Super Girl

jessica wants to wear jacob's batman cape, so as soon as i put it on her she ran and got the "goggles" and put them on. this way she won't have to worry about the bugs getting in her eyes when she is flying faster than a speeding bullet. oh wait... that's super man. to help her spider like vision. oh wait.... thats spiderman. well, i'm suer she has some reason.
even super heros get hungry, tired, and cranky!

What I CAN

My neighbors, the corn ones, gave us a TON of green beans. this started the canning frenzy. below it the picture form the first day, then above was a few days later. what i don't have pics of is all of the applesauce, apple pie filling, and carrots that have also been done. WHEW! Mom and i have both been pretty busy! mom has also canned a bunch of pork. i'm not sure the total number but i think it is close to: 29 quarts green beans, 23 quarts tomatoes, 15 quarts pumpkin, 20 quarts applesauce, 52 quarts apple pie filling, 14 quarts carrots, and 7 quarts pork. of course mom and i are splitting this, so it feeds two armies! :)

hard work results in great dinners!

What's in a Name?

Jacob wrote his name all by himself for the first time and was very proud of it. He refuses to do it on paper, so i guess it must be more fun to do it on the magic erase thingie. not bad for a four year old who is still learning his letters. we didn't even have to tell him the order of the letters. he know how to spell it correctly without help!

Finally!

this is the first quilt i ever made. i made it while pregnant with Jacob. it has been sitting folded in my room ever since because it was going to cost me 100$ to get it quilted. this summer i broke down, spent my birthday money and had it done. and WOW! i LOVE it!

Corn have Ears?

The neighbors were kind enough to let us reap what the have sown. we went sweet corn picking! jacob loved it but poor jessica was too short and quickly tired of the tall stalks.

at leat she had fun chucking it! it took her so long to do one that she only got a total of three done while we were doing this. (out of 106)
Jacob was much faster at it and quickly found that his favorite part was the silk. he was also very interested to learn all of the parts of the the corn. the stalk, tassell, leaves, ears, silk, kernell, and cob. he thought it was funny they were called ears and i was waiting for the question "can they hear?" but it never came. he must be smarter than to think that corn can hear. :)

i have lots of organic sweet corn in the freezer now! yay!

baby jamie

so this is jamie in september:
yes, she has a lot of dark hair. yes it is all over the place. yes, it still sticks up like that when she is upright.

this is jamie in the begining of August. Yes she is still this cute!

Counting sheep

Jessica has a small world. This world is so small that the smallest things can effect it. the largest of these small things is her sheep. this sheep goes everywhere with her. She is unable to sleep without it and it always makes staying at a different home a little easier. she carries it around the house by the "scruff" of it's back. it actually has a permanent "holding" spot there now.

but for all that it is worth, we as her loving parrent turn the house upside down looking for this sheep every night, finding it in a closet, a shoe, stuffed in the couch, inside her purse, a cabinet, or just about anywhere it could fit, just to see this little girl gleam when it is handed to her and she is kissed goodnight.

only to start all over again leaving me with one final question: Where will i find the sheep today?

June

June was a busy month.... (this sounds familiar) Jessica got her "big girl bed" as Jamie needed the crib... we left the crib "broken" for a while, but jessica did just fine with her new bed. she loves it and won't get out of bed unless we tell her to.

Jamie got bigger, and cuter. AWWW... look at those eyes! and i just love to smooch her cheeks!

Jacob got a "davie crocket" hat from mom and dad when they went to canada... the tail is real so we have to keep it away from the cat, but the hat part is fake so jacob can play with it all he wants... and he loves it.

Jessica got into mommies garden, though she told me she didn't. she could not figgure out how i knew!

jessica found a new way to eat spagetti. this is one of her favorite dinners and i made it one night while we were at mom and dad's holding down the fort while they were in cananda.

YUMMY!

we thought it would be okay to give her ketchup with her fries... she sure showed us! she loves ketchup too... the fries are just a tool to get the ketchup to her mouth, and on her mouth, and nose, and eyes, and hair.

jamie got cuter. this was also taken while at mom and dad's. she was between 3-4 weeks old here. she had started to grin and i was desperatly trying to get a picture of it. everytime she saw the camera the grin would dissappear.

mom went without a toilet for a week while the bathroom was being redone. this is where the throne sat. i had a hard time holding it all day and was glad jessica was not yet potty trained and jacob was a boy! (he just went outside)

we got some chickens and i had to take care of them while mom was away. the kids got a kick out of unpacking them and holding them. everyday jessica reminded me to check on the chickens.

no, jessica is not killing the poor thing. she really is being gentle!

daddy was playing iwht the camera on the couch at mom and dads with the kids. i liked some of the playing around pics.

well, this is all for now. i have to make dinner and feed jamie. laundry is also calling my name!

TTFN!

