Feathers and funny faces...

I want to take a moment to thank all those who serve our country... who have served our country and especially those who have sacrificed their lives for our country.

We spent the day yesterday at the lake, feeding ducks, collecting feathers and just running around! Every time I say "cheese" the kids give me the goofiest looks...

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend! We are enjoying pure laziness!!!

Having a bad hair day...

Daniel brought Naomi into my bathroom and said (with a big smile on his face, because I think he actually thought this was hilarious...) "Um, Mom... we have a little problem." Naomi repeated "Yeah, problem."

This is after we have unwound it a bit... this truck was all the way wound to her head... tight!

I thought I would have to cut her hair off for sure...

Nope... in came Daddy to the rescue! He took the truck apart into many pieces!

Naomi patiently sat as Daddy worked...




She had to sit still for about 20 minutes to deconstruct this stinking toy!

Keeping her eyes on Daddy!

So there you have it! My beautiful girl, with not a hair lost thanks to Daddy!

Lesson learned... DO not play with automatic trucks and cars near long hair! Daniel still thinks this was hilarious!

A nut...

I went to crawl into bed, and found a walnut carefully placed on Glenn's and my pillow... Our bed had been turned down, and we had been left a little treat just like a fine hotel! Glenn said Daniel wanted to leave me a "treat!"

This is what my sweet boy left for me! Silly boy!

Cheap fun!

With 100 degree weather this past weekend... it was hard to go wrong with water fun! The kids had a blast with an overpriced blow-up pool that took Glenn and I way too much time to blow up!






They had a blast! I even took a dip! :)

An overdue update!

To be quite honest, I have been having a hard time with keeping up with my blog. Life has been pretty full...

Daniel did amazing with his surgery in April. He had no regrowth of the cholesteatoma! The surgeon was able to rebuild his inner ear bones. We still do not know how well he will be able to hear at this point. He will have a audiology exam in a couple months to determine the level of hearing in the ear. The only real concern the doctor seemed to have was that Daniel has mucous in his ear. His ear does not drain properly. This will probably cause some hearing problems, because the treatment for this problem is to put tubes in... Daniel is not a candidate for tubes... due to his cholesteatoma...sooo... we shall see!

Naomi saw her surgeon today, and she is schedueled to have surgery on July 2nd. She will be having a lip revision and a new set of tubes placed in her ears. The doctor feels that he can improve her ability to use her upper lip, while also improving the look of the scar that she has. Right now, she has difficulty making her lips into a "o" and this should help her with speech!

I am really looking forward to summer... hopefully some more free and easy time. We have planned our first camping trip with the kids in June! I are really looking forward to that! We are trying to focus on simplifying our lives... funny how as soon as we started to do that in January... it seemed that anything that could happen to complicate our lives...has happened. So here I am, in the middle of May, getting through it all...one day at a time! These precious kids keep Glenn and I laughing and constantly chasing after one of them!


Last time we played with shaving cream... it was inside the house, on a rainy day... OUTSIDE is so much more fun! It ended up everywhere... and we just hosed it all off! :)



This is Daniel doing his impression of the Atlantis launch from Monday! He was quite impressed with the Space Shuttle launch!