Silly Daddy

Eric is a proud Daddy! But he isn't always nice though. He was making Canon do happy and sad faces and thinks it is funny. And see those cute little eyes, no you can't because we haven't seen them either. All this baby does is sleep, sleep, sleep.

Nothing like a new baby...

Oh we are so in love around here with this cute little guy. I usually don't give newborns much credit for being cute, BUT this one just is cute. We are all doing pretty good. Eric gave strict instructions this morning to put the baby down so he can learn to sleep without being held and well since I listen to everything Eric says....Reese is doing pretty good actually nothing out of the ordinary for Reese it's just that the ordinary is usually pretty crazy. Yesterday Eric put her on the treadmill to try and help her run off her energy. It was hilarious watching my almost 3 year old run on a treadmill while shouting out, "help me" "help me". It hurts to laugh right now and my Mom recently had surgery and she hurts too so we are laughing at Reese trying not to laugh. Today Reese tried to nurse Canon which once again we were trying to suppress the giggles. If you are wondering what we are up to we are just snuggling this cute little boy.

Canon Eavenson Kunz

Canon made it. They started Penny on the slow drip and on Friday, Feb 20th, at 3:20 he was delivered. He weighed 8lbs 1.7 oz and was 21 inches long

Uh, Uhm Mr. President

I got such a kick out of this. Last night I was watching the President speak. I always hear people talk of what an eloquent speaker he is. I can agree with that if he is rehearsed, but when he's not........there is a lot of uh, uhming going on. I am listening to the President uhm and Waklee is in the corner playing some computer pet game and I hear her chuckle. I asked her what she was chuckling about and she says oh nothing. Come on tell me. She says, "Our President, doesn't know his part." and she giggles.

This week is Valentines.

Animals Pink and Red


Waklee brought home a Scholastic Newspaper which they always have the most interesting things. This week it said: A flamingo is born gray or white. It eats pink shrimp as it grows. The shrimp turn the flamingo pink!

Waklee.......what?

Just a few thoughts about this kid. She is one neat kid. Waklee came home from church today and I hadn't been feeling great so I stayed home. The first thing she said to me was I had the scripture today. I immediately thought oh I wish we would have known because I have a lot of rules in my life and one of them is that my kids memorize their scriptures, talks, parts, whatever it is for school, church, etc. So as I am thinking great my kid had to read their scripture but then she tells me that she memorized it. I was like what? Her teacher told her she had the scripture and granted it was only like 6 or 7 words but she quickly memorized it. Yes I am proud. Waklee is also so kind to Reese. She basically lets Reese rule the roost around here and will play with her, read to her, snuggle her. There is really nothing cuter than walking in and finding Reese sitting on Waklee's lap. Yes I am proud. On to her smarts. When Wakes was really little, like two, we really pushed her to memorize things. I think because of that this kid can remember anything. Just last night we were playing a game with destinations of Mt. Rushmore and Old Faithful. Wakes says to me Mom on the map these would be placed here and here right? I sort of looked at her like Yes and how do you know that? But since Kindergarten she has been learning the United States and their capitals for fun, yah for fun and somehow figured out where Old Faithful is. Yes I am proud but still a little suprised she knows that. Oh but lately her whittiness is starting to show through and she is getting funny, funny like Daddy........oh no.

Tacky The Penguin

First semester of school Waklee was in drama club. The final play was Tacky The Penguin and Wakes got the lead part of Tacky. She had her part memorized in a day and by the time the play came around she knew the entire script, she cracks me up. The night before the big play Waklee says to me, "Mom don't laugh at me when you see my costume all the other kids did" and burst into tears. I was trying so hard not to laugh. You see Tacky the Penguin is just that "tacky" and he looks a lot different than all the other little penguins. I explained to Wakes that if people weren't laughing then she wasn't playing her part good enough. The big day Waklee remembered her parts and at one point the narrator was trying to correct her and Wakes looks at her and says, "No" and tells the narrator what to say which is even more funny cause the narrator had the script in front of her. I don't think we are headed to Hollywood but I am sure proud of Waklee doing something I know is out of her comfort zone....it is so out of mine.

Cruise 2008.......the vacation that almost wasn't.

