Life with the Gs

Friday, November 23, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving--Take 2 (&3)

We had Thanksgiving at my mom's on Wednesday, which also was her birthday. Happy birthday again Mom!! We had a good time and good food. After dinner and everything G2 puked all over Matt. That wasn't much fun, but other than that I think the day/evening went pretty well.

G3 eating an apple

G1-not quite sure what he was doing

G3-she's actually spitting in this picture

G2-playing with Uncle Jacob

G1 and Aunt Marcia

G2 and G3 eating Jell-o

G3 loving the Jell-o

G2-she thinks the Jell-o is 'okay'

Matt and the kids all enjoying Jell-o (no Jell-o is not the only thing they ate--it's just the only thing I got a picture of them eating)

G2 and G3 riding the horse

G3 climbed up on top of the ottoman thing--she's getting so big!

Yesterday (real Thanksgiving Day) we had Thanksgiving with Matt's family. We finally got to see his grandma's new house-which is real nice by the way. We had a good time but had to leave right after eating. I didn't take the camera so I have no pictures to post from then.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!

Monday, November 19, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving--Take 1!

We had our first Thanksgiving of the year yesterday at my dad's. The girls (and G1) had a lot of fun. I had to share pictures from their first Thanksgiving celebration.

G2 and G3 being goofy

Uncle Ricky and Ginny

G1 and Aunt Mallory

G1-he was supposed to be saying "Cheese" but I'm not sure what he was doing. :-)

I was trying to get a picture of the girls together, but G3 didn't want G2 to be seen.

G2 (and Grandpa Prickett in the background)

Cousin Lydia wearing Aunt Marcia's shoes.

The dog bites

I finally got a few pictures of the dog bites on Matt's fingers. The pictures aren't the best-the sun was too bright-and they don't look as bad as they had-because they've had a few days to heal. He says his fingers are still hurting a little-which I don't think it helped that G2 decided to bite one of his wounds.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Babies and permanent markers do NOT mix!

And this is why:

G1 got ahold of a permanent marker and decided to make G2 "Pretty".

Thursday, November 15, 2007

11 Months Old

Today G2 and G3 are 11 months old. This year has just flown by. Every month it is unbelievable to my how big they are getting. G2 is able to stand on her own-for just a few seconds at a time. But it's great. She's very timid and doesn't really try it much-but she can do it! G3 still hasn't tried, but I'm sure she could too. Both can say a few words each. One of their newest words is "Rub". They say "Rub, rub, rub". My mom taught G1 to say "Rub, rub, rub" when he would hit someone-so then he will rub instead of hit. Well, it has 'rubbed' off on the girls a little.

We have found a house that we will be buying on contract. It is a pretty big house and needs a lot of work, but I love it. The garage is pretty nice and it's big so of course Matt loves that. It's got a nice big yard for the kids to play in. I'm pretty excited about this, but I'm nervous too. We will be moving out of Iowa sometime around the New Year probably. I'm glad it's not too far of a drive (about an hour) so we can still come back fairly often to see our friends and family that will still be here.

We've been pretty busy, but not much new is going on-other than the house. So, I guess it is picture time. :-)

G2 and G3

G2 and G3--"I've got your face!"

G2 and G3

G3 (she wasn't really in the mood to get her picture taken)

G2 and G3--Best Friends

G2 and G3-I think G3 was wondering what G2 was going to do with the shoes!

G3 (and half of G2's face)

G2 and G3

G1 got jealous and wanted his picture taken.

*ETA-I forgot to say--Matt got bit Tuesday night by his parents dog. It's not bad at all. The dog just got 2 of his fingers. I was going to get pictures of it today to post, but we ran out of time. Matt was calm as could be when it happened but it sure scared me!

Monday, November 12, 2007

Let's see those teeth!

G2-Not the best shot of her teeth, but that's as good as it gets

G3 (again)

Look it's Uncle Ricky's teeth!!

Thanks to Aunt Marcia (Dar-da to G1 :-) ) here is another picture of G2 and it shows her teeth really well.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Halloween treats

Rick sometimes takes treats for FHE (Family Home Evening) with the YSA (Young Single Adults). For Halloween week (October 29th) he decided to do rice crispy treats. We/he used food coloring and dyed them orange and then put Jack-O-Lantern faces on them. Here they are: (Rick's 2 looked better than my one.)

200,000 Miles

I was going to post this last week when it happened but forgot.

While we were driving to Peoria last Tuesday they van reached 200,000 miles. And I got a picture. Nothing really special about this I just had to share. :-)

Oh, and this is what my wonderful husband was doing when it happened. (He will kill me if he knows I posted this picture-but I don't care because he never looks at the blog anyway.)