The Adams Family

Fun snow gear and the vein of my existence.

2009-11-16T10:26:00.002-06:00

"I AM smiling!"

Really?? Camera shy?? weirdo.

Stupid woodpecker. He's really pretty, but not so much when he's pecking the metal vent outlet from my master bathroom... it kinda makes me want to go crazy.

YAY SNOW!

2009-11-15T10:41:00.002-06:00

Looks like it's time to get some warm snow clothes for Josh! I could barely talk him in to coming back inside for a tub!

PSA Reminder: Don't eat the yellow snow.

The Art of Bread Making:

2009-11-13T20:37:00.002-06:00

Rule of Life #127: When you screw up your first time making bread, don't get mad and walk away to cool off... or you'll come back to something like this:

stupid yeast.

Instead, try again.

And this time, don't add 5 1/2 cups of water... when it only calls for 3 1/2 cups of water.

Then, enjoy your own success.

And remind your husband to Oooo and Ahhh all over it.

By Popular Demand:

2009-11-12T17:21:00.003-06:00

The 15 week bump.

Joshy's new obsession.

2009-11-10T11:07:00.003-06:00

The following post will be in the **Thoughts** of Josh.

Oooo... Mom's new computer. It's silver and shiny... Let's click THIS button.

Oh, I see myself!

I could totally get in trouble for this...
WHO CARES!!!! THIS IS A BLAST!!!!
I better practice "playing dead" now... before Mom catches me...

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Ok, so I was playing around on my mac today and noticed some new pictures in my photo booth.... Who were they of? Joshy!!! Did he have permission to have said photo shoot? NO!!!

From what he's wearing, I know he did this on Sunday..

...that turkey... he knows he needs permission to get on this computer!!

Even so, I thought the pictures were hysterical and added a little narration for your reading pleasure.

silly kid.

HALLOWEEN!!!

2009-11-02T19:22:00.002-06:00

So, for MONTHS every time I asked Josh what he wanted to be for Halloween, I get the reply, "MOM! I don't want to be ANYBODY! I just want to be JOSHY!!"
OOOOOOKAY...
At first I was totally bummed, but then I figured, if he didn't want to dress up for Halloween, I wasn't going to make him. BUT- I continued to ask, just in case he changed his mind.
Tyler and I even asked the night before Halloween, and got the same response.
Fast forward to Halloween morning:
We wake up and announce to Josh that it's Halloween day, and we get to pass out candy that night to the kids that go trick-or-treating.
He got VERY excited and replied, "Oh GREAT!!! I want to be a DINOSAUR!!!!"
what?
Well, after about a million and a half calls to everywhere I could think of, there were no dinosaur costumes left in Colorado Springs in his size. shocker.
We did however, find one costume in his size, at pottery barn kids. (of course, the most expensive place to buy a costume.) A Gorilla!!! Tyler and I made sure to make a big deal about it, talking about how awesome Gorilla's are... he took the bait, and LOVED the costume.
Some pictures:

Instead of trick-or-treating around our neighborhood, we invited our neighbor and her little girl to head over to the trunk-or-treat at the church. Our ward, and another ward had the annual chili cook-off and decorated all the class rooms for the kids. It was a hit, a lot of fun.
(Yes, that's a banana-bag he's holding... cute.)
It ended up being a real fun night- After the trunk-or-treat, we came back to the house and Meghan (neighbor) and her daughter Summer stayed over and watched a movie and had some candy and pop corn.
Here's a picture of Summer and Josh after they were done gathering as much candy as they could.

