Saturday, May 16, 2009

Mother's Day

Well I had to post this picture from Mother's Day because it is one of the very rare, semi-decent pictures to be captured of me and the kids. Good day for it to happen, huh? Mother's Day. Anyway, here are me and my little loves... And, we can't forget why I'm here in the first place! My sister, mom and me. :)

Happy belated Mother's Day to all of you wonderful mother's out there! Hope your day was special! :)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Stapleton Overhead Door

Well, I haven't said anything about this yet on here, but thought you might all like to know that we have opened our own company. Pretty exciting! Well, I suppose I should say Andy opened his own company...I really wasn't that involved in more than being supportive of his decision. He quit his job at Overhead Door back in early February and has been working hard since to get his own gig off the ground. He is so much happier already and we've been spoiled by having more "daddy time" at home for the last 3 months!

Anyway, we're up and running, thanks to Andy's hard work and some wonderful help/support from family and friends. We're excited to see what the future holds for us in our new venture. Give us a call for any and all of your garage door needs, and feel free to spread the word! :)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Easter

I realize it's pretty amazing that Easter was only 3 days ago and I'm already posting about it. Not like me lately as I'm sure you've noticed! I just can't seem to get it together for blogging lately. Sorry. I'll try to be better. Anyway, these are some of our Easter eggs that we dyed....not that you couldn't figure that out on your own or anything...

Sad-face shot after I scolded her a bit for cracking one of our hard-boiled eggs. I guess I hurt her feelings. Poor thing. :(
Easter morning. Zach had forgotten that it was going to be Easter in the morning the night before, so was pretty surprised to notice his basket was full of goodies.
Skittles. Gotta love em!
With their Pez dispensers. They thought they were pretty darn cool!
Still holding onto those Pez guys...
I try to get a good shot of them together every once in awhile, but as shown here, it doesn't usually work!
Another attempt...
At the Stapleton's for brunch.
Andy, Austin and Uncle Andy.
Zach and Abby's cousins put on a little Easter egg hunt at grandma and grandpa's. The kids loved it and made quite a haul!

Alex, Austin, Abby, Adam and Zach.
And again. :)
At grandma Turay's. Another fun egg hunt!



My last attempt to get a cute picture of them together. Sigh....well I guess they're still cute, even if they're not looking at me or smiling, right? Right. :)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Some Afternoon Fun

We took the kids to Putters the other afternoon. It was a lot of fun! Nobody else was even there so we had the place to ourselves, so to speak. :) We'll definitely be going back. Here's Zach whizzing down the slide.

I think he liked it.

Abby's turn!

She did that game where you roll the ball down and wherever it lands determines how many tickets you win. Well, she did pretty good as you can see with all of the tickets coming out. And she did it all on her own too! Impressive. :)
Zach liked this game quite a bit.

Gotta do some shooting I suppose...
And driving...
One of the coolest things there was this miniature bowling alley. Check it out!

Daddy's turn!
And little miss.

Nice stance, Abby.
Fun times! It's nice to have places like this close-by that the kids like and that are cheap!! Can't complain about that!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Mom's Birthday

My mom's birthday was March 1 and we had her over for a little birthday celebration. It was just her and us....small and intimate and just the way I like it. :)

Well at least grandma looks happy.

Buds.

Speaking of buds, these are the roses that I got for her. I just thought they were so beautiful and colorful I had to take a picture of them!
Abby working on her birthday card for grandma.

Logging Conference

Andy took the kids to the Lane County Logging Conference a few weekends ago. And yes, I'm just finally posting the pics! (I have some serious catching up to do!) Anyway, they had a ball, as you can imagine. Getting to see all of those cool, big machines and even climb in and around them....well, it was a good time. Especially for one little boy in particular! :)
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I think this one's really cute of the three of them.
Getting down like a pro!
All smiles.

Whatever that thing was, it was HUGE!

Happy.

Grumpy.