Welcome Home Uncle Jon!

My little brother Jon returned home tonight from 6 looong months of Army Basic Training, and IT Training. He just spent the last week out in the wilderness on a survival challenge, so I am sure he is glad to be home too. I haven't gotten to see him yet, but I will tomorrow night. My mom arranged a welcome home party at the Monastery. (Our little family get together place) So I will take some pictures then. I heard he has changed a lot, and that he put some meat on them skinny bones of his, so I am very excited to see him. I am so proud of what he is doing. It is just so awesome. Pictures soon to come! YAY JON!!!

Here is Jon with Jake and Isaak


Here is Jake with Tony's son Matthew


Here is Nattie and her pickles


Here is my mom and her husband Steve


Here is Colin with my aunts dog he wouldnt put down all night.


This is my Aunt Roxanne and her daughter Christine

Jib Jab

I am up a little late tonight, but this is why...I have been having too much fun with this! I cant stop laughing...it is so cute.

My mom made this one..

http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/1585689

and I made this one since Isaak is such a good dancer anyway!

http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/1589738

Then here is one of me and Brad Pitt dancing the Charlston!

http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/1590242

Sorry about the links..hopefully it works this way.

Football Pictures

The boys are doing really well in football. There are only 3 games left. They have only lost 1 gameso far, so they are pretty good. Last weekend they had a shut out of 33-0.

The boys got their football pictures back. They are pretty serious looking! Isaak told me, "Mom, football players DONT smile!"

Okkkaaay! So here they are...my TOUGH and MEEEEAN (and handsome might I add) little men.

Jakob

Isaak

Go Tornados! You can click on the picture to make it bigger. Isaak was making a "mean face" in here.

100 Things you may have not known about me

Yes, I must be bored stiff!

1. I always knew I was going to have a lot of kids.
2. I never liked chocolate until I was pregnant with Natalie, now I cant stop eating it.
3. I love staying at hotels..something about those crispy white sheets!
4. I have 3 babies in heaven. One pregnancy was a set of twins.
5. I love Irish Spring Microbead soap.
6. I love Bath and Body Works brown sugar and fig hand soap.
7. I am always behind on laundry!
8. I love decorating my house.
9. I love MAC Make-up.
10. I sniff Natalie all the time after her bath...her hair smells soooo good! She thinks it is normal now to smell everything!
11. I still get up to check if my kids are okay and still breathing in the middle of the night.
12. It takes me a good hour or sometimes more to fall asleep at night.
13. I love photography, and am thinking about doing it myself.
14. I am afraid of swimming pools, they give me the creeps.
15. I love gum.
16. I love the smell of rain on the cement.
17. I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters.
18. I love doing hair, I cant wait til Natalie grows more.
19. I have about 45 cousins, I lost count after that.
20. My body tempurature rises while I sleep, I always wake up feverish, around 101 degrees. Wierd huh! Dave calls me his little toaster.
21. I am not a shoe person, I'd rather go barefoot. And socks drive me crazy!!!
22. I can pick things up with my stubby little talented toes!
23. I silently have road rage.
24. I could live off of ice cream.
25. I read medical books and watch live surgeries online.
26. I love macaroni and cheese.
27. I love going out to dinner.
28. I hate fast food.
29. I am not a morning person.
30. If I could I would looove to take a nap everyday.
31. I hate going to the grocery store.
32. I stock up like crazy things like toothpaste, soap, shampoo..etc, but I am freaked out about actually storing food.
33. I hate milk.
34. My hair grows so dang slow.
35. I only have to shave my legs once a week if that.
36. I love raspberries.
37. I read books one right after the other sometimes staying up until 2 am just to finish it.
38. I feel lost if I dont have a book to read, and panicked if I dont have another one to start reading if I happen to finish the one I am on.
39. I can spend aaaall day at the library!
40. I like taking the babies on a stroller walk every morning after I drop the boys off at school.
41. I love football.
42. When I am driving in the car I feel like I have to call people just to chat.
43. My husband talks a lot. :) Hi hunny!
44. I used to shave my arms.
45. Somedays I get easily frustrated with the babies, or should I say my "Thing One and Thing Two".
46. The boys have to look perfect everyday for school, hair gelled and everything, they get a little irritated with me.
47. I love popcorn.
48. I love watching movies at home.
49. I hate my eyebrows being touched, or seeing that someones eyebrows are messed up. It hurts my head.
50. I hate being tickled.
51. I love my showers to be scalding hot.
52. I love candles, I always have one going.
53. I am spoiled, Dave gets me anything I want pretty much. ;)
54. I love learning about and watching the weather.
55. I hate wearing clothes. When no one is home I'd gladly run around half naked and pray no one rings the door bell that I know.
56. I love anything crafty. Michaels is the best store ever, I can break the bank in there!
57. Sometime I wish I was 17 again.
58. I love the smell of fresh cut grass.
59. I hate moving, but I like that starting over feeling.
60. I am not very organized.
61. My muscles under my shoulder blades are always KILLING me!!!
62. I like dancing with the kids in the living room.
63. I like singing karaoke with Dave.
64. I have recurring nightmares about being kidnapped or being stuck in a tornado.
65. I kept a journal from age 12 to 21.
66. I am not an animal person.
67. When I was in 6th grade I beat up this older boy who was picking on my little brother.
68. I used to push my brother down the stairs when he was really little. I was really mean to him.
69. I am afraid Natalie has that same mean bone in her too.
70. I love baking.
71. My favorite holiday is Halloween. Dave calls me creepy.
72. I am not a fan of Christmas time just because there is just too much rushing around, I'd rather relax and spend time with family.
73. My kids are pretty animated. Cant say I didnt have anything to do with that!
74. I have a hard time saying "no".
75. I hate rap music.
76. I like Lifetime Movie Network.
77. I love watching Cold Case or FBI Files.
78. I have seen every single CSI-Vegas episode. Yes, I own them too. Nerd Alert!
79. I love sleeping with the windows open, I guess that is one good thing about a two story house!
80. I love clothes shopping for the kids.
81. I love Disneyland!
82. I hate big crowds of people.
83. I hold my breath in an elevator with there are other people in there.
84. I have a collection of Willowtree statues.
85. My house is decorated Mediterranian style.
86. I love dark old furniture.
87. I smile almost too much, my cheeks hurt at the end of the day.
88. I saw a ghost a few months ago. That scared the bejesus out of me.
89. I take a lot of pictures, I have so many I dont know what to do with them all.
90. I keep baby things from each one of my kids from when they were new.
91. I love newborn babies, I'd have 10 more if I could.
92. Jakob is the BEST back and foot massager, I taught him well, and he is going to make his wife very happy!
93. I love make up.
94. I have 2 nephews and 1 neice.
95. I hate folding socks.
96. My brother is in the Army, I am so proud of him, plus he is coming home in 3 weeks!
97. I love my husband, he is cute and makes me laugh.
98. I love going on trips or vacations.
99. I am tired and seriously need to go to bed now.
100. If you wanna know anything else, just let me know! :)

