Christmas pictures!

We did our Christmas pictures yesterday! Thank you Uncle Coco for doing them for us. Larry left today for Canada so we only had a few days of him being here with Christmas decorations up. We got some good ones and some funny ones. Hunter wasn't the greatest with the photo op but Grace was a champ until she had enough or we were yelling to many instuctions at the kids. Nathan was a trooper too and we did it! I just ordered my Christmas cards last night at Costco and already have them in my hot little hands. I think they turned out pretty cute but I am biased since it is my family. I will try to post some pictures form the photo op extravagance soon but I updated my blog with some of them. Grace was the smiler of the two of our kids that is for sure. Hunter wasn't on his game and was more about where his Papa was. But can you blame him when he only saw him for 8 days?!

Here is the only good picture either I took or Larry did not sure but it came from our camera. It isn't the one on our card but I should have put it on it cause I think it is pretty cute and they both are so happy! I love their cheeks and their sparkly eyes!

Selling!

I finally got our house up on RMLS with pictures of it! Yes, we have had it on RMLS for over a week with out pictures of our house but not because I wanted it that way I just didn't know I had to post more on a different website. We are trying to sell it on our own to save money so we are using an internet company to help us and I have already learned that I gotta check out everything to make sure I didn't miss anything.

It is kinda wierd to know that people are actually looking at our house to buy it. No, no one has come by the house yet but just knowing that it is on the WWW is just crazy! I hope that it doesn't take forever to sell it we are giving ourselves 6 months and if it doesn't sell than it was meant to be and we will have to figure out what to do with Grace she might just be sharing a room with her bro.

Speaking of Grace...she has learned that it is SUPER cool to take toys and books of the shelf one at a time and throw them on the floor. Nice, huh?!

Hunter had a low grade fever tonight and had his first dose of Ibuprofen so not sure if this is the start of the sickness for him or not. Both kids have had snotty noses and coughs since last week.

Me, I am good. I am powering through. Working, cleaning, playing with the kids, and cleaning some more cause you know you gotta keep the place clean just in case you get a call that someone wants to look at your house! Only 3 more "sleeps" than Larry will be home! Yeah! I can't wait!

Tenting!

I love this picture of the two kiddos! I brought out Hunter's tent to have them play in since it was pouring cats and dogs outside and Grace loved it! I haven't brought out our IKEA tent (Hunter calls it the polar bear tent not sure if I told him that?) for about a month or so just to get Hunter more excited to play with it little did I know that both my monkey kids would have fun giggling in it and reading books. Aren't they just hams?! I think they look alot alike in this pic.

Grace standing in her crib!

Here is a video I took of Grace a couple of weeks ago when she went from an easy baby to but down to sleep to a very curious stander and not a sleeper. This wasn't the night she started this put I caught her on camera the next night. Not sure if you can tell but she thinks she is the bomb in the video cause she is a big stander. Enjoy the video and sorry I am talking in it but I was getting her to smile for you all! So please enjoy what I have to go through each night minus the sleep sack she currently uses which she can still stand up in mind you! I also got her to growl on camera too! She is such a hoot!

My kids!

These two just make me smile!

10 months old!

My baby girl is not a baby anymore! She is crawling closer to 1 years old! She loves to crawl all over and is done with the walker it makes her mad just getting in it. She loves to play with all of Hunter's toys and loves getting into everything she isn't supposed to and tries to get into everything every day. She loves to laugh and growl. She still only has two bottom teeth and loves her brother to pieces. She loves to eat and can eat forever! Time sure does fly especially when you are chasing two busy children! Happy 10 months old Grace Bell!

My Dragon and Ladybug!

Here are my kids in their Halloween costumes! Hunter was a dragon but technically it was a dinosaur but he called it Dragon Tails from the cartoon but I have never let him watch that so he must get it from Daycare cause I don't even know what it is. His costume is borrowed from a patient's kids at work and Grace is a ladybug my mother bought her costume! They were totally cute and Grace was too tired to be in hers so that is why she has her pacifer in but she kept the hat part on. Hunter didn't like the hat part cause it was to small.

