It's a girl!

Alison Nichole Hodge
7lb 10oz 20" long
May 23rd 4:44am

My Hero

For the last couple weeks we have had a suicidal bird intentionally running into our bedroom window over and over in the mornings. It would arrive between about 5:30 to about 8. You could even stand in the window and it would still sit on the gutter and then fly into the window repeatedly for a couple hours. Really annoying. Especially on the days he would show up at 5:30 on a Saturday.
So Jerek went and bought pellet gun and took care of it this morning. Oh happy day! Now I can sleep again. Or at least attempt to sleep since that is hard to do anyway lately.

Birthday from the darkside

So Jeshua wanted a Star wars cake this year. More specifically the death star. Here is what I came up with.
I have to say it turned out better than I expected.





I will be posting pictures of the party yet to come in a few days.

Easter

I am finally posting some pictures of the kids. Sorry it took so long.Here they are with the Easter baskets. I had to take the picture fast before Tait started tearing into his. Jeshua doesn't like smiling for pictures lately.
This is what my boys look like when their hair is actually combed and they are wearing nice, clean clothes that don't have holes in the knees. They clean up pretty well I think.

Happy Valentines Day.

Here is a lesson in sweet talking for all you guys out there. Being cute and fuzzy doesn't hurt either. ;)
happy valentine's day!

No,No Touch! HOT!

Tait has ,hopefully, learned a valuable lesson.Last night as I was getting dinner ready, I turned on the oven to preheat before I put in a chicken pot pie. Then I went downstairs to do a load of laundry while the oven heated up. While I was doing that Tait started crying so I went to go check it out. He was standing in the livingroom holding out his left hand. I asked the other boys what happened, but they were heavily absorbed in watching a movie and had no idea. I looked at Tait's hand and it had dark brown scorch looking marks on his fingers on the palm side. I went to the kitchen to get some ice and I noticed the oven door was hanging open. I know I didn't leave it like that so Tait must have opened it and tried to grab something inside. I ended up having to take him to the urgent care and they bandaged him up and gave me a prescription for silver sulfa-something that I have to put on everyday and keep it bandaged at all times. He seems not to mind it too much yet, but I have the feeling it may get on his nerves after a few days.
Be prepared for pictures as soon as I get around to taking some.

Remodel update

Here is the most recent development of our remodel project. Let me tell you the crown molding kicked our butts! Jerek measured and we cut it exactly but when we got it up to the top of the ceiling the corners just didn't match.if we held it against the wall lower down it was fine, but it just didn't fit against the ceiling. I am starting to think you can fix anything with a big box of joint compound though.