Now..I am tagging Meili, Angie, and Jessica Larsen.

Baby Gap casting calls

It is that time of year where Gap has casting calls for kids.

So of course I did a mini photo shoot today with Nattie and Colin. They turned out okay, so we'll see if we hear anything! I did submit more of Natalie than I did of Colin, merely because he was insisting on posing for the pictures with his beautiful blue eyes squeezed tightly shut!

Here are the pictures I submitted.

A house for me!

We are moving October 26th. I hate moving, really I do, but I am excited for our new house. It has 4 bedrooms, and 2 bathrooms, about 1900 sq ft. We were mostly looking for something with a big backyard, because where we are at now we dont have one. This one has one, plus a garden. The boys and I will be able to walk to school everyday too. It will be a nice change.

Here is the front of the house, not a very bright picture, but you get the idea.

Here is the formal living room

Here is the family room

Here is part of the backyard. This also has a huge covered patio.

San Diego

Dave's company took everyone on a vacation to San Diego this past weekend. We took a bus with about 35 others, and got to stay at the Westin Emerald Plaza. It was such a nice hotel, with those glass elevators, where you can see the ocean from it. Our room was so pretty, and had a big comfy bed that I didnt want to get out of. Saturday they sent all the men who wanted to go fishing on a fishing boat, but Dave chose to stay with me and they took us to Sea World! So we ran around Sea World like kids, and got soaked on the white water rapid ride, and shopped for presents for the kids. After that, we got back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. The company made reservations at 4 different restaurants, so we got to choose which ever we wanted, and Dave and I chose Anthony's. I've been there before, so it was the safe choice! It was so pretty, it is right on the ocean, so we watched the sail boats go by, and ate crab legs and steak. The whole trip was so fun. It was like a honeymoon we never got. Sunday morning we all packed back on the bus and headed back home. My brave mom stayed at our house with all the kids so that we could go. We had so much fun, we need to do that more often! :) I took pictures at Sea World mostly, so here they are...

Me and Dave taking a scary picture of us both.

The penguins..even though they were stinky, they were the cutest.

A real polar bear, I've never seen one before!

He is going to kill me for putting this up, but I think it is adorable.

The Flamingos we fed.

Sorry, they wouldnt stop moving so I could take their picture! Haha..

Another shark

The Dolphins