tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91985905717292820482024-03-13T23:02:09.522-07:00Murphy's LawCheck out what's going on with the Murphy's in Colorado!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-62120455230974666322010-05-21T21:04:00.000-07:002010-05-21T21:05:47.825-07:00Mille needs a new heart!Well our baby girl Camile is on the transplant list and is now listed to get a new heart. Please pray she gets one and God guides the surgeons hands and no rejection!!<br /><a href="http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/camilemurphy">www.caringbridge.com/visit/camilemurphy</a>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-18519690164424341392010-04-14T22:29:00.001-07:002010-04-14T22:33:27.248-07:00Camile MurphyWow, it has been a really long time since updating this!! Life just gets in the way and there's no way I could find time to update this.<br />Well that sweet baby sister is here, she was born on 11/14/09 and unfortuntely I'm updating this to say that our 5 month old has been in the hospital for a week and 2 days now. She's at Children's Hospital in Denver in the cardiac ICU. Read about her story and updates on <a href="http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/camilemurphy">www.caringbridge.com/visit/camilemurphy</a>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-36471943259288456312009-09-08T20:52:00.001-07:002009-09-08T21:22:24.210-07:00Updates on the Murphy's<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SqcqEvJEqSI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Oe0NkcfI8dU/s1600-h/new+pics+068.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379314540779710754" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SqcqEvJEqSI/AAAAAAAAAUY/Oe0NkcfI8dU/s320/new+pics+068.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Wow, where to start?? Well we did find out that we are having a baby girl...so 2 girls and 2 boys, awesome!! Phoebe is so very excited for her new sister.</div><br /><div>In June we took a 2 week excursion to Oklahoma and then to Houston, back to Oklahoma and then all the way back home. We stayed in Oklahoma a few days and saw family and friends then drove to Houston to see Denzil's family. Now we had only lived in Colorado for a year when we took this trip but we thought we were going to die from the hot weather in Oklahoma. When we went to Houston it was so much worse and we really don't know how people live there, or how we lived there for that matter. OH MY GOSH...it was really hot!! Talk about needing a shower at night and in the morning! We stayed in Houston for a few days and then drove back to Oklahoma. Unfortuntely we were involed in an accident in Houston. Some lady rear ended us when we were trying to turn left. It was almost $5000 damage to my van but it has majorly messed up mine and Denzil's backs. Him more than me but some days mines pretty bad. He's had 2 epidural steriod injections in his back in the last 2 months but neither one of them have came with any relief. I thank God that the kids weren't hurt at all but Phoebe still talks about the mean lady in Texas that hit our car. And I pray that when I have this baby that the back pain goes away!! It took Fin a few weeks to stop jumping and screaming and crying at load noises, which was horribly sad but at least he got over it. We had a great time seeing all our family and friends in Oklahoma and Texas!!</div><br /><div>Our summer has ended and we had a good one! We went swimming a lot, more than I thought we would, went to the zoo, took a 2 week vacation, played outside a lot, went to parks, had picnics, etc. On to a new chapter and new routine, Phoebe started school in August. She's so adorable and loves school so much. She's doing great. Eliott will start school on his birthday in October because he has to be 3 in order to start but he's also doing great. Talking a lot more but no luck in potty training the stubborn kid. I'm waiting for him to just get it one day and I'm hoping it's before the baby gets here. Fin is getting big and he has such an awesome personality...Happy. We call him smiley a lot because he is just smiling all the time. I can't wait to see how different this one in my belly will be. </div><br /><div>Just found out that all three kiddos will have to have surgery on their herniated belly buttons. I thought that at least Eliott's had grown back together but there's still a little hole there. Only 5% of the popluation have herniated belly buttons that don't grow together and all 3 of ours have them! Wow. What's the likliness that our 4th will have it too?? Fin's is so bad, a lot worse than Phoebe or Eliott's ever was, they are going to go ahead and do his. So next Friday we'll be at the hospital at 5:30 am to check in and then surgeries start at 7:30. We'll get all of them knocked out at once. Pray that they go well, the kids do great and the parents will survive too!!</div><br /><div>I also failed my 1 hour glucose test to test for gestanational diabetes so I had to go on Saturday for a 3 hour test. They took my blood 4 times in 3 hours, yuck! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but drinking that nasty orange stuff just ruined my appetite for the rest of the day and made me feel yuck! Haven't gotten the results yet but should tomorrow.</div><div> </div><div>Well it's bedtime now just wanted to give an update since I haven't blogged in so long. </div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-76705685038724043462009-06-24T21:40:00.000-07:002009-06-24T21:48:44.492-07:00A Newborn's Conversation with GodMy mom sent this email to me and I loved it so much I had to share...<br /><br />A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"<br />God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you." <br />The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy." <br />God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy." <br />Again the small child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?" <br />God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak." <br />"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?" <br />God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray." <br />"Who will protect me?" <br />God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life." <br />"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore." <br />God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you." <br />At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name." <br />God said, You will simply call her, "Mom." <br /><br />I think I will print this out and read it everyday. I'm supposed to be my children's angel...WOW, that's incredible. I'm supposed to be working for/with God to raise these kids but it's hard to do in everyday life and with them not listening, getting frustrated with them, having to clean the house, cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, keep up with laundry, it's hard to remember that and do that in the little things that we do daily. But I pray that He shows me those times that I can teach them about Him and mold them into Godly people. Thank you God for the 3 (almost 4) little gifts Denzil and I have from you and thank you for asigning me the job of their "angel"!!