Sunday, August 22, 2010

My girls...

The girls say the funniest things sometimes. Recently conversations:

Mom: "Please do _________."
Maeve: "No, today I am going to choose the wrong."

Okay.

Mom: "Why are you eating yogurt with a grapefruit spoon?"
Adelle: "Because we didn't have any grapefruit."

Okay.

(Though I do remember a fascination with Dad's grapefruit spoons growing up (I found matching ones at a garage sale a few years back). Maybe it was just the risk of possibly cutting the crap out of your mouth. I don't know. )

Monday, August 9, 2010

3000 miles + 4 kids = insanity

Just returned from a family reunion to Utah with a quick trip to Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Joel drove out with us but headed to California to work while we toured the parks with my mom, sisters, and our kiddos, all 12 of them. Unfortunately/Fortunately Joel got an additional job in Utah after his job in Cali so we had to head back to Kansas without him so Adelle could start school (dang public school starting the beginning of August!?). I took tons of pictures but left the camera in Utah with Joel so the photos will have to wait. Thanks Katie and Jim for hosting us! We had a great time.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Roman Lawrence




This should explain the 9 month absence on this blog.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Halloween

We had to bribe the kids with pretzels to get them to sit for this photo. Promptly after the photo was taken Maeve vomited all over her frog costume. It was pretty sweet. I guess that explains why she wouldn't smile for any photos.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Happy Birthday Joel!!!

Joel celebrated his 29th birthday again. We got to celebrate with him before the big day because he went back to California the night before his birthday. He got to celebrate the actual day by going to Disneyland for free. We are jealous. This photo was taken in December 2005. It is one of those photos that when our kids see it they are going to say, "What were you guys thinking!?" I thought it might give you a good laugh.

Happy Birthday Jude!!!




Here are photos from the joint birthday party for my boys. We have gotten smarter by the third kid and just bought him what he really wanted for his birthday instead of some fancy toy to make us feel like good parents. We got him a clean broom and a clean fly swatter. The two things he loves to play with at Grandma and Grandpa's. He loved them! The real question is can you tell what the cake is suppose to be? I am not the cake decorator of the family but I tried.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Douglas County Aids Project

I haven't posted in awhile because we have been settling into a new routine. I got another job and after two weeks of doing both jobs I quit the cleaning business, hopefully for good! I was hired part time at the Douglas County Aids Project. I am working as a social worker doing case management for about 22 clients infected with HIV. I was hired on a grant position that goes through next July so we will be here until then. It has been very interesting work. I have learned a lot about AIDS in the last few weeks and am very glad that I don't participate in any of the high risk behaviors. It is good to be back doing case management, which is where I did my internship in college, before I worked in the school districts. It is a very small non-profit agency so that is fun and challenging. There are only 6 employees, I think only 3 are full-time. I work two days a week normally but this week I worked full time which was exhausting considering I was up most of the nights all week with Jude who has had the flu all week. Luckily I flew Joel in to provide child care (the airplane ticket was the exact same price as what I would have paid for five days of child care) so he took care of our sick baby all week during the day. Adelle got the bug last night and will be home from school tomorrow. Hopefully by the time Joel leaves Wednesday night everyone will be healthy again.