Wednesday, October 15, 2008
September's Project — DONE!
Brad and I decided to do some work on our front doorway for our project in September. And, guess what, it's done. Wahoo! Here are the before, during, and after pictures.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
A long time...
It's been a long time since I really updated this thing, and now at 11:30 pm I've decided to do it. Here we go!We spent the last two weeks of July doing A LOT of driving! We packed up the car and headed west. Our first destination was Colorado. We were able to see Brad's sisters Nicole and Monica and their families. We were also lucky enough to be there for the baptism of Macey. After a short time there we headed north with Brad's parents to Montana. We had a nice time visiting with them, Grandma Johns, and some of Brad's aunts.
After a few days there we left Montana for a scenic drive to Island Park, Idaho for a family reunion with my family. Along the way we did some garnet mining (Lucy was a big help there) and we went to a huge candy store in Nevada City.
While in Island park, we spent an evening in West Yellowstone enjoying the Playmill Theatre, jet skiing, hanging out at the lake, rafting, and hanging out with the cousins. After a few days there, we loaded up the car once again and headed down to Sandy Utah to spend the rest of our vacation.
Then, all too soon, we loaded up the car for the very long (I'm hoping I can forget about it) trip back home to Wisconsin. We had a lot of fun—that is, when we weren't in the car. Thanks everyone.
Once back in Wisconsin, Lucy soon learned about dress up clothes and loves to wear her pink dress (A blue Cinderella has been added to the collection, but I'm trying to save that one for Halloween)
After weeks of separation, Lucy and I went to the park with Lena and Kathleen for lunch. There was a live band there and then the kids can play in the fountain.
Some of you may remember pictures of Lucy eating in our garden last summer. Well, she is still the vegetable loving fool—just like Daddy. Her favorite by far is the tomatoes. She was eating them green and orange. I'm surprised any of them lasted long enough to turn red.
We also enjoyed the Miller Electric Family Picnic. There was good food, a petting zoo, and Lucy enjoyed a ride on a camel and her first carnival ride. Of course it was at a park and she was more interested in playing on the swing and slide. Figures.
Then the beginning of my long nightmare began. On August 15th around 11:40 pm, just as I was getting ready to wake Brad from his nap on the couch to go to bed, he started having a seizure. He had one 4 years earlier and we thought that was a one time thing—apparently not. Here he is in the hospital. It took a week for him to recover and here is a picture of him napping. Lucy thought he needed some of her toys (stuffed crab, toy phone, Cinderella card, Cinderella doll and case, and of course Elmo) and then tried to mimic him herself.
Unfortunately it didn't end there. On September 30th 1:00 am, as I rolled over in bed, Brad had his third seizure. This was the first one were he didn't take a trip to the emergency room. The recovery from this one has been a lot better. He is already back to work. However his "return to driving" date has now been changed from November 13th to the first of the year (as long as he is seizure free). On the bright side we have felt so much love from our friends here in Wisconsin. Their willingness to help out is truely appreciated. I can't thank everyone enough.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Who needs the park?
So, I have a lot I need to blog about, but I thought I would throw this in real quick, until I have more time to do think about my blog. Here is one of Lucy's new ways to keep life at the park at home. Her other is to lean her car seat against the couch and then climb on the couch and "slide" down it.
Friday, July 11, 2008
4th of July
Here are a few pictures and a video from our 4th of July. We started our day with a ward breakfast and then introduced Lucy to the world of Snaps. She had fun with them. Then later we went to some friends house to eat and hang out. We didn't stay late enough to see the fireworks, but we came home and did some of our own and then it was time for bed.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
June
Well, I've been meaning to update this thing all month and am finally getting around to it. June has been a busy, fun, and at times an exciting month.
Our first adventure would be the visit from Sarah and Carson. After some weather delays, (why does that always happen to my sisters) Sarah arrived. During her stay, we did some shopping (I got a 50% off at Gymboree!), had the kids pictures taken, and we celebrated Carson's first birthday. Happy Birthday Carson! Since he was too young to object, we celebrated most of Lucy's then too. We decorated, wrapped presents, and baked a few cakes. I think the balloons were a bigger hit than the gifts, but we had fun.
