Cheese-y!

So here are 2 of my cheesest kidd-o's, that why I don't need to eat cheese, there is enough between all these silly people living in my house!
Sorry this is a bit fuzzy, these 2 move too fast, I guess I should put my camera on high shutter speed to try to catch them! Anyway, Fern figured out how to take her shirt off last night, and Jake thought it was a good idea. (if you've been around our house much you know Jake is our nudist, it's hard to keep clothing on him!) Fern was laughing so hard! She is really into laughing, today in Relief Society the teacher told a joke and everyone laughed, so then (after everyone had stopped) Fern started laughing tons! It was so cute!!


Here is Fern's super duper cheese-y grin! See after seeing this today, you don't even need any dairy today! SAVE THE MAMA COWS!!

Christmas Photo?

I was trying to get a photo of the kids for our Christmas card. You can guess how that went. But I seriously thought about using this one, I really did! Why have some pretty picture every year, lets have some character!! I thought it would be especially funny with a "silent night" quote! :) But boring ole Dan shot it down and suggested we try when he gets home. What a party pooper! Oh well you all get to see it here anyway! :) So MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Mamma's angel!

I just love sleeping pictures and the other day I realized I had not taken any of Fern lately, so as she was looking so sweet and angelic, I ran for my camera!
This was our Thanksgiving day, Tuesday.






MOM! What are you doing!

Isn't she the cutest!!! She is still in the pack-n-play, we had some problems with finding the hardware to the crib! :) Isn't moving fun!!!

On a very exciting, Thanksgiving note, Daddy called and said he is coming for Christmas!!! We are all very excited!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We started our celebrating early, Today we took a little family outing up to Plymouth, Mass. It is only about 2.5 hours away from our new house. We had a great time, we saw of course Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims first stepped on to our continent, we got to go on the Mayflower II, a replica of the first Mayflower, and consequently we also saw the Atlantic Ocean (I had never seen it!), Plus we visited 2 new states, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Ohhh that was a bad run on sentence. Oh well it is my blog! :) The boys enjoyed the Mayflower, we had been reading a book about the First Thanksgiving, so it went well with that. I thought it was great to see Plymouth Rock, and the Atlantic Ocean, I guess I can say we moved from sea to shining sea now.
We will be having our Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday. Dan leaves on Wednesday to fly to Florida, and they said no to his request to fly home for Thursday. It now also looks like Dan will be in Bora Bora for Christmas. They are talking about flying the spouses there too, but I said no, how can we spend Christmas without our kids. You all probably think I am nuts turning down a trip to Tahiti, but I just won't go for Christmas. So we'll see what happens.
Dan got his first taste of Riley crying over Calif. friends and family last night. It did not make him too happy, good thing I wasn't there I usually end up in tears too, Riley just breaks my heart. Dan had sent me to bed early as I am fighting off some kind of bug, it has made my chest heavy, and yesterday I spent the day in vertigo! :) Walking around outside in the cold today didn't help, hopefully I will shake it soon!
On Thursday evening we had our first friend over to see our house, Shane Sherman was in Boston on business and of course Abby got him directions right down! Of course he ended up driving the one evening we had this huge storm, the one that killed people in North Carolina! But we had a great time visiting with him. Shane and Abby and their kids Sheldon and Liliann were our neighbors in Costa Mesa back when we all just had one babe!
Hope you all enjoy the new pictures!

* I have been trying to post this since Sat. Blogger does not like my photos, so they will come! :)

Happy Bithday to you, Happy Birthday to you! They dug in before I could snap a picture, but you get the idea!

Today!

I thought you all might just need to see that Fern added a new accessory. Yes she is Mary's niece! Today along with her purse she is wearing a blue beaded necklace! She is looking particularly girly in her too cute skirt and tights. She just cracks me up! And I thought you might like a smile too! Love ya!

Today's Adventures!

Today Fern actually got a good nap, so while she was sleeping the boys and I headed outside. Why not we have the PERFECT back yard, and it was in the mid 60's today. The only bummer was the neighbor burning something in his back yard and the smoke blowing right into our adventure. But we were able to look past it and had a good time.
First we put on a temporary roof on the tree house, I have grand plans I'll perfect over the winter and then execute next Spring. But the boys have been dying for a roof, so now the neighbors have no doubt where we came from, I used a rain poncho from Disneyland. I always knew it would come in handy again! :)
Our next great find, is what I think is actually our very own spring! Yes water bubbling up from the ground, in our yard! I told Dan we are going to have to get all the leaves and branches that the previous owner piled there, out of there and see if we can have our own little creek! Pretty cool hu!
Then this next picture is of our Winnie-the-Pooh tree. Riley and I have decided that it looks as if Pooh could just climb up that tree looking for some hunny! But we do have a black squirrel and a grey squirrel living in it. So in honor of our tree Riley and I are reading the original pooh book. Riley and I are really enjoying it!
And this last photo is Fern's new obsession... purses! What a girl! She found this old purse of mine in one of the boxes and she has been putting things in it and putting it over her head, this evening she also got her arm though too. She was trying to get my camera lens cover so that is why the photo is a bit funky, she was just not cooperating!
We are all doing fine, the boys have been melancholy for their Dad, and Riley has been in tears over California. He was sad about Grandpa M., Aunt Mary & Ryan, Robbie, Makayle, & Leslie. He has asked me to get on the computer and get us tickets on Jet Blue to California. It has been very hard on me, and having to console Riley has made it even more hard. It seems that tellaporters should have been invented already, what ever happened to Wonka-vision? All though I would not like to be an inch high. Oh well. We watched this great new virsion of Little House on the Prairie that my Dad sent us, I guess we should be glad that we will see our families again, it is not good-bye just see ya later, plus we can talk on the phone and email. Do you think I am talking myself into the idea that it is fine? Naaaaaa, but I can pretend, at least for Riley!
Tomorrow Dan gets home, not till after dinner, but he will sleep here. I am planning on keeping the kids up so we can have Jake's Birthday. I found a health food store in New Haven (about 13 miles from our house) that makes goodies with out milk and eggs, so I ordered a chocolate cake, and picked it up this evening. They put Happy Birthday Jake on it, I can't wait to eat it!!! MMMMMMM! Maybe we will have a few happy Jake pictures Monday. :)

Dan is on the phone right now and it looks like he will be home later than planned, so maybe no pictures until Tuesday. We'll see.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!!!

Well you all will just have to remember what Jake looked like yesterday and then add a day of age to it. Jake was not interested in having his birthday picture taken, he would not smile, he turned from the camera, he was very clear! So no picture of my cutie. He told be today as I was lamenting on how big he was, that he is still a baby. So I said ok baby! :) Jake and the gang got to go play at a friends house today, and I got a bit more unpacking done in the kitchen. I am finding it really hard to organize in the kitchen, I can usually visualize it all but my visualizer seem to be busted! Oh well, I am working through it. I just want it done, I want ALL of it done. Does anyone want to take pity on me and come finish my painting? We really don't have a lot to finish, Dan's Mom & Dad did ALOT of it, it is just a little tough to do with 3 kids including a nursling, add in the pilot and your looking at a lot of Mama not painting! :) I know it will get done, I guess I'll just have to wait until my Mama comes to rescue me. :)

Fern!

The other evening Dan and the boys ran to Home Depot, so Fern and I were just hanging out, then Fern got quiet. So I went to look for her and found her on the kitchen floor totally gone. She didn't even stir when I put her PJ's on. :)



Here is Fern playing with her wheelie bug. She is wearing her new winter clothes, these are from a great clearance sale last spring at Gymboree! She looks so big in her 12-18 mo. clothes! I got a little sad putting her older clothes away, maybe I can hand-me-down some to my new niece in the spring, right Mary? :)

We are all doing pretty good, Dan is off to Florida this evening, he'll be there until Sunday. We will celebrate Jake's belated 3rd birthday then. Then Monday Dan is off again until Wed. Riley has been a bit teary over it. I fought with the pool for a while in the pouring rain, and then was angry. So we are just a barrel of emotions here, not to mention the other two babes, and all. Oh well I guess that is life. Our ward here is very nice, they were all so excited for us to be here, I guess there are not too many new move-in's. No callings yet, but I am sure they are coming! I went this week to the Naugatuck School District building (which is by the way the most beautiful old house with all the original wood work) and signed the opt out form, so we are at least legal now. We had made the decision to home school a while ago, but signing the paper made it seem more real I guess.

