Aubrey's Haircut

Aubrey got something in her hair and decided to get it out herself. It was under the top layer of hair, so I made it work.

This was the damage done.

A little while later I was brushing her hair and thought the side of her hair seemed thinner. I asked if she had cut her and hair and she said no. But I found some hair on the floor by the table ( not the stuff in the picture below). While I was cleaning the bathroom, I found her hair. She had hidden it in their step stool, there is a top part that opens up to put stuff inside. No wonder I had a hard time making it look good that day.


So we went and had her hair cut. It does look cute and it is very easy to do in the morning. Now here is hoping that she does not cut it for a while.

An update

So I have pictures, just not ready to put up yet. But we are is alive and I think I would put something up here about everyone. Richard is still in school, getting closer to being done and I think we are all ready for it. Aubrey started school. It is Pre-K, goes everyday and she loves it. She is growing up way to fast for me. She thinks that she can do anything and everything. She also has her first loose tooth. My baby is growing up. Mason is still as crazy as ever. He wants to go to school as well, but enjoys the time he gets to play Dad's game (the Wii) and time with Mom. Becca is getting big, not sure how big. I haven't taken her in for her 2 months yet, bacause I was changing Drs and now she has my cold and I don't want her to have her shots while she is sick. She is a drool monester and I think might be teething. Really she is a good baby and gets cuter everyday.

some new pictures

Just to compare...

I thought it might be interesting to post a baby picture from the day of birth for each of our kids. With Aubrey we didn't have a digital camera, so the picture is taken from a camcorder.

New Baby!!!!

While Jenell is recovering I thought I would take a minute to post our announcement! Our new daughter Rebecca Carol Marie was born July 21st at 8.0 lbs 20 inches. Everything went really smooth and both Jenell and the baby are doing really well. I'm going to repost a link from my sis Teresa's blog page that covers the picture scene pretty well and you can visit her page here for more current post.
http://www.teresas-corner.blogspot.com/

Richard and Jenell had their little girl today! Here are the stats..

Name: Rebecca Carol Marie Goates (I love her name!)

Birth: July 21, 2009 @ 3:48

Weight: 8 lbs even

Height: 20 inches even

Now on to the photos!

Aubrey and Mason outside the Hospital.

Mom and baby. I think Jenell looks great for just having a little one.

The whole family!

The whole family take 2.

Grandma Jensen and Rebecca.

Rebecca's little feet.

Full body shot.

One happy aunt! I don't think I have held a baby this young since Jon. I don't even know if I held Jon when he was this young.

I was so happy to be holding her!

I was talking with her. :)

Her eyes are open! She is so cute! She may look grumpy but she wasn't. She was in a pretty good mood.

Aubrey with her new baby sister.

One happy brother.

Proud father with Rebecca.

I liked this shot.

Aubrey, Grandma and Rebecca

Mom, Dad and Rebecca!

Posted by Teresa at 8:56 PM

Pictures

The kids in their cute Easter clothes. Yes I am well behind on the pictures, but at last I have put some on.

So Mason, I am sure that we have some of Aubrey looking just like this. You have to love kids.

Finally...

So still no pictures, Richard has been busy with school and I forget to ask him about them when he is home. But what I do have is a Mason story, yes we do have another child beside Aubrey. We took the kids to the pool yesterday, it was a lot easier than going to the beach. Mason was normal Mason and wouldn't let go of either one of us. For some reason he decided that he wanted to swim while we were there. That is what he spent the next hour doing. For some reason my kids think that you have to have your whole self in the water to swim. He had me sit on the stairs near him and he would put his whole body in the water and kick to me. Some where in all of this he decided that he was going to walk around the pool, which ended in him stopping in the middle and climbing in. This started a whole new game for him. He would jump into me and then swim to the wall. He would let me get him and then let go so he could swim back. It was a whole new turn of events for me and I think that he enjoyed some of the freedom as well. Here's hoping that he will remember this the next time we go. And just so some of you feel better about your weather, it was 93 degrees here today, but felt like 107. We spent the morning at the splash park and now inside staying cool. All I can say is it is hot.

