That would seriously alleviate meal time battles with this little girl!
Jan 12, 2010
Question??
Why can't strictly CHEESE for every meal be a balanced diet?
That would seriously alleviate meal time battles with this little girl!
That would seriously alleviate meal time battles with this little girl!
Jan 6, 2010
Merry Christmas... part uno
For the Christmas break we had a pretty eventful time. To start off the holidays we had our own family's Christmas, Christmas Eve night...it was interesting making up a way to incorporate Santa coming to our house that night while we were still awake but we made it work! I had Chad go outside with a bag of jingle bells and shout "HO HO HO, Merry Christmas!" and then stomp around some. When Ella heard that she was SO excited, she goes, " Santa said Ho Ho Ho, he so funny!" So then I told her that we had to go in their room so that Santa could bring the presents! She was bouncing off the walls with excitement! It was so much fun this year with both our kids but especially Ella because she is starting to understand what the present opening thing is all about!
Jack's first ever attempt at opening a present and he did a pretty good job...loved the paper of course!
After opening the first present Ella just wanted to play with it and was fine not opening anymore we had to keep saying you can play with it in a minute first open this other present. It made me realize that less is definitely more with kids, I'm pretty sure she would have been fine with just one present! But us being the excited parents couldn't stop at just one, oh well now we know that she is easily satisfied!
After awhile though she got the hang of opening all of them first and then she could play with them. It was fun to watch her excitement.
Chad picked out this dump truck for Jack and once he saw it he was super excited! He didn't really care about much else after that.
Other than sucking on Ella's new play baby bottles!
One of Ella's absolute favorite gifts this year!
Belle from beauty and the beast as a toddler was quite the hit as well!
She got a little doctor kit to play with as well and had a lot of fun giving her dolls medicine!
The next day (Christmas Day) we left at 6:30 in the morning to go to Chad's parents house for Christmas with them. We wanted to leave early because we wanted to be able to talk to Dallon, Chad's brother who's on a mission and was supposed to be calling around 10:00. On the drive up we were passing through Blackfoot and we got pulled over! I think the cop must have been bored and just ticked off that he was working Christmas Day cause seriously it was so ridiculous what we were pulled over for. SO he comes up to the window to talk to Chad and it's still pretty dark cause it's early in the morning and I was sitting in the back of the car with kids feeding them breakfast. He looks in on us and is shining the flashlight in our eyes and he goes, " Do you know why I pulled you over?" and Chad responded, " Um I'm not sure." (He hadn't been speeding or anything.) Then the cop goes, " I pulled you over because your driving is Terrible!" Chad just kind of chuckled awkwardly unsure what to say and was like "Really?" He responded, " Well that concerns me that you don't even realize...You were going over the lines into the other lane weaving around...is there something distracting you in here (as he shines the flashlight in the kids and I's faces again. Chad was like, " No, I don't think so, I mean I didn't go over the guard rail or anything (what he meant to say was the bumpy strip thing that helps you know you are going off the road) the cop seemed a little taken aback by Chad's comment and sort of laughed and said, No you didn't hit the gaurd rail but you were not driving very safe and you need to be more aware of your driving...blah blah something like that. SO then he goes back and checks all the stuff that they check and comes back and says I'm just going to give you a warning but this could be a $75 fine and 3 points on your license so be more careful." Chad and I couldn't help laughing after he left because of the way he was like, your driving is TERRIBLE (with some definite annunciation on the terrible part.) It was so weird though cause I was looking up from time to time and it didn't feel like we were weaving around a lot. Chad was eating sunflower seeds though and maybe they were really distracting him :) I just think that guy was being REALLY nit picky! The best part about the whole experience though was that I kinda got some redemption from it because Chad has chastised me for drifting to close or over the line and he was the one who got pulled over for it! Hehe Love you though Chad!
