Ok, so I know that I do not write. Mostly it is because I am trying to catch my kids, or catch up on the housework, or sleep. I have felt the worst during this pregnancy than any other and it doesn't allow a lot of time to do blogs. Plus, I sometimes am a perfectionist and don't want to do something, unless I know I can contribute a lot of time to and make it exactly as I want it, but oh well.
I will write just for you Merilee!
Things have been going great for the baby despite the awful feelings I have had. He (we think maybe John Ross will be his name) was breech for awhile, but has turned around now. So once again, a textbook pregnancy is about to end in a couple of weeks.
I have tried not to get to anxious this last month, but I think that happens no matter what, so I am feeling like I need to go in a week (ha!).
Eryn is doing really great in school and still loves it. She is continuing to learn how to read and loves her teacher Mrs. Mendoza. I think any thoughts I ever had about homeschooling the kids, she has dispelled that thought (at least for her), because I think others would do a better job of teaching her. I think she would not be happy at home learning. She needs to be able to be social at the same time.
Rachel is excited about her brother coming and always asks about him. She loves to give him hugs and kisses all the time. She is also learning how to read and actually enjoys learning. I think she may become "the cutest nerd". She really does love to explore and learn.
Grant is still Grant! Boys really are a different breed from girls, but so much fun! I love watching him play and explore and grow. I am a little concerned for when little brother comes because I think that there may be some jealous feelings there, but I am sure we will make it through.
See....really boring around our household. Well....at least Danny can make things seem interesting and fun. Love ya babe!
Oh, and I would have to say that Danny would be the best superhero of all time. No explanation needed.....
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Once every other month posting...
Thanksgiving- It was good, a quiet Thanksgiving spent at Mom and Dads with Korynn and Bryan and Bo and Andrea. 3 pregnant women under the same roof and everyone lived. It was a super beautiful day, and Sharel and I sat in Mom and Dads back yard in their comfy Cabelas chairs and watched the kids play. I even fell asleep.
Things are going fairly well with us. We are almost done painting the living room, and have ordered carpet for the living and family rooms. Hopefully it will be put in before Christmas. After that we have laminate flooring we will put in the kitchen and dining room. We are quickly outgrowing this house and need to sell it and move into something bigger, hopefully we can do that in the next year, year and a half.
Eryn is doing awesome at school. Her teacher, Sister Mendoza from the 3rd ward, recently asked the kids how to cook a turkey and wrote down their responses. Eryn's "I love to cook with my Grandma so I add some salt and sugar and cook it in a rice cooker for 5 minutes."
Rachel, oh Rachel, where do I begin? She is definitely into learning. She has Eryn and Sharel show her how to write letters, and she is even trying to read. She loves punching me in the gut when I get home. She is also the sweetest little girl out there.
Grant is Grant, most assuredly a boy. He likes to rock out in his Batman pajamas or his Fireman pajamas. He picks up random things and turns them into guns, (I really had nothing to do with this, I think he learned it from Eryn playing cowboys and bad guys). He is throwing less tantrums, and his vocabulary is shooting up. Above all he tries to make is laugh when he knows he is in trouble. When that fails, and sometimes it doesn't, he still throws a tantrum. But we still love him.
Sharel is doing just fine with the pregnancy. Obviously things are a little more difficult for her as this has been her hardest pregnancy so far. We are getting excited and have not really settled on a name as of yet, or haven't even really thought of one to be honest. But we are getting excited, until we realize that we have not had a good nights sleep in almost six years and nothing is going to change for another couple of years, or decades.
I hope we are all caught up now, and I will try to get Sharel to post more often.
Things are going fairly well with us. We are almost done painting the living room, and have ordered carpet for the living and family rooms. Hopefully it will be put in before Christmas. After that we have laminate flooring we will put in the kitchen and dining room. We are quickly outgrowing this house and need to sell it and move into something bigger, hopefully we can do that in the next year, year and a half.
Eryn is doing awesome at school. Her teacher, Sister Mendoza from the 3rd ward, recently asked the kids how to cook a turkey and wrote down their responses. Eryn's "I love to cook with my Grandma so I add some salt and sugar and cook it in a rice cooker for 5 minutes."
Rachel, oh Rachel, where do I begin? She is definitely into learning. She has Eryn and Sharel show her how to write letters, and she is even trying to read. She loves punching me in the gut when I get home. She is also the sweetest little girl out there.
Grant is Grant, most assuredly a boy. He likes to rock out in his Batman pajamas or his Fireman pajamas. He picks up random things and turns them into guns, (I really had nothing to do with this, I think he learned it from Eryn playing cowboys and bad guys). He is throwing less tantrums, and his vocabulary is shooting up. Above all he tries to make is laugh when he knows he is in trouble. When that fails, and sometimes it doesn't, he still throws a tantrum. But we still love him.
Sharel is doing just fine with the pregnancy. Obviously things are a little more difficult for her as this has been her hardest pregnancy so far. We are getting excited and have not really settled on a name as of yet, or haven't even really thought of one to be honest. But we are getting excited, until we realize that we have not had a good nights sleep in almost six years and nothing is going to change for another couple of years, or decades.