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-27402730985790870262009-05-27T21:11:00.000-07:002009-05-27T21:43:53.047-07:00Been a long time!Wow, it's been a long time...since I've posted and since I've been sick with the wonderful morning sickness that I am so lucky to get. I hate it when I meet these women that say..."oh wow, that never happened to me, I never got sick." I just want to scream at them because they have no idea how it feels to throw up all the time...and still take care of 3 kids!!<br />I'm finally feeling better these days but I really don't want to talk about that because everytime I say that then I throw up again, so let's not get on that subject.<br />A lot has happened since my last post...piling up laundry, dishes, lots and lots of naps for mom, and school came to an end. <br />I am now 14 weeks pregnant and my second doctors appt is tomorrow and I'm going with no kids!! YEAH!! I am going to drive all the way there with my radio on...wow, I still have radio in my car and not a DVD playing in my ear that I can't watch!! Their teacher, Ms. Jesse, is going to watch them for me and she has a little 2 year old boy so they should have lots of fun.<br />Phoebe & Eliott get to go to preschool next year for free and I am so looking forward to that one!! Phoebe will go 4 days a week 8:30 to 12:30 and Eliott will go 3 days a week, same time, just a different class.<br />In the last 2 weeks we've had Mother's day, Phoebe's 4th birthday, and Fin's 1st birthday. I totally can't believe Phoebe's 4 and Fin's 1...it's crazy!! We had a party for Phoebe and invited 4 little girls that she knows (and a couple of their brothers!) and they had a great time playing outside, eating cake, and then playing with all her new barbies. And all the girls going into Phoebe's room and locking all the "boys" out!! She's actually made a sign to put on her door that has a picture of a boy and says "No boys allowed, except for Daddy!" Of course I had to help her but she told me exactly what to write/draw and where to put it on the paper. Then she got the tape and went and taped it on the outside of her door. Other than that Phoebe's doing great! She is so smart and amazes us all the time with things she says. She's so motherly and such a great big sister. She's so excited about having a baby sister and that makes me kind of nervous...she's going to be very disappointed if it's not a baby sister!! She keeps saying "this is my room and my baby sister's." So let's hope we find out it's a girl in July!<br />This last Sunday for Memorial day we tried to go to the Denver Zoo but that was a joke...out of all their 5 million parking places, we could not find one, and we drove around for over 45 minutes. So we left there and went to the Aquarium, where we had never been before. That was really cool, we really liked that and I thought it was awesome to see the 2 tigers that they have in there. <br />Eliott is doing good but he continues to be a challenge. We love him anyway though and he's an awesome boy. His speech thearpist thought he should be evaluated by an occupational thearpist, so she came out and did an evaluation on him and asked him 500 questions and we found out he has problems with his proproceptive input. Which means that why he falls all the time or runs into walls, etc. I just blew that off as a boy thing or just clumsy but it's an actual problem that he has not knowing where his body is at in space...really weird!! So she's coming twice a month to work with him and showing us how to get that input in his joints/bones that he needs...really interesting stuff and she's got some really cool ideas! He has such a temper and has started throwing stuff, hard stuff when he's mad which then creates a total problem, of course so we're trying to figure out which discipline is working best for this 2 year old boy and it's frustrating. <br />We're still loving Colorado and love this weather...hot during the day and cool at night...Love it!! Our street is filling up and we have some great neighbors on our street and a total of 22 kids on our street of about 15 houses and I think 3 of those houses don't have any kids. Haven't met them all yet, it's been a slow process but the ones that we have met seem great. And Phoebe loves the little girl across the street, Marley!! I'm so glad we moved to a street where there are so many kids for our kids to play with.<br />Well I know I haven't included a bunch of stuff but thought I would just update to say we're still alive and doing good!<br />Until next time-Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-84733675064200941842009-04-03T07:53:00.000-07:002009-04-03T08:12:44.202-07:00Announcement of #4!!Yeah that's right...I can't believe I'm typing this but we're expecting #4. I am only 7 weeks along and due date is November 21, my little brother's birthday!! Here's a pic of the new little baby...<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320480113018560754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SdYkeUMAYPI/AAAAAAAAAT4/rBuncfXSnAY/s320/March+011.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br />It's a wooping 7 mm big!! I don't see how something so little growing in me makes me feel so bad all day. And let's hope it's a girl because if it's not Phoebe will be a little upset. She keeps saying "it's my baby" and referring to the baby as "my little sister". So in November we'll have Phoebe, 4, Eliott, 3, Fineas, 1, and a brand new baby, four 4 and under!!<br /><br /><br />Here's some cute new pictures of Fin:<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320480117988583186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SdYkems85xI/AAAAAAAAAUI/TXifqBMU44M/s320/March+010.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320480120444581538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SdYkev2gdqI/AAAAAAAAAUA/EvduJG0xOmc/s320/March+005.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br />And here's these two ornery boys...they both emptied a whole container of snacks on the floor and were crushing them-<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320480123040994050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SdYke5hikwI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/PuAT6DMx8Qs/s320/March+003.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Stayed tuned for more updates and more pictures on the kiddos!!</p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-90757966539338803382009-03-26T20:49:00.000-07:002009-03-26T20:57:06.342-07:00Phoebe going on 16Well last night when I put Phoebe to bed, I was trying to leave her room and here's our conversation...<br />"Mommy, wait...I have one more question to ask you before I go to bed"<br />"Okay...what is it?"<br />"Ummmm....ummmm...tomorrow morning when I wake up...ummm....ummm....do you think I could go to Wal-Mart by myself"<br />Okay so how in the world am I suppose to react to this one?? I'm kind of in shock and standing there trying to think of something to say and before I think of something she says...<br />"Like drive your car and go to Wal-Mart by myself"<br />"Ahhh...no honey, you can't drive mommy's car and it wouldn't be very safe for you to go to Wal-Mart all by yourself."<br />Wow, my 3 1/2 year old is already asking to drive my car...Bad sign!!<br /><br />Fin's growing up so fast. He's saying Mama, Dada and he's trying to repeat stuff that Phoebe & Eliott say. He's said Map while the kids are watching Dora and it's so funny! He has successfully skipped baby food and has just went straight to real food. He's only 10 months and eating everything we eat and loves it!