Time Off

Scott hates it when I call him crafty, but I dont' know what other word to use. Check out what he made for me this past little while since he's had some time off!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!














My blogger is being weird and won't let me write in between pics, So i'll explain them here.... there's some sweet picture frames. An awesome coat rack by our front door. Lane was SO excited about the little pegs for HIS coats. And then my FAVORITE!!! the log bed!!! We have never had a bed frame the whole time we've been married. We've just put our mattresses on the floor. SO i go from the floor to THIS!!!! Isn't it gorgeous!??! He made that bed frame in like 2 days.....he's amazing. So if anyone knows anyone that wants to buy some log furniture, he's seriously considering starting a little side business. But i'm content with just having it for myself :) Now i need to make some more quilts and maybe some curtains for our room....Hmmm

Easter Party

We had a little Easter party at church.  Lane and Lucy had lots of fun :)  

Conspiracy

It's time......it's time to come out publicly about the conspiracy against us!! Where to start.

It started last June when we rented out house to the world's most rediculous, arrogant, stoner. I am convinced that he has instigated this plan to ruin our lives. Fast forward to about Christmas time, when our renter was about 2 months behind on rent......RED FLAG, right!??? Well being the Christians that we are, (not to mention not being able to afford TWO mortgages for SURE) We let him "catch up" and miraculously by Feb he caught up. That is where the real torture began.

At the end of Feb our dishwasher....BRAND NEW Dishwasher broke. No problem....it's under warrenty. I call. They come. They order the parts to fix the dishwasher....all is right and good.

Fast foward to March. The first week of March comes and no rent. Ok, scott calls stoner and says, "where's our rent? Oh and we're coming to do a walk through of the house to check damages and condition" Stoner says, i'll meet you on tuesday. Tuesday comes, stoner's not home. Wednesday comes, stoner IS home but "forgot" to go to the bank, and asks if we can postpone the walk thru to thurs. Thursday comes, stoner is home, "forgot" to go to the bank again, and scott says" Ok i get it that you're not going to pay us...but i'm still doing my walk thru." Stoner turns into Raging stoner and physically refuses to let scott in and almost gets in a fist fight.

Scott leaves, calls the cops. Cops do a raid on the house (OH yeah, stoner has turned our beautiful little house, where we spent HOURS remodeling, and where we started our family into a pot factory). Stoner gets arrested. We call a lawyer (MISTAKE NUMBER 100) We start the eviction process on the grounds of illegal activity. Stoner gets served notice. We wait.

The conspiracy continues. Remember the broken dishwasher? Well we wait the two weeks for our parts to come in. They don't. We call again. "oh....well that order took longer than our specified time so it got cancelled out...call whirlpool." Call whirlpool. "oh we don't have any record of those parts being ordered....here's the number to our super secret special parts SWAT team" Call them...."oh yeah...we'll order them, they'll be there in two weeks." We wait. They never come. We call and say "give us a new dishwasher or we're going to sick our stoner renter on you" SWAT guy says...."Hmmm well i can give you a new dishwasher, or i can give you $100 and new parts...either option will be two weeks out." We take the money and the new part. We wait. Money comes (false ray of light in the conspiracy...things must be looking up) ONE part comes....it's the wrong part. We call. Oh we have the right one, we'll overnight it. Oh, you needed another part? We don't have any record of another part....here's the number for our super secret specia lparts SWAT team...."

Fast forward back to the rental house. So we decide to put the house on the market. Why not, Right? What else could POSSIBLY hurt this case. We give him notice it's on the market, and written notice that we're coming for a walk thru. Morning of walk thru, stoner calls. "if you're really coming today you need to give me a call." Fat chance, stoner. We show up. Stoner actually lets us in. Walks thru. Takes pictures of all the new plants. Meanwhile stoner is trying to convince our friend we took as witness of all the miraculous benefits of the "cannibus" ....MORON....Scott is trying not to rip his toungue out of his face to make him shut up. At the end, Stoner says, "So what's this mean for me?" Scott: "Nothing" Stoner, "Well what comes of this? What do you want from us" Scott (dumbfounded at the arrogance) "What??!?!? We want you out of our house!!!!!!!" Stoner,"well.....I intend to pay you everything I owe you...." Scott leaves.

