Can you hear me Wheely? I am ready to play!!!!
Amy! Will you tell him to come out to play with me!!! 
Friday, November 30, 2007
I want my friend!
My friend is in her belly, I know he is in there!!!!!!
Can you hear me Wheely? I am ready to play!!!!
Amy! Will you tell him to come out to play with me!!!
Can you hear me Wheely? I am ready to play!!!!
Amy! Will you tell him to come out to play with me!!! 
Friday, November 23, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!
a day late... but that is okay!
First I have to post the real Thanksgiving story, then we can get on to some Addie pics...
"On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
"But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness," destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. "There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford's own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.
"When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats." Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. "Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. "Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.
"All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the '60s and '70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.
"That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
"'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote. 'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that was thought injustice.' Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself? What's the point?
"Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.' Bradford doesn't sound like much of a..." I wrote "Clintonite" then. He doesn't sound much like a liberal Democrat, "does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.
"Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph's suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the 'seven years of plenty' and the 'Earth brought forth in heaps.' (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'" Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today -- and if it isn't, why not?
Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the pilgrim experience? So in essence there was, thanks to the Indians, because they taught us how to skin beavers and how to plant corn when we arrived, but the real Thanksgiving was thanking the Lord for guidance and plenty -- and once they reformed their system and got rid of the communal bottle and started what was essentially free market capitalism, they produced more than they could possibly consume, and they invited the Indians to dinner, and voila, we got Thanksgiving, and that's what it was: inviting the Indians to dinner and giving thanks for all the plenty is the true story of Thanksgiving. The last two-thirds of this story simply are not told.
Now, I was just talking about the plenty of this country and how I'm awed by it. You can go to places where there are famines, and we usually get the story, "Well, look it, there are deserts, well, look it, Africa, I mean there's no water and nothing but sand and so forth." It's not the answer, folks. Those people don't have a prayer because they have no incentive. They live under tyrannical dictatorships and governments. The problem with the world is not too few resources. The problem with the world is an insufficient distribution of capitalism.
The real story of Thanksgiving as written by Rush Limbaugh (aka my Rushy) in the book "See, I Told You So!" Chapter Six here: "Dead White Guys or What Your History Books Never Told You," page 70.
Okay! That was long! Addie had her first Thanksgiving... unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures of her eating, the normal Thanksgiving picture, but here are some cute ones from the day.
First we went to Joel's parents' house, where Addie got to meet her second cousin, Rylea! They loved eachother!
And here is another second cousin, Caleb loved Addie too, and Addlie wanted to give him hugs!!!
He just wanted to give her kisses though! A little too open mouth if you ask me!
After dinner we went to my side of the family, and we went bowling. I haven't bowled in so long! My excuse for being bad is the heavy balls! Unfortunately I have weak wrists, and fat fingers, so all the light balls (with kid sized finger holes) don't work!
I made due though.... I got 83, 3rd place on our lane. Joel got 2nd :(
Here he is! Not that great... looks like a gutter ball to me!
Here's a better one:
Jennifer holding Addie... and being a dork! It is funny I think because you can see Aunt Ivy is trying to make Addie smile, and Addie couldn't care less about it!
Here she is lounging with Uncle Bruce... I hope Amy doesn't see this because it isn't the most flattering picture of her... but this blog isn't about her, and Addie is in the picture!
Addie hangin' out with Nick. I think he is trying to practice for little Wheeler next month!!!
Ella loved bowling! Even though it took the ball about 5 minutes to make it down the lane, she had a blast!
Actually she loved giving 5s! She is fast too, this picture looks like she only has one arm!
Addie was so exhausted when we got home... but we had to take pictures with her for her first Thanksgiving! I wish I would have remembered it earlier so we could have done a family picture... oh well though, this is good too!
Can you tell Joel is holding the remote off to the side to make her smile? Stinker! But she loves the remote!
First I have to post the real Thanksgiving story, then we can get on to some Addie pics...