<br /><br />Well I'm so very tired and ready to go to bed...lets hope Fin starts sleeping through the night. Last night was the first night we put him in Eliott's room so now they are officially sharing a room!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-84991489413357350592009-03-23T20:04:00.000-07:002009-03-23T20:45:28.708-07:00Vegas!We had lots of fun in Vegas!! It was so nice to get away, just the 2 of us, all by ourselves. While Oma and Opa were here Denzil and I flew to Las Vegas on Friday and we got there about 2:00 pm. We stayed at Ceaser's Palace and it was awesome! We went to see the show called KÀ by Cirque du Soleil, we walked the strip, we rode 3 of the roller coasters there and we went to a piano bar with the people from his work, the trip was paid for by them, got to go in a FAO Swartz store and shop for the kids (which was great fun!) and bought us some shoes while we were there too. We left on Sunday at about 2:00 pm.<br />Here's some pictures: <br /><div align="center">The coaster we rode at Nascar Cafe</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316590142215178242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchSkNsUSAI/AAAAAAAAATQ/BU09yqErk-I/s320/Feb+062.JPG" border="0" /> <div><div align="center"><p align="center">Our view from our hotel suite</p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316590122438563970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchSjEBNGII/AAAAAAAAATI/3JX7ins0tcA/s320/Feb+054.JPG" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><br />Pictures from walking the strip</p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316590122928332882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchSjF1-YFI/AAAAAAAAATA/QaUEk9gPYtA/s320/Feb+051.JPG" border="0" /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316590118769616578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchSi2WdZsI/AAAAAAAAAS4/ZwqQLFvmMI8/s320/Feb+050.JPG" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316592504534403090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchUtuBHCBI/AAAAAAAAATo/T4V0FMpC2ss/s320/Feb+070.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316592497022361874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchUtSCGYRI/AAAAAAAAATg/G3-IUHQiQ38/s320/Feb+069.JPG" border="0" />In the shops at Caeser's Palace<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316592500000229554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchUtdIFCLI/AAAAAAAAATY/ryYuRnFcHN4/s320/Feb+068.JPG" border="0" /><br />Another coaster we rode at New York New York<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316592511846538914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SchUuJQdXqI/AAAAAAAAATw/QyT_6UbKnpI/s320/Feb+072.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="center"><br /><p align="center"></p></div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-71517149566841134202009-03-22T20:04:00.000-07:002009-03-22T21:08:48.016-07:00Lots of Pictures...<div><div><div><div><div align="center"><div>Well now almost a month after my last post, here's some pics from when Oma & Opa were here:</div><div align="center"><br />Fin fell asleep on Opa<br /><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316215731365129378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/Scb-ColcrKI/AAAAAAAAARQ/eMIGmNy9rBE/s320/more+pics+058.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Phoebe wanted to go to the zoo just to see the elephants because last time we went to the Denver Zoo they were cleaning the elephant cage so we told her they were sick...</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316221808007655442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccDkV17MBI/AAAAAAAAARg/qTLFN78QV60/s320/more+pics+002.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316221800465844594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccDj5v0SXI/AAAAAAAAARY/RwPBWz8BaJo/s320/more+pics+004.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">Wow, there's the elephants, they're not sick anymore!! </p><div align="center">Riding on the train at the Denver Zoo</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316215725409287810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/Scb-CSZdvoI/AAAAAAAAARI/PUN2o4wobFw/s320/more+pics+026.JPG" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316221811678881714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccDkjhNp7I/AAAAAAAAARo/xaQRifc2xlg/s320/more+pics+025.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">Phoebe & Opa walking hand and hand</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316215705475097202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/Scb-BIIyInI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/h43t4sbLDkE/s320/more+pics+001.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">At the Zoo - one of the rare times that they are getting along and not hitting each other-WOW!</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316215721165607538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/Scb-CClsUnI/AAAAAAAAARA/OiARZU1FknI/s320/more+pics+017.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Riding the carousel</p><p align="center"><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316224504084277698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccGBRgrqcI/AAAAAAAAASA/palDXQffhm0/s320/more+pics+047.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316221828043475090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccDlge1iJI/AAAAAAAAARw/VmuNZYF8He4/s320/more+pics+048.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316224495469104482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccGAxaqjWI/AAAAAAAAAR4/pn87osNbHs4/s320/more+pics+045.JPG" border="0" /><br />Some other pics from the last few months:<br /><div></div><br /><div>Eliott got into the bottle of syrup, except there were no waffles around...<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316224523181041810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccGCYptKJI/AAAAAAAAASQ/c5OKjR3AcZM/s320/Feb+015.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316228152131974082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccJVnjB88I/AAAAAAAAASY/TePvOgDt12A/s320/Feb+016.JPG" border="0" />Fin crawling in the pantry<br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316228179413115074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccJXNLXIMI/AAAAAAAAASw/HFWxC61sIRI/s320/Feb+047.JPG" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316228171434554338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccJWvdH8-I/AAAAAAAAASo/fj7NXG9ycjA/s320/Feb+027.JPG" border="0" /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316228166492790370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccJWdC6nmI/AAAAAAAAASg/k7oO5Oh4dmQ/s320/Feb+022.JPG" border="0" /></p><p align="center">The first time Fin stood up</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316224514451466274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SccGB4IaaCI/AAAAAAAAASI/0ECfeqRfNtg/s320/Feb+001.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">The babies taking a bath together!