Waking Up

I love when Heber and Hannah wake up. They are total opposites. Heber is crying loudly and Hannah is containing her anxiety as she holds her middle fingers in her mouth with a few pouts that escape. They usually sit up and then stand up holding to the rails of their cages... I mean cribs. Hannah likes to rattle her crib. It is so precious. This is normally when they wake up in the morning.
When they wake up from their naps they normally have sweet smiles on their faces and it is so precious. When Hannah stands up she normally has a "Grandy grin" on her face, all gums and from ear to ear. The corner of Heber's smiles wrinkle up and he lets out a sweet periodic "uhuuum."

Yes, it was you Melanie, ...Melanie Hansen ...my sister in-law ...married to Lincoln, that helped me choose to go to school this semester. Before that I was seriously considering not going to school because of all the stress that comes with it and I felt like my life was overloaded. You tipped me over the edge of indecisiveness.

School

Thanks to the gentle persuasion of Melanie I am going to school this semester. I am taking three classes online. Two of them are half a semester long, one in the first half, the other in the second half. Plus the one that is a semester long. The half semester long class I am taking first is on Digital Art and the semester long one is on Marriage and the Family Relationships. I like them both.
My second emphasis is Art. It is the easiest way to go since I took a couple of art classes my first two years of college. I am taking the the Family class as an upper devision hum/soc.
Anyways, schools fun and I really like online classes. I thought that I wouldn't because of all the reading and not hearing a teacher lecture but I think I learn more in less time and on my own schedule. I can stop what I am doing and clean the house, feed the kids, change a poopy diaper, play with the kids, start dinner or whatever. I wish that my two classes next semester where online. I have to take one more senior electrical class and the history of engineering. Then I will be DONE!!! YEAH!!!! WAHOO!!!!!!! ...ok I am calm.

We have a neighbor named Kobie (I think of Tobie first and then his name) on one side and the neighbor on our other side is named Keith. Put them together and you have a country singer. Well kind of.

I found a bath toy in the toilet last night. I have my suspicions as to which kid it was. I caught her red handed this morning putting her hand in the toilet.

When I turn on the vacuum Heber gets all scared and starts crying and screaming. Hannah, however, starts crawling towards it and is all interested in it. Even a big scary vacuum can't overpower her curiosity.

Heber likes the vacuum only when it is off.





















I caught them playing with the vaccum but they crawled away before I could go get my camera.




She might look innocent... but there is untammed curiosity locked up inside her.She seems to be starting in the ways of another little feller I know

Home Fixin' Upin'

Talmage and I tried to finish the painting job that Jacob, angel and I started. We ran out of paint and I have been putting it off because I was unsure about getting the paint color to match perfectly. I mixed up a batch of paint yesterday and finished most of the job. It matches seemlessly. I was unable to get the really high spots. Talmage will have to get it with a ladder. I also faux finished some walls. It took all day. I think I did a great job. I like it but I am just not sure that I like it in my house. I am not sure if it really fits me. I figure if it still doesn't seem to fit I can just paint over it. Here are a lot of pictures.