Good News and Home for the Weekend

I was going to do this post earlier in the week, but I have gotten a little distracted. I am so happy to say that I have found all my posts from my old blog!! I've been thinking about some of my posts that I lost, so I search on Google for "thehardytimes anniversary" and I found it. I had to click on "cached" under it, and it takes me to the page. Then I started looking up other ones that I remembered, like Quinn's trauma. I kept finding them and were saving the pages to my desktop. Matt had tried searching for March 2007 before and it never came up, but I started searching by month, sometimes had type it in different ways, but I ended up finding all my post right from the start. Needless to say I have been trying to get up some of my old post, starting from the most recent. It's going to be a long process, especially since I have to find and reload all the pictures. It's so annoying, yet at the same time I am so happy!!!!!

This last weekend we went back home. Matt's sister Laura came home, and we haven't seen her since May. Our niece Rose has gotten so big!! She's a year now and walking, and she's a total girl. Mike and Laura are going to end up having all the girls for us I think. I'm not seeing it in our cards. We were so glad that we were able to see Laura and Rose, they'll be coming home again at Christmas.

Right after we got there Malcolm did a face plant into the side of the couch. I don't know what's up with him lately. He's been getting hurt left and right. It's usually Quinn who's accident prone. Like all kids he wanted a band-aid, and when he looked in the mirror, he thought he was pretty cool. He even got just a little bit of a bloody nose. He must have hit himself really hard!!
Quinn's loving the apples that Paka is peeling and slicing for him. It's so cute Quinn totally came up with this name "Paka" for Merle. He won't call him grandpa, and sometimes has corrected me on the name. I hope all the kids will call him that, it's just so dang cute.Rose with her cute little round face. I think she really enjoyed her cousins. Malcolm was cute with her too. He wanted to make sure she wouldn't choke on the toys downstairs. They always talk about baby Rose. Quinn also loved Rose. He does this funny thing with babies. He's always touching their heads. I'm not sure why. I love the white trash look. Matt didn't even do his onesie up, just tucked the flap into the back of his shirt.
Rose was mad at me, because she couldn't get past the chairs to go down the stairs. That's all she ever wanted to do, and of course hasn't quite mastered them like she thinks she can.
Brianne and Tom had a weekend getaway to Coeur d'Alene so Mom and Pop were watching Jayni and Mason. We spent the majority of the weekend with Matt's family, but while Quinn was napping on Saturday, Mack and I went to the park with them. Jayni and Malcolm love to play together, and generally play very well together. Jayni is just so dang cute with her new little haircut!!
Mason was all grin like always. He's started jumping and spinning, and it's so cute. I can't believe how grown up he's getting. I was going to say how big he his getting, but that's to be expected since he's bigger then Quinn. He was having so much fun and never slowing down.
Malcolm loving Rose. I think he must have thought he was pretty cool to be feeding Rose her bottle. (Even though she doesn't need the help anymore.)
The last weekend we were home, Quinn couldn't get enough of his lawn mower, so he was pretty excited to get back outside to play with it. Of course I could only get a shot of his back.
I was trying to get the boys to sit down together for a picture, but it wasn't working. I was totally wanting to get some family pictures while we were there, but it never happened. A weekend is just to short. Malcolm was enjoying the leaves though.
I took tons of pictures of Rose this weekend. I guess it's because she will sit still and just stare at me. I love her big round eyes!!
As I said before she is a total girl. She loves shoes, (She picked out some cute pink sparkly shoes all by herself, she know what she wants.), and she has this cute little purse that she wanted as her "new" toy. She will put toys in it and carry it around. It's so cute. This is her all ready to go to church, with her purse.