Friday, May 4, 2012

Love It!

Well, life has been great and busy!  We have had a great and busy couple of weeks.  Here is a picture overview!
We hosted 3 great boys from the Uganda Orphan's Choir.  They were so muc fun and absolutely love the boys!

Mason all dressed for church!



Sieber and Justus loving the Mashed Potatoes!!






Nap time with cousin Keagen

Apparently Sieber thought the dog bed was a good place to sit and have a drink

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Pictures

Getting to see Dan at work.

Justus crashed in the car on the way to the jobsite to see Dan.

Getting ready for a picnic lunch in the middle of a field.

Sieber loved the wide open spaces to run


Dan and Sieber eating lunch

Sieber and Mason in a front end loader

Mason had to bring the football to play with Dan


BBQ at our house.  We made a water toy for the kids  They weren't so sure about it at firsst.


Justus loved his first ice cream cone!

Defitely not built for 2!

Cousins

Cousins

Brothers!  They have a great time together!

At this time, Sieber is winning - it generlally doesn't last long though!

Sieber

Justus and Sieber chasing me down when I was trying to get pictures of them

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter

Just wanted to share a couple of pictures of the boys dressed in their fine Ethiopian clothes for church today.  We picked out this outfit for Mason when we were last in Ethiopia in December, and the clothes that Sieber and Justus are wearing were given to us by the workers of the transition home at a final going home coffee ceramony.

Mason who is almost 3
Sieber who is 19 months
Justus who is 15 months

Monday, March 12, 2012

Remiss

I have definitely been remiss in my blogging as of the past two months.  It has been complete chaos around here!  We have really adjusted well to having 3 young boys around the house!  We have been fighting off one bug or another since we have been home, but are doing so much better!

So, to talk about the family - the boys are amazing!  All three of them.  Mason adores his little brothers!  He hugs and kisses them all the time.  Knocks them over to give them hugs quite a bit.  He also loves to wrestle with them as well and they have figured it out.  They are all doing so well.  Sieber is walking all over, running (or at least trying to) at times.  He has gained weight, but is still small!   He is trying to communicate.  You can tell that he wants to talk and tell us things, but can't.  I look forward to when he can tell us what he wants.  He is our impatient one also.  When he is ready to eat, he has no patience to wait for you, you must provide food NOW!!!  It's kind of comical.  He also absolutely adores the dog.  Can't seem to get enough of the mutt!   Justus is not walking yet, he crawls everywhere and is definitely a mama's boy.  He is trying to walk and has taken a step.  He is a beast!  I would love to be able to weight him and see where he is at, but it is at least 26lbs if not more!  we call him Chewie.  He doesn't really cry and scream, he moans and makes weird noises that sound like Chubaca (forgive the spelling) from Star Wars.  Too funny!  He is pretty laid back though, which is great!

They are just absolutely wonderful, and I have promised myself (and my mother, who will hold me accountable) to keep this blog updated.  We live apart from numerous family members and I am trying my best to get better at updating the blog to help keep them updated on our family and the boys.

I am enjoying staying home with the boys and Dan is doing great at work!  He loves working as a mechanic!  He is definitely in his element.  They are getting super busy already for the summer rush.  Dan is starting to work longer hours and starting to work Saturdays as well.  His boss is great.  Dan gets to eat lunch with his family every day - there will be the opportunity for me and the kids to join them as well.  Mason adores their little girl Karly.  I am enjoying staying at home.  It has been a huge transition for me!  I mean HUGE!  I have worked for so long out of the home, that being here all the time is so different.  The kids keep me busy!  Also, there is endless laundry, and dishes, and cleaning, and sweeping  It's hard!  I am definitely getting better at it.  I have never been the best housekeeper (any roommate I have had will attest to that - gladly I am sure), but I have learned to love to do the dishes and keep the kitchen clean.  I am working on a system to keep up with the laundry so it doesn't become such a huge project.  I am trying to deep clean things, organize things, and simplify things. It has been a good challenge for me.  I found and ave started working through the book - 31 Day to Clean, Having a Martha house the Mary Way.  It has been interesting to read and has been challenging at the same time.  It's been good and very helpful for me. 

Well, It is 10 and I need to head to bed so I am ready for a new day tomorrow!  I will post more soon!!!

Enjoy the pictures!!!
















Thursday, January 26, 2012

Reply to some comments

I had a couple of comments recently regarding our family having the measles.  I am sorry that I have offended you in any way.  We have done everything in our power to contain any spread of the desease.  We have been home bound for close to 3 weeks to help keep the disease from spreading.  The local health department has been absolutely wonderful!  They have been caring and concerned and we have heeded  their advice.  As the newspaper stated, we picked up the disease while traveling internationally and are unable to do anything about that fact.  We have definitely been concerned about the spread of the disease, hince the quarantine.  Unfortunately, there are some things that are and were out of our control and we are sorry for anyone who contracted it due to that.  We are continuing to pray daily for others out there who are having to go through what we went through.  I am sorry.`

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The 5 of Us.

I am going to try and do some updates over the next couple weeks.  Hopefully our life mellows out a bit and everyone gets healthy!  That would reduce the stress level a bit and give me more of a chance to get posting done.  But, I found this today and thought it was cute.  This is the first picture we have as a family of five.  We got in late in the evening to Denver (where Mason was staying with Dan's sister Trista!) and we spent the night at her house.  Mason was already asleep when we got in so he didn't meet his new brothers until the next morning!  U can tell Dan and I are pretty shot!

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

we are home!

Wow, how things have been crazy!  We made it home for Christmas Eve service, which was wonderful to attend.  We woke up to a chaotic Christmas around the house with 3 little boys.  This post is to introduce the world to:

Sieber Sodeno - 8/29/2010

Justus Tegegn - 12/23/2010

Our Three Sons!