Day at the Park

Went to a nice park not far from my parents house which is wonderful cause there isn't much close by! It was really hot so we didn't stay too long back home to SWIM!

Finally

I finally got the pictures from my brothers computer of our visit to Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. You can click on the pictures to get them larger! We had a lot of fun trying to get some good pictures.

Introducing Our Nephew, Blake Jefferson Walling
Born last night August 28,2007
7lbs 7 ounces and 20 inches.

Don't quote me on all the info but it is close! The kids were so excited, Madison loved every minute and Garrett when Diantha first held Blake didn't like that but as the last picture showed he was starting to warm up to him.
Blake is Dave's Brother, Brian's and wife Buffy's little boy. Mom and baby are doing great and look great too!

Annie

Annie is growing like crazy! She is literally a crazy dog! Full of the oh so common lab energy!

Checking in

I have had quite a few people ask if we are close to all the flooding, we are about an hour away! Thank goodness, I can only imagine what the residents of the towns in Northern Ohio and surrounding states are going through. On Sunday at church they put out a call for all volunteers to come and help clean up one of the towns, Finley Ohio, this town I believe the river crested 8 feet above where it should be! We are okay we did get our share of rain but not as much, it seemed the storms always stayed a little north, although there were times when it was raining and it seemed the streets were filling with water quickly.

On a good note, a much needed break in the heat, this morning when I woke up it was 60! Although this afternoon the high is going to be in the upper 80's. The humidity is down and it really felt good this morning, we got the lawn mowed which was long overdue and some weeds pulled, many more to go though. Well I have made this post long enough.

But what is a post without a picture. Garrett's new thing when he doesn't no where something is or how to do something is to lift both hands in the air just like you would if you were expressing, "I don't know!" So cute! Not s great picture, as soon as I took it he put down his hands!

The long long days!

The past week has been nothing but,

HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT
HUMID HUMID HUMID HUMID
STICKY STICKY STICKY STICKY
RAINY RAINY RAINY RAINY

We are getting a little tired of being so hot and irritable and the kids are tired of being inside, air quality = stinks!

The things we do love
ICE COLD WATER
Annie and Garrett love to play with ice cubes!
A COLD BATH AT NIGHT
SITTING UNDER THE FAN
POPSICLES!!!!!
SITTING IN THE HOUSE WITH THE LIGHTS OFF!

There is an end or so they say but I am not seeing it. As I sit her around midnight, too hot to sleep, the temperature still reads 81 degrees with humidity levels in the 90's! The schools are closing early and one school district has already used their extra days and school is 2 weeks in! The rec centers and pools are staying open later. You can even go to the fire stations and police stations!
I just needed to vent but tonight both kids are in our room asleep on the floor with the window unit and the door closed so hopefully the room will cool and I can sleep!
And too Janae and Doug I am sure the weather will be better when you get here!

Spur of the Moment

Before we headed home we spent the night in Chicago, Caitlyn(my sister, Heather's girl) came with us. We went by the Chicago Temple and even though it was raining we managed to snag some pretty good pictures. Although it was cut short because it was me verses 3!

Scrub a Dub Dub

3 kids in a tub and a very big tub it is!

Ashton, Madison and Garrett taking a bubble bath in Grandma and Grandpas jetted tub! Garrett was a little slippery and hard to hang on too but they all love it!

Summer Baby!

Garrett was fascinated by the slip and slide. and as he stood there his diaper migrated and I had to take a cute little picture! Reminds me of the baby on the sunscreen with the puppy pulling at the diaper. Madison would run down the slip and slide or she would crawl she went down one time and said it hurt her knees but all the cousins loved it and really got into it. But Garrett our little dare devil would just stand there with a perplexed look on his face!

Build A Bear

One of our favorite things to do is build a bear! This is the first time that Garrett got to build a bear, actually he built a monkey and Madison built a purple hippo. A lot of fun, the kids love it cause it is something they can do and have control over! We did this along with Ashton their cousin.

A quick UPDATE!

Finally an update! For all those that read......hope someone out there does! The kids and I have been up in Wisconsin at my parents house playing with the cousins, aunts and uncles and of course grandma and grandpa for the past 11 days! I will update later on hopefully today about all the happenings. some of the pictures may arrive later, they were on my brothers computer which went back to Idaho with him! Joseph get on that!
So while you are waiting everyone who reads this let me know! Post a comment, even if I don't know you post anyway! I know there are people out there reading who link from someone else!
Have a great day!

THE WORST PART OF GOING ON VACATION IS UNPACKING AND CLEANING THE CAR OUT!

Home from Surgery

We are home from surgery. Everything went great and Garrett was such a trooper. When the doctor completed the surgery he came out and talked to us and said that his adenoids were huge. Although not infected yet they were huge and he kept saying that. I know it is hard to read the captions under the pics but I think you can click on the pics to enlarge it. He looked so cute in his hospital attire. After they gave him some medicine to calm him down he started acting crazy he would try to jump on the bed and jump into my arms and try to flip over but he finally calmed down and started to lay down and actually close his eyes, The strange face on the bottom right if a result of the medicine, he would make faces and than smile and laugh. We came home and he went right to bed, I am loving it right now cause this is the most I think he has ever snuggled with me, he is just not a snuggler. He is in bed now and I should be getting to be too we are not sure what the night holds and Dave is at work til probably 2 or 3 in the morning. Today will be a new beginning we hope and after a couple rough days I hope we will be on the road to sleeping a lot better. Just wanted everyone to know he is doing great. On a side note when he did wake up in recovery and they brought him out we got one of his big smiles!