Grandma Tour 2011

Well we went to visit the grandmas who live south of us. We had a great time and we were glad to come home too. Here is a picture sitting on the dock of the palisades reservoir. I got to visit my friend Meagan. Always a good time, we also visited Josh's Grandmother. A good time was had by all.

Its about time

It's about time for spring, and for an update.

 Trying to get the kids to clean their room and finally giving up to look at baby einstien animal flash cards.

 Eleanore's new accessory for who knows what reason.

 Eli at 3.5 months

 He was tired of taking pictures, but its a cute face.

 Eli and Eleanore about the middle of March. She always asks go get her picture taken.

 My bowl cleaner he always volunteers to be the dish washer, at least when it involves licking the cookie dough bowl. I hope he stays that way.

 Birthday cake the same as last year but different colors. I really know that bays don't come with white manes but it is so much easier to make than black.

 On her birthday such a drama queen.

 The road trip group at adam-ondi-ahman . A very pretty place that feels old if you know what I mean. 

 Spring time in Kentucky near horse cave where my maternal grandparents are buried.

Eli just yesterday 6 months old and sitting up for the past two weeks. He can roll over both ways and loves to laugh.

Elijah is 6 months old. Wyatt turns five in two months. Eleanore is sassy as ever and Josh has a big project at work so he is working long hours.

Since I last posted I've been to Kentucky and back, to Seattle for my brother's wedding reception (2nd). I've not been on the ball at all, maybe with the return of sunshine will come a return of posting.

My New Bed

Josh and I actually finished this bed before Elijah was born, but I've yet to blog about it. I love it it adds a whole new perspective to my bedroom. I used barn wood collected from my dad's house and plans from ana-white.com. Love her blog she has all sorts of plans for the DIYer so anyway here it is.

 Before. How our bed had been for atlest the last three years of our married life. We did at one point have a metal frame underneath our smaller bed, but when we bought the bigger one, the frame didn't fit.

 We cheated and ran the boards through the planer so that we could take some of the rough off, but leave a the color. I really didn't want splinters in my back. We used a black milk paint for the trim and a satin water base varnish for extra protection and the slight shine.

 

The best thing about it is we did it for less than 150 dollars and Josh did it in two evenings and I did the paint. The only project we have ever finished in less than a week. Thanks Ana-white.com

December

Well now that December is gone, I have a spare minute to update things.

 

We blessed Elijah Grant Werner in Liberty Lake, Wa the first Sunday of December. It was nice to have Josh's family attend.

Jesse got married on the 18th of December. I went down the week before to make the cake. I wouldn't have been able to get it done without the extra hands to help with Eli and the cake too.

 

The pictures are a little more forgiving than seeing it in person, but for the first wedding cake I've ever made it turned out pretty good. It is all cake, three layers of it. Red velvet and white with raspberry and fudge filling. A cake like this one all Styrofoam would cost about 700 dollars.  It didn't cost me 1/7th of that for the supplies. It was kind of stressful to do, I mean nobody wants an ugly wedding cake, but I might consider doing another one, in a few years when I don't have a fussy newborn. :) I learned quite a bit as one always does on a first try. over all it was a fun learning experience. I wasn't sad to see it be eaten though.

I'll post more pictures when I get them. Ella was an adorable ring bearer, met her first love who she danced with the entire time. Wyatt was quite the little break dancer the star of the show. I was glad I could be there.

Christmas was good this year, we stayed up here as Josh couldn't get off work to go down south with me we didn't want to leave him a lone for the holidays. I hope everyone has a wonderful 2011.

Welcome to this World baby Elijah

Baby Eli was born at 9:24 on Friday November 12th. 8lbs 10z and 20 inches long. He came after about 3 hours of major labor pains and I was only at the hospital for 2 hours and 10 minutes before he was born. Luckily the epidural was able to kick in, unluckily I tested positive for Group B strep which can cause respitory infections if adequate atibiotics are not given during delivery. Obviously because of the time constraint I wasn't able to get two doses of atibiotcs. When little Eli was having a little trouble breathing, higher than normal respiration rates as well as the use of the substernal and intercostal (rib) muscles they took him to the NICU for monitoring. He had to stay for 48 hours of antibiotics all as a precaution because of the Group B strep. He never showed signs of infection but I'm glad that I don't have to worry about it now that he is home. I didn't like it when they took my baby away, but it was for the best and I have him back now.

Wyatt and Eleanore are pretty taken with their newest sibling. Especially Ella who always wants to hold him. Ella said when she came to visit in the hospital, before they took him to the NICU, "This is mine baby." Wyatt was excited to hold him, but when he did he said, "Mom can you take him back, he stinks." I thought that was pretty funny.

I'm so very glad that Elijah Grant has arrived safe and sound. I am doing very well. Its good to be home. I'll keep you posted on how it is to deal with three when reality sets in and all my help goes home or back to work.:)

Grandpa Mike with 3 of his 4 grand kids. Does that look like a lot of kids to anyone else?