Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Tennessee to Arkansas to Missouri to Illinois

Jason's brother Tyler got married this past weekend in St. Louis, MO. Inorder for us to get there we had to drive through 6 states! I finally after 6 years got to meet the rest of the Seader clan and it was definitely worth it. Well first thing first we were driving through the night from about 10:30pm and arrived 4pm the next day. While driving through Mississippi, I accidently ran over this monster corn fed raccoon! I did try to swerve around it, but it darted right in front of me. Didn't realize till hours later that it had damaged the front of the car. Which naturally became the joke for the weekend..doh!

To my defense though, I looked up how big raccoons can get and it says adults may get as big as 40 inches in length (including the tail) and weigh up to 40 pounds. I was able to find the picture of the raccoon I hit....OOOOOOOOkay.

It was really nice and relaxing to see all the farm land.

Once we hit St. Louis, we got to see those old steel bridges and the famous Arch!

Here comes the bride and groom! Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Jeremy Seader.

Thanks to everybody for a wonderful weekend.

We love all of you and can't wait to get back together.

Big and small...

So I came back from out of town and realized how big both of my boys have gotten. It's unreal how much they can grow in such a short period of time. Here are some recent ones.

No teeth yet, but that tongue is feeling something going on.

I know Martha will look at this picture and see Jason all over.

I'm pretty sure he was older but the face man...kills me!

Lucas just chillin' in the swing. He is a very laid back baby.

Just looking at them together makes me see how much they have grown.



Zachary's self picture...

Fish Face! He has been working really hard on this one.

He has been doing this one for years...ha!

Cheese ball!

4 month check up

I just now realized I haven't really posted in a while. I guess since our camera isn't working and I haven't been taking any pictures it has slipped my mind. Of course the slipping of the mind is easy here lately... A couple days ago, I went into the gas station to get some icee's and the lady at the counter said "Oh I thought you were 21, until I saw the grey hairs!" Doh! Thanks for rubbing it in lady! Ha ha.

Anyhow, Lucas got his 4 month check up this morning. He is now 25 3/4 in height (75-90%), 17 lbs (90-95%) and his head measures 17 inches (75%). I know we got big headed children! Everything is good with him and growing normally. He now gets to start solid foods! I can't wait to see what he is going to do with that. His gums are totally swollen as he's trying to cut some teeth. Which is early for most kids, but seeing how Zachary had 4 teeth at 4 months it's not that big of a shock. He is talking up a storm and just a dang good baby.

Zachary is....Zachary. Defiant as ever some days and other days just a dream. He is definitely looking forward to his 4th birthday party. He has a never ending list of the things he wants. You name it, he wants it. He's been talking about going to school a lot, but it won't be until fall of 2010. I heard though that I might be able to get him into Pre-K this year only because he will be a young 5 when he starts and they want to give him a head start. I mean literally he will turn 5 (August 23rd) the day before school starts (August 24th). So I'm going to start looking into that and maybe we will get lucky. Cross our fingers &&.

Well I hope to have our camera fixed soon and I'll probably post like a mad woman..ha ha. Love you all.

Exersaucer fun...

Lucas is getting very sturdy holding himself still & etc. So I decided to whip out the Exersaucer and see what he would do. He actually liked it for the first 20 mins. I just can't believe how quickly it goes by. He is also trying to cut teeth. I know I know you are thinking what at 3 1/2 months, but if he follows in Zachary's path he will have 4 teeth at 4 months. Drool has increased and just today he has started getting fussy and feverish. O boy what fun! Enjoy.

Round and round it goes...

I got it!Ok come and get me!

My thumb is the best thing since white bread!

Pre-4th of July fun & a little bit of Texas

This past week, we were invited to come decorate 4th of July t-shirts at Crista's house. She glued dry pasta to cardboard and then we dipped them in paint. Turned out pretty cute if you ask me.

On that note, Anna's sister Tammy is moving to Utah and I thought I send her off with a little bit of Texas. She will be missed!

Name change and kitten fun...

Ok so when I first thought of the name Pippi I thought it was super cute. However, Zachary and Alyson has helped in the changing of the name idea as they want to say 'PeePee'. So i accidently called Pippi ~ Piper and we decided we liked it better. So the names are Piper and Patches. They both are doing great and not nearly as scared. They have started to roam the rest of the house and stand up to the dogs. Apparently Piper thought it would be a great idea to scale my little ficus tree. She looks a bit freaky..ha ha. Cinder still doesn't want to have anything to do with them, but hopefully she will soon.

Comparisions...

Hello everybody! I hope you are all well. A nice big ole fat break is what I think we all need. I got Lucas' 3 month old pictures taken last week. They just were all too cute! This was the first time going to Target instead of Wal-Mart and I will never go to Wal-mart ever again. It was a hundred times better. Lucas is already starting to hold his head up and putting full on weight on his legs. He's definitely going to be an early walker like Zachary was. Here are some recent pictures of Lucas and some of Zachary at that age. Darn they are both too cute!

Pippi and Patches

Ok seriously we have a farm going on, but there is one thing I can't resist a kitten. Or in this case 2 sister kittens. There was a lady at a gas station holding a "Free Kittens" sign so I had to go look. Sure enough they were calico kittens. I just couldn't take one and leave on behind so I took both. Doh! They were just so cute! When I got home I even woke Zachary up from his nap to show him a surprise! He just loves the kittens. They were a little nervous, but are definitely warming up to us. Pippi (as in Pippi Longstocking) has these 2 carmel colored back feet and the most outgoing one. Patches is more skiddish and hasn't been handled as much. She has a more suddle coloring. At first they just hid underneath our recliner in our bedroom, but now they will come out by themselves when they here us.

Pippi:

Patches:

Complete a 10K - check!

We did it. I can't tell you how glad I am that it's over...ha ha. My goal for the 10K was just to complete it. In 7 weeks, I did the best I could. I wasn't even sure I was going to be able to run any as the week before I came down with a cough/cold. Come Saturday morning our goal was to run 1 mile and then walk 1 mile until it was finished. I have to say it would have worked wonderful if it didn't have so many dang hills!! Most of the big hills were right there at the beginning. Seriously by the time me and charleen hit 2 mile marker, we were like ok you want to do the 5K instead. We both agreed, but as we kept going we decided we couldn't back out and do the 5K when we signed up for the 10K! If I had to crawl across the finish line, I would. They closed the course in 1 hour and 30 mins so we had to get in before then or pretty dang close. At one point, I was totally going to throw up. I never did though. I don't think I could have done it by myself! THANK YOU CHARLEEN!!! I LOVE YA! YOU ROCK! There was several times she was pulling me up hills and tell me to come on now! I probably walked on and off about a mile and a half and jogged the rest. I made it though!!

Here are the results:

Place Name Bib Gun Pace Overall Place Overall by Sex
14 Pierce,Charleen 569 1:30:41.1 14:36 145 61
15 Suter,Katrina 586 1:31:02.9 14:39 146 62

Here are the pictures...ofcourse I picked out the ones where my butt was jiggling...ha!