While we were in Kemmerer Chad gave me the last present of his Christmas gifts to me....a new CAMERA! I was so excited! It's a Canon D50 and I love it to pieces! I have not uploaded all of the photos from it onto the computer yet so there will be more to come of our Christmas extravaganza! These pictures were from our other camera.
While we were in Kemmerer Chad and I celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 28th of December...which is truly a horrible time to have your anniversary, right next to Christmas and Chad's birthday on the 26th! SO many events all in one shot! It's just crazy! Chad and I decided that for our next anniversary we are going to celebrate in the summer sometime so it can have its own special time instead of all jumbled in with the Christmas festivities. It's just hard to really do anything when we're visiting our families and wanting to spend what short time we have with them together. Anyways we made it work and it was a lot of fun! We decided to go on a double date with Didi and Jason (Chad's sister and our brother-in-law since they were up there too and we've never gotten to go on a double date with them and hey when ya have grandparents willing to sit for ya who could ask for more! thanks again grandma and grandpa Henkel!) We ended up driving 45 minutes to Evanston a little bit bigger of a city than Kemmerer to see a movie and go out to eat. It was a lot of fun and worth the drive for the experience we had there! The movie theater there which i think was only playing like 4 movies, seriously looked like it was straight out of a horror movie! The drapes in the theater were shredded in one spot like a wild animal went loose there. There was some kind of water damage all over the entire wall, it looked like mold was growing on it. Plus it smelled like sewage and some what of a cleaner smell that was trying to mask it but was failing miserably. There were taped broken seats, insulation almost falling from the ceiling...my explaining this place really isn't doing it justice, it should have been condemned! Ha ha but it was so funny laughing and joking about how weird the place was. Definitely a once in a life time experience.
Here's a pic from when we were at dinner at this country restaurant that I can't remember the name of. The food there was so yummy though!
Aww Dut dut and Jason! Good times with the fam and we'll definitely have to do another date night with them again sometime!
I'm off to bed... more to come though...soon!
Jack's first ever attempt at opening a present and he did a pretty good job...loved the paper of course!
After opening the first present Ella just wanted to play with it and was fine not opening anymore we had to keep saying you can play with it in a minute first open this other present. It made me realize that less is definitely more with kids, I'm pretty sure she would have been fine with just one present! But us being the excited parents couldn't stop at just one, oh well now we know that she is easily satisfied!
After awhile though she got the hang of opening all of them first and then she could play with them. It was fun to watch her excitement.
Chad picked out this dump truck for Jack and once he saw it he was super excited! He didn't really care about much else after that.
Other than sucking on Ella's new play baby bottles!
One of Ella's absolute favorite gifts this year!
Belle from beauty and the beast as a toddler was quite the hit as well!
She got a little doctor kit to play with as well and had a lot of fun giving her dolls medicine!
The next day (Christmas Day) we left at 6:30 in the morning to go to Chad's parents house for Christmas with them. We wanted to leave early because we wanted to be able to talk to Dallon, Chad's brother who's on a mission and was supposed to be calling around 10:00. On the drive up we were passing through Blackfoot and we got pulled over! I think the cop must have been bored and just ticked off that he was working Christmas Day cause seriously it was so ridiculous what we were pulled over for. SO he comes up to the window to talk to Chad and it's still pretty dark cause it's early in the morning and I was sitting in the back of the car with kids feeding them breakfast. He looks in on us and is shining the flashlight in our eyes and he goes, " Do you know why I pulled you over?" and Chad responded, " Um I'm not sure." (He hadn't been speeding or anything.) Then the cop goes, " I pulled you over because your driving is Terrible!" Chad just kind of chuckled awkwardly unsure what to say and was like "Really?" He responded, " Well that concerns me that you don't even realize...You were going over the lines into the other lane weaving around...is there something distracting you in here (as he shines the flashlight in the kids and I's faces again. Chad was like, " No, I don't think so, I mean I didn't go over the guard rail or anything (what he meant to say was the bumpy strip thing that helps you know you are going off the road) the cop seemed a little taken aback by Chad's comment and sort of laughed and said, No you didn't hit the gaurd rail but you were not driving very safe and you need to be more aware of your driving...blah blah something like that. SO then he goes back and checks all the stuff that they check and comes back and says I'm just going to give you a warning but this could be a $75 fine and 3 points on your license so be more careful." Chad and I couldn't help laughing after he left because of the way he was like, your driving is TERRIBLE (with some definite annunciation on the terrible part.) It was so weird though cause I was looking up from time to time and it didn't feel like we were weaving around a lot. Chad was eating sunflower seeds though and maybe they were really distracting him :) I just think that guy was being REALLY nit picky! The best part about the whole experience though was that I kinda got some redemption from it because Chad has chastised me for drifting to close or over the line and he was the one who got pulled over for it! Hehe Love you though Chad!
