t-ball

warming up with dad did i really catch it? yea!!

sunday school picnic

kari & steve

we've had so much going on since may long....but here's where it starts:

our good friends and beautiful couple: kari & steve

more trouble

the latest troubling news....olivia has now figured out that she too can climb to the top bunk where amber sleeps. (i'm surprised it took this long!) and she also figured out that mommy and daddy don't really seem too happy when she jumps around on the top bunk....(i always said liv will be the one to turn my hair gray!) have you ever heard of those stories where parents accidentally lock their child in the car? i always wondered what kind of parents would do such a silly thing. well just so you all can stop wondering...it's us! john & dayle are those type of parents! last night after work we drove over to my mom and dad's. we all got out of the car and when i went to open liv's car door.....it was locked! i try my door...it was locked! john seeing the panicked look on my face tries the doors on the other side...both locked!!! oh no....poor liv....she's still in the car! it just so happens that the day before my little wriggle worm figured out a way to wriggle her way out of her seat belt and so i had just tightened it - securing her in her seat so she could not wriggle out of it! darn! i know it's safe now, but at this moment we really needed her to be able to free herself from the ever-so-tight car seat, since i had just realized that the one set of keys was in the ignition and the other (spare) set that you need in situations like this was in my jacket pocket which I had just happened to take off and leave in the car! now what? liv thought we were joking with her when we asked her to try and reach the lock or try to push her seat belt off....not a chance...she was secure! our last resort was to call someone to get this car open. thank goodness for wes! he came so quickly and after realizing that this car was also quite secure he did manage to open it for us...YAY liv is free!

here comes trouble

olivia has been so busy lately! she finds trouble every day. she is always trying something out. she has been so good with potty training. the day we started, she didn't have any accidents and has been keeping that up since. she was just ready for the switch. another big change for her is not having her "nana" - she loves it so much. we accidentally went to grandma & grandpa's in wpg without it and and stayed their for three nights without it. she was amazing. but she knew the "nana's" were at home, so we weren't sure how this would work when we finally went home. luckily i found all the nana's in the house before she did and she has had some hard times at home, but has been amazing. she is asking to "buy more nana's?" every day. here is one our last pictures with her best friend "nana". what a goof! last night i went out with the girls and this is what happened: that's my hair product all over her.....she was sitting in the bathroom closet applying it everywhere! needless to say her hair was very smooth after her bath! two nights earlier we caught her in bed painting her toenails with polish while we thought she was sound asleep!! what a little monkey!

the last weekend in march we had a mini vacation with the family. it was all about swimming and the waterslide for the girls at the ramada in fargo.

sipping on some pepsi at famous dave's. aaahh!

we're ready! is it time to go swimming yet?

c'mon.....pretty please??

mom, you're taking too long...we're leaving without you!

goofin around with uncle quinn......while dylan sleeps through it all

going down the slide with uncle shane

very patiently waiting for her next sip of daddy's gatorade

he's got our vote

easter bunny

no pictures...just stories! the easter bunny showed up. last night, amber left him a cookie and a picture she colored just for him...she didn't think it was fair that santa got cookies and not the easter bunny! what a sweetheart! amber was thrilled to find the trail of easter eggs but olivia was not impressed with these eggs on the floor. "NOT ON FLOOR!" she cried....oh boy... it think it is too early for the egg hunt. then we realized that olivia had a fever and that explains the odd behaviour...a bit...she is a little bit funny when it comes to having things in certain places...like her blankets! for anyone that knows her well enough, we know the blankets have to be just so! and sometimes a scrap of quilting fabric from either grandma will also be considered one of her special "blankies". anyway, amber found all the eggs for both of them because olivia wanted nothing to do with it. she didn't even want to see what the present was in the bottom of her easter basket. ...she must be sick!

curling

check out our great form....couldn't get any better than this!

here is the cripple form...."am i gonna get hurt?"

here is the prego jam pail form...go kim!

the hurt hockey player form...*crunch* goes jp's hand and last but not least; I actually know what I'm doing form...thank-goodness shane was our skip!

somehow we managed to win a game and tie a game...

looking pretty serious...

what fun! after all the "serious" curling was done the girls got to play too! turns out amber has some good strength; she could get it past the hog line! as soon as livie stepped on the ice it was all about sweeping; she was an excellent sweeper! my little curlers

our newbies

we finally have pictures to show!

isabella

odessa

isabella & odessa

we have more little bundles to love! we gained two nieces this time. isabella and odessa arrived on february 29!! leap year babies! and we have no pictures to show because they are still in ICU, but they are doing great! our little bundles weighed in at 2 lbs 11 oz and 3 lbs 1 oz....what tiny little girls! we can't wait to meet them!! with lots of prayers we hope they can come home soon!!

baby dylan

here is our little baby dylan a couple weeks old. olivia and amber love him to pieces. olivia especially is mesmerized by him...she won't let him out of her sight. what a sweetie!

HSM on ice

amber wasn't feeling too great when we got to HSM but once it got started she forgot all about that and had a blast! if you know the movie, the pictures are self-explanatory: