Hard Workers

•November 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Like most of you, we experienced an unseasonably warm weekend!  Cole transferred piles of leaves from our neighbor’s yard to ours while Max climbed on all of our neighbor’s equipment…ladders, wheelbarrows, you name it.   And Chris took a whole day off from studying…yahoo!  He cleaned the leaves off our roof and planted peach and evergreen trees.   I love days like yesterday!

I had the opportunity, too, this weekend, to go to Springfield, IL, with some good friends and see Beth Moore!  She is quite the energetic lady, and an amazing teacher and storyteller.  We had a great and refreshing time.  Cole and Max got to spend a couple of days with Omi and Grandbob, which they loved.

Let’s see…what else?  Max is talking like crazy these days, randomly counting, and even singing!  He loves anything to do with the farm and his new favorite sound is hee-haw, just like a donkey.    I love it so much when Max says, “Look! Mommy!” and wants me to see what’s he done, or when after I give him choices for a snack or a meal all he says is “froot sna” every time.  He’s moved on from popsicle to fruit snacks.  Hilarious!   He and Cole have so much fun together making animal sounds or pillow piles and they especially love wild and crazy games with Daddy.  Chris has created several personalities for himself including The Grabber and The Sniffle.  I’m sure you’re curious…aren’t you?  And the last thing worth mentioning is that I am almost 20 weeks pregnant, and my ultrasound is next Wednesday the 18th.  I am SO excited to see if I will indeed be an all-boy mom or not.  I’ll keep you posted!

Happy Halloween!

•November 1, 2009 • 1 Comment

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Saturday Sorting

•October 31, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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The loot: pencil top erasers, anchors, nails, pasta, beans, beads, coins, paper clips, sequins.

The job: Sort into the mini-muffin tin.

The result:  Happy and busy Cole!

Rocks

•October 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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We spent some time at my parent’s house this week.  So many fun things to do there!

You just can’t beat throwing rocks in the lake on a warm fall day.

Lego Love

•October 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Hear Mike Sing!

•October 28, 2009 • 1 Comment

 

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Go HERE to hear Mike sing Jason Mraz’s song, I’m Yours, live on a Portland, OR, news station this week.  Fun!

Don’t forget…

Christmas Cheers, November 3

Also, SNC may be coming to a city near you between now and Christmas.  Check the SNC website for tour dates.

Christmas Cheers

•October 27, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Here you go!  Straight No Chaser with 2 new members and a new album coming out next Tuesday.  Go to the new SNC website to stream the new album live.  You can preorder for your hundreds of friends, too.  You won’t want to miss it!

Curious

•October 26, 2009 • 4 Comments

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A few highlights from lately…

I found Cole wiping himself in the bathroom the other day with the hand towel.  After talking about how that is not okay (amidst laughter…), he says to me, “Mommy, when you don’t see me, that’s what I do.”  Seriously!

We survived the week without Chris home!  We kept ourselves busy with friends and playing outside.  We raked leaves, visited a local farm’s pumpkin festival, hiked, and more!   We were so thankful for Chris to come home!  He was the brains behind our pumpkin face, too.

We took a hayride last night with some families from a mom’s group I am a part of.  I wish I would have taken some pictures!   The hayride took us through the woods in beautiful Brown County, and afterwards we had a bonfire with s’mores.  Yum!    The funniest part of the marshmallow experience was when my friend Melanie asked Cole if he liked roasting marshmallows.  He quickly replied, “I like marshmallows, especially when they’re on fire!”

Max heard someone call me Anne the other day and now calls me Anne pretty often. The funniest moments are when he’s crying, wants me, and says, “Anne! Anne!” in a whiny voice.   I just smile!

Cole and Max have been waking up ridiculously early for about a week.   It’s been a shock!   I’ve been giving them a drink and asking them to play in their room until 7:30.   For the most part they’ve been happily playing but I get nervous when I hear loud banging noises!   I think I’m going to buy a digital clock to put in the boys’ room and teach Cole that when the clock reads 7:30 they can come out.  Anyone else have ideas for early risers or teaching about time?

Balance

•October 20, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Today was absolutely beautiful!  The boys woke up extra early (figures…when Chris is out of town for a week!) and after breakfast Cole wanted to go hiking.   So we did!  We went to Lake Griffy and explored the nature trail.  Cole and Max both loved balancing as they walked up and down this fallen log.  They loved throwing rocks in the lake and stomping on crunchy leaves, too.    The only thing missing was Daddy!

Franktastic

•October 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile came to Bloomington today!   And the Franks managed to swing a franktastic ride!   Chris has this week off of classes, but is spending the week with other marketing students visiting companies all around the Midwest.   Today was Kraft day, and instead of going to them, they came here not with their Lamborghini…but their Lamborwienie!   On our short drive around campus, the drivers shouted hot dog puns to the students over the loud speaker…it was hilarious!    Do you like our buns?  Get your buns to class!  Where’s the nearest grill?  Don’t scratch your buns!