Wow, I haven't updated my blog for over a month . . .

We have been busy and not busy all at the same time. Basically Sam was working night float (2.5 months of him working the night shift) and I was trying to maintain my sanity. Night float ended right before Thanksgiving, and we were able to go to WY. We ate good food and Josie had so much fun at her Grandma and Grandpa's house. She rode horses and played with the kitties. She would love to have a kitty of her own, and we are still trying to decide if we could make that work at our house. Will was sick so he wasn't his happy self, but was fairly pleasant.

Sam is now working a susposedly "easy" rotation but has not gotten home earlier than 7:30 once this week and he is on call this weekend. Yipee! Lucky for me night float trained my well and I have no expectations. Anyways here are some random Halloween pictures. . .

Target Photo Shoot

My mom and I took the kids to Target to get pictures taken (Josie's 3 year and Will's 6 month). They turned out pretty good in my opinion, especially for the amount of prints I got for only $60! Gotta love a bargain. It was a bit chaotic at times, someday I would love to afford for a photographer to come to MY house to photograph my kids. One can only dream . . .

Edited to add:

I just added a new song to my blog, "Let Them be Little," makes me bawl my eyes out every time I hear it. I don't want my kids to grow up, I want them to stay just how they are!

First Day of Preschool

Today was Josie's first day of preschool! She was so excited, but also a little nervous too. She had to have her special kitty ride in the car with her, but she was brave enough to go into school without him. It's hard to really get a 3 year old to talk and explain things in great detail, but from what I got out of her, everything seemed to go great! I really like her teacher and it should be a fun year!


And, here is a photo of the boy, I feel like if I post a photo of Josie I need to post one of Will to be "fair." So here he is being smiley and happy before we took sister to school.

Curly or Straight?

Josie is lucky enough to be blessed with naturally curly hair. We almost always just wear it curly because it looks so cute and is so easy to fix. But today we decided to make it straight. Josie loved it and called it her "Sleeping Beauty hair." I have a feeling that as she gets older I will spend many mornings making her curly hair straight! I think I still prefer curly, what do you think?


Baby Will is just getting cuter and fatter by the minute. At his 4 month check-up he weighed in at a chunky 22 lbs. Don't worry his head and height are big too. He is just big all around! We love this rolly, polly, & jolly guy!

Princess Will

Compliments of sister Josie

Swimming Lessons

Josie took swimming lessons a few weeks ago and she did really well. I forgot to post any photos. She didn't really learn how to swim but has gotton so much braver in the water!

Watch those fingers!

We had an injury this past weekend. We went to REI for Sam to pick out some shoes for his birthday which was last week (Happy 30th Sam!) Well as soon as we arrived at the store Josie informed us that she had to go potty. So I send Will with Sam and I take Josie to the potty. We finish in the bathroom and I hold the door open for Josie, she walks under my arm, so I let go of the door. But then, she spys the drinking fountain so she quickly grabs the hinge side of the door jam to make a quick turn to the drinking fountain. Then, the door shuts on her poor little fingers. She starts screaming and as fast as a I can I push the door open. I pick her up and am thinking her fingers are just going to be red from getting pinched, then I notice blood, lots of blood. So I run her back into the bathroom and run her fingers under the water. And then I see it, two finger tips attached only by skin. I start panicking and run out to the front desk and have them page Sam to come over. He casually strolls over with Will and the stroller to find me running towards him with blood dripping everywhere. He takes one look at her hand and we are off to the hospital. At the hospital they put her out and sew them back on. Things should turn out just fine, but for now she gets to wear her "big pink bandaid."