Priceless Pics

I had some pictures on my camera and thought that I would go ahead and puts some pictures on here for you. (For the cyber bullies I am doing this at 12:59AM!!) Anyway, when looking at these pics you will have to see if these kids 1 in particular takes after her mother/father or both!

These first ones are from the church picnic we had earlier this month. Dude notice how close Lillie is...way closer than you would ever get. She was feeding them cheez-its. Levi had to ride the pony because Josh got a ticket because Lillie seemed interested till they were wanting to put her on it. No parents could be back there so we couldn't help ease her so Levi had to do it. Needless to say it was not the high point of his day! Then Ethan was just relaxing ....and thinking.



I bet you can't guess who she takes after! Well, it is the same person she is talkig to......her grandma!!
She thought Ethan needed to say something as well.
This girl is gonna rock!

Hope you enjoyed the pics, only a week and a half left before we get to see everyone!

Time flys when we are having fun...guess I didn't realize I was having fun.

I can't believe it is almost the end of June. I feel like I can't keep up for anything. The kids are sleeping and I really should be doing other things, but I am being bullied about posting. (you know who you are!) Well, let's see what has happend in almost the last 2 months. Levi finished school, we went to Nebraska for a week. Then I was just trying to keep up around the house and trying to enjoy summer and then last weekend I went to KC to walk Relay for Life, with Robert. We had a good time Ethan and Levi went with me and they did well. Went to sleep in the tent at 9:45pm and got up at 5AM!! I however didn't go to bed until 3AM! Yes I said 3 and right before I went to bed I ran 4miles...in a circle. I was waiting for them to say we could switch directions at some point, but they never did. I ran 2 miles prior to that at about 11:00pm. It was nice running though because there was no sun to beat down on me. The experience was good and I may even go up to the one that will be in Wichita in Aug. especially for the luminaria part. That was hard to say the least. They go through how people are related to those who have had/had/have cancer. When they say how you are related to it then you light a candle. After they went through all the names on the luminaria bags the we did a walk. People were then putting their candles by the luminarias. I had to search for Robert(in the dark, even though he is tall you can still miss him in the dark). We then put our candles by the lumanaria. I was crying but Ethan was screaming with Levi so I had to go take care of him. I do pray that one day cancer will be no longer and that we don't have to lose loved ones to it. Well, the next big trip will be in just over 2 weeks and going to TX! Yeah I can't wait. Wonder if Rick is ready for all of us rowdy ones? Well, let me see what I can put on here for picks, it seems as though I am missing some.

While in Nebraska we went to the zoo here are some pics. I really don't have any of recently guess I need to get the camera out more.

Pics of the relatives at the zoo!

Mom was looking good for her pic.


Robert wasn't cooperating so well, so I couldn't get a very good one of him.
As you can see Levi takes after his uncle Robert.

I think we wore Ethan out though. He was pretty pooped!


The best story from the zoo was from lunch. I had the kids in the stroller and Lillie was in the front where there is a tray. She was having peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. All of a sudden a bird swooped down on her tray and stole some of her bread. All of the older kids were crackin up, they thought it was funny that the bird had done that. It was a good thing it was Lillie and not Dude or we would have had a mess on our hands. I bet to Lillie the legs of that little bird were "this" big! LOL! Gotta love ya Dude.

What's been going on....

Here is the newest band member.

Here was Levi at his fun fit day.


Here is Lillie and Ethan at Levi's fun fit day. We rode the bicycle down to the school, about 2 miles each way. We were waiting for Levi to get out of school after being at the track.



Ethan is just too cute!!!

Here is my new diva!


This is from the zoo on Thur. Levi just took off with Lillie as soon as she was out of the stoller. He took her hand and away he went. It was so cute!

Then when we were in the jungle I wanted to take a picture of them in front of the waterfall, and Lillie was terrified. I am not sure why, but she clinged to Levi.

I will add some more pics in a bit, thought I should end this post before it won't let me post any more pics.

Running, Running, and still Running

Well, I had a good run, so now I want to add some pics. This first one is actually from the Derby High 5 which was the cold one, that was windy and cold!


