Summer'Time

We worked out in the yard for over 2 hours this morning. We worked fast and we worked hard. After wards we enjoyed a little play time. Kittles' actually did a great job helping us in the yard. She used the hose on the porch and side of the house to take off grass clippings and picked up sticks and put them in the wheel barrow. Swept the side walk and a lot of leg work for us! Westerly slept in his crib :) Anywho here we are at play after all the hard yard work.

(Warning: Tons and Tons of photos ahead)

She LOVEd playing in the water. Even tho it was more like a bath.
it took him almost the entire time before he got 'brave' and started playing in it. He loves drinking out of a cup in the bath so here he was doing it too. A little choked up at times.

At first he wanted nothing to do with the water because he wanted to eat! 'Adda' boy!
The water was Soo cold. So standing worked fine. :)

We had a "picnic". Chris made Lemon berry slushes, we had soy'butter rice krispie treats and regular ones too. I put together some Veggie & Hummus Pitas. YUMMY NUMMY!



We ate so much.. here we are chowing down. Me and Chris had nothing better to do but eat..once we were all set up and watching the kids play.

"You want some?"Mmmmm that was some good eating!
We told Westerman to say "CHEESE" and of course, after Isabelle said it to him he said it back so there are a few shots of him in the college below with him saying "Cheeeeeese"

my poor sweet little girl

bless her heart. I was thinking the past few days my little girl is growing up.. she is big. she is big for 3, but she seems to have years on her already (somedays) so i asked her if she wanted eggs for breakfast. Then I asked her where do eggs come from?! She said "From the garden! Like we get when we go hunting in the grass!"

Hmmm.......

this sweet baby

I was just about to type up a little something about how sweet my baby is. I was getting my post ready when here comes over my presious westerly wanting to sit on my lap and get and give kisses. so im typing with one hand while holding him w. my other and he is sweetly talking about... the curtians i think. i was going to share ... he just has to be the sweetest thing ever. Yesterday, he was in a real clingy mood and I hardly took the time to love on him. I was so busy re-organizing and de-junking a HUGE closet. So I took some time last night to give him some sugars. He sat in my lap and stared at my eyes (Staring is a favorite past time) but also wanting for me to kiss him. ON the lips I might add! He also thinks he kisses with his nose so we do that too. Then after some kisses, he rested his head on my shoulder and let out the biggest *Sigh*. He was content.
Now, after he climbs up here on my lap and we make a big fuss over kisses and nose touches, he is once again content on my lap. talking about curtains, and flailing his hands around, and taking his Tickum (passi) in and out of his mouth and just content. Contentment.. a simi unusial word for some of us. Jesus ask us to be content and I cant help but wonder how many times does The Lord want us to just settle down, and give sugars. Just quiet in His presents and maybe not so much even waiting to hear anything from Him but simple just acknowledging He is there and He Loves us. And much like the little Westerman I love him inspite he poops to much and he still spits up all over us occasionally, He really contributes very little in work around the house, actually he causes me more work but man I love that little boy and inspite of all the extra work we cos Jesus, inspite of us pooping (ok not litterly now.. mk) on our Savior, isn't it great He STILL loves us! If we could just be more content in our lives, with relationship, in our house, with our money and the cars we drive and taking the time to be quiet and content.
Well, now the big man is off my lap, and isabelle is awake and now chaois shall begin. Actually they are having 'loud' competetion. Its where they both take turns screaming to see how is the loudest. I guess.. Wesley just hears her scream so he does it, then she thinks its funny so SHE does it back. Oh my. The sweetness of the quiet time of Wesley, and gentle lovings is over. No wonder I sharish those moments because they dont last long!

a great weekend

We started off the weekend with a BBQ on Friday night. That was so much fun; Mike knows how to throw a great Party! So there is a collage of the kids at that. Then Saturday morning EARLY we got up and got moving to get into the Country Days parade. We met up with Grandma Eslie and watched a HUGE parade. Got some fun photos of people we knew in the parade too. After that we ended up at Taco Bell .. that was crazyness but really nice. Then Saturday after noon we painted the kids room. ALL Evening! Sunday morning of course was church, lunch and worked some more on putting things back into the kids room and our homework too. Then back into my parents to drop off the kids and back to church for our class. After our class and getting the kids a quick trip intown to do a few errens and went by a friends house for a few minutes and finally back home! Whew we were tired. A really nice weekend.


