My favorite kind of night.. home with the kids!!

Although dad was MIA (working) we had a GREAT night! Got home, ate leftovers, took a bath, then Jackson said... lets have a puppet show. He found two boxes, drew doors and windows on them and I cut them out. (In the first picture you can kind of see one of the boxes behind Spiderman.. I mean... Jackson) We then proceeded to have a puppet show and his friends (webkins and star pals) watched. Jenna wasn't too into it but rather wanted to look out the window. She loves to be outside but our weather is not allowing it. Very wet and chilly yet. Where o where is SPRING!
A sneak peek inside the house. Stripes (his tiger webkins) had the remote in there, an empty cup and motrin... just incase.. A tiger has to always be prepared.
Jackson taking a picture of me.... taking a picture of him!
Smiley girl looking outside. She was saying... da da... as she was looking outside... (excuse the no trim work around the windows.. blessing I have a contractor as a husband.. curse because they start projects but have to move onto ones they get paid for doing)

Awwwwe!!! Gotta love that face!

Spagetti .... yumm!

Some Fun Videos of Jenna

Sorry.. I can't get the first video to go up and down... grr. It is of me singing our "Shake your little butt song" -- YAH.. I don't sing.. excuse the sound... but she loves to shake her bum to it. We have sung that song since Jackson was little. They do it right before they get into the bath tub..

The second video is of Jenna and her new trick. She is learning how to blow kisses. It is tooo cute!

Jacksons Sick, Bon Jovi, Daughtry, Tequilla.. Oh My

So got up this morning and found that Jackson was not feeling good. When I go in there I am usually singing "Good morning.. Good morning.. how are you this morning... good morning to you!!" (Ok... not this morning though. I was at Bon Jovi/Daughtry concert last night with some friends and lets just say I am not 100% today and cannot get myself to sing today!) Anyway... He said his throat hurts, he has a fever and a bad bad cold. After hanging out on the couch this morning and eating some gluten free pancakes and a bananna he is starting to get a little color and is actually smiling a bit. Poor guy. I am sure it is the same thing that is going through our house. Barry has had it the worst... and I have come to find out that Jackson milks his sickness a little like his dad does :) Oh well. So it is a day of resting on the couch, watching movies and chilling out. It is a rainy day so really not much else to do!! Haven't had a movie day in a long time.

Jenna's Photo Shoot

So I just wrote this super long post and it showed me an error.. just what I needed on a morning like this. To summarize.. Beautiful day yesterday so took Jenna out in her adorable summer dress and took pictures of her outside our home. She loved every second of it and I could not get her to even look at me much because she was in awe of all the birds chirping, people outside, cars zooming by.. etc.

Pictures didn't show up

I don't know why the pictures of the car and car seat did not show up.. so here they are. Added a cute picture of jenna in her had and with her soothie... which she hated at birth and has kinda taken a liking to lately. And a picture of Jackson with his favorites book. He was soo very proud of it and rightfully so he did a great job. No surprise among his favorites were pizza, color green, ferris wheel (didn't know that one) and Lion as his favorite animal.

Spring is Here

One of Jacksons FAVORITE THINGS... and ours too is ICE CREAM!!! So being it is spring, we had a great day we decided to walk to the "ice cream gas station" as Jackson calls it. He got himself some sherbert this time and so kindly shared it with Jenna. Well.. as you can see she enjoyed it very much and would not take her eyes off him. Licking her chops and smacking her lips until she got a little taste. It was very cute. We have another ice cream lover for SURE! Jackson wanted to help push the stroller (his webkins was in the back seat) and did a pretty good job once he realized that mommy needed to help steer. It was a wonderful wonderful day!

New Things

It may not be NEW... but it is new to us. We traded off my perfectly fine Mercury Montego (I am married to a farm boy who DOES NOT like cars) and got a Chrysler Pacificia. Now.. anyone that knows me knows that I am tight... (that is putting it lightly) with money so it kills me to trade off my fuel efficient car for this. BUT.. driving to Barnsville MN yesterday for some garage sales I got 28mpg... granted I was going 60... but still. Not too bad. We now have the option to fill up the third row of seats....I preface that with saying it will not be with additional kids of our own. :) I also have room to put more purses for my purse parties and as Jackson said... It is a cool cool car mom! He likes that there is NO sunroof in this one since the sun REALLY gets to him... and he doesn't like sunglasses. So he was pretty excited about that. Plus he has his own air controls in the back and own cup holders AND own place for movies. Ok.. I have warmed up to the idea!! We also got Jenna into her new car seat. SHe is too big for her other one and frankly I am getting a sore back from lugging her around in it. So we have converted. I LOVE the pink!!!

