped his head. I think it may be the understatement of the year. :)









Earlier in the day Riley was modeling for us, these are a pair of jeans Aunt Mary got for Riley's baby shower, almost 6 years ago. They FINALLY fit! They have jets embroidered on the back pockets!















Mr. Cool!

Marco...Pollo...

Remember that silly game we played in the pool, well this was a lot like that. We blindly wandered around the Naugatuck Valley of Connecticut with Ed our realtor. We wandered ALOT, just ask Riley he'll tell you! But thankfully on the 14th house in 2 days, the last one Ed had to show us, we waked in said Marco, and thankfully there was finally an answer...Pollo! And some how it has run smoothly so far, so here is our new house! We will hopefully be in there near the end of Oct.



Here is part of the back yard, we have just under 1/2 an acre. Part grass, part lightly wooded. There is also a deck and an above ground pool. So next time you find your self in Naugatuck Connecticut (after Oct.) I hope you'll come play with us! Love ya all!!

Warming Up!

Well, life gets a little more real. Today is Dan's last day working at FlightSafety! Dan has worked there almost 6 1/2 years, this has been a tradition for a while. First it was just Riley walking Dan out and sitting in the car with him while it warmed up, then Jake joined them, then Fern. So on this last day of work, we all of course walked Dan out to the car, and I thought we needed a picture to commemorate his 6+ years at FlightSafety. And now off into the wild blue yonder... Literally! :)

These Feet Were Made for Walking!

Ok I can not for the life of me get Blogger to let me put up a video. I am not even sure if this will work this way. So HERE is a video of Fern walking until Dan startled her and she fell over! :) If it dose not work, and you want to see it email me and I will email it to you! She is now walking a lot! Next Mon. she will be 11 mo. old! I can not believe it has gone by so quickly. I have thought a lot about her birth verses the boys, and I think with the boys the experience was so... unfulfilling, wrong, and in some instances horrible that I wanted to get far away from them fast. But with Fern, her birth was so peaceful, warm, loving, completely soul fulfilling, that it makes it sad to get further away from it. I enjoyed it. Now you all are thinking Danna has been pushed over the deep end! :) But peace is nice.

Super Man is Tired!

Is mom really that boring? Yesterday during Sesame Street Jake came over and cuddled up to me, and the next thing I knew, he was down for the count! He has the cutest little body, and he was laying against the pillow so sweetly. Now if we could stop the screaming every time there is some injustice! :) Do you think he needs new pants? He has been wearing those since they were so long I had to roll them up! I got my money out of those free hand-me-downs! :)

Indoctrination = Brainwashing!

So the boys headed off to FlightSafety today, Dan only has 4 more days of work there! Dan let the boys sit in the simulator, and do "paper work"! Riley loves to shread paper!
Jake's ready for take off, he's got the throttle and the yoke, too bad he can not see over the dash! :)



There is only one thing to say about this guy... AIRPLANE CRAZY!






I thought this was a cute, very determined Jake. I think that soon the excitement that Dad will be flying a real airplane will wear off, and the boys will want to go back to the "video game" job! :) They will be so disappointed when they realize they will not get to actually fly(or even ride in) Dad's new airplane. :)

JAKE'S FAMOUS!

Surprise, Jake has made the big time, he is on a blog other than his mamas! It is a great blog started by my friend Natalie to celebrate the great fashion choices our little (and not so little) loves make! :) So go check it out!

Here is Jake being Jake, silly. This was last week, we had all retreated to our bedroom because there is an air conditioner in there for Fern. So it was the only cool place in the house.

Packing is just about non-existent in our house so far, all though we have all ready given notice to our landlord, so I better get to it. But I hate to pack and have found every excuse not to! I did go buy some disposable diapers last night, because as much as I love my cloth, there is a reason disposables were invented. So maybe I will actually get some packing done. I just grabbed the Target brand diapers, and guess what! They have Care Bears on them! So now my two littles are doing the Care Bear Stare! :)

Fern's First Flight!

It was a long flight, so Fern got to do all sorts of things. She made a lot of friends, she just charmed them all! She took a quick nap, but best of all she ate, almost the entire 5 hours! :)






How cute is she munching the banana!







Here is the return trip, we left at the crack of dawn so the entire flight was daylight. But that is not to say we did not all fall asleep! This was her favorite activity, sitting on the food tray. She sat there and ate, played, and just hung out. What a cutie.





I'm sure the wild fire of gossip has not reached some of you, so I'll tell you why we were on a 5 hour flight this weekend. Dan, Fern, and I flew to Connecticut to go house hunting. Yep Dan has finally caught the elusive full time flying job. And as a surprise it is in Connecticut. We never imagined we'd end up there, we are still in shock and a bit of denial. I'll give you all more later, Fern thinks she would like to eat, silly girl!

Pretty, Pretty, Princess!

I'm not much for really fu,fu dresses. But I bought this for my hope chest a long time ago, so Fern wore it to church yesterday. I also got a barrett in her hair, I had to replace it often, but it was too cute!




Here is my princess coming after my camera again! :) She is too cute!!

Just thought you all needed a dose of pretty pretty princess this morning!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN!!

