The places we've been and the stories that will come...

2009-09-29T13:05:00.000-07:00

Jaden tried a tractor pull and he didn't do to bad. Came in 3rd place!

Last day of Kindergarten

2009-06-12T11:49:00.000-07:00

Well...here it is. Jaden is officially a 1st grader. It is so hard to believe. Crazy but I am having a hard time with this. Kids just grow up so fast. Next year Jaden gets to go to a new school. Our boundaries got changed this year so there are a lot of changes and of course unhappy people. Jaden's kindergarten teacher will be moving over to the new school though so he thinks that's pretty "cool".

Bryan & Amanda Taylor Wedding

2009-06-12T11:32:00.000-07:00

Just some of the pictures from the wedding last weekend. We a lot of fun and the wedding was beautiful.

2009-05-07T11:27:00.000-07:00

These pics turned out so cute. She was in the mood for some fun pictures so totally have to take advantage of that. Our Crab Apple tree is just starting to bloom and oh...does it smell beautiful.

New 2009 jumpers!

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Check out this website a friend is having a giveway, BUT you must enter before Wed Mar 25th by 4pm!
http://allsugaredupsugarscrubs.blogspot.com/2009/03/give-away.html

Happy 6th Birthday!!

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Circus Feb 2009

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Stoughton Vikings Lil' Dribblers Half Time Show

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Teethless Grins

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Sorry this is posted like a month late but guess that's what happens when you have kids. Better late than never.

2009-02-13T12:10:00.000-08:00

Check out my kids craft blog for easy cute ideas. I will try to keep up with it.

www.kjcrafts.blogspot.com

2009-02-11T12:12:00.000-08:00

Larry, Jaden and Papa went this year. They were there on Friday night so missed the big accident of the announcer being killed by getting run over by a monster truck. So glad that Jaden did not have to see that as we would have many questions and sleepless nights. They had lots of fun. They saw a jet powed car and car eating dinasour and ever Mater (From the movie Cars was there) Jaden is already looking forward to next years show!

Welcome Baby Josiah!!

2009-02-06T15:17:00.000-08:00

Congratulations Sherri and Duane. You have a cute little boy. Thanks for the wonderful weekend. We hope to see you again soon!

My Basketball Star!

2009-01-14T11:58:00.001-08:00

Basketball practice. Jaden loved it and it is a great coordination builder

Cute....I think

2009-01-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

Ashton decided on Sun. Morning that he wanted to wear underwear. Well He was all dressed for mtg and I didn't really want him to get his clothes dirty..... so this is what we did. Then he found Mariah's headband (Which he loves to wear)....and this is what we got!

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These two have so much fun together!

our weekend project

2009-01-14T11:22:00.000-08:00

Jaden and Mariah helping us paint our Living room.
I was getting a little tired of painting. Three hours later and almost midnight.
Here is the finished look. New curtains, blinds and paint. I love it!
We painted Friday night. Saturday we hung the blinds and curtains then
ran into Madison to do some much needed errands (I needed a new cell phone-mine broke
and my contract was up so....) Got home about 7:00pm and at 8:30 the workers called and asked if they could come for lunch Sunday. So we quickly go busy and put the house back in order. I'll see if I can get a better picture and post it later.

Happy New Year

2009-01-06T13:22:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year to everyone. Hope all your resolutions will happen and will be your best year yet!!

2009-01-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

Larry and the kids made a tunnel under the huge pile of snow that Larry and the neighbor made in the back yard. Yes the tunnel is still there and better than ever now that we had all the freezing rain. The kids can really slide down the top now and it is very hard.

2009-01-06T12:49:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know a good place (website) to do online scrapbooking and be able to order the book when ready? I have decided that I just do not have the time anymore to scrapbook and especially not for three kids. I am so far behind that I thought it would be easier to do it all on computer since I download the pics anyway.

2008-12-21T12:02:00.000-08:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Jaden's school sing

2008-12-21T11:56:00.001-08:00

These didn't come up in order. Jaden did a great job. The school puts on a little skit to go with each of the classes songs and Jaden had one sentence. "My Mom and Dad make me feel warm" and he had to use the microphone to say it. I was very proud of him. They expected 400 people to show up and I think they were fairly close to that. The theme of the sing was "Searching for Warmth" It was very cute.

