Cool Dude

We are on our way to Tillamook for an icecream today. Now for those of you who know how far Tillamook is then you will think we are crazy and laugh at us. I guess I have a little of my dad in me. But here is a cute picture of Keegan in his cool sunglasses all dressed up and ready to go. Happy sunny Saturday.

Growing

This is a picture of Myles at 3 weeks old. He is growing so much so fast. This little guy seems to be hungry all the time. He always wants something in his mouth. He gets fussy when he doesn't have something to suck on. However, tonight his daddy cradled him and he sat with daddy so calmly for quite awhile. It was refreshing to have him just sit calmly without looking like he is starving. Myles is really strong. He holds his head up alot. He is still so stinking adorable I just melt everytime that I look at him. I really want to cherish the time I get to be with him before I have to head back to work full time. It is going by so quickly. He is truely a blessing to our family and I just love him to pieces.

Goodbye ole Blue

Well the time has come for us to give back the winning Mini Van. It was a sad day. The van has worked out so nice for us. We will miss the automatic opening doors, the built in dvd player and all the extra space. The van took us many places, here and there. We even traveled across seas to foreign territory together. We counted on the van to take us back and forth to Idaho on several occassions. We enjoyed traveling with company in the comfort of her 7 seats. She was a trusty ole van.
We only had to put it in the shop 4 times while we had her in our 1 year. But we knew the day would come when we would have to say our goodbyes. We asked about keeping her, but the dealer was insistant on getting her back. The price to keep her was beyond our limits. So it just wasn't meant to be. We parted ways but not without a fight. Upon preparing to leave behind the keys for good the dealer decided that he wanted to charge us $150 cleaning fee. I don't think so. So upon another trip to Woodburn we took her to Purdy's car wash where she was cleaned and dried for the grand price of $1. The dealer was rude to us when returning her because we wouldn't buy another vehicle from them. But there was no clause in the lease saying that upon return we had to buy a vehicle. So we handed over the keys for good and left her behind. There is no doubt that she will make another family very happy. And for us, we are back to a cramped up Jeep. But at least when the baby cries he is close enough to reach back and put the pacifier back in his mouth. And when Keegan gets mad and throws his juice at you, it really hits you.

But we will find joy in our Jeep...........So long Ole Blue. We thank you for your 1 year of free service.

KEEGAN VS. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS

Yesterday Matt and I wanted to get out of the house and so we decided to take Keegan to the movie Monsters vs. Aliens. My mom had given us some free movie tickets that she had gotten from rebates that she sent in and the expiration date was yesterday. Matt and I had intended to use the tickets to have a date before baby Myles was born, but that never happened. Can't really remember the last time that we went on a date. I think it was before Keegan was born. Since that obviously didn't happen then I was going to use the tickets to take my mom to a movie when she was here last week. Well time went by too fast and that didn't happen either. Anyways, back to the movie. We needed to use the tickets yesterday or else they would go to waste and I didn't want that to happen. So we thought maybe Keegan would like to see the kid movie. Before we left the house we asked him if he was going to be a good boy at the movie theater. His response "OTAY" We told him that if he was a good boy then we would buy him popcorn. Again "OTAY" so we chose an 11:15 am movie thinking there probably wouldn't be too many other people at that one on a Tuesday, and we were right. Only 1 other guy and little girl. Great!!! So we had to pay 6.50 for a ticket for Keegan. Really!!! He is only 2, and then we had to pay $6.00 for the popcorn. I made Matt stop at the gas station before going so that we could get a soda and candy and sneak them in the diaper bag, grand total $6.10. We got seated and have the popcorn ready to go and for the first 15 minutes of previews Keegan was well behaved eating as much popcorn as he could shovel in. The movie starts and he seems to be doing ok, and then a little while goes by and he seems to be getting a little bored. The movie I must mention was screaming loud and poor little Myles was not too happy about that. So I was trying to hold him and plug his ears. Next thing I know Keegan is off his chair and trying to get past me. I grabbed his arm and sat him back down. Pretty soon this was all that we were doing. He was trying to crawl on the floor past my legs, then he was trying to crawl over the chairs. Threatening to take the popcorn away was not working. He didn't care about the movie and quite frankly neither did I. Next thing we know Keegan has run out of juice. Oh no!!!! "I want Juice daddy, I want Juice" We don't have any more juice, "Scream....more juice daddy"
Finally the only way to quiet him was to put some soda in his cup. We haven't given him soda before, now he kept saying "more daddy, more" Was this movie going to ever end. The answer, Yes, it did finally end and we were all more that willing to leave the theater and decided that taking a 2 year old to the movie, still not a good idea. There is not an alien crazy enough to abduct our little monster. $18.60 later we are on our way home, all a little grumpy. Good news is, the movie tickets didn't expire. Next time we will invest the $18.00 in a babysitter and come home happy.