exciting, exciting, exciting

we got a washer and dryer!!! hooray for us!!! also found the cable so here are some pictures!!!! lily is the little girl, anna is the big girl and oliver is the only boy..

Thanksgiving

We are back in the real world. The world of having your own computer!! HOORAY! Thanks to bob and allie for the hook-up. I wish you many dirty, messy children...!! Thanksgiving...well, it was the normal hecticness that comes with a Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people. Kids and chaos. They go well together. Ashli, Chris, Anna and Lily were here for the long weekend. We had a great time with them! It was so good to see my girls! Ashli and I enjoyed a 13 hour shopping marathon on Friday. It was AWESOME. I'm glad I didn't know about the Hannah Anderson outlet before now. I would be in serious trouble with mr. swanson if that was the case! I'll post some pictures soon of the girls and my boy and girl. I've got to find the thing that connects the camera to the computer soon....

I am really a parent now- yikes!

Ok, so today was Oliver's Parent-Teacher conference at Preschool. I have been panicking about it for 3 days. I was worried about EVERYTHING. I could just imagine that they were going to tell me that he's a horror, has ADD and is obsessive compulsive. Well, it wasn't that bad. They did say that he is 'talkative' (duh) and 'persistent' (duh again). I think that was nice teacher speak for annoying as hell!!! Anyone who has ever talked to me on the phone can attest to the fact that Oliver has to tell me AT LEAST 35 times that he needs juice. or applesauce. or needs to poop. What a life. Oliver spent the time with his new friend Chloe at Chick-fil-a. Melanie is a braver woman than I am. It was SUBURBIA central. All the cute, put together mom's with their louis vuitton diaper bags having fried stuff. BARF BARF BARF. I'd like to take the time right now to introduce you to my cousin Karen's Blog. http://thebigtradeoff.blogspot.com/ Take the time, read it. It's really freakin funny. I aspire to be more like her in my blogging, but I just don't have the brain power!! Happy Thursday!

long absence

Ok. so it has been a really long time since i posted. ridiculous i know. halloween was great- oliver was spiderman and charlie was a chicken. oliver was sooo excited about trick or treating, he kept saying ' you mean i just go up to the house and they'll give me candy?' it was so funny and sweet! charlie stayed at home with nick crying to hand out candy to trick or treaters. she hated the hood on her costume. oliver and i drove over to my mom's house after we were done in our neighborhood, and he asked me ' what comes after halloween' i told him thanksgiving, and he asked ' now, who is going to thanksgive us?' it was hilarious b/c i had been telling him who all was coming to our house for thanksgiving (ashli, chris and girls), and he was soo excited! Another funny Oliver story is that he must be taking cues from sam (his cousin) and he told his babysitter a few months ago that his name is Oliver 'Cool' Swanson, not Oliver Cole Swanson. Pretty funny boy. In preschool he has a friend named Chloe, he came home last tuesday kind of upset and when i asked him why he said that it was because Chloe had cut her hair, ' and i just don't like it, i liked it better when it was long'. i thought that was funny that he is 3 and has an opinion about this! new with charlie, she is crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything, and she can stand for 5 seconds by herself without holding onto anything!! she can also say BYE BYE. and BABY. Very sweet (although those two sound kind of similar.) i'll leave you w/ some halloween pictures of spiderman and the baby chickie.