While we were in Kemmerer Chad gave me the last present of his Christmas gifts to me....a new CAMERA! I was so excited! It's a Canon D50 and I love it to pieces! I have not uploaded all of the photos from it onto the computer yet so there will be more to come of our Christmas extravaganza! These pictures were from our other camera.
While we were in Kemmerer Chad and I celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 28th of December...which is truly a horrible time to have your anniversary, right next to Christmas and Chad's birthday on the 26th! SO many events all in one shot! It's just crazy! Chad and I decided that for our next anniversary we are going to celebrate in the summer sometime so it can have its own special time instead of all jumbled in with the Christmas festivities. It's just hard to really do anything when we're visiting our families and wanting to spend what short time we have with them together. Anyways we made it work and it was a lot of fun! We decided to go on a double date with Didi and Jason (Chad's sister and our brother-in-law since they were up there too and we've never gotten to go on a double date with them and hey when ya have grandparents willing to sit for ya who could ask for more! thanks again grandma and grandpa Henkel!) We ended up driving 45 minutes to Evanston a little bit bigger of a city than Kemmerer to see a movie and go out to eat. It was a lot of fun and worth the drive for the experience we had there! The movie theater there which i think was only playing like 4 movies, seriously looked like it was straight out of a horror movie! The drapes in the theater were shredded in one spot like a wild animal went loose there. There was some kind of water damage all over the entire wall, it looked like mold was growing on it. Plus it smelled like sewage and some what of a cleaner smell that was trying to mask it but was failing miserably. There were taped broken seats, insulation almost falling from the ceiling...my explaining this place really isn't doing it justice, it should have been condemned! Ha ha but it was so funny laughing and joking about how weird the place was. Definitely a once in a life time experience.
Here's a pic from when we were at dinner at this country restaurant that I can't remember the name of. The food there was so yummy though!
Aww Dut dut and Jason! Good times with the fam and we'll definitely have to do another date night with them again sometime!
I'm off to bed... more to come though...soon!
Jan 4, 2010
Please forgive me...
Ok so I have thoroughly sucked it up the past I dunno 5 months or so at blogging! I didn't really realize that anyone cared until my mom told me how my family checks my blog literally all the time and they are always disappointed because I hardly ever update anymore! So my new goal for 2010 is to try to post a little something once a week ( we'll see how that goes-that might be shooting a little too high! maybe once every 2 weeks!) I'm taking baby steps here folks to get back in the game! My mom told me not to go back and try to catch up but i couldn't help going back a bit cause I had some pretty cute picks that I don't want to let go unblogged-ha ha. This isn't starting off good...but here goes! :)
this picture is literally from the summer...but i thought Jack looked adorable. SO that is why it is here! :)
This is from October I don't remember what exactly was going on but El was actually doing a "real" smile instead of her silly weird cheese faces that she does in 98% of her pics!
These are the kind of activities we do sometimes, because of course her stuffed animals need proper attire as well.
