Friday, February 24, 2006

The Escape Artist and The Next American Idol



Leslie has recently developed Houdini-like skills. If you turn your back for a second she can be in a completely different room! I have submitted this picture as evidence of a recent escape attempt. Leslie started in the middle of the room to the right of this picture. I went to get something and when I came back, She was almost to the door of the apartment. Where was she going to go when she hit pavement? Maybe the Mall?


Lindsay has been watching American Idol with us lately. She quickly becomes bored with the amateur performances on TV and begins to perform her own American Idol audition. In these pictures she is giving a dramatic performance of Eiou Farm, also known as Old McDonald's farm. We are sure that Simon would say that it was the best performance he has ever seen.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

A fun weekend


Last weekend my mom (Katie's) came to visit us. She gets free passes on Alaska Airlines so she can come down almost any time. She arrived on Thursday and stayed until early Monday morning. When she got here on Thursday, the temp. was a balmy 81 degrees, the next day, the temp. fell to a very chilly 40. The rest of the weekend was very icy. We had fun despite the frigid weather and got to show mom around town a bit. It was really nice to see someone from home, even if it was for only a short time. Our next visitors will be my sister Heidi, her friend Melissa and Bobby (Heidi's fiance) who will be in town the second weekend in March. Bobby's band will be coming through Dallas and Heidi is going to take advantage of the free lodging and we are going to take advantage of getting a chance to see them. We look forward to it!! Here are some pics from Last weekend. The one in bed is not my favorite, but I guess it is a cute snapshot of life in the 'partpent' (in Lindsay's words). We don't always sleep in the living room, just when there are visitors. :-)

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Update on Leslie and Lindsay


Leslie has grown quite a bit in the month that we have been in Texas. Leslie began rolling over the day before the girls and I left, begining the road to independence that I am not ready for. Since then she has developed a little bit of mobility. Though she is not yet crawling the way you would imagine crawling, she is scooting around and getting into trouble. As I typed that last line, Leslie was getting into Lindsay's toys. Between rolling and scooting, Leslie can get around pretty quickly and anything in her reach is game. She has also begun sitting up pretty steady in the last week or so. Leslie's personality is coming out more each day. She is adventurous and definately a little demanding. At the same time, she seems to be developing a sense of humor. Since moving to Texas, Leslie has had a hard time developing a sleeping pattern. We had both girls in the second bedroom, but I was worried that leslie waking up at any time of the early morning would wake up Lindsay so we had Leslie set up on blankets in our room and then the living room. So instead of waking up Lindsay, she woke up Lance and I. Recently I discovered that Lindsay wouldn't wake up to a bomb, so we put Leslie in with Lindsay again and it seems to be working better. Leslie slept through the night last night for the first time since moving here!!

Lindsay has adjusted to life here. She had a hard time at first, we all did. But she has settled in to the new routine. She looks forward to Church and story time at the library. We are hoping to get into a playgroup soon. There are a lot of activities for kids her age here but most of them are expensive for us at this time. Unfortunately, since my accident, getting around is hard so we haven't been able to go to the park as much as we would like. Lindsay is watching the olympics with us and often pretends to ice skate. She loves to dance as well. This past Sunday, they made friendship tea in Sunday school, so as soon as we got home, Lindsay HAD to have a tea party. (Grandma Sandy, she was pretty upset that we couldn't go to your house and have a tea party) We set up a blanket and her plastic tea set and she and leslie had tea. Lindsay misses our friends and family a lot. Though she won't really talk to people on the phone she often calls John & Cole, Drew, Miss Kathy and Miss(she hasn't figured out mister yet) Kyle, Brooke and Payton and the grandparents and aunts and uncles on her "cell phone." She misses everyone as much as we do.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Old but Funny!

Last month when the Guthries were over, Lindsay said something funny! I remembered to post this so you all can laugh.

We had put the girls down to bed and started to play a card game. After a little while.....Lindsay was not sleeping, so we let her get up and sit with us. There were no chairs left, so we put her in the high chair.

She was sitting there minding her own business as we played our game. After a little while, I heard a noise. I asked her if she tooted? She said, "No, I toot in my bed!" :-)

We had a good laugh!

Sunday, February 05, 2006

So Sad Are We

We join our hometown peeps in our sadness over the Seahawks loss. Next Year? Let's go Superbowl XLI? Is that fourty one?
In other news... Lindsay delt with the stomach flu all week last week, starting Monday night and finally coming out of it on Saturday. I (Katie) came down with the flu Thursday night and started feeling better today. We are in constant prayer that Lance and Leslie have avoided this yucky stuff. So far so good!
Looking forward now to the Olympics starting this week!! Go USA!!

Katie

Thursday, February 02, 2006

WHOOPS!
















I am only posting this so you can see what is going on in our life. Please pray that we can find another mode of transportation for our second car.

If the car ends up getting totaled out! Then I think we just set a record for the shortest amount of time for license plate use!

It may be a long couple of months in our Jetta until the house sells! :-)

That was Lance, now Katie will fill you in a little more.

I was the driver of that mess up there. Surprise, Surprise! It looks all too familiar. Thankfully, it was not a roll over, just a rear-ender. Lindsay and Leslie were with Lance at the apartment another blessing! Don't worry, the broken glass was from the airbag, both of which were deployed. I am just a little sore. Thank the Lord that no one was hurt. Just my pride.
Katie

Wednesday, February 01, 2006


Today was a big day as we made our cars street legal in the state of Texas. Our tabs expired in Washington yesterday, so it was time to get Texas Plates! Here they are!

By the way! Tonight I ran to the store at 7pm.
It was low to mid 70's and I wore flip-flops, shorts and a t-shirt. :-)

Ask me in July how I like it!