Here is a pic of my friend Wendy and I before the race.
Here is a pic in action from the 10K, I am in the black top and black shorts in the middle of the group.

I finished my 10K in 1hour 3min. I was really hoping to be a bit faster, but I had a side ach the last mile. I think it was because I had taken a drink of water about half way through, and maybe swallowed air. It was still my best time. After finishing my 10K I thought I would do the 2mile. I am not sure why I was so crazy, but I was. As soon as I started it my legs felt like they were going to come out from beneath me. I think my body was like what are you doing to me. I finished both though and then went on to run with Lillie and her tot trot.


Here is mommy and Lillie and our medals for finishing our races!! YEAH! Go mommy, Go Lillie!

Well, I have a bunch more pictures I want to put on here, but it took a while to get the last one to finally load so I better end this post now. Hopefully I can get a chance tomorrow to add another one, there are some great pics to come! So check back!

Almost Here!

I am slowly preparing myself for my 10K & 2 mile tomorrow. I will be putting up pics from my runs, Lillie's run and Levi has a fun fit day today at the high school track, so we are heading there in a couple of hours. I know I have some pics on my camera that I need to put on here, but they are still on the camera. I have been so busy lately that I am not sure which way I am going. I will be taking pics of my new furniture too! I love it, I got a new couch and chair. I will have to take pics of my Mother's Day flowers I won from the grocery store in town. I kinda wish they would offer $$ for a raffle, I won a ham in Nov at Thanksgiving and now flowers. Maybe I am the only one that puts my name in?? Next week we will be heading to the zoo so I will be seeing many of you there! LOL I believe in the gorilla exhibit! I know Robert will be there (inside joke, mom you will understand in a couple of days). In case I don't end up back on here before Sunday. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!

Garage Sale and Running

Well this is what my past week has consisted of..getting ready for the garage sale and running. I started last Sunday so that I could have everything ready by Wed. night. Yeah right. Garage sales start here on Thur. I was still finishing up Thur. morning. We did really good though. So that was very exciting. I had such a good day on Thur., I pulled more stuff out of the house on Fri. So I was with the garage sale Thur and Fri. and Josh had it yesterday till about 1:30 when I got home from a race in Hesston KS. It is just north of Newton. It was a 5K (3.1 miles) and I had my personal best. Their clock said 30:00 minutes flat, but my garmin said 29:41, which I don't start my garmin till I hit the start line. When you have a 1020 women/girls walking,running, jogging this takes a bit depending on where you are at in the heard to hit that line. The youngest participant was 2 and the oldest was 90 and just had a hip replaced in Oct. Before that my best had been 31:48 according to the clocks at my last windy/cold race. So needless to say I was very excited! So now it is preparing for the 10K 2 weeks from yesterday. I would love to be down around an hour or so. I ran with a friend of mine last weekend and did it in just over that so I should be good. I hope. I think I am going to do the 2 mile that day as well with my father in law. Lillie is going to do the tot trot which is across the bridge so that will be cute as well! I will have lots of pictures from that race! I need to get some on here. I will have to try to fit that into this weeks schedule. Since I was in the garage this week the house went to pot! I have so much laundry I don't know what to do with and if I dont' wash my running stuff I will be running naked. That would be a site! LOL No, I wouldn't run naked but Britta probably wouldn't be able to stand the smell of me because I would be wearing stinky clothes. Maybe she would be able to pick up her time from trying to get away from me. Anyway, just rambling now. So when we go to Texas if anyone wants to run with me (early morning or late evening) I will let ya!

P.S I got rid of that post and updated some settings so hopefully that will help. That was the first time I got one of those. Glad nobody clicked on it.

Lillie is 2

I had Lillie's pictures taken and some of you have seen these but I wanted to update here with her.
I will be adding running pics as soon as I get them from my 2mile run in March and my 5K(3.1) run last weekend. I will also be running a 5K next weekend and a 10K(6.2miles)on May 10. I am excited about this one. I ran my first 10K ever yesterday and did it in 1hour 4min. I plan on working on doing a 1/2 marathon in September in Wichita. (13.1miles) So who knows maybe next year it will be a marathon. (26.2) :)

It has been a few weeks....

