Pheasant hunting

Oh wait, I almost forgot the cutest one

And then things got ugly

What I'm not showing you are all the other pictures with the goofball tweener expressions!

More old pictures

These all look to be 1984-ish.

Recognize these people?

Cute little buggers, if I do say so myself! This must have been taken sometime after Dallas was born in Sept. 1982.

We're going through old pictures for the slide show at Emily and Trav's wedding.

Hells-bells

Well, I only made it in for one day of work this week, and even then I should have been taking Owen to the doctor for pinkeye instead of sniffling miserably in my office! To punish me for my impudence (insisting it was just from his cold!), I was smote with a doozy of a pinkeye case myself. That will teach me! So our trip up north to see Adam's family and butcher chickens is off. Hopefully, we can use our long weekend to get caught up around here and organized instead!

New pictures, finally!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mammame/

Well, our camera died early this summer. I finally got a little SD drive to plug into the computer to get them off. We also took some pictures with Uncle Trav's camera so we do have some photo-documentation of the summer!

The boys and I have been home sick the last two days. I hope this is the end of it. We are having bad stomach and respiratory viruses all at once!

Trav and Grandpa heading home

Moving cows

Max Daisy & Dal

How the heck are we?

Sorry it has been so long since we updated. We are all getting in the groove with our jobs and daycare. Everyday is so full that we hardly have time to sit down. I guess that is what winter is for! Adam is going gangbusters with his Asst. Prof. position. He has already turned in a grant and is building his Biophysics class and lab from scratch. It is a lot of work! The fall looks to be one work deadline after the other for him, but he is still hoping to get a little hunting in.

Despite having spent almost the entire day on my human subjects research training I am loving my job. At this point I am learning as much about everything that I can. Basically that means I get to read interesting things all day long - I keep getting mad at myself because I think I am procrastinating. Then, I realize that I am actually doing my job! I have the potential for lots of interesting projects.

The boys are doing great. Dare I say that Max seems to be getting over the worst of the whiny and tantrummy stuff? He is not the greatest with transition so he has been a little "touchy." I think he is settling into our routine now. He is extremely smart and articulate and obsessed with Jesus. This is somewhat of a strange thing for a 3-year-old to be obsessed with, but we just go with the flow! Max has lots of interesting theories about Jesus' life and may start his own religion some day.

Owen is a cutie and the best baby in the whole world. He is getting the hang of daycare and finally started taking his bottles there. He seems to have a little cold virus so he regressed a little in the bottle area. Nevertheless, we are not too worried that he is going to "dry up and blow away!" He was about 20 lbs a few weeks ago (5 months)!

Today was Dallas' birthday so we had a nice family party. It is great to finally be able to be here for stuff like this! There is lots more to report, but I must be off to see what kind of high chair we are going to get for Owen to have at Grandma Nancy's house! He is munching a few solids here and there and pretty excited about meal time!

PS: No house yet...

Silage

The corn silage operation is in full swing! It looks to be a great year for silage.

@ an auction

Swinging!

Fishin'

Mudpuddle

First sweetcorn

Cowboy Max

Grandpa Dave

Max, Daisy and Grandma Nancy

This was taken back in South Dakota. Daisy and Max are great buddies with similar energy levels!!

Tractor!

We are at Grandpa David and Grandma Ida's now. Max is loving driving around on his electric tractor!

Grandpa's scooter

Max and Grandpa Atlas loved running around on Grandpa's new scooter. Pretty fancy!

Uncle Trav

Shearing sheep

Nine years!

It is hard to believe that we've been married (and living in Michigan) for 9 years! Adam even has a bad head cold in honor of the sinus infection and midnight trip to the Emergency Room on the night before our wedding. We got sushi takeout (yet another food we will miss!) for our anniversary lunch. It was so cute to see Max wolfing down his "Canyafornia" roll.

Coffee blast how I will miss thee

I'm getting a little weepy about leaving all the good food behind.

Can you get bi-bim-bop in South Dakota?

