tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760872353713127472011-08-09T18:25:42.460-04:00Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-69108046636218368002009-10-01T01:28:00.015-04:002009-10-01T04:50:44.137-04:00

In March, Owen turned 6 months old. He slept ALL the time and was so quiet and calm. Liam was 2 1/2, and was beginning to talk like an adult. Liam, Owen and I flew down to Kentucky to show off Owen to my sister and her family. It was very scary for me flying with 2 kids by myself, but I survived. It wasn't the best experience, but we made it. We started the trip with Liam's first Dentist

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-25619297526474261082009-09-30T23:19:00.001-04:002009-10-01T01:28:17.159-04:00

Favorites from FebruaryI have been a total blog slacker since we got back from the Marshall Islands. Time has flown by and I have so many pictures to post...so here I go...I am really just going to post my favorites, so enjoy!Body ArtLiam developed his love for painting and art... Ghetto sleeping...don't ask me why...I don't know, but this is how I found him... Valentines Day with Owen. Liam's

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We went to Washington, DC with my sister Jen and her family over Memorial Day. We were still living in NY when we went, so it was about a 5-hour drive for us. Jen found us an awesome hotel and we had a great time! Unfortunately, halfway through the trip I dropped, and broke, my camera at the Zoo, so I don't have too many pictures...They aren't in a perfect order like my sister's blog...but here

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I have been collecting my favorites of Liam's artwork for the past year and it has been piling up on my refridgerator doors. (I remember when I was a kid, my dad would save all our schoolwork and stuff and bind it all together into a book; I still have the one from my 3rd grade year.) I wanted to keep all of Liam's adorable pictues, so scanning them seemed like the most practical way to do so! I

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-78527480633686146842009-09-11T18:28:00.003-04:002009-09-11T18:40:29.987-04:00

(Not Liam in the picture...just something I found on google) This morning I was talking to Liam after watching a show on the disney channel about careers like firemen, doctors, etc.... Me: Liam, what do you want to be when you grow up?Liam: A GIANT Eyeball (said with much enthusiasm and arm gestures)!!!Me: Wow...you'll be a good eyeball... Liam also has a new talent--cup stacking. He carries

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Liam has such a strong personality lately and does the funniest things. I thought I would post a few things so I wouldn't forget about them...He is adament that his straw has to match the color of his cup/yogurt/drink. He will flip out if he has a red Dannimals yogurt and I give him a green straw.He sings along with every single song we hear. He like repeats the last word and mumbles the rest.

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So here are the last photos from our trip to the Marshall Islands....or should I say the last pictures tht I am going to post. I still have like a thousand more, but these are my favorites and show our experience pretty well. I cannot belive it took me this long to post them all...I used to be really good at blogging....but apparently, that is not the case any mre.I am glad I finally finished

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Day 5 continued...December 10th, 2008I posted previously on our trip out to Laura beach. After our trip, we went to visit Glorina and her family.Owen and MommyGlorina, Her little sister Delma, and OwenGlorina was always so happy to see Owen when we come visit. She would take him and just walk around with him and hold him the entire time.Bubu and Owen(I love his Bubu...she was always so happy)I

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I was so excited to hear from our Attorney in the Marshall Islands that he had Owen's Birthmother in his office and they were looking at my blog! They asked if I could put some videos of Owen up. (I have really been behind on my blogging and didn't realize that I didn't even have videos of him up yet) I am really excited for Glorina to see him!Owen is 10 months old. He weights 21.5 poundsHe has 5

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I got the boys pictures done last week and was happy with how they turned out. My boys are getting big so fast and I am trying to cherish every moment I have with them. Owen is now 9 months old! We have had him for 6 months now...it seems like just yesterday that we went to go get him. Liam will be 3 in September and is just the smartest, most energetic little boy I know! They are the best and

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So, I posted Day 1 a month or so ago, and am finally getting around to finishing. Having 2 kids really takes up way more time and I just haven't been good at keeping up with my blog. To add to my Day 1 posting, I wanted to add part of a journal entry that I wrote that night that we first got to the Marshall Islands. I tried to keep a journal while we were over there because I did not have

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-71591497380918118332009-04-12T23:04:00.002-04:002009-04-12T23:34:48.173-04:00

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...Last Saturday, Ryan was playing with Owen in the living room and he rolled over for the very first time...then continued to roll front to back and back to front...it's like he just realized that he knew how to do it and won't stop. I was so sad that I missed it, but glad that Ryan experienced it. Later that day, my good friend Bonnie was watching Owen and Liam while I

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Four years ago today....April 9th, 2005Orlando, Florida LDS Temple I got married... for time and all eternity... to my best friend... the greatest husband...and most amazing father!!! Ryan. I love you and am so happy that we found eachother. Happy anniversary!!Love, Danielle

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-36119327365344582402009-03-10T23:43:00.002-04:002009-03-11T00:11:12.585-04:00

Dear Owen.You have now been in our family for three months exactly; almost half of your life so far. You are the sweetest baby and are always full of smiles and laughs! You are just starting to sit up by yourself and love your exersaucer and jumperoo, your swing not so much though...you scream when I try to put you in there. You are extremely observant and love to look and be outside. You are

