My Boys...
Here are some fun facts about my two little ones:

NATHAN
- loves playing the computer
- hates stickers
- loves letters and numbers
- loves playing in the water/bath
- loves Super Why
- weighs about 40 pounds (needs another car seat soon)
- can read pretty well
- is potty trained-WOO HOO!
- loves fruit and pretzels

JACOB
- loves to chew on his blanket
- loves milk
- loves animals
- hates when Nathan lays on him
- loves playing in the water/bath
- loves Elmo (Melmo in his language)
- is learning lots of new words
- is great at animal impersonations
- loves to go outside
- is very smiley

That's all I can think about right now. The can be a handful at times and I wished they played together better, but I do love them. They are very different in a lot of ways but still do have some common characteristics. I look forward to them growing in their personalities and building memories as a family.

Daryl Through the Decades!

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It's Over
Jacob did really well and we are back home now. He seems back to normal. He was really mad after he woke up but that wore off quickly. The doctor said a lot of stuff came out of his ears and it was really sticky so it was good to get all that out. He got some food and now he is pretty happy.

Jacob's Surgery
Jacob gets his ear tubes in the morning. We go in at 7:15 and his surgery is scheduled at 8:15. The surgery only lasts about 10-15 minutes and it is done as an outpatient procedure. We will update the blog when we get home and let you know how it goes. Please pray that Jacob does well and that he doesn't have any kind of reaction to the anesthesia.

The reason he is having tubes put in is because he has constant ear infections. The fluid in his ears won't go away even using all the medicines we have tried and has started to get thick and gooey. When this happens it is really hard for it to drain on its own. He is constantly itching his ears.

Trip Out West
We had a great time on our vacation (without kids!)


First we went to Vegas and stayed at the MGM Grand.


We got to see all of the sites and sounds there. We visited the Hoover Dam.

Where they were building a really neat bridge.

It was stinking hot!

We also visited the Grand Canyon!

We got to see the beautiful Red Rocks of Sedona as well.

The Painted Desert and Petrified Forest was really neat as well.

We couldn't pass up an opportunity to "stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona." HA!

Overall we had a great time. We came away ahead in money from Daryl winning at a slot machine on the way out of town. We got to meet some really neat people at our Bed & Breakfast in Flagstaff. Thanks to our parents for watching the boys so we could get away for our 7th anniversary!