Life with the Lambs

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A few weeks ago, Tanner, Katie and I decided to go see my Grandpa's grave site. It was hard for me, but I am glad that I went! His headstone is just what he would have picked out. The last time I was at the cemetery was for the funeral and it was freezing. So I knew kind of where it was, but not exactly. So the kids and I started walking. I knew it was by a tree and I thought it was fairly close to the road. So I stopped at the tree and was kind of talking to myself saying that I couldn't find it and I didn't think it was farther than this. When Tanner said, "It was farther, Mom!" I couldn't believe that he could remember that. We were in and out of there so fast after the funeral that even my parents had a hard time finding it. Kids amaze me! Once we found it, we cleaned it off a bit from the grass clippings and I had a nice little cry while I talked with the kids. I still can't believe that he's gone! I miss him so much!

My Great-Grandparents grave is right next to him.

Katie and Tanner by Grandpa's headstone

Grandpa's headstone...I think it's beautiful!

Florida!!!!

At the end of April, we went to Florida with our best buds, Brian and Kim for a week! We had such a great time! We went to Kennedy Space Center, Clearwater, Cocoa Beach, Sea World and Busch Gardens! We also played some games and watched the Jazz lose to the Lakers!! UHG! :( We love having such good friends that we both love to hang out with! It was a lot of fun and we can't wait to do something like that again!!!!

Jordan and Brian at the Space Center. Brian apparently is representing "Westside"

Kim and I (If you click on the picture you can see that the space shuttle is on the launchpad behind us!)

Kim and I at the Vehicle Assembly Building

Brian and Jordan

Brian showing off his "Right Stuff"

When we went to Tampa, we decided to go see where the Buccaneers play. That happened to be right next to the Yankees practice facility. We saw a line of people there and thought that was weird. Then we saw Alex Rodriguez. Brian pulled off the side of the road and we ran out to get a picture. This is all Jordan got, but on Kim's blog she has a better picture! Just click on her name to the right and look at her Florida post!

Dolphins on our boat tour in Clearwater

More dolphins

Jordan and I on the boat

All of us on the boat with our nice windblown hair! I look like I don't have any hair!

Kim and I on the beach. I have pictures of the guys on the beach in their speedo's, but I promised not to post them! Trust me...they are hilarious!! I love those two!

the next few pictures are what happens when you try to take a picture of 4 people while holding the camera out in front of you! When I saw these I laughed SO hard!

Notice Brian's mischievous face...he's up to something!

Oh! He's taking a picture looking down! Nice one, Bri!

Kim and I checking out Brian's camera work.

Finally someone offered to take a picture for us...it turned out a lot better than the other ones!

I love the sunset on the beach!

Kim and I feeding and petting the Dolphins at Sea World

Jordan feeding the Dolphins

Hill AFB, Easter and Tanner's school field trip to the zoo!

OK, so I am WAYYYY behind on my blogging! I am going to just post a bunch of pictures so I can catch up...I hope!! Wish me luck! We just got back from a 9 day vacation to Disneyland with my family so hopefully I can get those pics posted soon. We had a ton of fun even though the weather wasn't the greatest for suntanning!

Tanner's School Field Trip to the Zoo

Tanner and I in the bus on the way home!

My cute group of boys after hiking up a big hill...

and then they all passed out from exhaustion!! :) Not really!! They were just faking it!

Riding on the Rhino statue!

Easter

Madison, Owen, Tanner, Katie and Beckham at Grandma and Grandpa Mickelson's house after opening some gifts and having an Easter egg hunt for candy!

In their nice Easter clothes before church! I think they look great!

Katie dying eggs at Grammy Lammy's

Madison, Grammy Lammy, Amy and Tanner dying eggs

Cute Owen during our first egg hunt of the weekend (the picture order is messed up and I don't want to take the time to fix it!)

The kids...Kylie did NOT want to be in the picture. Can you tell??

Hunting in the backyard

How many people does it take to find the last egg bubble gum???

Hill Air Force Base

Katie in the pilot seat

Tanner

Madison

In front of a really cool fighter jet!

Next to the wheel of a huge plane!

I have no idea what kind of plane this is...my dad will probably disown me for that since he is a plane junkie!!!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Kate's 3rd Birthday

At the end of February, we celebrated Katelyn's 3rd Birthday. I feel so blessed to have this little one in our home. We had a miscarriage the year prior to her birth, and it was hard on us. I had never had any problems with my pregnancies or getting pregnant so it was a shock. But the best thing that we got out of it was realizing how miraculous it is when these precious little one come to us from our Heavenly Father. A few weeks before I was due, I was taking Madison to the bus stop and got out of the car to talk to a friend and tripped on a rope that was tying down a tree. I fell flat on my stomach. It scared me to death. We had recently had someone in our ward fall down the stairs when she was pregnant and the baby almost died. I'm sure that made my fears worse. I did make Jordan come home from work and give me a blessing before we went to the doctor. Everything ended up being great!

Katie was born a few weeks later, she was healthy and such a good baby. She had jaundice, so they had us watching her and bringing her in for blood tests when we got home from the hospital. Also, the day she came home, Jordan went to play basketball and dislocated his knee-cap and tore some ligaments. Then Katie ended up being admitted to Primary Children's for her jaundice. The first few weeks of her life she was poked and prodded a lot. (I know that it could have been worse, but this was the worst I had ever had it after having a baby. It was tough for me!) When she was a few weeks old, I was holding her and she started having what seemed like little seizures. A doctor visit and a CT scan later, we found out all was well. Thank heaven.

After that, everything started to be normal. She was a great baby. Slept through the night at around 6 weeks, thanks to thumb sucking!! (Which we are done with now!!! ) She is such a cute little girl and I love just to sit and listen to her talk. She has a fun sense of humor and is always cracking us up! I think that's why my Grandpa would always say that she is the apple of his eye! I just love this little girl and know how lucky I am to be her mom!

Opening gifts

She loves clothes! She always remembers that she got this shirt from Beckham!

Here is Beck with the bow on his head!!

More clothes! And look at all those presents!

Katie and my Aunt Heidi share a birthday, so we always have a double party. Lucky Heidi gets to have Dora, Princess and Winnie the Pooh cakes!!

Cash register from Grandma

Play food for her playhouse!

Monday, May 04, 2009

Asheville

On Valentine's Day weekend (yes, I know that was a LONG time ago!), Jordan and I went to North Carolina to attend his brother Mike's wedding. It was beautiful! We left the kids at home with my parents and took off with Rick, Sharon and Becca! We had such a great time. Jordan and I took one day to go hiking and driving through the blue ridge and smoky mountains to Tennessee. It was nice to spend time together even if it was just driving around. The wedding was at the Biltmore Estate which was built by the Vanderbilt's in the early 1900's. We were able to tour the house, which was huge! We played games and just hung out with Jordan's family. It was a great trip!! I wish I could go back in the Spring or Summer and see how beautiful it would be when there are leaves on the trees!