I hope you enjoy all these new photos, I should be able to stay up to date more now! Love ya all!

Our Frog, Pumpkin, & Astronaut!

Belated Birthday Scone for Fern!

Birthday Gifts!

Home

Yea, just the same photo I sent out on email, but hey what do you expect! The kids and I arrived at midnight last night, Dan picked us up and then we drove an hour and a half to the hotel. Then this morning we did the final walk through, got our cashers check, and then by 2pm we had signed the dotted lines, then PRESTO we are finally home owners! We had dinner on the floor of our new house this evening. Tomorrow we will start making it our own, I'll post pictures as we get things situated, the moving truck is scheduled to be here Saturday. We Love you all!

Sand & Snow!

Just a day or two before Dan left Calif. we all went and had a picnic lunch on the beach. This is Grandview Beach in Leucadia, aka: Grandma's Beach. This is where I grew up going to the beach, my Grandpa and Grandma Myers built a house on the bluff, and it was where my Grandma lived until she passed away. ALL of my kids had fun, especially the big one! :)

This was Tuesday morning here in Utah, we woke up to white stuff, or rather I was woken up after Riley woke up to white stuff! We had just bought the boys winter jackets, boots, and bibs. They of course wanted to get all decked out, I said ok to the boots and jackets. There was not much and it melted quickly, but to two California boys it was amazing! What do you think they will think when it really snows in Connecticut?!



Well the kids and I are flying out Monday evening. I had planned to visit family and friends here in Utah before leaving, but we are all just so strung out from our vagabond-ish month that I am just leaving the state quietly. So we will arrive in NY near midnight, then at 1:30 pm. Tuesday we will officially own our first home, and in so doing become residents of Connecticut. Crazy! I will be sending out new contact info this next week! But our email addresses will be the same so don't worry! :) Love ya all!

OH Mom just brought Fern in because Fern just started clapping for the first time!!!!! I can't believe how fast she is catching on to things lately!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Here is our sweet thing when she first woke up and saw the balloons! Riley and I did this with Jake for his first birthday so this time it was Riley, Jake, Grandma, and I.










Fern quickly decide that they were very fun, and then sat down to enjoy them! Plus everyone was smiling and saying Happy Birthday!!











Here is sweet Fern in her new jacket complements of Aunt Mary! We are waiting to do presents and cake until we are with Dad, but Aunt Mary thought it would be good to open this now so Fern dose not freeze!
How fast this year has gone! What a wonderful blessing Fern has been to our family. And what an amazing blessing it was to have her born at home. For that reason it was hard to leave our house in Anaheim. I could never imagine having a baby in a hospital again.

We heard today that we will be signing the papers to close on our house next Tues. at 1:30pm eastern! I still have a few states to cross I better get going! We are now thinking about flying since there have been some weather issues here and there. We will keep you all updated! Love ya all!

5 Days Away!

Yea, now I am searching Mom's computer for pictures! :) I have been in disbelief that Fern will be 1 year old next Wed! I can't believe how fast this year has gone, and what changes!

So in commemoration here is a picture of Riley on the morning of his 1st birthday! And Jake on the morning of his 1st birthday!

We are all doing well, the ride up was fine, Fern did not enjoy it, flying to Connecticut is sounding better. Plus there was some large freak snow storm in NY, I really don't want to drive cross country hitting snow! So we will see. We enjoyed Dan's visit, he is now back in Nebraska. They were suppose to get to fly the airplane today, but something else threw that off. Dan is sad. :( Hopefully soon! Fern's second top tooth broke through the other day. She looks different with teeth! :) But still just as cute! :) Hope you all are doing well, feel free to email or leave msg. on here, I'll respond as I have time!

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! :)