BEAVERS BASEBALL #1

Our house has been a little Beaver Nation the last few weeks with the Beavers baseball team at the World College Championships in Omaha.......Of course we were all excited but missed Dad at the Dinner table when the game was to just to good to be @ dinner :) But it all ended this afternoon....they won every single game through the championships. The Beavers baseball team seemed to be unstoppable, they played amazing baseball....Plays that are sure to go down in history..... no really! I know you never would have thought as me as a fan but who couldn't be after watching games like that! Now aren't you sad you missed them ?! Another great thing is it seems that we moved to Beaver town, it's great Canby is just filled with Beaver fans...at Ty's baseball games last week all the dads on the bleachers could talk about is how they were sacrificing watching the Beaver game to watch little league!

This was so cool...He first got the guy out at 2nd jumped to not get slammed into while throwing it to first which resulted in an out at first!

Anway...It's great to have the games over and the Beavers to be Champs!! GO BEAVS!

Its about time!

I don't know if I haven't had time or didn't make the time but I'm excited to be updating our blog so many things have happened in May and June.....

1. Macy turned one! May 24th!

She had the greatest reactions to all her presents! What a kid!

2. Ellie's Softball took up half our life!

Somehow we went through a million games and never took a picture ( I really don't know how that happened!) So on the last game after I realized we had no pics I was determined to get a some....and it poured down rain! It's a shame because she looks great in her cool Canby Cougars Softball uniform!

3. Ty's Baseball took up the other half of our life!

I just had to use this picture...look really close you can see the ball!
4. We finished the pantry!... The before picture is with all the previous owner stuff in it...We sheetrocked one wall and painted etc.... I just love it! For a little over 2 months our food has been all over the floor in the Rec room AAAAA! But now it's great especially with the door on so Macy can no longer spread food all over the house!

BEFORE

AFTER

5. Sophie turned 4! ...It was Sophie's 4th Birthday and Father's day...What a party! We had Strawberry shortcake streamers and plates and she got a Strawberry Shortcake doll, SS coloring book, SS DVD....Can you tell she loves Strawberry Shortcake!

For Father's day we had G&G Taylor and G&G Leder come for Dinner and pie! So we had great desserts...Strawberry Birthday cake, Pumpkin pie and Blackberry Pie!! All I have to say is I'm so glad the leftovers stayed at my house! Yum!!

Ty decorated this wallet for Bill...It was the cutest thing! I love how proud the kids are of the things they make for their dad! Forget store bought gifts these are the real presents!

This is my Dad.

What a great Dad he is too. He taught me to work really hard and be excited about it. I have great memories of my Dad never giving up....especially on the weather! When we were camping and it would start raining he never wanted to give up and go home he always told us he could see blue sky coming....whatever...sometimes it rained for 3 days straight! But we had great fun anyways always thinking that blue sky was coming! Even if it did mean we had to take our sleeping bags to a laundry mat to dry them out for the next 3 nights of Rain!

My Dad always gets these great vision of fun projects. One of my favorite was when we were camping and he brought golf clubs and tuna cans and we built a golf course out of our camp site. That was sooo fun! Especially the hole that was across the crick. (Yes we call it the crick not a the creek!) Thanks Dad for all the memories! I love you!!

mOm! Look what they did to me!

I just had to add this last picture. This is what happens when you're the youngest of 4 other siblings...You turn into the dress up thing! The big girls put makeup, extra large socks, their own undies complete with a Belt to hold them up! The funny thing is she just walked around forever like this like nothing was different .....She is such a character and a good sport!

So now to the end of this very long post...I hope to be back soon but you just never know!!

In the 33rd Year of Dori..

Today is my Birthday. My 33rd Birthday. I use to really obsess about my birthday when I was younger probably like all kids do. But now it's not the presents or cake or parties I like It's my friends that I would like to celebrate. A phone call or card or email from a friend is one of the nicest presents I could receive. But I expect no one to remember my birthday...Except Bill! So when people do remember it. It's the same feeling I get when the sun shines in the morning.

As one friend said today about her birthday "It's a start to a new year". So in this 33rd year of my life I hope for a few things.

1. I hope to just play more.

2. I hope to learn more from the scriptures

3. I hope to serve more..because that really makes me feel like I'm doing the right thing

4. I hope to be and make good friends and stay connected to precious ones.

So I'm hoping to live by this quote this year.... Start with a desire and make it happen!

That is my gift to myself today to start my 33rd year with lots of good desires and make lots of good things happen!!

(This picture is of me at the 4th of July Rodeo last year....I was actually wondering what my hair looked like and so I took a picture so I could see! heehee)

It was SUNNY!

It was actually sunny one day last week. So just Macy, Sophie & Mommy went to Grandma Taylor's house in Salem. We got to play on her new park...it is only 3 houses from her house. It is a great park and it was really good to get away from my house that is a never ending house of projects!