</p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-54155272781775629772009-02-25T20:57:00.000-08:002009-02-25T21:03:24.654-08:00Oma & OpaWell today was the first day that Oma & Opa were here. It was fun going to pick them up at the airport and coming home to show them our house. Phoebe was screaming "come on guys let's go upstairs to see my room..." It was pretty cute! We rested for awhile, took naps, met with Eliott's speech therapist and then we all went to the Children's Museum in Denver which is great fun. Of course I forgot the camera so I don't have any pics to share but hopefully I can take some tomorrow to share. <br />On Friday Denzil and I are flying (by ourselves...yes with no kids...YEAHHH!!) to Las Vegas on his company. It should be lots of fun and we've never been away from the kids just him and I so I'm kind of nervous that I'm not going to have a clue how to act! Please pray though that the kids do okay with Oma & Opa and that they don't drive them absolutely crazy before we get back on Sunday evening!<br />Hope you enjoy the 2 emails I shared in my last post-Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-11598079292940035742009-02-25T20:41:00.000-08:002009-02-25T20:56:34.232-08:00A couple of cool emails-<div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#6666cc;">From Mommy To Mom To Mother<br /></span>Real Mothers don't eat quiche; they don't have time to make it. </div><div align="center">Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox. </div><div align="center">Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids. </div><div align="center">Real Mothers know that dried play dough doesn't come out of carpets. </div><div align="center">Real Mothers don't want to know what the vacuum just sucked up (or flushed down the toilet!) </div><div align="center">Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?' and get their answer when a little voice says, 'Because I love you best.' </div><div align="center">Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not measured by height or years or grade...It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother.... </div><div align="center">4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything! </div><div align="center">8 YEARS OF AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot! </div><div align="center">12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything. </div><div align="center">14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either. </div><div align="center">16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old fashioned. </div><div align="center">18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date! </div><div align="center">25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it. </div><div align="center">35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion. </div><div align="center">45 YEARS OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it? </div><div align="center">65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.</div><div align="center">The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!</div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">Wow, isn't that so true. We start out life depending on and loving our mom and then as time goes on, and we become teenagers we totally take mom for granted and like it says above...she's way out of date! I read this email and think of my mom and I and our relationship has been a lot like that and now that we're somewhere in between the 25 and 35 year old stage and I have 3 kids of my own, I'm like "wow, mom, I'm sorry for everything bad I did and THANK YOU so much for being a great mom and putting up with me!" (How did she do it?) I pray my kids don't go through that but I know unfortuntely they probably will to at least some degree but I look forward to being a Real mother and loving them no matter what (like my mommy did!).</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><p align="center"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">An Interesting Commercial</span></p><p align="left"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.catholicvote.com/">http://www.catholicvote.com/</a><br /></p><p align="left">Wow, that's a really cool commercial. I guess it's an advertisement that got rejected to play during the Super Bowl this year by NBC.</p><p align="left"><br /> </p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-33496919579863258822009-01-15T13:14:00.000-08:002009-02-17T23:21:35.960-08:00Pictures-Here's a lot of pictures that I took a couple months ago to put on my blog so here you go:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is the entrance into our neighborhood and a pic of our house:<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291634541735210594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-plFVQbmI/AAAAAAAAAQI/b-9zbP7qYaA/s320/Colorado+066.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291637795821876914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-sifv-drI/AAAAAAAAAQY/IQUWTrk1ntc/s320/new+pictures+009.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291637798913133410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-sirQ_S2I/AAAAAAAAAQg/9yC80avmdfU/s320/new+pictures+011.JPG" border="0" /><br />There's a whole bunch of trains here in Denver and lots of coal trains!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-sh9hrdNI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/FaMvmXo7gCY/s1600-h/Colorado+070.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291637786635105490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-sh9hrdNI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/FaMvmXo7gCY/s320/Colorado+070.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Phoebe got her nails painted bright pink and had some new sexy sandals!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkrEaCQI/AAAAAAAAAQA/qucHyFI57oI/s1600-h/Colorado+063.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291634534685214978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkrEaCQI/AAAAAAAAAQA/qucHyFI57oI/s320/Colorado+063.JPG" border="0" /></a> Our Rec Center<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkY6zZxI/AAAAAAAAAP4/fPHYmFE2dLQ/s1600-h/Colorado+059.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291634529813096210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkY6zZxI/AAAAAAAAAP4/fPHYmFE2dLQ/s320/Colorado+059.JPG" border="0" /></a> Here's the buffalo on the way to Georgetown<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkBdCEqI/AAAAAAAAAPw/LHH6dFUFg_E/s1600-h/Colorado+027.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291634523514213026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SW-pkBdCEqI/AAAAAAAAAPw/LHH6dFUFg_E/s320/Colorado+027.JPG" border="0" /></a> I've learned how to knit hats and scarfs on a loom and I love it! It's so awesome and here's a hat that I made for Phoebe. Cait, our neighbor, taught me how to make them and she made the scarf to match this hat. <br /><br /><div align="left">I've also created a family picture site on shutterfly but still have a lot of work to do on it. The link is on the right. I also have a bunch of our new pics on my facebook account. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Well it's been a long time since I've updated this but I've got to get to bed!