Feeling Pretty Cool

2009-10-28T09:54:00.002-05:00

So, I thought I would try and make a post. Kelly usually does this, and does a very nice job. I guess I will make my mark today. I had fluid taken out of 2 disks in my lower back yesterday. I have to say that is a pretty interesting feeling. I don't remember much of the procedure, thanks to some cool medicine, but I remember trying to get up out of the wheelchair. My left leg worked great, but hasn't had any issues to begin with. My right leg, however, was pretty useless. I couldn't move my foot and couldn't bend my leg. Honestly, I wasn't too sure about it. It felt almost the same as when I originally hurt my back last year. I got out of the hospital around 0930 and laid down for the rest of the day. When I got up to go upstairs, my leg felt the same and I was still gimping around. This morning is a much better time. I don't have any numbness at all today. It's pretty cool. I still can't bend down or pick up anything heavier than a pillow, but I have a free excuse to go play in the pool. I have to do some hydrotherapy for a couple of weeks and then I can move on to weighted physical therapy. Things are looking pretty good to get this over with, so thanks to everybody for the thoughts, prayers, and notes.

HERE kitty-kitty-kitty!!!

2009-10-11T15:24:00.002-05:00

Ok, so it ALL started yesterday... Tyler mentioned that he thought he heard a kitty meow from out front- I immediately went outside to investigate, but heard and saw nothing.
Fast forward to this morning- I heard it! but it was LOUD! and SAD! these sad meow's startled me so badly, I ran outside in my jammies and uggs to find the poor thing! It was 17 degrees outside!
It was hiding under a big bush we have in our front yard, I tried to grab it but it just screamed and ran away. I followed it to my neighbor's yard... and Yes- I'm sure my neighbors think I'm NUTS for digging around in someone else's bushes...
Finally I just figured, instead of scaring it off for good- I'd just set up something to lure it back...
doesn't this look appetizing??
Yes, that's an old rug, a raw egg, and Reagan's baby food I had in the pantry. Split pea and carrot soup with chicken. Mmmm...
Well, it didn't work. I checked back a couple hours later and the egg and baby food was frozen and no kitty to be seen. I left the rug out there, just incase... but figured the food idea was a no-go.
Finally, about an hour after that, I heard it again! That sad kitty howl! I ran outside again and saw it was in the same spot, under the bush. I talked to the kitty for a while, and told it I wasn't going to hurt it, but needed to pick it up so I could bring it inside. I reached down, and picked it up!! He didn't even bite or scratch me! He was still howling quite a bit though...
As soon as I came inside, Josh starts dancing around saying, "Oh KITTY! I just KNEW you belonged with us!!! YAY YAY YAY!" ...oh my. crap.
I got a plastic bin, and a baby blanket and put a little dish of water inside. (he still hasn't touched it.)
I cut up some steak I had in the fridge and warmed it. He ate SO fast! And MEOWED the whole time he ate!!! Poor kitty!
After he ate, my sister Lisa had the fantastic idea of warming up a rice pack in the microwave and putting it under the blanket because he was still so cold. Here he is, full belly and warmth. He was purring!!!
He's sound asleep now... Tyler doesn't get off work until tomorrow morning... I'm not really sure what we're going to do!!

What a day!

Pumpkin Patch, Oct 09

2009-10-11T10:42:00.004-05:00

The Bean!

2009-09-25T11:46:00.004-05:00

Ok, so it's not really much to look at, but my Mom was requesting that I post it so she could see.

Here ya go, Mom!

I'm going to get another ultrasound from radiology in a couple weeks, so it should be a better picture. I'll make sure to post that one too.

Super Rad Tonka Bike!

2009-09-09T19:01:00.002-05:00

It's official!! My little Joshy is a BIG BOY!!

Joshy was surprised with a brand new bike from my sister's Mother-In-Law! Yes, Coni, Joshy's adopted "Grandy" was so nice, she bought Joshy a big boy bike just because!

He's outside with Ty riding it, as I type this up- he's been out there for a while now... and there's no sign of him coming inside!

...Looks like we'll be having a late dinner...

Thanks Coni!

Please pay no attention to my husbands mis-matched shoes...

his foot is still all busted up and he can't fit it in his boot quite yet...

Random picture moment... while walking up and down the sidewalk with Josh, I learned a little something about a neighbor...
Note to self: Don't get garden gnomes as get-to-know you gifts.

Could you imagine? Oh.. the massacre.

Photo booth fun

2009-09-08T11:39:00.002-05:00

We had a great Labor Day Weekend with my brother Jim and his family and our grandparents, Grandma Cherry and Grandpa Dave.