My smiley little boy, always trying to steal Ella's cups. I even bought Ella tinkerbell cups so that I could give her coveted Spongebob cup to Jack...yea that didn't work. He just wants whatever she has! My daily struggle!
I have a love hate feeling for this picture...I love it because she looks completely adorable...i hate it because she looks SO grown-up and that makes me sad to see my baby girl becoming a big girl soon to be a snotty teenager! (I blew her hair dry that day with the bow-dryer and will probably never do it again because she looks too grown-up too soon!)
I couldn't decide which to picture to post...I asked Chad which one was better and he said the one on the right is cuter of Jackson the one on the left is cuter of you...a lot of help he was! :) So i decided why not both!
Thanksgiving time! We went to Boise to visit my fam! Ate lots of yummy food and had the real American outting- Shooting GUNS! Good times!
Freezin our wee booties off! But as you can see we took care of our ear-safety with our lovely earplug head band thingys worn backwards for some reason.
Real hardcore shots...
Aw siblings...I'm sure you didn't even notice the sweet Asian eye resemblance!
The girls! (Hilary Ramsey, Haylie Redder & me)
While we were there we got to see our ol' buds from the days when we were in school who have now moved on with there lives and are living in various places throughout the country like Boise and Arkansas! Some day we will join them and move out of Rexburg, it's getting kind hard to handle all of our friends leaving us all the time. We got to get to a place were people stick around longer! We had a lot of fun catching up the the Ramseys and the Redders though! We sure miss them!
The hubby's (Mike Ramsey, Chadder, Kam Redder)
The kiddos- (Benny Redder, Jack, Ella, and Joshua Ramsey-I'm missing Jake though I accidentally cut him out in my haste to catch them all looking at us and not trying to climb off the couch! All of the other shots I took at least one of them is looking the other way or about to hop down! I figure-4 out of five seems like pretty good odds though with a group of kids!
Ella looking real sweet and slightly mischievous!
Pretty much our daily activity-coloring a picture for daddy!
And of course Jack wanted some picture time action!
Ok and here we are to Christmas time...
Ella was our master decorator of the tree! Look at that form!
This Christmas elf looks a bit grinchy to me!
One of our many Christmas festivities was decorating a "gingerbread" house which has become our family tradition. We had our friends the Prebles over to accompany us in the fun! It was quite the feat since I accidentally made frosting that didn't really harden-making for some shady foundations! All in all we had fun and made a house worth sneaking bits of candy from! (Ella was really happy about taking this picture as you can plainly see!- Just in case you were wondering-Jack was in bed already)
That is all for now! I WILL accomplish my goal and post again asap!
this picture is literally from the summer...but i thought Jack looked adorable. SO that is why it is here! :)
This is from October I don't remember what exactly was going on but El was actually doing a "real" smile instead of her silly weird cheese faces that she does in 98% of her pics!
These are the kind of activities we do sometimes, because of course her stuffed animals need proper attire as well.
My smiley little boy, always trying to steal Ella's cups. I even bought Ella tinkerbell cups so that I could give her coveted Spongebob cup to Jack...yea that didn't work. He just wants whatever she has! My daily struggle!
I have a love hate feeling for this picture...I love it because she looks completely adorable...i hate it because she looks SO grown-up and that makes me sad to see my baby girl becoming a big girl soon to be a snotty teenager! (I blew her hair dry that day with the bow-dryer and will probably never do it again because she looks too grown-up too soon!)
I couldn't decide which to picture to post...I asked Chad which one was better and he said the one on the right is cuter of Jackson the one on the left is cuter of you...a lot of help he was! :) So i decided why not both!
Thanksgiving time! We went to Boise to visit my fam! Ate lots of yummy food and had the real American outting- Shooting GUNS! Good times!
Freezin our wee booties off! But as you can see we took care of our ear-safety with our lovely earplug head band thingys worn backwards for some reason.
Real hardcore shots...
Aw siblings...I'm sure you didn't even notice the sweet Asian eye resemblance!
