Monday, May 11, 2009

New Family Member

We have a new member of the family... I know some of you may be hoping for a new baby, but it is just a kitty.
We went to Alamosa for Mother's Day and Grandma Trisha gave Raine a cute little kitten. Raine named her new friend Freakado. I'm not sure on the spelling, but that's what she calls him.

We hope all of you had a wonderful Mother's Day! I am truly blessed to be Raine's mother! And I am so grateful to have all of you in my life! We are sending our love to all of you!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Technology really sucks sometimes!

I have been having the worst week! My computer got a virus and so we had to wipe out my computer. I had moved all of my documents and photos to the external hard drive... or so I thought. Only like 3 folders moved. So I have lost all of my pictures of Raine. I have up until August 2008 archived on disc but I haven't been able to open any of them. So, I think all of Christmas and our trip to San Diego is gone. Every time I think about it I just want to cry.

Right now I am in the process of copying all of the pictures I have on the blog to my computer. At least that is some of the pictures. It just breaks my heart. I generally have a hundred or more photos of Raine each month. I had around 3000 from San Diego and probably around 4000 from Christmas.

I just don't even want to think about it, I don't even want to turn on my computer because nothing is there.

UGH! :(

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Beach


Sea World


Sea World Animals


Zoo slides and descriptions to follow...soon. :)

Just a little update



Here are a few pictures of Raine opening her package from Brandi, Brian and the boys. There are also a few of her showing off her room after we rearranged it. She is so funny these days. She told us her first joke a few weeks ago. We were telling her knock knock jokes and then she wanted to try. So she told us her joke, after we said "Who's there" she said "Grandma Nina" "That's funny huh?" She is too cute. We were playing ball and wrestling in the basement and she said "playing, playing, sooo happy!"

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

We're not homeless anymore!!



Finally we are moved in and loving it! Raine spends so much time playing and having fun and we can all just relax. It is so nice and we really love it here! Here are some pictures of our new house! We can't wait to have you over to visit!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Oh, how time flies!




Wow, it's been a month since I posted last! Well, you haven't missed anything too exciting. We are still stuck in limbo. We do have a house to rent in Colorado, we are just waiting to here back from the lady so we can find out where to send the rent check and when we can get the keys. We are all soooooo excited to get moved in and settled! Our new house is so nice, we will have so much room and a beautiful, big back yard! I'm so excited I can't hardly stand it. Raine is super excited to have her own room again and all her toys and of course the couch. She loves our couch and misses it dearly. :) She is super excited because she gets a kitchen set when we move in.

Raine's 2nd birthday was on Sunday the 1st. We recently watched the "Happy Birthday" Signing Time dvd so she has been saying/signing happy birthday and talking about what we do on birthdays. She was really excited to have her birthday! We had a fun day. Raine got to do pretty much anything she wanted. She had hot chocolate, eggs and toast for breakfast. Then we got ready and went to the mall to play at the play center in the mall. She had a blast playing on all the breakfast items. She pushed a little girl off a banana. (This little girl looked like she was about ready so shove Raine off and Raine just gave her a little nudge and the girl slid right off). Then we walked around the mall and looked in a toy store. Then Dan took us to the Wizard's Chest, a really cool toy store where he bought her dragon. We spent a good 2 hours there. It was really fun. We all looked and played with all the toys. Raine got to pick out what she wanted and she got a stuffed pony, bubbles, a wind up dinosaur, and 4 tiny plastic dragons. The dragons seem to be her favorite - she is doing pretend play with them. She dances them around and says, "Hello there" in a cute high pitched voice. It is really adorable! After all that we had Raine's favorite foods for dinner: homemade mac and cheese and green beans. For dessert we had brownies, cookies and jello jigglers. Raine was helping me make the brownies and while they were baking she wanted her candle out so I unwrapped it and gave it to her and what did she do? She took a bite out of it! She was shocked to find out that it was not yummy candy but yucky wax!

She really is growing up, she no longer says "gargatons" she can say cartoons now. Her new favorite words are "Awesome", "Adorable", and "Dude". Dan was talking to someone on the phone the other day and he told them "I love you man" and I have now heard Raine say that a few times. She is such a silly little girl.