James Speak

James: (to Matthias) What are you going to be when you grow up? (to me) I'm going to be something you don't want me to be. I'm gonna be a knight. Knights have to fight dragons.
Matthias: I'm be dragon.
James: You're going to have to be a farmer or a cowboy. You can't be a dragon. You can't be big and green.
Matthias: I be big and green.

4 Months!

Hannah is already four months old! We're so excited to be able to feed her because it's just SO fun!

Before

After

Weight 14 lbs 10 oz (75%)
Height 25 inches (75%)
Head...all I remember is it is 90% and Taylor still won't let her wear her 5 inch hair flowers...soon. Soon her head will be big enough. (the flower in Hannah's Space is just 3 inches, imagine the cuteness with 2 more inches of flower...)

Hannah's Space

We finally finished switching out the study into Hannah's bedroom. The walls were originally aqua blue so I asked to paint them. The landlord asked what color I wanted and I told him I was doing Hannah's room in pink and white. His response, "White is fine." So we picked an off white with a slight pink tint. I actually ended up really liking it more than I thought I would since I would have done a dark pink if it was my wall.

I always wanted to do pink/brown since I love that combo, but I realized I was just sad to be missing out on the whole pink/brown craze. I've been satisfied in the last four months and so I thought I would do pink/orange because that's a really cute combo and obviously I'm obsessed with orange. But in the end I just went pink/white because it's much simpler to find and match.

So I made bumpers, bought a rug, and curtains. Nothing too crazy, but I am happy with how it turned out and I love sitting in there and rocking Hannah surrounded by pink. When we move I can always do something more exciting if we choose.

James Speak

James: When Hannah grows up and Emma grows up...
Me: Emma? Who's Emma?
James: The one you want. The name you want for the next baby.


Is medium the hot in Colorado? (as in cold, medium, & hot are temperatures)


We should have stayed in our other house. We should not have come here. It's cold and I don't like being cold.

Hot Water

So our hot water went out last week in the whole house except the basement bathroom so Taylor and I were showering downstairs all week. I kept putting off showering the boys and then Thursday night when I went to fill Hannah's tub downstairs I couldn't even get hot water there. So I heated water on the stove for Hannah's bath and waited on the boys again.

That night our landlord sent a "plumber" who had no idea what was wrong. We were out of bottles and silverware so I had to boil water to wash dishes in. Friday morning a friend was kind enough to let us shower at her house. Within 15 minutes of returning home Matthias spooned milk into his hair...

Later Friday an actual plumber came and found a small plastic something in the pipe. (Not from us).

It's such a blessing to turn on the tap and have hot water flowing out. We are lucky to have wonderful and warm indoor plumbing.

Surround Sound

As most of you know we do not have a TV. Our rental home has surround sound in the family room which has mostly been an eye sore having speakers hanging on the wall for no reason. Well we moved the computer downstairs so Hannah could have the study as her bedroom. And since we don't have TV, but are internet junkies we thought it would be funny to hook the surround sound into our computer. And it is.

Happy Harvey Day!

Saturday was Happy Harvey Day. June 13 is the day we got engaged back in 2003 so this was our 6th Happy Harvey Day...I got this from my great friend Bec who grew up celebrating the day her parents were engaged.

We decided to go hiking and it was actually a lot of fun and a great hike. Taylor and Matthias were very tired at the end, but it was fairly easy but challenging enough for the boys to have a lot of fun climbing over rocks and crossing rivers, etc. The only downside was all the poison ivy...there was TONS. So Taylor carried Matthias most of the way and Taylor made James sufficiently paranoid that he walked with his arms stiff to his side for most of the time. So far so good. I haven't seen any outbreaks yet. Also it was super windy until we made it into the canyon as you can see by the first pic of my hair in my face.





After the hike we went to A&W for rootbeer floats. Then home to work on the making of Hannah's room. More later this week. We listened to some fun stuff on YouTube including the boys' new favorite song then dinner, cake, and ice cream. It was a great Happy Harvey Day!