Enjoying the fall!

This was about the third week in September it was not super hot and they did not last long, but they did enjoy it and Emma is still asking me when we can get the pool out again.


Garrett is very content digging in the dirt. Who need grass anyway?

We are able to view this field of cat tails, or "dragon tails" (as Emma says) accross the road. And the kids have enjoyed picking some to display.

Fun in our new home

Emma and Garrett enjoying playing doctor and examining eachother.

Garrett is doing his school work, "puzzles", he is very serious about it.

Emma's tent, we have been able to keep it up in the guest bedroom and they periodically just in there and laugh and giggle with eachother. Occasionally Emma gets to take a nap in there too.

Two weeks ago we made a tent in the living room, very fun to be under and watch TV.

This was over two weeks ago, and it was a little cold. Again this is one of the times Emma dressed herself, it was a little cold for the shorts.

Emma's ever changing outfits

These were pictures from same day, I am sure that any of you with little girls completely understands. I think there were several more outfits that day, but I wanted to caputre these two because, the first one is Emma in her dedication gown, I could not belive my eyes when she came out with that one on. It was very hard to peel off around here chest, she is a determined little girl. Then the other one is some pajames that have been passed down from her cousins and Grandma Peterson was very excited that Emma now had them to wear. I do need to do a little repair on one of the seams that is ripped out they have deffintely been worn by a few kids.

All of the stuffed animals were lined up for "school" now that Emma really understands school yet but that was her version of it, and I had to give them some "lessons" as the teacher. Emma really enjoyed the "teaching" (stories off the top of my head).

Painting help

Two weeks ago my parents and my Grandma came out from Minnesota and my brother Caleb and his wife Sharon from Ft. Collins. They did an amazing job helping us get some much needed painting done on our house. The walls were all primer, and it was a bit too white. You can see we had some fun with Emma and Garrett's rooms, and there bathroom is very bright (I do not have a picture of it yet).

While they were here we had a great snow storm, the snowman is from Saturday of that weekend. Emma has been asking us all Summer when she and Rob can build a snowman again (she had a book about a little girl who makes snowmen all Winter with the same snowball "Sadie and the snowman" and it really got her thinking). So even though we were in the midst of painting Rob did not miss the opportunity to take her out and build her snowman. It must have been cooler on our deck, because the snow really piled up there first. So they were able to just use the nice clean snow on the deck. By Sunday morning we had about 6 inches all over the place, but by the end of the week it was all gone.

Emma and Garrett love to have tea parties and were able to have one with my grandma "G.G." (short for great-grandma) while she was here. She had not been out to see us in Casper since the year Emma was born (2005). Needless to say she enjoyed the visit and it was great to have her.

I love ya!

Three weeks ago on Sunday morning, Garrett overheard Emma and Rob saying, " I love you" to eachother, and he decided to get in on the affection too. Ever since he has been enjoying randomly telling us, "I love ya". Sometimes over and over, but I never grow tired of that sweet little voice telling me that I am loved by him.

New home

We have moved into our home. I realized moving is a whole different thing when you have kids. In our last house we were moved in and had the pictures up on the wall by the end of the week, and that was even with working outside of the home full time. Yes, I do know eventually everything will get into place, and we are all enjoying the space to move on our 2 acres and are watching the deer and coyotes across the road. Rob saw a coyote chasing some deer this morning, wow, that was pretty neat!

Rob worked hard on the deck the last two weeks and he will be back to work at the church tomorrow. I helped him with the deck on Thursday for the first time, it was really fun for me to do with him. Garrett was out there with us most of the time and Emma would come out, but be back in the house in a little bit. Most of the day she was in her swim suit and a bath robe, the robe was a new hand-me-down from cousins that Grandma and Grandpa brought out last week.

We were able to get 3 rooms painted before we moved everything in. Since all the walls were white. We are excited to get some more done soon. You can see some of the green and blue in the pictures. In the last picture Garrett was washing tomatoes with Grandma, he was having a great time, but he cannot resist saying "cheeee" (cheese) whenever he see the camera.

Then on Friday I was able to get away with some friends to a Beth Moore conference in Billings, MT. It was great! We are planning on going to the one in Laramie, WY May 21 & 22, 2009.

Fishing

The past two weekends we have been able to get out fishing. Emma has been wanting to use her Barbie pole, which she had been enjoying casting at home with the rubber fish on the end that is came with. So she was a little confused when Rob cut if off to put a hook on it and there was no longer a fish.

When we arrived at the reservoir for the first day of fishing she was excited and that lasted about 5 minutes and then she passed her pole off to Rob. Then is was suddenly very fun to play with the night crawlers. But as she continued to get worms for us she did not enjoy her hands being dirty and was constantly washing them off in the water. We caught 3 big carp and a little perch.

Then this past weekend we just went down to the North Platte River here in town and did catch a nice little Rainbow Trout (on the Barbie pole). Garrett got to try holding the pole a little bit this time. The first time, he was in the backpack watching over Rob's shoulder.

Update on our house: it is coming along, it arrived over a week ago and will be one the foundation on Wednesday. We hope to be moving in about the middle of September.