The Strasser's

So while I was taking pictures of the house I took a few of Owen. Last time he was weighed he weighed a grand total of 23 lbs 4 oz. He has already 4 teeth and is working on another 2.

As promised, here are our pictures of our house. Well here is our living room. We just got the blue couch and are trying to sell the futon. So the couch is covering the fireplace for now. So the top color above the chair rail was a light mint green, the chair rail was white, and the bottom was a dark mint green. Not particularly my favorite color of green. I like the colors much better. We replaced all the window's expect for one of them, which we need to go pick up and replace. We also refinished the hardwood floors. And there is my little man modeling for the picture. Yep and there is a whole bunch of our clean laundry that needs to be put away. Well here is the window in the kitchen that we raised up like a foot. Here is the section of cupboards that we had to redo. And our nice refrigerator. And here is our bathroom. It's a very dark picture. Yes I did get myself a nice palm tree shower curtain. These shelves were already built in. Here is looking at our dining room and our...

There has been a lack of pictures. I am very sorry to those that were and have been looking for pictures to be posted. I have lost my camera. I guess it got legs and walked off. Not sure where it went but I am REALLY hoping that it comes back soon. I have been really bad at not taking pictures of the kids, well because of the camera walking off. I do hope it comes back from it's vacation. So I do promise that when the camera reappears that I will post pictures. I know I have promised them several times and I know I have promised that one time this month that they would be posted. When that camera appears, even if the house is a mess, I will take those pictures and post them.

A long lengthy post will hopefully be posted this week.

Owen has a total of 4 teeth now. He is slowly moving forwards. But he definitely knows how to move backwards. I am going to finish taking the pictures of the house today and post them later.

I now each time you come on here you find a new background. Well I have found a background that I am going to be keeping for a while. I found another cool website with backgrounds: http://scrappinblogs.blogspot.com/ So today was Shar's birthday and I made her cake, cheese cake to be exact. And I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, It turned out really good. I was very happy. I did take some out door pictures of the house. I will post those tomorrow. I want to go finish the book I am reading and go to bed.

As I have promised I will have pictures on VERY soon! I am very sorry for the delay in posting them. We have been working in the yard the past few days. I have been waiting until the flower beds have been done. So I am hoping tomorrow!

So I found the crafty tag on someone else's blog and I decided to do it. I only have one on my list and that is Rana. I will wait for another couple of days. And than hopefully have some pictures up of the house.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations: 1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! 2. What I create will be just for you. 3. It'll be done this year. (ha! 10 whole months :) 4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure! 5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! I do promise fabulosity here folks... *Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! If you don't post a pictu...

I have posted several entries just to let everyone know, there is more to read.

Here is some random pictures that I got. Alyssa playing with bubbles on one of the nice's day we had. Owen being a happy boy!

Alyssa has had this thing for wanting to color all the time, well she got marker on her hand's and she picks her nose, which I tell her not to do cause it's gross cause she eats it. Ya to much info! So I got her!

I took Owen today to the doctor to get the last of his 6 month shots, because he has been sick he finally got one out of three last week and the last two today. He weighs a grand total of 21 lbs 14 oz. Plus today was a check up to make sure the medication worked pretty good, But he is still taking it cause there is still a little bit of an ear infection in one ear. Than earlier in the week Alyssa woke up during the night screaming and tugging on her ear. So while we were at the doctor's he checked her ear's and she has an ear infection in each ear, which her's is pretty bad. So she is on the medication to. So now I have two sick kids. I guess Owen wanted to share with his sister, what a loving brother to share.

So I promised some more pictures. Well my uncle came all the way from Utah to help us with the house. He had this hat with him and Alyssa really liked it. So here is the kids modeling the hat off. Owen playing while we were trying to get some work done. So Alyssa likes to call my grandma, great mama, She came over to see the work that we had done so far and she was holding Owen and he just loves great mama. While my uncle was here we had the opprtunity to take my uncle crabbing to take a break from working. Alyssa,Cory, Shar, Owen So a crab got lose and Andy picked him up out of the boat and the crab had a hold of a trail mix granola bar and had a good grab on it. Some Crabs Alyssa & Andy hanging out in the boat Cory and Owen (Owen's first time in the boat)

Ok so I will post more pictures later today after I get back from the doctor and get some things taken care of. I am going to post pictures of the house to. Not the outside though cause we really haven't done anything out there yet.

I promised pictures a long time ago. So here are some pictures. I will get pictures of the inside of the house by the end of this week posted. But here are some from way back in December time. So this was when there was the winter storm going on and the power outage. This is what happened to Cory's parents shed. There were a few holes in the roof. I think there was two tree branches. So Christmas Eve Alyssa fell down a couple of the stairs. She bit her lip pretty good. She had a huge lip. Than for Christmas Shar made all the girls some really cute nightgowns. Alyssa opening present's Owen with his first sippy cup, which he gets really excited about. While we were at my grandma's Christmas day Cory and Owen fell asleep.

It was HORRIBLE! Owen kept us up alot last night. Now this morning we go back to the doctor and see if the shots worked. I sure hope they worked because the past few nights have been pretty bad.

We are still hanging around. I have been trying to get everything organized and clean. Which is been hard the past couple of days. Owen has been sick for a while and yesterday he had two antibiotic shots and we went back again today so he could get a second dose of one of the shots. He has been a very cuddly boy. Yesterday when they weighed him he was 21 lbs and 12 oz. He was suppose to get his regular shots to stay up to date, but him being sick he didn't get them so I am not sure how long he is right now or what percentile he his in. So hopefully soon! We are hoping to get family pictures taken really soon! Cory and I are back into our old ward. I actually grew up in this ward some. We have callings. Cory is a ward missionary, we actually thought that was pretty funny because when we were first married in this ward we were both called as ward missionaries. I am in primary , I also got another calling a week ago, enrichment committee. I was pretty surprised to get another calling...

You haven't heard from me in a while and you all are probably wondering how we are doing. Well we are doing pretty good. We are getting moved in. I promise to update with a great BIG entry or multiple entries. With some pictures of the house.

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.