disclaimer photos

this is what really happens when I try to take pictures

Merry decided to wash her hair after I took her picture. She climbed on the sink and poured a cup of water on her head, then rubbed hand soap in. Jacob felt bad that Merry got in trouble so he kept giving her hugs.

March Pictures

Brief update on our fam.
Jacob is 3.75. Loves playing on the computer and riding his bike. Will now eat 3 different kinds of veggies without having a major breakdown, this is a huge accomplishment.
Merry is 2.16. She woke me up last night saying yoo hoo mommy- I have no idea where that came from. Loves pancakes and the song she calls blue blue sky (more commonly known as my Heavenly Father loves me)

Happy belated valentine's day

This is very late- but most of my time is spent laying around wishing I wasn't so large. Jacob opted not to pose for valentine's day.

Happy birthday Brian

Brian's birthday was on the 1st of February- You will know how old he is if you can count all the candles on the cake.

Merry, Merry quite contrary planting her silver bells

Random things

Kemy - the 1st photo is edited with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's preset action called antique photo. I downloaded the free trial to lightroom a couple of weeks ago - I have become sort of addicted to it now and will probably have to buy the program. I would have answered on your blog but I have never been invited. Sniff sniff. (bgenho@gmail.com)

Another funny story- last night after a dinner, I went to put Merry in the bath tub- she started crying saying there was corn in her nose. I looked- and yep there was a kernel of corn stuck up her nose - way up, not just in the squeezable part. Luckily, l have lots of practice extracting things, so armed with a bobby pin as an elevator and tweezers as a forcep I managed to extract the kernel. I have no idea why she put a kernel of corn up her nose- maybe because it fit.

for no reason at all

Funny but sort of sad things that happened- Jacob told me yesterday after he threw a fit in old navy, spilled his orange juice and then colored on the carpet with a permanent marker (luckily it was yellow) told me he was having a "bad move day." I think he actually meant bad mood day- but I bad move was more correct.
As I was taking barbie out of Merry's birthday cake I noticed that barbie's pony tail is like 4 times as thick as merry's. I actually think that barbie's hair is thicker than mine. Barbie legs and stomach are now stained a nice shade of pink from the frosting. Just a hint for anyone ever trying to make a doll cake like that- barbie's legs are freakishly long so she had to be sitting down in the cake- I had to add extra frosting around the bottom to cover her toes. Jacob then ate the frosting covering her feet and said look I took off her socks.


This is a pictures of me, my 3 sisters and sister law and our babies that were born in 2006. One of my sister's decided to drop out of the baby boom and one jumped the gun and had a baby in 2007. So only 3 of us are having babies in 2008.

Most of my family is in this picture from Thanksgiving- two brothers and their families weren't able to make it.

Happy birthday Merry

Merry posing on her birthday. All my plants are dead so I had to use black and white

Her ghetto birthday cake- I think I need to take cake decorating lessons from Jamie