Sun Hat

Mom and Owen self-portrait in the park

This is how we usually look.

Max and Elizabeth at the dairy farm

They had a lot of fun and even got to have *ice cream*!!

Dinner at Elizabeth's house

Max's last day at Green Room

Today is Max's last day at Green Room! We will miss Green Room friends and teachers so much. They have been like a family to us!

Max and "Sara-teacher"

Max and Cathy

More pictures are posted here.

Max at the dentist

What a cool dude with his Hawaiian shirt and fancy sun glasses!

Owen Update - 10.5 weeks

Owen is growing like crazy! At his 2 month appointment he weighed 14lbs 10oz. He is well into his 6 month size clothes and his medium Fuzzi Bunz! He is quickly moving out of the snuggly stage (So soon! I am resigned to be a mother of boys with hard, fast-moving parts.) He really likes kicking his legs and practicing standing. He is working on "so big," and his all time favorite activity is sucking/chewing on his fingers. He thinks his family is very funny (especially Mama), and is pretty content to go with the flow. He is lucky as this fast-paced life we are leading lately means he gets to spend lots of time in the Ergo, his favorite spot. Thankfully, he is a good sleeper - in the nighttime and during the day!

Picnic in the Arb

In an effort to keep the house as clean as possible, the boys and I met Daddy for a picnic in the Arb on Monday. The peonies seem to be a little behind this year. I would say only about a quarter of them were blooming. We'll have to check back later in the week. It is a pretty amazing sight when they are all in bloom!


Max and Owen were pretending to be "bees" and buzzing around to all the flowers! Max was doing a great job of pollinating. Here he is with pollen on his face!


Owen and Daddy taking it easy!

We had an open house on Sunday and showings last night and tonight. It is taking a lot of effort to keep this place clean! There seems to be some interest so that is a good thing (but no offers yet)! I hope we can get this house selling thing over quickly It does make for a lot of adventures as I am trying to keep Max out of the house as much as possible. There are lots of fun things to do - hanging with friends, dinosaur museum, hands on museum, parks, and hopefully we'll get to the pool soon. Max is very exciting to get there. I am still trying to figure out how I will keep Max alive while keeping Owen in the shade. I think we can work it out, but it may take some planning - and a large sun hat!

I've posted lots of pictures to Flickr - check them out!

Mom and boys

Sorry it is so blurry - it is from our cell phone! I hope to download the "real" pictures from our camera this afternoon.

Friends

Nate, Max and Lucy.

Max is going to miss being a city kid with such good buddies so close. (One next door neighbor and one two doors down!)

PS: Notice the maple leaves. These kiddos are very into nature this summer! Max tells everyone who will listen how the Emerald Ash Borer Beetle killed all the Ash trees. Unfortunately, not that many people want to listen.

Super Max

Who is that masked super hero??

Soccer

Soccer

Max has started soccer! So far he has been kind of shy because of the high number of "strangers." Each time he is getting more outgoing though!

Cuddle-bug

Owen is such a sweetie!

Newest member of our family

Daisy-Doggy

She is 8 weeks old and an English Springer Spaniel. Both of her parents were immigrants from France. My cousin, Terry, just delivered her to Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Peter's today. They're taking care of her until we get there.

More pictures of Daisy are here.

House for Sale

We have been going like crazy trying to get our house ready to sell. Of course with two kids it seems like 2 steps forward, 1.8 steps back every day. This weekend we showed it to a labmate of Adam's who is just getting going on his house search. It was kind of like a mock run through of what it would be like to show it - we spent two days cleaning non-stop. And lots of things are already undone: smudges on the windows! cat hair on the carpet! papers here! there! everywhere! The realtor is coming over today so we'll see what final projects she recommends: painting the baseboards! cleaning out the cupboards! rearranging furniture!

But for now - I must do my dissertation revisions! What the heck am I doing blogging, anyway?! For a glimpse of how things are around here click on the Flickr widget to the right for lots of pictures.