Well my lover is another year older! What an ole foger! :)
Here he is really thinking about his wish over his Vegan German Chocolate Cake! (I used this frosting recipe) Super yummy! It got good reviews! We had this after we got back from dinner at Johnny Rebs, next best thing to being back in Virginia at Ruthie & Craig's table! We had the gang tonight, Daddy, Mary & Ryan and our crew. It was a rowdy night! :)



After everyone who could have taken our picture left, we decided to get a family picture. Every one was dressed pretty good, Fern being the absolute cutest wearing a pink striped jean overall dress (think rail road stripes). Too cute! So we tried out the timer, and it worked pretty good. The picture came out a bit dark so I lightened it, but it is not quite as clear as I hoped! Oh well. So how dose our 32 year old look!

Sweet Fern!

We tuckered her out the other evening, and she just crashed sitting with Dan. Isn't she too cute! She was a bit under the weather with a fever, then a rash. I think she may have had Roseola, Jake had it a few months back, fun fun!



And here is silly Fern last night. She was gnawing on a carrot, and so I was taking a few pictures, this one happened when she discovered me and over took Mama and the camera! She was laughing so hard! :)

Backwards, but here is when she noticed me!

Here she is being cute, the reason I grabbed the camera! She is moving her body more and more like a toddler vs. a baby! Sigh... too fast!

Snip! Snip!

Well here is my new hair cut, but don't expect it to look like this ever again. I don't even own a straitening iron, and I rarely even pull out the hair dryer. But it looked good yesterday, and still pretty good today! I used the other shot Dan took for my new profile picture, Dan did not like the other one. :)

Riley!

hello!!!! Here is my ham! Dad was taking cute bath pictures (for teenage black mail of course) and Riley was being silly. Your really surprised hu! :)





Riley just completely idolizes his dad (which is a great thing!), can you see his shoes? They are Dan's work shoes. Riley is a hard worker, when he wants to be, he unfortunately inherited my lazy streak!




He always seems to find his way in front of the camera. Hard to believe he is 5 1/2 years old. Seems like not that long ago I was pinching all his baby rolls, but alas they are no more. He has inherited his other favorite persons facade, Grandpa M. , long and lanky! :)

Jake!

Jake was hard at work in our back yard the other day. He loves dirt! :)







We had an adventure too, the wind knocked down this palm fron (which fell on my cloths line and snapped it, sending my clean laundry into the dirt)! Jake thought it was great fun!





Jake is still young enough that he dose not pose every time he sees a camera (unlike his brother) but I got him to look up for a moment and snapped this cute one. You have to click on it so it enlarges to see Jake's amazing eyes!

Jake is quite a handful, but is super sweet and really funny!

Beach Babes!

Yesterday we spent the day as a family with friends at the beach. We went all the way to Laguna because our friends wanted to... We were NOT disappointed! It was beautiful!
It took Jake a while to get use to the water. But he IS still dressed!





We filled Fern's bucket up with water, it was much more her speed. IT didn't come at her! :)







Here is Jake just before he dropped his trunks, chucked them, and ran to the water!






Fern did take a couple dips in the ocean, she looked so sweet in her not really a bathing suit, but it worked quite well! Thanks Grandma J.!






A man after my own heart! Riley wore his tshirt and hat the entire time, and was the only member of our family to evade a sunburn! I think I will next invest in ether UV shirts or rash guards for our bunch, so maybe we could stave off more lobster-ness!
Love ya all!

Sooo BIG!

This was a week or so ago, but it is cute, and things have been crazy so I have not been the prolific picture taker I usually am. But Fern is getting entirely too big too fast! She is 9 1/2 mo. old now. She has been getting close to actual walking lately, she actually tries occationaly, tonight she took a step and a half. She is just so cute! :) Yea the gloating mama, if you don't like it, I don't think this is a web site for you! :) Love ya all!

Dan's neue Haarschnitt!

Hier sind meine Zwei Schaetze. Dies ist Dan's neue Haarschnitt, ich denke mir es sieht kommish aus, aber Michael wird es moegen. Fern hat eine Schlecte Laune und wollte iher Vater haben. Im momment ist Dan am fagen nur mit ein Arm, die ander Arm ist bescheftig, weil er versucht Fern im Arm zu halten. Ihr sollt es sehen. Dan hat dies auf Deutsch fuer mich ubersets worden. Weil Riley's Deutsch ist viel besser als meins. Mindstens er spricht Deutsch ohne ein Spanich Akcent. Ich habe dies fuer Michael getan. Ich hoffe das du dieses geneiss, und ab November wird dein bild darauf sein! Bis bald, Tschuss..

English Translation- Here are my two cutie loves. This is Dan's new haircut,I think it looks weird on top, but I know Michael will enjoy it. Fern was a little grumpy this evening all she wanted was her Daddy.. Right now her dad is trying to sweep the kitchen floor with Fern in one hand and the broom in the other. Quite a sight. I am sure everyone is wondering what all the other weird text says. Don't worry my German is not this good. I think Riley's German is better, at least he does not speak German with a Spanish accent. But I thought I would be silly and put this all in German ( thanks to Dan) for Michael, since he is the one who will enjoy the photo the most. You all will get a picture of Michael this November after his visit.. Bye :)

All 5 of Us!

Well not all together, but at least we are all here! :)

Fern Was making googly eyes at Dad the other night, so he snapped a couple shots of our cutie!





Here are my 3 awesome guys, ready to be squeezed! The boys love to wear these shirts and have Dad wear his so they are "matchy matchy"!





Dad caught me loven my babe last night and captured proof! (it's really not hard, it happens a lot!) I love how she is looking right at the camera! So sweet!