I haven't blogged about our first "real" vacation and really need to. First off we planned and saved for this trip for months, we had just celebrated 9th anniversary, have a baby on the way and figured the next 5 years we will be dirt poor so we had better go on vacation or it might not happen for years. We were set to fly out on Monday morning all arrangements made. On Saturday morning I pull out our mandatory birth certificates and find that mine is not what it needed to be......it was a copy. I call my Mom and she searches through all her stuff while I do the same. Oh bit pit in my stomach and I am so freaked out I can't even cry. We get online and try to figure out how to get a birth certificate and I pretty much was thinking well there goes that vacation and throughout all this very very stressful day my kind husband does not say a mean word to me. We finally come up with a game plan: Eric will leave Portland Sunday at midnight and drive to Boise and arrive at 8 am and beg, plead, for a birth certificate and then will fly from Boise to San Fran to L.A. to meet me. Oh Sunday was a hard day and that night I didn't sleep I was awaiting the phone call at 7:30 Pacific time that tells me to drop the kids off and catch a plane. Sweet kind husband asks for the birth certificate and the lady says we only do it for medical emergency and Eric explains our paid for cruise, plane tickets, long drive to Boise.....lady pauses.....and then okay. Yeah I will see you in L.A. later today. I get to airport and nice man tells me that my husbands plane was delayed due to fog in San Fran but not to worry he will make it. I meet up with Chad and Taun and go to the port to wait for Eric and another nice man comes and tells me my husband made it to San Fran but there were mechanical difficulties and his plane had to return back to San Fran and we hope he makes it. By this point I am thinking do I even dare get on that ship nothing has gone in our favor. Nice cruise ship people say if he isn't here by 4 then we can't get on, nice cruise ship people let me check us in and at 4:40 Eric gets there we show them the lovely birth certificates and get on ship....ship leaves at 5 pm. Whoa I need a drink of lemonade. Now to our cruise it was great! As my sister in law said it, "I got to go with my two favorite people, sorry Eric" and in my case I have to say, "sorry Chad". We just chilled, played Settlers, got a massage, and drank lemonade. The weather was perfect not too hot and not chilly at all. We departed out of L.A. woke up in San Diego the next morning which I really enjoyed going on a tour of this clean city and want to someday take my kiddos there. Day Two: I wake up and think I miss my kids ( I have never left them before) and then I look out my window and see this:



Oh! Guess I don't miss them. Welcome to Catalina Island. There are not really any cars on this small island and most people drive around in golf carts and so we rented one and took a tour of this island and fell in love. We went snorkeling and did some shopping.....I could have stayed much longer.




The next day we were in Ensanada, Mexico. Ensanda is not quite the Mexico I had hoped for, very poor and dirty but I am so glad that I got to see this. Chad had the bright idea of renting a golf cart in Ensanada and we were driving around this pretty large city with old beat up cars passing us and we putted around in our golf cart. I was getting sick from the exhaust fumes and Chad was taking us to all these scary parts of town and you know you shouldn't be there when people are take a look, double-take and then just stare. Chad let us all know that if we got jumped we would not be giving them anything we would fight. Nice. I did have some comfort because Chad spoke Spanish and Eric looked like a Mexican, a big one. We finally talked the boys into dropping us off to go shopping and they could go back to the ghetto with their golf cart. Taun and I bought some jewelery and met the boys to go out to lunch. We found a somewhat clean hole in the wall restaurant and had a Mariachi band come and play for us, but soon another one came to play and Chad told them no thankyou we had already been sung to in his well spoken Spanish. The man said I don't understand you and Chad asked him what language he spoke he said Spanish. Chad let the man know that he also spoke Spanish....I thought this was funny. We had such a fun time on the ship. Our dinners were some of the most fun times as we would all order our dinner and try our hardest to pronounce our order in the very most worst way. I took three books with me and didn't read any of them. I thought this vacation was going to be a sit by the pool and read, but we actually never sat by the pool and we were so busy seeing sights that we went to bed quite early, atleast I did who knows what the boys were doing. Can't wait for our next "real" vacation!

Christmas 2008......The year of snorting snowcones.

We once again made the trip to Idaho and they were not the best conditions but we made it. A few highlights of our Christmas 2008 were:


Waklee: Riding the Kitty Kat for hours, Learning cheers from those one cousins, Playing Rock Band, and finally getting Barbie VIP.
















Reese: Her B-Pa and E-Ma's, she couldn't get enough of them, running from the puppy shouting "No puppy, No puppy." And being Waklee's kitty kat buddy.
















Look at this pile of girls in pink pajamas opening necklaces from their Grandpa. Cute.













Williams Family Christmas Eve.


Mom: Getting over the stomach flu. Fun Fun. We were lucky Santa found us....a little change in plans and somehow we had our first Christmas alone, sorry Mom and Dad. Giving my niece, who loves to read, The Princess Academy which she secretly desperately wanted and I didn't even know and her opening it and shouting out that it was a Christmas Miracle! Who knew I could work miracles?
















Dad: Let's see how did he put it??? Snorting Snowcones. Which translates to:
Snowmachining in 4 feet of fresh snow.

Books, Books, and More Books.

One of the highlights of 2008 for me was reading some marvelous books. I was introduced to Goodreads, I am part of a Book Club, and I have my wonderful Book Clubber By Phone (who needs to quit outreading me). I cannot even put into words what good books I have read this past year. I have been to so many different countries that I had no idea where to find on the map and lived in villages, prisons, castles, I have been a Muslim, a Jew, a Geisha, a determined pioneer and read some seriously good classics and fell in and out of love, I cried over suppression of women and the indifference to children, hid scared Jewish families, became educated, killed birds, flew kites, lived through the Depression, and traveled "The Road"............what a great year. Before 2008 I read books that were fast reads that I thought were good but I didn't realize what I could REALLY be reading. Anyone want to join me on Goodreads, Warning: it's addicting.