"On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
"But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness," destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. "There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford's own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.
"When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats." Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. "Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. "Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.
"All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the '60s and '70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.
"That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
"'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote. 'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that was thought injustice.' Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself? What's the point?
"Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.' Bradford doesn't sound like much of a..." I wrote "Clintonite" then. He doesn't sound much like a liberal Democrat, "does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.
"Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph's suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the 'seven years of plenty' and the 'Earth brought forth in heaps.' (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'" Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today -- and if it isn't, why not?
Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the pilgrim experience? So in essence there was, thanks to the Indians, because they taught us how to skin beavers and how to plant corn when we arrived, but the real Thanksgiving was thanking the Lord for guidance and plenty -- and once they reformed their system and got rid of the communal bottle and started what was essentially free market capitalism, they produced more than they could possibly consume, and they invited the Indians to dinner, and voila, we got Thanksgiving, and that's what it was: inviting the Indians to dinner and giving thanks for all the plenty is the true story of Thanksgiving. The last two-thirds of this story simply are not told.
Now, I was just talking about the plenty of this country and how I'm awed by it. You can go to places where there are famines, and we usually get the story, "Well, look it, there are deserts, well, look it, Africa, I mean there's no water and nothing but sand and so forth." It's not the answer, folks. Those people don't have a prayer because they have no incentive. They live under tyrannical dictatorships and governments. The problem with the world is not too few resources. The problem with the world is an insufficient distribution of capitalism.
The real story of Thanksgiving as written by Rush Limbaugh (aka my Rushy) in the book "See, I Told You So!" Chapter Six here: "Dead White Guys or What Your History Books Never Told You," page 70.
Okay! That was long! Addie had her first Thanksgiving... unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures of her eating, the normal Thanksgiving picture, but here are some cute ones from the day.
First we went to Joel's parents' house, where Addie got to meet her second cousin, Rylea! They loved eachother!
Not so sure why Rylea is trying to make Addie bite her finger... but she kept pulling it away before Addie had a chance! Poor Addie!
And here is another second cousin, Caleb loved Addie too, and Addlie wanted to give him hugs!!!
He just wanted to give her kisses though! A little too open mouth if you ask me!After dinner we went to my side of the family, and we went bowling. I haven't bowled in so long! My excuse for being bad is the heavy balls! Unfortunately I have weak wrists, and fat fingers, so all the light balls (with kid sized finger holes) don't work!I made due though.... I got 83, 3rd place on our lane. Joel got 2nd :(
Here he is! Not that great... looks like a gutter ball to me!
Here's a better one:
Jennifer holding Addie... and being a dork! It is funny I think because you can see Aunt Ivy is trying to make Addie smile, and Addie couldn't care less about it!
Here she is lounging with Uncle Bruce... I hope Amy doesn't see this because it isn't the most flattering picture of her... but this blog isn't about her, and Addie is in the picture!
Addie hangin' out with Nick. I think he is trying to practice for little Wheeler next month!!!
Ella loved bowling! Even though it took the ball about 5 minutes to make it down the lane, she had a blast!Actually she loved giving 5s! She is fast too, this picture looks like she only has one arm!
Addie was so exhausted when we got home... but we had to take pictures with her for her first Thanksgiving! I wish I would have remembered it earlier so we could have done a family picture... oh well though, this is good too!
Can you tell Joel is holding the remote off to the side to make her smile? Stinker! But she loves the remote!Sunday, November 18, 2007
Busy Week!!!!!
I haven't updated in a while, so I thought I had better. We have been so busy lately! We are working on painting our kitchen cabinets, which is a huge job... a huge job that is made even harder when you have a baby to entertain and a dog looking for trouble to get in!!!!
I took most of the week off so we could work on painting, and hopefully get it done in a week, but things came up, and we had to put off things a lot. So we got a little less than half done. I took before pictures, so I will post the before and after, when we are hopefully done next week.
