If Dads workin', Addies workin'!

The minute Tyler pulls out any tools Addie

is right by his side helping him or working on

her own project beside him...using his tools!

This particular night Addie found a project of her

own to work on as Dad finished installing a

slider tray in his study desk. I think Santa

should bring some tools for Addie this Christmas!

This is the current face i'm getting when i say,"smile Addie!"

Addie decided to take on the "vent" project.
This included sticking dads screw driver in the vent
a couple times and discovering that the vent could come off.

Both hard at work

Laboring to get the vent off

Making a discovering! New things to explore!

This is intense concentration go on here!

Putting the vent back into its spot.

Shes got some serious concentrating tounge action...

wonder where she gets that from?....Tyler....

Having fun with Daddy

We had just finished dinner so i ran upstairs to do

a couple things while Tyler could keep his eye on Addie

and I could enjoy a short lived moment of time to myself.

This is what I found when i finally came back downstairs!

Tyler had made himself the human rug jungle gym

Daddy is so fun to play with! This little girl
just loves being with her Daddy
(and for my family.....
doesnt Addie look like McKay in this pic?? Ha ha ha!)

And Addie was having a blast!

She would yell,"Giddy up Zebra!"

For those who don't know, Addie associates

anything horse like to a zebra...ya normally

its the other way around!

These two have so much fun together! Im so glad

Tyler takes the time to play and be with Addie.

A bit of Randomness

Here goes a little bit of randomness.

Addie enjoying her basket of bouncy balls

Ok everyone back home eat your heart out!
Our gas prices here in Des Moines are awesome!
And since this picture, which was only a week ago,
its gone down another .10 cents!


Cherish the love. We don't get a lot of times like this any
more where its just the two of us!

And this is what Addie looks like at the end of the day
when mom wakes up sick and Dads at school all day.

Enjoying our spring-like days we've been having! The past
week and this week so far we have had the most amazing
warm weather. We are soaking up the outside playing time
as much as we can. Unfortunately it will come to an end by this weekend.:(

Lady bugs....they are everywhere. And they
are not your typical red and black, innocent,
peaceful little creatures...these orange and black lady bugs will
bite and they hang out all over in our window sills
inside our house and out!


Getting a good look at her prey before she strikes.
(notice the tissue in hand)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Here in Iowa they celebrate it the night

before and thats when all the kids

go trick-or-treating a.k.a "beggers night."

We couldn't have asked for better weather it turned

out to be a beautiful sunny 68 degree day

and didn't cool off too much at night. So it was very

enjoyable and the kids didn't get cold!

These pictures didn't exactly line up

how i wanted them too, but oh well.

Heres how our Halloween night went....

This picture belongs down below with the

pictures of his pumpkin, anyway, this

is Ty hard at work carving his 2 inch thick

cool WHITE pumpkin.

All the goodies from the night! I'd say she did pretty well.

She actually caught on real quick and started from

the get go grabbing hand fulls out of the candy bowls

and stuffing them into her pumpkin.

Had to get a shot of the back side to show

off the cute little behind of our Tigeresssss!!!


First candy of the night...How exciting!
So i told her as i was putting her down for
her nap that she would be able to go trick or treating
when she woke up. She got to excited and never
took her nap. She did pretty well though into the
night. All the sugar helped keep her awake!


Addie our little Tigeress!
All ready to go trick-or-treating.

So here is the finished product. Addies pumpkin still
awaits to be carved as she crashed early for bed.

So unique isn't it! Ty's got such school spirit! Ha Ha!

I thought the white pumpkin turned out

really cool. This is the pumpkin i picked out for Ty at the

pumpkin patch we went to with Aunt Amy.

Spooky mode!

This is what i was doing while Tyler carved his pumpkin. Addie crashed early

so it actually turned out to be a really fun "date night" in the

kitchen. I made our sugar cookies, while he carved. It was

really enjoyable to just talk and have some time to ourselves

for a little date in the kitchen!

