3/30/07

Just thought I would write again today while I have a second. Rodee and Sam are down at the park with Sam's primary class, flying kites, Lightning is riding bikes on the ramp they built in our driveway with our nieghbor boy, and Sophie is sleeping! It is a gorgous day out today! Just beautiful!! Joe's friend Peter made it in today. He ran with Joe to UPS, he had to drop something off. Joe and I actually got a lunch date today! My friend Holly needed me to babysit this morning and when she came back, I ran to a doctors apt that I had, and Joe called me up on my cell phone and said he was done for the day. I told him that Holly was home with the kids so he said we should go to lunch and we did! It was nice.

We are going to the Fairhurst for dinner, a group of people from our ward will be there it should be fun. Jadie and Jordanne are coming to watch the kids. I havn't thought of what I am going to do to feed them yet! I guess I better do that!

Well that little break was nice! It is conferance weekend. I guess we will be huddled around the computer again at least for Saturday! I forgot we have a donut breakfast tradition on the saturday morning of conferance I guess I need to get some tonight! I am so about the food at all events! Not good!

3/28/07

Just thought I would start using this again. I am going to start journaling on this more for those who care and just for me. So much goes on in our lives all along the day to day sameness, it is nice to have it down in print to remember.
Joe has been recently promoted to the Sales Rep for Idaho and Montana. He is doing AWESOME. He is also still managing the 8 guys he has hired in the past year and will continue to do that too. So technicly he will be working two jobs since as the full time tech rep he works for WTI and as the Sales Rep he works for Tremco. So it will be nice, two checks too!! Everyone that knows Joe knows he can do it!! I think he is really enjoying it too. I guess I should have figured after going to school full time, working full time and wrestling and still managing to pull off a high GPA, and raise a family and keep a marriage happy that he does his best when he is busy!! I really am grateful for such a wonderful man!!
Ok so if you haven't guessed he has been gone for since Sunday, they had a training for his guys in LA, so I guess I miss him!! He is on his way home right now, Kathiann is picking him and Jade up so that I wouldn't have to wake the kids up.
I had a great party tonight!! It is so frustrating, one day I am complaining that I am too busy and I am never doing another party again and then I go and have a great one like tonight and can't give it up!! Everyone loved the clothes tonight and I got two bookings. I do love that I just played dress up with a bunch of girls and made $200!! Can't beat that! But I now I have to process the order which is no big deal, but it just seems like so much work sometimes, but I guess that is how it is suppose to be, you can't really get money for nothing I guess.
We got a Gym membership last week and I love it. We got it at Gold's. They have free child care, and Lightning is in Heaven. The lady is so sweet that works there, she does little art projects with them, and if there aren't too many babies in there she will take them over to a court and let them play ball and run. He thinks it is his little school. The kid is dying to go to school, it is so sad that he has another year before he can begin!!! I just don't know if preschool is going to be enough for him!!
Rodee and Sam are doing great in school, but definatly ready for summer and so am I! Our sprin break is a joke, they get a thursday and Friday then a Monday and Tuesday!! I am takeing them out the last three days of that week anyway, we are going to Idaho. My friend Shelly is getting married and I am doing the photo's! It will be my first "real" job I guess you could say for my budding amature career!! hee hee!
I finally got my dream camera last week and I am dying to see just exactly I can do with it then. When Joe finally shows me how to get my pictures off my camera safely with out ruining my card like I did on my last camera I will have to post some that I have been playing with. Of course I have the most beautiful subject. Sophie has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen!! They are like Violet blue! No idea where they came from, Joe has light almost grey blue eyes, and my are hazel. She is so fun!!
Well, Joe just made it home so I am going to run! I will write more soon!

The Kids

Update

Hey everyone! Thought I should add to this it has been a while, these are pictures from our house! There is so much to do, but it will beautiful when it is done. We painted all day Saturday! In the pictures the room isn't put all back together and I noticed blue tape still up, and the dots on are on the camera lens, but it give you an idea! I love the color!
I also threw some pics of the kids in here! I am not proud or anything, but I do have pretty cute kids!

Back to School

We put the boys back in school this year and they had a great first day!! Aren't they so handsome!! :)

Sophie

Announcing (a little late!)
Our new baby girl!! Email me if you want all the info on her! She is so fun!! The boys love having her around and are a HUGE help!

Joe's Parents Home in Smith Canyon

For those of you who have never been there, this is Joe's parents home in Washington. The pictures don't even come close to showing the beauty of this place. The veiws are breath taking. We love visiting here.

Hunting

We had such a good time this year for hunting season weekend!! The boys ran all over the mountain in there hunting gear! They always love it up at "Grandpa's Mountain". No deer were caught this weekend but it was really fun anyway.

Lightning

Lightning has been growing out of his naps or should I say, just fighting them. SO when mommy can't actually lay down wiht him after lunch he seems to find a place later that day and crash. This was a month or so ago and we couldn't find him anywhere and then we found him downstairs with the costume box emptied all around him and he was out! I love this little guy!