Fast forward past stoner evading the papers being served, us not being able to get a key witness to testify, and other random "set backs" to the day BEFORE our court date. Lawyer calls and says stoner is fighting us that he didn't do anything "Illegal" Court date gets postponed 2 weeks. Fast forward to a week before our NEW court date. Court date postponed 2 MORE weeks (due to our lawyer sucking). Fast forward to TODAY. Lawyer calls. Says that the police office (where the arresting officer that we are supina-ing to our trial) has sent the lawyer a form that we have to sign agreeing that will will pay this officers hourly wage, plus time and a half, plus milage, plus a supina fee, plus our first born child, in order for this officer (whom WE tipped off so they could get their STUPID arrest) to come testify.

So now we wait.

We've pretty much decided to NOT Pay the fees to supina fees agreement and just supina him the regular way. Because really...at this point....it doesn't even matter. We're so far into it, the least date is almost up anyways, and clearly this is not meant to go our way so why waste anyMORE money. Our lawyer says he's never seen the police do this before (of course he hasn't....it's part of the conspiracy)

So....that's MOST of the conspiracy. I'm leaving out the parts about the contractors that scott has worked for, current work conditions, and lack of being paid by some, etc etc.....because i don't want to sound like i'm complaining or anything.

Did I mention this is all coming through the filter of a pregnant woman's mind as well? This is officially the longest post i've ever written. Sorry for those that actually suffered through reading it, but they say that writing is therapeutic right? Right after a good cry. Now i've done both. I can get on with my day

But on a lighter note. Look at my little angel

it's Official!

Let's try that again.......Ahhh here we go

That's right! It's official, the Dr confirmed it this morning....So here's the details.

Due date Oct 19th-ish
Yes, they will be 11-ish months apart

Yes, we were suprised...

Yes, we are excited....

Yes, we realize that it will be CrAzY

Yes, we are accepting applications for a live-in Nanny....ha...just kidding.. People have twins all the time and they do ok.....so we'll be fine.

I think that about covers it!

Comedians

Lane is so helarious sometimes....It was snowing the other day, and we were eating lunch. Lane looks out the window and says..."it's snowing...." Me; "yup".....lane, " mom, the snow it talking to you" me: "oh yeah? What's it saying?" lane: " I"M FAAAALLING!!" :) I really should write down more little jokes he comes up with because he really is pretty creative.

Lucy is starting her career as a backup comedian for her big brother. Today during church she happily growled pretty much non-stop through out the entire sacrament meeting, getting especially emphatic and loud during prayers. I love that she growls...i really should video it becuase it's the weirdest noise I think i've heard a baby make before....I'm sure Lane taught her how to do it....oh how she loves her big brother!

they are great!

Project

Here's a cute little project I found. I found this great pattern book of booties......love them!

Destructor

This is what came to my door the other day.

I said, "lane!!! what in the world is on you!?!?" He says..."I don't know! " He had been outside with Scott so i yell to scott the same question.....Scott says, " it's shaving creme!" Shaving creme....of course....why didn't *I* think of that. Who doesn't have cans of shaving creme laying around in their backyard for their kids to play with.....DUH, Carol :)

This is also what came to my door another day...
This is after we found Lane in my car for who knows how long....he had found my make up bag becuase I leave it in the car, (since that's the only place i remember to put on makeup) Well I guess he's watched his mamma put on make up too many times?? He actually did pretty good with the mascara! Yikes Not sure what he was going for with the nail polish on his face...*I* didn't teach him that one.

Baby Genious

Lucy is a little over 4 1/2 months old, and this week she decided she was going to learn how to sit up. She's very good at it now, and only has occasional fall overs due to extreme excited-ness.

Her daddy also decided that she didn't need to worry about any food allergies and is letting her try everything she can hold.....here she's taste testing a nice sour apple


Here she is being incredibly cute..

I just love this picture.....she is such a little girl posing for the camera....helarious...

