Monday, June 16, 2008

Here goes nothing...

Okay, so I begged Craig to dump myspace and become a blogger (is that even a term?) - So I need to post something to make him feel the LoVe.

Tonight I am going to go off on a tangent. Why---because I can I guess. I think being a mom is the hardest job to do in the entire world. Take tonight for instance, my lovely daughter nicknamed "the devil wears carters" decided to draw an imaginary line in the carpet and challenge me for the fourth time this evening. I swear I wanted to pull every last one of my chin hairs out (yes you do get those as a result of motherhood). I told her to go to time out and gave my meanest face and the pointy finger I use to remind her where time out it located. You know what she did? She looked me square in the face and said "love you mommy... dont cry." Well needless to say I started crying and she started pretending to cry which made me laugh and then we sat and hugged on the floor by the time out spot. Oh the hormones in our future... Look out.

Hmmm - okay blogging is kind of fun. I will be back for more.

Happy Father's Day


I was very fortunate this Father's Day! This is my first Father's Day with both Norah and Kellen and to celebrate, they got me a customed carved bear with a personalized fire helmet, axe and flashlight. It stands about 2 feet tall, and is placed in our flower bed near our front side-walk. For those who have been to our house, this carving was done at the carving shop along Hwy 3 in Allyn. They did a great job! You will have to stop by to truly appreciate the craftmanship. Thank you Norah and Kellen (and Katie too!:)

Friday, June 13, 2008



This is a little late, but Craig wants to brag about his softball team's 2nd place finish at the Olympia Firefighters 39th Annual Softball Tournament. In the Championship Game, we lost by 1 run in extra innings to a team of "firefighters" from Mukilteo (who were actually a bunch of ringers who had bad attitudes...but that is a different story)

Picture is our team photo after winning the 2nd place trophy.

Monday, June 2, 2008

OK Already


After being hounded, abused, and verbally assaulted by Heidi Rinkel, we are blogging. This post is mostly to appease certain "people" who refer to us (or me I should say) as "fake" bloggers (or perhaps "floggers"?) So I am going to add a really funny picture of Kellen and his favorite puppy named Harley. Harley is only 14 months old and just loves Kellen. Harley lives with our friends The McGanney's. I should mention that Harley is not your typical "puppy." He is a Great Dane, already weighs about 150lbs, and when he stands on his hind legs, stands about 6'0 tall. But these two get along famously.