Just wanted to post quick to let y'all know that Mike posted pictures of the house we're renting on his blog.
We spent most of the day packing and we're actually making some headway :) Unfortunately it was a little slow going since we're all still a little under the weather... Duncan was especially whiney today :( hopefully tomorrow is better.
We did our grocery shopping on Friday and decided to get just really easy food so we could concentrate on packing instead of cooking... I felt really guilty at the checkout since we had a bunch of tv dinners and frozen pizzas :) I think everything we got was easy frozen stuff... anyway, I felt like I needed to explain to the checkout lady that I was only shopping this way because we were busy packing to move. She probably thought I was doubly nuts then.
Anyway, we are all getting pretty excited about the move!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
New Pictures
Finally eh? I've been really consumed with trying to find a place for us to rent... so I haven't been keeping up on other things lately. And really, I probably won't post too many new blogs between now and after we get settled in Iowa! I have to concentrate on packing now that we know where we're moving to!
Duncan is not only a mockingbird, but also a big copycat these days! :) got to try out everything baby sissy is doing! If I say "oops, she spit-up," next thing I know there's Duncan spitting! He thinks he's so funny these days. His new phrase is "is it funny?" I hear that one thousands of times a day, and I wish I was exaggerating. It was especially annoying on our extremely long car rides last weekend... everything was "is it funny?" until he smashed his fingers in a drawer at the motel and said "No, not funny"
Oreo fest in the motel we were stranded in
Can you tell how much of a bed-hog Duncan is? Poor Maria!
Check out these icicles! Must have been pretty windy huh? Found these on a convenience store in Traer.
Duncan lounging on the couch
Sadly, I will have to change the name of this blog... any suggestions?
What a ham!
Duncan is not only a mockingbird, but also a big copycat these days! :) got to try out everything baby sissy is doing! If I say "oops, she spit-up," next thing I know there's Duncan spitting! He thinks he's so funny these days. His new phrase is "is it funny?" I hear that one thousands of times a day, and I wish I was exaggerating. It was especially annoying on our extremely long car rides last weekend... everything was "is it funny?" until he smashed his fingers in a drawer at the motel and said "No, not funny"
Oreo fest in the motel we were stranded in
Can you tell how much of a bed-hog Duncan is? Poor Maria!
Check out these icicles! Must have been pretty windy huh? Found these on a convenience store in Traer.
Duncan lounging on the couchSunday, February 17, 2008
Blizzard!
So here we are stuck in Independence, IA... Thankfully the motel is fairly decent - there's room to move ;) For the moment all the kids are sleeping.
Of course, of all weekends for there to be a huge blizzard - it would be the one weekend we have to go look at houses to rent in Iowa. Once we heard of the impending storm, we decided to drive down early, look at the house we were set on renting and drive right back - or at least get as far north as we could to try to get out of the blizzard area. Nothing ever goes according to plan. The house we looked at was not great. The pictures online were awesome! It looked like a brand new house! It looked like it had just been resided and completely redone on the inside. Pictures can be so deceiving and I am so glad we decided to come down and look for ourselves. The siding had been repainted, probably several years ago. And the remodels on the inside were cheaply done. The worst part though was the fact that there was a huge crack in the foundation and the house appeared to be slanting... we were very disappointed.
We decided that since we were there we should at least look at a house in another town that we may have considered renting. It was beyond horrible. For an accurately hysterical description, visit Mike's blog! (there's a link for it on the sidebar). I can't top his description ;)
Needless to say, we spent much more time looking around small towns surrounding Tama than we had anticipated. It was almost 7pm when we started heading for home. By this time we'd been in the car for almost twelve hours - the kids were pretty close to being done. Beatrice was having horrendous screaming fits, so we pretty much had to just call it quits and stay over within the blizzard area... Our trip finally ended around 8:30pm. Luckily I had packed enough clothes, diapers and baby food - so we were prepared in that respect to get stuck in a hotel somewhere. Sadly, I hadn't quite prepared myself on the financial level, so had to make a desperate call to mom so we could stay in the motel for the second night... I assumed they would take a check... bad assumption on my part :( Thankfully mom could help us out there. We really need to pay off our one credit card for situations like this.
