Going away from Green

This picture is supposed to look like a luscious beautiful greeneried garden. But instead, it doesn't. My 3 year old, Cole, decided to get a pair of scissors and snip snip snip at it. Cutting down most every leaf and stem. Some of the plants may revive, but others have no hope.

I still like cole though.

I have many of these stories, one time 15 month old Ben threw a can of corn at my head while I was laying down, and split it open really bad. I still liked him afterward too.

I love my boys, so they better love me!

Summer of the monkeys Russon style

It is now summer time, it feels like it too! Jeff is off for the next couple months. Now I don't find myself in this chair as often, but I find myself still not taking advantage of the little extra time I have. I still squander it on talking jeff's ears off. We have some project planned for this summer, and my parents will be coming to stay with us for 10 days. Maybe that is the boost I need to stop squandering my time, and to get to work.
-Peter thingy is really growing, infact he is over 100th percentile in his weight. Proof that he is spoiled.
-Jacob keeps getting all these calls from friends from his class at school. I guess they don't have 3 younger brothers to play with them like Jacob has.

Peteristic Avenue Bar

This is where all the milk has gone to.... In order younger pictures first

Had to throw this one in...

Mother's Day

For the birth story kind of people

It was a rainy night, not saying too much since that is normal around here. Jeff and Gina finally got into bed with the light out at 11pm. And at midnight gina felt her water break. Gina knew for sure it was time to go to the hospital. Jeff got out of bed and called Ken and Jan to come over. They didn't answer the first time, but thankfully they came as fast as they could. Gina's contractions quickly got stronger and closer together. They got to the hospital by 12:45. Gina was dilated to a 4, so the nurses were not too worried. Once they got Gina into a delivery bed, they asked if she wanted an epidural. Gina said yes, but would have to wait 20 minutes. The contractions were getting very close and very very strong. After a few contractions, gina let the nurse know that the last one made her want to push. So the nurse checked to see what Gina was dilated too. It was a nine. There would be no epidural...They paged the doctor. The doctor got there, got ready and Gina started to push with the next contraction. She pushed twice and baby peter was out. This was very different since all of gina's other deliveries were with epidurals. Baby peter was born at 1:42 am. Just under an hour of being at the hospital. Thankfully at the hospital.

It was April 21st which was Peter's original due date. Grandma Stout says, "Peter likes to keep a schedule!"

Peter weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces, and 19 1/2 inches long. He really knows how to nurse very very well. ANd We will see if Gina will ever be the same again. Until then...

Hello, this is gina speaking... maybe too much speaking

This past bit, we have done projects and been lazy. I guess it evens out a bit. This past week was our spring break. We would accomplish some and play some. We flew a kite with the boys, on the only day that was nice weather out of 9 days. It just rained and poured the rest of the time. We went to Goodwill and bought a bunch of puzzles to do together as a family. The boys really enjoyed the 100-200 piece puzzles. Then we stepped up to 500 pieces and they struggled a bit, but when we did out 1000 piecer Ben said, "A kid can't even do this, this is too hard!"
He said this with a scowl.
We also went to the Life of Christ display that the Vancouver West Stake puts on. We had a good easter and we had a good General Conference. I learned in General Conference that doing my job as a mother is no duty to shirk. It seemed I learned that through several talks.
We had a thanksgiving feast for Easter Dinner. It was yums. Jenny bought lots of the ingredients and we had her over to eat it all. Being 8 months pregnant I kept thinking, my time is really not going to let me do extravagant meals when baby peter comes. This thought comes to my mind with many things. While I am laying down, while I am eating, while I am going to the bathroom, when I am doing the dishes, laundry, and with a lot of my OCD's.
At least I am being realistic now, right? Maybe hopefully somehow I will be pleasantly surprised. I don't know if any of this makes sense. Don't let it boggle your mind.




Jacob made this lego thing, made the paper word for it, and took the picture. This is what he did while we were working in the yard.

Cole doing cole like things as usual.... I really like a cole.

These are pictures of the Life of Christ displays. They have a children's activity room. Ben really enjoyed grinding the wheat, and Jacob ventured to dress up.

These pictures were taken at Jeff's school. Jacob had no school the friday before spring break started, so we all took lunch to jeff's classroom and ate it with him. It was rather fun. Mr. Schomer asked me what the special occasion was, and I said, "We got to do fun things while we can (before the baby comes)"

After lunch we stayed to meet the kids in Jeff's class. They really enjoyed showering Jacob, Ben and Cole with attention. It really surprised me that the boys seemed more maternal and affectionate with our boys than the girls did.

Zip (has nothing to do with this post)

I was working outside one saturday, jakey was supposed to be out helping me. So I went in to explain to him that he needed to be out helping us. I walked in the house, and this is what was layed out on the table... It was the hundredth day of school the coming monday and to jakey it is like a holiday. He did the weed flowers and the paper and the set up all himself. It was hard to get after him for not being outside helping us after seeing that.


This is at the park in our neighborhood. Ben tried and tried for a while to hit the ball at the board and to be able to hit it again.

Cole doing cole like things once again

Great news. FOr the past month and a half jeff has been using a pedometer to track how many steps he takes each day. All of the teachers were given one at his school, and they were having a race to 504,800 steps. Jeff won! So he will receive a 50 dollar fredmyer card.

This is a picture of jakey using an old pedometer we had to track his steps. He really got into it too.

Ben's wrestling tournament. Ben had 2 matches. The first one was clearly bigger than he was. And the second one (the one in these pictures) is his size. Yet the second boy he wrestled not only won ben, but he ended up winning the whole thing. Isn't that interesting. BUt ben was such a good sport. He tried his hardest. And he seemed to have a smile on his face throughout the whole thing. He did enjoy it. He liked getting a medal at the end.

This picture is for you Momzy! I am what I am.

February, a month I like

What has been on my mind? Hmmm. I would have to say figuring out how to make my life simpler. I have been working on our food storage, my scrapbook, and watching the Olympics. I love my family, My sisters and my sister in laws are so good for me. I need them dearly. I wish I did half the things for them that popped into my mind. Yes, I am one of those who thinks of small acts of service, but doesn't do them. Darny! Something I need to work on.
Jeff has been a goody to have around, he is the one goody that I haven't eaten in the house. Good thing. I am in the good old fashion 3rd trimester of pregnancy. And it has been interesting. I hope I can last well. So that is my mixture of random thoughts, and here is an update of our to do to das...



This is where we have spent all of our Thursday nights lately. Pee Wee Wrestling. We just put Ben in it, it is his thing, and he loves it. He is the most pee wee-est out there, but he still loves it.
This is Cole watching...

Ben is the one in the grey shirt.

It was my birthday on ground hog's day as well. And the pouch for my belly is baby peter mind you.

Cole doing cole-like things.

We made a blueberry banana smoothie. The boys loved it. "Smoothie, it does a body good"