Here is a picture of Addie and Elsie while we painted:
I took most of the week off so we could work on painting, and hopefully get it done in a week, but things came up, and we had to put off things a lot. So we got a little less than half done. I took before pictures, so I will post the before and after, when we are hopefully done next week.
Here is a picture of Addie and Elsie while we painted:
Addie was a baby bum a lot, we left her in her jammies most of the day. I think she liked it though :)
We also got new bedding this week! I ordered it last week, and they said it would be 2-4 weeks, so I was pleasantly surprised to get it this week. Here is Addie while we switched out the bedding.
You can see Elsie off to the side, lurking, she usually loves to play in the sheets when we change the bedding. Our old bedding was so threadbaron, so we really needed to upgrade. LOVE the new set... I will have to put Addie on the bed and take a picture... because every picture should have Addie in it, right?
Did you notice her new trick? I just realized in both pictures, she is sucking her lips in... silly girl!
Well, I think that is all we have been up to... nothing too exciting. Wish us luck on finishing the painting... we will need it!!!!!!
I almost forgot... Addie has to go to the doctor tomorrow, Monday, because she has been acting a little weird, not responding to us. It has only happened twice, but when I told the nurse about it at her flu shot, she was concerned enough to have us schedule an appointment. So wish us luck that nothing is wrong, and she was just tired. That is what I thought it was... then Joel started talking about seizures and make me nervous!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Halloween Part 2
Today we finally took some pictures of Addie in her costume next to her fabulous pumpkin! I couldn't pick just one, so here are my favorites!
How sweet is this smile!?
She has been sticking her tongue out a lot lately, it is really hilarious!!!!!!!!
She loves her pumpkin!
Something is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
It is so hard being a ladybug! I have been trying to get a picture of this lip for days! Here it is! I used to do it a lot when I was little.
Best friends! I still wish I would have gotten a costume for Elsie!
I hope everyone had a great Halloween!
How sweet is this smile!?
She has been sticking her tongue out a lot lately, it is really hilarious!!!!!!!!
She loves her pumpkin!
Something is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
It is so hard being a ladybug! I have been trying to get a picture of this lip for days! Here it is! I used to do it a lot when I was little.
Best friends! I still wish I would have gotten a costume for Elsie!
I hope everyone had a great Halloween!Unexpected houseguest....
So. Saturday night we are in bed, and we hear some sort of popping sound. It really sounded like someone was making popcorn, so I sent Joel out to figure out what it was. He narrowed it down to our bathroom, and we realize it is a mouse! It was behind the outlet in our bathroom again! I hate mice! Anyways, I told Joel he had to get it out of the wall, there was no way we were going to be able to sleep with mousey noises! It took him like 15 minutes to catch the stinkin' thing! He said it was hopping everywhere, yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!! Anyways, he finally caught it and brought it way out to the woods, hopefully he is lousy with directions and won't make it back to the house. I have to remember to bring rat bait home in case he has any little buddies still hanging around.
This weekend I cleaned out garage out, I am so proud of myself, it was so dirty and we had so much stuff that needed to go to the garbage! I was motivated by seeing Melissa on Saturday, she always seems to get so much done, and I felt like I should do something, and not lay around all day! It is amazing, I wasn't nearly as tired as I have been, I guess I just have to try to do things, and maybe that will help!
I transferred all my stuff to the Blazer this weekend too, it was so sad :( My poor car. I had a ton of stuff, I seriously had a 9" stack of napkins! I always keep them when we got through a drive thru, you never know why you could spill something! I am such a nerd!