We went to one of our favorite pizza places, Fargo's, and spent a lot of time taking pictures in thier old photo booth.

Thanks everyone for coming, these pictures will be treasured!

Happy Birthday, Mom!! hee hee hee

2009-09-02T15:49:00.005-05:00

So, I've been on pins and needles all day today... It's my Mom's birthday and I had a VERY big surprise for her!! It's been KILLING me to keep it in, and not yell it from the rooftops, but I made it! I only told everyone EXCEPT my Mom. :)

my facebook is proof.

Finally, I called my Mom at work, just as her package arrived! Carol, her friend she works with, put me on speaker so I could hear her reaction.

(and she was nice enough to take pictures. THANKS CAROL!!)

Oooo! A pretty plant!

Oh, and a nice card! how thoughtful!

"Happy Birthday, Nana! Love, Danny, Becky and Reagan & Tyler, Kelly, Josh and BABY... :)"

As soon as she read it, she said,
"BABY?!?!?!? Kelly, are you pregnant???"
I said, "YES!"
and as you can see, the water works started!!!

Happy Birthday Mom- I'm so glad it worked out to be a special story!
..and the pretty Gardenia plant I Becky and I sent her for her birthday.

...oh, and sorry for telling the whole world first.

Love ya.

late night adventures...

2009-08-31T12:36:00.005-05:00

Last night Ty was packing up all his Army stuff to go on a training range with his company that started today.
Well- he's the type of crazy guy who actually packs WEIGHTS in his stuff so he can work out while he's at the range... weirdo.
Anyway.. Somehow last night while he was in the basement packing, he dropped a 45lb weight on his bare foot. smart..
Luckily, Becky was still awake and didn't mind having Joshy for a sleepover, while I took Ty to the hospital.
Some pictures. (really, did you expect any less?)
This is right after it happened, before we left for the hospital.

The Xray's came back and didn't show a break. seriously? The doctor also did an exam and determined that he didn't sever the tendons. Basically, he just has a really screwed up bruise. yuck.

Pictures from this morning... about 12 hours after the incident.

Silver lining? He didn't have to go to the range this morning. He still had to go in, or... I had to take him in at 4:30 (about 4 hours after we got home from the hospital) so he could show the first sgt and have him tell Ty to go back home.

brown lining? (or whatever the crappy color of the lining is..) he has to hurry up and get better so he can go to the range on Wednesday. With a really beat up foot. for the next three weeks. fun.

Poor guy.. I'll do my best to pamper him the next couple of days.

Running with scissors! I mean... Cutting with scissors!

2009-08-30T18:41:00.002-05:00

Ty and I realized today that Josh has never cut with scissors before! So- we got out some construction paper and some good ole' safety scissors and tried it out.
Josh did great, and he was VERY proud of himself, so I took some pictures to document the occasion. :)

Fight The Mustache Power!

2009-08-24T20:33:00.003-05:00

Vandals? Anyone?
ahem....

So, there's never a dull moment at the Adams house!

I picked these pretty babies up at Pottery Barn kids today... Josh is having a BLAST with them.

I don't know about you, but to me, this SCREAMS Magnum PI.

Watering the weeds.

2009-08-23T13:28:00.008-05:00

Oh the joys of having a backyard!!! (and a hose.)

The last couple days there have been water-wars in the Adams household. Yesterday we played Guns Vs. Hoses (aka: Josh vs. Mom) and Hoses won. Big time. YAY MOM!

Today, Josh got wise and HE wanted the hose... too bad it was dad's turn to play. :)

Please don't pay attention to the weeds.. It's a work in progress, and believe it or not, I'm impressed that the back yard is clear enough to even be back there and make it out alive.

This is right after they both turned on ME! An innocent bystander! Rude.

Then Dad took advantage of having his hands on the hose for once.

And a video, incase you can't imagine how much fun we were having.

Quick trip to Utah, Remembering Grandma Bandley.

