Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: Washington Plans
I keep meaning to send this email out, but it seems like I can't do it when I am thinking about it and then don't think about it when I have a few extra minutes to be on the computer.
Our plans as of right now are to leave here on the 5th of April (Friday) and arrive there on the 6th. We will be staying at the Hayes' for the most part of our trip... Robert will be staying until I think like the 13th (Sunday) and then I will stay till about the 18th or 19th (Friday or Saturday) as of right now.
The girls would love to go to the beach while we are there, and we would like to do that when Robert is with us as well. Not sure if anyone else is interested in a beach trip, if you are interested, let me know.
The girls would also LOVE to ride horses too. Emily is anxiously awaiting her next "lesson" on how to ride.
I know it seems like everyone has such busy schedules and what not, but maybe we could get together one of the weekends or something while I am there. (Although I know, Kelly already told me I am not all that great anymore, I am not a favored daughter now that other people are more important than me, so I will understand if no one wants to get together with me... but maybe you want to get with my kids...)
Hope this isn't too late to make plans with anyone... we are excited to see you all in less then a week!!
Yipee!! Emily thought we should leave today to get a head start. I think it was a good idea!
See ya soon!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Twins Stuff
Lindsey and Lauren's hair all braided the same, can you tell who is who?
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Lindsey gets a hair cut and loses a tooth
Here is the pictures that I have been promising many of Lindsey's new hair cut. She decided since she got her ears pierced that she wanted her hair shorter to show off her ears. She wanted her hair like mine, but mine isn't curly so I told her it wouldn't really be the same at all. I think it turned out cute. I wish I hadn't cut her bangs so short, but nothing a clip can't fix for a few months.
Lauren lost her second tooth and then the next day Lindsey lost her first tooth. Lindsey wanted to loose her first one before Lauren's second but she wasn't too brave about wiggling it.
Oh yeah, and last... Amber stood by herself on Sunday. No real steps yet, but she is standing from time to time by herself. She will be 1 year on the 26th, so I guess she is on normal schedule. I am think she won't walk till after her birthday. She is pretty content with crawling. No rush, less worries while she is still on the ground.
That is all the news here really. The girls are getting ready for Halloween, we will have a bride, a vet, a 50's girl, and a little clown. We will have to send pictures when the time comes.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Linday and Lauren's birthday at Grandparents Thomas'
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: Linday and Lauren's birthday at Grandparents Thomas'
Subject: Linday and Lauren's birthday at Grandparents Thomas'
The girls did cake and ice cream at Grandma and Grandpa's. They of course love having all that attention and people singing and making a bid deal about them. Who doesn't right?
I hope this video clip comes out okay and not too gigantic, I am still trying to figure out what works good and what not.
Pirate Birthday Cakes
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Pirate Birthday Cakes
Subject: Pirate Birthday Cakes
Here are the pirate cakes we had yesterday, while some of you buccaneer's where out watching Pirates we were being pirates, and eating pirates cake.
The girls had a really good time, and Emily was a really big help. You can tell by her picture that she was a little excited about it too.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Fixing the house
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: House Stuff
I have a few extra minutes here, Amber is swinging and the girls are eating. I washed up from all the white "goop" as I call it. Goop being the drywall compound for the sheetrock in the basement we are replacing, or have replaced.
All the sheetrock is up, which is great, all the walls have been taped and mudded, along with the ceiling. We put in a new closet, so those wall are secure and fixed. The ceiling is textured to the best of my ability with a wooden stool as my mud stamper and a long puty knife to smooth out. I have almost finished all the texturing of the walls. The walls before where just flat, no texture but I thought we might need texture to hide all the imperfectness of the walls, both what we did and whomever did the basement before us. We even fixed a few problem areas too with mud and what not. My grand wall texturing is with one of those bath sponges you use in the shower with liquid body soap. It makes a nice smooth but nice design on the walls. My forearms ache from doing it and my shoulders are tired from the ceiling work. All that said and done, I am about ready to paint.