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /></div></div></div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-80050836311169761182009-01-12T20:21:00.000-08:002009-01-12T20:31:03.196-08:00Finish Strong!This is an amazing video:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.maniacworld.com/are-you-going-to-finish-strong.html" target="_blank">http://www.maniacworld.com/are-you-going-to-finish-strong.html</a><br /><br />I showed it to Phoebe and she wanted to watch it again, it was pretty cute!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-1937641246287729092009-01-07T21:09:00.000-08:002009-01-07T21:36:52.379-08:00HAPPY NEW YEAR!!<div>Wow, I so can't believe that it's already 2009!! This is the first New Years Eve we've done something in the last 3 years, since Phoebe was born. I remember New Years Eve Dec 31 of 2005, I took a picture at midnight of Phoebe sleeping on top of Denzil on the sofa!! Jeff and Cait, our awesome friends and great neighbors, invited us over and we ate and had fun at their house until we went home and put the kids to bed and then they came over and we played games until midnight. It was lots of fun!! Thanks guys for having fun with us!!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>My Wish for 2009</div><br /><div>May peace break into our homes and may thieves come to steal our debts. May the pockets of our jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to our faces like Vaseline and may laughter assault our lips! May our clothes smell of success like smoking tyres and may happiness slap us across the face and may our tears be that of joy. May the problems we had forget our home address! In simple words ............<br />May 2009 be the best year ever!!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Fin is almost fully recovered from his surgery and he did great!! Was a little grumpy while we were in Oklahoma the week after his surgery but that's expected. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I'm finally putting Phoebe in ballet here. She's been asking me for awhile to go to ballet so we'll see how she does. Since she's 3 1/2 she gets to go into the room with all the other little girls by herself, without me so hopefully she'll do a great job!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Eliott is talking a whole bunch more and his newest thing is "it's broke, mommy, it's broke" and he says it over and over. Yes Eliott I know it's broke, thank you for telling me!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>We're going to go visit another church this Sunday, so pray we find a great one!!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I have also found another friend here in Colorado, her name is also Rachel and she has 2 kids around the same ages of Phoebe and Eliott and thought you'd enjoy this pic:</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288791987071717554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SWWQSoBXkLI/AAAAAAAAAPo/YJg2T4BMTSo/s320/dec+022.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-64784683359430547962008-12-16T20:44:00.000-08:002008-12-16T20:48:24.985-08:00Finally Fin had his surgeryWell little Fin had his surgery yesterday morning and he's doing great so far. He is on 4 different medicines twice a day, some of them more than that, I'm having to change his diaper once an hour and we have to go back to the doctors office on Thursday morning at 7:30 am, which is about 45 minutes away so we'll have to leave at about 6:45 but other than that we're all doing fine. Before today he never crawled or even tried to move but today, the day after surgery he has started crawling and moving all around the living room. It's crazy how good he's doing after what he went through yesterday. I am so very thankful for that!!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-82321918711435983812008-11-26T21:30:00.001-08:002008-11-26T21:34:42.930-08:00Please Read:Well I typed up a post that has lots of updates, etc. in it and it posted it under September 29...so scroll down a little and see new pictures and new stories. (I actually started it on September 29 but I just finished typing it on November 24)<br /><br />Hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!! I can't wait to eat all this delicious food...some of it I'm making for the first time...yummy!!<br /><br />HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-79188906781060977142008-11-19T21:47:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:56:52.422-08:00Update...Well no surgery for Fin today. All day yesterday he was totally fine and ate good and never threw up. Last night when he woke up at about 11:45 he was screaming his head off like something hurt really bad. He just kept screaming for at least 45 minutes, maybe more and there was nothing we could do to make him stop. Finally he started to nurse and then a couple minutes later threw up everywhere. Then did it again when he woke up at 3:15 am. Wow, so not much sleep for me last night and I'm really tired!!<br />We have gone threw the state of Colorado and are getting a speech thearpist for Eliott. She comes to our house once a week for an hour and works with him and she is so good with Eliott and has gotten him to say soooo much!! It's awesome how much he says now but he still has a long way to go to stop the whining and crying that he does. He'll now say "up" when he wants us to pick him up or when we're sitting down and he wants us to get up while pushing us. He says milk, more, dog, cat, you know all the generic easy things and just said for the first time yesterday Phoebe. It's so cute to finally hear him say her name. Two weeks ago he told Denzil for the first time "I love you" and that awesome to hear him say that. He's been saying "I want that" also. He's doing great. The speech thearpist said he wasn't saying anything because he's a perfectionist and wants to say everything just perfect...WOW-he is just like his father!! But there's absolutely nothing wrong with that!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-75092163515121557412008-11-18T21:38:00.000-08:002008-11-18T21:45:51.993-08:00Fin's surgeryWell on Sunday Fin got the same bug as Eliott and was throwing up. Projectile, out of his nose and everything...it was nasty. That's one thing I've never had to deal with is a throwing up baby. I took him to the doctor on Monday morning and they just pretty much said the "it's a virus, let it run it's course" talk. <br />I was afraid he wasn't going to be able to have his surgery tomorrow but turns out he was much better today. So the surgery is a go ahead for tomorrow morning...please pray that the surgery goes great and it's quick and painless.<br />I'll update tomorrow-Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-83077158643409208562008-11-16T22:02:00.000-08:002008-11-16T22:37:09.566-08:00Our trip to OklahomaI've got an ongoing blog that I've not yet posted because it's not done yet but it will come soon...along with pics and everything!!