This past weekend, on New years Day, we celebrated Christmas with The Caskey's! The boys had a great time and even though they got exactly the same toy's they still fought over which was "mine" At times I found myself just watching them fight and yell at each other over stuff instead of intervening because I never get to see Chasen act that way lol. we got Garin a race car that he can paint himself!! we also went over to great grandmas to do christmas with her!
We just had a baby calf. Ean got home from work and decided he better go check and she had just had it. He called me and Chasen and I brought a towel to dry it off! She had probably only had him 10 min before we got out there! It looks healthy hasn't stod yet, but just had its first poop!
we dont know if its a boy or girl so we dont have a name yet But, Ill keep ya posted!
Where it went?! We came home last Sunday to a Winter wonderland. There wasn't any snow on the ground in Nebraska, but there was at home!
Now all that snow is gone and its just brown out. But the sun has been shining the last couple of days and that has me happy. This winter has been not as harsh at the last 3. I hope I didnt speak to soon!! Chasen and I stayed home yesterday and we got to play outside for almost 2 hours! we picked up sticks shot baskets
and chased the goats and cows around! and stepped in poop! before this video he was making the puke sound when he stepped in the poop
He also drove his Jeep, which he is really bad at driving because he doesn't get the concept of steering it lol
In the morning I had to go to the U of I and get some blood work done. we were there for 2 1/2 hours because I had to do a 2 hour glucose test. I was nervous to hold Chasen on my lap while they filled 4 vials of blood, but he did good! I though he might try to touch it, but he was just happy it wasn't him, when she started to poke me he started whining and I told him just mommy was getting poked not him. and he was happy with that! we just stayed in the hosp. for the 2 hours because I didn't want to loose my good parking spot! We walked around allot, looked at the piano that plays its self, rode the elevator and escalator and sat in the main lobby and played trucks. He did really good until it was time to go back upstairs then we got off the elevator and he just laid on the floor, we were about 15min early so I just let him lay there as people walked by and made comments, after 15min I picked him up and told him it was time to go and he screamed bloody murder, and I couldn't make him stop. We checked in got to the waiting room and he was being okay, then he decided he wanted his animal crackers, but then he didn't want them(he does this all the time, its an independence control thing) and threw them on the floor spilling them so i picked them up and the almost full bag and threw it all away!
I don't know any of the results and honestly they don't really matter. They are just testing certain hormones during my cycle to confirm that I do have PCOS. We will go in sometime between this Friday and next Friday for the IUI. Im getting really excited and I hope Im not let down ;(
Hello 2011! I don't make resolutions so I dont have much to write about but we went out last night with Amy and Dan in Clarence, IA and had a great time! I think this is the 3rd New Year I have rung in with Ames!! :)
The only thing I hope for in the new year is a new baby! and thats about the only expectation I have :)
Chasen was at Grammies for New Years and believe it or not he was awake to ring in the new year with Grammie!
No one can tell me how it got started but they say it started either a year before I was born or a few years after, either way its been a tradition on Christmas night for about 20 years!
My grandparents have lived in the same house with the same neighbors, The Fulton's across the street for about 40 years?? or so. My grandparents and the Fulton's had children the same age and they all had fun playing together as kids. Both houses have big picture windows that face each other, so you can see right into the other person's house. well, sometime about 20 years ago. Im assuming it started because my mom and her siblings and the Fulton kids were all back from college, and back for the holidays. They started a light war.
First it started as one family flickering their lights and then they would shut all the lights off and make a formation...say a human pyramid, then they would turn the lights back on for the Fulton's to see, then the Fulton's would return the favor.
Somewhere along the lines things changed to what it is today and what I always remember it being. Light Wars. at some point on Christmas night after dinner we will all (or some of us will) be sitting the front room and BAM! there will be lights flashing in our eyes!! That means the light war is on!! People start yelling and searching for their flashlights like mad people(santa usually brings flashlights in our stockings) then turn off all the lights and start flashing!! It changes every year sometimes we start it and sometimes they do!
and one time they weren't home so we made a poster and sat on their porch and took a picture with our flashlights in hand, printed the pics and left it at their house!
It is a competition, whoever has the biggest lights wins! One year we wrapped my uncle up in Christmas lights and sent him outside. One year they blinded us with a huge work lamp One year I picked up the floor lamp and flashed it off and on. This year we thought about having burning torches but then they caught us off gaurd and we just used our flash lights and a couple of years while this was going on random cars drove by and stopped in the street because they were confused!
Either way it ends with both families meeting in the middle of the street for hugs and maybe a Christmas carol or 2:) I bet we are the only families in the world with this tradition!
we arrived in columbus on christmas eve around 10pm and then stayed up until midnight because Chasen and Lily wanted to play together for a while and Chasen wouldnt go to sleep! My grandma had taken down the stockings and lily was concerned... santa came and rang his bells around 7am to wake us up to open our gifts! Lily asked Santa for a snowman. Santa didn't bring snow but he brought the stuff to make a snowman!! chasen opening his stocking with great granny and eating peanuts with great grandpa Then we had a Christmas morning hair cut! finished product!! lookin good:) we ate lunch and then started in on all the piles. granny & grandpa spoil us! jackson got a knife...scary Lily and all her loot!! granny and Auntie Lisa chasen coming outside for his big gift from mom and dad!!! Alyssa and I Later that afternoon we went to visit great great grandma chasen was a hit at the nursing home in his santa suit!
5 generations on christmas! Then we had Tom and Jerry's! Eggnog, rum and brandy!
This past weekend, on New years Day, we celebrated Christmas with The Caskey's!
