projects

Here are my 2 new endtables. I got both of them at garage sales for $5 each. A little paint and sanding and wa-la. I got the lamps at garage sales too. This one for $1, the shade (thanks jenica) for 25 cents, a little black spray paint, wa-la, a funky lamp.

Amber gave me this idea. It's just ribbon wrapped around the lamp shade. I've had this lamp laying around for a few years. It was just a pewter color with a white shade. I used some spray paint I had in the garage and wa-la, something new.

Que's stats

I took Que in for his 4 month checkup. Wow, I can't believe how fast time is flying, and yes, it's me Tiffany, you know-the one who started this blog. I appreciate Todd stepping in for me, for some reason I am having a hard time finding time to sit at the computer and write witty blogs. In fact, I am currently writing this at the dinner table, Todd isn't here for dinner so I am neglecting my motherly duties and letting my kids eat their shredded roast beef tacos with zucchini bread (fresh out of the oven, I might add) while watching the Brady Bunch. Any who, back to the subject of this blog. Que is a chub! You wouldn't know it because there have been no pictures of him, so just trust me. (By the way, I left my camera in WA, hence no pictures). Here are his stats
Weight 17 lbs 1.5 oz 88%
Height 27" 97%
Head 17" 74%

Football

Cooper is now in football. It is crazy to think that he is old enough to play. Where we live they have a very good football team. It is Davis High School. I think they were second at state last year. They start the kids out very young and if you are not the most talented person around if you don't start out this early the is no chance of playing. So this year he wanted to play. He is one of the biggest kids on his team and unfortunately one of the slowest. So he is a lineman. He is starting to understand the game. His team is 2-1 they lost the first game to bear river, but since then they have done good. They just needed to get out the wrinkles.

Look at that stance. Such good looking form.

That time of year

Well once again it falls on me to update the blog. Tiff has been so busy with school starting, Piano starting, preschool starting, Football, and trying to keep all the kids away from poor Que.
As you can see from the picture school has started and unfortuantly this is the third day of school we forgot to take the picture on the first day. Cooper is in Third grade and he is now playing football he loves the thought of it. I don't think he understands everything yet but he is having fun. He is also doing Piano again.
Meg is in second grade and loves it. She is also doing piano. We are trying to find something for her to do because Cooper is always playing some kind of sport. We need to find some way to channel all of her energy.
Roxy is in preschool
Camilla is at home
Everything else is going good.

1400 feet/ 2 miles

Since Tiffany has stopped making comments I though I would use her blog. The other day I was sitting doing nothing and wondering what I did all the time growing up. I didn't have a nintedo DS or even any computer games. It seems like I was always doing something. It seems like my kids are always telling me they are bored. So I decided to do what my dad did every year with us boys. One of the many camp outs we went on one of them was close to our home and was easy to get to.
Pittsburgh Lake. It is about 20 miles from our house. It feels like a lot more because 6 of the 20 are dirt/rock(big rocks) roads. Once you get to the trail head it is about two miles straight up. In the two miles the elevation changes 1400 feet. Cooper was fired up and ready to go. The pack he had on didn't last very long.

My Dad and Brother Jake went with us. One because I didn't remember exactly where I was going and second I needed somebody else there so that Cooper could ask questions too.

It's a good thing we took our dinner because we would have starved eating these fish. Cooper caught about ten fish all by himself. I only caught a few because I was too busy taking his fish off and putting new bait on and untangling snags and tying new hooks on that were lost and I now remember why I love to fish because there is soooo much action.

We had just enough time to take a photo.

Cooper was so tired he fell asleep in the car ride home. He didn't even want to wash his face.

two months in review

I wish I could say the car ride home was this peaceful but I can't. Tiffany got a new suburban and one of her requirments was it had to have a dvd player. So we had one installed. On her way to Washington (2 Hours into the 12 Hour Trip) The stupid thing broke. So she didn't have it on the way up and We didn't have it on the way down. Lucky we still had the portable ones. Roxy watched movies the whole way back or at least she tried.

Que is such a good Baby he is starting to smile.

He will never be satisfied with catching lake trout now. I think that fish was about 20 lbs.

I don't know what I did to be blessed with such a good Boss. Doug my boss at work paid for my flight to Washington so that I could drive Tiffany and the kids home. While I was up there my brother in law Sean and his dad and Cooper went fishing on the Columbia river. We Landed 9 Salmon and kept 7 of them.

I went to Scout camp and she went home to Moses Lake to visit while I was away. Here are some of my scouts.

He better not break her heart

Here are all the kids on the train ride to see the poor animals

We also went to Lagoon with or friends the Kendalls all the kids of course had fun.

Camilla really liked doing make-up she was so proud of her accomplishment.

Meg had her Birthday Party and invited a bunch of girls Tiff had some games planned but all they really wanted to do was Make-Up.

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