Caleb's birthday part one...

Happy 6th Birthday Caleb!!!

Today, we went to Chipotle for dinner for the 3rd year in a row.  Guess the kid's tastes don't change.  We also went to Cold Stone.  It was a filling evening.  He got a few gifts today, from us.  He got a package with pages in it to send in to this company so he can publish his own book.  He is very excited about that.  He wanted to start this morning, but we were going to the preschool family event this morning, so he couldn't get started as soon as he had wanted to.  He also got a sign for his room so he can hang his art up.  The kid loves to draw!

So, at 6-he is doing very well in kindergarten!  He is becoming quite good at spelling words.  The other day, he wrote a sign that said (he asked me how to spell the first word)  "Out uv bisnis"  I wanted to put that up on my door :0)  He is writing so much with his pictures now.  I am so amazed at how far he has come in the 6ish months he has been at school.  He is great at math and has come home lately telling me that he is going to "mix-it-up math" and doing 1st grade problems!!  He loves art-as I said before.  He's always drawing or writing something.  He loves his baby sister, but can do without his other sister unless he wants to play with her.  We just finished the first Harry Potter book today and he seemed to enjoy that.  He likes comic books and super heroes right now.  He still enjoys building things with legos or tinker toys.  He has become interested in building things out of wood too.  He built a treasure box, a bird feeder, a pirate ship and a tool box.  Lately he has really enjoyed playing card games, especially UNO.

Our family today.  Caleb-6, Ellery 4 1/2, Anissa 7 1/2 months

Miss Anissa with her silly face at Chipotle.

Ellery after the preschool event this morning.  She painted her own face.  Pretty cute!!

Sibling love!!!

Here is the preparation for the family birthday party that we had last weekend.

 Caleb designed his own cake.  He was pretty proud of himself!

 Looking at his new shark 3-d book with papa.

 Here we are with his cake.

And the ever dreaded "Happy Birthday" song.  Can't you see the joy on his face.  I think he would much prefer if he never had this song sung to him ever again!

Here's his cake.  The multi colored thing with the face is a rainbow trout coming out of the ocean and then there is part of a treasure chest and a map to the big red X marks the spot, a palm tree and his name and age.  I'd say he did a pretty good job for a 6 year old!!  He drew all the pictures with a toothpick in the frosting and then he and Grandma G frosted the pictures. 

My 6 month old beauty!

In the snow fort!  Man have we had a TON of snow!!!  Good thing the kids enjoy it.  Ellery has lately been saying that she wants winter to go away-don't we all! 

In the kitchen sink "tub"  She has become really fun lately in the water.  She splashes and plays and thinks it is just a fun thing to take a bath.  She really likes to take a bath with the big kids, but Caleb says that there isn't enough room and he wants to take a bath all by himself now so he can stretch out!  Oh well, maybe Ellery can bathe with Anissa so they can play together!

We took the kids out sledding for the first time this year.  Anissa did NOT go down the sled, but she was out there watching.  I was surprised, Caleb really liked sledding.  I figured that he wouldn't want to go down a bigger hill.  Ellery, of course, LOVED it and if it weren't so cold, would have stayed out all day!  I'm glad we finally got out sledding.  Even mom and dad took turns holding the baby so we could get in on the fun!

Pirate play!

That's it for now folks!  Next weekend we have the big kid party!  We'll see how that goes.  Mom might lose her mind after that.  Or else I won't ever get to have a birthday party-we'll see!  ~Anissa!

Happy New Year, Finally!

I have to say, here's hoping for a quieter, happier 2011!  2010 was stress for this house from the beginning.  Tim lost his job the start of the year, during which I was enjoying the early pregnancy joys.  Then, my job became the biggest stress I've ever experienced in my life.  Finally that ended, but not before I could stress out about who would be there to take care of me while I had my baby.  After Anissa was born, it was stressful only in the fact that Tim hadn't found a job yet.  However, we got to end the year in stress as well.  The week before Christmas, Tim went on his first business trip-it ended up being fine, but as soon as he got home, we left for Grand Forks to see Ben graduate.  Well, Miss Anissa decided that she didn't want to leave uncle Ben so soon-she got pneumonia and we had to stay the night in the hospital there.  Then, I just finished up reloading everything on my latest hard drive.  Hopefully, the 3rd hard drive is a charm! Ay-yi yi! So there are a lot of pictures on this post since it has been so long since my last.  I didn't include all of my pictures since October, but oh well. 

