This pic warms my heart. Ha.

finally some new pics!!!

Here are some long overdue pics of the kids. I love portrait innovations. Madelynn, who has the attention span of a flea, was all over the place! I absolutely love the pics though. Love you all!!

Praise Jesus!!!

Thank the Lord....we have high speed internet again!!! We decided to cancel our home phone and the stupid dial up and that pretty much costs the same. It is slower then cable but WAY faster then stupid dial up! I will post some new old pics of the kids soon! Hope you all are doing well. Love ya!

Jennee

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Love & miss you all, Kathie & the FAM

New Video! I have some more, but haven't had time to edit it yet. Should be up tonight or tomorrow.

Long Time No See

Sunday I was going through my dresser at mom's house and found this amazing little gadget that Jason gave me a while back. It still has my favorite game in it (Zelda) And it still works. So I played it tonight :D

Jason and I re-visited WWII , courtesy of Midway Village, it was awesome.

New Pics!

Here's the link to all the photos I uploaded most recently. I know it's not much, but it's all I got for now.

Oh. My. God.

Okay, I usually don't do stuff like this, but considering this woman could potentially be a 71 year old heartbeat away from the presidency, you may want to watch this.

Blanket Fun!

I know it's been a while since I posted a video, so I thought I'd throw this one up there for you guys. I'm uploading some pictures today too, so keep an eye out for those. Miss you all!

Another budding Artist

Mandy did this for her Art class at Belvidere North! I thought it was awesome!

Nathan update

Ahhhh what a week!! The kids have had a minor cold all week long but on Friday Nathan woke up in respitory distress. He was short of breath and as the morning went on just got worse. I decided to take him to the doctor before his appointment because I could hear him wheezing without my stethascope on and he was making grunting noises everytime he took a breath. By the time I got him to the doctors office, he was unable to talk, cough or do anything. They gave him a neb treatment (like dads) and it helped almost immediately. They said we are going to start watching him more closely because what he had was the equivalent to an asthma attack. It may have been triggered by the cold, but now that he has had one he is more likely to continue to have them. Luckily they set us up with an at home neb treatment so now if that happens again we can just deal with it at home. He seems to be doing better today he is now only taking the neb about every 6 hours. Just thought I would give you all an update!! Hope everyone is doing well. Love you all!!!!

Avas 1st Birthday!!

A fun time for all. Good company, good food, and all the Grandbabies, and their parents!

Downed Tree + Ass-Hats @ ComEd = Money out of my Pocket

Well, $425 later, and our power is fully restored. Thanks to freakin ComEd, we had to pay an electrician after hours pay to come hook our power up. Let me explain.

I called ComEd early yesterday morning to report our downed wire and our partial outage. They gave me the "we don't know when it will be fixed, but you're on the list" routine, and HOURS later, we still had not heard anything from them. I decided to call again about 4:00. The power line was on the ground, and the lines were nearly pulled completely out of the wall, so I thought we should be a priority! The second person I talked to agreed, and the service team was out here about an hour later. They disconnected the power, cut the tree off the line, then re-hung it to the house. The only catch was they refused to connect it to the box. Turns out, the box suffered some minor damage, and according to the service tech, they were "only responsible up to the house."

Great. Just freakin great.

So I proceed to call a few local electricians, to try and get someone out here at 6:00 at night. Finally I get a guy here, but in the end it cost us the aformentioned $425 dollars. After hours rates are a bitch. What choice did we have? We would have lost all the food in our fridge overnight, and I'd just spent $125 on groceries Monday night!

Anyway, the tree service the town hired spent most of the day at our place cutting up the tree and taking it away, so there's at least some good news. We won't have to pay for that. Oh, did I mention the tree trimmers dropped a limb on the hood of the Jeep? Man, what a freakin week.

Tornado!

We got hit pretty hard with some serious storms last night, and when the three of us came creeping out of the basement, this is what we saw.
There were very high winds, reaching over 90 mph, and a funnel cloud was spotted very near to us. Our town has trees down all over, and since this one is resting on our power lines, we have a "partial outage". What that basical means is that the lower demand items in the house seem to be working, but the important stuff, like the air conditioner, are m.i.a. Everyone was alright, and hopefully we'll be getting this thing off the lawn really soon. Here's the rest of the photos.

New Pics!

I know it's been forever since I posted any new pictures, but I finally got around to getting the camera out and taking some. Hit my Flickr page to see the rest!

Moving....

We are currently in the midst of the "Great Family Move!" We are almost out of our house and tomorrow Dad and Mandi (or Mani as named by Nathan!) are moving in! Things are an absolute disaster right now but will get better. I think this move will be good for all parties but being in the middle of it sucks. Nathan is absolutely in love with living in the country and Mandi is very excited about her green and blue car room:) I Love you all very much!!! I will not be checking this very often anymore because unfortunately I will be moving over to the darkside and having dialup...duh duuh dunnnnn:( Take care every one.

Madelynn eating her cake

Madelynns Birthday

Heres some pics from the party. Hope everyone that came had a good time!! Love you all!

LOL

Why baby proof the house when you can baby proof the BABY????

Long time no see...

Hey all, Hello! I haven't posted in awhile, so here's a bunch of photos from June & July! All is well here- just busy w/ summer (swimming lessons for Noah daily, Ava's teething & growing like a weed, I've had a few jewelry parties, Josh is working a lot...) These are pics from hiking at Montana de Oro, playing with the baby, Noah having a play date with his SUPER CUTE identical twin friends Victoria & Elizabeth (he says he's going to marry Elizabeth), BBQ'ing, what else???? Hmmmm, I dunno'... Anyway, we can't wait to see you all in a month! I hope Madelynn had a GREAT first birthday!!!! Much love, Kath

Violet Video July

Doctors Appointment, Unhappy Baby

Ahh, the dual-edged sword that is the 2 month doctor's visit. We were both so excited to see how much Violet has grown, but at the same time we were a bit nervous about the round of vaccinations she was to receive. First, the good news. Violet is weighing in at a healthy 10 lbs 13 oz, and has grown to 22 1/2". So in the last 2 months she's gained 3 lbs 12 oz, and 2 1/2"! Now, the bad news. She's been running a fever the last day and cried/screamed pretty much all last night. Side effects are a mutha. I was so worried about the actual shots she was to receive, that I completely overlooked the side effects of the shots. Apparently this is normal, but it's sooooo hard to see her unhappy and uncomfortable without being able to do anything about it.

New pics of the kids

So I know I just posted but here are some professional pictures we just got taken. They all turned out super cute. When Kathie comes home we have to take all the grandkids to this place and get their pictures taken.