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Today we went to the doctors office. After our appointment, I asked Liam to say goodbye to the doctor. He turned around, waived to her and said, "G'bye. Love you" which sounds more like "wuv you". It was so cute. He is such a sweet boy!! He is also getting so observant of what is going on around him. After the doctor appointment, we went to the Parent Resource Center (like an indoor play place

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-88518609639324977472009-03-09T01:35:00.005-04:002009-03-09T02:12:45.113-04:00

Today at church Liam kept putting his finger up his nose. I pulled it out, and said, "No Liam, thats yucky" he responded by laughing and sticking both fingers up his nose. I said, "Stop that this instant". Liam grabbed my fingers and said, "Mommy, try yours" and tried to put my fingers in my nose... I laughed, so did he. (Liam suctioning his nose with our new electric baby snot remover) Liam

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-25038145433905062952009-02-27T17:18:00.007-05:002009-02-27T17:44:04.358-05:00

One of my very favorite mommy times is right after bath time! I love when Owen smells like baby lotion and is so soft and cuddly. He is just too stinkin cute!! Here are a few pictures from last week... Aren't these lips just so kissable...they are so big!

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-78327522058845480832009-02-24T22:32:00.004-05:002009-02-24T23:10:37.504-05:00

So, tonight we went shopping and bout these super cute little boy underwear on clearance at Baby Gap. So, when we got home, I put them on Liam and he LOVED having underwear on!! I told him if he wanted to wear them, then he had to go pee in the potty. The first pair he peed in right away, we put the second pair on him, and he walked in the bathroom after a few minutes and pee'd in his potty chair

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So, here I begin with first of many hours it is going to take to post about our journey to adopt Owen. When we were in the Marshall Islands, we took over 1600 pictures, so there is no way I am going to post them all. We got our travel information about two weeks before we left for the Marshall Islands. It felt like the longest two-weeks, but I still was packing up to the last minute....DECEMBER

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-59120176302793855812009-02-01T02:20:00.009-05:002009-02-01T03:06:10.343-05:00

My good friend had made some comments about Adoption on her blog yesterday. She later clarified and apologised for the way it came across and the misconceptions that she had that she now understood. I left a rather long heartfelt comment on her blog in response to what she had written and decided to post it on my blog as well because misconceptions about adoption are so common everywhere in the

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Sunday was Liam's Adoption Day, but we celebrated it on Monday because the boys were too sick on Sunday to do anything. My kids are extra lucky because they get to have a party for their Birthday as well as their Adoption Day. Liam's Adoption Day is January 18th, the day that our Adoption was finalized in court and Liam became our son!! In the adoption world, some people call it a Gotcha Day, but

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-76632719003516569192009-01-23T22:40:00.006-05:002009-01-23T23:48:37.541-05:00

This is it....These are the papers we WAITED 5 WEEKS FOR......Can you tell I am SO happy to have gotten them!!!We had mailed all of our papers to the US Embassy on December 9th and got them back on January 12th!! We tracked the papers a million times over the weekend to see if we would be getting them on Monday to make the Monday night flight out of Majuro, but did not really know for sure until

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-12021463299671501162009-01-11T02:33:00.004-05:002009-01-11T03:03:05.683-05:00

So its been 38 days....and I think (and hope...and pray..and wish) that we get to leave tomorrow!!! We heard that our paperwork came in on the flight that we were supposed to leave on, meaning that the flight came from Guam to Majuro, and our paperwork was on it, but since DHL wasn't open, we couldn't get our papers before the flight left to Honolulu. So as long as there are seats open on the

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-85139035431879981372009-01-04T18:56:00.001-05:002009-01-04T19:26:02.486-05:00

So, we have been in the Marshall Islands for 30 days as of today. I think that this past year, I have lived in hotels more than I have lived anywhere else this year. (3 weeks in California, 5 weeks in Minnesota, and then so far, a month here....) well, maybe not more than anywhere else, but it sure feels like it.I am pretty much burnt out on being here. I know staying on a beautiful island sounds

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-1538166137281458142008-12-24T21:27:00.003-05:002008-12-24T21:52:32.093-05:00

Um...so I can't upload my Christmas pictures of the boys, the internet keeps going in and out, but I wanted to post and say Merry Christmas!!! It is Christmas today in the RMI, and we have experienced a ton of Marshallese festivities. Last night we went to a nondenominational church with our Attorney and his family and watched their Christmas program....they even asked us to go up and sing with

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-479006276787686992008-12-23T17:55:00.003-05:002008-12-23T18:24:51.458-05:00

So instead of playing in snow, we are here on a beautiful island playing in the sand. Liam loves it more than anything...its amazing how much he is like his daddy....he can stay at the beach all day long. I love these pictures of him. He was playing with a clam shell, and carried it around with him everywhere. It is currently in our bathroom sink because he couldn't bear to leave it at the beach.

