January 2009

Our little peanut loves the water muy mucho!

At the begining of January Raycer was feeling quite a bit better and was able to celebrate his cousin Brooklynne's birthday. He still looked a little pale in all of his pictures.

Rayce and Lanie laugh almost constantly when they are in the tub together!

Lanie started walking in January. She is a bit of a Gumby, at least she bounces off everything. She loves food, especially cheese! She burned her palm on the 9th at Grandma's house (on thier fire place) while Mom and Dad were at Body Worlds. She healed really quickly. Grandma felt awful, she cried and cried.
Lanie loves loves loves her daddy! She is such an entertainer, she is always making all of us laugh. She also loves to scream.

Lanie and cousin Dillon at Brooky's birthday party.

Rayce was still not feeling top notch.

December 2009
Lanie really loved being a marshmellow!

Rayce had a bad bacterial eye infection over the holidays. He got the Croup on the day after Christmas and a flu virus too. He honestly didn't eat a thing for like two weeks. Thank goodness for Gatorade and Smart water. He also had no energy and didn't walk for a week. At one point we took him in to see the doctor because I thought that he was getting dehydrated and they tested him for everything. She even threw out the word meningitis (she had me paranoid, he was super lethargic) but he ended up being okay. After lots of rest (watching movies constantly) and hydration he got some strength back!

Our little guy looked like this most of the holidays. He got super sick and it took him a really long time to get better. Poor guy :(

Well I think that I am back on the blog-wagon again. I think that it is way better then Face Book and a good way to keep a family journal. So here is goes.... I think that I will be staying up late for a couple of nights to catch up.

time to catch up on Lanie

Our little peanut will be a year before we know it. Here are some of the things that she has been doing since October:
First of all she decided to grow 6 teeth from the last week in October to the 2nd week in December, can you say "slobber"In the process she got a couple of colds and a really bad ear infection (so bad that she started breathing really shallow so that it wouldn't hurt her ears). I was really worried about her , when the doctor starts to talk about meningitis you get a little concerned.
She is becoming a pretty good eater, she is not one for sweets, she likes her food a little on the salty side. Apparently she is not related to her father!
She has started to try and take steps on her own a lot lately. She decides that her head wants to get more then her feet do so she ends up face planting after a step or two. I think that by her birthday she will be crusing around all by herself.

I have to be honest, she is not a very good sleeper. She still wakes up at least once a night, and when she is not feeling well it is more than that. It is probably my fault because most of the time I go in and nurse her (yes I am still nursing!) for a couple of minutes. I have just started to let her cry/scream more often. Boy does she have some lungs!
She is really addicted to nursing!! She loves loves loves it. She won't suck on a sipi or a bottle. She just chews on them and lets the liquid roll down her chin. I really have no idea how I am going to ween her? I do promise I will cut her off before she is at least 5 JK Ha Ha ha. My goal is her birthday, wish me luck!
She is finally saying "mama" with clarity!! Mind you she has been saying "dada" for months. She shakes her head and finger "no no no". She says "whatssat". She loves to rip, tear, ruin, eat, chew... anything that is paper. She has destroyed the majority of rayces soft back book and a bunch of our soft back novel. She wants nothing to do with thick pages!
She is obsessed with water, she loves to get wet. She practically puts her head under the water when she is in the tub, I can't wait for summer and Seven Peaks!

She loves her dog Rosy! She is always opening her mouth for Rosy to give her a kiss and opening her mouth to lick or bite Rose's hair. Rosy is super protective of Pea. If anyone comes over and they are trying to pay attention to Lanie, Rosy gets between them and Lanie and starts to lick Lanie. She wants everyone to know that she is hers not theirs!!
Lanie can show you where her eyes are and sometimes her mouth.
She is obsessed with her brother, she loves him more than anyone in the whole world (too bad he doesn't feel the same).
She is a daddy's girl, she has that man wrapped around her little finger a million times. He truely thinks that she can do no wrong!! We will see how things go when she is a teenager!
She is super busy and really good at making messes, especially of things that she shouldn't.

She loves to laugh, and seriously is always happy, even when she doesn't feel good. She is a great little baby and we are so priviledged to have her as part of our family. We are so blessed that she was sent to our home. WE love you Pea!

What a little cutie!

My Opinion

In my opinion we are turning into a country of pansies. The fact that people don't say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka, or something else because they are worried about offending someone that doesn't celebrate "their" holiday is crap. So now we are supposed to say Happy Holidays. Which I don't have a problem hearing, but I am not saying it to spare some jerkasses feelings. If I said Merry Christmas to someone and they were offended because they are Muslim why should I feel bad? I didn't know you were Muslim. I didn't mean you should change your faith and celebrate Christmas. I was being polite. Get over it. You should feel like an ass for making a big deal out it. See my point. People can't even take a nice sentiment these days. They expect you to know everything about them and kiss their ass because you should observe their difference from yourself. Bull SH**. Grow up and say thanks and move on. These special interest groups that want everyone to bow down to them are killing the spirit of the holidays. You can't even say certain things because they might get the devil's hechmen at the ACLU to sue you for discrimination.

Pansies.

My boys are so handsome.

here are some new pics of my beautiful little family. My little sister Camille is starting a photography business and was nice enough to fit us into her busy schedule! Thanks Camila Deville, you are the best.

Lanie is so so so in love with her daddy! And vise-versa too

LETS PLAY CATCH UP

October was lots of fun. We spent lots of time with family celebrating Birthdays and Halloween.

