Jon's Birthday Present!

Most of you already know, but for those of you who don't, here is Jon's Birthday present. Caroline, you better tell Jeff to bring his helmet, I am not sure mine will fit him! We are giving out free rides to whoever wants to come over. Thanks everyone for the fun Birthday! Jon had so much fun, I will post pictures of the party later. Love ya!

The Way You Look Tonight

is first on my cd of "it's time to get cleanin" Music. It is actually quite fun and inspiring. Once I start playing that song, Marcella gets this cute smile because she knows what is coming next, a dance. Then for about half way through the song or until I get sick because of spinning around, we dance. Then I get cleanin'. Today was just like every other day well so it felt like, but to make me feel like I accomplished something even though it wasn't everything on my list, I thought I would post some before and after pictures. Remember that it looks like this because I can't even remember the last time I spent 24 hours at my house in the last month. I was looking forward to spending some time at home after girls camp. Well, we all know that I spent it in the hospital instead. So I have about a months worth of laundry and a room that looks like a dump truck just came in and dropped whatever was in his truck in there. I am thinking that if I get lucky enough to stay home the next couple of days I might even get to work on the yard. I hope that all of you had a more exciting and relaxing day than I did. oh- my mom has a blog now so go and check it out. It is www.whosthemom.blogspot.com If you go on you can see the bathroom and laundry room that I finished, besides a few odds and ends. Have a great day!

My little helper! After putting those in and having her take them out as fast as I put them in the box, I gave up and let her play for a while. It sure is harder trying to clean faster than Marcella messes up.

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Let me out of my cage! She got sentenced to 10 years! ha ha, Marcella in playing in her tent that was made by the famous Jon Wallin, if any of you would like to place an order just email Jon and we can have them shipped out in a day or so.....
he he he

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After

ok so it doesn't look any better, and yes that is our Christmas tree from last year sitting in the middle of my bedroom, but hey, at least I am getting somewhere.
(I will post some pictures of the 4th later, hope you have a great day!)

Funny

So after I had finished the last post, I was viewing it on the actual blog. I guess I got a little distracted and lost in my own thoughts for a few minutes, because when I realized I needed to get off the computer and pay attention to my daughter I no longer knew where she was. I turned around in my chair and said out loud, "well where could my daughter be?" and then I started looking in all the little corners of the room. When I couldn't find her I thought, whoa where did she go? Then I turned around and here came a cute little girl out from under the desk. While I was lost in thought, she had crawled under the chair I was sitting on and got under the desk without me even knowing she was there. I had a good laugh.

We're HOME!

Yea! I am so glad to be home, except while you are at the hospital you don't have to clean anything or feel guilty about not doing it, so it was a little relaxful. I know that none of you will believe it, but we didn't even take one picture of us in the hospital. So in spite of that, here are some of the cute little girl after she made it home. I want all of you to know that it took a great deal of effort to get these pictures. I could post about 50 billion ones that are blurry because everytime I said Marcella or are you glad to be home, she went crazy and got so excited moving around and talking that it was tough getting a decent picture. The one with the yarn lets you know that she is feeling much better, because she is back into getting all the yarn out and undoing the balls and then laughing when i say "Marcella, what are you doing." Thank you for all your love, support and prayers, they really helped us through this short stay, now we just need to pray that she won't ever have to go back. Thanks guys!
(oh, for those of you who don't know, it is kind of funny, Marcella has the same problems that she had the first time she was in the hospital. She got C-diff again, and they are starting over with her eating solid foods. just FYI)

So Sad

I thought that I would update all of you on the wonderfulness of our lives. I am telling all of you this in hopes that I might jinx us and not really have to go through with it. Marcella as of Dr.'s orders given tonight, has to be admitted into Primary Children's Hospital tomorrow morning. She has been sick for about a week with some kind of flu that has prgressively gotten worse. She just throws everything up now and has lost a little more than a pound. (It is crazy how bad you can tell too, you would think that a pound doesn't make that much of a difference, but it sure does. I wish it was the same way for me. he he). So if you guys can just keep her in your prayers, and pray hard that she doesn't have to stay in past the 30 of June, so her parents can stay financially sound that would be really nice. We love you! We will give more details tomorrow as we get them, hopefully the next post will say that we are home, so cross your fingers!

gIrLs CaMp

So here is a before and after picture of Camp. I had soo much fun. I am really glad that I got to go and be with all those girls. They are so cute. I don't want to bore you with a lot of details, because you guys don't even know these girls, but I had a blast!

Dads Room

At Dad's request, here are pictures of his room. Nice and Clean! It was interesting being able to see the floor. he he he Mom got it cleaned out just in time for Jon and I to move on in! (or so Jon says, if Carolyn goes crazy on us again, we are outta there!) Hope you have a great day!

sWimMiNg!