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-64818269521656395352008-12-20T21:19:00.002-05:002008-12-20T21:33:55.662-05:00

This is Owen after church today. He is going to be 4 months-old tomorrow and wanted to put up these cute pictures of him.He is such a happy boy. He has the cutest giggle, and such a big smile. I keep trying to catch his smile on camera, but whenever he sees the camera he just stares at it waiting for it to flash. I caught half a smile in the 2nd picture here....

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I love this picture of Owens eyes!! He is seriously so adorable and so great! He hardly ever cries and totally spoils us as parents. We sleep great, he isn't up at night hardly at all, and goes right back to sleep after drinking a bottle. He LOVES the sound of the ocean and to get him to sleep we just swaddle him in a blanket and stand on the back porch and sway him so we can hear the waves. He

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-47084532322240468142008-12-12T17:46:00.003-05:002008-12-12T18:11:06.714-05:00

It took me like 1/2 hour to upload these 5 pics, or I would totally upload more. We have a million already.We finalized our adoption in court on the 9th. We had our appointment with the US Embassy on the 10th for the immigration process, and we overnighted our paperwork on Wednesday night. So, now, we are just waiting....will update again soon!!

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-82000683738466049252008-12-08T17:15:00.005-05:002008-12-08T17:57:38.224-05:00

I can't upload more pictures right now, but will do some soon. We are going to court later today to adopt Owen!!!

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-83966841453689620422008-11-20T01:02:00.004-05:002008-11-20T01:11:50.024-05:00

We are SO estatic!! We just found out a few hours ago that we have our court date assinged to us!!! We will have our new baby boy on December 9th!! This gives us just about 2 1/2 weeks to get tickets, get ready, and go!!Here is the e-mail from our adoption coordinator:dateWed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:58 PMsubjectFW: Court date Dec 9 at 2PMHi Danielle Court info from the attorney below. You may book a

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So, when we were in Kentucky, my sister urged me to read Twilight. It sounded like such a dumb book to me, with vampires...who reads about vampires...really??....I was just so not interested. I knew a ton of people that had read it and loved it (my mom even loved the books) so finally after some convincing, I thought I would try it. I was hooked instantly. It is so not like me to get into a

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So we were in Kentucky for just at a week and had a blast. We got great tickets on Southwest.com for $33/each way from Buffalo, so hopefully they will have that fare again someday. Liam fell asleep right after we got off the plan on our layover in Baltimore.-I was really sad to come home to New York because I would love to live near my sister and her family more than anything!! It's nice to be

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-55444910846529178962008-11-19T23:58:00.002-05:002008-11-20T00:03:46.830-05:00

(Kentucky trip continued...)My sister Jen is an expert at making kids happy for half the price...who knew you could ask the lady in the little snack bar to split the slurpees into two cups, so you get:4 slurpees for the price of 2....4 happy kids.....and no fighting over drinks... Zac kept sharing his slurpee with Jen. Every time Zac did this, Liam would give me his slurpee, totally copying Zac

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-11017956592715277362008-11-19T23:41:00.003-05:002008-11-19T23:55:21.777-05:00

(Kentucky trip continued...)Liam absolutely loves Zac, but was also not that great at sharing. What can I expect with him being an only child (for 2 more weeks). These pictures show what happens when Liam and Zac both wanted the same thing....They started out having fun, playing together... Then the fighting begins...see Liam's face...he wanted to play in it by himself....Bittersweet victory...

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(Kentucky trip continued...) One of the day's we were in Kentucky, Meg so didn't want to take a nap, so I told her she could take a nap with Liam. They were both so excited, it was cute. They both just laid down in Meg's bed, and fell asleep. I was totally expecting laughing and playing, but nope...they fell right asleep. Jen checked on them and they were all cuddled together, so I had to take a

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(Kentucky trip continued...)We do not have Costco near us in New York, so it was fun to go with my sister and her kids. Liam loved sharing a cart (but not the toys) with Zac. I thought it was a good opportunity for some cousin pics.... Liam was super cranky the ride home. His whole nap/bedtime schedule was messed up the whole time we were there, so this next picture cracks me up. Liam is

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-36342185838827158012008-11-19T22:53:00.001-05:002008-11-19T22:56:50.698-05:00

So, when we were in Kentucky, Liam wanted to play with these glasses all the time. He would fight with his cousin Zac and take them away from him and vice versa. So in this picture, Liam was so intent on wearing them so no one would take them away from him....He had them for a good hour while he ate his cereal and watched cartoons....I just think the pictures are so cute...he is so serious...

