Jakers!!

Appearantly Jacob like the Beastie Boys! Every time this song comes on he gets his groove on. Too cute. Here are 2 short clips of him. Sorry the second one is sideways. I have no clue how to fix that!

Loud Lydia!

Here's my first attempt at putting a video from my camera on here. Hope it works! This is Lydia last night "talking" to Rick and I. We (esp. Rick!) sound like idiots, but she sounds adorable. She IS adorable, isn't she?

Basment is almost done. We get the carpet on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so stinkin' excited I can't stand it. I will post before and after pictures once I get it organized the way I want it. :-) We also found out that thanks to the wind storm in September we are getting a new roof. They start on the roof tomorrow!! So the noise from the basement is gone (all they are doing now is painting) and now I get the noise from the roof. I keep telling myself that by Tuesday it will all be done. Next week should be a fun and crazy one with the finishing of the basement, then we are having the Wilson's over for Thanksgiving (NO I am NOT cooking a turkey - Rick's Mom is), and then Saturday is JT's first bday party here at the house. Madness, but so much fun!

Halloween/New pictures

Halloween was tons of fun this year. We had our friends over with their boys and all but one was a character from Star Wars. We had Princess Leia, Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vadar, and Scooby Doo! At first Jacob was not at all interested in going up to people and getting candy. But then someone was sitting outside with a dog and he was hooked. He walked up to see the Dog and got candy! After that there was no stopping my Yoda. We all came back to our house and hung out and let the kids run wild. You would think Jacob would have been so tired that he would sleep all night. Yeah right. He was up 3 times that night! UGH! But it was all worth it and tons of fun. Here are some pics. I didn't get a good group shot or a good one of Lydia. I'm not so great at picture taking these days!

Lydia after her bath - I cannot get a picture of her smiling!

Jacob and his latest obsession - lining up all of his cars in perfect order! I am so proud that Jakers may have inherited my OCD tendencies! :-)

ok......I QUIT!

Most days I enjoy being home with the kids. I know many Moms would love to be able to stay home and I do count my blessings that I am able to do so. Today is NOT one of those days. I want to walk away and quit this job! I started my period (TMI I know, but whatever) so that just adds to my bad mood. Jacob and I both are starting with colds so we have snot and crankiness. By 1:00 I had changed 5 poopy diapers, cleaned up cat puke, used almost a whole box of tissues, and asked my contractor to "please get rid of the dead chipmunk in my garage". Yep, I think Rick ran over Alvin the Chipmunk. I was simply going to throw away a bag of garbage and there he was. Yuk, gross! The basement is coming along great and will be so awesome when it is done. Most days I can tune out the noise, but today on top of whiny kids I just want SILENCE!!! I know, life could be a million times worse. I know this more than most people. But today I am just not in any mood for anything. I think Mom's deserve 2 weeks vacation/sick days.