Last few weeks

I really was going to put pictures up, but the hard drive they are on will not come up. So I will have to tell a bit sorry. We have been busy the last couple of weeks and it seems like it will go on like this until the kid comes. Aubrey finished up school last week, I am going to miss her going there. It was a very good school and her teachers were great. I also had her in swim lessons at the YMCA. I have decided that she is part fish. She loves to swim, not just a little but get your whole head under water and go. She spent the two weeks of lessons trying to swim across the pool by her self so she could go down the water slides. She was final able to get it. I should tell you that the pool is used by the swim teams here, so it is a good length for a four year old. Now I am doing lessons with Mason and trying to get him not so scared of the water. He could care less, he just likes to play and hold on as tight to mom as he can. Aubrey was also in T-ball this last month and basketball this month. She liked doing the T-ball, but she is having a harder time with basketball. Now she is telling us that she wants to do ballet. I just have to find some place that is cheap and I can back out of if she decides that she doesn't like it. As for Mason he just wants to do everything that Aubrey does and has gotten really good at throwing fits. Needless to say he spends a great deal of time on his bed.

And another

Richard told me last night that our blog was sad. So I thought I would write a little bit since I am slowing cleaning the kitchen, long story and I am still mad about it. I haven't put anything on here, because I still have no idea where our pictures are and I forget how to get to them. And I have been trying to get the house moved around for when the baby comes. We have had a lot going on and still do, but I am hoping to get at least my room and the kids room done before July, here's hoping. In other school news, Aubrey has one day left, next week. Kind-of sad, I love where she is now and hate for her to have to move on. Richard is super busy and we are lucky some days to talk to him, today will be one of those days. He takes his big national exam on Saturday, we hoping that he will pass. I only want to have to go through this stress and money once. But I need to get some more in the kitchen done before I have to go and get Aubrey, so I will try to get some pictures on here.

Big week

We have a lot happen in the last little while and have been busy, busy. First of all, Richard finished all of his stuff for his OT degree and is done with that part. His graduation will this Friday and he has a while before he has to go back to school. We have been enjoying having him and around and have been keeping him busy. We took the kids to see Monsters vs Aliens in 3D, everyone loved it. We also had The Sanders' here for a week. It was fun to have them and spend like everyday at the beach. They are missed by the kids. We also took the kids to see Disney on Ice. They both loved this as well. We went to a couple of Easter egg hunts and i know the kids got their fill of candy just from these. We finally managed to get our Easter eggs done today. So we really didn't do a whole lot for hiding eggs and what not. It is hard to do when Richard has meeting early and then has to stay after church. In the end the kids got their eggs and baskets, so life is good. We also had a funeral this week for a little girl I had in nursery. The family did very well and I think I cried the whole time. That was the hardest part of our week, which has been filled with fun activities and visitors. Now I am ready to stay home, clean and get things done for our next visitors.

Heeeeere Fishy Fishy Fishy

So this last weekend the Bishop, the 1st counselor and I had a bishopric meeting out in the ocean, I'll be honest though we spent most of the time fishing. I love fishing in the ocean because you never know what you are going to catch. I took my camera this time in case we caught anything neat. Here are some of the fish we caught:

OK I didn't catch a dolphin but it wasn't far from my mind because at the first fishing hole we went to there were at least half a dozen dolphins feeding within a 30 foot radius from our boat and at times they were surfacing within 1o feet. Obviously they would be too smart to eat a manhandled piece of shrimp on a hook but it that wasn't a big deal for the rest of our catch. (I took this picture at Marine Land).

So this is my first catch of the day. Pretty exciting! A STING RAY! I'd like to see someone catch that doing lake fishing! Oh and I'm the one holding the pole, Bishop is risking his life to release the hook.

This is commonly called a Jack (you can Google it as Crevalle Jack). I was told that it's not a good eat for humans and potentially poisonous. From what I read on the interwebs it has blood red meat...yum. Bishop caught this one.

A CATFISH! Aubrey loves to ask if I caught one of these when I get home and I'm less excited to tell her that I catch these like their going out of style. Unfortunately even though the fish looks like it may have a lot of meat the head of those things goes back to the dorsal fin so really there is about 5 inches for a fillet on the fish pictured above. I have caught bigger that we did end up keeping but, not on this trip. These fish make the most annoying sound when they are out of the water and therefore I've renamed them the Pig of the Sea because that's what they sound like.


This one, also caught by Bishop, is a Red Fish. Apparently its good eats but this one was not large enough to keep.


This is the infamous Flying fish as you can see this species enjoys keeping the predators well fed. Although the pelican is a big fan of this fish it's apparently called Sailor's Choice but I think that's more of a local name, to me it looked a lot like a Blue Gill.