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-38337297626916278792008-11-19T22:47:00.001-05:002008-11-19T22:52:10.724-05:00

Last week Liam and I went to Kentucy to visit my sister and her family. My sister makes her kids waffles like every day, so one morning, I was making them for Meg and Ben, and decided to score brownie points with the kiddos by putting M&M's from their Halloween candy inside the waffless... I was the coolest Aunt....at least for breakfast. It's so much easier to give other people's kids a sugar

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-48711008590721815812008-11-05T12:54:00.003-05:002008-11-05T13:17:54.700-05:00

So, I told my sister Kaity about my awesome deal of the month (as I only buy stuff on clearance) and she keeps telling me to post a picture of it so she can see it...so here it is Kaity.I got this new comforter, shams, and bedskirt on clearance at Kohls,It was: $269.00I got it on Clearance (90% off) for $26.99and had a 20% off coupon, so...It was really like $21.00 for the whole set.... I made

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-10608356654674306292008-11-05T11:44:00.006-05:002008-11-05T12:55:13.778-05:00

Halloween was fun...I have a million more pictures to post from our Trunk-or-Treating at our church halloween party as well as our trip to Hershey, PA for the Halloween festivities there. But I thought for now, I would just start with Halloween night.Liam was a cow. I got this cute costume at Baby Gap, and I loved it.Here is Ryan and Liam's conversation over my choice of costume:(Note: Liam and

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-8559154048610129392008-10-19T23:39:00.002-04:002008-10-20T00:49:18.317-04:00

As some of you know, the adoption of the little girl that we were adopting fell apart. Everything was going perfectly and then on Monday, her paternal grandparents changed their minds and decided that they were going to raiser her instead, thus ending our adoption plans. .We were sad, but really felt that God had a plan for another baby to come to our family. The rush to adopt this little girl

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-2978889565188696992008-10-19T22:49:00.006-04:002008-10-20T00:04:56.666-04:00

So, Liam's birthday was a month ago and I still haven't posted his birthday pictures yet. So, here they are:Luckily, my mom and Logan were here to celebrate Liam's birthday. For lunch, we went to McDonalds playplace with some of Liam's little friends Natalie and Benjamin to get together and play with him.Birthday Boy Benjamin, Liam and NatalieNatalie and Liam Liam's favorite part...the

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-34952962736100269742008-10-16T23:24:00.006-04:002008-10-16T23:37:50.078-04:00

This is a video of our standard bedtime routine with Liam. We usually lay in his bed for like 20 minutes and read books and hang out. His favorite book is Five Little Monkeys Jumping on The Bed. We bought a huge version from Sam's Club, and the book is huge...like 2 feet tall. Liam loves to help me read it too. He is really cute when he finished my sentances for me...you'll hear him say "jumpin

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-8378611453602308742008-10-16T01:14:00.003-04:002008-10-16T01:41:05.448-04:00

Liam loves his letters. He is really smart and knows every single letter of the alphabet. He has known all of his capital letters for like four months, and we are working on the lower case letters. He calls the lowercase letters "baby" letters, like a lowercase d, is a baby "d".Anyway, the reason that Liam is so great at his letters is really mostly because of this leapfrog magnet set. He plays

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-50532785845884278552008-10-16T00:50:00.002-04:002008-10-16T01:13:10.390-04:00

Liam loves his little friend Natalie or "Nallie" as Liam says . She is a friend from church that he gets to play with in Nursery every Sunday and usually we get together during the week for the kids to play. She is the cutest little girl and they play great together. I got to babysit Natalie the other day while her mom was doing her PTA stuff, so Liam was in heaven having his friend over...I put

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-67225654579178306252008-10-16T00:37:00.002-04:002008-10-16T00:48:59.386-04:00

This picture represents my favorite part of living in New England...the foliage changing. This tree is right outside our back door, and we have watched it change from green to this reddish orange color over the past month. I think this the fall season is the thing that I have missed the most about New England when we lived in Florida and Georgia, so being back here is such a refreshing and

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-83366581240254923002008-10-16T00:20:00.006-04:002008-10-16T00:36:42.689-04:00

So, I am blogging tonight from Ryan's computer, because my laptop won't turn on, and I found this picture that he took inside one of the windturbines that he works on. I have never seen the inside, but this is not how I pictured it in my mind. But this is what he sees as he is climbing 300 feet on a daily basis. That is one tall ladder...They have three different levels to stop and rest on, so I

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-43589614673483039822008-10-15T23:33:00.008-04:002008-10-16T00:15:57.298-04:00

This week, for our Family Home Evening we had our friends the Bills over to carve pumpkins and watch the Gators play football. How it really turned out is that Liam, Karen and I carved pumpkins, while Ryan and Jared watched football. But we had a lot of fun.Here is Liam before carving the pumpkins. He kept trying to pick them up, but they weigh more than he does.Mommy and Liam carving pumpkins in

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-3600581516150389862008-10-15T23:24:00.002-04:002008-10-15T23:32:57.285-04:00

So yesterday, Liam's diaper was soaking wet, like weighing down his pants, that wet. He would not let me change it and kept running away from me. I finally caught him and changed his diaper. He was so upset that I took that diaper off of him. He cried for about 10-minutes for his old diaper saying "put it back, put it back". He wanted so badly for me to put the soaking wet diaper back on him. He

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-51531747401533766052008-10-09T10:19:00.003-04:002008-10-11T13:43:25.920-04:00

