Daisy Marie Dow

Daisy Marie Dow

Yes it took a few days to name her, and once we decided her middle name would be Muriel my mother was deeply opposed to it so we ended up changing it. she was born on July 16th after my water broke on the 15th unfortunately my water always breaks but my contractions never start so i end up getting that kind drug pittosin(sp?) any ways what a blessing to have such a healthy baby, I was able to hold my baby without having to wait a few days or weeks I was even able to go home at the same time as her! she is nursing wonderfully from day one, also something I have never experienced. she is already such a blessing in our lives!

just some picts

I had to take this picture of abram, the bread I make I guess you could say I make a big loaf, the sandwich is the size of his head, and well we all know that is really saying something.

here are the boys up visiting "Uncle Paul" Brother Vaino the love going up to see him and it is all the talk for days after visiting.
here is an updated house picture, I know it has been a long time since I posted one

Here is a video, I am sorry I have no idea how to turn it, but it was too funny not to post, when I went out there they had been doing this for about an hour, zack just decided to spread the compost pile on the garden.

"these are my guns and these are my bullets" Logan

Logan Likes to say "these are my guns and these are my bullets" holding up 5 fingers for guns and 4 for bullets, and then they all say "in this... many years i can get a gun thats what my dad said" anyways the boys were very excited to see grandpa pull out his pellet gun this morning and they talked about how they were going to shoot the gun all through breakfast. needless to say... lots of fun! by the end abe came in and said that by himself he hit the paper sack 6 times in a row.

A Special Day with Nana and Gma Jean

on the 14th Cortney, Carley and I got to go out to Seattle to Pike Place and then out to lunch. my Mom and Jean took the grandkids, 3 girls and 3 boys to the childrens museum in Factoria, they had such a wonderful time with Nana and the girls then the Brave women took all the kids into Target to go buy Balls for them. they they even left the store with all 6! they then took them to the church where my mom probably used up the rest of her energy for the week having a blast with the kids and throwing the balls around. what more can a boy ask for?

A special Day with Nana

Looking forward to Grandpa not having to go to work

My dad work 4 10 hour days so he has Friday Saturday and Sunday off, the first time the boys heard he was going to have 3 days off they were so excited. tomorrow is friday and for them they believe it brings with it alot of fun because grandpa is home. the first week we were here the boys helped Gpa finnish the deck, and also went with him and uncle Dave to the beach where the all got stuck in the deep mud of the retreating tide, unfortunetly the battery was dead on the camera and got no pictures. the next week we were down in utah but last week, the boys had a great time. on friday they went for a hike to twin falls with nana and gpa and loved it. then on saturday they got to help with the lawn untill we had a big family get together. one other day the all stayed up way too late and watched a movie on what they call the magic wall (the projector onto the wall)

Logan's Swim Lessons

This is logan, on monday he would not put his face in the water, not at all, and not the first few lessons at least not without alot of coaxing of his teacher, today was the longest he held his breath he has made some great progress. this is after his 4 lessons.

Zack's Swim Lessons

Here is Zack swimming, on monday, he would not put his vace in the water, and then after his first lesson he would put his face in but then would pull of his goggles and panic as soon as ha came up. this is a video after 2 lessons, on Tuesday.

Abram's Swimming lessons

durring the last week we have been doing swimming lessons well since monday so 4 lessons, the are 1 on 1 15 minutes, but the boys have made SO MUCH progress. on Monday befofe class Abe could put his face in the water with goggles on and hold his breath, but struggled with water getting in his nose, after 4 lessons he can swim pretty well!

different hair

this was back in october so my hair is not quite so dark anymore (it was supposed to wash out) and my hair is longer but I thought I would post a picture for my mom :)

a few house pictures

here are a few pictures of our house, none are recent, we now have all the front windows in and the door on and well these pictures were taken a long time ago but it will give some people an idea of our house. the stove is the wood stove we are cooking on now, we dont currently have electricity, the first picture is of spencer this fall working on moving firewood for splitting