Watch Your Mouth...

The boys are busy being cuties lately, so I thought it would be a good time to update.

Patrick is crawling now.  Not only is he crawling, but he is obsessed with crawling.  He is loving being able to get around and reach toys and even loves crawling around his crib.

He learned his first sign last month.  Of course, it's the "milk" sign, and he uses it a LOT.  He's gotten a lot taller and is eating us out of house and home.  All his footie jammies are too short for him now.

Jackson has really gotten into this talking thing and is constantly practicing and copying everything we say.  We really have to be careful lately...apparently I say the word "crap" a lot...

Last week while sitting on the potty (and doing nothing for the billionth time) he told Alex that he was going to "pee-pee in his brown eyes".  Wow...I don't know where he got that from, but Alex probably deserved it.

He started back to Mother's Day Out this week (Hallelujah!) and he is doing really well.  He's happy to go and doesn't seem anxious or upset at all.  It's awesome!

Be back soon to talk about our new 'puter (Alex's new love) and maybe a little about our new diet.

7 years ago...

This is a picture of Alex and me at the butterfly release on our wedding day.  Seven years ago today...

A lot has changed since that day.  We have a lot more stuff, a lot more responsibility and even more love.  When I look back at the pictures (terrible...our photographer sucked) I realize how fast the years have gone by.  Here's a picture with even worse quality.

This is from our first prom.  I guess it would have been in 1997.  Look how cute we were!

We have grown so much since then.  Fortunately, we grew and changed together and we have never been stronger.  We make each other better people.  We have beautiful children.  We make each other laugh.  My husband is patient, witty, brilliant, handy and hilarious.  He is a wonderful father, provider and friend.

Happy Anniversary!

Sorry for the gooey post...I'll be back with embarrassing toddler stories soon.

Delayed Update

It's been a while since we wrote to the blog.  Our computer took a permanent trip to the farm last week.  It slowly started resetting more and more often until it was too much of a pain to use.

So, we got a new family member.  Here's the pic:

She's pretty.

I also got a new lawnmower.  It's a 2003 Troybuilt, to replace my 1997 Scotts with a bad transmission.  The Troybuilt has a seized engine, so I swapped the engines.  This was a little bit of a mess since the engines weren't the same.  It's running again, but I don't have a muffler.

I also swapped television cable, telephone, and internet providers.  I had the same companies for 6 years, and they were really taking it to me.  We now have better everything for less money.  I like DirecTV, and all their HD channels.

Another new thing is that we started a budget.  I'm not the best at having a budget, but the little lady likes to have one.  I don't need a budget to help me spend money, but presumably, Lettie does.  As long as this doesn't hinder my lifestyle, I'll give it a try.

And lastly, we've changed our eating habits.  This originated from the chickens, but what we eat has been a focus lately.  One example of our change is, no more high fructose corn syrup.  Almost everything on the shelves has corn syrup for no reason other than to rot our teeth and make us obese.  I don't think the switch has been a big deal, but Lettie should tell us more details sometime later.

I think you are mostly caught up, except for the hypermiling challenge results.  I would talk about that, but the dog is in here with me and she has gas.  I need to go.  Spoiler alert, I didn't win.