Pictures

Here's a picture update...starting with the most recent:

Alston is Standing!!!

Too cool!

Taylor looking like a duck with her fluoride in.

Rilee the Duck

All dressed up for church.

Like father like son...loving those ribs!

It may have been sunny here in Corvallis last week, but it was still cold! Didn't stop us from hitting the park!

Passed out at the clinic.

They won't be able to do this much longer. There was barely any room to move!

Hair Cut (a few weeks ago)

Long hair with the new hair gel. Or maybe he stuck his finger in a light socket :)

Best Buds! Alston loved laying his head on her shoulder.

Jason :)

Rilee and Taylor at the coast

Cute Bottoms at the Aquarium.

Rilee's hair each morning!

Two Snow Whites for Halloween.

Darth Vader

Snow White and a Ginnie

Happy Halloween!

Noodle Head

Uno Anyone??

She's pretty!

Go Beavers!

Taylor loves to help me fold laundry!

Darth is a poser!

Movie night in our bedroom

Cannoeing with dad in Bend

LONG day of traveling to Bend

The numbers will be even....

so we will STOP there.

August 2nd (if not before) we will be adding our fourth and FINAL baby to the family. Most of you know I have an issue with odd numbers. In fact, we specifically choose our wedding the day that it was, just so that it would consist of even numbers (8-16-2002). So it was no surprise that once we had Alston, there would be another baby to follow. We just weren't so sure it would be SO soon :)

We are all super excited, but kind of afraid of what four will bring. Alston is proving to be just like his sisters and is a mover and a shaker. It will be fun :)

Anyways, that's our newest news. I promise to get some pictures up here. You will be so surprised at how big my kiddos are. Pretty dang cute :)

Update

We had a couple of fantastic parenting moments with the girls on Sunday that just have to be shared. Jason wrote a blog post about it on his blog, so follow this link and check it out. It's SUPER funny, but AMAZINGLY accurate :)

I'm afraid we are in trouble!

http://jaysessays.blogspot.com/

Is this Barak Obama?

As we approach the end of the summer the girls are out of day camps, classes, etc. So we have been trying to find things for them to do around the clinic that they might think are interesting. We have a bunch of old magazines and newspapers that have collected from our lobby and so I thought it would be fun to introduce them to the idea of collage building. I explained that they could cut out pictures of things that they liked or recognized that they wanted to put in their collage. They thought this was a lot of fun for a couple of reasons, not the least being that they get to cut stuff up to their little hearts' content and make a huge mess. Mandy and I were able to get some work done during all of this too with very little supervision required.





At one point I heard the girls talking about finding a picture of President Barak Obama that they could cut out to put in their collages. I thought that wouldn't be hard since most of the magazines were old issues of Time. Rilee, however, found a picture of our Commander & Chief in Health magazine. She brought it over and asked: "Dad, is this a good picture of Obama?"





Here is what she showed me:

I've heard him called an "Uncle Tom" before but this was entirely new.

CHEESE!

Rainy Daze

Are so boring...

We go a little crazy!

Burrrrrrito!