Anyway, baby is waking up, will post more later. Really, go check out Mike's blog for more about the houses we looked at! :)
Of course, of all weekends for there to be a huge blizzard - it would be the one weekend we have to go look at houses to rent in Iowa. Once we heard of the impending storm, we decided to drive down early, look at the house we were set on renting and drive right back - or at least get as far north as we could to try to get out of the blizzard area. Nothing ever goes according to plan. The house we looked at was not great. The pictures online were awesome! It looked like a brand new house! It looked like it had just been resided and completely redone on the inside. Pictures can be so deceiving and I am so glad we decided to come down and look for ourselves. The siding had been repainted, probably several years ago. And the remodels on the inside were cheaply done. The worst part though was the fact that there was a huge crack in the foundation and the house appeared to be slanting... we were very disappointed.
We decided that since we were there we should at least look at a house in another town that we may have considered renting. It was beyond horrible. For an accurately hysterical description, visit Mike's blog! (there's a link for it on the sidebar). I can't top his description ;)
Needless to say, we spent much more time looking around small towns surrounding Tama than we had anticipated. It was almost 7pm when we started heading for home. By this time we'd been in the car for almost twelve hours - the kids were pretty close to being done. Beatrice was having horrendous screaming fits, so we pretty much had to just call it quits and stay over within the blizzard area... Our trip finally ended around 8:30pm. Luckily I had packed enough clothes, diapers and baby food - so we were prepared in that respect to get stuck in a hotel somewhere. Sadly, I hadn't quite prepared myself on the financial level, so had to make a desperate call to mom so we could stay in the motel for the second night... I assumed they would take a check... bad assumption on my part :( Thankfully mom could help us out there. We really need to pay off our one credit card for situations like this.
Anyway, baby is waking up, will post more later. Really, go check out Mike's blog for more about the houses we looked at! :)
Friday, February 1, 2008
Closing out January
It seems like the month just flew by! Last thing I remember it was Christmas ;) It's been a pretty eventful month.
The kids are all doing really great :) It's so amazing how fast they grow! Baby Beatrice just keeps getting bigger and doing more and more. She's rolling over and scooting around like crazy. You lay her down somewhere and 2 seconds later she's somewhere else ;) She's been eating solids now. She loves her rice cereal and we've also been giving her applesauce, bananas and just started pears last night. She loves her fruit ;) Veggies are next. Actually, I tried some peas last week. She did not like them at all. She actually gagged! Guess we'll wait a while longer for peas. Duncan loved his peas when he was that age.
Duncan is expanding his vocabulary daily. He is still completely into the movie "Cars," and still not eating a damn thing :) ok, he does love his puddin and yogurt. Anything else is a crap shoot. Likes it somedays, other days not so much.
Maria is doing great too. We got her progress report last week and it was all A's!!! I think 2 were A-'s but they're still all A's! We're very proud of her! She's been practicing on her Saxaphone and doing a good job with it. We let her get a myspace page and downloaded the myspace instant messanger for her, so she's been messanging everyone :) we have to make her come down to spend time with the family :)
Anyway--- here's some of our latest pics :)
The kids are all doing really great :) It's so amazing how fast they grow! Baby Beatrice just keeps getting bigger and doing more and more. She's rolling over and scooting around like crazy. You lay her down somewhere and 2 seconds later she's somewhere else ;) She's been eating solids now. She loves her rice cereal and we've also been giving her applesauce, bananas and just started pears last night. She loves her fruit ;) Veggies are next. Actually, I tried some peas last week. She did not like them at all. She actually gagged! Guess we'll wait a while longer for peas. Duncan loved his peas when he was that age.
Duncan is expanding his vocabulary daily. He is still completely into the movie "Cars," and still not eating a damn thing :) ok, he does love his puddin and yogurt. Anything else is a crap shoot. Likes it somedays, other days not so much.
Maria is doing great too. We got her progress report last week and it was all A's!!! I think 2 were A-'s but they're still all A's! We're very proud of her! She's been practicing on her Saxaphone and doing a good job with it. We let her get a myspace page and downloaded the myspace instant messanger for her, so she's been messanging everyone :) we have to make her come down to spend time with the family :)
Anyway--- here's some of our latest pics :)
Baby Beatrice digging her gym :)
What an adorable outfit ;)
Yes, we actually caught Maria reading Duncan his bedtime story! :)
Beatrice sitting up :)
What an adorable outfit ;)
Yes, we actually caught Maria reading Duncan his bedtime story! :)
Beatrice sitting up :)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
By the way...
Did I mention that it's beyond cold here? It's been consistently in the negatives all week. This am it was -18. Tomorrow is supposed to be colder.