My biggest concern (and still is) has been what color to paint. I want a grey or brown color for the front room with my nice pretty couches and then from there, I don't have a clue. Everything I come up with (teal, peach, yellow, green, blue, mauve, red/orange...) Robert is like, that is an ugly color. I will ask him, which do you like better (with paint chips in hand), the peach or the yellow? Or maybe we should do green? His response is I don't care, they are all ugly. Kind of makes it hard to decide with all those colors and then to make sure they are going to match and look good with one another. I think I have it narrowed down to 3 colors, but then this morning as I was texturing, I was thinking maybe I would go with yellow instead of the peach.... and if I do yellow, I want blue instead of the green.... but I like blue better than the green, so if I do blue, I need to go with the peach, or maybe I should go back to the light lavender color.... I need to just buy the paint and be done deciding.
I have been quite a beauty queen lately, and imagine I am not done yet in my gorgeous state. I typically have a head of grey hair and if not grey, then with white highlights, or white arms, a white spotted face along with my styling clothes with big chunks of goop on them. My nails have a nice coat of white polish, along with my toes (not sure how that happens, well I do, I drop a lot of goop from time to time). I have more then once got a mouthful of the nasty stuff, and even got it in my eye once. Safety goggles I guess, SAFETY FIRST right!! The girls want to help, but that lasts for about 2.5 minutes and then they say, "I am done." What they really want to do (or the twins anyway) is put there hands in the goop and just play. They are not interested in putting it on the walls or anything of that nature.
On any given night, Robert says, "I hope you are taking a shower before you get in my bed." I don't see what the fuss is about.... crumbs in the bed are a delight. Especially really hard pokey ones. And, if you roll over them enough times, they will just turn to dust. Picky, picky, picky!
I think if I texture the last section of wall tonight or today, then I will be ready for the primer tomorrow, which I already have purchased and in the garage. Then for the COLOR I guess. Robert informed me that he thinks we should have the whole house carpeted at the same time. We talked about it before and thought it would be easiest to do it in two parts, downstairs and then upstairs. We have to empty the basement bedroom (basement is pretty much empty) and then our bedroom, the hall and the front room with the computer in it as well as the furniture. After he told me this, he said, we better get busy. Which really means, I better get busy. I am not sure where all our stuff is going, but we will find some place for it all. I would like to paint each room too without carpet, easier and all, but I guess people paint with carpet all the time. We will see how time goes I guess.
Well with that said, I suppose I have much to do, not to mention my house has been ignored recently and really needs a cleaning.
Hope all is well with you there, maybe someday I will send pictures of our new updates here...
Love to all!
Karla and family
Subject: House Stuff
I have a few extra minutes here, Amber is swinging and the girls are eating. I washed up from all the white "goop" as I call it. Goop being the drywall compound for the sheetrock in the basement we are replacing, or have replaced.
All the sheetrock is up, which is great, all the walls have been taped and mudded, along with the ceiling. We put in a new closet, so those wall are secure and fixed. The ceiling is textured to the best of my ability with a wooden stool as my mud stamper and a long puty knife to smooth out. I have almost finished all the texturing of the walls. The walls before where just flat, no texture but I thought we might need texture to hide all the imperfectness of the walls, both what we did and whomever did the basement before us. We even fixed a few problem areas too with mud and what not. My grand wall texturing is with one of those bath sponges you use in the shower with liquid body soap. It makes a nice smooth but nice design on the walls. My forearms ache from doing it and my shoulders are tired from the ceiling work. All that said and done, I am about ready to paint.
My biggest concern (and still is) has been what color to paint. I want a grey or brown color for the front room with my nice pretty couches and then from there, I don't have a clue. Everything I come up with (teal, peach, yellow, green, blue, mauve, red/orange...) Robert is like, that is an ugly color. I will ask him, which do you like better (with paint chips in hand), the peach or the yellow? Or maybe we should do green? His response is I don't care, they are all ugly. Kind of makes it hard to decide with all those colors and then to make sure they are going to match and look good with one another. I think I have it narrowed down to 3 colors, but then this morning as I was texturing, I was thinking maybe I would go with yellow instead of the peach.... and if I do yellow, I want blue instead of the green.... but I like blue better than the green, so if I do blue, I need to go with the peach, or maybe I should go back to the light lavender color.... I need to just buy the paint and be done deciding.