I hope we are all caught up now, and I will try to get Sharel to post more often.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Here lieth a new post...
So, we haven't written in a while- so here is the update.
1. It's a boy!!!!
2. Sharel is mostly over her morning sickness.
3. I am the new Scoutmaster- (awesome for me.)
4. I still don't like Obama.
5. Neither do most of the people in our ward.
6. I still don't like McCain.
7. Neither do most of the people in our ward.
8. I am applying to graduate school. (fingers crossed)
9. We are happy.
There you go, a quick update- hopefully more detail will follow,
Peace - I'm out!
1. It's a boy!!!!
2. Sharel is mostly over her morning sickness.
3. I am the new Scoutmaster- (awesome for me.)
4. I still don't like Obama.
5. Neither do most of the people in our ward.
6. I still don't like McCain.
7. Neither do most of the people in our ward.
8. I am applying to graduate school. (fingers crossed)
9. We are happy.
There you go, a quick update- hopefully more detail will follow,
Peace - I'm out!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Wow, it has been too long since we have written, but I have felt the peer pressure (thanks alot Caryn!) and thought I should catch up.
The end of May Danny graduated (with honors I might add!) from Columbia College in Columbia, MO. He was able to take his classes online so that helped. We were going to get me started on school again this coming year, but we both felt impressed that he needed to keep going and get his master's out of the way. A lot more work, but it will be well worth it.
We are not moving as soon as I would have liked, but we are doing alright where we are (the whole bloom where you are stuck...I mean planted has had to come into play)
The big news is that I am pregnant again! We have felt "the push" for couple of months and of course all Danny and I have to do is look at eachother and we get pregnant. But, we make the cutest kids, so we figure we cannot stop. We would be doing the world a disservice by not having more.
This will be the longest break in-between kids, but we still may have two in diapers again...but Grant has actually initiated going to the potty by himself many times (and made pee-pee! His words....).
The end of May Danny graduated (with honors I might add!) from Columbia College in Columbia, MO. He was able to take his classes online so that helped. We were going to get me started on school again this coming year, but we both felt impressed that he needed to keep going and get his master's out of the way. A lot more work, but it will be well worth it.
We are not moving as soon as I would have liked, but we are doing alright where we are (the whole bloom where you are stuck...I mean planted has had to come into play)
The big news is that I am pregnant again! We have felt "the push" for couple of months and of course all Danny and I have to do is look at eachother and we get pregnant. But, we make the cutest kids, so we figure we cannot stop. We would be doing the world a disservice by not having more.
This will be the longest break in-between kids, but we still may have two in diapers again...but Grant has actually initiated going to the potty by himself many times (and made pee-pee! His words....).
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
There has been a huge outpouring of requests for a blog that will reveal my deepest thoughts on life. Well... not really, but Sharel and I decided that this blog will be for keeping friends and family updated on our day to day, or week to week happenings. For any interested in my deepest thoughts on life then feel free to click on this link where all your wildest dreams will come true.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Deep Thoughts by Danny
ok here are my musings
1. Energy- drill, drill, drill, drill, drill. Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. Refineries, refineries, refineries. Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.
Obviously we need to drill our own oil. Obviously we need to have nuclear power for electricity. Obviously we need to have more refineries. Why tax cuts? We need to strengthen the economy, to boost the value of the dollar, which will end some of the rampant speculation in the oil markets that are inflating the price of oil. Tax cuts are known as supply-side economics, or trickle down economics, or Reaganomics (Even though Reagan did not invent the idea, it was used long before Reagan.) Supply-side economics has worked everywhere it has been tried.
Here is what we don't need, and is frankly quite scary to me that sitting members of Congress are actually suggesting this- http://www.foxnews.com/urgent_queue/index.html#a54ef44,2008-06-18 and http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/leading-democrat-calls-for.html
67% of Americans support drilling, enough said. Congress, wake up. We can't get 67% of Americans to agree on anything.
Election: McCain=bad Obama= terrifyingly bad.
McCain tries to hard to be Mr. Nice Guy, that he going to help get Obama elected because he can't bring himself to say one negative thing about him. I wouldn't be suprised if McCain actually came out and endorsed Obama!
Obama= he is good at saying Hope! Change! but that is about it. I know most liberals, and some conserviatives think he is a mixture of Tom Jones, Al Gore, and the second coming, but in reality he is an absolute Marxist.
How can anyone with two brain cells to rub together actually beleive that Obama spent 20 years in the church, and does not share the same views. But, I guess we are all a little retarded in the eyes of politicians.
Typical interview with Obama:
Reporter googlie-eyed at speaking with the "chosen one": We love you, and now I am going to ask you a tough question, When you save us all with your magical powers, can you assure the american people that you will live forever?
Obama: HOPE! CHANGE!
Tough reporter who will soon be assasinated by fellow reporters: Can you explain to the american people how you can sit in a church for 20 years and not agree in some way with Rev. Wright?
