Hannah's new endeavor

I am working on starting a business making and selling baby shoes and flower hair clips. Give me a call if you want to order some. I will have a website up and running soon I hope!

Safe Kids Convention

Heather and I went to the Safe Kids convention this week with our kids and it was so much fun. Israel got a balloon sword, his face painted like a monster and a fire engine hat along with a terrifying lesson of why we need to give matches to our parents if found, and so much more. There was lots of learning and lots of fun.

Sick baby

Israel just got over a bad case of croup which was so hard. He was always exhausted but had a hard time sleeping. He would cry himself to sleep sometimes because he just felt so horrible. Since he is in a toddler bed now he can get out easily. These are some pictures of ways I found him sleeping that week.

Random pics

Sledding

I haven't updated this in forever so as usual get used to like 10 updates at once but these are some pictures of Israels first time sledding!

Hey there!

It has been a while since I have had a spare minute to get online and let you know how we are doing. We have been doing fantastic. Jacob started his new semester and is loving the new classes. Israel has been upgraded to a big boy bed which he takes very seriously. The other night he decided he wasn't going to go to bed so he got out and opened his door and climbed onto my bed and jumped on me yelling "I found you!" Jacob and I had a good laugh about that before we sent him back to bed. Unfortunately we have had the flu here more often than I would like to admit. It seems like as soon as one of us gets over the other one gets it and it has been this way for a few weeks. Israel has started a new tradition of giving a million kisses at night. I think it is his way of postponing bed time but it's so funny I don't mind. He is learning and growing so fast. He amazes me everyday by all the words he comes up with that I never remember teaching him. It is so exciting to watch him grow before our eyes.

Bears and Monsters

Tonight we went to Thanksgiving Point which is a really fun place with shopping and a barn and dinosaur museum and what not. For Christmas they have Santa there to take pictures with and real Norwegian reindeer to look at and touch. They also have a area that you can drive through with your car and see Christmas lights. We went and saw the reindeer first and Israel was thrilled. I told him about how reindeer pull Santa's sleigh and he was really excited. Then we drove through to see the lights where they had several polar bear statues and more. He was really excited to see the polar bears and kept yelling "bears!" for about 15 minutes. When we got home I told Israel we had to go to bed so that we could be one day closer to when Santa came. I asked him if he remembered what pulled Santa's sleigh and he said "Yeah, bears" then he paused and said, "and monsters!" I couldn't stop laughing.