Surgery Recovery is Hard Work

This is Noah after a hard day of helping mommy recover from surgery. Having daddy take care of him must be mentally exhausting. On a side note, I got to attend my first story time and was clueless. Nothing like having 3 year olds tell you how things work and where to go!!! All is going well with our patient. With all of our surgeries over the last couple years, I have decided that I am the Six-Million Dollar Man and Heidi is the Bionic Woman. Hopefully we are done for awhile. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

surgery went well

Thanks Mom and Dad for the flowers. As you can see, I am not the only one enjoying them. Thank you Cathy and Jennifer for your help today, and thank you husband for taking such good care of the boys and me.

I was right!

After talking to Krista yesterday, it sounded like the baby's name would be Dylan. I see my mom has Brady written on these pictures that she sent.

Baby Gundberg

It's boy number 3 for Krista and Brent. I'm not going to write his name yet because knowing Krista and Brent it will change tomorrow. Everyone is doing well, and I really wish I could be there! CONGRATS!!!

Crazy weekend

Friday- I had a doctor's appointment at 9:00 and found out I get to have my gall bladder removed on Thursday. We left our house around 11:00am, fed the kids in the car, stopped at Krista's to pick up Zach and Drew, dropped them off with my mom, and got to Craig and Jen's around 6:00pm (poor Noah didn't get out of his carseat once). Saturday- Joel and I met with our realtor and looked at several houses. Of course the only one we really liked was one we had seen many months ago and never got out of our heads (it was also the most expensive). We spent Saturday night swimming at a hotel with my whole family (minus Brent and Krista who were supposed to be having a baby which never happened). Eli had a blast!!! Sunday- We decided to put an offer on the house, so we went to meet with the realtor at 11:15 thinking we'd be on the road in time for kids to nap. WRONG!!! We spent 5 hours in the realtor's office doing something that should've taken an hour tops. We finally got on the road at 4:15pm. The original plan was to leave Monday, but we decided to leave Sunday to avoid a snowstorm. After driving through terrible fog and only stopping for food once and gas once, we finally got home at 11:45 pm. Noah did get out of the carseat once but it was only long enough to get a diaper change and pajamas. We are very thankful for our good little car riders and very scared, nervous, and excited about our new house and new location. I am also excited about my new baby niece or nephew who should be here sometime tomorrow as Krista is being induced in the morning. I'm sad that I will not be able to go visit this weekend!!!!!

not much new here

Noah still likes to be naked (I found him like this at 7:15 this morning). Then, when we came downstairs he was very upset that we couldn't find basketball on TV.

oh Noah!

So, Noah was MIA for a little while the other night. I knew he had gone upstairs, but I waited a while before I went to see what he was up to. I found him laying in our bed with Joel's glasses on just watching a little TV.

birthday party fun

The boys had fun on the treasure hunt at Tyler's party last night. Well- Eli had fun. Noah got distracted by Don's bike on the porch during clue #2 and then was very mad that we didn't let him stay on the porch and play with it.

"A Hat"

Someone thought he was hilarious during breakfast this morning!

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I just happened to be upstairs and heard this little voice saying, "mommy, mommy", and this is how I found Eli. I let him take a book to bed at naptime which obviously fell on the floor somehow ( I can't imagine). Anyway, Eli will not get out of his bed, so he was stuck like this trying to get his book. My dad thinks this invisible fence around beds is great for kids!!!!

Auntie Krista

My sister made a last minute decision to ride down with a friend who had a wedding here Friday night. She was under strict rules from her husband not to go into labor (due on the 20th). I haven't heard from her yet, but I'm thinking she must've made it back home! We went and saw the movie Juno which I really liked. It made me laugh; it made me cry.... my favorite things in a movie. It made Krista nervous that she was going to go into labor.

sweet dreams

I just had to post this picture of Eli reading to his teddy bear tonight!

learning how to bowl

Joel went bowling tonight for the first time in how many years? Anyway, he was trying to teach Eli his awesome form before he left. Of course Eli wanted to go bowling too, so I had to explain why a 3 year old can't go to a smokey bowling alley at 8:30 on a Tuesday night.

learning how to dribble

Noah went in the basement to play this morning. I thought it was a little quiet, so I went down to check on him. I found him in the store room with his ball. I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "dibble".

back-e-ball pease!!!!!!!

I was seriously getting yelled at because I couldn't find the sports section when I brought the paper in this morning.

bribing mom

After saying "no" to several requests for candy before 8:30 this morning, I was telling Eli to get dressed so we could go run some errands. He said, "Mom, I'm not getting dresesed until you give me candy!".

a new fashion trend???

You saw it here first!

18 months old today

yeah!!!! Noah won't watch a Baby Einstein movie, but we had to watch basketball instead of American Idol tonight. He was even jumping on the couch saying, "go, go, go".

shoo hoops... pease

That's what Noah says when he wants help making baskets. Jake's and Chase's love for shooting hoops must be rubbing off on him. All Eli ever wanted to do with this thing is hang animals from the net.

They're all in there!

The boys love Noah's new fire truck. It looks like I need to give the drinking and driving lecture already. The pop isn't open; he just thinks he needs to carry one around all the time.