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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Why so long? I was gone!

We took our annual trip to the U.P.
It was awesome!
These are the great friends that we vacationed with (Mark & Sue)...

The bridge

Me & the Lake

This is a glimpse of the beauty

This is what we did... (I'm in the orange, Brad in the yellow)

...and this...


Quote from this past weekend, "Honey do what Sue did, but faster." This was said before I took the quad over a jump where I got all 4 wheels off the ground and my body was in the air for a time too!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

2 Year Photos

The girls' two year photos done by Katie DeBoer
katiedeboerphotography.com







Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Thursday, September 04, 2008

"Are the girlies behaving today?"

This is the question that Brad calls and asks me most days. Today he called a little too early. My reply was, "So far!"
After I hung up with him I had to use the bathroom. I can't go in peace. All the girls need to sit on their potties too. So off come the pants, diapers, (and with Olivia the shirt too). They sit on the potties for a short time. While I am incapacitated, Evie escapes bare butt to the living room. By the time I can get to her she is running back saying "pee." Yup, she peed on the floor and had it running down her leg. Frustrated I clean her up and quickly dress everyone again. Out comes the carpet cleaner... again.

Not much later I am on the phone and Evie stinks. I hang up to change her diaper and notice Olivia & Sophie in the bathroom. I tell them to get out and they tell me their sunglasses are all wet. Yes, they were playing in the toilet. I shoo them out and proceed to change Evie's diaper. When I finish I go to find the two trouble-makers, and they are in the stinkin' bathroom again. They are soaked, the floor is soaked, and there is a soggy roll of toilet paper on the floor! I swiftly remove them with punishment and go to clean it all up. There is quite an amount of toilet paper in the toilet so I flush it. The toilet doesn't flush... Then I realize that no one has the sunglasses they were playing with earlier. Yes, there is a pair of sunglasses stuck in our toilet! And there it will remain, because I am NOT going to stick my hand in there!!!!

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Labor Day Weekend

We spent a weekend outdoors at the cottage. As many people packed up their stuff at their cottages, we just sat back and enjoyed the weather. We will be back to the cottage yet this month, so the work can wait.

We teach them to ski early...





That's one hard working Grandma!!!!







However, I still feel like it is saying goodbye to summer as I start another graduate class tonight.
"Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool!" - Billy Madison

How silly did I feel when I got out of my MINI-VAN on campus and didn't really know where I was going. This is my first time taking a class on this main campus. I was like a freshman all over again! Yikes!