I was getting Liam dressed this morning and this was our conversation.Mommy: "Liam, you're so cute! Does anyone ever tell you how cute you are?"Liam: (Laughs/giggles) "Yeah"Mommy: "Really, who tells you you are cute?" (thinking he would say mommy)Liam: "ummm...Jesus."Mommy: "Yes, I'm sure Jesus does think you are cute too"On another note. We were at Liam's 2-year check up the other day, and there

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-76535796261797583272008-10-06T15:27:00.002-04:002008-10-06T15:33:53.510-04:00

Liam has been two-years-old for like two-weeks. He is struggling with an addiction problem with his bottle...like he WONT give it up at all.... (I think the doctor told us to give it up like a year ago, and I have totally been trying) So, whenever he asks for a bottle, I tell him that he is two now, and he is a big boy, so he cannot have a bottle anymore.Ya, so last night Ryan and I were eating

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-65711494177407432802008-10-04T21:22:00.014-04:002008-10-06T00:16:24.143-04:00

So, I have been waiting to post about this until we had a picture of the baby we are adopting, but it seems to be taking FOREVER to get more information.To make a long story short, we are adopting again!! YAY!! This time we are trying to adopt a 3 month-old little girl from the Marshall Islands (a groups of islands and atolls abour halfway between Hawaii and Austrailia). So far, we are expected

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-2006018801135804502008-09-28T21:53:00.003-04:002008-09-29T15:39:51.055-04:00

Liam loves to help cook, and it is always entertaining to have him help. We made these Jello Cheesecakes in cupcake cups the night before my parents came to visit in July (**ya...thats how behind I am on my blog.....it's Septemeber). Liam always helps me makes these things. His favorite parts are putting the cupcake papers in the pan, and tasting the mix over and over again. So if you ever eat

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-22677071918934262362008-09-28T21:18:00.004-04:002008-09-28T21:52:47.802-04:00

First Day Of Swim Lessons and other fun....We signed up for swim lessons at the YMCA this summer and Liam loved it most of the time. He was in the Pre-Pike class, so I thought it was a mommy and me type class, but it turned out to be more of a daddy and me class, because I was the only mom with a group of dads...kinda weird. One day Ryan got off work early and took him in, and I got to sit and

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-19638711219924550092008-09-26T00:42:00.004-04:002008-10-05T20:05:21.303-04:00

So, I love getting things for free, and I love teasing my husband. So he was impressed/embarassed/happy when he came home from work today and I was wearing this super-cool t-shirt I designed myself and got for almost free on Shutterfly.com. I had a $10 off $10 coupon, and free shipping, so I designed my "Best Husband Ever!!" t-shirt with the shock value hope. Anyway, he is the best husband ever

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-3791378074002074762008-09-20T17:01:00.005-04:002008-09-28T21:18:21.017-04:00

So my mom and brother Logan left yesterday morning, and I think Liam has said, "Where did Log-e-log-e go a million times since then. The whole time Logan was here, he was Liam's best friend and was so great at playing with him and entertaining him. Thank you Logan for taking such good care of Liam while you were here!! Liam totally looks up to Logan and wanted to be just like Logan, it was so

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-11952286832204890132008-09-19T01:04:00.002-04:002008-09-19T01:27:18.264-04:00

A few weeks ago, Ryan and I went to NH for a week and my parents gave us my little brother Brycen's old bedroom set for Liam. Ryan and I unloaded the heavy solid wood furniture by ourselves and I totally reinjured my back. I had hearniated a disk in my lower back in high school playing basketball. (A girl had pushsed me down...and after a steroid epidural and a ton of physical therapy I was fine

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-50372911519250065712008-09-15T13:02:00.001-04:002008-09-16T01:40:42.194-04:00

My Baby is TWO!! I was lying down with Liam tonight after his birthday party and was really overjoyed with how loving and amazing my little boy is. I was lying down in the bed with him to help him to go to sleep, and he put his arm under my neck and wrapped it around me and held me and said, "night mom". It is just the best feeling to be the mom to this amazing little boy!! Tender moments like

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-37714551816407872672008-09-10T22:09:00.006-04:002008-09-10T22:26:40.559-04:00

Liam's birthday is next week and I am so sad!! He is going to be two-years old!! My baby is getting so big so fast!! I got his two-year old pictures done when we were in New Hampshire last week, which I will post about later. My friend Erika is a great photographer and we hired her to do his 2 year pics because I wanted something different than the usual studio shots. She did a GREAT job!! There

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-8399303409390452832008-09-07T22:20:00.005-04:002008-09-07T23:21:46.021-04:00

Liam is amazing at his letters. He knows his whole alphabet and has begun to try and write. This is all totally on his own, he has basically taught himself with some help from Ryan and I. He loves to learn, and plays with his Leap Frog fridge magnets all the time. He started writing the letter "D" the other day, and I was amazed that he taught himself to do it. Of course he is the smartest little

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-45288058812306609702008-09-06T00:26:00.006-04:002008-09-06T00:46:18.219-04:00

I love Wegmans grocery store. It is the best grocery store I have ever been to. Not only do they have the best food ever, RedBox, and a restaurant inside the grocery store,  but they are super kid friendly. Liam loves to grocery shop now because he gets his own little cart every time we go. He knows it too because as soon as we walk in, he says "Liam's cart" over and over again until we get to

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-51308121383571128412008-08-30T15:37:00.005-04:002008-08-30T15:58:30.382-04:00

So this is Liam's favorite Aunt Kaity when she wakes up in the morning....And this is her seven hours later after she finished her hair and makeup....And this has no explanation. All I can say is I am proud to call her my sister! Love ya KT!!

