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| Carrot chicken salad sandwiches |
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| Chick deviled eggs |
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| Carrot shaped carrot cake cookies |
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| Chilling at the lake house
And of couse the hunt!!!
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Easter 2012
We spent this Easter in Austin again with the Ruske family. Since joining pinterest I have seen tons of cute ideas and there were a lot of Easter ones...so here are a few I catually got to do this year.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Easter Bunny & Firetruck 2012
The kids had a great time seeing the Easter Bunny, but especially the fireturck. It has been over 2 months now (now that I ma finally posting) and even now when they see a firetruck they talk about Jenny's house and Elizabeth & Brody and easter eggs.
Friday, March 9, 2012
About time...
I was just thinking it is about time for another post and I looked down and sure enough it is the 9th. They are now 27 months. I know you are supposed to stop counting months oncethey are 2, but I still count them :)
I wish I had been good since the last post and wrote down a list like I try and do, but nope notthis time...have to try and think of the top of may head so I will miss lots.
The last 2-3 days I swear all I have heard from Alyssa is, "Watch me, Momma, watch me!" so cute.
To tell you the truth I almost wish I could forget this whole last month. Not because it was all bad, but not all of it was great. I am glad that we have our two little kiddos or else I don't know how I would be getting through this...the this I speak of is the miscarriage that we found out about a month ago. Luckily we are blessed with the most loving family and freinds and they are a big help.
I think the kids (especially Logan) could tell something was wrong. It really messed with their sleep schedules and he was really hitting the binkie hard for about 3 weeks...that is until we went to the Dentist and they told us he should have been off it since he turned 1. He has not had it since we left the Dentist office, but he has still been a little grumpy.
We had Grandma, Jenny, Momo & Popo come and visit to help out immediately. Grandmastayed and helped for almost a week and then a week later Grandpa and Cyndi came and visited. Next weekend I think we will have my side of the family come to finish out Spring Break with us...all except Stephen I believe are planning on being here.
- - -
The kids now LOVE to play on "Momma Dadda Bed" as they call it, but it is only fun when Mom & Dad play too so we are constantly being drug back into our room to play with them. Alyssa has made a little potty training progress, but not much. She likes to sit on the big potty so for V-day she got a kids toilet seat for the big potty. She does not use it, but as soon as she uses her diaper she wants to sit on the potty and wipe and wash hands.
They are talking up storms lately. Logan's storms are quiet, but they are there. Alyssa's favorite song right now is the Barney Song and she just busts out with it all the time...well sometimes she busts out with "I'm a pirate, ARGH!". She is a hoot.
Logan loves to read and is a whiz at puzzles. He is one smart cookie. I don't think this madeit into the last post, but Logan had his second febrile seizure just over a month ago and this time I was home with him. It was a bit scarry, but luckily that was as bad as it got...February was just a really hard month for us this year. Glad it is the shortest month of the year...unfortunately this year was one day longer :(
With the miscarriage and the hope to still have more kids hopefully money has been on my mind a lot. We had great friends come and feed us dinner for almost a week, yet February was extremely high in food expenses.
March is already lookng up. I have been bad about preplanning meals lately...pretty inconsistent or non-existant since we have had the kids, I tried Feb to do the month plan like I used to, but with everything that happened it didn't quite work so last week I decided to do a week at a time and spend about $100 a week. I really don't like grocery shopping, but to eat at least a little healthier you have to go more than once or twice a month, so I am trying weekly at least for a few weeks.
This last week has gone well. I don't look at the clock about 4 PM and think OK what do we have soI can make something. I have themeals planned out so we have been able to eat well this week. Made bread twice...once rolls and the other was pitas. Tried a new meatloaf topping and it was delicious...almost made me think "Meatloaf Monday" every Monday, but I will push it off to every other Monday for now...we had not eaten it in a long while until recently and I thought we needed to add it monthly, but now it is 2/month I am thinking. We tried some beef gyros (pitas were for this) pitas were great, the meat was good too, not a fan of the yogurt/cucumber sauce...I was the only one that ate itas called for in the recipe. I told Alex he had the American version...pita burger...with ranch dressing and an avacado...Logan scarfed down the meat, Alyssa had 2 pieces of meat maybe, but loved the pita. When Dad & Cyndi were here we also tried out a cheesy chicken stuffed pepper recipe...it is being added to our rotation as well, I just need to find the right temp/time to get the peppers cooked all the way mine was not quite done on the sides.