<br /><br />Last week we all came to Oklahoma and had a good trip for half of the week but it went way down hill. We arrived on Sunday night at 1 am. Denzil worked all week but the kids and I spent Monday with Grammy, my mom and Tuesday we went and spent all day with a really good friend that we haven't seen in almost 2 years. She moved to Texas and every time she came to town some one always ended up sick and then we moved to Denver and she just now moved back to Oklahoma. We were so excited to see each other and had a great time together! On our way over to her house, Eliott threw up in the car. Didn't think much of it, had no idea why he did that?? We had dinner at some other friends house and he was grumpy the whole time and wouldn't eat anything except a few tortilla chips. We went back to the hotel and Eliott threw up again but both times were because he was coughing so hard. Wednesday morning he seemed to be okay and ate breakfast and seemed to be in a good mood. We went and saw a few more friends, ate lunch with my mom and then to Oma & Opa's house to go out to dinner for my birthday. Eliott was in an okay mood but now had the runs. By Thursday morning I woke up and felt bad and Fin started sounded like he was getting stopped up. By Thursday afternoon I was so sick of having 3 kids in a little tiny hotel room, living in a hotel and now having sick kids and me feeling bad I just wanted to go home. So our plans for Thursday were a no go and so I called Denzil and asked if we could go home a day early. So sorry to the people I didn't see when we were there, it was not a very pleasant first trip back to Oklahoma.<br /><br />I'll have to blog more later-Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-6393770208329086582008-09-29T14:28:00.000-07:002008-11-24T21:50:33.671-08:00Lots to tell...<div align="center">Well we're still loving Colorado! Still no snow yet and the weather is still pretty nice. We've had our cold days though but it's not steady freezing cold yet. </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Living in a new city/state I am very thankful for my GPS in my van...thanks honey for buying it in my van, I know I rolled my eyes when you had to get that option but thank you so much! If it weren't for that thing I think I would just stay at our house and go nowhere because it's such a big huge city with so many highways and it's all so confusing. I'm coming from a place that I grew up so I know all the roads and highways by heart and if there was traffic somewhere or a road closed I knew exactly what other way to go. I depend on that GPS a lot...I wish I could depend on God as much I depend on that GPS. Kind of like the Staples commercials...just hit the easy button, my GPS is my easy button...just push HOME and it tells me exactly how to get there! I am getting to know my way around without it a little bit though. I'm finally recognizing where I am now when I'm somewhere that I've been before and get excited when I can say "oh I know where I'm at now!" I know it doesn't take much to excite me!!<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="center"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271136482933293410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSbWtBvXQWI/AAAAAAAAANY/-AOKtK3qPsg/s320/November+08+006.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><em><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#cc33cc;">Phoebe </span></em></span></p><p align="left">Some funny things Phoebe's done lately:<br />1. A few weeks ago for a couple of nights she slept on her floor and I really wasn't sure why. She'll make a pallet on the floor and get comfy and sleep there all night. When we questioned her about it she said she just wanted to but then I told Denzil it was probably because her bed still had the toddler rail on it so he took that off and made it into a day bed and now she sleeping it in again and loves it that he took that off.<br />2. I picked her and Eliott up from school one day last week. Right by their school there is a building being built and as we are driving by it she starts saying "mommy, mommy, they are naughty 'ol boys" and I'm thinking who is she talking about and why are they naughty?? I said "who" and she said "those boys back there, they aren't supposed to have pink, pink is for girls." And I can't figure out what she's talking about for awhile but then I realize that there were big huge bags of insulation laying out and they were in pink bags. Now every time we leave school she says "mommy, I'll tell you if they are still naughty boys" and if those pink bags are still there she says "yep, mommy, they still have pink!"<br />3. Another day that I picked them up from school...I usually turn off the radio and DVD player and ask her how school was and what they did today and all of a sudden before I had a chance to ask her she says "How was your day mommy, what did you do while we were at school??" She wanted to know every detail, it was so cute!<br />4. All of a sudden last Saturday we were calling Daddy to the dinner table and Phoebe said "Big Poppa, dinner's ready come on Big Poppa." I of course busted out laughing and I think Denzil liked it because he came to the table with a big smile on his face. So now every time she talks to him she calls him Big Poppa!! It's hilarious!<br />5. One of the wonderful things about Colorado that I love (again, another thing that excites me easily) is that we get our milk delivered to our doorstep. They also have other stuff besides milk...like oj, coffee, bread, and they have some awesome french onion dip. Tonight we were eating some of the dip and Phoebe said "where did you buy this mommy?" I told her that we got it from the milk man. Right about that time I was pouring me some Gatorade and she says "are you sure we didn't get it from the Gatorade man!!" LOL<br /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"><em><span style="color:#3366ff;">Eliott</span><br /></em></span></p><br /><br /><p align="left"></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272249882041353234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSrLVYorhBI/AAAAAAAAANw/d64BwHVZCEU/s320/November+08+021.JPG" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272249872497512514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSrLU1FQEEI/AAAAAAAAANo/lSOysgg0tkU/s320/November+08+019.JPG" border="0" />These two pictures sum this little man up!! Phoebe calls him Tornado Eliott and the first picture you can see how destructive he tries to be. He goes from room to room and just destroys stuff. That's the pool table at Oma & Opa's house and he's trying to rip the pocket off. The second picture is at the game table and looks so ornery. He's such a little ornery man and has been one big handful. He's total opposite of Phoebe...not shy at all. And I'm realizing more every day that not only he looks just like his father but he acts like him too. Denzil never has liked to be places with a lot of people and I just realized last week that Eliott hates it too. He doesn't act shy at all, he just acts like he's unhappy and doesn't want to be there (see pic below with Denzil...we're at the Denver zoo and it was a Free day so there were a ton of people there.)<br />He's saying so much more these days though and even says "i love you" when you say it to him...it's so adorable!!<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272461526302995714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuL0s80NQI/AAAAAAAAAOg/lN38SBH3JYI/s320/october+150.JPG" border="0" /> Making cookies...trying to eat the flour!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272461522260805682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuL0d5FSDI/AAAAAAAAAOY/P4WCUjNEpF8/s320/october+108.JPG" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><em><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#000099;">Fineas</span></em></span></p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272459805985728130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuKQkRN5oI/AAAAAAAAAN4/QuyLMrOhzgY/s320/october+159.