2008-12-21T11:42:00.000-08:00

It is hard to believe that my baby is 2 already. We took him out of his crib and put in a twin bed in Jaden's room. We thought this would be a good time to have Jaden adjust to it over the holiday break. So far things are going pretty good. Ashton need some time to learn that once you are in bed you stay there. Anyway-Ashton had 2 parties. One with G & G Clausen and the other at home with G& Papa Hehenberger. What a lucky kid! Thanks to everyone for the b-day gifts!

2008-12-21T11:36:00.001-08:00

Wow It has been awhile again since I last blogged. A lot has happened.
I guess I need to start at Thanksgiving time...

A very busy time of year for us. We all (Kristie, Kim and Katresha and families and My Uncle and Aunt from TN) were all at my Mom and Dad's for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. I didn't get many pictures cause we were so busy. My grandpa had passed away earlier in the week and than my parents neighbor passed away the day before Thanksgiving. So we did LOTS of baking. We baked some for the neighbors wife and family and for our own to take up to wausau to share with all extended family of 60 people. So sorry no pics from that time.

Then we went to Minnesota the weekend after that to see the In-Laws. We had a wonderful time but 7-8 hours in the car with 3 kids is long enough. We had some bad roads on the way back which didn't help with the stress level and the anticipation of just getting home.

2008-11-18T07:41:00.000-08:00

Toby is a stuffed puppy. He is stuffed with Jaden. This is a halloween costume hand me down from Austin. It is the cutest costume ever and it looks so real when you crawl. I had to take his picture, post it and see the comments!!

Meet Toby...

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Ashton thought this was really fun. After the kids wash their hands there are "bubbles" in the sink. Fun times.

2008-11-17T10:53:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun playing in the leaves.

FOX PRAIRIE HALLOWEEN PARTY 2008!!!

2008-11-01T12:57:00.000-07:00

Brake and Jaden (above)
Jaden, Connor and Rowan (middle)
Mariah, Julia, Allie and Jaden (Bottom)

3RD PLACE!!

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Jaden got third place for his jaguar pumpkin. He was pretty proud of that fact and I thought it was very much deserved. (I know I'm his mother)

2008-11-01T12:33:00.000-07:00

Here are the munchkins. This picture was actually taken

last week before we went to Jaden's school for the
halloween party. We really lucked out with the

weather this year! We could go with NO coats or
sweatshirts. The kids had fun trick or treating
we have a plastic grocery bag full of candy. Sorry

I didn't get a picture of it. Our neighbors said that they had over 200 kids. (We were 3 of them)

2008-10-24T12:19:00.000-07:00

We decided to paint pumpkins last night. Jaden wants to enter his into the pumpkin contest at school tonight. They are having their Halloween/Fall Festival. He worked really hard at it and came up with the whole idea himself. (I did help him figure out how to put it all together) I think it turned out pretty cute. Does anyone know what it is?

Mariah's on the otherhand had some help. She did alot of the coloring in herself, I drew the outlines and the face. Its cute!!

I was not brave enough to let Ashton even try! I know I'm a mean mom but he can do one next year.

2008-10-16T16:39:00.000-07:00

Well it flu season again. Seems a bit early this year but to much dismay it is here. In my house 4 out of the 5 have had it and 4 of my 6 daycare kids either had it or have it now. Its the stomach flu. Jaden and Larry got over it in 1 day but Mariah and Ashton took almost a week. Today was the first day we had NO vomiting. So I am celebrating by going to my MOPS group tonight. Should be fun!!

2008-10-14T12:10:00.000-07:00

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Go to www.kjcrafts.blogspot.com to learn how to do this project. Was fun and easy for the kids to do!!

2008-10-14T12:07:00.000-07:00

Friday we went to our first time ever Homecoming parade. It lasted all of 10 minutes but the kids enjoyed. Had a daycare come with us.

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The kids were invited to a b-day party at Pump It Up this weekend. There were 25 kids there. It was pretty fun. Gave us some ideas of what we need to get and do for our inflatable business.

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Sorry! Trying to catch up. Jaden is loving school. He was sick on Sunday and was very worried that he wouldn't be able to go to school. (He was fine Monday A.M. and very happy)

2008-09-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

I really don't have a good reason for not blogging lately but.....

..there is just not enough time in a day
..my kids
..daycare kids
..bills
..laundry
..cleaning
..meals
..transporting kids--to the bus stop, from the bus stop, to tumbling and back again
..our business with inflatable jumpers is just not dying down (don't get me wrong the income is GREAT but normally this time of year we are about done. We are booked every weekend till NOVEMBER!)
..trying to get ready for Menomonie this week

This week has been especially bad. All three of my kiddo's have been sick and at the same time. Everyone was sick yesterday and today. Hopefully someone is feeling better tomorrow and someone sleeps all night tonight.