2009-08-20T09:52:00.007-05:00

Thursday night Tyler got a call from his sister Angie, giving him the news that his Grandma Bandley had just passed away a couple hours earlier. As soon as Tyler's 30 hour shift at work was over, we hopped in the car Friday morning and started driving over to Utah to be with family.

The funeral services were amazing. I've never been to a funeral where they did a better job of really celebrating someones life. I cried through the whole service, just hearing about how fantastic she was. She had such a sense of humor, she was so loving and caring of her family and she loved her husband with everything she had.

Unfortunately the Alzheimer's she had for so many years, took away all the great memories she made in her life. I know now, she has those incredible memories back and is enjoying her life after death with her parents, two brothers and her sister.

This is Grandma and Grandpa Bandley on their wedding day. This picture was on the back of the program. I spent a very long time looking at it on the way back to Colorado. She was so beautiful, and they are so in love.

{picture stolen from Tonya's blog... I hope you don't mind, Tonya!}
Mike, Angie, Nate, Grandpa Bandley, Julie, Chad and Tyler.

Grandpa Bandley, Josh and Tyler

Josh, Tyler and some of the cousins. Tate, Emmalee and Emily.

Family picture. Not sure if this one will make the Christmas card... notice my beautiful sons face.

Me and Ty.

The whole family. This was the first time we were all together in 4 years.

{Chad, Julie and Myles}{Hayden, Tonya, Mike, Emily and Tate}{Julie and Dave}{Eric, Paul, Amy, Nate and Vince}{Me, Josh, Tyler}{Lexi, Angie, Emmalee, Cody and Lynn}

As Tonya said in her blog, it was a sad reason for a fun family reunion. It was so great to have the whole family together.

Fun with Reagan!

2009-08-06T15:16:00.001-05:00

Special post for you, Mom. Wish you were here. :)

Yard work.

2009-08-02T10:31:00.002-05:00

Tyler and Josh didn't waste any time getting dirty in the front yard. They had a blast picking all the weeds and and here they are lifting the soil so Ty can spread grass seed and fertilizer. Josh was a big help.

My cute husband, working so hard.

After Josh "helped" more, by throwing dirt at the cars and Ty's face, he quickly got a new job. There was a small ant hill in the dirt, and Ty put him to work by picking up all the ants and collecting them in the jar for the tadpoles. Josh thought that job was just as much fun.

So proud, Ty snapped a picture of the front yard after he watered the seeds.

The tadpoles liked the ants. They got big, huh? Since we took this picture, their tails are totally gone and we actually let them go in Evil's house outside. Ty promised me Evil wouldn't hurt them. They're such cute little toads.

Pretty view from our street.

Finally, HOME!!

2009-07-24T21:27:00.004-05:00

Well, we've been in the house just under a week and it's finally HOME to us!!! We've been working our tails off cleaning it, unpacking, decorating, and cleaning again!!! I look forward to NOT moving for a while...
Some pictures...

The yard in front had a TON of weeds, most were bigger than Josh. It just took us a morning to get them cleared out, and realize we need new grass. It will be super cheap to just get some sod for the small patch in front, so we'll probably do that sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Please pay no attention to my nekkid boy at the table... there was an incident involving a fall in the back yard with a chocolate ice cream cone. We figured it would be a waste to get him dressed again. So here he sits in his unders.

Backyard: If you can, imagine the cracks in the brick patio filled with WEEDS. Killer weeds. seriously, we could barely walk out there- but Tyler cleaned them all out! Now we just need to figure out what to do with the yard itself.

"Dog Run." Or, "Evil Crawl." Whatever. Evil loves his new home, it's plenty big for him with lots of bugs for him to chase after. Josh always makes sure though, that we make time to feed him some super worms. Or, as he calls them "crazy strong wormies."

Here's a good picture of Evil. Ty took this one this afternoon. He's become a loved family member. In fact, Debi (a dear friend of mine) told me that when she raised box turtles she learned that if you rub their back feet when you hold them, they become familiar with your touch and they become more comfortable with you. Well, I put this to the test the other night. I got him out, sat down on the patio and just rubbed his feet for about an hour. Towards the end, he was putty in my hands! He was totally relaxed, with his legs just hanging- and he even let me rub his front feet!!! He didn't even snap at me!!! ...what a good boy... maybe he's not so evil, after all.