I bought Marcella a little swimming pool awhile ago, and she LOVES IT! It is fun to go out with her and let her play in it, she has a blast. When I first put her in it I thought this is going to be awesome, because it will be about the only time in her life that she won't get grass in her pool. Boy was I completely wrong. She loves to crawl to the sides and then pull herself up and grab handfulls of grass and put it in the pool. Who would have thought.

Here she is reaching for some grass...

Whoops! Over the edge!!!

I don't think she realized what happened...

She had a huge mouthful of grass after her dive, but it didn't seem to bother her at all.

We're having a fun summer so far, but it's going by WAAAAY to quickly.

Holy Moly!

So Jon just did un update on our lives, that is now outdated! I can't believe how time flies! So I decided to write another one to bring you uo to speed as far as what has been going on lately.

Alan and Nina

Here is Alan and Marcella

Little Trenton! What a cutie!

Marcella Bella

This is Addison (Addie) Ben and Tanelle's little girl

The Beautiful Nina Crookston

So Alan and Nina got married the beginning part of May and we had a party for them the last bit in May. It was fun. We went to Barnes park, had pie, opened presents and just hung out. it was great!

Happy Birthday MOM!

The next day, June 1, 2006 my mom turned ahhhh 22? j/k. We had a fun party with her. The best part about it was we went and saw Over the Hedge. I was a little disappointed because I heard that it was super good, and it was alright, but since we went with my Dad and he thought it was super funny, it made it all the better. I think that I laughed through the whole thing because my dad's laugh is contagious and loud. It was so much fun! Thanks Dad. Happy Birthday Mom I hope you had a great one!

Marcella liked helping Grandma open her presents

It's a good thing she liked the paper more than grandmas presents, or Grandma would have had to share

I made an ice cream cake. It sure was yummy!

KRISTIN!



So you remember how everyone always tells the story about how Kristin used to sleep when she was a baby, with all the blankets curled in a ball and her on top cuddling them, well Jon and I went in to check on Marcella the other night and look what we found! She has started to become a little mover, it is quit funny to watch her sleep. The best part was after we took some pictures she started crying and then she kept hitting her leg because I think it was asleep. What a doll!

BBQ



I love summers, just for the fact that we always have a BBQ. I think we have one at least twice a week if not more. Jon has gotten so good at making it taste wonderful. I have never had such good BBQ's as the ones we have been having lately. We had some honey pork chops the other night, they were the best things I have ever tasted and I am requesting them again tonight. Jon bought some hickory chips and we had some dang good steaks the other night, unfortunately only Jon, Ted and I were able to taste of there goodness. We also have fun BBQ-ing veggies. Zuc, Squash and tomatoes, Yum! I can't wait for tonights dinner!! If you ever want to come over, just let us know and we will fire up the grill!

LOVE TO EAT!!



Marcella has been having a lot of fun eating things. She is super funny when she does it too. She loves Zucchini and Squash, and her all time favorite it sweet potatoes. She has this new appitite for Pretzels as well. It is fun to help her eat and watch her eyes get as big as quarters when Jon pulls a popcicle out of the freezer!

Happy Birthday Amie!



Amie's birthday was on the 6th and she turned 21! yea!! She basically spent the whole day with us since Cameron had to work all day at JTV. It was a lot of fun though, we had a yummy dinner and then had cupcakes. We hope you had a great birthday Amie!

Yes! She can Crawl???





So I am still deciding if I like the fact that Marcella can crawl around. She is super funny when she does it. She doesn't go very fast, but she can get to where she wants to go that is for sure. She has one leg down packed, the other one she just scoots the other leg up to the next. It makes it look like she has a bum leg, it is quite funny. She did, the other day, find the bookshelf! Oh boy did she have fun, as you can tell. Today she went from one bookshelf to the next, just having fun pulling the things off and crawling around. She sure is a cutie!

Jason's Game






We went to Jason's baseball game on Wednesday, it was a lot of fun. It made me wish I was still playing. It is such a fun sport. I told my mom that I should stop coming to his games though, because I have only been to a couple, and each one I went to he lost, and has won all the other ones, so maybe I am a bad luck charm! Sorry Jas! I still had a bunch of fun though!

Happy Birthday Spencer!

I just thought I would wish him a belated Happy Birthday. I hope that you are having fun in Navuo. We miss ya and can't wait for you to come and stay with us, it will be fun! Have a great day Spence!


Grandpa and Marcella






Marcella loves Grandpa Dougal, and I think it may be because she knows she will get some kind of treat whenever he holds her. From Licorice to the all time favorite, Gummy Worms, she knows she will get something good. Here they are at Jason's game. They had a lot of fun playing with her shoes and twizzler, if you couldn't tell. It was really fun watching them play, Marcella sure loves him. Dad left yesterday, what a sad day, let me tell ya. All of us just hope that he comes home safely. He might be able to come home in August so we are all excited to see him again! Well, I think that brings us up to today of which, we slept in until 9 and then are just being lazy. I love those kind of days sometime. I hope all of you can have a great weekend as well. We love you!