Goings on

I have a ton of fun pictures and don't want to do a million and a half posts so I'll roll them all into one!

Ethan and best pal, Gavin, have twinner shirts. Star Wars Storm Troopers, and one day, they showed up at school in their twinner shirts. Luckily, they are in first grade so it wasn't embarrassing, it was COOL!

 In an attempt to corral Jackson, I put him, his blanket, his pillow pet, and one of his many monkies in the

laundry basket.

(It didn't work very well!)

Emma had a ROUGH day a couple of weeks ago so I gave her the special red plate and a flute with sparking apple juice for dinner! I think it helped her feel better.

Mike has a customer that sells really cool stuff and one day on a location visit, they had these cool hats for CHEAP, so he bought one of Emma and one for Jackson. (Not quite awesome for a 7 year old, so Ethan didn't get one.)

Jackson LOVES this toy and walks around all day with it and is so stinking cute with it that I have to take as many pictures as my memory card will hold!

Jackson got a new carseat and the kids wanted to play with the box so I let them. They drew on it, and played in it until it fell apart and until kids were getting hurt because kids were being too silly.
The liked to jump on Mike while he was in the box!

 Emma in the silly hat Mike bought me when we were dating!

 Emma and Ethan being....silly...as always!

 Jackson wearing Mike's silly hat that matches the silly hat Mike bought me!

 One of the drawings Ethan drew on the carseat box. It's a ship in the area that says "shipping label"! What a clever kid.

 Emma bought a pretty Rapunzel doll with some money she got for Christmas and here she is!

 Emma has taken up dancing lately and here she is in her pretty dance clothes!

 I just can't get enough of her pretty face, even if this picture is a bit blurry!

 More ballet clothes...so pretty, and silly!



ONE!!

I figured out how to post pictures now!!

Jackson had a GREAT birthday.

He was so excited when he woke up and saw all the balloons all over the house!

 Present time was fun!

Even after Christmas, he still had a time figuring out the whole ripping paper thing!

 He LOVES his new monkey book though

 I can't tell if he loves the stuffed giggly thing or his daddy the most!

 He got a train and likes it, despite what this picture is saying!

 Every birthday, all three kids get a new shirt...to help with no one feeling left out!

The birthday shirts!

 Jackson wasn't quite sure what to think of the cake

 Still a little confused

 All it took was Dad cutting it up and he dug right in!

 Woohoo! Birthday CAKE!!!

 After making a mess of himself, he got cleaned up and put on his new warm jammies and played with his awesome new walking toy, which he LOVES!!!

I am thrilled beyond thinking to have Jackson in our family and that I get to be his mommy. He is so happy, even when he's sick. He'll cough and cough and then SMILE! He smiles through the ear infections too. He lights up a room when he enters it and makes everyone around him smile and be happy, including ME!

Ummmm....

For anyone who really still looks at my blog, I have a post to do,

with lots of fun pictures,

but for some reason I can't get pictures to post.

I'll still try!

Little bit of Christmas

Christmas Sunday I put this dress on Emma

 my neice wore it when Mike and I got married! I thought it would be fun for my Emma to wear it.

(She's had a runny nose for a few days and it was buging her and making her face red, but I think she's still the prettiest 3 year old I know!)

I tried to get a picture of all my kids together, looking cute, smiling and most importantly LOOKING AT THE CAMERA!

 it didn't work completely. They're all cute and smiling, but Emma is obsessed with looking at Jackson instead of the camera. I guess she really does love him!

I asked Ethan to take my and Emma's picture together. I had to re-teach him how to work the camera, so I took his picture.

 WOW! Look at that big mouth! Can you see his tonsils?

He did get some cute pictures.

This was after church, after Emma had spent time coloring a picture for me in nursery but misplaced it on the way home and we couldn't find it. She was sad :(

(the picture turned up the next day!) 

Christmas day, I only took one picture! At my parents' house of Jackson getting into the cookie drawer!

 Emma got her doll house! She LOVES it! She can't stop playing with it.

Ethan likes it too. He plays with it with his cool Star Wars action figures!

I may have to keep this picture to show his wife!!

Too cute to not post!

Merry Christmas, Tati

from Baby Jackson!

Oh boy did we have fun in Minnesota at Thanksgiving!!

Now that Christmas is next week, I thought I'd post about Thanksgiving.

We went to Minnesota and...well...we got there...eventually! But once our plane took off, 23 hours late, we had a BLAST!

Emma and Ethan were rip roarin' to go celebrate!

I didn't get many pictures with cousins but I did get some of my kids the day we went to the Mall of America with my mother-in-law. It was super fun!

We just had to go to the LEGO store!

Emma loved the LEGO friends girl and dog all made of LEGOs!

I thought this was cool!

And the dragon peeping out from around the corner...awesome!

Then we hit Nickelodeon Universe!

Ethan helped Emma drive the kiddy bumper cars.

 Mike and I went on this awesome ride. Sponge Bob is NOT awesome and not allowed in my house, but the ride was fun!

Straight yup, straight down, upside down, curly q's all over the place. It was fun, I wanted to go again, but my old body couldn't take it. I was still nauseous 9 hours later and sleep was the only thing that got rid of it!

I would go on the ride again...next time!

Ethan's favorite ride from last year was Swiper's Sweeper so we had to go there.

Mike helped Emma drive and she loved it!

 Ethan on his FAVORITE ride!

 My E's on blue's Skidoo. Very similar to the Dumbo ride at Disneyland.

 Jackson had a good time, not riding rides, but walking around with Grandma, she even got him to sleep which is hard to do when he's not in a bed.

After all the fun LEGOing and Nickelodeon Universeing, we went to the Nestle Toll House shop...my choice. We ate cooking and since we only had a few minutes until Santa returned from his break, we hung out eating our cookies and being the first ones in line to see Santa.

Jackson loved his cookie!!

Ethan asked for the Death Star ($400) LEGO set

Emma asked for a big, pink doll house ($reasonably priced)

Jackson yelled (priceless)

The best thing I saw while waiting in line to see Santa...a sign that read "When you stop believing in Santa, you get underwear!" If you see a sign like this, know where to get one, let me know. I may just have to make one, but I need one cause we believe in Santa around here!

Look who decided to grow up!

I caught Jackson standing at the window, possibly watching for Mike to come home!

I can't believe that he's already 10 months old.

I can't belive how fast his babyhood has flown.

I love him and will have to just deal with him growing up...darn!