Sunday, May 2, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
To Blog or Not to Blog
Well, I'm told that I have to blog. Evidentally, one of Diane's good friends daughters was complaining about not having updated the blog in a while. I told her to tell her that if they would have come out here to visit like they promised (twice in the past two years) they would be updated with everything. We are still waiting for their promised visit.
What is new in the Colorado Tepen's world. Absolutely nothing. The basement is still not finished. The kids are still the kids and believe it or not, Diane is still the same.
I was upstairs folding laundry and looked out the window this afternoon and couldnt believe what I saw outside in our backyard. Diane was holding a bag of dog poop....you say, big deal; you have dogs so I'm sure you see that all the time. Well, in the past six years or so, I dont think she has picked it up a single time. I know for sure that is true since we've lived in this house. I'm hoping this becomes a habit for her.
The kids are growing like weeds. They constantly want to be outside. It has finally been warming up enough outside to let them out of the friendly confines inside the house. They love to go into the backyard and play in the sandbox and kick the ball. They both like to kick the ball, whether it is back and forth with me or just down the hill where they will chase it and bring it back up to do all over again.
How many bites does it take to eat an M&M? For most people it is just a single bite. For Mia it is usually three or four. She likes to enjoy each one as much as she can. In our war against diapers, we have been enticing them to use the potty by giving them an M&M each time they use the potty. Mia has been pretty good about it, when she feels like it. Wes, on the other hand really had no interest at all until lately. He would sit on it, but it was more a game than anything. The last couple of evenings, he told us he needed to go potty. We took his diaper off and he went pee. Not just once, but like three or four times in an hour. After the first time he insisted on running around naked, after eating his M...both Mia and Wes call the M&M's just "M's". Since he was naked anyway, I guess he was saving up and several more times he would just head into the bathroom on his own and do his business. We would be sitting here and then hear the potty start singing and them he would run out with the little dish of pee in his hands yelling, I went potty, I went potty, I get a M. Now if we can just get his aim a little better because he always seems to leave a pretty good mess on the floor too.
The kids went to their first baseball game. We took them to opening day of the Rockies game, who won 7-0. Will probably take them to another game when the Cardinals are in town. Deck them out it red and have them cheer for the Cards.
We got another new addition to the family a few weeks ago. I've been wanting to upgrade my smoker to something better than what I had. I started looking around and doing some research into them. Everything I found was very expensive and I had just about given up because I didnt want to spend the more than $2000 to get one. I chanced upon a used one up in South Dakota from a lady whose husband just died from the H1N1 over the winter and needed the money to pay hospital bills. I couldnt believe my luck, but how crazy would people think I am to drive 6 hours each way to go buy a smoker. Thought about two seconds and realized I didnt really care, so I made the drive with my friend Chris to go pick it up. We spent the night and hit the town hard. I cant remember the last time I shut down a bar. Granted, it was only 8:30 in the evening, but they still were closing down. Nothing else was open except for American Legion, so we decided to just get a six pack and head back to the room. What a friday night. I'm not sure what is worse driving through, Kansas or Wyoming....very close call. Tried it out last weekend, cooked up six slabs of ribs and two whole chickens, invited some friends over and had a nice feast. Love the new smoker. It cooks awesome. It burns wood instead of the charcoal like my last one. So, if you are driving into Denver to visit, feel free to load up with a nice load of apple, hickory or oak and come on by.
Nothing else new here. I'll try and update a little more often in the future. Feel free to visit. I could rant and rave about work, my brothers psycho ex-wife who I seem to hate more and more every time I hear her name and several other things but I'm sure you dont want to hear all about that. So, have a great spring and summer and come check out my new smoker.
What is new in the Colorado Tepen's world. Absolutely nothing. The basement is still not finished. The kids are still the kids and believe it or not, Diane is still the same.
I was upstairs folding laundry and looked out the window this afternoon and couldnt believe what I saw outside in our backyard. Diane was holding a bag of dog poop....you say, big deal; you have dogs so I'm sure you see that all the time. Well, in the past six years or so, I dont think she has picked it up a single time. I know for sure that is true since we've lived in this house. I'm hoping this becomes a habit for her.
The kids are growing like weeds. They constantly want to be outside. It has finally been warming up enough outside to let them out of the friendly confines inside the house. They love to go into the backyard and play in the sandbox and kick the ball. They both like to kick the ball, whether it is back and forth with me or just down the hill where they will chase it and bring it back up to do all over again.
How many bites does it take to eat an M&M? For most people it is just a single bite. For Mia it is usually three or four. She likes to enjoy each one as much as she can. In our war against diapers, we have been enticing them to use the potty by giving them an M&M each time they use the potty. Mia has been pretty good about it, when she feels like it. Wes, on the other hand really had no interest at all until lately. He would sit on it, but it was more a game than anything. The last couple of evenings, he told us he needed to go potty. We took his diaper off and he went pee. Not just once, but like three or four times in an hour. After the first time he insisted on running around naked, after eating his M...both Mia and Wes call the M&M's just "M's". Since he was naked anyway, I guess he was saving up and several more times he would just head into the bathroom on his own and do his business. We would be sitting here and then hear the potty start singing and them he would run out with the little dish of pee in his hands yelling, I went potty, I went potty, I get a M. Now if we can just get his aim a little better because he always seems to leave a pretty good mess on the floor too.
