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I knew she would eventually get to the clothes...

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Rough days...

Julia has been having some sleeping issues, but that is nothing new. At night we have to sit in her room until she falls asleep otherwise she would get out of her bed for hours until she fell asleep. Well, for naps I have always rocked her to sleep. I know that I really should not still have to rock my 2 1/2 year old to sleep but it is the quickest and easiest way to get her to sleep, which is a good thing when you have a baby crying downstairs. We tried to just leave her in her room and discipline her when she got out, but my daughter if given the choice will not take a nap. She will just find ways of keeping herself awake. Julia has never been the kid that eventually gets tired and will go to sleep. I do believe that she would be up all night if we did not make her lay down and go to sleep. So now the new problem. I can't rock her so sleep. Ugg...I knew it would eventually happen and now we have to deal with it. So after 30 minutes of trying to rock Julia yesterday I decided to lock her in her room. We put one of those door handle locks on the inside of her room. I thought, well I will at least make her stay in her room. After an hour of crying I hear..."mommy I pooped." Don't worry no big poop story. But she got our of her room?!? How did she do that? I went to look at her room, and here is what I saw.


I figured it was a fluke she busted the door lock off, and it probaly wouldn't happen again, so I put it back on. It was a fluke she busted it off, but now she figured out how to open the door with the lock still in place. UGG!!! So basically she won yesterday. After 2 hours of battling I let her not take a nap, but only because she would not physically take a nap. What can I do after 2 hours? And now here we are again today. She has only got out of her room once, but it has only been 45 minutes. The good thing is, we do laugh about it. I mean seriously, what 2 1/2 year old can break a door lock...only my child! I can barely figure those things out. When I saw her rocking chair in the middle of the room I just imagined her pushing as hard as she could to get it there, and I was holding back the laughter trying to discipline Julia. When I told Brandon what she did he also could not stop laughing. Only my wild child.

Keirsten's 4th Birthday

Keirsten is so old!! I can't believe she is already 4. Her birthday was the 11th so I'm a little late with these...story of my life right now. Gotta love all these girls together!

We're cooking!

We got some zucchini the other day, and we don't actually like zucchini but I wanted to do something with it, so we made zucchini bread. With enough cinnamon and sugar anything is good! This is Julia's first experience helping me in the kitchen and she loved it. Since Cole was born I've been trying to do special little things with Julia, even if it is only for 10 minutes, she sure does enjoy it. This was one of those 5-10 minute special times and it was tons of fun. Luckily it doesn't take long before she is bored, that way she didn't make too big of a mess for me!

Crazy boys

Brandon got to go out boating with the boys the other day, they took a customer out so it was 'work related.' Haha, whatever you want to call it! Anyways here are some fun pictures of Brandon and Scottie. I'm glad I wasn't there because my mothering instinct would have been scared to death watching Scott!

A couple more...

Wrestling

Gotta love these girls wrestling away. They did this forever, and no one got hurt!

Cole's Dedication

This year at Richland we decided to have Cole dedicated. It's something we did last year for Julia during Labor day weekend and we really wanted to do it again this year. The dedication was just a special time to ask our family and friends to help us pray for Cole, and basically ask for accountability with raising our kids to be children of Christ.


It was a pretty special year, because my cousin Dan also got baptised.

Tri-Citites

Last weekend was our annual waterski weekend up in Richland, WA. We hang out at the river all day and then go back to our hotel and hang out for the night. We used to get ready and go out to dinner every night, but our lives have changed and now we bar-b-que, or get take out. It still is quite a lot of fun. Here's some pictures from the weekend.