family pictures

We had our family pictures taken last week. We just asked a friend Audrey that lives by us to take our pictures because she always has cute pictures of her kids that she takes. So I asked her and she said yes. She said it was her first time doing family pictures. She did an awesome job. They are the best we have had... Here is a sample of the pictures we had taken. We did them at WX city park were a lot of fall leaves had fallen.

Picture time

We got Colby his Buzz Lightyear halloween costume and we tried it on so we had a picture taking session and got some cute ones of Parker too. I thought I would share. You can see how big Parker is getting.

Disclaimer

I have been told by Tim I misspell and mis type words. Sorry..I am usually in a hurry so I really don't care. I hope you get what I mean

Colby's Birthday Party

We had Colby's third birthday party with some of his friends. It was fun for him. Of course all the kids behaved themselves but the birthday boy. It was a Buzz lightyear birthday party. We had it in our unfinished basement. We put up buzz lightyear green on our walls to hide ours and my brothers storage. I assigned each child a character from toy story. We had Woody, Bullseye, Ham, Mr and Mrs potato head Etc. All but two kids we invited showed up so we had 13-14 kids. We played a matching game with the characters and then I hid pictures of their character around the room and they found them. We had cake and Ice Cream and played random games like duck duck goose and red rover red rover. Colby had fun and got way to many toys. But he has had fun playing with all of them. We had my family over on Colby's actual birthday and had Hamburgers, french fries (colby's request) and salad and more cake and Ice cream. Below is a picture of the cake I made for Colby's birthday. It's the scene in Toy Story 2 (colby's favorite) where the toys are crossing the road under cones to Al's Toy Barn. I only had Rex and Buz as actual figurines so if you look close one is Slinky Dog slink I made out of Gum paste and put between two cones because that's what he had in the movie and I put hams feet and Mr potato head's feet under cones I made out of gum paste also. I know everything is out of porportion but you get the picture. The cones are bigger then the tipped over semi!

5 days and counting

In 5 more days I will have a 3 year old. How time as flied by. I am in the process of making his Toy story Birthday cake today I started making some of the things for the cake with Gum Paste. Colby wanted to help so I gave him a piece. It's like playdough but dries out really fast. He was rolling it out and making a worm. My mom asked him what he was doing. He said Grandma I am making a cake with my mommy! It's so sweet. I wish I could stay home every day with him! He's so fun to be around. He has been determined since day one that he was going to have a Buzz Lightyear Birthday Party so a bunch of his friends are coming over Saturday for a party. I invited each kid and assigned them to be a Character from the show. I hope it turns out fun!!! I know he is excited. And if you ask him He is already 3. Some of the thing Colby is doing. He will burp or pass gas...I know I should be proud and he will say "Excuse me.....did I scare you" This was also a little thing he said to me last night.. he was asking to play hide and seek he said "ok I will hide and you come find me...you go into my bedroom and say are you in the closet...no....are you under the bed....no......is colby in Parker's room....no...." It was so cute. He just rehearsed a hide and seek game we have played before. He usually hides in really easy spots or tells us where he is going to hide so we will talk loud and act like its really hard to find him. I love this boy!!!

Bad cough and Teeth

My poor little Parker is getting 4 teeth all at one time. At first I thought he was just getting his big two upper teeth but come to find out the two just one both sides of the big teeth just cut through today and the big ones are still coming. He's had some fussy moments too. Since I am off work still until this thursday post surgery I have got to spend some time with my boths how fun it has been. I can't lift them but it's been fun. At lunch today Parker was sitting on the table next to me As I picked up a piece of Colby's treat he didn't want I ate a bite of it and took it right past Parkers face not knowing he would throw a fit that he didn't get anything as it went by. I just thought he was crying about something else. So after Colby took a nap and my mom ate her lunch I actually got to eat mine. and My mom was holding him by me and each time I took a bite he Arched his back and started crying. This was all after he just ate almost a whole yogurt( he would have eaten the whole thing but I didn't think his little body should have that much) So I took him in my arms as I ate and he opened his mouth everytime I went to take a bit. So I let him have a taste each time and he enjoyed it. It was just a sandwhich wrap so he just was able to like some of the dressing off the tortilla. He thouroughly enjoyed himself. He's not suppose to have table food for another couple of months but he wants it bad. He is so cute.

He has also learned to fake cough. He will do a little fake cough and we will say oh bad cough and he will smile at you. The first day he did it my grandma was holding him and my entire family was sitting around on Sunday after Sunday dinner and My Grandma wasn't talking to him or paying attention. So he turned to her and did the fake cough and she talked to him and he started to smile and laugh. And today when my Uncle Jim came by for a visit my mom was talking to him and Parker was fake coughing so my mom would pay attention to him. It is so cute!!!

