Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Memorial Day pics

Naked season




Waiting for the fire



Bekah says, "chocy pease"




Fire!





























Boys!




















Smore's


I swear they were not posed! I walked up and they both looked at me like that.




Beks was not amused about having another kid in her bathtub.















Monday, April 13, 2009

Picture updates

In no particular order...

Wubby, fresh out of the dryer

Daddy!

Oooohhhh


This girl gets more and more beautiful every day.



She enjoyed the birthday cake.




Watch out world!





We all enjoy having daddy home.






"put the camera away and get this off of me"







My volleyball player








White boys can jump! (a little)










Thursday, April 9, 2009

"Update please"

To Anonymous, otherwise known as my sister, here you go.

What have we been up to since the last post? A lot.

Ben was TDY for a few weeks, Elle finished her club volleyball season, Jake finished his basketball season, and we decided to go to the Wing Birthday Ball so I set out to find a dress.

Ben came home just in time for the spring book fair and Girl Scout cookie booth sales to kick off.

The morning after the book fair ended, promptly at 7:36 in the morning, Jake jumped in my bed to tell me he felt sick. Let the puking begin, Bekah followed about 12 hours later. Then Ben and I started feeling blah, but not too bad. Two days later, Elle, then me, then Ben all got sick. Yuck.

We recovered and I noticed the back ache I had wasn't going away. I also realized that we had a super full weekend coming up so I called and begged my Mom to come for the weekend to help with the kids. She said yes, awesome. Expensive babysitter, but totally worth it.

While Mom was here, we had a date complete with dinner and a show, (we had tickets to Avenue Q, not recommended), and went to the ball. All the while I realized that my back was getting worse and worse.

After Mom left, I finally went to a doctor, got a lot of drugs, and a referral for Physical Therapy. I also managed to pull off a surprise party for Ben's birthday. Elle got her first long term babysitting job for some new neighbors and it is going really well. Jake began another season of flag football. And Beks is keeping us all on our toes. She says, puppy, ball, bubbles, squirrel, Elle, Jake, Daddy, mama, bird, apple, kitty, please, and who knows what else. She loves to be outside, loves bubbles, and all animals.

I started PT this week, my back was already mending a bit, but I need it to be better quick. I am glad the kids started spring break today. I did manage to get all the laundry done and Ben is packed, he leaves Monday. We have a lot planned for this weekend and I plan on enjoyiong every minute of it.

All updated, pictures to come.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Vala's

Ben's squadron did a trip to Vala's again this year. They provided the hot dogs and smores and the families brought sides. It was a little hot and dusty but the kids had fun.

Bekah and her first marshmellow
She likes it

Makin' smores










The giant bounce. I think this is the kid's favorite thing (notice the big kid in the shot).


















Picking out pumpkins











I don't know who she belongs to!











Bountiful Harvest

Okay, I give up.

No, no, I am letting go.

Our new computer does not load pictures the same way as our old one.

They are out of order.

Letting go, letting go, letting go...

Kimmel Orchard

I love this pic


The best part about apple picking








Bekah wants some too





This was the path less traveled






And this was why. We had to hike for our apples. We had the place to ourselves.









Fun day. We will not try the Apple Jack festival again, but we will come back to one of these orchards. The apples were yummy, the apple products were worth the long lines, and picking the apples was just fun.








Saturday, September 27, 2008

Day 2, Part 3

Okay, part 3, are you ready for it? Ready, set, go!

After the cave, baby and I headed for the hotel to rest (haha). Ben took the kids horseback riding. After that we met with G&G and headed to the edge of town to the little 'mall'. There is an alpine slide that sounded like fun so Ben took the kids on that (it was expensive then totally lame, not recomended). After that, Grandpa decided that they really needed to take the helicopter tour of Mt. Rushmore so off they went. Then we got dinner at the cash only pizza place (? Isn't this the 21st century?) and ice cream at Dairy Queen. Whew! Deep breath.

I took 158 pictures this day. Here are the fav's.

My beautiful girl
My crazy boy
Enough said
Self-portrait
After all the, "please daddy, please, can we ride horses", we get this face. And a lot of, "we're scared, we changed our minds", after they were on the horses.


Settled in


They survived (Someone else got thrown off on the trail, that didn't really ease their fears)

And for those who care, my damaged foot. Some of these are the original bruises, some were left by my walking brace over these two days.






The ski lift up - with no restraints

Coming down


Getting briefed about the flight



Off goes my family on a helicopter, yikes!
The view on takeoff







Mt Rushmore Keystone, SD

Ben has declared he wants to fly these next









This really was a looong day