My second child

He turned 6 on Monday August 25th. I can't believe how fast these 6 years have flown with Jacob. He was an awesome baby and I wished I could go back to him being little again. I have told him over and over that I am going to put weights on his head to keep him from growing, but I resently had to stop telling him that, he really believed that I was going to do that. I don't want him to get bigger, they get way more sassy and mouthy, I just want to keep him little forever. He has grown sooo much in the last six years. Time goes by way to fast.

Jacob~a few hours old 8-25-02
9 months June 2003

2 years old August 2004

3 years old August 2005

4 years old August 2006

5 years old August 2007

6 years old August 2008

First day of school

The boys started school on August 21. They were very excited to go this year. Jake is in kindergarten and so far loves it!!

Josh is in 3rd grade and he loves it too. He has been doing great on his papers so far this year.

Computer is fixed

My computer was really slow, so Mark decided to wipe it clean! I am glad he did, it is really slow, but I was lost without internet!!! I lived without it though, but I am glad to be back. I am going to post pics a little later too.

TONS of sassiness

She wanted to pose like this for me. She is such a goof! I love the sassiness in her though, I am sure that it will change as she gets bigger though.

Mark comes home today!!!

Mark flies into Bismarck at 6:30 tonight. The kids and I are going to go surprise him there. I am so excited to see him and can't wait until he see's us. Hopefully he will be just as excited to see us. The kids are happy to be able to see a big plane, but not sure how much of it we will see, with security nowadays. But they will be excited nonetheless.

Josh's camp

Josh went to camp July 20th 2008. He loved it and had a great time. I was so excited to go, he wanted to go early. I was nervous to let him go, he went last year, I am not sure why I was so nervous to take him. Plus it is only a few miles from us. He loved it and can't wait to go again next year.

Josh waiting to register with the Trading Post and he was excited to buy a T-shirt, a water bottle and a bag.
Josh picked out the same bunk that he had last year. He stayed in the cabin called Deadwood.

Josh had 3 councelors. They were all very nice and he was sad to leave. He said they stayed up until late everynight! He loved that part!

Stressed

Mark has been so busy lately, gone a lot with work, and the boys have been acting out in a big way. They fight all the time, I get so frustrated. I don't know what to do. I am counting the days until they go back to school, it can only help. We have started going to bed at 9pm everynight, mostly so they get back into the swing of things. I really think they are acting out because Mark is so busy with work. Last week, he was gone all week with a national meeing in the Cities. This week he was gone all week out working with local meetings, and now on Sunday afternoon, he flies out to Iowa. He will be gone all week again for more meetings. I am trying to stay consistant with discipline. They respond somewhat to it, I do mostly timeouts, and I take away there outside time, and tv time. I hope they really stop with the fighting. It is so hard on me. This one parent thingy for the kids isn't working. I am sooooooooo very thankful that I am not a single mom. I give sooo much credit to them, I would really struggle with it. So, hopefully this week will go very fast, so we can get back into the swing of things, a little more anyways.