6 for 6

Little Sarah, so happy to see the camera!!!!
She is finally leaving her hair up! Her hair is long enough to constantly be in her face if it is not up and when we were in Utah, she was frustated saying "Hair...Face!" and now she can finally see. She learned that her hair will stay out of her face if she leaves her hair ties in!!!!


Megan, before the her tooth falling out.



Megan and Joseph being friendly!!!!



It is hard to believe that my 6 year old has lost 6 teeth! She lost another one last night and #7 is hopefully close behind. She should have lost #7 way before #5 and #6, but since #7 was really lose on the right side of her mouth she started eating only on the left side and caused those 2 to fall out! My memory card is full but I will clear it and post a picture of her latest toothless spot later! Congrats Megan!!!

I FEEL LIKE.....

TOYS ARE COMING OUT MY EARS!!!! Plain and simple we have to many toys! Anyone have any good ideas on how to keep toys organized and to a minimum? I can't take it anymore!!!! My goal is to go through them this week or next week and get a better system down. I am dreading it though because that means I have to pull all the toys out of all the kids rooms, look under all the beds, couches, etc. and pull them all into the family room, get rid of all the misc. that the kids have thought they just "have to keep" and put them in a new order. Then try and keep the kids from mixing it all up again and putting it back to where it belongs! Not a fun task! Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

getting back to life

These pictures are from last years July 4th, since I didn't get any this year. Can you believe how bald Sarah is! and Megan looks so much more grown up now, she has lost 5 teeth since then!, Joseph I think looks the same, except lately he doesn't smile for pictures!

On our way back from our trip, Brent and his mom got sick with the flu, then tuesday afternoon I started feeling yuck again. It felt just like strip throat, again! I was just in at the doctors June 7th and it was July 1st and I had it again. I had not been to the doctor since May of 2007, I never get sick! So I went to the doc on wed. morning, so by thursday night I was feeling well enough for the big july 4th parade here in west des moines. Unfortanetely, I did not bring the camera because I wasn't up to fighting Sarah for it. We had a good time though and on July 4th we went over to a junior high, where we can usually see fireworks pretty well from a park not to far away. This year though, we couldn't hardly see them, but there was a game going on over at valley stadium next to us and they set off fireworks. They were close enough we could actually feel the big boom when they would go off. So that was exciting. Sarah kept saying "fireworks...scared" over and over. I don't think she enjoyed them as much as Megan and Joseph.

So, now that the holiday is over and I am feeling better and the kids have not come down with what I had or what Brent had, I am hoping things will settle back into a good schedule. If there is such a thing!

vaca-trip

I don't usually think of our vacations as relaxing but I don't think of our trips as to hectic. So I classified our last one as both. A vaca-trip. Here are a few pictures. I will write more about it later. Enjoy!

pictures from vaca-trip

So we are heading into "bear country" and the kids are scared. We are driving and they are searching every where to see if they can spot a bear. So after about 30-40 minutes of trying to calm their fears, I finally say "the chances of us seeing a bear is very small." In other words, we won't see a bear. We drive all through yellowstone and see about 5 buffalo, a few deer and some pretty birds. woo-hoo. We head out of yellowstone and hit tons of cars on the side of the road we think more buffalo. To our surprise, there were 3 bears! So we got out and got a closer look after we assured the kids they were going to be okay. You might have to click on it and look more closely.



This is a lot of what we saw in yellowstone. Kind of sad.



My sister had baby kittys! They were soooo cute.



My dad is a kid at heart and actually has a cotton candy machine! So this is Megan in heaven with a huge ball of cotton candy!


All the grandkids enjoying cotton candy.

pictures from vaca-trip

Having fun in the hotel room!



I love this picture. Do you think I consider myself an Iowan!?



All of us in front in front of Mt. Rushmore.
It was bright as you can see Joseph covering his eyes.




Old Faithful in Yellowstone going off.




This is all Sarah wanted to do when we pulled out the stroller, so we stopped pulling it out!

colors

I chose new colors for my blog to reflect my mood. Blazing red mad!