I have been quite a beauty queen lately, and imagine I am not done yet in my gorgeous state. I typically have a head of grey hair and if not grey, then with white highlights, or white arms, a white spotted face along with my styling clothes with big chunks of goop on them. My nails have a nice coat of white polish, along with my toes (not sure how that happens, well I do, I drop a lot of goop from time to time). I have more then once got a mouthful of the nasty stuff, and even got it in my eye once. Safety goggles I guess, SAFETY FIRST right!! The girls want to help, but that lasts for about 2.5 minutes and then they say, "I am done." What they really want to do (or the twins anyway) is put there hands in the goop and just play. They are not interested in putting it on the walls or anything of that nature.
On any given night, Robert says, "I hope you are taking a shower before you get in my bed." I don't see what the fuss is about.... crumbs in the bed are a delight. Especially really hard pokey ones. And, if you roll over them enough times, they will just turn to dust. Picky, picky, picky!
I think if I texture the last section of wall tonight or today, then I will be ready for the primer tomorrow, which I already have purchased and in the garage. Then for the COLOR I guess. Robert informed me that he thinks we should have the whole house carpeted at the same time. We talked about it before and thought it would be easiest to do it in two parts, downstairs and then upstairs. We have to empty the basement bedroom (basement is pretty much empty) and then our bedroom, the hall and the front room with the computer in it as well as the furniture. After he told me this, he said, we better get busy. Which really means, I better get busy. I am not sure where all our stuff is going, but we will find some place for it all. I would like to paint each room too without carpet, easier and all, but I guess people paint with carpet all the time. We will see how time goes I guess.
Well with that said, I suppose I have much to do, not to mention my house has been ignored recently and really needs a cleaning.
Hope all is well with you there, maybe someday I will send pictures of our new updates here...
Love to all!
Karla and family
Monday, May 14, 2007
Amber picture off my new toy!
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: Amber picture off my new toy!
Subject: Amber picture off my new toy!
Just checking this out seeing what works and what doesn't. But isn't she cute? You can see her little top tooth in, and the one next to it will be through in about a day... really close to being through her little gums.
I am playing for a little while.... I am out of mud for downstairs and Amber is sleeping, so I am trying this out again!
See ya!!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
WA Trip plans for the summer
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:21 PM
Subject: For anyone who cares....
In case anyone cares or pretends to care.... (although I know you are all anxiously awaiting my arrival and feel as if the day will never come because you are so very excited to see ME, not my girls)
I would like to inform you of my plans for this summer as far as my visit there goes. I am planning as of now to come up on the 6th of July, which is a Friday I believe and stay until the weekend after the 24th (paid holiday for Robert) I expect we would leave the 27th (friday) or the 28th (saturday) although there has been a little talk about leaving a day or two earlier and coming home through Yellowstone park.
So that is my plans for WA this summer.
I have yet to buy Tracy's plane ticket because I wanted to make sure all things there are secure. I know Dad has a LIST to do and some D batteries to pick up for those RV's. I didn't know if it would be more helpful to come before the BIG weekend or if it will be all taken care of.
My concerns are am I really gonna be able to help with my little ducklings of a group, will I be more heip by not being there? (ha-ha-ha-ha) I just wanted to make sure there was sufficent help in getting everything done. I can bring stuff from here or do things here, if there is anything like that to do. Such as paper products from Costco or whatever.... I don't really know what needs to be done.
So if someone could be so kind to let me know where I play a part in this whole HUGE get together, I would gladly like to do my share. If I am not needed, I will stay and sit on the couch watch TV and eat my bon bons (but in reality that means sit on the floor and stare at the wall because there is no couch to sit on so I would be sitting on the floor (cement floor mind you because the carpet is torn up and there are still shards of tile here and there to step on and remind you to wear shoes in the construction zone ((which Lindsey and Lauren say destruction instead of construction, and I think that is more fitting)), since the couch is in the dining room where the table went which is now in the garage, and the TV is in our bedroom with a recliner in the middle of the small walkway to the bed and bathroom. You almost have to crawl up on the chair to get to the crib or the bathroom door. And as for the bon bons, I don't buy them because then I would have to share... and I have a hard time sitting for too long because of crying babies or needs of other girls....like now)
So let me know what I can do and I will let you know if my plans change with any of this at all.
