Holiday Weekend

A couple things have happened since our last post. The first is that we celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary. We spent the day at an amusement park in Des Moines riding roller coasters and eating junk. The weather was absolutely perfect and we had a fun day! Then we ate at Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We stayed at a really nice hotel in Des Moines overnight. Then came home the next day. We're very lucky to have Dan's parents so close by and are willing to watch Tyler for us!

Then last weekend we went to Dan's parents house. Dan's brother and his family were in town also so everyone was together for the weekend. It was nice to see everyone again. We pretty much just relaxed and hung out. Oh, there was that storm that came through and the tornado siren went off and we all had to go to the basement. Grandma had to wake Tyler up and carry him down. He didn't seem to affected by it though. Luckily Dan and I just gotten home from his sister's house (where we had a Wii-athon). I don't think I would've enjoyed being in a car and hearing the sirens.



This is how Tyler wanted to eat his cracker

Tyler hanging out with Ariana



Uncle Dan reading to the kids

A family picture

You can see how shaggy Tyler's hair was getting in the above pictures. I went to get it cut and instead of just having it trimmed we decided to use the clippers and have it cut shorter. I like it better but he looks all grown up to me now.

A video of Tyler and daddy doing one of Tyler's favorite activities

Cranky Tyler

Last Sunday at church someone from the nursery had to come find us because Tyler had thrown up. We only got in about 10 mins of worship before needing to leave. He then had a high fever all Sunday and all Sunday night. Then Monday morning the fever was gone but we were left with an extremely cranky child. I'm wondering now if he has teeth coming in. I haven't felt anything poking through but I hope this crying/screaming at the drop of a hat thing doesn't last long. If it is teeth I pray all the rest are coming in at the same time so we don't have to go through this again. The dramatics involved in such simple tasks such as eating or picking up toys remind me of teenage girl drama. Not that I would know anything about that. I was a calm and collected teenager (anyone believe that?).

No news on the house search. We're going again tomorrow. I estimate we've looked at 20-30 houses. When we bought our current house I think we looked at 5. It's amazing how precise your "want" list can be when you've already experienced living in a house.

Last Thursday afternoon Tyler's friend Emma came over. When Tyler was six months old (and Emma around 3 months) this is what they looked like:

And now (I tried putting Tyler's arm around her but she didn't like it):

Tyler likes to show off his piano skills to the ladies (although in this picture he seems to be eating his fingers instead)

Tyler with his sad face (probably because we said, "No, you may not put Lisle in the toilet" or something else mean like that). Note the droopy cheeks.