Surgery

So I have been sick with Nauseousness for about 5 weeks and then I started with Liver pain. Went to the Dr a couple of times. I got on prilosec incase I was having some of my dads stomach problems. Then the pain came so I got a CT done they thought they saw gall stones so I went to a surgeon on Monday. He said it sounds and looks like gall bladder disease....well needless to say once you ahve stones they don't go away you just get attacks whenever they feel like it. So he if you want it out I had a cancellation for tomorrow or I will be out of town for a couple weeks and we can take care of it after that or whenever you like. I was at a good place when I left work so I decided to do it Tues oct 7th...so here I am two days post op with a body part missing. I hope it makes me feel better after the scars are healed. I had a scary thing no one told me about but Tim. But I guess somebody labeled the Anethesia wrong and I got epidural drug in my IV instead of Dye and so I had to have an antidote and then they had to monitor me for Cardiac arrest. I heard someone talking to my nurse as I was coming out of it about Cardiac arrest and ICU but when I could talk and asked how it went she said fine. I am going to ge my medical records so I know what really happened. Tim Didn't quite get what the doctor told him what happened. But everything went good and I am fine. My darn shoulder hurts more than the 4 incisions. I guess they pump you full of air doing surgery and you get phantom shoulder pain.

First Baby Meme

I was tagged by my friend Amanda

1. Were you married at the time? yes
2. What were your reactions when you found out you were pregnant? Excited! Followed by doubt because my husband didn't believe the test.
3. How old were you? 25
4. How did you find out you were pregnant? Pregnancy Test
5. Who did you tell first? besides Tim? Tim took the test with me...well he didn't pee too he was just there at the results. We came up after that to my moms house with cookies that said, grandma, grandpa, aunt etc. So we told My mom, Dad and Malene
6. Did you want to find out the sex? Yeah I have to know
7. Due date: Um am I suppose to remember that. Oct 24th or something like that.
8. Did you deliver child early or late? Early..about a week
9. Did you have morning sickness? THE ENTIRE TIME AND ALL DAY LONG
10. What did you crave? Nothing really just different things at different times. Just normal type cravings.
11. Who irritated you the most? Um I don't remember. I didn't get to irritated I dont' think....this is one Tim should answer
12. What was your first child's sex? Male
13. How many pounds did you gain throughout the pregnancy? 15 I think
14. Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Nope just sick
15. Where did you give birth to your child? Lakeview hospital
16. How many hours were you in labor? 7am-10:15 pm
17. Who drove you to the hospital? Tim
18. Who watched? Tim and My mom
19. Did you take medicine to ease the pain? Who wouldn't..hated Anethesiologist though
20. How much did your child weigh? 6lbs 6oz
21. Why did you name him/her the name you picked?I wanted to name him Hogan but too many of my family around with that last name still. I had heard colby from someone around the time we found out and Colby Hogan sounded good together.
I going to tag: Julianna, Jenn, Becca and whoever else wants to

September 2008

We have had a busy month....I mean it was National Stay at home week on TV starting this month.....We have our schedule but Wednesdays are the only day we don't have a show we are addicted too during weekdays. I have been having my cake classes on Mondays, I play on the Ward volleyball team on Tuesday nights....for some reason when I get put on one or the other of the two teams our ward has that team looses.....not good! I hope it's really not my fault. Tim is playing on our ward football team on thursday nights. They are doing good. We got most of yard ready for the winter. Pulling up our petunias and planting bulbs for the spring. We have gotten our first year of raspberries....not enough yet to make jelly or something but we have had a few snacks. We keep busy. We love our boys.

Parkers has learned to sit up. He is starting to jabber. He has only rolled over a couple of times but is so so so cute. Colby can make him laugh just by looking at him. He is so precious and we love every moment.

Colby just says the funniest thing everyday. He talks better and can understand so much I just can't believe how big he is getting. He will be 3 in 19 days......

We went to the fair this month and looked at the animals. We ate at the Cow association(or whatever) and had fresh tender beef sandwhichs. My sister and sister in law weren't impressed but the rest of us liked it. Me and my mom shared a bavarian cream funnel cake...not as good as I thought it would be. We all got cheap sunglasses there. Tim and I went into the Dish Tv truck....well we ended up signing up so Tim could see all his Michigan Games....and We have Tivo now...so we can record without tapes. We record a lot of our shows we don't want Colby to see (maybe we shouldn't be watching either) We got the internet...but our modem hasn't come yet and so we don't have it yet and we will inherit an old Computer from my parents.

That's our month in a nutshell...sorry for rambling.

Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale

Here are pictures of my Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale cake. I had an issue with the Marshmallow fondant. I made it myself and it was a little difficult to work with...but maybe I will get better. It tastes better than other fondants. I made the flowers with Gum Paste. I love Calla Lillies so when she showed us how to make them I just had to make them for my cake. The cake was Chocolate cake with Grasshopper cookies crushed into it and I flavored the Fondant Mint....IT was good...rich but good. Thanks to those who helped us eat it.

Salsa, Salsa and More Salsa

So I continued my yearly tradition of bottling salsa. My neighbor Jenn has joined me the last two years to continue this tradition. It's nice to have help and more supplies. This year we made some changes....we did it a lot more effecient then our first time together. And it went a lot faster. We added more peppers and onions. It was good. We bottled 70 Pints....did you hear that 70!!! It was awesome. We now should have enough to last till next season. Here are some pictures from that fun and exciting time.


The most important thing....the babysitter....Tim was wonderful to take care of the kids and play with them.


See they had tons of fun. Colby loved playing with Tanner. Colby woke up from his nap that afternoon and said I want Tanner. It was so cute.

Pureeing the ingredients..it's alot faster than hand chopping.

Me and Jenn Filling the bottles

The finished product. I had to process my bottles three times...I think I filled them too full.

Jenn and I posing so cute....I hope you realize I hadn't done my hair or showered for the day.