grateful

hi!

Short and sweet today.

A couple of pictures of Jonas with his new tractor.

It has the perfect bucket for little fingers to push and dump.

(thanks for the idea Kade!)

We're leaving on a little getaway tomorrow morning...Minneapolis for the weekend. We decided it was time. We're taking Jonas...planning on doing stuff with him at the Mall of America..maybe the zoo or Comotown. Looking forward to watching him experience new things! Now if only John and Jonas could hurry up and stop coughing....

Enjoy your weekend!

thursday

Not too much new around here...except the snow!! As much as I'd prefer the sunshine, the moisture came at at good time. We seeded grass in a few areas earlier this week so this will be good.

Here is a Tuesday MCC find for $3.50.

There were 3 of them there...2 of them had white boards on the other side though. I wasn't so sure about the marker idea for a 2 year old so I picked this one. :)

I've decided it's an outdoor toy which means I don't have to deal with the chalk dust inside either! ;)

Some very good news...this boy has learned to play!! He plays and plays. Trucks, tractors..reads books.

Such a nice change from the days where he clung to me ALL DAY LONG! He still wants me to be close by, but I can handle that. I know I say it often but he amazes me daily with the things he's learning. Today as John left for work after lunch Jonas says, "bye dad..thanks donuts." (John had brought donuts home for dessert.) Awww...just melts our hearts.

scrappy weekend

It's been awhile since I've felt any scrapping love, but I finally got a few layouts done this weekend!

Saturday we had a barbecue at our house with some friends and my sister and BIL, who brought their dirt bikes. The kids were all lined up for rides. :) 

This picture of Jonas is just so him.

If you don't know him you'd think he wasn't happy.. or maybe a little unsure? Wrong! He's totally enjoying himself, which means he doesn't smile...he tries his hardest not to. He just can't let loose. Such a serious little guy. :)

in the past few days we have

learned something new....

had friends over...

(which meant mommy got to talk camera talk and Jonas had a little partner in crime!)

moved our shed.... (there are 3 sheds on this yard but none of them were close to the house.)

...and just today, discovered the joy of stickers. (a nice quiet activity after a bit of a rough morning!)

Hope to spend lots of time out on the yard this weekend. Hope your weekend is good!

tractors and fun dip

This has been the highlight around here lately.

Our tractor arrived on Friday..the boys are super excited! In fact, Jonas couldn't finish his supper after I told him it was here. We all took it for a spin...(even me! ;) I'm supposed to learn to mow with this thing so we'll see how it goes. Then yesterday John did some work with it...made a teeny tiny dent in yard clean up. Eeek!! I'm just now starting to realize how much work this place is going to be. Still no regrets though...I'm excited for Jonas to grow up this way.

And today, enjoying his first fun dip.

(from Auntie Tina. Somehow those messy snacks just never make it into my shopping cart! ;)

So we're sitting outside  while he's eating his snack and I tell Jonas he has blue eyes and mine are green. Out of the blue he says, "I'm two."

So I ask, "how old is mommy?"

No hesitation.."free (three) like Ashton!"

LOL! Thanks, bud.

Ok, I'm off to wash windows!

Friday

Doing regular Friday stuff here. (which basically means cleaning!) My sister Lisa stopped in for a bit this morning too.  Looking forward to Super Scrap Day tomorrow...a whole day of scrapping with my MSS friends! I really haven't had a chance to scrap much with the move and all..so tomorrow should be good. Although I'm always a teeny bit sad to give up a Saturday with my boys with John being home. I'm sure it will be worth it though! ;)

And I just found this site yesterday. I remember Marcy mentioning it to me while I was doing my "no internet for Lent" thing...and I forgot all about it till I saw a link to it yesterday. Some good photography and photoshop tips..and some free actions too! (she's very generous!) I've been playing around with some of the actions this afternoon and came up with these:

Jonas...

..and 2 foot shots of him. (I was hoping to frame one of these for the entrance?? not sure...)

 

I think maybe these edits are a little over the top..hehe. :)  Kind of neat anyhow..and maybe after some practice I'll actually know what I'm doing!

Ok, I need to order photos for tomorrow. Happy weekend to you all!

my right hand man

Love this little guy. Love the super cute things he's saying these days. Grateful I can be at home with him. Even grateful for all the "help" he insists on giving me ALL DAY LONG!! ;)

 

Hope your Wednesday is going well!

catching up

Our computer is back. Nothing was lost and all is well again. :)

A few photos from last week.

Tam and her boys came to check out our new place. They found us despite me giving her wrong directions. Oops....LOL. (and in Tam's defense, those are MY stylin' boots she's wearing! ;)

One evening last week. I love these kind of evenings..low key, just playing together outside. Jonas rarely wants to be the one IN the wagon.

And this one...just because it cracks me up. :) 

Have a great Monday!

Computers

make our life so much easier, right?? ;) Hmmm, not so sure these days. Since getting our Xplornet hooked up a couple of weeks ago I have been spending more time on the phone with their "technical experts" than I would like. Sometimes I can get away with just shutting down the computer, plugging out the internet cord thingee, plugging it back in and restarting the computer...and then I'm connected to the world wide web again. Ok, point of this all...to top it off, our (fairly new) computer died on us a couple of days ago.The power went off here one night and the next day when I tried starting the computer....nothing. We brought it in and are waiting to see what the verdict is. In the meantime we're using our old one which I'm glad we kept...except there's no programs in it and none of my photos. :(

Ah well, such is life I guess. Hope to be back with photos soon. :)

new boots

Jonas is loving the outdoors at our new place. Not sure who's enjoying it here more..me or him. :) I just really feel like we're home. I may have a different mindset in summer though once I'm mowing 6 acres of grass. Check back with me then. LOL.

Back to Jonas, I let him loose in the puddles today...wearing his brand new shark boots from Superstore. (He's SO proud of them! :)

Till now he's been wearing his winter boots when we go out and every time he gets to some water he says, "water, pease?" ...so hoping we'll say yes, he can go in. So today I put waterboots on him and let him loose. He ran right in.

Ran back and forth just loving it. And then he fell...and just sat there. LOL. Stunned I guess. But we went in and dried off and all was well again.