- - -
The kids learned how to pedal their tricycles this month and have really become monkeys at the park. Not on the monkey bars...but I am sure they are not far off from them either.
They are very polite and have been not only saying thank you, but will sometimes say thank you very much, and are good about saying I'm sorry...even on their own in some cases.
They are doing well at taking turns and will count to 10 to switch. I think Logan has down to 12 now. He has a great memory...speaking of Alyssa is getting into the matching games more now and I think Logan is already getting a little bored of them.
We love to skype with the family and sometimes when I say lets call so and so...Alyssa says, "no, on the computer".
A lot of the time Alyssa will throw on a back pack and/or her shoes and I ask where she is going...often she will say to Momo/Popo's house. I guess we need to make a trip down there soon...especially since she is about to head downt here on her own with or without us.
We are learning a lot while we are driving now...we like to say red-stop and green-go which always makes me think they are saying gringo. We sing the Cat in the Hat song too...Here we go, go, go, go, on an adventure. When we drive up our street Alyssa will say at every house (since I taught her to do it) Alyssa's house? NO, Alyssa's house? NO...and we are the 6th house. Then she says Alyssa's hous? YES, Momma's house, Dadda's house, Salie's (Logan's) house. The other day she tried to throw in Jenny's house and Mommy had to say no, Jenny lives in Houston so sometimes she
says Jenny's House? No.
Prayers have changed a little as well...along with family names, and toys, and movies...this week Alyssa has also been saying thank you for peepee & poopoo...kids are so cute. When we were out eating with Grandpa and Cyndi after we went to the temple we said a prayer over the food and then we had to do another b/c Alyssa wanted to say it.
I wish I had been good since the last post and wrote down a list like I try and do, but nope notthis time...have to try and think of the top of may head so I will miss lots.
The last 2-3 days I swear all I have heard from Alyssa is, "Watch me, Momma, watch me!" so cute.
To tell you the truth I almost wish I could forget this whole last month. Not because it was all bad, but not all of it was great. I am glad that we have our two little kiddos or else I don't know how I would be getting through this...the this I speak of is the miscarriage that we found out about a month ago. Luckily we are blessed with the most loving family and freinds and they are a big help.
I think the kids (especially Logan) could tell something was wrong. It really messed with their sleep schedules and he was really hitting the binkie hard for about 3 weeks...that is until we went to the Dentist and they told us he should have been off it since he turned 1. He has not had it since we left the Dentist office, but he has still been a little grumpy.
We had Grandma, Jenny, Momo & Popo come and visit to help out immediately. Grandmastayed and helped for almost a week and then a week later Grandpa and Cyndi came and visited. Next weekend I think we will have my side of the family come to finish out Spring Break with us...all except Stephen I believe are planning on being here.
- - -
The kids now LOVE to play on "Momma Dadda Bed" as they call it, but it is only fun when Mom & Dad play too so we are constantly being drug back into our room to play with them. Alyssa has made a little potty training progress, but not much. She likes to sit on the big potty so for V-day she got a kids toilet seat for the big potty. She does not use it, but as soon as she uses her diaper she wants to sit on the potty and wipe and wash hands.
They are talking up storms lately. Logan's storms are quiet, but they are there. Alyssa's favorite song right now is the Barney Song and she just busts out with it all the time...well sometimes she busts out with "I'm a pirate, ARGH!". She is a hoot.
Logan loves to read and is a whiz at puzzles. He is one smart cookie. I don't think this madeit into the last post, but Logan had his second febrile seizure just over a month ago and this time I was home with him. It was a bit scarry, but luckily that was as bad as it got...February was just a really hard month for us this year. Glad it is the shortest month of the year...unfortunately this year was one day longer :(
With the miscarriage and the hope to still have more kids hopefully money has been on my mind a lot. We had great friends come and feed us dinner for almost a week, yet February was extremely high in food expenses.