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272459810032325330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuKQzWAEtI/AAAAAAAAAOA/uoN9XPeK998/s320/october+062.JPG" border="0" /> Little man Fin is smiling all the time and is so happy...when he's not hungry and not tired that is!! He's almost 7 months now and he's grabbing stuff, putting stuff in his mouth and he'll sit up for a few minutes by himself but then go crashing to the floor.<br /><br /><br /><p align="left">I know it was 2 months ago but here's pictures from when my mom was here:<br /><br />Phoebe wanted to watch her put her make up on every morning..</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252029740960424450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SOL1ORO7ogI/AAAAAAAAAJo/5lUjGGsHTQU/s320/August+095.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><p align="center">We love it that Grammy's here!!</p><br /><p></p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272089375677197138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSo5Wr1Zq1I/AAAAAAAAANg/cA4wxHHhWGs/s320/August+089.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Fin asleep on Grammy</p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252029747955442482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SOL1OrSrIzI/AAAAAAAAAJw/-npx2vVWcS4/s320/August+118.JPG" border="0" /> </p><br /><p>One of the things we did while my mom was here was go to the Children's Museum of Denver and that's one cool place!! It's a ton of fun for the kids! They have a real fire truck in there that you can get on and here is Denzil and Eliott on it...</p><br /><p></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256096400270146802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPFn0_tPvPI/AAAAAAAAANA/_rtLMCZ03n8/s320/August+168.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div align="left">In the Construction area-<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255754889059710482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPAxObTtNhI/AAAAAAAAAMo/RoTzESejz_A/s320/August+127.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255754894484141282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPAxOvg_dOI/AAAAAAAAAMw/Fj2WMyiO8Fo/s320/August+128.JPG" border="0" /> Fin in a wheelbarrow-<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255754897127554866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPAxO5XOvzI/AAAAAAAAAM4/4h-1O9TSLyM/s320/August+141.JPG" border="0" /><br />And they loved "grocery shopping" with baskets that were just their size. After throwing a whole bunch of groceries in-<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256096398173277202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPFn035UDBI/AAAAAAAAANI/34zhWcoN3jA/s320/August+178.JPG" border="0" />They checked out with another little girl playing grocery store-<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256096402243151986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SPFn1HDpaHI/AAAAAAAAANQ/f3ScdLsbyFc/s320/August+182.JPG" border="0" /><br />For Halloween Phoebe was Deedee Doodle from the Doodlebops, Eliott was a fire cheif and Fin was a little monkey. The baby bear in the middle is our next door neighbors baby, Jack.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272461517693675762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuL0M4MaPI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/svXOmwTYsCM/s320/october+119.JPG" border="0" />We went to their school Halloween party and they had lots of fun there-<br /><br /></div><div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272462545859491602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuMwDGBtxI/AAAAAAAAAOo/OOTa6XidKPA/s320/october+098.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="left">Then we all made Halloween cookies-</div><div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272459819599383762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QzAC4OmX_RY/SSuKRW-9zNI/AAAAAAAAAOI/lsPijg9A2Ro/s320/october+103.JPG" border="0" /> <p></p>I also celebrated my birthday a couple weeks ago and my wonderful husband bought me an Ipod touch. It's my first Ipod ever, not ever had one and it's soooo cool! I must thank my new neighbor (and friend too) Cait for turning me on to the Ipod. She's also turned me onto coffee and looming. I've made Phoebe and Eliott hats on the loom that Cait taught me how to do and I also made me a scarf and I am currently working on my own hat. It's great fun...thanks Cait!<br /><br /><p>I'll have to type the rest of my blog some other time about our trip to Oklahoma with my crazy mom...it's a pretty funny story but Fin's crying now and I want to hurry up and get this posted!</p></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-17539184421427232502008-09-16T20:31:00.000-07:002008-09-16T21:04:17.952-07:00Ditto!Ditto to my friend Connie Johnson's blog...WOW!<br />We had a crazy day today. School by 8:30 for Phoebe & Eliott, Fin and I off to The UPS Store to mail 4 packages, Home Depot to return a fan, Lowes to buy Phoebe some curtains, Eliott some curtains, Walgreens to pick up Denzil's film for work then to get the kiddos from school at 11:45. 12:10 dentist appt for Phoebe & Eliott...Phoebe had her teeth cleaned and has 4 cavities, Eliott's teeth look good for now. 2:15 dermatologist appt for Eliott. He's gotten some odd itchy rash/bumps or something on his head and he's miserable and itching, itching, itching. Well they, of course, didn't know what was on my son's head. They scraped it and looked at it under the microscope which ruled out some stuff and so the thing they wanted to do was a biopsy. I had to hold Eliott on the table (while Fin sat in his seat crying for a boob) they stuck a needle in his head to numb the area and then stuck this tool in there to take a big chunk of his skin out of his head...HOLY COW!!! All right in my face...then sewed it up with a couple of stitches. The dermatologist gives me a prescription for the itching and so we leave, go to Walgreens (again) and they don't have the cream that was prescribed....AHHH!<br />So needless to say I'm really tired...worn out. My house is a mess and I don't really have the energy to get up and clean it up but then again I don't really want to wake up to a disaster of a house. It's a real pull to try to be a great wife, housekeeper, cook, maid, and most importantly of all a MOM. I know and realize that they won't be little forever and so I really need to enjoy these moments and take advantage of them. <br />I will blog some more tomorrow-Goodnight!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-62926429051886688682008-09-08T21:31:00.000-07:002008-09-08T21:34:13.260-07:00Quote"Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the Hand of God. Whimsical, ingenious, mischievous, they fill the earth with joy and good humor. We adults live a life of apprehension to what they think of us; a life of defense against their terrifying energy; a life of hard work to live up to their great expectations. We put them to bed with a sense of relief - and greet them in the morning with delight and anticipation. We envy them the freshness of adventure and the discovery of life. In all these ways, children add to the wonder of being alive." Herbert HooverRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-8486525684982252652008-09-02T20:26:00.000-07:002008-09-05T21:09:15.650-07:00School Started!Today was the first day of the kids going to "school". They both had a great time and did really well. Eliott is starting to pee pee in his little potty too. I noticed he kept telling me when he peed in his diaper by grabbing it and saying "uh-oh". So yesterday when I changed his diaper he was acting like he was trying to pee so I said do you need to go potty and he shook his head yes. So we went and got on the potty and he went, it was sooo cool!! And he's peed a few times on the potty today...never thought I would be potty training before the kid is talking!!