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!