Snapshots

I love series photos...here is a silly series of Halli

Sick

Luckily it's not me that is sick, knock on wood! Carson, Bentley, and now Halli have all been sick in the past two weeks. Hopefully the sick bug will stay away for a while again. Halli always gets the worst of it though. We just have the cold/cough being passed around, but Halli always gets a horrible sounding cough when she gets one. It's not croup, but it's close. Anyway, I think today was the worst of it (I hope today was the worst of it!). The poor girl just feels awful.
We are looking forward to a really warm week this coming week-we've got 80's in our forecast!!! I am excited to get outside and play some more!

Warm weather outings

We have had some warmer weather this week so we headed out to a couple different parks. We all really enjoyed being outside and having some fun! I am so ready for winter to be over!!! Let's hope we see lots of sun this spring, and all those scary tornadoes stay far away from here! Here are my 3 little cuties.Carson getting ready to swing. I love how blue the sky is!This is about as far as Halli got attempting to do the rings.Conquering the rings...well kinda. He didn't make it to the next one :)This is my new favorite photo of Bentley! I just love the shot!Love her goofy little smile.He doesn't know what's coming!

7 months

Our little man is 7 months old already! He is such a fun baby to have around. We love our baby vroom vroom.
Bentley has 1 tooth-the bottom left one (you can see it in this photo)He is sitting up on his own
He is eating all sorts of baby foods, and loves the fruit. I have to hide veggies by mixing them with fruit.At his six month Dr. appointment he was 29 inches and 18 pounds 10 ounces...so he is a big healthy baby.
He is a screamer!!! When he isn't happy he lets you KNOW.It seems like he is learning new things everyday. Just this week he started eating cheerios and gerber puffs. He is also getting close to being mobile. I know he'll be all over the place pretty soon!

Crafty

So I have been feeling that creative itch lately. I have been wanting to make it down to my craft room more than I have, but I did get down there and whip up this little lovely the other day (not to boy-the bib). I think it is my favorite bib I have made so far. The other side is red polka dots with a solid brown star.

For Valentines Day I wanted to surprise Carson and Halli with a few things so I set this up for them to wake up to Tuesday morning. I was most excited to make the Valentine cookie-which turned out amazing. Mrs. Fields has nothing on my Valentine cookie! I also made them pink heart pancakes for breakfast which they just loved.They were happy and excited to find goodies from us and both sets of grandparents the morning! Thanks to our great families for sending goodies!

Other exciting news for us-Bentley got his first tooth last Monday, after a week of crankiness, and he is sitting up on his own now! I'll be taking some 7 month photos in just a couple days so I'll have lots of cute shots to share.

My Soda-Can Stove (A Post by Ryan)

So since Christmas I have started collecting some emergency essential items and items that I can use for hiking and camping trips. I have joked that depending on how the economy is in the next little bit, I will just buy some land in the middle of nowhere and go "Off the Grid". Well, i'm not seriously considering that, but i have purchased a number things that i have wanted for a while. Since Christmas i have purchased an internal frame backpack, hiking stove, Leatherman, mummy bag, water filter, and few other little things. Also, I created a wish list on Amazon that is getting a little out of control.

During my search for some of these items i ran across a design for a hiking stove made of soda cans. I decided to make one of my own. Here it is:

Last night i finally got around to trying it out and it worked great! i was able to boil 2 cups of water with about 1 oz of denatured alcohol. There are a couple more designs i am planning on trying, so hopefully they will work just as well.

I'm pretty sure Tiffani thinks i'm nuts for getting into this kind of stuff, but it has been a fun little project. Hopefully i can continue to make a dent in my wish list so i can be all prepared for my next trip.

Happy Birthday to ME!

So this past Tuesday I turned 28 years old. It doesn't seem so old now, but I remember being a kid thinking 30 was super old. I wonder how my children view me being 28??? I'll have to ask and maybe record those answers on here. I'll have to do it tomorrow-that seems like a fun Sunday activity. Well for my birthday this year I got the best present from my wonderful husband. I got this...


And this to me equals happiness and freedom! What more could I want for my birthday??? We have been a one-car-family for 2 and a half years, and it is nice to have two cars again. I love being able to go somewhere if I need to, any time (except during nap time!) I want! We got the car a week ago, and I am enjoying it. Thanks for the AWESOME and amazing birthday gifts Ryan, I LOVE YOU! (On top of the car he also gave me a gift card to Panera :), a sweet water bottle, and some car fresheners. )