I FOUND ONE!

I found this yellow egg in a shoe... I love it.. it makes noise when I shake it and everyone claps when I show it to them..I'm not letting go of it I don't care how many more there are! I just love this egg it really make the best noise.....

Oops, I stepped on it. O my I love those little things inside. Dad! What are you doing?! those are my little yummy things! Oh well I got my egg back ....I'm really not letting go of it now...I wonder how I can get another one of those yummy things? I just love this egg! I'm never letting go! O but I love these little things inside too!

HAPPY EASTER!

Jessi's 12 & Swell!

We celebrated Jessi's Twelveth Birthday on Saturday with cousins Leah & Reese (and of course Uncle Heber & Aunt Toni). We had Chicken Lo Mein for Dinner...a Jessi favorite and then Jessi's choice of White sprinkle cake with White frosting...of course decorated with Bunnies because of Jessi's favorite pet bunny but also because being the day befor Easter it is so easy to find bunny decorations!:)

Jessi's favorite gift was her new 1.8 gallon fish aquarium that her super cool parents got her! and she loves her two new littlest pet shop kitties (I'm just glad she not to big to play with toys I would feel too old then).

We are so excited for Jessi to be 12! She's now going to be going to the Young Women's program at church and also will be able to go to Girls camp this summer!!! She is soooo excited for that! Why do we love Jessi so much? Because she is so silly but so good! She is such a good babysitter and takes really good care of her Baby sister Macy! I love that Jessi loves to read and that when she wants to she is really good at cleaning her room!

We love you Jessi!! Happy Birthday!

(Did you notice the Sunroom behind her is orange. I just painted it this week and love it!)

Moving Fun...

So it seems like everything we have tried to hookup...dishwasher, Frig, Washing Machine and now computer has had fun issues to work out just to use them. So my computer was hookup for maybe 2 days and then we had issues hooking up Bill's computer which is now the main computer with the wireless rotator to mine....and of course my computer was down while his ones..which of course it's still not fix and we just hookup mine where his is suppose to be. Did that make any sense at all?? I don't know it's just really frustrating.

I spent the weekend listening to conference of course! and on Saturday shopping with my sister-in-law and mother- in-law spending more money on the house! I think I'm done...until payday:)! So this is what I did to my living room.....pics above of course.

There's going to be 3 candles on that black plater but I couldn't decide on the right ones. I just love the flower pillow so I have to do a close up of that...I thought it was half price..oops it wasn't good thing I didn't know that until I totally loved it and it was rung up and in the bag..o well...

Well I don't know if the room looks as good in the picture...There's also flowers on the armoire and more little details...I just really like it .

So this week the kids start at there new schools. They are nervous, I told them it was the law everyone has to be nervous when you start a new school! I'm actually really nervous for them, new school, teacher, kids, bus..Bus! Jessi will be riding the Jr High bus how good can that be! I remember the junior high bus.... I learned a lot from that 30 minute bus ride.. that I probably didn't need to know. Speaking of Jessi she is doing just fine. She had a MRI and a EEG on Thursday and we will know if they show anything in the next week probably.

Other than unpacking and cleaning the house Life has gone back to how it always is...crazy!

We Moved!

The kids are actually excited to help clean our new house we were washing windows this morning when Macy decided to help! We now have to paint the window sills and trim the windows and put on the baseboards.

Boxes, boxes, boxes! Everywhere! We finished all the painting that HAD to be done before the carpet went in and still have a little more to do but moving day still came! It seems really wierd to be in our house. I just can't help myself from spending money on it! New rug, new lamp shade, new shelves, decorations for everyroom..... it's just not like me....but I like it!

I painted the little girls room a very light pink but haven't decided what else to do with it. I will take a picture of it tomorrow and post it.

What have we got ourselves into!!!!

Of course Paint gets everywhere I stepped right on the paint can lid! This Jessi and Ellie's room it turned out really bright but cute! This is Ty's room... I love the color

Monday night we started the big project of getting our house ready to move into.....What were we thinking we have until Friday to have the ENTIRE house painted, trim painted and replaced, new light fixture and clean! Monday we ripped wallpaper off the 2 walls that had it. We ripped out the carpet and torn out trim. Tuesday we painted ALL the ceilings Wednesday we finished preping all the floors for new carpet painted all the kids rooms and well Wednesday's not over yet Bill is still at the house and I think he's painting our room....So We made the decision that are main priority now is to finish all the painting, Carpet will be installed on Friday and we will move in on Saturday. And then like everyone else continue to work on our house every free minute!

Anyone want to come paint? :)

Jessi back to school!