Today we stayed home all day and really didn't get much accomplished. I hate days like that When you have so much you want to get done but nothing really gets done. We hung a new light in our kitchen. It is one that my Dad sells and is REALLY bright. It is a white light. Will take some getting used to the brightness but it's up. I finally got the main level of my house cleaned after two weeks of having lots of kids here and just not being able to keep up after them. YUCK--but it looks better now. Next comes the upstairs--maybe it is just me, but I like to come home to a clean house after being gone for a while. So beside getting ready to leave I also have to get my house ready to come home. Is this crazy or what?

Soon I will post some pictures and get everyone up to date.

2008-07-15T11:44:00.000-07:00

Thanks Stacy for the great idea!!!

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Lucy...

2008-07-15T11:27:00.000-07:00

Lucy is a turtle the one of my daycare kids brought over. The kids all thought that it was pretty neat!

Story time

2008-07-15T11:14:00.000-07:00

My 8 year old loves to read so she told all the kids "story time in the jumper" and this is what happened.

Who loves mornings....

2008-07-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

Ashton does. He always wakes up so happy. If only he would stay that way all day. It seems like puts all his energy into being happy first thing in the day and then here comes mister grumpy!! Oh well there could be worse things to deal with.

2008-07-09T06:56:00.000-07:00

Last night we went for a bike ride and we found a bunch of baby frogs. The red and blue caps are milk jug covers and we put a little bit of water in them. The kids collected as many ants as they could find(notice the ant on the bottom left of the picture next to the frog) and added some grass. They are still alive this morn. all 10 of them. I think we will let them go tonight. Jaden is already sad about that.

JULY 4, 2008

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Ice cubes in the pool instead of water. The kids loved it!!

Just after eating ice cream. (Nice mouth)

2008-07-09T06:22:00.000-07:00

The beautiful roses are from my kids for my b-day. The Yellow ones are from Jaden, Pink from Mariah and Red from Ashton. I love roses but they don't last long enough. Larry gave a gift certificate to Escape Du Monde for a massage. I can't wait to use it.

HAPPY 60TH DAD/PAPA

2008-07-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

Surprise!! Happy 60th on June 23rd.

2008-07-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

These pictures were take a couple weeks after all the flooding. I love rainbows! I was trying out our new camera on this and think they turned out pretty good. Did you notice the double rainbow in the bottom picture?

2008-07-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

I am a little behind on blogging so bare with me as I try to catch up.

Larry and the kids on Father's day!

2008-07-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

We are so excited! Our garden is growing and we have vegetables!!!

My flowers on the patio are doing great! The ones in the front just aren't looking so well. I love the bright colors

WATER EVERYWHERE

2008-06-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

....literally.... most of you know that we live on a hill, but that doesn't seem to matter when you get downpours. We discovered last night that we had water in our basement. Larry decided to look after seeing a pond in our backyard. Sure enough. It was coming in through our window well. There was about 3 inches sitting in there. So this week will be busy--need to get all the drywall and insulation out before it starts to stink!! We've already had 6 inches in 8 days! Correction--Larry informed me I was a little low on the amount of rain. He said he heard that we had 4-6 just this past weekend so lets just say we've had rain--and water is literally everywhere.

2008-06-07T18:29:00.000-07:00

What a wonderful day we had. We had some friends over and kids got to spend the hot/humid day outside in a jumper, sprinkler and a kiddie pool. Oh to be a kid again.

Well, not sure where to start. Our company left and the storms came. We had quite a interesting day (weather wise) Around 3:30 we were issued a tornado warning. After what happened here 2 years ago-of course we kind of freaked out when we heard the siren. So here is some of the damage that the storm did. Some it was a tornado others say just really high winds. I'm not sure what to think. Didn't get a picture of the wood play structure that was still intacked just not in the spot that I was suppose to be. (You tell me) Sorry some of these pics are blurry but didn't want to stop to take pics. Bottom Left--notice the electric poles. Most of the area was without power. We were lucky Some on our block are without power. I forget to mention how close this was to us. ONE BLOCK!!!! Click on picture to enlarge it.

2008-05-29T11:51:00.000-07:00

Bryan and Amanda

CONGRATULATIONS (on your engagement) to a royal couple. We hope that your future will be like royalty!