On the Market!

Saturday we put our house one the market! It seems strange knowing that people might actually buy our house. I know I am way ahead of myself but still I have never sold something this big! This was our first house and we have done so much to it and it looks TONS better than it did when we bought it! If I have time this week I will try to show you all the before and after pics our family totally know what has gone into this house because they helped numerous days putting it together for us before Hunter was born. We painted every wall and put in new carpet and new hardwood floors and new hardware and lighting. I hope we can sell it and make someone happy to live in it like we have. We just gotta move cause Grace needs her own room and Misha needs a backyard to hang out in. We are selling our house on our own just for financial reasons it is spendy to have a realtor so we are going to try to do it on our own for 6 months and than go from there. We have no clue what we are doing but the doctor I work for her and her husband came over and helped us with what websites to use and what to do with our house and took pictures for us of it to help us out. I seriously think that God wants us to move forward with selling it because things just have been falling into place. We got sod for our backyard that was an unfinished project! Thanks Corey and Lindsey for that! It was Corey's bday present and he had to much and would you believe that it was just enough for us and a little left over! I have had so much help and advise from the people I work with about selling this house. I have a potential house offer in Canby on a house that is way to expensive for us but just maybe it will work! Not giving up on that but at least I have something to maybe try if we do sell this house. So here I am in a nice decluttered house just waiting to see if someone will buy it! We should have an RLMS number soon in about a week and than will see if we get calls until than I will just be a crazy cleaner and make sure my kids, cats, and dog are out when someone comes to look. The hard part of this is Lar is in Canada for work, Hunter hates the vaccum cleaner, Grace is all over the place so I have to clean around them and mop when they go to bed and vaccum when I put them in the car in the am, and coordinate where the animals go if someone calls. But you know it will be worth it ALL when this house is officially sold and hopefully it will be this year and before Grace turns 1! I will keep you all posted about it though!

Little guy needs are prayers!

So I have been "stalking" this one ladies blog for about a year and I say stalking cause I don't know her or where she lives I got her blog from reading someone elses blog and than another blog. Anywho! I love to read this ladies blog and she gets over +1000 readers a day and blogs about the coolest things that she does with her family and inspires me to cook, clean, and shop for my family. I get cool ideas from just reading her blog cause she is a mother of 4! Anywho again, her littlest guy, Stellan who turns 1 today or tomorrow not sure which, was born with SVT, which is a heart condition not sure all the info on it but basically his pulse gets in the 200's not good at all should be in the 60's! He is in a bad place right now with his heart and is fighting for his little life. So I am spreading the word that this little guy needs are thoughts and prayers! Here is the link to the mother's blog www.mycharmingkids.net which is also in my favorites with my other blogs I read if this link doesn't work it is located on the right hand side of my blog.

Alot going on!

