Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Funny Things Our Kids Say


I just thought that I would take a minute to tell all of you about something Morgan told Luke and I yesterday. Well more Luke than me, but I was in the room when she said it. Morgan and I were getting ready to leave for BSF Luke asked her to put her shoes on. I guess that he asked her to put on her black shoes, because she quickly looked at her daddy and Said, "What, What, What! Black shoes with pink socks and a brown sweater, they will send me to prison." When Luke stopped laughing he told her that she could wear her brown shoes.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

It's A BOY!

Yes, thats right we are having a baby boy! Luke and I are very excited! We can't agree on any boy names, we have a few, but none of them are speaking to us. Any of you that have kids now what I mean. As parents we want their name to be all that we know our children will be. Plus you have to make sure that it will be a name that won't get them ridiculed when they start school! So let us know what your favorite boy names are, we would love some suggestions!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Family Fun Night!!!

Friday night we went to Family Unity Night at Sunset Pres. we had such a wonderful time with the kids. I highly recommend taking you family to the next one(in November) if you didn't get a chance to go on Friday night. Morgan had so much fun playing on the inflatable toys and riding on the plasma cars, Olivia just enjoyed being able to run free!

Were has the time gone?

When I looked at Olivia today a rush of emotions struck me. My baby is not such a baby anymore, she is walking, saying no when she doesn't like something that is happening to her, and most of all she will be one in a few short weeks. I don't know why today was the day that I decided to notice all of these changes in Olivia, I have Posted a picture of Olivia at one day old and now. It really is amazing how much she has changed.


Friday, September 21, 2007

It's Friday

I can hardly believe that today is Friday, this week has seemed to fly by so fast that I'm still taking it all in. I will give you a quick look at what we had going on this week.

Monday- We did errands I knew that I would not be able to fit them in on any other day so we finished them all in one day. For any of you moms out there you know that doing all of your errands in one day can be very challenging with you kiddos. Then at about 12:30 we went to my moms, and I left for a doctors appointment. Finlay arrived home at 3:00pm put my two very tired kiddos down for a nap. After dinner I started to go though the girls draws only to realizes that Olivia had one pair of pants, after I put off of her summer clothing away. Ran up to Old Navy to buy her a few things while the baby sale was still going on.

Tuesday- Arived at Sunset to help with the Gift Kick off child care at 8:45. For anyone who knows me well I'm not the biggest fan of the morning and having to have myself and both of the girls ready to leave the house at 8:30 can be a big challenge. Olivia was filmed for a video clip that is being used at church on Sunday, I can hardly wait to see it. Finished with kick off at 11:15ish, headed to the grocery store, I always forget to get something off of the big list. :) Arrive home at 12:00 feed the girls, manage to do a little bit of clean up around the house, before laying all of us down for a nap. I woke up about 3, managed to do some laundry, and clean the laundry room. At my house the laundry room always manages to get really cluttered. After dinner I was able to go spend a little time with Laura, it was nice to take a break.

Wednesday- My mom arrives at our house to watch Olivia at 8:30, Morgan and I leave for BSF.
This Wednesday is my turn to Volunteer in the 2 class room, so for the second day in a row I happily play with others children while not spending time with my own. It was great to get to see all of the great things the children in the 2's class are learning. 11:15 I 'm done volunteering pick up Morgan from her class, head home to pick up Olivia. On the way home I hear all about what Morgan learned in class, I'm so glad that it sounds like she had a good time. 11:20 arrive home, talk to my Mom for a minute, grab Olivia and a few snacks head to meet Yvonne at Costco. 11:45 Costco trip with Yvonne and Ben, goes great we are able to buy 90% of what we are going to need to do food for MOM's Kick off on Thursday. We stop at the Costco cafe eat some lunch, pack up our cars, then we are off to Sunset to drop off the food for moms kick off. 2:00pm arrive home with two very tired kiddos put them down for naps, think about laying down myself but decide that I have other things that I really should be getting done.

Thursday- MOM's kick off I'm so excited! My mom arrives at our house to watch both of the girls at 7:30 I'm out the door to go to Kick off, but not with a quick trip though Starbucks. Arrive at Sunset at 8:00am. Yvonne arrives at the church as well we get started making food and setting up the room. 8:30 our helpers arrive and things really start to take form, its all coming together. 9:15 MOM's kick off beings, the room is packed with mom's some that I haven't meet and a few from last year. 11:30 start to clean up kick off was awesome, I'm so glad that I was able to be apart of it this year. 12:30 head for home, my kids are so happy to have me home I'm so happy to be home with them.

All of that brings us to today we have done nothing at the Jenison house, I have been able to sit on the floor and play with my kids. I think that the best part of my day so far was being able to sit at the table and enjoy breakfast with my kids, I have really missed being able to do that this week. I enjoy all of the things that I Volunteer in, but this week with all of them happening at the same time it was a little heck-tick and crazy, I'm so glad that we have nothing going on today. Whats up for tomorrow? We are helping my sister move! I hope that you all enjoy your weekend.

Monday, September 17, 2007

The Wedding

This week was a very busy, very fun, but most of all a very happy week. Morgan was the flower girl in our good friends wedding. It was not only wonderful to watch them join their lives in marriage, it was also wonderful that Morgan was able to be a part of their very special day. I'm so proud of her I didn't know that my child could behave so well! The wedding was at 7:00pm on Friday night, I think that we were at the reception until 10:30. Morgan was very determined to have cake, I think she thinks that is what a wedding is all about. I have posted two pictures that I received from the groom. Yes on this big day I forgot my camera, so I have no pictures of my own of Morgans first wedding. I hope that I will be able to post more of what is going on with the family in the next few weeks as we are settling in to normal life it gets easier every day Luke is back at work.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Its Good to be Home

I know that it has been a very long time since my last post. We got busy our last few weeks in Michigan, and then the whole family got sick! We have been home for about 2 weeks, but the time has flown bye. Today is Luke's first day back at work, and my first day alone with the girls. We have enjoyed the summer and I wouldn't have traded the time with family, friends, and just getting to spend so much time with Luke for anything. I have posted a few pictures that have been taken over the last few weeks I think that they are going to be able to fill you all in on what we have been doing much better that I can do! I hope that you all had a wonderful and safe Labor Day Weekend.


Luke took me to University of Michigan's Campus, it was really fun to see were he went to collage, that evening we also meet his collage roommates for dinner. It was a great weekend without our kids! Thank you so much grandma and grandpa for watching the girls!
















Our trip would not have been complete with out a trip to the Grand Rapids Zoo! They have a really cool exhibit were the kids can pet Sting Rays and Sharks, Morgan was really excited to just look at them I don't think that we could have gotten her to stick her hands in the water to pet them















The day after we got back to Portland we decided to take the girls to the Oregon Zoo. I wanted to take them before the summer train was done for the season.


This weekend we spent time with my Parents, but we also were able to go to our good friends Chris and Andreas Wedding! It was so much fun to be there to celebrate with them on their day! It was also great to see Luke all dressed up I don't think he has been dressed this nice since our wedding!