We love you guys!

Larry Karina and family

2008-05-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

Sherri and Duane,

CONGRATULATIONS!!

We are so excited to have another little one in the family. You will be great parents.

(Remember Sherri--even in your 8th and 9th month you will still be beautiful even with a pregnant tummy!)

We love you guys

Larry, Karina and family

2008-05-15T13:07:00.000-07:00

Well our camera is somewhat working I tried the other night with the kids and the LCD screen is totally weird so I have to use it like a regular camera. Oh well will work till we get a new one.

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John Deere Country(Click on a picture to make it bigger)

2008-05-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

Well I just realized that it has been a month since I last blogged. Oh where to begin. We have been pretty busy already this spring. Larry built a raised garden for us and we got that all planted with peppers, tomatoes, peas, beans, onions broccoli and carrots. I just noticed today that the onions are coming. I am so excited to have a little garden and kids are enjoying watching the vegetables grow!

My mom has been giving us a bunch of rhubarb which we have greatly enjoyed. I have frozen a bunch of it to save for making rhubarb sauce. It is excellent over pancakes/waffles. Also a great ambition is to make strawberry rhubarb jam. We'll see how for we get with that. Now we are just waiting for some asparagus.

Two weeks ago we went to Moline IL to the John Deere Pavillion and World Headquarters. It was neat but one time there and that's all you need. The kids absolutely loved it. They got to sit in tractors, combines, backhoes, bulldozers etc...(pictures to come).

I love this time of year to be outside working with my flowers, roses etc... Last week I got all my flowers planted and now it looks like summer outside. Even though this morning we were out in our winter coats and mittens. Summer is going to come....SOMETIME.

Jaden lost another tooth. That make 2 on the bottom. Wonder what his kindergarten pictures are going to look like!

2008-04-14T09:11:00.000-07:00

Jaden with cousin Logan. Logan came to our house and had the same shirt on as Jaden and it wasn't even planned by the parents. They were both little surprised!! Was very cute!!!!

2008-04-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

Jaden lost his first tooth on April 2nd. Right before bible study. There is another one almost ready to fall out. He seems so young to be losing teeth but the dentist wasn't worried about it. He actually had 6 loose when we were there.

This week on Thurs and Friday for 2.5 hours Jaden will go to Kindergarten to be assessed as to what class he will be in. He is pretty excited about it. The only bad thing is that we have 3 elementary schools and we are in the swing area which means we won't know until August which school Jaden will really be attending.

2008-04-14T08:57:00.000-07:00

Make a slideshow - it's easy!

2008-04-14T08:54:00.000-07:00

This was actually a couple weeks ago already. I am so glad that spring is here and the snow is gone!! This week we are suppose to get up in the 70's. YIPPEE!! Some of my flowers are actually blooming.

2008-04-14T08:52:00.000-07:00

Like father like son. My farm boys!

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While Jaden was opening presents we kept Ashton busy with an oreo. He loved it but was a mess to clean up.

2008-04-14T08:47:00.000-07:00

To the Trans... Thanks for the bath towel. I use it everytime I take a bath!!

Thanks Aunti Mandi for the pretty dress!

2008-04-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

HAPPY 5TH B-DAY JADEN!

Sorry I'm a little late at blogging. Birthday was March 8th.

2008-02-07T10:38:00.000-08:00

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

2008-02-07T05:30:00.000-08:00

We have had quite the snow storm come through here. I haven't heard confirmed amounts but they say we got up to 17 inches. The drifts are unbelievable, you can see Larry's pants in the picture below, where his hand is where the drift in our back yard comes on him. He is 6ft 2 so that gives you some idea. Jaden is standing on our front walk and the pile is almost bigger than he is. There was a drift of snow coming off our roof (Larry knocked it down before it fell but it was neat to look out our patio and the snow just hanging there) I have to admit it is beautiful from the inside looking out. Schools were cancelled yesterday and today. Now we are on make up days so that means school is now out June 16th.
Jaden had fun playing outside and I couldn't resist taking a picture. He looked so cute with snowflakes on his nose and eyelashes.

2008-02-07T05:27:00.000-08:00

Also a Very Happy Birthday to Grandma Jenny and to our new cousin Cameron Glenn all the Feb 3. Congratulations Katresha and Aden!!

2008-01-19T19:09:00.000-08:00

Today was just kind of a blah day--to start with that is. It was so cold outside that we went--nowhere! So we did get some stuff done around the house that has been piling up. I really should have worked on our taxes but...another day.

