April 30, 2016

February March and April

Life has been pretty good.  Kinda busy but still good.  Brent is enjoying rotations. Anything is better than last year, lol


These last few weeks I've been really focusing on getting a painting done before we go out to Utah at the end of the month to visit because I'm giving it to my mom.  It's a large painting so I'd rather not mail it.... and i want to see her reaction. :)  Luckily Sanna loves to paint with me.  Unluckily the house doesn't clean itself.  Nor does the laundry fold itself... Guess it's time to put my little minions to work!
Sanna and I are home alone for a lot of the day and since I've been painting so much she has to entertain herself a bit. Every two hours I stop to take a picture of the painting and sometimes I have to stop and take a pic of her cuteness.  My instagram shows some of her really awesome paintings she has done while we paint together.


Chico has been on a baking stint. He loves trying to make things from his own recipes. They don't always turn out great, these cookies weren't too bad though! 



Always love it when Brent is able to join us for fun things like easter egg decorating! He documents it so well and I get to concentrate on having fun decorating the eggs with the kids!
















So sweet when she's crying.

She loves when I draw her, so I drew this for one of her eggs...







and so naturally I had to draw one of Griz...







 they even got to sneak and eat a few that day...

Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday Morning...




 it was nice having a yard again to do the hug hunt in. I love our yard!

Who needs easter baskets anyway right? Heh heh, yeah forgot that detail this year. :) Brent got oranges and strawberries instead of a bunch of candy. We did get one little package of reeses pieces for each of them though. 

And some more pictures of the kids trying to be with me while I'm painting. They set up a nice comfy spot by the warm sliding glass door and were chillaxing.



Thank goodness the kids were such good sports about me getting the painting done. I spent over 80 hours on the painting. Definitely at least half or three quarters of that time was while they were awake.  Thank you kids for being wonderful models for the painting and letting me finish it in time for the trip!

That's my painting set up. She got up on my stool when I was taking a picture of the painting.

Not exactly sure where she learned push-ups I haven't done any in several months, lol.







3/11/16 Griz lost his first tooth! Chico is holding it in the pic above. He was pretty excited for his bro.


This cute Grizzly Bear is always keeping us laughing. The other day he said the prayer for dinner and halfway through he stops and says, "and now I'll say it in Spanish"...and starts babbling in some made up Spanish. Brent was annoyed because he thought Griz was trying to be silly so he opened his eyes and turned to remind him not to be silly while praying but discovered Griz had the most intense concentration on his face. So we just sat and silently laughed (maybe not as silent as we should have been actually). As soon as he finished (he had to tell us he was done by saying "that was amen in Spanish") and Chico reaches for his fork shaking his head and said under his breath "super weird". Love these silly kids. And I think it's time to start teaching Griz Spanish.



Well, I feel like a lot more happened in this 3 month time period than I have documented. But with this account and Instagram combined it's pretty accurate I guess! Brent did two family practice rotations and a pediatrics rotation.  He really enjoyed his first rotation at a rural family practice clinic the most. His preceptor was awesome and he loved the small town feel.  It was a great way to start out the year.

February 15, 2016

January

 January was spent installing the dishwasher, fixing the sink and completely redoing the walls and floor of the bathroom. It took a lot of time. Brent was such a hard worker though and he got it to look so nice.  I can't believe all that he did last month with his rotation in Gleason and all. He loved his first rotation, really enjoyed the people he worked with and really enjoyed doing family practice. He also seemed to really enjoy doing the remodeling work too.  It was just overall a pretty happy month.  Which is funny considering how we were without a kitchen sink with hot water and the dishwasher installation wasn't seamless and we had to take baths instead of showering for a couple weeks.  We still were just so much happier than we've been. :) Maybe it's partly because he didn't have to go to Bethel for school for most of the month... ;)

I worried I'd miss the beautiful view we had from our apartment here in Paris.  Well one morning I was looking out into our backyard and noticed the cardinals, blue jays, and squirrels going crazy collecting acorns.  It was so much fun to watch.  I actually love our new view. The magnolia tree is just such a nice part of this yard and the birds just love it. These pictures would have been better had I been outside but cardinals are pretty skiddish so I didn't want to scare them away so I took the pictures from inside the window. 




 January also brought with it a few snow days! A little bit of snow goes a long way here in Tennessee and the kids sure had a fun time playing in it.




The kids insisted on getting out the skis when it snowed.  It snowed more a few days later and we got to take the skis to our friend's house. They had a pretty awesome hill to go down in the back.  The kids also got to go sledding at their house and boy o boy did they love that. I even took a couple turns, it's been way too long.

Crazy kid (and daddy) it was actually really cold out there...

On one of the snow days I worked on my painting a bit and the kids joined me at different times. They all really wanted the chance to paint with mommy!




That's my painting in the background... my goal is to get it done by April!

This cute kid convinced me to buy a big package of these little sausage biscuits from walmart. He ate so many of them!



It was actually really good snowman making snow. These cute kids worked as a team and made a snowman together.





She was being too dang cute drinking her hot chocolate... so many cute pictures below...







Savannah the princess rockstar.

She did a little performance for Grandma and Grandpa on FaceTime...


And a little dance number with Daddy...

My heart is so happy having a yard again.
 We love to dig!

Careful Chico...

One day it got kinda quiet and I went to find where Sanna had wandered off to and this is how I found her... outside playing in the leaves.  Such a cutey pie.



I blowed Sanna's hair dry for church and it looked so pretty.  I just had to take a picture of how beautiful and clean and well dressed she was that morning. :)


Sanna has been obsessed with drawing lately. In this picture below she fell asleep while she was drawing. In fact this isn't the only time she's fallen asleep drawing.  She also fell asleep the other day sitting on the office chair drawing.  Her little hand was still busy drawing but her eyes were closed and she was nodding off.