As for the upstairs, we're still working on the decorations. That will have to be another post.

We're looking forward to all of you coming to visit!!!

Meet Evil.

2009-07-12T23:50:00.005-05:00

An Ornate Box Turtle.

Tyler spotted him on the side of the road on our way back from Sterling 4th of July weekend.
We figured it was too dangerous to leave him there, so I asked Tyler if he wanted to just take him home and we'd clean him up and take him over to Palmer lake the next day. He agreed that was a good idea.

The turtle looked pretty happy about it too... Notice his smile.

Of course, that was right before he tried to bite off Ty's finger. We took him home anyway.

Meet Alex. He's a friend of ours, we took him up to Sterling with us. He has a brother up there that he hadn't seen in a while, so we thought since we were headed up anyway- we'd just take him along. He added lots of laughs to the 3+ hour car ride.

This is when we told Alex we were actually going to take the turtle home with us. He kinda thinks we're nuts. But hey, he's the one who bought a plant at the Sterling Walmart to bring back with him.. I'm just sayin'...

It worked out well though.

Now, this is when he got his name. He kept trying to do flips in my hands to get away from me. He was being CRAZY! So- I named him Evil... as in Evil Knievel. Little did I know it would be so fitting.

Now that it's about a week later, Josh and Ty are both in love with him. Especially because he's an omnivore, and it's SO much fun to watch him eat super worms. It looks like Evil is now officially part of the Adams Family.

I figure it'll work out ok, I've been asking Ty when I could get a dog- since we'll have a backyard starting Wednesday. Ty laughs every time I bring it up- so this is a close second, I guess. Evil will be an outside turtle. He'll be free to roam around the backyard, eating all the bugs he wants. I'm sure my garden will probably be a big part of his diet as well, I'll just have to get over that.

As his name implies, he's not the friendliest turtle I've ever met.. but Josh is VERY good with him- It actually surprised me. He's definitely his father's son.

Here's Evil, nice and clean after a dip in the sink.

And this is a picture I took of Tyler trying to show me a June Bug. I had never seen one before, but it flew away just as I snapped the picture. bummer.

In other news:

2009-07-09T14:24:00.002-05:00

We got the house! Also, the appraisal was done this week and came back perfectly!
Looks like there's nothing in our way to close on the 15th (ONLY 6 DAYS AWAY) and MOVE IN!!!!
Needless to say, I'm SO excited!!!

***Only one small thing... the dishwasher in the house is broken... (I guess in the last year that it's been vacant, someone turned it on when there was no water hooked up to it...) so that'll suck having to wash all the dishes by hand for the first little while... No one has one just layin' around they'd like to give us, do they?? ;)

Anyway- I'll be taking pictures and posting them of our new home shortly!!!! So stay tuned!!!!

4th of July FUN

2009-07-09T13:52:00.006-05:00

Tyler and Brian setting off a bunch of fire crackers.. the kids loved watching them.

Me, mom and dad

Jimmy's neighbors had a bunch of little *kittens that were running all over the place. Josh LOVED it!

Josh, Anakin, Chloe and Owen watching fireworks. Josh sure loves his cousins.

And back at the hotel, Nana found a FROG! Josh and Ty couldn't have been happier!

Josh said, "It squeaks when I squish it!" lol poor *frog....

*No frogs or kittens were harmed in the taking of these pictures.

Baby Reagan!

2009-06-09T17:10:00.003-05:00

I'm lucky enough to be able to watch my niece, Reagan, a few times a week. She is getting to be so much fun! She just started eating solid foods, grabbing and pulling things (like my hair..), and giggling a ton!

I was able to snap a short video today of her cute little giggles- She's so squeaky and wonderful- I just had to share!

((Sorry about my redundant noises- it always amazes me what babies can get you to do!! LOL Oh well, sounding silly is totally worth her reaction!!))