Flooding 2011

 At the beginning.

 During the flooding.

 After.

 This is just east of the bridge pictured above. The sand wall they built didn't hold in the flooding at all.

 After the flooding. It washed away about 5 feet of road on the side.

 This was at the beginning of the flooding.

This is the same spot, but the banks caved in and the river flooded the pastures.

We talked to a nice guy who was watching the flooding who has lived here for the last 60 years. He said that this is the most excitement that this town has seen! Even the flooding of '83 and '84 didn't do this much damage.

Frog feet

How do you like my new shoes? Alexis thinks they make me look like I have frog feet!

They are super comfortable and really light which makes them great running shoes. I don't know if you can call what I do running, but maybe one day I can say I run.

Finishing swimming lessons

The kids finished their swimming lessons. Although none of them can float or swim, swimming lessons are over for the year. They all LOVED taking lesson and their teacher, Alyson. It was nice to have 40 minutes twice a week to only have one kid to entertain!

Jocelyn - 9 months already

My baby is getting so big!!

On March 23rd she started crawling, one day before she was eight months old!

She still has no teeth - which isn't surprising for our kids.

She LOVES to be outside and cries and cries until we take her out.

She loves to crawl around the house and find things she shouldn't be into, ie chalk, markers, barbies, etc.

She's our only brown eyed child, amazingly! My parents say that she looks just like I did as a baby - man was I cute! I think she looks just like the other two girls, she has darker coloring than they did though.

The kids love to hold her and play with her. When they do hold her she usually ends up crying, but the kids think it's cute when she cries so they don't mind, or so they say.

She's figured out that mamamama gets mom and dadadadada will get daddy! She likes to feed herself, can we say independent? She thinks that she can walk and she would take a step to start going and fall flat on  her face. She's quit trying to take steps while not holding onto something, but it's coming and I'm not ready.

Some days she's a great sleeper and you can just put her down and she'll asleep on her own, other days she screams and screams until we play the ant smasher game on the phone. The sound of the squishing bugs puts her to sleep within five minutes usually!

At her nine month appointment her stats were:

weight 16.25 pounds = 10%

length 27.5 in = 49%

head 17.2 in = 45%

In other words, she's tiny, not a surprise for us again.

Date night :-)

I put my phone in the middle pocket of this dress and it looks funky in this picture!

For our 7th anniversary John, Jocelyn and I went to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls. I had never done actual golfing, only miniature golfing and I discovered it is nothing like the real thing.

After golfing we went to Texas Roadhouse because neither of us had been there and we'd heard good things about it. John likes it, I was not impressed; I prefer Outback or Ruby River. 

To finish up we went for a nice walk along the Logan River Walk and went at our own pace - it was heavenly. 

Overall, we had a great date - our first one in a year, seriously - and we've decided to go on another date sooner rather than later. It helps that we found a babysitter that the kids LOVE and that we trust. The kids are already asking when they can have their babysitter back!

Bug Hunt

 How cute is this picture? Jocelyn was so happy to be outside and having fun; she's an outdoor baby already!

 Easter weekend we asked the kids if they wanted to go to an Easter Egg hunt or if they wanted to go to a bug hunt that was going on. They didn't take any time in deciding! They were so excited to go and find some cool bugs and boy did they ever find some cool ones. They had all sorts of bugs from spiders to grubs and flies and larva of different sorts.

 Madison was much more excited to eat the cookies that they had provided; she ate four of them!

Daddy helped find some of the bugs and hurt in finger in the process. He got a bunch of dead tree trunk rammed up inside of his fingernail. It took a good week for it to feel better.

One tooth down

We put the kids to bed on the 18th and Alexis came wandering out of her room an hour later to tell us that her tooth was really, really loose. She wanted to know if I could pull it out. I wasn't about to pull it out for her, if it hurt I would never have heard the end of it. I told her to twist it all the way around and see what happened. She got the tooth to pop out and she was so excited. Her new tooth is already starting to appear! The tooth fairy left her a lip gloss - just what she wanted. She was so excited that the tooth fairy knew exactly what she wanted without being told!! Way to go tooth fairy!