(Wesley being silly. he walked around with my pillow cases for like 20 minutes!)

Oh i know one..

Isabelle has said a few funny things here lately but yesterday, the only one i can remember; She is sitting on my lap facing me, and says "Oh mommy your tongue is broke!" It appears I have a rather large seam going down the middle of my tongue that makes it broke.. oh man!

quiet week

Its pretty quiet around here this week. I was going to post something that Isabelle said yesterday to me and chris but now i can't remember!
Anywho how about just a few photos to share...

Grandma this weekend went to a huge TOPS convention. They crowned 'queens' for KOPS and TOPS both I guess.. not sure the whole thing but basicly to show her achievement. (TOPS Taking Off Pounds Sensible; KOPS Keeping Off Pounds Sensible.)
She has done a great job taking off somewhere around 70 lbs and keeping it off now almost a year I think.















Some basil my friend Mal Gave me. Chris noticed this morning something keeps digging in the dirt! Grrr what critter likes basil?!
Some flowers another friend- Shay brought by last week.. Actually they were tall and after they started drooping I cut them off close and put them in a small white trivet













Mmmm some home-maid veggie s.west pizza. I did not make it, but doesnt it look Nummy!
After my little trip to the ER last monday I was less than ready to make supper for the family tuesday night so Mal made us supper. So sweet.













Celeste, Isabelle and I After a wedding we went to last weekend












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The kids enjoying some time playing while i cleaned out the van

Photo of the week

After being in the van all day, Westerly was wore out! He found great comfort in his sock. He rubbed this sock over his eyes for almost a minute! Poor stressed out little boy.

teeth and teeth and more teeth!

Bless my poor baby's heart. He was in the nursery last night at church and giving poor Hana and Azra a way to go! He cried and cried. I knew when I dropped him off there that he was in a mood and tired but I thought with all the toys and kids he would be perfectly distracted. Not so much. We did end up pulling it of (thanks hana and azra!). I mentioned to them maybe its his teeth.. thought 2 were moving. Sure enough I check today and not 2 or 3 not even 5 but 7! Ahhh! Bless everyones heart!

So 6 now and 7 to be.. goodness be!

Chris and Shelley...

Just thought you might get a kick out of this :) These glasses go way back from baby M's 1st birthday party back in December! Thanks Jen! haha

Wesley...

Our big man is getting bigger and bigger!
he went a few weeks ago for his well baby and I hadn't updated it but it was something like
height: Unknown but smaller than 40%
head: 40%
weight: 10%. The dr. said something to the effect that giving his height that yes his head is big! lol.
he was um.. 20 lbs I think.
He is still rear facing, and he still uses a bottle about twice a day, and ofcourse his Tickum (paci) so that keeps him my baby still, but otherwise he is growing up so quick. He is walking mostly. If he is in a huge hurry he will crawl but otherwise last week sometime he was walking around 60% i guess. And now more like 98. He likes to climb and test the waters. He is alittle adventures i guess you could say. He gets his feelings hurt so easly and still just loves to love. Whoever will love on him he will take! He makes so many of the same expressions and faces and over all body laungage that isabelle did. I see so much of them in each other. He is learning some of his signs and reccognizing them too. That is fun. He is learning how to sit still and BE quiet when we eat! That has been our biggest challange right now. We are learning to come, and to stay but JUST starting it. So I hope he learns those quickly!
He mocks Everyone and everything. Especially Isabelle. He says "Mymymy my My" like my Grandma Elsie says, and he growls and barks and jabbers and carries on. Westerly also LOVES giving kisses and playing hair. His new thing is, he puts his eye up real close to my eye and stares at it. He thinks its hilarious. He is so precious.

