The finished Product

Here is the yard after we had all finished and were on our way to compost the leaves and branches @ the dump.

More or less no leaves.

Backyard Work

Here dad and Rachel are getting the work party started.

Last week we had a yard work day @ Rachel and my house. Ben loves working outside and was so exited to do the work. I don't think Addison was as exited about the outdoors yet.

It only took me 5 min. to do my part of the yard, although it was a silly idea to do it first because I had to do it all over again because we draged all the leaves from Rachel's yard over it.

Here is Addison on her first outside work day. She didn't even break a sweat.


Here is a picture of mom, Benard and Addison. Ben even has his own rack and gloves now so that others can get work done while he is 'working.'

Ben and his girlfriend Gabby

I took these pictures @ a party we had @ our house recently and it seemed strange to me how these pictures looked so much like many peoples party pictures from their teens or early twenties. Scary how kids grow up before your eyes!

Just thought these would give a couple of people a good laugh.

Olympic Experience

Ben got to meet an Olympic athlete a little while ago. The guy (sorry I can't remember his name or sport, I didn't even meet him) was @ the Bay so Trish took Ben and they had a few pictures taken with him. It will be really fun and cool to see my mom run with the Olympic tourch this coming January. We are all going to watch her run and the kids will be all decked out and Ben will be so exited to watch grandma run.

The fun with Doctors

So for the last few weeks I've been wondering if I was having twins. The reason for this is each time I went to my doctors office, she says to me, "oh, seems like just one for now." or "well, next week after the ultrasound we'll know if it's one or two." Just the things that a pregnant person wants to hear the two time she goes to the doctor.

This had me thinking a lot over the last few weeks and just wondering why the doctor would have mentioned this at all. So finally this last Tuesday the doctor confirmed that I am only having one baby. It really makes a person feel really large when her doctor thinks that your having twins and especially when a customer @ work asks how close your due date is. That's right, someone @ work thought I was due soon. I'm only half way done here and well this is making me feel very large.

Strange things that happen in life. I know that I am not large and not having twins but it's a funny little story that I wanted to share with everyone.

Pumpkin Patch

Benard and I went to the pumpkin patch with Grandpa almost a month ago now. Ben really had fun. I think we made it there three times this year. I love finding things to do with Ben that are free. Well almost free, I seemed to buy apples and apple juice every time I went.

Ben cost a little more this year then last year.

Our new Home

Here are a few pictures of our new home. Ben and I were just having an inside day and he was helping me make the beds so I just thought that I'd take a few pictures. Actually these pictures are mostly for Katherine and her little family. Ben saw pictures of David and Jacky today and he went crazy. He really misses them and thought they might be missing him to.

So here are a few pictures of our home.

Ben was having a hard time getting up on our bed after it made if off the floor. Just yesterday he figured out that he could get over the foot board so that he can mess up the bed after I make it everyday.

Last week one day to distract Ben I asked him to set the table. The picture bellow is what he actually did when he set the table and the picture above was because he asked for another picture after I took one. This is his new picture face. If you ask him to say cheese, you get cheese.

I thought this was a really good job of setting the table. As you can see I was so impressed that I took a picture.