And here's something interesting. Only 8 states have banned the selling of recalled items. And those states do not include Wisconsin, Iowa or Colorado (Josh & Anne)... and apparently, Wal-Mart has a policy of continuing to sell recalled items (such as toys and bibs with high lead content). Nice eh?
And here's something interesting. Only 8 states have banned the selling of recalled items. And those states do not include Wisconsin, Iowa or Colorado (Josh & Anne)... and apparently, Wal-Mart has a policy of continuing to sell recalled items (such as toys and bibs with high lead content). Nice eh?
Silly pics
Just thought I would share some silly pictures with everyone...
If you look close you can see that Duncan and Beatrice have opposite ends of the ladder in their mouths! Duncan rolled his truck over for her to play with him, and she just leaned over and put her mouth on the ladder - he thought it looked like a good idea.
Duncan somehow managed to squeeze his little legs between the playyard and the couch. What a goofball.
I guess this one isn't silly - but it's cute.
Duncan took off like a crazy boy and made both Dad and Beatrice laugh!
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Here's the silly boy! Look at that hair...
Check out this bedhead!!
Me keeping Beatrice warm :) It almost looks like she has a mohawk going on here...
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If you look close you can see that Duncan and Beatrice have opposite ends of the ladder in their mouths! Duncan rolled his truck over for her to play with him, and she just leaned over and put her mouth on the ladder - he thought it looked like a good idea.
Duncan somehow managed to squeeze his little legs between the playyard and the couch. What a goofball.
I guess this one isn't silly - but it's cute.
Duncan took off like a crazy boy and made both Dad and Beatrice laugh!.JPG)
Here's the silly boy! Look at that hair...
Check out this bedhead!!
Me keeping Beatrice warm :) It almost looks like she has a mohawk going on here....JPG)
Maria is still pretty glued to the internet these days. She's been busy watching any and every movie she can online! And I let her do a myspace page so that she can keep in touch with her cousins...
She finished 4th in her spelling bee at school today! She's really a great speller! She made it to the school-wide spelling bee last year too.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Trip to QC part 2 :)
Newsflash... Mike amazingly posted a new blog!! http://demarrupnorth.blogspot.com
We all had a great time in the QC! Even though it was bitter cold!! It was maybe -2 there, which amazingly felt colder than the -20 weather up here! It was about -20 here shortly after we got home. Luckily the weather was great for our trip home (except for the coldness of course).
Got some good pictures while we were there. Unfortunately my camera never made it out of my purse at Fay's house! :( I made sure to hunt it up and take it there! And then I got so busy visiting that I didn't get it out to take any pics :(
Here are some of the pictures I did take ;)
Ally and Riley playing with Beatrice ~ she looks a little scared in the first picture ;)
Duncan and Riley eating fruit snacks
Emma and Maria had too much fun playing with Riley's kitchen
My cousin Brad's new baby, Henry, with his Grandpa Terry holding him. He's a month younger than Beatrice - he's a big boy.
Ally's baby bump playing guitar hero! ;)
Riley in the baby bouncer
What a cutie ;)
Aunt Tiffany holding Beatrice
Grandma Marcia holding Beatrice
The girls taking a break from swimming in the spa :)
Dad and Baby :) how cute
We all had a great time in the QC! Even though it was bitter cold!! It was maybe -2 there, which amazingly felt colder than the -20 weather up here! It was about -20 here shortly after we got home. Luckily the weather was great for our trip home (except for the coldness of course).
Got some good pictures while we were there. Unfortunately my camera never made it out of my purse at Fay's house! :( I made sure to hunt it up and take it there! And then I got so busy visiting that I didn't get it out to take any pics :(
Here are some of the pictures I did take ;)
Duncan drinking his juice box out of the pocket of the bib
Ally and Riley playing with Beatrice ~ she looks a little scared in the first picture ;)
Duncan and Riley eating fruit snacks
Emma and Maria had too much fun playing with Riley's kitchen
My cousin Brad's new baby, Henry, with his Grandpa Terry holding him. He's a month younger than Beatrice - he's a big boy.
Ally's baby bump playing guitar hero! ;)
Riley in the baby bouncer
What a cutie ;)
Aunt Tiffany holding BeatriceGrandma Marcia holding Beatrice The girls taking a break from swimming in the spa :) Dad and Baby :) how cuteBeatrice getting cousin Abbi :)
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