MAY

May was a busy month for us... we went from a family of four to a family of five! Jamie came to the family on a tuesday afternoon and we were all very grateful that delivery went well, and that Jamie was a healthy baby girl! Jason and i had some trouble agreeing on her name, so at the last minute, literally, he told me the middle name was up to me to pick. (i think he felt bad for me.) so i chose Elizabeth. (this is what i wanted her first name to be) so now we are both happy with her name.


Jessica was intrigued with this new little person infinging upon her territory. she was always wondering what she was doing... sleeping? again? still? i had to put a step stool next to the bassonette so that she would not tip it over as she climbed up to see "Sheenan" Jacob contines to call her "Pretzel" from time to time.

we went with some family to a resturant that serves only breakfast. is was very good and all had a great time. Jacob thought he had to hold up the statue outside so that it would not fall on the other kids. either that or he was checking to see if the statue was a boy or a girl!

jessica learned how to ride a bike!

Busy Busy

i have a lot to blog about .... things like, Jamie, and the fact that i am no longer working. Yup i'm an at home mom now. love it. but the self gratification is no there. ya know, kids don't usually say "WOW great lunch mommy! thanks for hitting all the food groups! and by the way the house looks so much better than it did when you worked! Keep up the good work!" but oh well, i know in my heart it is all for the best! bettergo, naptime is over and i have to start dinner.
more later followed by some pics.

At mom and Dad's

since i am at mom and dads this week and next, i don't think i will be albe to blog much since i don't have my pictures and my computer. but you could keep up with what i am doing on my facebook! yup, i joined the facebook cult! so look me up and if i REALLY like you i may just add you as a friend.

:) TTFN

February

we got enough snow and the weather was nice enough that the kids could go outside and sled.

Jacob was a good big brother and went down with Jessica the fist few times until she was okay to go down by herself.

the rest of the month brought more work and no play. we were all starting to look forward to delivery day in May and some much needed time off.

this is all i can Blog today, but hopefully i can catch everyone up to date before the end of the year! (ha ha)

January

we spent new yaers at mom and dads and the kids had a blast. they were not able to stay up untill midnight, but we were there untill about 2:30am! that is saying a lot for someone who was sick from baby!

the rest of the month flew by, and somewhere in the middle i started to feel better. by the end of the month i was not throwing up any more. Work went by fast and the kids grew without me really knowing it.

The Rest of December

Mommy, Jacob and Jessica trimmed the tree: Jacob is becoming a pro at this, though it was Jessica's first year.

then Jacob and Jessica had a short break for a Daddy back ride.

All of the stockings were hung by the ... TV with care? These are the stockings i made last year, and yes i made extras incase of family add ons... good thing too!

we put out the milk and cookies for Santa. Jacob was very worried that teddy (the cat) was going to dring all of santa's milk.

Jessica got her first my little pony and seemed to like it's nose.

Jacob got a sword from santa, something he had been asking for all year.

that night we got all dolled up, went to nanna's and went to Christmas eve service. when we got back to Nanna dn poppas we did the gift thing again and went to bed. the next morning we went to Grandma and Granpas and did the final round of gift opening. the kids had a blast and Jessica got really good at opening gifts by the time we were done.

this concluded Christmas and December :)

December- tree shopping

I was good about taking pictures this month, the lighting was not so good in a lot of the pictures. Oh well, i tried!

we went to our local tree farm to do the good-ol' tradition of picking out the perfect tree. the kids got sleigh rides.

and Jason and i took hardly any time to find our tree this year. Usually this is a long and painfull process. I was not feeling too bad, but didn't want to be there too long to see what breakfast looked like in the snow after you had eaten it!

this is the tree that jacob wanted. he was very dissapointed to find we woudl have to wait several years before we could take it home.

jessica joined in on the snowball fight. I think she ate more than she threw!
jason tied the tree on the top and jacob was fasinated that it would not fall off on the way home.
the next week we went woth jen and ryan to see"the lights" the rotary club in the area put on quite the show every year for those that want to enjoy the festivities and we have made it somewhat of a tradition to go every year.

while we were there we were followed by some homless people that were asking for a hand-out. we gave them some spare change and took their picture. ha ha... it's just danny and his girlfriend andria. (sorry if i spelled your name wrong AGAIN)

this is all i can do for now, more catching up later!

November

November was full of fun. Jaob had his 4th birthday party, and Jacob got a wagon as his big gift from mommy and daddy. to his demise he found this wagon was to be shared beween all of the kids. :)

but he got lots of other toys that were all his so the party turned out to be a success as far as he was concerned.

we had our first measurable snow and daddy and Jacob built a snowman while Jessica and mommy staed warm in the house. (mommy was still throwing up at this point in the pregnancy)

We also has thanksgiving twice during this month, one at nanna and poppa's and once at grandma adn grandpa's. The most eventful thing this holiday was that jacob was roughhousing iwth his cousins and smacked his two front teeth VERY hard on the end of a metal bedframe. He came out with one tooth chipped in half and was concerned because he had swallowed the other half,