The great outdoors

Samantha has become quit the nature lover. She asks to go outside everyday. She will even go outside by herself. She usually comes inside with dirty hands and feet, but it doesn't seem to bother her.
She has discovered bugs and has no fear of them. The other day Luke came running in from outside yelling that Sammy was picking up bugs and sure enough she had some kind of beetle crawling on her hand. I am not a big fan of bugs, but I tried not to over react. On Tuesday Sammy was sitting in our family room looking at a children's friend when I heard her laughing her head off. I looked up to see what was going on and it looked like she was just playing with a black piece of paper. When I looked a little closer I saw that it was moving on her hand. It was an ear wig, gross!! I quickly got her to drop it and then I killed it. I don't know if earwigs are dangerous I just think they're really creepy. I don't think I squashed her curiosity with them from that one incident and I don't want to either. As long as their not dangerous I guess I shouldn't over react.

NEW BABY!!

Alan and I have a new Nephew, courtesy of Joe and Kristi. He was born yesterday at 2:09 in the afternoon. He weighed 8 lb 6 oz and was 20 1/2 " long. No name yet as far as I know. Baby and mom are doing great. Congrats Joe and Kristi!

A bucket full of baby

Crazy hair and cool kids

Not sure what Luke is doing with his hands. Maybe he joined a gang behind my back.

4 years old

Luke turned 4 on Sunday. Only one year left till school, yes! I'm just joking. Luke can be very trying sometimes, but he has many good qualities that out way the bad ones. It was a 2 day event. Since his birthday was on Sunday we took him out to Red Robin for lunch on Saturday. We asked him where he wanted to go and that's what he chose. We had the workers sing to him and he got a free sundae. We also let him open his birthday presents that night and had him call every one to thank them for the presents. On Sunday after church we had his birthday cake chocolate with orange frosting. I feel bad about the cake because I still wasn't feeling good and instead of some special cake it was just a sheet cake with a very poor frosting job I think the cookies and cream ice cream that I served with it was the saving grace, but Luke ate it any ways. Happy Birthday big guy. We love you.

Facebook friends

2 reasons why I didn't join facebook a long time ago were, I didn't want to let my blog slip and there were certain people I lost contact with that I didn't want to be found by. Both came true when I joined facebook. I'm doing better on the blog, but I currently have 12 friend requests on facebook that I'm not so sure what to do about. I know I can just hit ignore and I've done that for a couple of them, but them came back. You would think they would get the picture after I've ignored them twice. I really don't want to have to write a message explaining to them why I don't want to be friends with them on facebook or any where else.

Sea World

We bought season passes to Sea World this year. It's only about 10 min. from our house, so I can take the kids during the day when Alan is at work for a couple of hours or we can go on the weekend and not worry that we didn't spend very much time there. Here are some pics of the first time we went as a family. Luke and I went last new years eve with Rebecca and her kids.