 Here's my little trouble maker-at 5 months.  Now she is almost 6 months old!  She just discovered her piggies and likes to eat them.  She has also discovered her tongue and sticks it out and curls it up quite often.  We are working on sitting up-she's doing pretty well.  We started solids a few weeks ago and then promptly had to quit since she was pretty ill.  She has started up again and has tried yogurt to help combat the ickies that come with antibiotics.  She wasn't quite sure about the coldness of the yogurt, but we're getting the hang of it.  We are working on napping in her crib and that is going okay.  She has gotten better with the car rides-thankfully! 

This is last night-up until last night, she was VERY stingy with her giggles, but for some reason, she just thought Ellery was HILARIOUS and was belly laughing for near 15 minutes.  Adorable!!!

Jones Christmas

We had Tim's family over on sunday to celebrate Christmas.  Everyone playing Wheel of Fortune.  They look bored, but it was pretty fun.  Nate even told Grammy he was going to "own this game" and then promptly lost.  It was a good time.

 Auntie Janet

Christmas morning

 Jamming-Santa brought an electric guitar and a drum set.  We've become a bit musical.  He also brought a microphone, but it only worked for a second.  Guess it'll be making a trip back to the North Pole.

Ellery with Julie-her American Girl.  This was her only request for Christmas.

Matching outfits.

 Merry first Christmas sweet girl!

Christmas Eve at my mom's

 With Grandma Frisk.  I am so thankful that my kids have the opportunity to get to know my grandma.  They just love her!

 Uncle Jon and uncle Sara :)

Uncle Ben and Jaime (she hasn't quite embraced the "uncle" thing-yet :o) )

 Enjoying our 1+foot of snow

Gingerbread village.

I think I told them that I was going to eat the village.  Apparently it scared them!

Ellery with her preschool teachers for her Christmas program.

Here is my little sicko! 

In the hospital at Grand Forks.  She doesn't look too bad, but she just wouldn't keep her O2 saturations up.  Scary for mom!

All tired out!  And tired of trying to get that yucky tube out of her nose!

At the water park

In the hot tub-Caleb's favorite spot.  With papa.

 Fun on the big waterslide

 I know this picture is blurry, but it was so great that I had to share.  The joy in their faces-just out of the shoot from the big waterslide.  Ellery really bonded with Uncle Ben for the first time at this waterslide.  Good thing Uncle Ben is like a big kid-he was willing to go down the slide over and over again with her.

 Even Anissa was in the waterpark, but after we went to bed that night is when she really got sick :(

Daddy and his girls!

Even I got into a picture.  She begged me to put Anissa down and come down the slide with her.  It was cold, but really fun and I was glad that she begged me to go!

 See how much she loves her uncle!!

Ellery's Christmas party at dance.

Caleb's gingerbread house from school

That's enough updates for today.  Happy 2011!

Hello again,almost

I am sure that people are wondering where I have been...I took a hiatus and then my harddrive crashed.  So my intention was to post before Christmas and then again right after, but alas here we are in the new year.  I have a new harddrive and I have to get everything put back on it and then I will post.  Sorry for my absence.  Just busy with life and 3 cherubs.  Will update as soon as I can...

Anissa's baptism and others

Anissa was baptised this weekend.  The day was beautiful and we had almost all of our families present.  Afterwards, everyone came back to our house for a nice time there.  A big thank you to everyone.

Here we are with the newly baptised one.

Deacon Rich baptised both girls.  Ryan (my Godson and cousin) and Tonya (my sister at heart and bff) are Anissa's Godparents.

 

With grandma G and Papa.  Thanks for all of your help!!!

With Grammy

My whole family. 

Jaime and Ben, Caleb, my dad

Uncle Sara and Jon, Ellery, Tim, Me, Grandma G (mom) with Anissa

with my other Godchild, Tonya's daughter Aubrey

Uncle Ben and Jaime

Uncle Jon and Uncle Sara
(Caleb started calling her Uncle Sara when he was about 3 and the name stuck-thankfully she likes it!)

   Papa Bob

Auntie Janet

My Godfather (my uncle Dan), me, Anissa, my Godson and Anissa's Godfather-Ryan (who is Dan's son)

Love from great Grandma.

Apple Orchard 2010

This year, we couldn't go to the orchard we usually go to because it had too much hail damage.  We tried a new one-it was okay.  We did get some good apples and I made an apple torte and applesauce with them.

 Yummy apples.

 Silly boy!

 On the tractor-unfortunately we didn't get to actually go on a ride.

Anissa got to join in the fun too.

Ellery's tea party

 I had a small tea party for Ellery and 3 of her friends to celebrate her birthday.  The girls had so much fun playing with eachother! 

I made cupcakes and they had "lemonade tea"

Thats all for this post.  If you haven't been to the blog in a while, mom put a few posts up in september-check 'em out!