Such a little cheese...

You know i forgot how much elly m. loves the camera. She poses so cheesy sometimes for these pictures. i also forgot how much fun it is to put pictures on the blog. it is a lot of fun to watch her grow. For those of you who are wondering: SHE IS NOT WALKING yet. She is just totally uninterested. it is amazing that she just doesn't care about it at all.

Explaining to do

I feel as though i have some slight explaining to do pertaining to this here blog. Not only has life been a little hairy lately, but we did move into a house and we are still in a slight transition. But to update everyone. It is so great to be back in memphis. i feel like a human being again and jonathan has adjusted fine. elly m. , well let's just say... how did she ever live the first 8 months of life without this many people around her. She is NOT walking yet. she just doesn't give a darn about walking... i think it is hilarious. she just isn't really interested in it. very amusing to me. she puts everything into her mouth, to the point of getting thrush a couple weeks ago, while she also spent about 4 or 5 days with a high fever, her first one mind you and it was to say the least not that much fun for either of us.... but this week isn't much better. She has had the squirty poops pretty bad. i thought changing her diaper 4 times a day was a hassle.... 9 times a day is miserable.

She is such a social creature. she can be so unhappy when she is alone, meaning i walk into the other room, but the moment people are around... she is just fine. she must get that from jonathan... heehehhe.

anyways... we are only a couple weeks away from having 2 children. another transition of course, but hopefully this time a little easier than the first. each one i am sure gets easier. the baby is getting bigger and bigger and probably bigger as we speak. they sure do stretch you out the last month. my goodness.

Almost the entire family is here from sweden... jonathan's parents, sister, aunt, uncle and their three kids. that has been a lot of fun to get to hang out with them here..... mickie.. jonathan's little sister is staying with us and that has been a lot of fun too.

we love you guys... i won't make promises, but i think that you can start checking this more often.....

actually working today... whoa

i told you guys that i had been trying and today... success. i miss putting pics. up here... i will try more and more now... i need to take some. elly m.'s hair is getting very very long... hmm... i think i am starting to understand my sister a little more. i dread that first little hair chop ... so sorry m. for ruining on of your mommy moments. what a foolish person i was.

a little update for you guys.

We are still alive... i know it has been wayyyyyyyy to long since i last posted. here is a little clip to show that we are still breathing. we don't have internet at our house yet, but we are thieving from the neighbors... it only took three hours to download this one picture. i promise that when the new baby comes i will post more pictures.....

life has been a little hectic lately... i was in a car accident. don't worry baby and i are fine, but that has required a lot of our time. dealing with insurance companies is a load of b.s. and looking for a new car has been quite the group effort.. but we love everyone of you and will try to post more pics. soon.

an update...

I am soooooooooo sorry to everyone that checks this all the time and have not found updates lately. Life has been hectic lately. We arrived in Memphis and it has been a whirl-wind hanging out with people and catching up with everyone and trying to figure out where to have the next baby and getting everything with the new house settled and so on. so forgive me. i promise to post some pics later on tomorrow of little elly m. and olivia her cousin.

Everything update..... jonathan is still looking for a job, but working for his old boss part time for something to do.....
the house.... we are moving in june 15th and it is way better then we had planned. i mean wow... couldn't be more perfect for our growing little family. Also some of our friends have been so kind as to bless us with a bunch of new stuff for the kitchen. I am so thankful to them for that, much nicer than we planned.

Elly M. and I are going to florida for a week with bella, will, olivia and some other people. we want jonathan to go, but his sister mickie is arriving from sweden and he doesn't want to miss her arrival. we leave the 31st and get back the 7th. I do believe it will be an adventure.

I promise to return to the blogging world rather soon... you must forgive me... transition is sometimes a little busy.

jonathan is so cute sometimes

Jonathan has had a difficult time finding things to do in good ol' southeast iowa, but he has his civ. 4 computer game to keep him company, and he can always build things with play-doh like he did here. He will also be getting his wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow. We weren't planning this, but they started to hurt, so tomorrow is the day.

more tree photos...

So the trees took some time... and everyone got a little dirty, but it was fun. The last picture is of spider man. please refer to him as spider man and his mom as spidey guurl when the costume is on. he would much prefer that. Also note that spidey man doesn't give hugs and kisses, and no pictures are allowed to be taken. i snuck this one in there.

plantin' some trees

My dad decided while we are here that he would buy a tree for each grandchild and they would help plant it. It was very funny trying to get a four year old, an almost 2 year old and a nine month old to all look at the camera at the same time. After elly m.'s tree was planted, she rolled down the hill onto it. she layed there for quite some time getting close to the tree, then her cousin brooklyn decided that she needed a hug. Elly m. is such a social little thing, she loves her little cousins and being around people... maybe she is a little more like her mommy in that way.

a few more park photos...

a trip to the park

There have been many outside adventures lately... always eventful with children. First thing that happens, Uncle jonathan pushes nephew elijah a little too hard on the tire swing..... little elijah falls off and busts his lip open. But don't worry as you can tell by the pictures elijah gets him back by knocking him off the swing playing horsey.