Love ya!!
Subject: For anyone who cares....
In case anyone cares or pretends to care.... (although I know you are all anxiously awaiting my arrival and feel as if the day will never come because you are so very excited to see ME, not my girls)
I would like to inform you of my plans for this summer as far as my visit there goes. I am planning as of now to come up on the 6th of July, which is a Friday I believe and stay until the weekend after the 24th (paid holiday for Robert) I expect we would leave the 27th (friday) or the 28th (saturday) although there has been a little talk about leaving a day or two earlier and coming home through Yellowstone park.
So that is my plans for WA this summer.
I have yet to buy Tracy's plane ticket because I wanted to make sure all things there are secure. I know Dad has a LIST to do and some D batteries to pick up for those RV's. I didn't know if it would be more helpful to come before the BIG weekend or if it will be all taken care of.
My concerns are am I really gonna be able to help with my little ducklings of a group, will I be more heip by not being there? (ha-ha-ha-ha) I just wanted to make sure there was sufficent help in getting everything done. I can bring stuff from here or do things here, if there is anything like that to do. Such as paper products from Costco or whatever.... I don't really know what needs to be done.
So if someone could be so kind to let me know where I play a part in this whole HUGE get together, I would gladly like to do my share. If I am not needed, I will stay and sit on the couch watch TV and eat my bon bons (but in reality that means sit on the floor and stare at the wall because there is no couch to sit on so I would be sitting on the floor (cement floor mind you because the carpet is torn up and there are still shards of tile here and there to step on and remind you to wear shoes in the construction zone ((which Lindsey and Lauren say destruction instead of construction, and I think that is more fitting)), since the couch is in the dining room where the table went which is now in the garage, and the TV is in our bedroom with a recliner in the middle of the small walkway to the bed and bathroom. You almost have to crawl up on the chair to get to the crib or the bathroom door. And as for the bon bons, I don't buy them because then I would have to share... and I have a hard time sitting for too long because of crying babies or needs of other girls....like now)
So let me know what I can do and I will let you know if my plans change with any of this at all.
Love ya!!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Photo Booth with Lindsey and Lauren
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:48 PM
Subject: Photo Booth with Lindsey and Lauren
Subject: Photo Booth with Lindsey and Lauren
We went to Kmart one day, with all my girls and one of Emily's friends. They had one of those photo booths there, 4 pictures for a $1, so Emily and her friend (who is moving this summer) got some pictures. Then Lindsey and Lauren wanted to do it.
I haven't ever scanned from this printer before so I hope it all worked out. I will make sure and resend if needed.
Just wanted to share the cuteness. (Lauren is the one with the lost tooth.)
Friday, March 30, 2007
Baby Amber, Lost Tooth, and Make-over
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:02 PM
Amber has discovered her feet, she is loving her socks off to play with her feet and then she just rocks and rocks. Also she (Amber) has started on solids, she wears more of it than she eats I believe. Lindsey and Lauren were saying that she has a beard and a mustache.
Lauren lost her tooth. She was chewing on something and got it pretty loose, and then she kept working it all day. By the end of the day I pulled it out and it didn't even bleed, just fell right out. She didn't even realize that it had fallen out.
Then of course Emily in make up, she wanted to try it out.
That's all I got for now I guess.
Love and miss ya,
Karla and family
Dinosaur Museum
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: Dinosaur Museum
Subject: Dinosaur Museum
Here is the Dino's Museum, feel free to come take a tour of it. Admission is free. More of things to see that are not shown here, but this is a preview of what you can see.
I have a few more pictures to send so sit tight.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Story time by Emiily
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:02 PM
Subject: Story time by Emiily
Subject: Story time by Emiily
I am hoping this isn't the one I just sent. This should be Emily reading to the other girls. Each day Emily is to read or be read to 20 minutes a day. Some days it seems so impossible to read for long and be uninterupted, but this works good too if they will all cooperate. Amber is so wiggly that even when we sit her up on the couch she just wiggles down. She sits fine on her own. She also loves to bend over backwards and hand upside down. So maybe that is what is going on part of the time too. I love to listen to Emily read, she gives so much life to it... it's great!
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