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-39428584642264039652008-08-25T14:57:00.006-04:002008-08-25T19:25:22.324-04:00

Ryan and I found this adorable Missionary Bank when we had gone to Palmyra. I thought it was a great way to get Liam excited to save for his mission! So one afternoon, we spent forever just transferring his money from his old piggy bank into this new adorable one. Liam loves putting money in it, so we would always give him our change and he would run and want to put it in there. Anyway, while we

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-72308416862044716032008-08-25T14:17:00.006-04:002008-08-25T14:49:56.214-04:00

Just a few cute pictures from an afternoon of making silly faces. Liam is getting really good at them. I love his eyes too...so big!!

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-83802011554604877982008-08-20T18:54:00.000-04:002008-08-23T00:00:29.403-04:00

A few weeks ago we went up to Palmyra, NY for the Hill Cumorah Paegeant. The hill Cumorah Paegeant tells a large part of our church's history with a live performance on an outdoor stage built into the hill. It is quite amazing how wonderful the performace and costumes are. This performance is put on for two-weeks every summer where the story of the Book of Mormon, and how our church was restored

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-30944612662831687792008-08-19T11:33:00.002-04:002008-08-19T11:37:04.454-04:00

Hey Dad,Happy Birthday today!! We miss you!Love,Dan, Ryan, and LiamI found this picture of you from 1974...

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-73521815548457510082008-08-14T18:14:00.004-04:002008-08-14T18:53:41.945-04:00

MOVING OUTSo we moved about a month ago from Georgia to New York. Ryan is working on a windmill site here in Cohocton, New York. It is a pretty big site, so we will be here for a lot longer than first expected. We rented an apartment in a small town called Painted Post where we are renting a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment. It is near Corning, NY, home of Corning...the company that created

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-1781690980270098952008-08-14T17:12:00.006-04:002008-08-14T18:14:22.480-04:00

When we were in Minnesota...like 2 months ago, we had stayed with our friend JoDell. She was kind enough to entertain Liam and I for a few days and we had a great time with her and her kids. She brought us to the Mall Of America in Minneapolis not once, but two-times to shop and play. It was great....Liam LOVED the rides and playing with Bella and Parker. It really is the biggest mall I have ever

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-80937383896102798152008-08-13T00:12:00.004-04:002008-08-13T01:05:37.379-04:00

Tonight we went to Wal-Mart to get ink for our printer. It was like 8:30 pm, Liam was in his pajamas, and he wasn't wearing shoes so we just carried him in. We did the usual of putting him in the child seat of the cart and putting on his seat belt. We got halfway down the isle and he started crying saying "I'm stuck, I'm stuck" I grabbed his fingers thinking that they were stuck between the bars,

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-12896435042025507362008-08-03T00:34:00.008-04:002008-08-03T01:21:58.628-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN(36 Days Later....)We celebrated Ryan's birthday in Minnesota. He got home at 9pm after working a 14-hour day. I had ordered him dinner from the hotel restaurant. His birthday cake was a piece of turtle cheesecake that was sooo good!!So, sometimes I like to do things that make Ryan crack-up. He is kinda shock proof, but he thought it was pretty funny how hilarious Liam looked

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-1700534248752195042008-08-02T23:57:00.003-04:002008-08-03T00:33:58.588-04:00

One night when we were in Minnesota, we went out to eat at a local restaurant. We ordered Liam a chicken fingers kids meal which he loves. Liam had eaten some of his meal fine, but then he began to choke. It wasn't the coughing choking, it was this weird whistle noise and his eyes got really big and he couldn't breathe. His face got bright red and everything just happened so fast. Ryan was

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-61663088221092247652008-07-29T21:57:00.005-04:002008-07-29T22:13:26.837-04:00

Tonight I was talking to my sister Jen on the phone and Liam bit me super hard on my leg. He has totally had a biting problem lately...I blame Ryan because Ryan play bites his feet to tickle him, so Liam thinks its funny to play bite. But this was not a play bite. He was trying to get my attention and it totally worked.We were just at Jen's house a few days, ago, and Liam had bitten his cousin

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-86445362551894051082008-07-22T01:14:00.005-04:002008-07-22T01:34:25.365-04:00

I absolutely love bath time with Liam, here are a few reasons why...Can it get any funner than this??