Jessi went back to school after a hard week last week. She is acting pretty normal almost like nothing happened. Last week sure made her tougher I think. She had side effects each day including a spinal headache which we took her back to the ER on Thursday afternoon to fix. With another shot in the back of her own blood to clot the hole that continue to leak that gave her a horrible headache, but within 5 minutes she was good to go!! She went to visit her class on Friday for about an hour and then went back on Tuesday after a no school day Monday. We still don't know what caused her seizure. An EEG and MRI are schedule next week and will tell if there's something serious but we may just never know and it may never happen again.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers our family really appreciates it!

Jessi....

At about 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon Jessi had a seizure in her class at school. The school called 911 and paramedics came right before I got there. She seized for about 3 minutes. She was in a very drowsy state when I got there but recognized me. She rode in the ambulance to the hospital and was treated in the ER. While in the ER they did a CT scan and a spinal tap to rule out major things that could have caused her seizure. They couldn't find anything immediately wrong with her and she was released about 6 o'clock.

The event seems like a big crazy dream. I couldn't believe when I got the phone call I thought "you must have the wrong mom Jessi is perfect!" Everyone has been so great. Her Valiant leader and good friend brought a big teddy bear which caused the first smile of the day today. Jessi was not doing well this morning she has a headache that wouldn't go away, massive muscle pain from the seizure and naseau. We took her to her Doctor this morning who continued to try to figure out why she had the seizure. We have been keeping the tylenol and motrin down her and it has really helped. She was able to get a good long nap this afternoon.

Again friends have been so great and helping her feel better. Ellie brought home a big card with poems from each person in her class and a gift from a friend in class! She loved it all and it really helped her spirit. She had been a little down about how bad she was feeling. I think it must be hard for our Jessi who has never been really sick to understand about all the pain.

We are glad to see that she has been able to keep food down all afternoon and the medicine has been keeping her headache and muscle pain to a minimum and she has been able to walk around.

We will be keeping a close eye on her the rest of this week and will be scheduling a MRI and EEG in the following two weeks to see if they can pinpoint a cause.

Thank you everyone for keeping Jessi in your prayers and all the well wishes and phone calls I have been making sure she knows when anyone has called about her....She really feels loved!!
Thank you again everyone!
Dori

Weekend Fun!

We had a great weekend visiting our cousins in Eugene! We first went with them to the OSU vs. UCLA Gymnastics meet...Go Beavers!! Don't worry Beavers won! Ellie caught one of the t-shirt and even though it is huge on her she wasn't going to hand it over to anyone!

We also got a new bunny for Ellie....her name is Snoball and she is sooooo soft!

We spent Friday and Saturday night at Leah & Reeses house and then went to Grandma & Grandpa's house on Sunday for dinner !

Thanks everyone for a fun weekend!

House Update...

This is the kids favorite part of the house ...The loft in the garage. It's huge ! We are currently just working on all the fun financing stuff . Our closing date is March 12. We will get in and paint and replace carpet and trim after that. We will probably officially move in around or during spring break (last week in March). We are very excited and having been looking at alot of paint colors ....How fun! This field is right behind our property this is the second favorite spot for the kids. We were worried for a little while because Ellie said she was not going to move with us because her room was just not big enough for all her stuff! (It took a week to pack her room!) But now that she's getting a new bunny she's agreed to have bunk beds in her room and be on the top bunk (Jessi and Ellie both wanted the bottom) So luckily now Ellie will be moving with us :)!!

Homework!

I had to document this....Everyone doing homework and being HAPPY! Uncle Keros was helping Jessi with her math and Ellie was helping Ty and then there was Macy helping herself to her stash of snacks under her chair!! Yummy!:)

Look at me.....I'm sooo cool!

Macy decided to be a crawling machine this weekend . We found her all over the house, before she would just stay in one room and only crawl if she saw something she wanted. Now she's decided to hunt down things she wants! She also decide to crawl up the stairs. We couldn't believe she could do it on the first try. Ty was coaxing her up the stairs by putting goldfish cracker on each step infront of her!

Did you ever think we would be moving to Canby?

House Update.....We officially put an offer on this house Thursday in Canby. We really like the lot the house has what we are looking for..4 bedrooms 2 baths and living space. It is a flag lot so there is a long drive way for the kids to ride bike and skate! But of course nothing is really official yet .....As of tonight they countered our offer and we are trying to decide whether to accept or not and then there is the long paper process! We are going back and forth just because we are nervous about making such a big decision. If it all works out it would be cool to only really look for a week and find something that will be good for us....o did I mention we will be doing a lot of painting before we move in? Von when are you coming home? :)

Check out Sophie's new style! Sophie loves haircuts so she sits so good infact she wanted me to cut more!!

We are currently staying with our cousins and it can be crazy at times with 7 kids in the house but sometimes it's just waaaaay fun!!! One afternoon Ellie was "training" the boys to be super powerrangers ....including outfitting them with there super powerranger outifits!!

Macy did not like the snow. When she touched it with her hand she would immediately pull back her hand and make a really funny face!

We are enjoying staying at Keros and Amber's house. Our search for a house is getting closer! More details when we have them!