The Strasser's

Since tomorrow is the Inauguration of our 44th president of the United States of America, today's manic monday is a dedications to past, present and future presidents. To learn more about the Presidents of the United States go here... First Folder: 20 (in honor of the 20th of January...) Second Folder: 43 (in honor of President Bush...his years in office helped us through some hard times. I appriciate all President Bush gave for America to maintain it's freedom) Picture Post: 44 (in honor of our new President Obama...let's hope that he brings the change America needs to thrive again This is a picture of Tote Bags that I have made. I love these tote bags! I plan on making more.

If the link to your blog is not on my list please let me know so that I can add it. There was an error. I didn't want to miss anyone.

Just to let everyone know I will have a bunch of pictures to post when we are all moved and a bunch of things to write about. On another note when I took Owen to the doctor I forgot to mention how much he weighed: 20 lbs.

Owen gave me a hard night last night. I thought he had an ear infection. So I waited on the phone this morning for basically an hour trying to make an appointment for him. I took him to his appointment which was suppose to be at 11:30 it ended up being at 11:40, I spent a total of 3 hours at the doctor's office with two kids today. Than the doctor looked at his ear's. Than the doctor checked his breathing, which he has been sounding congested and sounding wheezy. Owen had a breathing treatment and a chest x-ray after the doctor looked him over. Diagnosis: ear infection in each ear, and bronchitis. After the doctor looked at the x-ray, Owen had two shots to hopefully help with the ear infection and bronchitis. I have to take him back in tomorrow so the doctor can check on him to see if the shots are helping.

Someone has pointed out, Rana, that I always start my entries out with so. I went back through my blog and I guess I do start out my entries with so. I thought that was pretty interesting.

I thought I would work on a little bit of an update for now and tell you why there has been no update for a while. Well, we are home owner's. And that is why there hasn't been any update in a long time. I plan on doing a more lengthy update when we are done with things to the house and moved. I am one that has been usually been good about writing about stuff and I haven't done that in a while. So I will post pictures and information about what has been going on, just thought I would let everyone know why there hasn't been information about the house and what we have been up to.

Manic Monday Random...Random...Random... This week my mind is still recovering from the holiday season, so the theme is Random! I am randomly going to pick three numbers...you chose which number you want to go where and then post the picture! Easy enough right? Sweet, let's get started: 35, 19, 6 My Randomly selected order is: First Folder: 19 Second Folder: 6 Posted Picture: 35 This is a picture taken at the state fair of the ducks racing.

Owen has his first tooth.

Power came back on this afternoon! yay!

So the power went out Sunday afternoon. There was a couple of blue flashes last night of tree branches falling on the power lines. So hopefully the power will come on soon. I came over to my grandma's house to get a shower in. A branch did go through the roof of the shed.

So I didn't do Christmas cards this year, or letter's to family and friends. I am working on something that I will be posting hopefully by Monday. Of something of that effect.

So the other day Alyssa went outside to play in the snow with Kimber and her cousins. And I took some picture's of them playing in the snow from upstairs. Siosi, Alyssa, Eliana on trampoline Alyssa and the girls were trying to throw snowball's at Kimber

So Owen finally had his 4 appointment yesterday, we waited until we switched insurance. So while at the doctor I was getting him ready for him to be weighed he had a blow out so that took some time to clean up before he was weighed. The doctor found out that he has an ear infection, his first. So Owen loves to eat, he rolls over lots, he is starting to like peek a boo, he loves to make noise alot, he loves to grab his feet, and he is a very easy going baby. He is in basically 12 month clothes, and in size 3 diaper's. Here is Owens Stat's: Height: 2' 4" (98%) Weight: 19lb 9 oz (96%) Head: 17.24" (74%) At his 2 month appointment: Head: 40 3/4 cm 70% Height: 24 3/4 in 96% Weight: 15lbs 6.5 oz 99%

Ok so we have had a little fun this morning. So I was getting ready to stick Owen on the couch and prop him and I looked a way for a second and all of a sudden Owen was sliding off the couch. He went head first off the couch. I started getting him calmed down and all of a sudden he threw up on my shoulder, as I was pulling him away from me to look at the damage I got the whole front of me covered. Than I was trying to look him over to see if he was all right. I called my mom to ask her a question and I told her what happened. Than she told me to get Owen ready and she would be over to get Owen and me and take us to the doctor's. She thought that maybe he could have a concussion. Well I guess quite a few of the doctor's offices were closed because of the snow, and I was trying to find the number for the doctor’s office. So while she was on her way she called 911 and she was talking to them when she got here. So than they came and they looked him over, and he didn’t have a concu...

So it snowed Sunday night!

So we haven't signed papers for the house yet. I am hoping soon! I did some changes to the blog. If you don't see the link to your blog on here please let me know so I can add it. Owen has his 4 month appointment next week. I will post results after wards.

So I found a link to a blog that is doing a giveaway for baby shoes and they are really cute. This is the store blog link http://candicouture1.blogspot.com/ And this is the link to the blog where the contest is: http://ourpieceofheaven.blogspot.com/

I found this on a friends blog and thought it was pretty cool. You can track where you have been and they have it for other countries also. create your own personalized map of the USA or check out our California travel guide

First Folder: Days since Thanksgiving....11 Second Folder: Days until Christmas....17 (If you do not have a sub-folder add the second and third numbers together and choose your photo that way) Picture to post: Days until New Years....24 So this is a picture of Alyssa when she was like 4 months old. If you want to join the mAnIc MoNdAy train let me know.