Obama: duurrrr, uhhh, HOPE! CHANGE! derrrrrr...CHANGE! HOPE!
[at this point security removes reporter and whacks him for asking certain questions]
Obama: I want everyone to remember my message of HOPE! CHANGE!
Its true, every word, its true.
Come to think of it, Obama must have magical powers, in order to create the kind of buzz with such a lack of anything.
Musings end. Danny
1. Energy- drill, drill, drill, drill, drill. Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. Refineries, refineries, refineries. Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.
Obviously we need to drill our own oil. Obviously we need to have nuclear power for electricity. Obviously we need to have more refineries. Why tax cuts? We need to strengthen the economy, to boost the value of the dollar, which will end some of the rampant speculation in the oil markets that are inflating the price of oil. Tax cuts are known as supply-side economics, or trickle down economics, or Reaganomics (Even though Reagan did not invent the idea, it was used long before Reagan.) Supply-side economics has worked everywhere it has been tried.
Here is what we don't need, and is frankly quite scary to me that sitting members of Congress are actually suggesting this- http://www.foxnews.com/urgent_queue/index.html#a54ef44,2008-06-18 and http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/leading-democrat-calls-for.html
67% of Americans support drilling, enough said. Congress, wake up. We can't get 67% of Americans to agree on anything.
Election: McCain=bad Obama= terrifyingly bad.
McCain tries to hard to be Mr. Nice Guy, that he going to help get Obama elected because he can't bring himself to say one negative thing about him. I wouldn't be suprised if McCain actually came out and endorsed Obama!
Obama= he is good at saying Hope! Change! but that is about it. I know most liberals, and some conserviatives think he is a mixture of Tom Jones, Al Gore, and the second coming, but in reality he is an absolute Marxist.
How can anyone with two brain cells to rub together actually beleive that Obama spent 20 years in the church, and does not share the same views. But, I guess we are all a little retarded in the eyes of politicians.
Typical interview with Obama:
Reporter googlie-eyed at speaking with the "chosen one": We love you, and now I am going to ask you a tough question, When you save us all with your magical powers, can you assure the american people that you will live forever?
Obama: HOPE! CHANGE!
Tough reporter who will soon be assasinated by fellow reporters: Can you explain to the american people how you can sit in a church for 20 years and not agree in some way with Rev. Wright?
Obama: duurrrr, uhhh, HOPE! CHANGE! derrrrrr...CHANGE! HOPE!
[at this point security removes reporter and whacks him for asking certain questions]
Obama: I want everyone to remember my message of HOPE! CHANGE!
Its true, every word, its true.
Come to think of it, Obama must have magical powers, in order to create the kind of buzz with such a lack of anything.
Musings end. Danny
Well, what to do now...
Yes, we haven't written in a while, even though we are less busy. Just a little update about the going ons of our family. Sharel and I are finally fixing up the house. We painted the dining room and even went and bought laminate flooring for the kitchen and the dining room.
Of course, things still seem a little busy. Sharel is still with the Stake Primary, and I got put into the Young Men's. So I am gone once a week. Eryn started summer school a couple of weeks ago, and she loves every minute of it. Rachel is growing up as well, she is becoming very articulate. The other day I was talking to Rachel, and she told me she wishes she could turn into a boy, so she could be Grant. And then she said there would be two Grants, and wouldn't that be funny to see two Grants playing? Grant has had double ear infections the past couple of weeks, and has had to be on two different antibiotics because the first one did nothing. The Dr. suggested we see about getting tubes put into his ears. Grant has initiated potty training. The other day out of the blue he grabbed my hand, led me into the bathroom and pointed at the toilet. So I put him on, and lo and behold he peed! He was excited, and apparently had Sharel take him in a few more times throughout the day. Grant has also become a little daddy's boy. He latches on to me in the morning and when I get home, mimicing everything I do.
I apologize for not being clever like Spencer in my posts, but deal with it. Maybe I will post a few musings I have on the upcoming elections, gas prices, and guns. Peace- Danny.
Of course, things still seem a little busy. Sharel is still with the Stake Primary, and I got put into the Young Men's. So I am gone once a week. Eryn started summer school a couple of weeks ago, and she loves every minute of it. Rachel is growing up as well, she is becoming very articulate. The other day I was talking to Rachel, and she told me she wishes she could turn into a boy, so she could be Grant. And then she said there would be two Grants, and wouldn't that be funny to see two Grants playing? Grant has had double ear infections the past couple of weeks, and has had to be on two different antibiotics because the first one did nothing. The Dr. suggested we see about getting tubes put into his ears. Grant has initiated potty training. The other day out of the blue he grabbed my hand, led me into the bathroom and pointed at the toilet. So I put him on, and lo and behold he peed! He was excited, and apparently had Sharel take him in a few more times throughout the day. Grant has also become a little daddy's boy. He latches on to me in the morning and when I get home, mimicing everything I do.
I apologize for not being clever like Spencer in my posts, but deal with it. Maybe I will post a few musings I have on the upcoming elections, gas prices, and guns. Peace- Danny.
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