March is already lookng up. I have been bad about preplanning meals lately...pretty inconsistent or non-existant since we have had the kids, I tried Feb to do the month plan like I used to, but with everything that happened it didn't quite work so last week I decided to do a week at a time and spend about $100 a week. I really don't like grocery shopping, but to eat at least a little healthier you have to go more than once or twice a month, so I am trying weekly at least for a few weeks.
This last week has gone well. I don't look at the clock about 4 PM and think OK what do we have soI can make something. I have themeals planned out so we have been able to eat well this week. Made bread twice...once rolls and the other was pitas. Tried a new meatloaf topping and it was delicious...almost made me think "Meatloaf Monday" every Monday, but I will push it off to every other Monday for now...we had not eaten it in a long while until recently and I thought we needed to add it monthly, but now it is 2/month I am thinking. We tried some beef gyros (pitas were for this) pitas were great, the meat was good too, not a fan of the yogurt/cucumber sauce...I was the only one that ate itas called for in the recipe. I told Alex he had the American version...pita burger...with ranch dressing and an avacado...Logan scarfed down the meat, Alyssa had 2 pieces of meat maybe, but loved the pita. When Dad & Cyndi were here we also tried out a cheesy chicken stuffed pepper recipe...it is being added to our rotation as well, I just need to find the right temp/time to get the peppers cooked all the way mine was not quite done on the sides.
- - -
The kids learned how to pedal their tricycles this month and have really become monkeys at the park. Not on the monkey bars...but I am sure they are not far off from them either.
They are very polite and have been not only saying thank you, but will sometimes say thank you very much, and are good about saying I'm sorry...even on their own in some cases.
They are doing well at taking turns and will count to 10 to switch. I think Logan has down to 12 now. He has a great memory...speaking of Alyssa is getting into the matching games more now and I think Logan is already getting a little bored of them.
We love to skype with the family and sometimes when I say lets call so and so...Alyssa says, "no, on the computer".
A lot of the time Alyssa will throw on a back pack and/or her shoes and I ask where she is going...often she will say to Momo/Popo's house. I guess we need to make a trip down there soon...especially since she is about to head downt here on her own with or without us.
We are learning a lot while we are driving now...we like to say red-stop and green-go which always makes me think they are saying gringo. We sing the Cat in the Hat song too...Here we go, go, go, go, on an adventure. When we drive up our street Alyssa will say at every house (since I taught her to do it) Alyssa's house? NO, Alyssa's house? NO...and we are the 6th house. Then she says Alyssa's hous? YES, Momma's house, Dadda's house, Salie's (Logan's) house. The other day she tried to throw in Jenny's house and Mommy had to say no, Jenny lives in Houston so sometimes she
says Jenny's House? No.
Prayers have changed a little as well...along with family names, and toys, and movies...this week Alyssa has also been saying thank you for peepee & poopoo...kids are so cute. When we were out eating with Grandpa and Cyndi after we went to the temple we said a prayer over the food and then we had to do another b/c Alyssa wanted to say it.
Friday, February 3, 2012
22 mos
I ran across a list that said 22 months with the following and just so I did not miss anything I am adding it now.
dress self
pretend sleep
unload dishwasher
"excuse us"
wash hands
please & thank you
jumping all the time
headband
lazy boy
and another much older list...mayby back at 14 months or so
itzy bitzy
bum drum
lead music
couch pillows
clap when they like something even if only them
run away diapers
whistle
dress self
pretend sleep
unload dishwasher
"excuse us"
wash hands
please & thank you
jumping all the time
headband
lazy boy
and another much older list...mayby back at 14 months or so
itzy bitzy
bum drum
lead music
couch pillows
clap when they like something even if only them
run away diapers
whistle
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Grateful
Today I am ever so grateful for the priesthood that Alex holds and how he is able to bless our family at any given moment.
Last night was one of those times. Logan had another febrile seizure about 5:18 last night. It is his second one and the first time I have been home with him when it has happened. I quickly moved him to the floor and on his side since that is what I could remember that Alex did last time and that the paramedics said he did right and then called Alex frantically and asked if there was anything else I needed to do. Just try and cool him down and wait it out...and make sure he keeps breathing and then try and help him settle down and keep trying to cool him down.