<br />My mom is here and we've had lots of fun while she's been here. We've went shopping, up to the mountains to see the big horned sheep and to the Childrens Museum of Denver. That place was awesome and the kids loved that place too. I'll post pics soon.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-28411808004563744632008-08-28T09:57:00.000-07:002008-08-28T10:09:50.769-07:00I lied!Well poop!! I just thought there was going to be school today. It turns out that at 10:30 last night Phoebe was in her room crying with a really stuffy nose, sneezing and just didn't feel good. Daddy brought his little princess into our bed. At 2:30 am Eliott woke up feeling like crap too. They started yesterday sneezing and a little runny nose but I was hoping it was just allergies. So none of us got much sleep, except Fin and the dog, they slept right through everything! This morning I could tell they both felt horrible and I didn't want their first day of school to be miserable so no school today...darn!!<br />I called the doc's office at 8 and they said to give them 1 1/2 tsp of benedryl and I did and now their runny noses aren't so runny anymore and I can tell they feel a little better, so it is probably allergies. <br />Trying to teach the 16 week old puppy, Roxie, who's Alpha because she's not listening to me at all. I pick her up lay her on her back, get in her face and star into her eyes until she looks away. It's worked pretty good so far giving her a reality check!!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198590571729282048.post-32347106578856863282008-08-27T19:35:00.000-07:002008-08-27T20:10:47.273-07:00YEAH-School starts tomorrow!Well I went to 3 of the preschools that had openings close to our house, when I say close I mean 20 to 30 minutes away, and one of them we all really liked. The first one was a Montessori preschool, which is really big here and so I thought I'd go check it out. Phoebe and Eliott hid behind me the whole time, never talked to the teacher, never smiled or interacted with any of the kids there. The director walked me through it and it was in a 50 year old house so it was kind of separated into 5 different areas. I didn't like it at all. It just seemed to me like they were teaching these kids to be to independent to early in life, i just really didn't like it and Phoebe and Eliott obviously didn't either. So we went on to the second one that is a gymnastics place that also has an Enrichment program. So in the time that they are there they also have 45 minutes of gymnastics time, which I know they both love!! We got there a little early and went ahead and went in but the director we were meeting with was not there yet. So the teacher, Ms. Jessie, invited us into the gymnastics part where the other kids were playing and she asked Pheobe and Eliott to take their shoes off and they both sat down, took their shoes off and followed her. Wow, they just met her but they are following..hmmm. They went to the gymnastics part and followed what the other kids were doing. Then a little girl walked up to Ms. Jessie and said "I want to play duck, duck, duck". (She really meant duck, duck, goose) So they all sat down in a circle, Phoebe joined in the circle and a little boy started walking behind all the kids and patting their heads saying duck, duck, duck, duck and then he got to Phoebe's head and said Goose. I thought "Holy cow, she has no idea what to do please don't freeze" I know if it were me when I was little I would have froze and ran away. She turned around looked at me for guidance on what to do and I said "go run after him." Ms Jesse was telling her to run after him before he sits back down and she did but he sat down before she caught him. So them she started right where she was supposed to and started patting their heads saying duck, duck, duck and then goosed a little girl. Ms. Jesse again told her what to do and it was awesome to see her interacting with kids and the teacher that she just met. So I knew that this was the place to put them and this was the only place that Eliott could go to too. So tomorrow is their first day and I can't wait. I know they went in Oklahoma to mothers day out but I think I might cry.<br />I still can't believe we moved and are living in Denver. There were so many times that Denzil was looking for other jobs throughout the years and would say it's in Texas or Missouri or another state and I finally told him just to stop looking because we were not moving away from Oklahoma. But it was so meant to be for us to be here, I know this is where God wants us to be. And it will be so awesome tomorrow morning, 2 months after we moved here to actually get into a routine. The house is cleaned up, vacuumed, dusted, everything hung on the walls, everything put in the cabinets and now tomorrow we will start to get back into a routine and I think it will be a little emotional. Tues/Thurs will be school from 8:45 to 11:45, then on Tuesday Phoebe will start soccer on Tues/Thurs at 5:30 pm for a month and I have enrolled in a MOPS group here and they meet on the first Friday of every month, can't wait for that!! Then when soccer is over, she will start another class at our rec center, Mini Cheer....oh my goodness, how adorable!! In high school I didn't much care for the cheerleaders and never really got along with them but a 3 year old cheerleader, that's adorable!! We asked her if she wanted to play soccer and Denzil went in the backyard to play with her and she loved it...she asks him and our neighbor, Jeff, to play soccer with her quit often. We'll see how she does, I can't wait.<br />I must say God gave us some great neighbors!! I love them!!<br /><br />Well here's my list of what I thank God for:<br />Thank you so much God for....<br />1. sending us to Denver.<br />2. giving us awesome neighbors/friends...thank you for friends!!<br />3. Denzil, for working so hard for us, and I'm glad I'm spending the rest of my life with him!<br />4. Phoebe, Eliott, Fin and Roxy, they all are so great to watch grow up and grow up together.<br />5. Phoebe not being allergic to the mosquitos here in Denver...really when she gets bit here, the bites do not swell up the size of a baseball like they did in Oklahoma.<br />6. For Grammy, my mom, coming to visit us for almost a week.<br />7. For my "little" brother who is now going to OSU as a freshman this year, wow!!<br />8. For all the blessings that you have given us and just help us continue to follow You!<br />And finally, thank you for Starbucks!! Yes, I've got on the Starbucks band wagon and although Denzil now thinks I'm a yuppy, I love getting treats from Starbucks!!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392285856728928854noreply@blogger.com2