Merry Christmas!

We hope all of you have a blessed day with your families and friends. We had a neat Christmas eve service last night. Our pastor talked about how when we have bread in church we think of communion and what Jesus did for us on the cross. But he pointed out last night that Jesus is the bread of life and our in the Lord's prayer it says "give us today our daily bread" and how that might mean give us life and hope and help us turn to him in our daily lives, that he gives all we need and more. There was a song sung about how Jesus was a baby who was just like all other babies but he was sent to save us. It is amazing that Christmas comes ever year the same time and yet we see something new, a new perspective. I appreciated the song because it makes you realize that Jesus was just like us while he was on earth. Born to a mother just like all of us with dirty diapers and spit up. But yet he came to save us from our sins. Anyways, here are a few pictures of our kids open some presents from us. Have a Merry Christmas!!

Christmas in Idaho

Donny's family christmas here in Idaho ended up being quit eventful. Starting with the power going out in his parents house. So his dad tried to figure out what happened since we were the only house that was out and nothing on the dairy was. So us ladies found flashlights and lit candles. Later they got the house going on the generator so we could continue our festivities. Finally Donny's dad figured out it was a blown fuse on the power pole that the power company had to come out and fix it. So meanwhile we finished cooking our dinner and were eating - the candles were still lit. Donny's niece and Hannah were looking at and eating gingerbread house that his niece made and hannah was laying on the dinning table. Pretty soon his niece yells that Hannah's hair is on fire. So we all came running and thankfully just a little bit of hair on the back of her head was singed. And we blew all the candles out! The rest of the night was pretty uneventful aside from fighting over who gets to open a present when - normal kids stuff.

Daniel's 1st Birthday in Idaho

Here are a few pictures from Daniel's party here. It was a pizza party. daniel is crying in one picture because he is afraid of the party hats because he snapped the band on his face in iowa. But other than that he had a good time. He even got his first gun. It was a pop gun. nothing serious.

Trip to Iowa

We were in Iowa visiting my family for christmas and one of Daniel's birthday parties. Here are a few pictures. Hannah also had fun in the snow cause they have more than we ususally ever have in Idaho.

Tagged

I have been "Tagged" by my cousin Pam. I have to state the rules and then list facts about myself. And at the end I am suppose to tag someone else but the only person I know that has a blog is Pam. So I might tag people to just write emails.

Rules:
1. Post rules before give the facts.
2. Each person starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog and write these rules and facts about
themselves.
4. at the end of the blog you need to tag more people.

Facts:
1. I love being a stay at home mom/wife but some days it can be overwhelming.
2. I hate it when my house work piles up.
3. I love to bake - but the bad thing is then you have to eat it. I learned most of my baking from
working at Casey's bakery in highschool and college.
4. I have an associate's in teacher aiding but I would really like to have my own bakery
someday.
5. The worst house chore is cleaning the bathrooms.
6. I can't wait to do more actvities with my kids but they are a little young yet.
7. I pray I can manage 3 kids and give them each special attention yet.
8. I love to scrapebook our family memories but don't have much time to stay caught up. I'd
rather take candid pictures then professional.

so I guess I tag Marsha, Leah, and Bonnie

Busy Holidays

It has been awhile since I updated but since Thanksgiving we have been busy and gone alot. We drove to Ripon, California for Donny's Dad's side of the family Dec. 5-8, were home for three days and flew to Iowa from Dec. 12-18. We are done traveling but not done partying. Tonight is Daniel's 1st birthday party, the 3rd party actually cause we did one in california and one in Iowa. so that is tonight adn tomorrow night we are doing Donny's immediate family Christmas. We can't wait til next week because we have nothing and are going to start our own family tradition with our kids on Christmas morning. It is always good and fun to travel to see family but lots of work when you get home. I have a few pictures of california but not of Iowa yet. My mom always takes all those pictures so I will add them when I get some.