There was also a lot of rain here in Wisconsin during the month of June. Half of the state has been declared a disaster, and there was some significant flooding in Oshkosh (15 min south) and Fon du Lac (40 min south), not to mention the Fox River being above flood stage and last I heard they were still waiting for it to crest. Maybe it finally has, but you never know. Along with these rains, we have had some damaging winds. One of those hit close to home...literally! Sarah, Carson, and I were in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Lucy was in the dining room, and Brad was somewhere in between. We were watching the news because there was a possibility of a tornado and all of a sudden we hear a crash. Sarah and I look out the window to see if lightning struck, and what we see is part of a tree that fell across our driveway (blocking it). We were really lucky since we were all on that side of the house and the tree branch mostly missed the house (no damage done there). Also, our car had been parked in the driveway and maybe 40 minutes earlier Brad moved it into the garage saving it from the tree. So the branch was about 48' long and at the base 1'6" in diameter at the base and the section in our driveway was about 12" in diameter. So, I called my wonderful visiting teacher Pam to arrange a ride for the next morning and asked her if she happened to know anyone with a chainsaw. She didn't, but not long later, her son and husband drove up with an ax and a saw and went to work. Sarah and I tried to get them to come inside because of the lightning but that didn't work. We are very grateful to them for their help. On a side note we had some water leaking in the basement as well. And I thought I loved the rain. ;)
Lucy turned 2 on June 19th. Happy Birthday Lucy! We took her to the doctor and she was so brave. She had to get one shot and she didn't cry. She weighed in at 30 lbs (86%), 35.25" tall (85%) and 48.4 cm for her head (74%). She opened her big present from her parents on her birthday. The Little People House. She loves it.
The last adventure would have been last Saturday. We got up and moving early in the morning and met our friends Adam, Kahleen, and Lena Mangum at I Hop for breakfast. Then we drove out to Cuff Farms and picked strawberries. We had so much fun eating and picking. Lucy was a mess! She was eating the strawberries, the stems, green ones, picked ones, ones from the Mangum's box (she was our little strawberry poacher). She was all over the place. In the end we came home with almost more strawberries than we could handle, which made for a lot of jam. Yummy!
Lucy's new accomplishment is that she counted to 11 by herself today. She's getting so big. She also recognizes a lot of letters, and is starting to sing along with Cinderella (still her favorite). Her favorite book this week is There's a Wocket in my Pocket. Favorite sayings/words: Oh no!, rasins?, go away, luv you, you ok?, beep beep, I get you, I stuck, movie?, balloon, and oh boy. She is jabbering up a storm and is loving her stuffed dog Wiffer, he goes with her everywhere (in the house). She likes to play peek a boo with him and her doll house.
Our first adventure would be the visit from Sarah and Carson. After some weather delays, (why does that always happen to my sisters) Sarah arrived. During her stay, we did some shopping (I got a 50% off at Gymboree!), had the kids pictures taken, and we celebrated Carson's first birthday. Happy Birthday Carson! Since he was too young to object, we celebrated most of Lucy's then too. We decorated, wrapped presents, and baked a few cakes. I think the balloons were a bigger hit than the gifts, but we had fun.
There was also a lot of rain here in Wisconsin during the month of June. Half of the state has been declared a disaster, and there was some significant flooding in Oshkosh (15 min south) and Fon du Lac (40 min south), not to mention the Fox River being above flood stage and last I heard they were still waiting for it to crest. Maybe it finally has, but you never know. Along with these rains, we have had some damaging winds. One of those hit close to home...literally! Sarah, Carson, and I were in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Lucy was in the dining room, and Brad was somewhere in between. We were watching the news because there was a possibility of a tornado and all of a sudden we hear a crash. Sarah and I look out the window to see if lightning struck, and what we see is part of a tree that fell across our driveway (blocking it). We were really lucky since we were all on that side of the house and the tree branch mostly missed the house (no damage done there). Also, our car had been parked in the driveway and maybe 40 minutes earlier Brad moved it into the garage saving it from the tree. So the branch was about 48' long and at the base 1'6" in diameter at the base and the section in our driveway was about 12" in diameter. So, I called my wonderful visiting teacher Pam to arrange a ride for the next morning and asked her if she happened to know anyone with a chainsaw. She didn't, but not long later, her son and husband drove up with an ax and a saw and went to work. Sarah and I tried to get them to come inside because of the lightning but that didn't work. We are very grateful to them for their help. On a side note we had some water leaking in the basement as well. And I thought I loved the rain. ;)
Lucy turned 2 on June 19th. Happy Birthday Lucy! We took her to the doctor and she was so brave. She had to get one shot and she didn't cry. She weighed in at 30 lbs (86%), 35.25" tall (85%) and 48.4 cm for her head (74%). She opened her big present from her parents on her birthday. The Little People House. She loves it.
The last adventure would have been last Saturday. We got up and moving early in the morning and met our friends Adam, Kahleen, and Lena Mangum at I Hop for breakfast. Then we drove out to Cuff Farms and picked strawberries. We had so much fun eating and picking. Lucy was a mess! She was eating the strawberries, the stems, green ones, picked ones, ones from the Mangum's box (she was our little strawberry poacher). She was all over the place. In the end we came home with almost more strawberries than we could handle, which made for a lot of jam. Yummy!
Lucy's new accomplishment is that she counted to 11 by herself today. She's getting so big. She also recognizes a lot of letters, and is starting to sing along with Cinderella (still her favorite). Her favorite book this week is There's a Wocket in my Pocket. Favorite sayings/words: Oh no!, rasins?, go away, luv you, you ok?, beep beep, I get you, I stuck, movie?, balloon, and oh boy. She is jabbering up a storm and is loving her stuffed dog Wiffer, he goes with her everywhere (in the house). She likes to play peek a boo with him and her doll house.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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