Ben's Birthday Party

Benjamin's birthday was last week, so we had a party, and invited over some friends. His big present for his birthday was a Fisher Price 'Kids Tough' Digital Camera, and he loves it. He's always loved when we would occasionally let him take a picture with our digital camera, but we were always worried he would damage the camera or try to play with it like it's a toy when we're not watching, so this Fisher Price camera was a great gift.

I figured I'd let benjamin tell the story of his birthday party as he saw it. So, I give you Benjamin's photo-blog of his party.

Hawaii picture post

So I figure if we don't start on this sometime, we never will, so here's a few of my favorite Hawaii photos for those still checking this occasionally. The trip was tons of fun, and we'd love to go back someday. I was trying to make the arguement that even being a bum in Hawaii is probably better than working hard in Minnesota... :)

Ah well, someday I'll have to retire there and be a bum on the beach. :)


Good Japanesse food all over the island

Waikiki from the top of Diamond Head



Ready for some boarding! :)

My lovely wife ready for some boarding too. :)

Hello to all reading this, and thanks for sticking with us. It's a lot easier to post on here with Picasa, so hopefully that translates to some more frequent posting from us. Aloha!

Once again we try this....

Ya Ya, so it's been a while :-) What have we been doing you ask? Well, we bought a house, moved, painted, hung some doors, did some pluming, (CA) made several trips to Michigan, and oh ya, we went to Hawaii! So it's been pretty busy. Yes I would like to post some pictures on here. Apparently Will has some great new way to do it so I am going to try and get him to show it to me because right now posting pictures on here takes WAYYY too long for my short attention span. :-) Oh ya I also have picked up another job along the way too. I work for our church as a part time assistant to one of our pastors. It's good work and really flexible so I can work mostly from home and manage to still take care of our lovely young boys. Other random thoughts? I miss Hawaii :-) Headgear may start becoming a safety precaution in our house... And never paint without having all your furniture picked out already. It's much easier to match your paint to your couch, than your couch to your paint ;-)

Smile, God is crazy about you!

Let's try this again...

So here we are again, I'm afraid to even look at how long it's been since we last posted. My main excuse resides around a heavy workload, that involves little time in the office, and all that.

Really though I just got out of the habit, and need to get back into it.

So some basic updates: Joshua is talking up a storm lately, and is extremely proud of himself, he giggles a lot each time he realizes he's grasped a new word or phrase.

We're closing on a new house today, over in South St. Paul. It's pretty exciting, it needs some work, but we got a great deal on it, and I think it's a place we could really live in for a while, and has plenty of room to expand.

We cooked up some amazing food over the last few weeks, a delicious Pad Thai, and even some gourmet pizzas. Hopefully I'll start keeping up with this and post some pictures of our creations.

There's other news to be shared, but I'm going to keep this short in the interest of having stuff to write about later. Thanks to anyone still reading this, we haven't forgotten about you, just have gotten a bit lazy.

Time sure goes quick!

It's been almost a month since I have last posted! Crazy!

Let's see....

It's getting darker out sooner....

Joshua is now Walking!

We have all been sick for a while...

Soon we will go trick-or-treating!

The Tigers are in the world series!

We'll post more later! (Hopefully not too much later)

Trampoline fun :-)

So here are some fun pictures of us and our new toy :-)

Will giving everyone an idea of how big this sucker is :-)

And then showing how high you can acutally jump on such a fun object.

Benjamin absolutly LOVES this thing!

He is so small though it is hard to get a good picture of him because he jumps so fast

After a while Joshua got a little upset about being left out of the action! (Even though he was being a ham for the camera here!)

So sure enough he got to jump a little! He is acutally starting to walk now more these days! He has been dancing around it for a long time but now he is actually going for it and it is so funny to watch him go a few feet!

And I had to get in here somewhere to show how happy I am about my find. Hey it's not every day that you find a trampoline for free... (Alright almost free, we had to pay $30 to get it fixed but that was a steal! :-)

Night!

Firsts and fun

There have been a lot of firsts going on around here lately. I thought I would take a few minutes to share them with you in photos.

To start, Benjamin crawled up on the couch one afternoon while Will and I were on the computer and just fell asleep with his blanket. He probably slept for an hour or so. We couldn't believe it! Of course we had to take a picture because it will never happen again :-)

Benjamin got his hands on his first medical bag with all the supplies, and we believe that Joshua may be the first in our family to pursue the medical profession.. (Well maybe not but he used it WAY more than Benjamin and loves to give "shots")

And here he is giving himself one:-)

I believe this is the first time Joshua has had spaghetti. He had a blast and did manage to get most of it in his mouth!

Benjamin's first time on a sea saw thingy with a girl. One of his best friends is named Hanna and they actually held hands on the way back to our car. Hanna's parents are good friends of ours so we see them often and Ben and Hanna always have a wonderful time together.

This would be the first time Joshua ever did his own hair and ended up with a mohawk. It's pretty cool and he had fun with it!

Our Big deal of the week though is Benjamin's first day at preschool! He did wonderfully and he can't wait to go back. Although he was pretty upset that he "lost" (left) his nap towel at school. (We told him that he is indeed suppose to leave it there so he can use it next time he goes to school. I am not so sure he was happy about that.)

Joshua had his 15 month doctor appointment and we found out he is already cutting his Two year molars! Crazy!!! Our doctor was totally amazed at that. He is growing really fast and is in the 90% for height and almost that high for weight too. He may have to have a small surgery coming up soon due to something he was born with that hasn't corrected itself yet but hopefully it shouldn't be that big of a deal.

Due to Benjamin having a completely dry day with potty training he got a bubble bath tonight! He had a blast and stayed in it for as long as I would let him. I am sure that he will talk about it for the next several days to come.

Well I think I am going to get off to working some more then going to bed. I am tired and I have some serious garage sale-ing to do tomorrow. :-) Benjamin has his second day of school to go to so hopefully Joshua and I will have time to take a nap while he is there. Have a good weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing your comments on our page.

Love, CarrieAnn