Wow, it has been forever since I posted anything on my blog! One reason is I am confused with our new computer system since we got a new hard drive I am still trying/learning to work with the picture part of it and it exhausts me to remember how to make it work that I have slowed down in my picture taking department. The other reason I haven't taken many pics is cause Grace has been crawling all over the house! She is a super crawler and goes where she wants to go and follows you wherever you go if that is her mission. Hunter has been a computer nerd lately too. He loves this new computer learning game my mom got him since he has almost mastered Starfall, another computer game. We have to put him on a timer so he doesn't play to long on the computer. Hence, I can't get on the main computer cause he is on it. Also, Larry had been in Canada for his job for 2 weeks and is back and is going back to Canada again for I don't know how long. And this Saturday our house goes on the market! Anyone want to buy house? Let me know mine is really nice at least I think it is! So this week we are on a total decluttering mission to make the house nicer to sell. So most of my time is going to be spend chillin with the kids and cleaning out closets at the same time! I am pretty sure my little helpers will be right there by me "trying" to help when I open our closets and pantry doors. I hope I don't drop anything on their big ole heads. I also am getting over a sinus infection. I had a snotty nose for a week before Lar left and than it wasn't going away so after 2 weeks of snot and not sleeping well cause of my two eager beaver non-sleepers I wasn't getting any better and it turned into a sinus infection. Lovely. I am medicated now and hope to be fully ready by the time Lar leaves again. My lovely little ones have kept me hopping around the house it seems that it is a little harder to have two kids under your feet when you are trying to do housework instead of just one eager beaver. My Grace is all over and thinks if it looks cool to her she just has to get in it. She has already ate dog food, pushes herself up on her knees to look into the bathtub (she LOVES the bath and starts getting all excited when she here's the water running, can wake up from almost being asleep and being fully ready to start the rest of the day just by hearing Hunter laugh or talk. She loves that boy! She will giggle and get all excited if Hunter walks in the room. She will get into all of his toys and buries herself in all of Hunter's bins to play with his toys. Hunter is talking up a storm! He even tells me what to do and I love it when he says out of the blue "momma I love you!" precious let me tell you! Well I better jet I am typing this at work during my lunch break. Not sure when my next post will be cause the rest of the week is a busy one but I hope to put some pics up soon! I got alot of them! Take care!

Pumpkin Patch pics!

Here is our first official first family picture since Grace came!

I have so many so I want to make them into a slide show with Photobucket just haven't had a chance yet but here are just a couple of them.

See two teeth!

Grace's 9 month stat's!

Weight~17.8 At 6 months she was 15.4
Height~27.7 At 6 months she was 25.5 she grew 2 inches on us in 2 months!
Head Circ~17.2
My girl is growing leaps and bounds!

Here's Hunter's stats at 9 months, too.
Weight~22.4
Height~30.3
Head Cir~19.3

It looks like Hunter grew 2 inches and 2 lbs more at his 9 month check so Grace is just following suit. Maybe that means that she will be 2 inches smaller than Hunter but they still are going to be tall!

VerY BeHinD in PicTurEs!

Kids are both asleep so I am taking a rare moment to download pictures finally! We got new computers and the software confuses me so I think I have it somewhat figured out. So enjoy!

This is one of our home grown watermelon's! It was very yummy but wierd cause we have been eating seedless watermelon's from the store forever.Hunter LOVES are iphones! He plays Jirbo Match and DoodleBuddy. My phone is great when I am putting Grace down for her am nap cause than Hunter is nice and quiet like he is here. These two are buddies! Grace can pull all she wants on Misha and Misha will let her.
Porch time! We had some nice evenings a few weeks back before it started getting cold. The kids love to play on the porch especially Grace. I got to bring out my new computer, which is a Inspiron mini from Dell and do Facebook or respond to emails. It was a nice relaxful evening.


Park time! We went down the hill to a park and played with Misha and the kids. It was a pretty fun time until a drunk person came and was talking to us so we had to end our fun time.

Grace started to get to big for her crib that we had for her that fit perfectly in our room and was moved into Hunter's old crib. I loved that little crib! This is her in her old crib.

Than in her new big crib! I didn't realize how big Hunter's old crib was until we put it in our room and put Grace in it. She looks so tiny! Especially when she is sleeping in it.

Love this picture of the boys! Hunter is typing like Lar is on his keyboard. Love, love, love these boys!

That is it for now. I gotta download more pics cause these are all still from September!

2 teeth!

Grace has another bottom tooth it has finally broke through! That might explain why she woke up at 11:30pm last night screaming uncontrollably but I still think she was having bowel issues cause her and Hunter have been very constipated today and yesterday. I found her tooth when I gave her a Nilla, which she loves, and she proceeded to start screaming. Gotta love it when kids get teeth! Not only did she turn 9 months today but a tooth sprouted also! Gotta write it on her calendar!