The girls! (Hilary Ramsey, Haylie Redder & me)
While we were there we got to see our ol' buds from the days when we were in school who have now moved on with there lives and are living in various places throughout the country like Boise and Arkansas! Some day we will join them and move out of Rexburg, it's getting kind hard to handle all of our friends leaving us all the time. We got to get to a place were people stick around longer! We had a lot of fun catching up the the Ramseys and the Redders though! We sure miss them!
The hubby's (Mike Ramsey, Chadder, Kam Redder)
The kiddos- (Benny Redder, Jack, Ella, and Joshua Ramsey-I'm missing Jake though I accidentally cut him out in my haste to catch them all looking at us and not trying to climb off the couch! All of the other shots I took at least one of them is looking the other way or about to hop down! I figure-4 out of five seems like pretty good odds though with a group of kids!
Ella looking real sweet and slightly mischievous!
Pretty much our daily activity-coloring a picture for daddy!
And of course Jack wanted some picture time action!
Ok and here we are to Christmas time...
Ella was our master decorator of the tree! Look at that form!
This Christmas elf looks a bit grinchy to me!
One of our many Christmas festivities was decorating a "gingerbread" house which has become our family tradition. We had our friends the Prebles over to accompany us in the fun! It was quite the feat since I accidentally made frosting that didn't really harden-making for some shady foundations! All in all we had fun and made a house worth sneaking bits of candy from! (Ella was really happy about taking this picture as you can plainly see!- Just in case you were wondering-Jack was in bed already)
That is all for now! I WILL accomplish my goal and post again asap!
Nov 15, 2009
REWIND!
Here's a mini-rewind for all those protesting of my lack of posting for the last while (mom)! Love you!
We had a fun little Halloween...Ella was tinkerbell of course, and Jack was a monkey which pretty much speaks for itself! ( Both costumes were a quick rendition that I put together pretty much the day of due to the fact that the whole fam had swine flu the 2 weeks previous and were pretty much dead to the world) But they turned out pretty cute and our kids had fun which is what counts!
El was super excited to be her favorite fairy and of course to go get CANDY! Which by the way I never got the memo that people go out before it gets dark! We went out at about 7:20 and seriously people were already closin' up shop! There were signs on people's doors saying they ran out of candy! I was totally shocked! I remember when I was little you waited till it was dark to go but i guess that is not the procedure these days! Nonetheless we got "some" candy way less than I expected which was dissapointing being that Chad and I wanted to raid it! But pretty much Ella was ecstatic at just getting one piece so she was on cloud 9 with about 2 handfuls!
Waving her wand saying, "Bepity-bopity-boo" -Cinderella-Peter Pan it's all the same right! It's all Disney at least :)
Daddy and Jack looking pretty tuckered out and we hadn't even left yet!
Monkey-boy and Tink crackin herself up.
She wore those wings around everywhere for about the next week and every night she would ask to be "tinkewbell again and go get candy?"
So I had sewn the Monkey stuff onto Jack's brown coat and I wasn't quite ready to cut it all off before I took some more pics of him in it.
He's a cute little monkey-boy isn't he?
Ok so it's not that amazing but I wanted to show the tail that i made that I thought turned out pretty well.
I accidently chose to upload the pictures small and it takes so darn long to upload them that i'm leaving it! Anyways we had a fun time carving a pumpkin and making Halloween cookies together!
Kissing over a pumpkin, it's the mistletoe of Halloween!
Happiest kid ever cause she got to have a Halloween cookie that she helped me make (which was a huge mess to clean up but a lot of fun as well-mostly she just wanted to eat anything she could)...if this kid could live off sugar and cheese she would!
Attacking daddy after he comes home from work (Yes he got a awesome job doing project management for Fox Webstores out of Rigby, ID- we are real happy and vlessed to have a job and that we're no longer moving across the country at this point in our lives ;-)
Jack and El havin a blast together on thier car even though they barely fit on there together.