Princess Jenna

Ok.. soo... Jenna is a princess in our eyes. It took 39 years for a Burchill man to bring a girl into this world.. she has the RIGHT to be a princess :) One of the distributers I buy my purses from started selling tiaras......... ok.. I was all over that! The day that I got them I could not WAIT to try on Jenna's. She was not thrilled at first but has gotten used to the tiara on her head. One day I am sure she will be asking to wear it to school. A funny story with it is Jackson wanted to wear it. We told him that boys don't wear tiaras only girls. Barry, looking for a funny moment asked Jackson... so, what makes Jenna a girl. Thinking he would say something about male parts I already had a giggle coming.. NOPE.. get this. Jenna is a girl because...... she can wear girl things. YEP... Jackson has figured out why girls are girls and boys are boys. Don't quite know how to explain cross dressers to him yet. he he. The video below is of Jenna tonight. When ever we say something whether it is Da Da, Ba Ba, Ma Ma or Jackson ..or anything else really... she will say it in the exact same tone and pitch but it comes out da da.. I will say.. Jack-son.... she will say... da-da. It is very cute and anoying all at once. I want to hear MA MA except for at 2am! Tonight I caught her on video saying num num. She was eating gluten free pizza... which by the way is num num. You have to wait for it. The video is about 1 minute long but anyone that has a child knows that as soon as you pull out the camera they stop doing what you are trying to catch. I got it this time!

Dance Jackson Dance

We were waiting for Hannah's dance group to start their dance and Jackson decided that he was going to dance too. It was sooo funny watch Jackson imitate what the girls were doing. Here are a few of the pictures. You SOO needed to be there to see it. It was priceless! And finally a picture of the kiddos!! (Carter was not able to be with us but we still thought of him) Jackson, Hunter, Jenna and Hannah! They are such a great group of kids!

Swimming!!!

Jackson is my little muscle man in his new body glove life jacket thing. He loved it soo much and it worked great for him! He loved to jump off the side of the pool into his daddys arms. Then it was Jenna's turn. For a girl who LOVES to take a bath... she HATED the pool!! She whined and cried and mommy came to the rescue. We didn't try that again! We had an night at a hotel (a VERY LONG night) because my niece danced on Sunday. My family got hotel rooms and let the kids play on Saturday. Well Barry and I determined that we will NOT be taking the kids to a hotel again soon. Jenna was up at least a half a dozen times and in between that Jackson either was waking me up by his new stuffed animal kissing me, his feet stuck in my ribs or him telling me he loves me. I was not going to sleep in the same bed with my husband since he was battling a cold and coughing like crazy. I chose what I thought was the best bet for getting some sleep.. 3 hours of sleep later I am looking back thinking that sleeping pool side or in the car would have given me more sleep! All in all it was a fun weekend!

Jackson, what do you want to be when you grow up?

This was a conversation that Barry had with Jackson. Do you want to be a contractor, doctor, teacher? Nope. What do you want to be when you grow up. With out a second thought. "I want to be a..... wait for it... Robot". Yep. Jackson has decided it everyone. He is going to be a robot when he grows up! I love that kid!

You know what. He will probably find out a way to become a robot! (He is giving me the surfs up dude sign)

Baby Jenna was sick :(

It came on over a few days..we thought it was teething ... but turned out she was sick. A pink ear, green boogery nose AND eyes, fever... she was just not feeling well at all. Doctor said that kids are soo much stronger than us because if any one of us was as sick as she was we would not be smiling like she still was. So mommy stayed home with her yesterday. Now... she is on a very strong antibiotic and it was obviously working well. The first pictures are of her. You can't see how swollen her eyes and face are but she looked TERRIBLE. Her nose was actually bleeding from all the wiping. The other pictures are of her trying on her bathing suit. I had to do it.... it is soo cute! She has a few but this is the only one that fits her right now. In the first picture she is practicing her parade wave :)

Happy Birthday Hannah.... Deal or No Deal

First Picture is of Hannah!! She is my niece... she turned 10 but is going on 25!!! She is one of the sweetest girls you will ever meet... I hope my daughter turns out to be like her! Second picture is of Jackson and his Cousin Carter. We let Jackson eat real pizza... needless to say he LOVED every bite! Then is a picture of Jenna... we also let her eat pizza... this girl will eat ANYTHING.. Dad couldn't keep up with giving her the food. She shovled it in soo fast! Next is a picture of Jackson with one of the prizes he won. They are glasses that are straws... they were soo funny. Funnier was looking around the room at 15 kids all with these glasses on drinking their drinks. Lastly is my gluten free baking for this weekend. YUM.. thank you to another gluten free mom who gave me this recipe. It is muffins (WE LOVE MUFFINS). I made strawberry muffins.. OMG.. THEY WERE GREAT!!! Jackson, Jenna and I ate a half dozen of them already and others have taste tested them with good reviews!!! ANOTHER recipe for the success list!

Going to Work with Dad

This weekend Jackson was going to go to work with Dad. (Actually going to the lumber yard) but he was excited non the less. We had to pack a lunch bag :) Banana, cereal and rasins. When he got out to the yard the boys bought him licorice anyway... thanks guys!! He had a fun morning and hopefully when it drys up a bit he can actually go and work with dad where they are building their shop.

Jenna and I were reading the paper... well... I was TRYING to read the paper.. Jenna just likes to distroy the paper :) Then I had a bright idea to take her for a ride in this little wagon that holds jacksons legos. Well, after a close mishap I realized that there was this little sign on the side that showed a baby in the wagon with a big X through it.. OOPS.. lost my chance at mommy for the year!!!