The Strasser's

Well no real updates really. We are loving the sunshine and nice weather right now. Yesterday we went to the park and a spot right above my knee got sunburned pretty good. Tomorrow is the iris festival parade. Alyssa and I will be helping Aleta and Joe, we will be passing out flyers and candy. Cory will have Evan and Owen. I maybe will pass off the camera to him. Cory has been still pretty busy. He actually has a paper due today and another due on Tuesday. Some of you ask why is he still having paper's to write, well the education program at Willamette still has classes on Monday and Tuesday night's, it should end very quickly but they go longer than the rest of the school. But they all walk on the same day.

I can't believe Evan is almost a year old. What a year it has been so far. I have went through the post's of the hospital blog. It was quite interesting to read a lot of those entry's. Maybe I will post them here leading up to Evan's birthday, So than I will have them on this blog. I haven't had much to blog about. But our washing machine is broken at the time. I am going to pick up a part today and Cory is going to see if that will help fix it. Definitely hard not having a washing machine. Evan got measured for a helmet yesterday, I took all 3 kids with me and they did very well. Alyssa did pick out the pattern for his new helmet. She is very excited that she did. He get's his helmet the day before his birthday. Not sure what to do for his birthday, not sure if we should do anything at all. His surgery has been scheduled for September 16th, for his hypospadias. He is going to see his cardiologist next Thursday, they just want to make sure his heart is doin...

Yesterday it had been 14 years since my parents motorcycle wreck.  I can't believe it has been that long. I was 12 when it happened. The night of the accident I saw the life flights come over the mountain's in Cache Valley, and than go right back over to Salt Lake with my parents.  I moved around a lot staying with family and friends. I am grateful for those family and friends that helped when all this was going on. I don't really talk about it. But I am really glad to have my parents alive.

Cory graduated/walked yesterday. I am so excited that he is almost done. Yes he still has  some classes, and they should be done very quickly. But he still student teaches until the end of the school year. All the other programs are done for the school year expect the school of education. While sitting and waiting for everything the graduation to start I was looking through the commencement program for all the programs that had graduation. One of the speaker's for the liberal arts was Bill Nye the science guy. After graduation we had dinner at our house to celebrate. I didn't get a picture of the decorations, expect for the sign I made for him. Add caption Here is Cory's sign I made for him. The gold blob was a cap. I hung it up to soon and it ran. Since Alyssa and Owen were not with us at graduation we wanted a picture of all us.

* Well Evan's surgery finally got rescheduled, they said the first available date is Aug 19th. But that is the Friday before Shawn comes home. So now he will have his surgery mid September.  * Evan hasn't been wearing a helmet for sometime now, But he has out grown his helmet and is going to get a new one. Yep we have to pay another $350. so now we are up to $700 in helmet's. Not sure what pattern we are  going to get this time. * Alyssa is fully registered for school. I need to get her in district transfer done because we want her to go to a different school. The school she would technically go to is in Felony Flats. It is definitely not in a nice neighborhood. * Owen is learning lots of words, and loves to tease his sister. 

Owen had finished his lunch, he was so tired that he fell asleep. Poor kid! I was in the other room and I heard snoring and came in and found him like this.

These three adorable girls ran this morning, and they did a very good job. Cory ran with Alyssa, Mike ran with Siosi Alyssa after the race Siosi after the race

Well I can't believe it already it May. Next Sunday, May 15th, is graduation. Cory has been working so hard. He is not finished with his final project yet. It is actually due on Monday. So hopefully he can get it done before Mother's Day. If he doesn't get it done he won't be able to graduate. He is going to walk because this will be the last so hopefully we will have lots of pictures of him in his cap and gown. But the downer is he will still have some classes and he is student teaching all the way until the beginning of June. Me, well I have been trying to get back on the bandwagon of exercising. I went running last week twice. It's easier to run without the kids because it's hard to push the stroller. I have been doing lots of stuff everything from trying to keep up on housework, to running/ exercising, doing lots of fun things with the kids, and running the business so we have money coming in. Alyssa has been registered for Kindergarten for the fall. She...

Yesterday we went to the tulip festival, because it was really nice. I ended getting sunburned on my arms. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures of Evan because he slept in the stroller. But we did have fun.  Taking a ride on the cow train Evan hanging out in the stroller Owen wasn't to sure about the slide at first going down with his cousin's  Kenize & Siosi One place I couldn't get Owen away from Three little tulips Owen, Alyssa, Siosi

Her birthday sign that grandma made for her, now we can hang it up in her room. trying to get a good picture of grandma So excited to see what she got. got an extremely good deal on this present that my mom  gave to her. a present from great grandma

I can't believe Alyssa is already 5. This is a late entry, Alyssa turned 5 on Tuesday. We celebrated with the Strasser side on Sunday. Cory's uncle was visiting also. A purple flower dress from grandpa and grandma Owen was upset he wasn't able to open anything.  Mike modeling Alyssa's present Well her cake was going to be a 6 layer cake but it was to tall and I was afraid it was going to fall over. Technically it was going to be a rainbow cake. But I just ended up doing the first three layers of the cake and left out green, blue, & purple. I got the idea from a friend.  It was a yummy cake! Owen modeling Alyssa's fancy nancy purse and glasses. Playing in the hot tub

      Mark with Alyssa with great mama Eliana, David, Kimber, Aleta, Shar, Cory, Alyssa, and Heather Weighing in at 7 lbs 15 oz