Yeah!!!!!!

Congrat's Dad M.!!!!!!! Free at last, free at last!!!! Oh, and happy birthday too!! For those of you that don't know my Father in Law celebrated his Birthday and his retirement over the weekend! I hope you and Mom enjoy every minute!! You guy's are the best in-law's a gal could ask for and I love you both!!!

And now a couple pic's from last weekend!!! Dylan is looking more and more like his Dad every day isn't he? (for you over paranoid people out there, the beer was empty!!) Darn cute picture though!!

Anyway, Dylan is down unusually early tonight so I think I am going to take advantage of it and go soak in the tub with a good book. Good week to all!

Busy weekend!!!

Well, I guess it's time to update!!! I have waited to have something like this for so long and then I don't update!!! Maybe I just have a boring life???...... Who knows! Anyway, here it is.....

We had a busy weekend last weekend. Friday we went to some friends house for dinner. They have a son 3 months younger than Dylan and they have a blast together!!! Saturday was a cookout at Rick (GQ) and Theresa's. Matt and Dylan were in the kiddy pool for close to 2 hours!! I swear my child is half fish. That is until you try and put him in a big pool and then he freak's out!!!! Must be an age thing, the previously mentioned friend's son is the same way!!!

Sunday was great, we had Father's Day here!! We had 20ish people here. I have to say a huge thank you to Lida for doing all the grilling!!! I owe her bigtime, as soon as the food went on the monsoon hit!!! I tried to send her in the house but she said she was enjoying her one person wet t-shirt contest!!! The girl crack's me up!!!!

So picture this......... All the food is done..... It's all spread out on the table (and what a spread it was!!) Everyone gets their plates..... And what happens????? Yep, the power goes out!!!! Gotta keep things interesting around here!!! Hahahahaha!!! Ohwell, it got me out of work on Monday. The power didn't come back on till 5am the next morning. When I woke up I had dirty dishes up to my armpit's and no water!!!! (easily fixed... Just plug the well in... Who knew???)

Anyway, I'm going to go now!!! There is another monsoon on the way!! It's thundering and lightning and now you know our luck with power!!!!! I promise to try and update more frequently. Key word being T-R-Y!!!

Celeste and Miranda

Somehow this picture got lost on that last post!!! I wanted to share it!!! I love it!!! The girl's are bonding already!!

I had a whole great story of our weekend typed out, but somehow when I tried inserting the pictures (which I can NEVER get in the proper spot!!!) I lost it all!!! Now I'm just tired and crabby!!! So I will say.... It was a great weekend!! Finally got to meet Miranda!!! I love her!!
Matt came and stayed the night Saturday. The kid's had fun, they went swimming at the neighbors while I did the yard work and we went to the park on Sunday!!! Matt was very grumpy on Sunday when it was time to go home he kept saying "but I want to eat here Mom!".
I don't blame him!!! Grandma and Grandpa came over and brought dinner!! Doesn't take kid's long to catch on to the good cook's!! Anyway, here are some pic's from the weekend!! I will post more later when I have more patients!! (did I spell that the right way?)

Quick Post

Very sleepy tonight!! Got off of work early today, we had Celeste's 5th grade graduation. I cant believe she's going to be in middle school! Geez, she was only 1 1/2 when Jim and I started dating! I guess time flies when your having fun!! Anyway, here is my most recent favorite picture of Dylan... It's true what they say.... A picture is worth a thousand words!! And this one says it quite clearly!!

Here's some pic's

Here are some pic's from our trip to Paradise. I say jaunt because that's what it felt like! Why does it seem like time flies when your up there and why is it when you get up there you don't want to come home?? I can totally understand why the whole family has either purchased or built up there! It's so peaceful! We had a great time! The teardown on the old place is coming along but it sounds like it's moving at yooper pace!! It' s going to look completely different once it's gone.

Dylan got his first shiner today at school! Poor little guy. He's the big meanie at school but it seems like he's the one always coming home with the bumps and bruises. On the subject of meanie.... Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get your toddler to stop biting??!! I have tried everything short of pulling his teeth!!!! I have tried biting him back (made me feel like a terrible mom) soap (he loved it and asked for more, cant get him to stop eating the soap in the bathtub) timeouts (yeah right) and spankings (he hit's me back)!! I am about to give up! Even the pediatrician couldn't offer any advice!!! He told me it was a phase! Phase- shmase!! It's been almost 6 months!!! I will take any suggestions!





TIMBERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Daddy and Dylan were sleepy after their visit to the bears.



My handsome boys!!



Cheese!!!!



Jim, Me, Greg and Jennifer at the fall's (they loved them)


Jessica, Dylan and Celeste trying to keep dry! Hahahaha!!

What a great day!

First and foremost...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY HONEY!!!!! I hope you have had a great one so far!! We have had a great time so far up north! The weather has been perfect. Mid 70's and not a cloud in the sky! Jennifer, Greg & Jess love the place and we are all very bummed we have to go home tomorrow. =-( After 4 years of coming up here and Jim promising he finally took me to see the bears!! It was great!! I will defiantly go back. The only bummer is you cant touch the cubs anymore. That's O.k. We just got back from going to the fall's. Greg and Jennifer had not been there before. After Jim and Dylan get done with a little nap were going to grill up some din-din and then maybe take them up to whitefish point. Of course we will have to go to town too and get Jim some birthday ice cream!!! Busy, busy, busy!!!!!!

The Countdown

29 minutes and counting........... Till I get out of work and head to Paradise!!!! We are going for the weekend with our friends Greg and Jennifer and their daughter Jessica. It should be fun, they haven't been that far up north before so we will probably do alot of sight seeing. Hopefully the weather will cooperate!! I think it's supposed to be in the 70's so that's not bad. I think we should all get together and plan a party weekend up north! We were talking about it a couple years ago but it never happened!! So let me know what you think! Oh yeah!!! I just burned up 4 more minutes!!