It lasted probably 2 minuites or so...it felt like an eternity. His joints were stiff, he was shaking, his eyes rolled back and he was non-responsive...then he started foaming at the mouth. After the seizure he started having the chills and he was still unresponsive for a few more minutes. Cassie showed up not long after the seizure while he was still unresponsive and shaking from the chills. I just kep talking to him and was so excited when he started to cry and was responsive again. He was upset for quite a while and a few times while I was holding him I was worried he may be seizing again so I kept checking his joints for stiffness when he seemed a little unresponsive agian. It was pretty crazy and I really don't know what all was going on, but not much later Alex showed up and then shorty thereafter took him into our room and gave him a blessing...and it seemed immediately after that was when Logan was able to start calming down some. He came back in the living room and Logan was happy to be in Alex's arms and although he did not like the cold rags on him, he put up with it. At one point Alex measured and he was at 102.1. I tried to check earlier, but had just put water on his head and did not get a good reading so I don't know if it got higher than that or not.
About an hour and a half later Logan had been able to calm and cool down enough to fall asleep on Mommy & Daddy's bed...but he didn't sleep long...maybe 20 minutes...then he heard Alyssa in the living room watching Mater and he wanted to watch too.
Doug helped out by running to Walgreens for us and getting some meds and then Cassie and Doug both came back about 2 hrs after the ordeal with some much needed dinner.
So grateful for the peace and calm as I was able to feel strangly at the same time I was feeling so helpless, thankful for the power of the priesthood and the access my family ahs to it, and thankful for great friends who are so willing to support even when we are all just standing around not really sure what if anything we can be doing to help.
Last night was one of those times. Logan had another febrile seizure about 5:18 last night. It is his second one and the first time I have been home with him when it has happened. I quickly moved him to the floor and on his side since that is what I could remember that Alex did last time and that the paramedics said he did right and then called Alex frantically and asked if there was anything else I needed to do. Just try and cool him down and wait it out...and make sure he keeps breathing and then try and help him settle down and keep trying to cool him down.
It lasted probably 2 minuites or so...it felt like an eternity. His joints were stiff, he was shaking, his eyes rolled back and he was non-responsive...then he started foaming at the mouth. After the seizure he started having the chills and he was still unresponsive for a few more minutes. Cassie showed up not long after the seizure while he was still unresponsive and shaking from the chills. I just kep talking to him and was so excited when he started to cry and was responsive again. He was upset for quite a while and a few times while I was holding him I was worried he may be seizing again so I kept checking his joints for stiffness when he seemed a little unresponsive agian. It was pretty crazy and I really don't know what all was going on, but not much later Alex showed up and then shorty thereafter took him into our room and gave him a blessing...and it seemed immediately after that was when Logan was able to start calming down some. He came back in the living room and Logan was happy to be in Alex's arms and although he did not like the cold rags on him, he put up with it. At one point Alex measured and he was at 102.1. I tried to check earlier, but had just put water on his head and did not get a good reading so I don't know if it got higher than that or not.
About an hour and a half later Logan had been able to calm and cool down enough to fall asleep on Mommy & Daddy's bed...but he didn't sleep long...maybe 20 minutes...then he heard Alyssa in the living room watching Mater and he wanted to watch too.
Doug helped out by running to Walgreens for us and getting some meds and then Cassie and Doug both came back about 2 hrs after the ordeal with some much needed dinner.
So grateful for the peace and calm as I was able to feel strangly at the same time I was feeling so helpless, thankful for the power of the priesthood and the access my family ahs to it, and thankful for great friends who are so willing to support even when we are all just standing around not really sure what if anything we can be doing to help.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
2 more forgot, but want to remember
Logan and Alyssa both call Alyssa "Sis-sa" and now some of their friends from nursery also call her that too...Alyssa started it a few weeks ago...maybe she gave herself a nickname.
When the kids are trying to do something and want to do it on their own and I ask do you want some help they will reply...no, my help. seriously too cute.