How about a few photos :)
This college is from my cell phone so the quality is poor.
I like the photo on the top left. He sings himself with his arms. No need for batteries! he also climbed out of his swing shortly after this shot and was swinging himself and standing!
the bottom right photo is him playing with a tractor. he can play by himself a good while with cars and trucks and anything with wheels. Such a boy :)

Isabelle..

She cracks us up! Last night on our way home, it was past her bed time (around 8:30) she asked chris and I where we were going. I told her we were going home. She wanted to know WHY we were going home. I said because its past your bed time, and we needed to get home and get to bed. She looks around, and see's the Dollar tree. She says something like, Its not time for bed its not dark and the Dollar tree is still open!
lol how did she know it was the dollar tree.. and because they were stilled opened and the sun was just setting it must not be time for bed :P IF she only knew about Vegas. She just impresses me sometimes with the things she says and quite frankly whatever she is thinking come aloud. She doesn't know how to play quietly yet. Like, i will find her in her room playing good, but talking out loud to herself. She is quite mothering to Wesley but also it seems I'm still always telling her to leave him alone, don't touch, don't pick up, don't pull, he doesn't want that, don't do that! whew. :0
There is always more that I want to say about her. I seem to forget shortly after something cute or serious or funny happens and don't get it wrote down. I do know, she absolutely loves her boy cousins. She has a good understanding of when she hurts someone or makes them sad and she is sad for that. She repents of her sins and seems genuine. She feels so special to sit by her aunt kristy and juju during church. She sings with all her heart and gets to rocking with the rhythm of the music. She thinks wesley is the greatest thing. She will hold him and say "aww aw love on your izzy-bell".
The other morning chris was about to leave and told me, "wow she is wild this morning" so all day isabelle was saying "IM wild!"


This is from a few nights ago when Isabelle was praying. She is so serious! Then after she prays she is ready to eat!

my photo of the week :)

This morning the kids looked out the window for a long time. Isabelle spotted a turtle and made comments about the squirrels. Looking out the window can keep them busy for the longest time. This was precious. (of course i did have to ask her to kiss him so i could get them close in a tight shot) Otherwise its pretty much all natural :-)

Happy Mothers day

Happy Mothers day to our Moms :) We love you both, Pearl and Donna and grateful for you and Blessed to have you. We appreciate all the years of work you invested in us. You both, have made many sacrifices for us and labored in love. You both, have went with out so we can have. You have rejoiced with us and shared in sadness with us, You have laughed with us and shared wisdom and memories too. We are most grateful to the Lord Jesus for you, Moms.
We pray continued blessings on you from the Lord, for His strength in your lives as you continue to serve and continue forever being our moms. Thank you, and we love you so much!
Shelley and Christopher
"

Mothers Day, Sunday May 10th 2009
I am blessed the Lord has giving these sweet babies for me to raise for Him. He has honored me with this grand responsibility and privilege. I pray, and hope you would pray too, that I through His strength and grace and His mercy and love I can be the example of Christ in their lives.



I have many family and friends who are mothers. Many of you are first time mothers this year and many of you have had lots of mothers days, I wish you and pray for you a beautiful day in celebrating what the Lord has done in your life with your children! May the Lord God give you patients and compassion for your babies and grown children and grandchildren too!

More Everday kinda' photos

She is "rowing" her boat..
Here it looks like she has cut a design out of her paper with her scissors but not the case. She is mangling up a pre-cute paper bear.

Wesley climbed into the cabinet :)

We had a busy weekend but nothing special to write about. Here are just some more photos of our everday kinda fun :)
We did go to a bridal shower and i took a cake. Isabelle and I at the shower.

bath time :)

Isabelle wasn't really sad but she sure knows how to put on sad one on que! I think she was sad about her band-aid that came off in the tub. But she is amazing how she can go from smiles in the color photo above to a sad in this b&w.

Wesley loves after bath time. He gets squirmy and excited. They are both so sweet and snuggly (or like Isabelle might say "Snuggry) after bath.