I went to the mall this weekend too, I bought some over priced gloves. They are super warm though, but I am a dummy. I almost bought the cream colored ones, which would match my scarf and hat, but they get so dirty, so I decided to get black because my coat is black, then I go to my moms and show her, and what does she say? They are brown! I cannnot believe it, still, sometimes I think they are black, but they aren't, I feel so dumb! I wouldn't feel so bad if they were cheap, but they weren't :( So if anyone sees me with my horribly clashing black coat and brown gloves, don't be too harsh, it was an accident :(
I wanted to buy a teddy bear so bad at the mall! They had the cutest and softest ones ever! All they had was pink, blue, and yellow, and I really thought that the yellow was ugly, so I didn't get it. Now I wish I would have just bought a pink and a blue one, then I could have just given the other one to charity for Christmas, I want to buy something for the baby so bad!
Sorry this is kinda a boring post, oh well, hope everyone has a great day!
I have to post a pic of the new car, did I tell you the salesman made us take a pic in front of it, I looked horrible! I should have told him to email it to me!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Halloween Part One
A lot has gone on this week and last and I just haven't had time to update here, because I have been taking SO many pictures!!!! I still haven't had time to read the manual for my camera, I really need to do that, it will make the pictures so much better!
Well, these pictures are actually from last week, we decided to play in the side yard for a little bit, hoping to get some cute pictures of Addie. Which isn't hard of course!
At first she just wanted to suck on her hands
Which is still cute...
Well, these pictures are actually from last week, we decided to play in the side yard for a little bit, hoping to get some cute pictures of Addie. Which isn't hard of course!
At first she just wanted to suck on her hands
Which is still cute...
Then she gave us a smile!!!!
Elsie also got a grooming last week, doesn't she look cute!
Since Elsie was looking so cute with bows in her hair, I just had to try to take a picture of her with Addie, but of course, I couldn't get them to both look at the same time!
Addie also had her first try with a sippy cup... I don't think she got anything in her mouth, but it is just an introduction, so that is fine! She looks so cute with it though, and this is one of the times she actually got the right part in her mouth!
I have been feeling that Addie should be getting more tummy time lately, so I have been trying really hard to put her on her tummy (which has been increasingly difficult as she learned how to roll over! But she will never crawl if she doesn't ever go on her tummy! This is what she thinks of tummy time!
We tried to entice her with her favorites, things she can't play with, a cup and the remote
It made her happier, but she still didn't move an inch!
We carved pumpkins this year with Kristopher and my mom. I have a fake pumpkin, so I wasn'at going to carve any, but Kristopher asked me to help, and I felt guilty not carving a pumpkin for Addie's first Halloween. Here is Addie with her first pumpkin! She loved it!
Elsie likes to play in the leaves!
So we tried to take a picture of Elsie and Addie together in the leaves, but clearly, Elsie didn't like that idea, and she left Addie in the dust... or leaves shall we say? Sorry, that was completely dorky!
Here is Kristopher with his half carved pumpkin
The kids with the pumpkins! Don't they look great!
Of course we had to get the puppies in on the picture taking action! Too bad they had leashes on, it would have been so cute!
Here is Addie with her pumpkin. We have yet to take a picture of her in her costume with the pumpkin. It is coming I promise!!! I want that to be a tradition... we won't be on the right day, but it will happen!
Kisses for Kristopher
This week was also got new puppies for the field at work. They are black lab mixes. A male and female named Duke and Ellie May. I keep thinking it is Jethro, that would have been a better name if you ask me! Anyways, I am pretty sure Duke is on the left, Ellie May is on the right, and Ella is just loving them both!!!!
Joel loved them too! Not sure which one this is, but how cute!
And of course, Addie had to meet them! Joel wouldn't have it any other way. Here is Addie giving Ellie May a mouth full!
Addie will teach her how to bite!!!!!
And here is our only presentable picture from Halloween. Addie was one tired Ladybug, so she wasn't very happy in many pictures, and was sleeping most of the night. She did look cute.
Stay tuned! Next week I should have a cute picture of her in her costume next to her pumpkin, and she will be smiling in it! If it takes me a thousand pictures, I will get one with her smiling next to her pumpkin!!! Wish me luck!
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