Happy 1st Birthday Seth!

Wow! I can't believe Seth is 1 today! Where did this past year go?

We had Seth's pictures taken today at Walmart and for the first time, I got the CD made with all the pictures they took. He was happy to begin with, but the smiles quickly got harder and harder to capture! Good thing for nursery rhyme songs! That was the only way we got smiles! He loves those songs! Here are the pictures from today!








We are having Seth's birthday party tomorrow with the family and a couple of friends. It's nice to have a spring/summer birthday because that means the people don't always have to be in our house! That's a lot of people for our house! The joys of big families!

Here is Seth playing peek-a-boo thru a box the other day. He thought that it was very fun!

Seth is sure a boy! He loves to be outside. As soon as the door opens, he scootches over and tries to get outside. He is slowing getting used to the feel of grass. He didn't like it to begin with. Now, he loves playing in the grass, eating the grass, and getting himself really dirty! Ahhh...boys!!


This is your day Seth! We love you! We are enjoying the little man that you are becoming! You are developing such the little personality, it's hard to imagine how one little boy can be so fun loving! I am sad today because you are growing up so fast. I am also sad because I have to go back to work on Monday and I have to leave you with someone other than me. That will be very hard for me. I'm thankful that you will have your big sister with you. She will take care of you...she always does...whether you like it or not! Happy Birthday Seth! We love you. You are no longer a baby, you are our little boy now!

Yeah!!

I passed my Finance 2 exam! Well, I squeaked by my Finance 2 exam I should say. Passing grade is 65%, and I passed with a 65%!! Oh well. It's a pass! One more down...how many more to go?!

What did we get ourselves into?!?!

Well, Spring is in the air...and with Spring, comes renovations. And we decide to start 3, yes, 3 projects, ALL AT ONCE!

Here is our downstairs bathroom all ripped apart. It was just a 2 piece bathroom, and we are going to put in a corner shower, so that we can renovate the upstairs bathroom, and still have a shower. This project is at a standstill as of right now because the other projects are more important.


Here is project #2! We decided to finally paint the kitchen, so here is Terry and Breana taking down the ugly wallpaper border. The half the I did myself was way harder than what they took down!


Here is Terry sanding our kitchen cupboards so that they can be painted. It was a yucky job...lots of dust! We did this when the kids went to bed so they didn't have to be near it. That was a late night. Good thing for orbital sanders! It saved our arms!


Here is Terry priming the cupboards. Honestly, I did work too, but I was always the one who said, "We need a picture of this!" So that's why Terry is always in the picture. Again, this was done when the kids were in bed, thus, another late night!


And...Project #3! And the biggest project of all! Insulating and siding the house! We were approved for the Manitoba Hydro Insulation Rebate Program, so it pretty well pays for the styrofoam insulation. We are siding over the existing stucco on the south, east, and north walls, but have to take down the siding on the west wall. That black part is now insulated and sided. This project will probably take a while yet. Hopefully we can have some summer!


Here is the part that we have done. The ugly blue bottom and stairs will be going as well, but it is going to wait until the rest of the siding is done. Oh, how we despise that blue!


Here is Terry and Breana dancing at Terry's cousin's wedding. Breana had a blast and didn't want to leave!


Breana found an OLD pair of my glasses downstairs and decided to wear a hat and model them for me. That cracked me up! What was I thinking with those glasses?! Those are some ugly glasses!


Me and the kids had gone down to Deloraine for a few days at the beginning of April. Mom had gotten a face painting kit at Costco last year when we were there. This was the first time Breana had her face painted by Gramma. She then proceeded to paint her own arm...black! We had to scrub to get the black off!


I can't believe Seth is going to be 1 in less than a month! This year has definetly flown by. He is still scootching around, and loves to walk with your fingers. He wants desparately to walk, but still does not have the balance for it yet. It will be soon enough though! He cut 2 more teeth last month, so we are now at 6 teeth. He had been quite cranky trying to cut those teeth because they were pushing so hard on his gums. He was waking up frequently thru the night. One night, he slept thru the night, so I checked, and sure enough, both had cut thru the gums....ahhhhh....relief!


Here is a pic of the first tooth on the top. The other ones were there, you just can't see them in this pic.


