The Strasser's

I have done lots of posts in the last several day with pictures. I have been way behind on posting new pictures. And now I am fully caught up. So enjoy!

So the morning of Alyssa's birthday, which was Sunday. The kids needed a bath so it was their first time having a bath together.

So we invested in a small swim pool at Walmart and there was a nice pretty warm day, But the water wasn't that warm. But they had fun.

So Owen had his 9 month appointment today. He is a loveable little boy. He is starting to get in the hands and knees for crawling. He loves to eat, but you couldn't tell that could you. He is in 18-24month old clothes. He is starting to clap his hands. He like's to pick on his sister sometimes, especially in the stroller he likes to get her hair. He is definitely a momma's boy. Stats at 9 month: Height: 2' 5.5" (0.749 m) (87%) 6 month: 2' 5" (0.737 m) (99%) 4 month:2' 4" (0.711 m) (98%) Weight: 24 lb (10.886 kg) (92%) 6 month: 20 lb 13 oz (9.44 kg) (92%) 4 month:19 lb 9 oz (8.873 kg) (96%) Head: 18.31" (83%) 6 month: 17.52" (69%) 4 month:17.24" (74%)

Sunday was Alyssa's birthday. I decorated the house with a princess theme. Alyssa had purple and pink balloons. Alyssa was waiting for her birthday for a long time. She was so excited! We asked her what she wanted for breakfast and she wanted her cake. Blowing out the candles Unwrapping presents The girls eating pizza Some of the guests

Well it has been a while since Easter. And here are the pictures that I took. Owen got an egg and a stuffed frog for easter. Alyssa dying easter eggs. We used food coloring so Alyssa got stripped down because I didn't want her clothes stained. Alyssa trying to finding eggs Alyssa modeling her glasses that she got in her basket.

Well I guess the blog doesn't look much different. I was supposed to go to a relief society thing tonight, but Cory had some work stuff to do, so I am not going. So here I am working on the blog and getting ready to post some pictures. Some of them are really late on being posted. I just have been busy. Owen has his 9 month appointment tomorrow. I can't believe he is already 9 months.

Under Construction I know this happens alot. But I decided I wanted to clean it up some and redo some things.

So I have this goal which I have never been good at. I was sick over conference weekend and it was really hard to hear the talks. I am now taking the time to just print the talks off and read them. Not all of them at once.

So I was working out in the garage. Cory was on his way to go pick up a window and Alyssa woke up from her nap. She was screaming at him because she wanted to go. I went in to check on her because it was quiet I figured something was going on in there that I should find out about. I was right. Alyssa was poopie and this happened. And it's a good thing they are washable!

So I am done with my meds. I am almost over my cold. I am excited for the nice weather, because that means I won't have to go to the doctor as often. Sunday is Alyssa's 3rd birthday. It's so weird that she will be 3. I need to start the baby books, I am way behind. It's suppose to be nice this weekend I plan on hopefully getting the trim painted and get stuff listed. Owen is starting to scoot around more. He is working on two more teeth, so he will have 6 teeth.

Rana said... So actually it doesn't sound like you are doing all that great right now. Do you get a lot of ear infections? Were your ears hurting? Is that how you knew. I wonder why the doctor asked about Cory and baby girl? Did he think it was contagious?? Owen seems to have had constant ear infections.....is he allergic to milk or anything? Poor baby! I hope you all get feeling better very soon. You're on my prayer list!! My Answer.... I have not had ear infections since I was little. But I guess every time I would get a tooth my mom would also get an ear infection. Saturday night it was really painful. It felt like I had a lot of water in my ears. I could hardly hear. I was actually wondering if the doctor was going to talk about putting tubes in his ears. But he didn't mention anything about it. Cory was actually complaining about his ears a little bit. But Alyssa had a fever on Friday and I was wondering if she did have an ear infection. Which I was right. ...

So to start off I scheduled an appointment for Owen and I yesterday. Owens appointment was at 3:30, mine 4:15. The doctor looked at Owens ear and his right ear is worse than his left. I had mentioned that I had a appointment scheduled right after his with my doctor. He looked at my ear and said well you have a smoldering ear infection each ear. So two down, two more to go. The doctor said "well it would be nice to see if your husband and your daughter have it to". Cory was called up and he woke Alyssa up and they both came over and Cory just has stuffy ears and Alyssa has an ear infection also. So: $75.00-Copay's around $100.00 for med's. With our other insurance much more! So that is how we are doing right now.

So here are some outside pictures that I took while we were working in the yard. We are actually in the process of painting the trim so I will get a picture of the house after we are done with that. So we brought the truck over and we were pulling some shrubs out and this one came out and took a whole bunch with it.

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...