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-61168391257119828352008-07-21T23:45:00.012-04:002008-07-22T02:11:17.675-04:00

So as I had posted about before, Ryan was sent to Minnesota right from his training in California. Liam and I flew home for a few days (started packing our apartment, did some laundry, paid the bills and grabbed warmer clothes for Ryan) and then flew to Minnesota to be with him. We stayed in this amazing mountain ski and golf resort in a one bedroom suite for almost a month. Ryan was working on

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-77830175778111200132008-07-18T23:45:00.004-04:002008-07-19T13:02:18.550-04:00

I have been talking (e-mailing) my friend Shannon recently, and she wrote a post about our conversation on miscarriage. What stemmed the recent discussion is thinking about the what could have been. A month ago, we were in Minnesota, it was June 11th, and I just had a really bad day. It was my due date, and it really had brought back all my emotions and sadness about losing our baby several

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-20833728401111583692008-07-15T00:53:00.002-04:002008-07-15T02:06:04.832-04:00

So, I have been meaning to post about these stories for a while, but have been so busy. I was in church on Sunday and they just kept popping in my head of all these cute things Liam does that I don't want to ever forget, so I wrote them down with a crayon, and decided to post them before I really do space it."Pray-Pray"A few months ago, Liam got totally into saying prayers. We do our dinner pray

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-22651571243408869612008-07-08T14:49:00.006-04:002008-07-08T18:22:30.671-04:00

California trip continued...Sunday after church we went for a drive to see the San Diego Temple. Neither of us had seen it before, so being that we were so close, we were excited to go. I have always thought it was the prettiest temple from pictures, and my roommate it college always said she was going to get married there because it looked like a castle, so I had high expectations. It really was

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-18888016456361545872008-06-24T02:25:00.012-04:002008-07-08T14:47:28.943-04:00

Finally some time to catch up on my blogging, because as of now, I am like 5 weeks behind....it totally weighs on me, like when I used to write in my journal in high school, or middle-school, or whenever, if I got too far behind, I felt like I had to make everything up before I could write current stuff....so here I go....catching up.Ok, so to catch up on our trip to California, we had spent the

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-3341816387565337002008-06-23T11:50:00.005-04:002008-06-23T11:56:33.538-04:00

This is my sister Kaitlyn and her friend Tony....I thought I would post this picture, mainly for my friend Laura Gilbert, so she can see how cool Kaity is now!! I thought maybe Kaity would get embarassed, but then I thought again....wait...she posted this picture online first, so its free range, right?Oh, Kaity was dressing up pretending to go to the prom....Tony did her make-up for her. They

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-19432226987022094692008-06-17T01:13:00.002-04:002008-06-17T01:34:37.168-04:00

Liam and I flew to Minnesota last Sunday to stay with Ryan on his business assignment. I haven't been able to update my blog because our internet is SO slow at our hotel, so pictures won't upload. Ryan's training and on the job training is finally over and he is now a "Wind Turbine Commissioner". I guess what he does is after the turbine windmills are built and set up, he goes in to make sure

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-9874234848251276322008-06-06T00:25:00.002-04:002008-06-06T00:35:04.173-04:00

Liam is still adjusting to Eastern Standard Time from being in California for three-weeks, so he has been staying up late. Tonight, I was doing my homework and Liam was watching Finding Nemo, once again. One scene, a shark is chasing Nemo's father and his friend Dori. To escape from the shark, they shoot a missile from a sunken ship and it creates a massive explosion under the water and scares

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-51533435007018126282008-05-28T18:08:00.008-04:002008-05-30T04:02:59.673-04:00

So we went to the San Diego Zoo on Saturday with our best friends from when we lived in New Hampshire, the Gilberts. We had just seen them two-months ago when we were stuck in Utah, so it was cool to see them again so soon. They were on a family vacation here in California and did the whole Disney thing and all. So we caught up with them at the end of their trip when they spent a few days in San

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-66071993977663434452008-05-28T17:43:00.003-04:002008-05-28T18:07:25.224-04:00

This past weekend we drove 4 hours to San Diego for the long weekend. On our way, we decided to take a break and drive through Hollywood for a quick sightseeing tour. It was like 2 hours into our drive, so we were ready for a break. We drove down Hollywood Blvd. and saw all the stars on the sidewalks with the hand-prints, tons of street performers, and this totally weird guy who painted his whole

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-16804115427530146302008-05-27T17:50:00.003-04:002008-05-28T17:42:43.140-04:00

A week ago, we went to CALM (California Living Museum) in Bakersfield, CA. It basically had a bunch of snakes and birds and wildlife here in California including mountain lions, bears, and all that. Liam loved the snakes and says "snaaaake" all the time. It was SO hot that day at like 104 degrees. We planned on staying for a while, but it was so hot, we left after an hour. We did manage to take a

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-45813723588731645872008-05-23T02:19:00.007-04:002008-05-23T04:09:43.355-04:00

FINDING NEMOMy friend Tiffany's little boy Dylan, loves Finding Nemo. Liam had never seen it, and I have only seen bits and pieces of it myself (until this week). Anyway, all the "Backyardigans", "Little Einsteins", and "Wonder Pets" that I downloaded on iTunes for Liam to watch while we were in California didn't load onto my iPod before we left, so I bought Liam "Finding Nemo" the other day at