There is one exciting thing that happened today. Ashton took his first step or maybe I should say steps. We are all very excited. Not to wish my baby big but I am so ready for him to walk.

Mariah is now potty trained. She just decided that she was done with this diaper bit and that was it. (She still wears a diaper at night or when she needs to poop) I just don't get that. I asked my Dr. if he knew of any tricks to get her to go in the toilet. His response "Gentle encouragement, it could take her up to 6 months before she goes in the toilet" Great, so I'll be cleaning out underwear for awhile. Does anybody have any tricks?

2008-01-16T12:23:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Boys!!! N--Turned 5 and Alec turned 8. We made these snowman cupcakes for birthday treats. I thought they turned out pretty cute. The kids loved them. (eating them of course was the best part)

2008-01-15T19:17:00.000-08:00

When it come to the dishwasher, Ashton comes a crawl'n. He can be anywhere in the house and here the dishwasher open. Not much a helper though. I load and he unloads.

2008-01-15T19:12:00.000-08:00

There is a cute little story behind this and here it goes. There was hardly any snow on the ground and I sent the kids out to play. In the front this time. I was in the house getting my littlest one ready and when I looked out I saw that the kids had dug some snow made this little snow path for their sled. They loved and had lots of fun. It is great to have older kids to come up with some of these creative ideas and have the energy to go through with it. So then we had to see how many we could fit in one little red saucer. 4 out of 8...not bad considering the saucer is quite small.

2008-01-15T19:08:00.000-08:00

Okay, I am a little late at posting this. We made this snowbear (as the kids called it) a couple weekends ago when it was so warm. It was wonderful to be outside in such nice weather again. And now we are back the "bitter" cold and more snow on the way.

2007-12-28T12:36:00.000-08:00

Here we are again...

another snow advisory...

this time 4-6 inches...

Yes I have to admit it is beautiful but... enough already. Just heard today that Madison has had over 30 inches already this year. We have gotten more than they have so ummm you can go from there. Larry (Drives truck for Waste Management) was pulled off the roads today at 10:30 am. He was in Spring Green it took him 2 hours to get to Madison (should only take 45 min) He made it home safely around 1:30pm.

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Well, at the spare of the moment we decided to go to a hotel last weekend. I took my two little daycare girls with us. (I only have two on Fridays) We found a really nice one in Johnson Creek. Comfort Suites and it is fairly new. The kids had a lot of fun and the nice thing is, it is close to home.

1st winter storm

2007-12-03T11:45:00.000-08:00

Well its just beginning. Our first real snow of the season.

Jaden and Mariah decided that if they put a pan outside that they could collect snow and bring it in the house and play were it was warm. Good thinking! It was very cold and windy out.

And you thought it was snowing....
..RAIN!

Well this is what our deck looked like after our snow storm on Saturday. The trees were also covered but it was dark and the pictures didn't show it. We had about a 1/2inch ice and 1 inch sleet. Our light flickered a time or two so we got out the flashlights and lite a bunch of candles. Was kind of cozy just being able to watch everything and still be warm.

little spaces

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monster trucks

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three litte monkeys

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cousins

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Happy Thankgiving!!

2007-11-29T19:19:00.000-08:00

I was reading some of your blogs today and realized I didn't even take any pictures of our Thanksgiving, so you will just have to read if you are interested. (Hope everyone had a Safe and fun Thanksgiving with friends and family.) Our day this year was quite interesting. We had our Thanksgiving meal on Friday night. But, we had the stomach flu. Started out with my family (kids) and then onto Brittney, Sabrina, Tien,Kimberly,Mom and Dad. knock on wood Larry and I have yet to get it, but I will take the virus over being in hospital like I was last year. So we were all glad that we could still eat the wonderful meal on Friday. We celebrated Sabrina's 9th birthday also. It was the 21st.

2007-11-21T09:53:00.000-08:00

Enough of that baby food mushed up stuff. I want something that I can eat all by myself!

2007-11-21T09:51:00.000-08:00

This is my "trouble" child. She knows what she wants and when she wants it. Mariah is so "matter of fact". She is only 2 and is already giving us gray hair just thinking of what she may grow up to be like.

crawling

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summer fun with cousins

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...maybe we should at least wear clothes!

2007-11-17T16:40:00.000-08:00

Jaden Mariah and Ashton love bathtime. We can easily spend an hour in the tub with smiles and laughter.