Our school Room

Joe is traveling alot this year, so we decided to homeschool the boys, this is our classroom at home in the family room. So far it has been a great experience. I love the time I get to spend with the boys and seeing all the great things they can learn. They are bonding really well too. When we travel school is easy, we are in the hotel with no other distractions. Even for me, someone else is vacuuming daily and making the beds and cooking most meals! All I have to do is play with my kids all day! I really could get use to that part!!
We have alot of extra time in the hotel room, (besides all the swimming) so we are currently reading Harry Potter, it is such a good book! I even love it!

Grampa's 60th Birthday!

It was so great to be able to be there for Grandpa Seable's birthday. Joe was traveling in San Fransisco for work so the boys and I spent 3 weeks in Idaho. It was so nice to be home for a while. Joe made it just in time to Seattle for his next job to make it to Grandpa Nykreim's 60th party. Our dads were born on the same day of the same year!!
For Grandpa's party all the Grandkids, (except our little Jake who wasn't there and Lightning who was asleep) sang to Grandpa when he came home "I'm so glad when Grandpa comes home".
Of course that brought a tear to Grandpa's eyes. It was great, they all made homemade cards for him and we shared cake and he opened presents. It was really a great night. We love our Grandpa so much!!

Conferance Weekend

I wanted to really use this a journal site, so I need to start doing that. Today is conferance weekend. We have no cable, direct tv or dish network, and didn't feel much like getting dressed up and going to the church since, the closest church anyway was having a huge funeral for a local soldier who had been in Iraq so we would have had to look for another building. Also Joe made it in at about 4:30 am so way too tired. Joe had been working out of town, in San Fancisco and Seattle, and we were in Idaho for the last 3 weeks.
So we all sat in blankets on the computer room floor this morning sipping hot chocolate and listening from the computer as the boys earned skittles for hearing specific gospel words. We made a quick trip to Sam's club for some groceries and a pizza and rushed back and had a pizza, and A & W Rootbeer party as we listened to the next session.
It was a nice day. We are going to try to do some catching up on our scripture reading tonight, just trying to come up with ways to keep the boys attention, we were thinking of getting munchies and just laying them out and just reading for a few hours. Funny how all of our things center on food!!
The boys are so happy to see Daddy again, we hope there won't be much more traveling unless we get to go with him. We will just have to wait and see.

Today at the Rockies!

We had such a fun day at the Teton River. It is just below the Rockie Mountains. There really isn't anything much prettier.
We found this quiet spot and climed or some of us slid, down and just piched a spot and stayed all afternoon. Joe and the boys had a blast floating down the river on the air mattresses we brought. It was a really fun day. I just love having our family alone in the peace and quiet away from the world, the only thing better would be to have more family with us! :)

Idaho Falls Temple

On our way home from our quick trip to Idaho, we stayed in Idaho falls. We slept in and so we found out the next sacrament meeting wasn't going to begin until 1:00. We decided to go over to the temple next door to wait. We went into the visitor center. It was such a great experience. We walked in and Sam was just looking around and then literaly shouted, "THEY HAVE THE GOLD PLATES" then went running into the next room, to see a replica of the plates in a glass box. It took a little convincing about the fact that they weren't the actual plates but it inspired great discussion. We also had the opportunity to watch the Testiments again. It was incredible. The boys had not had a chance to see it yet so it was a great experience. We made it to sacrament meeting just in time and then just afterward headed the rest of the way home. It was a a great way to end a great weekend!

Fun Day in Idaho

We had soooo much fun this day while we were in Idaho a few weeks ago. We spent the whole day at Black Canyon Dam, other then the major sunburns that the oldest two boys ended up with, it was a great day! These pictures are of, Grandpa napping, Colton in the sand, Lightning being silly, Kaylee smiling, and Emily and Abby posing! It was such a great day. We really missed Aaron, Marcia, John, Roger and Jake!! That is all this day was missing!
We got to go down to Idaho for Joe's work and we just stayed for the weekend. I hope this happens alot! :)

Marlin and Joe

This is Joe's wrestling coach from Portland State. Marlin Grahn. If it wasn't for all he did for us, we would never have gone to Portland. Marlin was so supportive of Joe and did so much for us. We will always look back at our time in Portland with great memories and we can thank Marlin for many of them.

Jacob and Lightning

It was so fun to see little Jacob on our way to Montana. It was nice to visit with Aaron and Marcia and be in there home also. We sure wish we had more time with them.

Funny Boy!

Lightning got in to the brown sugar this morning! That is twice this last week!!

John Seable Sr. Family

I found this picture today!! I love all of our hair!! Don't we all remember John's grey and white striped jacket worn with his pink dress shirt!!!!
Oh my! This was a good one! This was outside Grandma's church and I have it dated July 12, 1987.
I actually remember this day because they thought I was a laural, I felt so cool that they would think I was that old and I had just began behives! I was so wierd!! :)

Salmon River

After alot of convincing and passing around shorts (hee hee), Joe talked Scott into getting into the VERY cold river in May in Portland. To everyones surprise, Phil jumped right in and stayed out there even past Joe!!! He just said pass me my pole!! Mary, Phil, Scott and Amy are friends that we will miss from Portland. This was a fun last day at the River.

Fishing at Salmon River

Rodee had a brief lesson from our good friend Phil from Portland on one of our last outing with Phil, Mary and there girls.

Multnomah Falls

Before we left we wanted to be sure to hit some of our favorite spots. We did the hike to the top of Multnomah falls, which is no small feat, but it was worth it.