Blog-A-Day???

So after stalking another blog, I decided to adopt her challenge, and write a blog a day, every day, for a month! Yeah, since I haven't blogged regularly, this should be a piece of cake! Why did I have to pick a month with 31 days! Not really sure if anyone actually reads this thing, but oh well...here goes my first attempt at Blog-a-Day!

So we are now completely moved in and settled into the new apartment. Its been a CRAZY month!! The weekend before we moved, Tyler got a concussion at school, then got the stomach flu on top of it! The following weekend was moving weekend! And since Tyler is such an AMAZING share-er, he shared his sick with Decklan, and Decklan got sick. And since my kids are BOTH soooo wonderful at sharing, Decklan gave it to me, and I in turn gave it to Joel (guess they learn the 'sharing' naturally huh?!) I have to say, as far as sickness goes, I definitely got the worst of it! Sinus infection, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and the flu! (doc said it could have been H1N1!!) But alas, we are finally all well, and settling into a routine of apartment living!!!

Let's see...what else to 'catch up on'...well, my dad had foot surgery 2 weeks ago. They made 6 incisions, and shortened each toe (except his big toe). His 'plantar plate'??? was slipping. In laymans terms, the ball of his foot (the part you put most of your weight on when you stand on your toes), was slipping forward towards his toes, and making his toes stick straight up! PAINFUL!!!! Anyway, he is healing nicely, and trying not to get too much 'cabin fever'! He can put NO WEIGHT on his foot for 6 weeks! He has a little dolly/scooter/skateboard thingy that he uses to get around, well, he has crutches too, but he uses the dolly thing most of the time. Tyler LOVES riding on it when we go visit!

Mom also caught this wonderful sickness that my family is so great at sharing! And...you guessed it...she kinda gave it to dad too! So he is recovering from surgery, and dealing with some sort of cold/sinus thing! UGH! Other than taking care of dad, mom is doing ok.

Not much else to report today...But I'll have a new post tomorrow! (i hope!) :)

Family Picture Time!

Joel's parents came in town a couple of weeks ago, and while they were here, I really wanted to get some family pics! And definitely a 3-generation pic with Joel's dad, Joel, and the boys. So we headed over to JCP, Joels parents, my parents, and the 4 of us! We did black shirts and jeans, and the pics turned out great! I normally HATE pictures of myself, but these actually didnt turn out too bad!! Enjoy...

my FAVORITE!!!!

(just wish Joel would have closed his eyes!! LOL!!!)

Scrapbook Blogging?!

Well, I used to be an avid scrapbooker, until I got pregnant with Decklan...ok, a little before that! Life just got too crazy to have time to spend doing it! Those of you that are scrappers know it can take a loooong time, just to do one page! Well, since scrapping doesnt look like it will be happening anytime in the near future, I decided to try to replace at least the journaling part of scrapping, with blogging! I can always look back and refer to the blog when I do get time to scrap! So, this is my first attempt at 'blog scrapping'! LOL! I'm sure there's a more technical way to do it, but this is good for now!

I'm not even sure if anyone reads this blog, but that's ok, its still fun!!!

So lately we've been trying to teach Decklan to wave 'bye bye'. He gets it some of the time! He waves his entire arm, from his shoulder. His arm stays stiff and straight, but it goes up and down! Well, we've been having some struggles at nap time, and today was no exception. Let's just say he did NOT want to be in his crib today! But mommy won that battle! :) After his nap, I picked him up out of his crib and he looked at his crib, then looked at the middle of his room and started waving 'bye bye'! He didnt want to be in his room anymore, he wanted it to go 'bye bye'! When we came out of the room, he stopped waving! Sooo funny!!!

Here's a semi-recent pic of the two boys at church...