More to come

We have been so busy the past couple weeks, and now I have what we think is a pinched nerve in my neck! We have a lot to update on, so look for it coming up soon!

Good Weekend

We had a good and busy weekend doing getting nothing accomplished that we wanted to get done... oh well! On Friday night we had to do our typical errands of running to the bank and grocery store. I don't really enjoy doing these things by myself, but I love being with my family and that makes all errands better. Then Ryan and I came home and we watched the new Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. We just joined the blockbuster through the mail thing and we get 2 movies at a time and we can exchange them unlimitedly at the store. It is fun to constantly have movies and we are always surprised by what they send us. We have the Pursuit of Happiness, which we will probably watch tonight after the kids go to bed.

Saturday we hung around the house and talked about painting our room. It is the last one that needs to be painted. To be honest, neither of us had the energy. So we had a pj morning as a family and then when the kids napped Ryan and I played Wii. He creamed me. After the kids napped we went to Ryan's parents house to celebrate his aunts 50th birthday all dressed in our Penn State gear. Here is a pic of us!




Here is one of Ryan and I too!

And here are some of Reese crawling around!

Turner and Pop!


Reese and Daddy!


Reese and I!



Reese and Pop!


The Boys!


Turner was more into running around and getting into stuff then having pictures taken.

Today we wend to a farm up the road called Weber's with the Klein family and our neighbors, the Watchorn's. We had such a good time doing all kinds of fall things like looking at animals and playing in the hay and of course getting some pumpkins! I will post pics of that when I get some from the smart family's who went with us and who remembered their cameras! I hope everyone had as good of a weekend as we did!

Heroes and such

My sister and brother in law come over every Tuesday to watch Heroes with us. Ryan and I tivo it every week and we wait to watch it until Tuesday night with them. We started it this year and it is so much fun! We all love the show, as do our next door neighbors, and we all bounce theories off one another. If you have not seen the show I highly recommend it! Christina and Bryan are in the process of buying a house and when they do we will alternate our Tuesday nights between the two homes. I am really enjoying seeing my sister and he hubby a lot. We all have such a good time together no matter what we do!

This is a short post because I have all four kiddos sleeping, and I anticipate that they are going to be up again soon!

First Words

Reese has been saying "MaMa" and "DaDa" for a while now and it is really cute. Yesterday for the first time Reese said her first word other than those. Her first official word is "Bye" and appropriately she said it to Grammy trying to get her to go away. If anyone knows my daughter, you know that she is a HUGE momma's girl! She does not like anyone really besides her daddy, Turner and I, but she really does not like her grandparents and we think that is because if Ryan and I ever leave the kids with anyone, it is the grandparents. So as sad as it is that Grammy is not liked by Reese, it is a completely normal reaction for her age and I know that she is going to get over it. So as we wait for her to begin to branch out from Mom and Dad we are going to celebrate her big milestone's! Yay, she is beginning to talk and I absolutely love getting to know my kids more and more everyday. So in the words of my Reese.... "Bye".

10 months and more

Today I have the twins all day and I had Jeffrey this morning. The girls, being Reese, Alison and Delaney, are sooooooo GOOD! They all play so well together and Alison and Delaney show Reese new things and they are gentle with her. Jeffrey and Turner were soooooo BAD. They spent time alternating in time out all morning for being really rough and not listening at all. The problem with the boys is that they feed off of one another. It is not really their fault because they are two, but there are days that I am ready to pull my hair out! Thank God for nap time!

Reese is 10 months old as of yesterday. The time is flying by. I cannot believe that in 2 months my little angel girl is going to be a year old. She is totally a mommy's girl and absolutely the light of my life sometimes. She is so sweet and I can't get enough of her. I hope that 20 years from now we have a good relationship too.

Well, I am off to get some lunch while all 4 of the kiddos are napping!

Accomplishing Stuff

This weekend we actually accomplished a lot of stuff. On Friday, Ryan and I finally primed and put the first coat of paint on the walls that were orange in our living room. Our new color is called "wine tasting" and is a dark merlot color. I am in love with it, except after getting 4 coats of paint on the wall plus the primer it is still striped on the big wall. We are hoping that when we put up all the pictures no one will notice. Other than that I am in love with my living room. All that is left is a little touch up and we can call it done. A very big Thank You to my best childhood friend, Suzanne, for coming up and helping paint on Saturday! It was great chatting all day and getting some things done!

While Sue was here on Saturday we also primed all the dark trim in the room that Ryan and I are in. It is actually going to be Reese's room soon. (to make a long story short, the previous owners allowed there 7 year old daughter to have the master bedroom and they put huge murals on the walls, and Ryan and I did not want to deal with it until now.) Then on Monday while the kids were napping, my sister and I painted all the walls in the room. Some of the walls are a pink color called "My fair lady" and the others are a light green called "honeydew". It looks soooo cute! Ryan painted the ceiling white and all that is left is the trim! I will post pics once we get all the rooms finished (we are going to be painting the master a golden color with white trim!) and put the furniture in the right rooms and not all over the house! (our dresser is in the hall upstairs!)

We are doing all this while Reese is really sick. She is having a ton of allergy problems and this morning she woke up with one of her eyes looking like she got punched. Her right eye is really swollen and purple. I took her to the pediatrician today and she is going to live, but mom and dad are stressed because of the allergies and the always worrying about our Angel Reese. She is really congested and has been for about a week, and so we are going to go to another allergy medication, and we are going to have to treat the eye with some medication. He also thinks she has a virus that is related to the RSV virus- Great... just what we need. It takes 2 weeks to completely go away. When asked if it was contagious, he said she would have already spread it around by now. I guess it is a good thing Ryan and I have been a little more obsessed with cleaning. I feel so bad for my kids when they are sick, especially Reesie because she is sooooo miserable. We are hoping she feels a lot better soon. (Thank you Ky for putting up with my terror this morning!)

Other news is Turner had a good time spending the entire weekend with Grammy and Pop while we painted. He came back with some trucks that he is very possessive about now. We shall see how it goes with Jeffrey tomorrow. Monday he lost all of them because he could not share. However they may be distracted because our mattress is in the middle of the floor because we have been sleeping in the living room! We shall see!