family pictures

A few weeks ago, we had family pictures taken. Here are some of the pictures....By the way they turned out, you wouldn't know that Jaela was a holy terror the entire time we were trying to take pictures... luckily our photographer was fast, and with digital technology, we were able to crop and edit a few pictures to get what I wanted, too.

Pictures...

Jagger and Uncle Bver taking the mower for a drive... without the blade!
Giving each other some love on Easter!
Our Puppy... I don't know why this is added.
Jaela eating a stick... nice boots!
Jagger and Jaela going for a cruise in the jeep. He drives and she loves to ride!

April Update

Sorry no pictures this time... we've been having battery problems with our camera, so we were unable to take pictures of the exciting things we did this month... So we will just have a written report.

A few weeks ago, we went to Des Moines to see Aunt Jos and Uncle Bob and baby Jacob. We went the week before Jacob's 1st birthday... and had an Easter egg hunt, which Jagger enjoyed. We also got to pick up daddy's new toy, a drum sander. this is a big tool that will Make Daddy's job easier.

This past week was an exciting one. First, on Thursday, we had free tickets to see the circus. There were elephants, and lions and monkeys, and high wire acts... Jaela enjoyed the cotton candy, but got restless after sitting for over an hour... Jagger says that the circus was not fun, but we think this is because he didn't like the clowns. He thought they were scary and hid behind mom when he saw them. He seemed to enjoy seeing some of the acts, but was also disappointed that there were no giraffes.

On Friday, Jagger went to Preschool round up. He said this was a lot of fun. He said that they learned about lady bugs, and colored, and read stories, and had recess... He really like it and has been asking when he can go to school again.

We have all been enjoying the nice weather, and have been spending a lot more time outside. Jaela loves the "wee", which is the swings. Both kids have liked going for walks and bike rides. Yesterday after Mommy got home from work, we walked through the fields to grandma and grandpa's house. We went to see the pond, and saw a lot of neat wild life out there... ducks, geese, and a muskrat or some such creature (we only saw him for a moment). It was a neat time. Jagger wanted to go fishing, but we didn't have any worms. Jaela enjoyed seeing the water, and thought she needed to touch it, but then realized it was very cold. She did get to sit on George the pony, which she thought was pretty cool. She also went on Friday to see papa Bruce's new baby horse, she tried to pet it, but it was too scared.

Hopefully the next post we will be able to show more pictures

pirate ship

Here is daddy and Jaela in the Pirate pool. Jaela just loved the pool, because, as you can see, it wasn't very deep. She had lots of fun walking around and around the pool. She also liked going down the slides with mom or dad.
Here is Jagger. He and the other little boy that he met in the pool had a lot of fun "swimming" around and they were pretending to be sharks.
Jagger had a great time in the pool! It was the highlight of his birthday week. Guard your change, everyone, because whenever Jagger sees spare change, he has to save it. (He decided this after we told him we would need to save our money before we could go there again.)
Here is a picture of the actual ship. there were several slides that the kids loved to go down! It looks foggy but that is just the humidity of the pool fogging up the camera lens! It was a great time!

Birthday Party

This weekend we celebrated Jagger's 4th Birthday. We had wanted to do it this weekend because most of the family would be around, but we had called it off because the roads were not nice, and our road in particular was drifted over so that no one could get through. Luckily, the snow plow went by at 5 PM, and we called everyone and told them to come. The roads were not pretty, but everyone had a pickup or SUV, so they all made it safely to our house. Jagger was happy to see his friends, aunt, uncles, and grandparents, and his new baby cousin! We had pizza, and Jagger could hardly wait to open his presents! Here he is with his lincoln logs, that he got from Grandma Lana and Papa Bruce. They also gave him a shovel, which was pretty exciting, because Jagger can now help Dad shovel snow. (The shovel also works really well to pick up the lincoln logs!)

These two pictures are of Jagger and his new Bike!! He told his dad he wanted 3 things for his birthday: a RED bike, Scooby Doo movie, and a cow that he could ride on. Other than the cow, Jagger got what he wanted. He can't wait until Summer, when he can ride his bike on a hot hot day. Jagger also thinks that he can pull his sister behind him in the tag along, and is making big plans!

Here is Jagger's cake and with Lightning and Mater on it. It was the easiest birthday cake ever for me to decorate. Unfortunately, the candles did not stay lit bery long. There were 3 little kids gathered around ready to blow as i was lighting them. All in all it was a pretty fun night, and I was so glad that everyone was able to come and make it to the party safely!

big happenings

We've been busy since the last post! Above is a picture of Jagger kissing his new cousin, Christopher Patrick, who he likes to call Chistabo Robin. Chris is the first son of my sister Jackie and her husband Ryan. He is also the first cousin on that side of the family. Jagger really likes him, but Jaela is not sure yet what to think. We try to keep her away from Chris, because she likes to poke at him. Unfortunately, we haven't had a chance to see much of Chris yet, even though they live pretty close, because the weather has been nasty. Right now is day 2 of being snowed in. We are having a really bad blizzard, and haven't been able to leave home since Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully we will be able to get out tomorrow, because we are planning Jagger's 4th birthday party tomorrow!



Here are Jagger and Jaela playing in their "tent" that daddy made for them. This was their "bed". They had a lot of fun playing last night, and it kept them busy since we couldn't go anywhere!

This is Jagger, Jaela, and Papa Bruce at the Hospital when baby "Christabo" was born. We went to see him, and they are eating cake, because Christopher was born on Nana Lana's birthday! (yeah, he's already a kiss up!) Jagger remembers the hospital from when his little sister was born, and he was very busy dragging Grandpa around to "the little room where there is candy"-- the vending area, which he distinctly remembers. Jagger really likes playing with his Papa Bruce, especially when we go to his house, and Jagger always has to hide Papa's pillow.

puppies

Welcome Lightning , aka Air Hockey, our new puppy. He is a black lab, and Jaela absolutely loves him. Jagger is starting to like him better now that we only have 1 dog. (we had had 2 at first, but gave one to the neighbor girl). Lightning lives out in the dog house now, but gets to go to work with Jamin when Jamin goes to the shop...