Funny things from this weekend

Westerly is learning to sign and he is doing well! (well considering what I expect of him)
He is signing water, please, sit, daddy and milk. He is doing some of those when he is wanting something.. like intended and not just as I ask him. Its fun!
He is also winking which is totally cute. Along with the fun things also comes the bad. He throws fits, and screams a lot. Mostly at Isabelle... and maybe rightly so but still..



(winking)

stuffing his face of Taco Salad


(He's saying SHhhhh)

Signing Daddy.. hard to tell but he is.


'One Year old!"
Milk.....

Mom came down Friday to help us set up some hulu.. we had to have something to watch!
(Below, wesley feeding his face- he at one point had all 3 pieces of cereal in his mouth)

Fathers day weekend- part 1

We started the weekend off with some fellowship and bbq at TDL. We were finishing our very last class of the crown financial study. More on that later, how about some photos!

The Westerman after swimming.. he was getting very tired
We didn't plan on getting in but Isabelle got brave and wanted to float on the raft with Dave. We knew she was in good hands
Chris and I watched our kids play in their kiddy pool and we let our feet hang in the water. It was so nice and relaxing. Chris and Isabelle watching fishies eat chris' feet.



the rest of our crew out on the boat and tubbing.


Big thanks to Donna S. for keeping the kids so we could finish the class and for being the the great hostess she always is. Dave and Marcy, we are so blessed to have been able to be appart of your first class. We learned alot about money, we were refreshed about even more and the spiritual growth we gained is priceless. The time away from kids to fellowship with the group was such a wonderful experience and blessing aswell. We love the whole gang, and would do it again in a heart beat! For anyone wanting to know more about Crowns financial information please see http://www.crown.org

We are going to miss our Sunday evenings with you guys!

Fathersday Weekend- part 2

So Isabelle made chris the sweetest card :) She did much of the writing on it, and what I wrote she told me what to say; so it was precious!


She couldnt wait to give him the card.. we worked on it Friday night. She came in to our room shortly after chris got home from work. She was holding it behind her back and was grinning from Ear to Ear. She said "I have a surprise for your daddy" I asked her if she wanted to give it to him now and she said no, I said do you want to give it to him later and she said no.. She really didnt know what she wanted to do she was just to excited. So she pulled it out from behind her back and handed it over with the biggest smile ever.

It says something like "Thank you daddy, I love you. Thank you for the lawnmower and for cleaning the kitchen and putting me in the swing"
(The back of the card)

Happy Fathers day to the best daddy in the world, the best for us, a perfect fit for our family :)
We love you and appreciate you and love being with you!

Who does He look like?

Before breakfast this morning Wesley was sitting on Chris' lap.. I was with isabelle on the couch. I noticed, and sorta caught me off HOW much wesley looked like Steven, and my dad and Andy too! By the time I grabbed the camera the expressions that he was making that led me to think of how much he looked like my family had MOSTLY left but look at these and tell me he doesnt look like my brothers..

Then a few of isabelle cos she was really funny while I was taking them and they are neat :P

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.