It’s a Family Photo Thing

I’m so excited to share our new family photos.

We’re again preparing our adoption profile to begin our search for our next addition. That means we needed great new photos.

Thanks to our awesome  photographer.

    

Paperless

I just received my utility bill. Ok, I just opened my utility bill. It probably arrived several days ago. Chandler is now offering a paperless, electronic billing option. For “greater convenience and enhanced security, while also being environmentally friendly.” It will also save the city thousands of dollars every year.

Why not sign up?

We offer a similar service to our pool customers where they can have all of their invoices and statements emailed to them. We can do all transactions via the internet. It saves our company hundreds of dollars a year, is better for the environment, and is easier to keep record of. 25% of our customers have requested their invoices be emailed to them.

I am grateful to have 25% less invoices to fold, stuff, and stamp (well, Luke usually does that part). This month though, the service has been a bit of a hassle. We updated to Windows7, installed the newest QuickBooks 2010, have been having wireless router problems, and emails to my cell phone have stopped working or completely freeze up my phone. Several patches, port creations, calls to T-Mobile, help from brothers, and reboots later we’re up and running again. Except for my cell… a new one is coming in the mail.

It may be a hassle, but it’s worth it.

Join the environmentally friendly craze and at the same time you’ll save the companies you do business with a load of money.

http://www.bulwarkpestcontrol.com

Puerto Penasco

We had a fantastic little vacation in Mexico.

We stayed on the 7th floor in a beautiful and clean condo 100 feet from the beach.

 
The weather was amazing!

         

We even saw some dolphins from our balcony.

 

We cut our trip short though because Masie started having respiratory problems Thursday night. We thought the best thing for her might be the clean ocean air. We stayed another day, but by Saturday morning she was much worse. It took all of her energy to take a breath. A security guard at the complex pointed out the room where a doctor was staying, but he either wasn’t there or saw us coming and didn’t want to help.

It was a little scary being in a country and not knowing the language or where to go for medical attention. We decided to race back to AZ to take Masie to the doctor. I’m not sure what we would have done if it were a real emergency. It taught me a good lesson though to check out the medical facilities before leaving on vacation.
Masie had bronchiolitis, and we started her on breathing treatments right away. She’s breathing clear and is back to her old rambunctious, mischievous self again.

Presents

I have to apologize. As the weather warms up, I’m spending less time in my office and more time entertaining my munchkins. That means less time blogging and more time playing.

We’ve started making plans for the summer, so I’ll be taking loads of photos and hopefully be finding time to post them too.

I had to show you my little gifts.

 

Don’t these girls look like they need to be unwrapped? Love their new bows!

My children are a gift that I get to enjoy day after day.

They love their new activity table and Lyla is quickly learning that she misses out on a ton of fun if she’s not there with the big kids.

Lyla loves to crawl through the grass. I think she likes eating it more than anything.

 

Masie is loving pulling out all her clothes and hats and books and shoes and taking them to the couch to hang out.

Our neighbor had this Miles-size 4-wheeler sitting out front of his house. He sold it to us for $40. It works great! I never wanted our kids to have the popular motorized riding toys because I think it’s more important for them to learn and love to ride their bikes and scooters. Of course they’d choose something with buttons over something with pedals. I gave in to this toy because we’ve set rules so that it will only be driven on special occasions. Miles is so excited to have one his size to match his dad’s.

Our Easter

This little Honey-Bunny

 

gave us a little gift on Easter, and decided to start clapping!

A huge step for her at 10 months old. When Lyla’s pediatrician asked during her 8 month wellness check if she were clapping, I had to tell her no, not even close. We’ve been working on it for 2 months. Now Lyla is clapping all the time and loving all the attention she gets.

She’s pulling herself to standing on most furniture, so she’s soon to be walking also. Yikes!

We used dye AND glitter to decorate Easter eggs this year. Yikes!

 

Baskets full of sugar. Yikes!

 

Three bundles of joy sitting still at the same time. Yikes!

 

Easter lunch with cousins while racing around Grandma’s house. Yikes!

Who’s Counting

Luke’s birthday was yesterday.

Miles wanted to know where all of Daddy’s friends were while we prepared for our little party. Sorry Luke, we’re all ya get.

Miles practiced the Happy Birthday song all day including “Hip, hip, hooray!!!” Repeated three times. Blowing out the candle on the ice cream cake was a family affair.

Don’t let him fool you. The number I wrote on the cake is correct.

Happy Birthday Luke!