Jack was real determined to keep walking and holding on to the car no matter how fast Ella pushed it!
BIG NEWS!
Jack is now officially walking (Just turned 10mo.)! Well he has been taking steps for quite awhile now but pretty much this week he has started to prefer walking for place to place over crawling. It's so cute watching his bowlegged little infant body totter around!
Ella is potty-trained! She has been for the past month actually and boy what a joy it is! It can get annoying at times to have to rush her to the bathroom when you're out and about but it's so much nicer not to have to change 2 sets of diapers! She loves her Tinkerbell panties (thanks mom!) and being a big girl!
I will post more pics and video of Jack walking but it is already way past my bed-time and I know i'm going to be regretting this when my kids wake up at 6 tomorrow! Hopefully this will appease those who have been complaining (haha j/k) for at least a little while! :)
We had a fun little Halloween...Ella was tinkerbell of course, and Jack was a monkey which pretty much speaks for itself! ( Both costumes were a quick rendition that I put together pretty much the day of due to the fact that the whole fam had swine flu the 2 weeks previous and were pretty much dead to the world) But they turned out pretty cute and our kids had fun which is what counts!
El was super excited to be her favorite fairy and of course to go get CANDY! Which by the way I never got the memo that people go out before it gets dark! We went out at about 7:20 and seriously people were already closin' up shop! There were signs on people's doors saying they ran out of candy! I was totally shocked! I remember when I was little you waited till it was dark to go but i guess that is not the procedure these days! Nonetheless we got "some" candy way less than I expected which was dissapointing being that Chad and I wanted to raid it! But pretty much Ella was ecstatic at just getting one piece so she was on cloud 9 with about 2 handfuls!
Waving her wand saying, "Bepity-bopity-boo" -Cinderella-Peter Pan it's all the same right! It's all Disney at least :)
Daddy and Jack looking pretty tuckered out and we hadn't even left yet!
Monkey-boy and Tink crackin herself up.
She wore those wings around everywhere for about the next week and every night she would ask to be "tinkewbell again and go get candy?"
So I had sewn the Monkey stuff onto Jack's brown coat and I wasn't quite ready to cut it all off before I took some more pics of him in it.
He's a cute little monkey-boy isn't he?
Ok so it's not that amazing but I wanted to show the tail that i made that I thought turned out pretty well.
I accidently chose to upload the pictures small and it takes so darn long to upload them that i'm leaving it! Anyways we had a fun time carving a pumpkin and making Halloween cookies together!
Kissing over a pumpkin, it's the mistletoe of Halloween!
Happiest kid ever cause she got to have a Halloween cookie that she helped me make (which was a huge mess to clean up but a lot of fun as well-mostly she just wanted to eat anything she could)...if this kid could live off sugar and cheese she would!
Attacking daddy after he comes home from work (Yes he got a awesome job doing project management for Fox Webstores out of Rigby, ID- we are real happy and vlessed to have a job and that we're no longer moving across the country at this point in our lives ;-)
Jack and El havin a blast together on thier car even though they barely fit on there together.
Jack was real determined to keep walking and holding on to the car no matter how fast Ella pushed it!
BIG NEWS!
Jack is now officially walking (Just turned 10mo.)! Well he has been taking steps for quite awhile now but pretty much this week he has started to prefer walking for place to place over crawling. It's so cute watching his bowlegged little infant body totter around!
Ella is potty-trained! She has been for the past month actually and boy what a joy it is! It can get annoying at times to have to rush her to the bathroom when you're out and about but it's so much nicer not to have to change 2 sets of diapers! She loves her Tinkerbell panties (thanks mom!) and being a big girl!
I will post more pics and video of Jack walking but it is already way past my bed-time and I know i'm going to be regretting this when my kids wake up at 6 tomorrow! Hopefully this will appease those who have been complaining (haha j/k) for at least a little while! :)
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