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving. I have been super busy here with the kids and everything. We celebrated thanksgiving with donny's family and the Friday after went to the mountains with them to get christmas trees. Our house is officially ready for christmas with the tree up and decorated and lights on the house and everything. The hard part is keeping the kids from messing with the decorations. I only decorated the top of my tree with ornaments and Daniel still stands there holding onto the tree and reaching for ornaments.
I quit driving school bus cause it was too much with the kids and being pregnant with the third. So that helped slow things down alittle. But we are traveling to both California and Iowa this year for christmas all with in two weeks of each other. So we'll be glad when the holiday season is over and things slow down. Wait . . . what am I saying. Things won't slow down for quite awhile for us. Anyway. Wishinng all of you a belated Happy Thanksgiving and hope you are having fun getting ready for the Holidays!!

Daniel was 11 months on Nov. 19 and is officially walking. He took his first steps around 10 months and has slowly improved since then. Everyday he walks more and more and gets better. Here is a picture of him with his new shoes and he is not sure about walking in them but gets better everytime he has them on too. He looks like a big boy with shoes on.

Princess Pumpkin

Donny's sister's like to carve pumpkins for Halloween but since Hannah is too young his mom bought her this "Mr. Potato Head" kit for her pumpkin. It is a princess - Hannah's favorite. She was so proud of it.

Trick or Treat

I have never been big on Halloween but we did a little trick or treating with some of hannah's friends. So here is Hannah and Daniel in there costumes. Hannah was a ladybug and Daniel a dinosaur.

This is our Hannah. She likes to be a princess lately and so she has her princess shoes on and a purse and she's ready to go. Her dad loves what her shirt says "my dad is the man".

Here is Daniel trying to climb up my kitchen drawers. He is turned into a climber and if you would have been there when he was climbing you would have heard him screaming because he couldn't get up to where he wanted to be. It was pretty cute.

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to update our site. I started driving school bus for our little town here. Hannah likes it cause now she goes to a babysitter a few hours a day and has a friend to play with that is her age. She knows that mommy drives a school bus cause whenever she sees one on the road she says, "mommy school bus". Daniel is now 10 months old. He is starting to let go of things and stand on his own but has not been to willing to take those steps yet. But he loves to walk along things and is into everything. His latest thing is to take what his sister has and if he can't get it he yells. Donny is taking advantage of deer hunting season here and has been out almost everyday trying to find one. His cousin and friend both got pretty big ones and so now he is trying to get one just at big. Its a good thing his wife loves him and hunting season is only for a few weeks, or else I wouldn't let him spend so much time away.

Surprise!

The picture says it all. Surprise! Donny and I found out we're expecting baby # 3 in June.

Family Vacation

Hannah, Daniel, and I fly to Iowa to go on a family vacation with my family. We went to a cabin in Yankton, SD and enjoyed riding bike together, boating, swimming, playing cards, eating of course, and spending time together. There was a hot tub at the house you can see in one picture. Hannah and Daniel with there Fedders cousins and with Papa. August 2007.

Daniel's 1st Haircut

Donny gave Daniel his first haircut yesterday. He just trimmed around his ears, neck, and sides of his head. He did better than Hannah did on her first haircut.
Daniel also has recently begun eating food. He likes to try feed himself and always has food everywhere. (pictures to the left)

Our kids grow so fast.

Daniel will 7 months this week. He is growing so fast. He has 7 teeth already and is crawling really good. He also likes to pull up and stand by things. I'm sure he will be walking before we know it.



Hannah is 2 yrs. old and she is really starting to talk well. She is starting to talk in little sentences. Last night on the way home from town she says, "I see the moon, mama." And when you are doing something that she wants to do she says, "Hannah's turn." She is too smart for her own good some days.

TOO HOT!!

Hello friends and Family, It has been super hot here for the past 3 - 4 weeks. anywhere from 95 - 105 degrees. And to top it all off our air conditioning quit on Thursday night and is out til Monday sometime. So needless to say I haven't been home to much. So my house is a disaster cause we come home change and leave again. When I come home to give the kids and myself cold baths, we are sweating again in no time. The kids and I have been swimming almost everyday lately.

Our summer has been busy with family visiting and weddings. D- has three cousins getting married this summer - one was end of may, one end of June and one end of July and only one is here in our area. We've also been to Ketichikan, Alaska already this summer. His grandparents flew us up there to fish for a week. Fishing wasn't to good but the weather was descent and the scenery was magnificent. We saw lots of wildlife as well.