When the kids are trying to do something and want to do it on their own and I ask do you want some help they will reply...no, my help. seriously too cute.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Time to try and catch up with all the fun new and exciting
things these kiddos are doing…of course I know I am going to miss out on most
everything, but I am grateful for the things I do get around to documenting.
We had a great December and have had a wonderful new
year. This year was Ruske Christmas so
Alex took a half day off the Wed before Christmas and we headed down and spent the
rest of the week through Sacrament with my side of the family. We have so much fun with our family…even just
hanging around the house. We were also
able to catch up with the Halls while we were there and it was great. Sunday afternoon we got to Victoria and were
able to stay there and have fun visiting with Alex’s side of the family until
Wed afternoon and headed home. The kids
love seeing their grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, and of course their cousins…even
the furry ones…after they adjust to them.
Of course they were spoiled by everyone as well.
We gave Momo & Popo a webcam for Christmas so we have
enjoyed being able to Skype with them.
The kids got some matching games and Logan is surprisingly good at it…sure
we have all the cards facing up…he is barely 2….he loves it…and is really
good at it…so much fun to watch him play.
We tried to let him match some cards during sacrament meeting one week,
but he is too LOUD when he plays when he finds a match he says “there it is”…too
cute :)
For their birthday in addition to the train table we got
them a hand me down kitchen. They are so
cute…not too long after they got it Logan went into the kitchen and pulled out
2 oven mitts and put them on so he could use his oven. I am glad they already know ovens are hot and
you MUST use oven mitts. So cute. I find them out all the time and have to put
them back in the drawer…I guess I need to get them some of their own. They recently have started not only play
eating the food, but they will act like it is real and say hot, hot and blow on
it like Mommy and Daddy do sometimes when they share with us. UNFORTUNATELY they are starting to want to
cook in the big kitchen as well. Alyssa
does not get into as much trouble as Logan does. Logan likes to pull a chair up to the counter
and mess with the toaster oven. NOT GOOD…needless
to say we now have to unplug the toaster and plug it back in when we want to
use it.
Alyssa seems to be obsessed with the color purple…she always
wants her purple pants and socks and jack (or as must people call them jackets). They learned their colors really fast once we
started talking about them. That was my
first clue that she loved purple b/c that is the first color she would say and
I really don’t think that is one of the easier ones to say. Logan is doing exceptionally well with his
colors…probably b/c he says them all the time while he is playing he will tell
you it is his blue car or his big yellow truck etc. Which I think is helping him to talk more. He knows: red, blue, yellow, green, brown,
black, white, orange, pink, purple and we are now working on grey. Alyssa still out talks him and she surprises
me every day with new things she says…for instance today she started telling me
“I want to watch ironman”. We will be
driving down the street and she will talk about what she sees outside. The first time I noticed and heard her she
said horse as we drove past a PF Chang’s.
On Tuesday this week we were driving past a childcare facility with a
big outside playground and she said “I want big slide”…I told her we could use
our little slide when we got home.
Last weekend we went to the playground across the street and
Alyssa surprised me and climbed the chain net…I stood right there each time and
Logan quickly followed suit. So they
would climb the net, walk across the balance beam, and then go down the slide
all by their selves. I CON NOT BELIEVE
HOW BIG THEY ARE GETTING.
We had our first visit to Chuck E. Cheese’s…our friend Bryan
celebrated his 3rd b-day there and invited us to join them. They had a blast. They loved the fire truck ride and the motorcycle,
but neither of them could handle the rocking horse…I had to pull them both off
almost immediately. We all had a great
time.
Logan can now open the fridge on his own and it is a daily
problem…they like to help themselves to anything and everything in the
fridge. Hopefully we can teach him to
stay out quickly. Alyssa has some
challenges of her own…she unfortunately is going straight to fussing when she
does not get what she wants…we are working on it, but not doing well so far…and
she also likes to act like Mommy and sometimes unfortunately she also likes to
think she is Logan’s Mommy and will try and spank him or tell him no, but last night
when they were getting out of the tub it was really cute when she was trying to
get him to get out of the tub like Mommy & Daddy do.
These kids are so much fun!
Can’t wait until #3 gets here :)
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