Here, he is showing off his favorite cute hat. Everyone comments on how cute this hat is. I love it!


This is the first family picture of the Williams family since the hospital! How terrible! It took over 11 months to get a family picture! Oh well. We have it now. The kids are growing up way to fast! It's only 4 more weeks till I go back to work :( Luckily, it's only part time for the summer!


On another note, Brandon Marine and Leisure finally moved into their new shop. It was the end of August of last year when they had a fire in their old shop. We were down in South Dakota on vacation when that happened. Since then, they had been in a different shop that didn't really suit their needs. So, needless to say, they are all happy to be back in their original location, with a new shop, lots of showroom space, proper shop space, etc! Now for them to get organized!

March Happenings

So we decided that we needed to start renovating the downstairs bathroom yesterday. We haven't decided completely what we are going to do, but we aren't in a rush to get it done, so we'll figure it out when the time comes. We want to put a corner shower in so that we can tear apart the upstairs bathroom after we have a second shower. We've renovated before with only 1 bathroom, and it's definitely not fun having to run across the road to go to the bathroom, so we will get the downstairs bathroom done before we rip apart the main bathroom!


This is Seth's newest toy. He can sure get around in it and he loves the fact that he can walk around and I don't have to break my back to let him do it!!


This is the Easter egg hunt at Gramma Ginny and Papa Dennis' house. It was pretty cold, it was a good thing we brought her mitts!


This is the Easter egg hunt at Gramma Audrey and Papa Don's. The Easter Bunny left a lot, and I mean A LOT of chocolates there. We are still eating them!


Seth has discovered how to pull himself up to standing. It is cute to see the two of them standing side by side, to see him trying to do what Sister does!


I found Breana's old sunglasses, and Seth took a liking to them. He just looks so darn cute!

Done!

Breana's snowman that she and Daddy made together!


Daddy is holding Seth up while he is standing! A little bit scary for Mommy!! His Grandpa used to do this to all of them, so he is carrying on the tradition!


Here Breana is helping Mommy study by feeding Seth his breakfast!


My St. Patricks Day kiddos!


My cutie patootie Sweetheart!

Done, done, done! I'm finally done my course! I wrote my Finance 2 exam on Saturday. And I don't have another course to do until the fall, which means this is the first time since I've had Seth that I don't have to worry about a course, and I can focus all of my attention on my family and getting my house cleaned! Yeah!!! Breana is sure loving having me back again! She and Seth were missing me pretty badly because any spare time I had was spent studying! I think I did pretty good on the exam, but I don't find out for a couple of months yet.

Breana went to Gramma Ginny's last week for a couple of days inbetween gymnastics and preschool so I could study without having to ignore her. Seth was pretty good at playing by my feet and letting me study.

He's on the move!

Our Little Mozart!

It worked!

Removing the movies worked. My side bar - "about me" part was way at the bottom of the page. Taking out the movies made it come back up. Now I will try and see if I can post movie clips and still have my side bar up. We'll see!

Trying to fix blog

My blog has decided to do weird things, so I'm going to try some stuff. Hopefully I don't lose everything. I will have to remove the movie clips to see if that is what is making it go funky. I will replace them if it isn't.

Sorry!

Our Winnipeg trip

We went into Winnipeg Thursday night because Terry had an update course at Red River on Friday. We didn't feel like getting up at 5:30 am with two kids, so we stayed at my Auntie Edith and Uncle Gilles house on Thursday.

Well....Seth decided he was going to get a cold. His eyes were a little goopy Thursday so before we left, I took him to the doctor to see if it was pink eye. It wasn't, thank goodness. The doc said it was just his tears because his tear ducts were blocked so the goop was coming out the eyes instead of draining. I can handle that!

I put Seth down to sleep around 11:30 Thursday night because he slept all the way in to Wpg, which put his schedule off a little. Well, then Breana decided she was going to get a cough. We were all sleeping in the same room, so when Breana started coughing, this woke Seth up. I think that would have been around 1 or 1:30. Finally, at 2:30, we still hadn't gone back to sleep, and my Aunt had to work the next day, so I took Seth downstairs hoping that they would sleep upstairs.