Therefore I had better post or I will hear it next week when I am in Nebraska. It has been absolutely crazy. I am trying to set up our books (Accounting) for our LLC that Josh and I own with his brother. We started it the end of last year so I have to get it done for taxes. Well, I know alot about Accounting as far as payables, receiveables, inventory..yada yada yada. However, starting the books with the equity and such I have figured some out, but some I am clueless. So I have been working hard on that, because none of us can do our taxes till it is done and I am running(literally) out of time.

Levi had a concert at school the end of February. So here are some pics from it.

Ethan was having a good time too.

However, Lillie was really getting into it and decided that Ethan needed to be a part of it. As the kids were singing she started swaying her hands, then she grabbed Ethans hand and was holding it and swaying their hands. It was so cute, I wish I could have gotten a better picture.

So here are some pictures from Levi and Lillie's birthday party (almost 3 weeks ago).


I bet nobody has a lamb this cute for Easter.


Here is my "new" dishwasher....


With all the warm weather, Lillie likes to go outside and blow bubbles, sometimes inside if mommy lets her.



Then as some of you know today Josh and I celebrate our 3rd Anniversary. We went out last night to a Japanese steak house. So we got dressed up for the occasion. We didn't have very good lighting so the picture is yellow, but you get the idea.

Doesn't get any cuter than this!!!

The other day I decided I haven't taken a whole lot of pictures of Ethan, and I am going to need them for rememberance and scraping. So Lillie is always wanting to hold or carry Ethan (who is 1/2 her weight) so I decided to let her hold him on the floor (no chance of dropping him or letting him flop over).
Here she is trying to give him his paci.
Here is another pic of Ethan where he is peaking on his tummy.

Then when I went to work that night Josh decided to take some pics of Ethan, I did not tell him I had taken pictures of him earlier that day(doo doo doo doo(add a twilight zone music)). He then added a little wording...hope you love it!

WHEW! What a night! Who said boys are never like girls?

A learning experience if I might say. I am glad I do not have triplets or quadruplets. Wednesday was Levi's birthday, so I let him pick 3 friends to stay the night. They arrived last night between 5-6pm. We ate taco salad for dinner and then I went and bought an ice cream cake. Britta had picked up some snacks for them while they watched movies and played games. I told them that they would be lying down at 11pm but they could go to sleep with a movie on. So at 11 I had them already the only problem I was having issues with the tv. I got it figured out and had them all laying down. I went to go sew (in the next room) until they were asleep. After I finished what I was doing I came out and they were all sitting up watching the movie. I was in shock, I thought they would have all passed out. So I had to make them all lay down and had to sit there until they were asleep. Much to my surprise when I came downstairs this morning just before 8 all but 1 was awake. He woke up shortly after I got down here. Then trying to round them all up to go to Krispy Kreme. That was like trying to heard cattle without a horse. We got home shortly after 11:30, and the last boy was just picked up. So needless to say we are all going to take a nap. Levi has a basketball game at 5, and I don't think he will be useful being sleepy. All in all they were great boys, they had a great time, but man they can talk just as much as girls do. They just do it 10 notches higher so they can overtalk each other.

BBBRRRR it is COLD!!!

Well, it is Sat. night and cold! Oh wait it has been cold since I got here. I left Kansas at 50 degrees to come to 17. What was I thinking??? Oh great just found out with the wind chill tomorrow it is supposed to be between 20 and 30 BELOW! Yes you read that right negative. YIKES! Glad I will be going back to 36, with getting back up to 50 by Wed. Amazing what 350 miles can make in a weather difference.

It has been a fast weekend, as with all weekends when I travel to Nebraska. When I got into town yesterday I went to Dixie's house and mom came a while later and I ran to the Y to go workout. While mom and Dixie had their hands full with Lillie and Ethan, but mainly Lillie. In the short time I was gone she messed up the tv with the remote, they said she didn't have it but a minute, and spilled mom's tea. You have to be careful with her she's quick!! We went and had dinner at El Bees in rememberence of dad. It had been a while since I had been there. Then mom and I went to Fremont to Wal-Mart, Pennys and the kids made us go to Village Inn. They needed their pants changed so we had to buy something so we got a pie. Not just a piece the whole thing. We ended up going to bed after midnight. Short night.