Thickest i've seen yet! Good thing it was Ty's, because

he has the muscles to handle this this beast!

Hope you all had a great Halloween. Addie actually

gets one more shot at trick-or-treating at the

trunk-or-treat tonight at our Ward party!!

Too Cute to Pass up: Future Doctor

This is what i came home to the other night

after Enrichment. Tyler apparently decided he would

try to study his very in depth Anatomy book while

Addie played with her toys. Addie had a different

plan... As i walked through the door Tyler said,

"just try and take this book away from her."

So i tried and wasn't too successful.

She was so focused on this book. She turned

each individual page and studied each page.

I don't know why she was so fascinated with this anatomy book, but she was. It kept her occupied for about 20 min if not longer. Like she literally sat there with this huge book on her lap for 20 + min totally in her own little world. Tyler finally went upstairs to study without it.

I don't even know what this is on this page but occasionally as she was flipping through the pages we'd hear an excited,"ooooh," and she'd point to something on the page.

Oh this girl just keeps our life entertaining. What would we do without her!

From mud puddles to stitches

If its not one thing its another with little Miss Addie!

First mud puddles to throw mom for a loop...then

stitches in the head to really throw mom for a loop!

I'm telling you by the time we have another kid

I think I might be almost prepared. Addie has

done well to prep this mom for sicknesses,

dirty mud puddles, owies, urgent care visits

and more to come i'm sure!

Addie took a spill at the playground here at our

complex. She was making her way out of the

playground when she tripped and with no hands

to brace the fall her forehead took it all when it

smacked right into the cement barrier dead on.

It did not sound good neither did it look good.

Luckily for us Daddy was there to take immediate

action to the situation. Mom has come to the

conclusion that she does not to very well in these

types of situations. I feel very blessed that Tyler has

had experience and was there with us. Addie really

took it like a champ and handled it probably better

then her mom did! I guess you could say im a wuss.

I hope that by the 2nd child i will be cured of getting

so emotional in these types of moments!

Heres my little champ! This was the morning after. I

had to play doctor and clean the stitches and put

a new bandage on it. I did it while she ate breakfast

so she would be confined, it worked out pretty well.

I even managed to get some pics.

I managed to still get a smile out of her even though i had just ripped the bandage off her head, if you didn't already notice the red squares on each side of her owie! It even ripped out some of her eyebrows. I felt so bad!

So here it is upclose and personal. Poor thing!

And this is what she goes around looking like during the day! She does not bother the bandage at all. I almost think she likes to have it on! Oh my little sweetheart!

Girls will be boys!

Finished Product!

So we were out at the playground as usual

and this puddle has never intrigued

Addie until the day her friend Luke

introduced it to her!! And what fun they had!

So i don't think my daughter has ever

been this dirty. This was quite a shock

for me and a lesson to hold back and let

them have fun! Good thing my friend

Jenn was there, because as i was about

to snatch addie out of this dirty muddy puddle

she had just stepped into Jenn said,

"Jamie...just let her go!"

Addie and Luke enjoying life to the fullest!

I have to admit this was really hard for me

at first because i had just dressed Addie in a

BRAND NEW pair of jeans, BRAND NEW

shirt, and BRAND NEW pair of WHITE socks.

And of course she'd chose this day to

have some fun in a mud puddle!

Embracing this wonderful moment when our
moms sat back and let us go!

Addie trying to clean off her hands on the grass.

(thanks to Jenn who grabbed her camera to

capture this muddy moment!)

So here are those once WHITE socks i was

telling you about. Lets just say they are not

white anymore and will never be again.

Addie is breaking me in if we ever

have a little boy. I mean she's not

the girliest girl you'll ever meet but

this experience was a new one for me. In

the mist of all this i reflected back to Joseph B. Worthlin's

talk in Conference when he said, "Come what

may and loveth." So thats exactly what i had to do!