Stephen Collins caught this bad boy. As you can see he's ready to remove the eel by the the only means possible...DECAPITATION! The skin of these eels are like leather and the hook is lodged about 3 inches into the throat(is that what it's called?). Living with a hook the way it is would be torture and the eel would eventually die. SO, Like a bad horror movie set to black and white with dynamic camera angles in one swing the body and head were separated and blood splattered all over the side of the boat, the body laid on the floor of the boat for about 15 minutes and just kept swimming like some kind of zombie eel.

So we caught other fish and actually kept a few. Funny how I didn't take a picture of any fish that we kept and although they are gone they will not be forgotten: Flounder, Whiting and Blue Fish.

I was excited that I got to take home the fillets and try my hand at battering and deep frying. I think they turned out great and the kids really liked them. Check out the video below of Aubrey helping me cook them.

Still Alive

I have been meaning to post, but I was hoping to have pictures to put with it. I can't find any of our new pictures. I am sure that Richard took them off the camera, but I have no idea where they are. So they will have to wait. Other than that things are going good. It seems as if Mason and I are finally getting over everything, here's hoping and the weather has been some what nice for like a week. Which worked out perfect because it was the week that my mom came to play with us. We were able to enjoy the beach the whole week. We even got some cute pictures. I am willing to post them of the kids, but I am not a huge fun of me in a swimming suit while pregnant. Really I am not a huge fun of any pictures of me while pregnant, so don't be sad if you never see any. And as for those of you who don't know, we are having another girl, Aubrey was right. Which she came up with some names for her. They are Aubrey, Underdog, and Shoeshine. All I can say is at least someone in the family is thinking of names.

Another Funny Aubrey Story

Awhile ago we got Aubrey some shoes which were on sale at Wal-Mart. These shoes happen to have Tinkerbelle on them and came with pixie dust. I didn't look at it too closely, but it really was just glitter. Richard and I thought we had put it in a place she would never find it, but she can find anything that we don't want her to. So yesterday she decided to use some of it, on Mason. I think that she dumped a ton of it on him, because he sure did sparkle. She told me that she did it so that they could fly, like from Peter Pan. That right there in it's self was funny, but the story sure doesn't stop there. Later that night, Cookie our cat was out. I wasn't feeling so hot so I was lying down and not really noticing what she was doing. Poor Cookie was getting dusted with pixie dust so that she could fly too. The poor cat was covered head to toe. It was way too hard to get mad at Aubrey, she looked cute and innocent when she told us why she did it. All I can say is good thing she is so cute.

So cute

I had a doctors appointment yesterday, for the baby and I. Since Mason is sick I decided to take the kids with me , I hate being the parent that gets the other kids sick. It went a lot better than I thought it would. They were both still full of energy, but at least it was really quick. Aubrey was excited and keep telling the midwife that she has a baby sister, Mason wants a baby brother. Either way one might be happy. Aubrey was able to find the heart beat, with the little machine. She that it was fun. When we were all done Aubrey was a little disappointed, she thought that the doctor was going to take the baby out of my tummy, poor girl is in for a long wait.

Tried of it

I am sure you all are very tired of hearing that Mason and I are sick again, because I am tired of being sick. We both got our colds back and losing our voices. I lost mine last night and it kind of came back today. So if you are thinking of calling me, you might want to email me instead. I am just hoping that it will warm up here a little bit and we can get better. As for Aubrey and Richard you may ask, they both are fine. For some reason they don't get sick like we do. Here's hoping the next one doesn't get my immune system.

About time

Well I finally decided to join the YMCA here. I love the fact that I could work out at home, but it was getting hard to do with the kids. They both know how to unlock the front door now and I was also afraid that they might hurt themselves while I was running. Anyway I get to my real story, I have always wanted to try a Zumba class. For those of you who don't know what it is, you can find videos online showing what it is like. i have been to two classes, but have had fun. It is kind-of funny though, most of the people in the class are older, like 70's or 80's, and they can shake their hips better than I can. The first time I went the kids were in the kid care, Aubrey was waiting for me at the pick up area because she thought that I wasn't coming back to get her. Mason was more than ok with being there, it was like a whole new set of toys for him to enjoy.

Three is a Magic Number

I hope Mason is ready to be a middle child because as of July 21ish we are expecting to have another addition to the family. Today Jenell and I went into the Dr to get an ultrasound. So Happy Birthday Jenell you got to see you unborn child on your birthday and here's hoping that three is not the magic number that causes insanity.