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-35393901106812661792008-05-21T04:05:00.008-04:002008-05-21T19:27:07.606-04:00

These are windmills for wind power generation located in Tehachapi, California where we are staying. The reason why wind farms are so big here are because this area lies in a low mountain pass between the Central (San Joaquin) Valley and the high desert near Mojave. Pressure and temperature differences between the two areas create consistent winds to power the windmills.This was my first time to

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-37830333706759345232008-05-21T01:07:00.010-04:002008-06-12T12:46:50.570-04:00

So we are in California. We have been so far for nine-days and I love it out here. It is beautiful!! I guess we are in the desert, and the mountains...the Mojave desert is like 20-minutes away. Here is a picture of our scenery. Not the best picture, but this is what we see for miles, just hilly mountains and brown. But it is totally pretty. Anyway, We got here last Sunday, and are staying at a

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Last Sunday, for Mothers Day, Ryan bought me a ticket to California so Liam and I could go with him on his business trip. His training was in Tehachapi, CA (which I have never heard of before). His plane ticket, hotel, and rental car are all paid for by his company, plus he is given per diem pay for food and incidentals, so we were more than happy to come along for a free vacation. He is

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Hi, I'm Liam and this is my Daddy's idea of funny. Mommy asked Daddy to get my pajamas on me, and this is what he chose. He sent me out in the living room looking like this and all mommy could do is laugh. When I am twelve, I am going to resent him for these pictures.

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Liam loves to dance and he loves music just like Ryan. For Ryan, if the TV is not on, then the radio is. He always needs something to listen to. For me, I just want a few minutes of peace and quiet once in a while. But, when I am cleaning, I usually like to listen to music.Anyway, Ryan has started this thing with Liam where he turns the music on really loud and they dance across the living room

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When Ryan got home from Texas two weeks ago, Liam had a blast going through Ryan's bag when he was unpacking (for three days...and repacking to head out to California). Ryan had two hard hats, his harness, and tons of climbing equipment for his job. Liam probably wore the hard hat all day. Ryan decided to dress Liam up in the harness and all. I bet the harness weighs as much as Liam does. That

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When Ryan was in Texas, Liam and I got pretty bored so my friend Kelly brought us to the Warner Robins Airforce Base to feed the ducks. Her and her husband used to live on base, so she knew of this cute park with ducks. I had never been on a base before, except once in high school with my boyfriend and his parents, but that was just to one building and then back out. Driving around the base

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I have posted before how Liam loves helping me with laundry. Last week, I had started taking clothes out of the dryer and got distracted with something and when I walked back by the dryer, Liam was having a blast playing with all of his clothes, inside the dryer. I guess you can see how big of a dryer we have because he looks small in there.(On a side note, I absolutely love my washer and dryer.

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Once we got back from Utah, Ryan gave his notice to the airline he was working for, so I decided to take one last (free) trip before our tickets were gone. Liam and I went home to New Hampshire to visit my family for a few days. It was a quick trip, and I didn't have time to see any of my friends that I wanted to see, but I had to get back to Georgia because Ryan was leaving the next week for

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So when we were in Utah, I didn't take any pictures until the end of the week. I wasn't really in the mood to for a few reasons: 1. I was wearing like the same clothes every day due to our luggage being lost and felt gross.2. I got food poisoning from some chicken restaurant and threw up all night Tuesday night, so I felt gross for a few days, and 3. Overall lack of sleep made me not my

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I wanted to say thanks to everyone who purchased one of my baby wipes cases or tutu's. I have raised almost enough to begin our homestudy ($1000) which hopefully we can start in the next few months. In case anyone has my link to my boutique, it wont work anymore. I am taking a break from the e-bay business and have closed my online store. The e-bay fees are too expensive, so I decided to stop

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-41133551742844920822008-05-02T02:09:00.011-04:002008-05-14T13:31:38.672-04:00

Ryan left for Texas on Monday for his new job with Granite Services Inc working on Wind Turbines. He is having a great time in Texas and today he was telling me that they were going to jump off windmills, or rappel down them and learn about safety. It makes me nervous, but he says he will be ok, so I have to believe him, or I would live every day totally freaked out. So this morning, I knew that

Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12030466689365175466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776087235371312747.post-75253859709717730572008-04-29T15:16:00.006-04:002008-04-30T12:12:16.736-04:00

A few weeks ago we planned a trip to Spokane to see Ryan's brother and his family. We Flew from Atlanta to Oklahoma City, then from Oklahoma City to Salt Lake. However, we did not get on the flight from Salt Lake to Spokane. We knew this was a risk flying stand-by with Delta, but it was free, so we didn't mind the risk. We tried again the next day to go to Spokane again, but that is the day that

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Liam loves taking baths and showers. He would take three a day if we let him. The other day, I didn't have a towel by me when I was getting him out of the bath, so I just grabbed the hand towel until I could go into the other bathroom and get a real towel to dry him off. The hand towel was a perfect size to wrap around his waist like Ryan does. Liam laughed and then ran across the living room in

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