See-through Fireplace

Here are the pictures of the See-through fireplace. Brian did a fantastic job on it and we've had a fire every night since he finished it last week...ok well not the one night I was home with the boys by myself...I'm still a little intimidated by the HUGE fireplace. I'm sure I'll work up the courage to start a fire by myself some day, but for now I'll let my caveman build the fires. :-)

FIRE!


Brian did everything on this side. He welded everything, made all the handles, doors, EVERYTHING!


It kind of looks small here, but it's big in real life.


This is the view from inside the house.

Sharing

The last month or so we've really struggled to get Logan to eat. Julie says he eats great at daycare, so at least I know he is getting enough nutrients/food, but he just doesn't want to eat at home with us. I'll make dinner and he won't eat it and then about 20 min later he'll want an apple and eat the whole thing. I guess for now I'm cool with that cause an apple is better than candy. Don't get me wrong, most of the time it's, "Snack Please". Which refers to the gummy fruit snacks. The nice thing is he has no problem sharing his fruit snacks with people. Ask him to share his toys and all hell breaks loose, but he'll gladly, without even asking, share his fruit snacks with you...and with Cody...

(When I was taping this video I did not realize that Logan is cramming as many fruit snacks into his mouth as he possibly can...whooops...guess I should pay attention more and stop watching through the video camera...)



"Aaahh...Mom Cody really wanted that fruit snack. He told me himself."


"Yeah Mom why can't I have a fruit snack?"


"Someday they'll get to share for real."

Twinsfest 2010

This past weekend was Twinsfest 2010. I went on Friday night with Kim and Keri because we wanted to get Justin Morneau's autograph. We waited in line outside (in the freezing cold) for about an hour before the doors opened. There were so many people in line that it took us another 20 mins to get inside even after the doors opened. Joe Mauer was signing autographs first so there was a ton of people in line for his. Once we got inside we waited for an hour and a half for Justin's autograph. The time went by really fast so it wasn't bad. This is the conversation Justin and I had during the signing...

Tee [handing him his picture to sign]: Hi, how are you?

Justin: Good. Did you make that? [pointing at my shirt]

Tee: [Looking down at my shirt] No? (Then I got kind of flustered and looked back at Kim who was behind me).

Justin: Oh, I've just never seen one like that before. Where'd you get it?

Tee: [Still flustered] Aaahhh.... (Then I very cooly start pointing into space randomly...luckily Kim saved me...)

Kim: The pro-shop.

Justin: Oh I see.

Tee: Nope I made it myself...just for you...

Justin laughs

Tee walks away completely embarrassed and flustered.

It was so funny...the nervous star factor totally set in and I just didn't know what to say.

Anyway, here are a few pictures. The rest of the night was fun and uneventful compared to the Justin signing...although we did look at each other all night and go, "Did you make that?". :-)

Me and Bert Blyleven


Jason Kubel, Pat Neshek, Glen Perkins, Delmon Young


Kim and I


Keri and I


Justin


I've got posts scheduled for every day this week...keep checking back! :-)

Slackers...

I know I've been really slacking on the blog posting lately. No excuse really other than work is crazy and I'm tired and also maybe cause nothing exciting is happening around the Ranch. I'll try to take some pictures of the boys this weekend and update everyone with what's been happening around the Ranch...for now here's a few pictures from this past weekend.

Brian finished the see through fireplace last weekend. Part of finishing it was welding it together in place, so he borrowed Bob's welder and started welding. Logan was intrigued by the idea, Of course we didn't let him watch Daddy welding but he really liked wearing Daddy's welding helmet and goggles.

Look Mom a welding helmet! It's so cool!


I can curl this thing...see no problem. It isn't even heavy!


And of course because of the big game last Sunday we had to dress the boys in all Vikings. It hurt my eyes to look at them for too long, but even in purple and gold they're still cute! And yes the "Slackers" title does refer to the Vikings as well...pokey old Vikings as Becky put it on Sunday! hehehe...Good old Brett Farve! :-)

Working it out

Logan's really getting into the "I want to do what you do Mom" stage. It's pretty funny actually. He'll watch me wash my face at night and want to do everything I do. He points to his check and wants me to put the toner and moisturizer on his checks too. The other morning I came into the bathroom and this is what I found:



He had put on my workout headbands that I use to keep my hair out of my face. I laughed so hard. He looked so cute!



"Holy crap I think I'm turning into a GIRL!"


Here's a few pictures of the mouse too. He's really starting to push up when he's on his tummy and you can see his legs getting into the crawling action. Brian called that he'd be crawling before he's 6 months old...which is really early. We'll see if he actually does or not.

I love tummy time!


Rock it Cody!


I love his chubby legs


Go Pack Go! :-)

Is it Cody...or Logan?

It's pretty obvious who is who in these pictures simply based on the time of year, but see how much they look alike?




Short video of the mouse talking...

"Doing Mommy"

Logan: "Doing Mommy"

Tee: "Folding the laundry Logan."

30 seconds later...

Logan: "Doing Mommy"

Tee: "Folding the laundry Logan."

30 seconds later...

Logan: "Doing Mommy"

Tee: "Folding the laundry Logan."

30 seconds later...

Logan: "Doing Mommy"

Tee: "Folding the laundry Logan."

30 seconds later...

Logan: "Doing Mommy"

Tee: "Folding the laundry Logan."

30 seconds later...

I think you're starting to see the pattern here...all Logan does lately is walk around the house, "Doing Mommy?" "Doing Daddy?" over and over again. Sometimes I like to mix it up and through in an occasional, "I'm decapitating turtles Logan, what are you doing?" Luckily he doesn't know what that means, and just goes on his merry way only to come back 30 seconds later and ask what I'm doing again, at which point I might be mailing relief efforts to Haiti...ya just never know! :-) It's cute that he's interested in what we're doing, but answering the question about 390238 times is not cute. I know I know, it's only going to get worse when he gets to the point of "Why?", "Why?", "Why?" and I'm sure I'll come up with some creative answers to the "Why?" question too...but for now we'll just have fun with the "Doing Mommy?" question. :-)

Also wanted to let everyone know that my brother Mitchell is home safely!!! My parents, Jamie and Adam picked him up yesterday afternoon. He stopped over last night and it was so wonderful to see him! We're so glad he's home safely and doesn't have to go back in two weeks! Thank you so much Mitchell for everything you've done for the last year! He doesn't get any down time though, school starts next Monday for him already. Although I'm sure just being home is a huge relief and the stress of getting everything lined up for school and finding a place to live is something he'll be able to handle. Plus he's got a very cute girl to help him with all that stuff!

Does anyone know how to get a 4 month old to sleep longer than 4 hours at a time? Send answers/advice to me asap please!!