"where's my OTHER daddy?"

Well, Scott has been officially traumatized for life.....

Scott shaved his beard off the other day after Lane went to sleep. When Lane woke up the next morning, he runs into our room as usual, and when he gets up on the bed, he stops and has this confused look on his face and says,..." Where's my other daddy??" We ask..."what other daddy?" Lane says,..."My PERFECT daddy" Scott says...."what?? *I* am your daddy".....lane says...."no....my perfect daddy has a beard" That was it. Scott almost cried I think. He swore he was never going to shave again. THANKS lane! :)

Lane did warm up to him after a while....but then yesterday we were hanging up some pictures, and we hung up a picture of Jesus. Lane says..."is that my friend Jesus?" Scott says.."Yup" Lane says something to the effect..."Hmm.....well JESUS has a beard" I forgot what else he said but he was basically telling his Daddy that he should be more like Jesus :)

Helarious!

Yipeee for 3!

Lane is 3!! We had a little family party for him on Sunday, and had lots of fun. We made him a bear cake and he thought that was lots of fun. He wouldn't let me take a picture of his sweet superman cape i made, but he wore it almost all night.

Opening a sweet light saber sword that Gramma Nette gave him. He wouldn't admit it was a sword, it was a gun to him.....it makes noise and lights up! very cool....

here's the bear cake. The white part was just a piece that we put the candles in.

Scott tried his hand out at making balloon shapes. He made this fun party hat...

here he is with his creation....

All in all a good birthday. It started out a little rocky at about midnight when lane woke up scared, and opened his door to be attacked by the balloons i hung from his door way as a surprise for the morning. Poor guy, he was pretty terrified! Then church was a little rough cuz he fell asleep almost all through the first two hours, and that is just never a pretty picture. SOOOOOO anyways it ended up good and our little guy is now a big 3 year old!!! Happy birthday Lane!

New additions.....

Meet our chickies!! All 12 of them....

Here is their house that Lane built.....with a little help from his daddy

Lane inspecting the ramp

Lane being excited about his chickens...

Cuteness

SO we got 12 chicks....they are an experiment for us to 1. see if we can keep them alive 2. see if they will give us eggs 3. See if we like it enough to get meat hens next year.

It's been a week and they are all still alive...despite finding Lane out in the coup every once in a while. He thinks they are pretty funny except the one that "Bit his finger" He is a good little helper....he has gone out with scott almost every morning to check on them and feed them! hopefully he'll be good at getting the eggs, because I'm a little scared of that part!

wish us luck!

Long live the King

Lane has been on a super hero- King kick lately. He always wants his "cape" on, and usually carries a rope or a "staff" Here is is posing as a proper king should....very serious business

But then decides even Kings need to smile sometimes...

He even takes time to kiss the babies...what a lucky girl i am to have such a great little King!

4 Months!

Miss Lucy had her 4 month check up a little while ago. Here's her stats.

Height 24 1/2 in

Weight 13-ish lbs

head: 15 ish in (7% percentile)!!! but don't worry she's a genious.

Her other stats were in the 45% ....so she's a little tiny thing! I have no idea how THAT happened, but whatever. She's SO strong though...and tougher than tough. She is almost sitting by herself, she LOVES to stand, and she only lets out a slight wimper when her older brother wails on her (on accident of course)

Lucy is helarious. She LOVES to talk, but ONLY at home. Lane has taught her (or vice versa?) this bizarre scream/yell/darth vader noise.......it's really funny and she'll just tell all kinds of stories with this "voice" i love it. She's VERY ticklish which I LOVE! She LOVE LOVE LOVES her big brother. They adore each other actually. the first thing lane does is the morning is run into our room and go straight to lucy and make her laugh and smile and coo at her. And if she's NOT in there he says..."where's lucy!??"

I had lucy all day with me and i noticed that when we got home, she just LIT up! she was soooo happy to be home.. She wasn't fussy when we were out, but she wouldn't laugh or smile for anyone, but the second we got home she was all smiles and stories. SOO she might be a home-body....we'll see.

She is such a good baby, we love her so much!