Then we got up this morning and went back to Fremont. We ended up finding the perfect headstone for mom and dads grave. I think it will be a perfect fit, and it is to be at dad's grave by Memorial day which is what we were wanting. We then went and did a bit more shopping till we went home and cleaned. It is now 9pm and we are ready to crash. So goodnight, and stay warm.

Just checkin in!

Surprise I decided to post right quick. Nothing new really is going on other than Josh is now working almost 70 hours a week right now. They have a plane that is in experimental being made and it HAS to be done by sometime in April. So everyone working on this project is on overload. Well, I will be headed back to Nebraska this weekend. Mom and I are going on Sat. to look for a headstone. We would like to have it on dad's grave by Memorial Day. Hope everyone is doing well. I will try to keep checkin in! P.S. To my aunts 1 in particular Ethan and Lillie will be with me so you can come get some kid lovin'!!!

Run for cover a storm of great severity will be coming in!

Yes, that is right after this gets posted everyone will end up with a foot of snow. Well, considering it has only been 8months since my last post!!! Whew how time flys! I thought it was only supposed to do that when you are having fun. Well some times have been better than others.

Back in Oct. Ethan Scott was born. He was 7lbs .5oz, and 20". He was a wonderful new addition to our family.

I was really hoping that my parents would have been able to come down, but my dad had been really sick from the cancer. Things had taken a turn for him in July, and they continued to go down from there. I decided that things did not seem like they were going well for dad and we headed back to Nebraska right before Ethan was 2 weeks old. I am so glad we did. We got to Nebraska and dad got to hang out with his little (new) budy (he had lots of little buddies & 1 buddet).
After we got up there we found out dad had a blockage and if it wasn't removed they told us he had 2 weeks to a couple of months and even with the cancer being so bad, he had less than a year. That was Oct. 19. That was the first time we had been given any update as to what his future held. We ended up taking him to Omaha to Emmanuel where he had an illiostomy done. He seemed fine, when I left the 24th to come back to KS. I really didn't want to leave and had a hard time leaving, but was planning to be back in a couple of weeks for a benefit that was going to be held for him. I got a call the next morning from my brother Michael that dad was going into surgery his kidneys were failing. This just happend to be my 30th birthday as well. I freaked out to say the least and was upset that I couldn't be up there. The dr. didn't even think dad would make it through surgery. The fighter that he is though he did. We got back up there at 11:30 that night. On Friday his conditions weren't changing and we had decided we would make a call as to what to do on Sat. We waited from about 6am till 7pm before we got to talk to the dr. Dad was not doing any better as for recovering. We decided that dad would not want to live the way he was any longer and took him off care. That was done at 9:30. Robert and I continued to stay with dad as they took him off the respirator. As soon as the pulled it out. I kissed his forehead and said I love you dad, and he said I LOVE YOU, and those were his last words. I am sorry to those who are reading this and crying, just so you know you aren't alone I am too. Robert and I continued to stay by his side with mom and Micheal coming in and out. I had to run to the restroom and stopped by mom for a sec when Robert came out and I went back into his room it wasn't long after that he passed. 11:20pm Oct. 27 he went home to Jesus. Dad had received his salvation on Oct.21 and he was baptized while in the hospital the morning of the 27th. Praise God we will see him again!!

As far as the remainder of the year goes, well, I don't remember much of it. So now we are already into Feb. Levi will be 8 this month, and Lillie will be 2 next month. We got some snow Thur. and there was no school. So Levi took Lillie out in the sled.



I am sure you are all wondering what Ethan looks like now too. He is growing, and getting so big! When I took him in for his 2mo he was 11 lbs 11oz. and 23" (69% for his age). We will find out how big he is next week when he has his 4mo, but I bet he is at least 15lbs. I took these pics this morning and the outfit he has on is 6mo.



Well, I should probably let you all go now since you now have probably a foot of snow outside you have to go scoop. I do hope to keep up a little better this year. Maybe things will slow down. Yeah right.