My latest purchase

I'm so excited I finally bought myself a bike! I've been wanting one since we moved to Coeur d'Alene. Tom thought I should get a mountain bike or a road bike, but I picked out this beauty!

I can ride Tom's mountain or road bike if I want to, one advantage to being the same height as your husband, and I really wanted something to put a bike seat on for Jane (which I just bought from REI.com with my dividend and 20$ off!)and ride around town with the boys. There is a great new bike trail about 1/4 mile from my house and it goes down to the Croc center (the new HUGE community center opening in May) and on to the Riverstone Park (play at the park and eat Coldstone), and on to the city beach. The city beach is about 4 1/2 miles I think, so totally do-able with the kids on bikes. I'm really excited!
So here is Jane's latest. When you pick her up, she puts her arms around your neck and squeezes. It's so sweet.
This is how I found her the other day. She LOVES smoothies with the Magic bullet! She pulls everything out of my cupboards lately. Oh well, keeps her entertained while I cook!

Gotta love those teeth coming in! It changes her whole look! She's got 2 on the top, 4 on the bottom, and her molars are about popping though. We've had a few sleepless nights as she tries to pop them through.

I really should post a picture of the boys. I haven't been good at taking pictures lately! They look the same, but Braden did get a good scratch on his nose and cheek from "playing" last week with Cameron and Jackson. Crazy boys!

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http://www.laughyourway.com/blog/young-marriage/

My friend from high school, Susan, forwarded me this link and I REALLY enjoyed this article! I think you all would too! Cut and paste it into your web browser. I think you'll be forwarding it to your friends too!

To anyone who ever said I was too young to get married, too young to have kids yet, or that we have too many kids...HA!

Where is Omak?

Tom works some weekends in Omak doing hospital cases Friday and Saturday. We decided that this trip we'd take the kids and go explore Omak. It is about a 3 hour drive from CDA. What is there to do there? Well, we stayed in a pretty nice place so we enjoyed the Continental breakfast (twice the first morning...the kids were up by 7 so we ate at 7:15 and then again at 9:30), swimming in the pool, we went bowling, to the Dollar store, visited Dad at work, went to the library, out to dinner, and swam and swam some more. It was a great little get-away and the kids had fun!