There was lots of teething going on!

And a little corn-mazing!

Maybe
some high-flying!

The boys did some mountain biking

Rayce loved leaf diving! He was chillin in that pile for seriously 30+ min.
We did a lot of raking and have even more to do. My advice to all of you who are planting trees in your new yards, plant trees that have large leaves!
Don' t you just wish that all of the leaves would fall off in one day instead of over a 2 week span?

Miss Pea giving some scruntch-facing.

My brother, the "man in the yellow hat" and Prince Mike

Lanie and Aunt Allison, cheese!

Here's our cowboy!

He was a frog before he became a prince!

October was super busy. We have a lot of family birthdays and we had a lot of Halloween celebrating too. My sister Jennifer had a party at her house. Rayce decided what we would each be for Halloween: Dad- a prince, Mom- an indian, and himself a cowboy. He didn't have any opinion on Lanie's costume so I found a good deal on Craig's list ($5 brand new). By the way she is chicken not a duck, all of the little kids kept calling her a duck. We had another family party at Mike's mom's, a trunk-or-treat and a dress up birthday party. Rayce wore his costume 4 whole times before Halloween and he never got bored of it, I even offered to make him a different one because I was bored of it but he said no way man.

HAPPY LONG WINDED BLOGGING!

President Barack Hussein Obama

So. . . .Obama won the election. Here's my rant. It could get lengthy.

I truly don't know where to start so I am just going to start typing. I want to begin with a few things. First, I think we just voted someone into office that no one knows much about. I will touch on this later. Second, I in no way support this man, but do hope for my country I am 100% wrong.

Now I may say some things here that piss you off. Good. That should hopefully make you wonder why your mad. Then you can tell me about it. Most the time when I get mad it's because someone proved me wrong. I don't like to be wrong. I don't like to be proved wrong. But I try to learn something when I realize I am.

These are my biggest issues with your new president elect. So here we go.

1. Most the people I know are hard working individuals that aspire to be wealthy. Finacially secure. They don't like to part with their money. I donate money to causes I feel are worthy. I pay a tithe. Sometimes it's really hard, but I figure I have benefited from other people giving in my life so I should return the favor. However, that is my choice. I don't want anyone taking my hard earned money and giving it away. President Bush just did it and I didn't like it. How can someone vote for this person when he has admitted he is going to "spread the wealth around"? Did you people hear this? Did you just not listen? Do you support socialism because that is what it is in it's purest form. You can't argue that it's not. That is not America. Explain to me why you voted for him knowing he was going to give your money to someone who doens't want to work as hard as you? Strive as hard as you. Someone who is willing to sit home and collect a check that you provided to them through your hard work. If you support this I can't support you. My money is my money is my money. However if you support this because you want your cheese too, then I really can't stand you.

2. I am a gun owner. I own somewhere in the area of 15-20 guns. Guess how many times something irresponsible has been done with those guns. You can have three guesses. That's right, not once. It is my constitutional right to have them. Obama wants to take that right away like it will fix things. The bad guys will still have them and all that means is the bad guy breaking into my house know that he has a gun and I am stuck bringing a knife to a gun fight. If you own a gun, if you are a responsible gun owner, how could you vote for someone that wants to take that right away from you. Maybe you have seen "the light" and you now think guns are bad and you are going to give them up and support him killing the second amendtment. If so, can I buy your guns.

3. I have two kids. They have opened my eyes to how amazing life is. They truly are miracles. The fact that so many things could go wrong prior to birth but didn't is amazing to me. They are the most precious things in my life. When I was really young someone hurt someone very colse to me very badly. I remember talking about it when I was a teenager and hearing someone say "I was going to kill them". I thought no way, he wouldnt' kill them. Now that I have kids, I understand, he would have. I would kill someone that hurts my kids like that person hurt that person in my life. This man that is going to be our President has no respect for these things. Even though he himself has two beautiful children. He has referred to pregnancy as nothing more than an STD. He supports aborting a baby at full term by means that I won't type here, but are nothing other than murder. He distgusts me. If you have kids this should disgust you too. Even if you don't have kids it should disgust you. He has voted multiple times to legalize these kinds of abortions. Don't freak out here like I only pro-life. I support some pro-choice ideas. How is it this can be considered legal when if someone shoots a pregnant lady they are charged swith her murder and the murder of her unborn child. A little conflict here isnt' there. On this alone I could never support this man.

4. He refuses to prove his citizenship. If you disagree with me on this issue then you more than anyone should want him to prove it to get people like me to shut up about it. The birth certificate he produced was only deemed original by a group that he once raised $60 million for and at one time sat on their board. Again am I the only one here that sees this as a conflict of interest? Senator McCain (just a reference here, I don't care for him either) was born in Panama to U.S. citizens and when asked about it hid nothing. He quickly provided all his birth information as well as a valid U.S. birth certificate showing he is a natural citizen of the United States of America. This person that won our election won't even do that. Where is the public outcry on this. This is the highest office in our county and no one out there is going to hold him to the coals on this and say we want to know your a natural citizen? It is a law of our county. Whether you agree with it or not, it's a law. Again, if you support him you should more than me want him to provide this document to silence all us nay-sayer.

I could go on, but have gone on too much already.

If you support this man then you must support these principles of his that I so greatly disagree with. Please tell me why you support these principles. Email if you want if your worried about others chastising you. I welcome your arguments. I want to know why you support these views. Open my mind.

Obama may be the president elect, but I will never support him until he has proven me dead wrong. You can have him.