Thursday, February 12, 2009

We're still here!


Parker tried to feed himself yogurt for breakfast. Not too shabby for his first try.


Just wanted to make sure everyone is aware that we're still breathing. This year is going by WAY too fast. Jared started back to school taking 14 credits, on top of working 50+ hours at work. And between Church callings, helping at the boys' school and the everyday challenges of life it seems that this New Year has already passed us by. Jen got to go back to Utah for a few days for her Birthday, We'll post some pics of that next time. Parker had Bronchitis at the beginning of Jan. and a really bad ear infection the last few weeks of Jan. He had to have Breathing treatments done every four hours for a couple of days, which he did not like one bit. After the Bronchitis cleared up one of the tubes that were put in his ears over the summer fell out, and that ear got infected. Finally after a few trips to the doctors and medicine it seems it had all cleared up. He's getting so big, he jabbers all the time, and his new thing is saying "OH, WOW!" at anything and everything. His favorite thing in the whole world is seeing Christian and Brandt off in the morning to the school bus, and you should see his face when they come home in the afternoon. As for the other two. Brandt had his 6th Birthday a few weeks back. We had a combined birthday party with his best friend since their birthdays are only few days apart. Altogether we had about 27 six year old's running around at the party place. That was a sight. As for Christian, he's getting so much older, he's growing like a weed, and I'm just waiting for the day when he's taller then me. He's still practicing his swimming and told us the other night that he wants to learn to play the Violin. So here a a few pictures from the past few weeks...

Brandt and Ryan the Big Six year Olds
Split B-day cake, Brandt wanted Indiana Jones theme, Ryan wanted Speed Racer.
All the kids eating Cake and Ice Cream.



So one night Parker was really in rare form. He was just running everywhere, happy as can be, so we got the video camera out to try and capture it. Wouldn't you know it he calms down for the camera. He was doing this thing where he'd run in place and then stop and fall backwards on his butt and just laugh and laugh. This was a very funny night.