We tried sleeping on the lounge chair, we tried the couch, and we tried the floor. Around 4:30, I decided I would try putting him in the car seat, so that I could rock it and still lay on the couch. Well, he finally fell asleep around 5:30 am. My uncle is an early riser, and he woke up at 6ish, so needless to say, I was working on about 3 hours of sleep. Seth is cranky, sick, Breana is sick, Terry is sick, and everyone is tired!

We took Terry to Red River for 9am. I was planning on taking the kids to some museums, but with them being so sick, I didn't think it was a good idea. So we drove across the city to go visit where I used to work. That ate up 1.5 hours and Seth got some rest! We ended up at Polo Park after that. We did a little bit of shopping, but everyone was getting tired, so I decided to go to the hotel to see if we could check in early. We got to the hotel, and our room was ready, so we went up and laid on the bed for an hour and a half.

We picked up Terry, and headed to Old Navy. Found a couple of good deals, and as we were headed to go have some supper at the Olive Garden, Terry decided that he didn't want to sit in a nice restaurant with 2 sick kids, so we went back to the hotel and ordered pizza. Terry and Breana went swimming while Seth and I watched. After supper, Breana did some more swimming while Terry watched Seth sleep in the room.

Seth actually slept pretty good Friday night. He was sleeping by 8 - 8:30 and didn't wake up again until 6am, which was really good, because of the lack of sleep the night before! We went for breakfast and then went swimming. Seth and I went into the hot tub and the kiddie pool while Breana and Terry did the big pool and the hot tub. Seth really liked the hot tub!

Because everyone but me was sick and cranky, we decided that once we checked out of the hotel at noon, we would just head out to Otterburne to pick up Megan (Terry's sister) and head home. The roads going to Otterburne and then from Wpg to Portage weren't good. We passed by 2 accidents. Megan was glad she came home with us.

Anyways, we are home now and hopefully on the mend. Terry says he feels better, Breana's cough doesn't sound like she is going to cough up a lung, and Seth's eyes aren't gooping anymore. He has slept all day today, so hopefully that is a good sign. His nose is still running like crazy. Whenever he sees a kleenex, he turns his head and cries. Poor baby! I can tell his upper lip is sore and raw-looking. He is getting a bit of a cough, so hopefully it doesn't turn into anything serious. We'll have to wait to see.

Breana's 5th Birthday

Well, our little baby girl officially turned 5 on Saturday. I can't believe it! It feels like yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital, and now, she's 5! Happy Birthday Sweetie!

She decided she wanted to go swimming for her birthday. So we headed to the Sportsplex to swim. We had a blast. All the kids had a lot of fun going down the waterslide, climbing the climbing mountain, and splashing around! We originally only planned to swim for a couple of hours, but we ended up swimming for 3 hours! The kids were just having too much fun!

After swimming, we went back to our place to open presents and have cake. The kids went wild playing downstairs, and then we fed them cake, right before supper, so they were pretty hyped up on sugar! Most of the families stayed for supper. We ordered pizza and had salad.

All in all, it was a wonderful day. And my mom says it was a lot nicer of a day than it was 5 years ago. It was very cold the day Breana was born (apparently). Of course I wouldn't know, because I was on bed rest like 4 weeks before she was born!

Anywhoo, here are the pictures from her birthday! Enjoy!!

(The pictures are in reverse order...and I don't feel like fixing them!)

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Sorry for the inconvience.

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I know, I know...

It's been way too long since I've uploaded some pictures for all to see. We have been very busy with gymnastics, preschool, swimming lessons, and planning someone's (Breana's) birthday party next week. I can't believe she is going to be 5 already! It's so hard to believe. And I also can't believe that Seth is already 8 1/2 months old. He is getting to be such a little man. He is getting himself around pretty good. I wouldn't say he is crawling, more like putting his hands on the floor and pulling himself around. I guess it helps that we have laminate flooring and it is slippery. I think if we had carpet, he'd be crawling by now! We have also hit another milestone...Seth now has 2 teeth! He got his first one on the 26th of January and his second on on the 1st of February.

Anyways, on with the pictures. I know there are lots of them. They include the new teeth, skating, swimming lessons, gymnastics and other misc. pictures.

Enjoy!