The kids went to their first baseball game. We took them to opening day of the Rockies game, who won 7-0. Will probably take them to another game when the Cardinals are in town. Deck them out it red and have them cheer for the Cards.
We got another new addition to the family a few weeks ago. I've been wanting to upgrade my smoker to something better than what I had. I started looking around and doing some research into them. Everything I found was very expensive and I had just about given up because I didnt want to spend the more than $2000 to get one. I chanced upon a used one up in South Dakota from a lady whose husband just died from the H1N1 over the winter and needed the money to pay hospital bills. I couldnt believe my luck, but how crazy would people think I am to drive 6 hours each way to go buy a smoker. Thought about two seconds and realized I didnt really care, so I made the drive with my friend Chris to go pick it up. We spent the night and hit the town hard. I cant remember the last time I shut down a bar. Granted, it was only 8:30 in the evening, but they still were closing down. Nothing else was open except for American Legion, so we decided to just get a six pack and head back to the room. What a friday night. I'm not sure what is worse driving through, Kansas or Wyoming....very close call. Tried it out last weekend, cooked up six slabs of ribs and two whole chickens, invited some friends over and had a nice feast. Love the new smoker. It cooks awesome. It burns wood instead of the charcoal like my last one. So, if you are driving into Denver to visit, feel free to load up with a nice load of apple, hickory or oak and come on by.
Nothing else new here. I'll try and update a little more often in the future. Feel free to visit. I could rant and rave about work, my brothers psycho ex-wife who I seem to hate more and more every time I hear her name and several other things but I'm sure you dont want to hear all about that. So, have a great spring and summer and come check out my new smoker.
Monday, February 15, 2010
What Clouds Are Made Of
So lets see, what's been happening at our house recently......
Chris has been working hard on the basement and I'd say we are about 90% finished. It looks really great, I will post a pic at the end to show you some of the progress, but we will put really good ones out when it is completely finished.
My friend Deni came out for a visit. It was so fun to have a few days off work and have some much needed me time with a good friend. The kids really enjoyed Deni's visit. They still seem to be looking around the house for her in hopes that she is just playing a really tough game of hide and seek. And Deni, this is for you......hot dog hot dog hot digity dog!
Wes and Mia are making some progress on the potty training front.....well, I should say Mia is making progress.....but Wes is really happy for her. She seems to be doing well at using the potty pretty regularly. I took them to Target today to buy them big boy/girl underware as an incentive......they seemed pretty jazzed about it......we'll see.
We have all been good and healthy this winter as compared to last. I think the kids being really excited about washing their hands has helped temendously. They have been constantly asking to go to the park recently, but it's been too cold and windy to go. It's been a challange finding things to keep them busy when it's too cold for outside. Can't wait for spring!
Oh, about the title.......So we have this book about clouds, and this little cloud turns into all kinds of shapes and animals, and then at the end joins the other clouds and it rains......so Chris has been trying to teach the kids that clouds are made of water. The other day Chris asked Mia what clouds were made of. Our brilliant daughter replied with confidence that clouds are made of ........BACON! Chris and I both had a laugh and he asked her again what clouds were made of, and this time she said.....WAFFLES! In all fairness, it was 6am and waffles and bacon sounded like a pretty good idea to me too.
Chris has been working hard on the basement and I'd say we are about 90% finished. It looks really great, I will post a pic at the end to show you some of the progress, but we will put really good ones out when it is completely finished.
My friend Deni came out for a visit. It was so fun to have a few days off work and have some much needed me time with a good friend. The kids really enjoyed Deni's visit. They still seem to be looking around the house for her in hopes that she is just playing a really tough game of hide and seek. And Deni, this is for you......hot dog hot dog hot digity dog!
Wes and Mia are making some progress on the potty training front.....well, I should say Mia is making progress.....but Wes is really happy for her. She seems to be doing well at using the potty pretty regularly. I took them to Target today to buy them big boy/girl underware as an incentive......they seemed pretty jazzed about it......we'll see.
We have all been good and healthy this winter as compared to last. I think the kids being really excited about washing their hands has helped temendously. They have been constantly asking to go to the park recently, but it's been too cold and windy to go. It's been a challange finding things to keep them busy when it's too cold for outside. Can't wait for spring!
Oh, about the title.......So we have this book about clouds, and this little cloud turns into all kinds of shapes and animals, and then at the end joins the other clouds and it rains......so Chris has been trying to teach the kids that clouds are made of water. The other day Chris asked Mia what clouds were made of. Our brilliant daughter replied with confidence that clouds are made of ........BACON! Chris and I both had a laugh and he asked her again what clouds were made of, and this time she said.....WAFFLES! In all fairness, it was 6am and waffles and bacon sounded like a pretty good idea to me too.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Colorado Christmas
So Merry Christmas everyone! We started our day bright and early.....5am to be exact. We kept the kiddos upstairs first thing this morning and did our normal routine so that Chris and I could actually get a shower before the days festivities began. We came downstairs at about 6:30am and the kids dove right in to all that santa had left us. I think by the end they were like "what the heck are we getting all of this stuff for??" They were in complete overload by lunch time and fell asleep for nap in like 5 minutes. They are sleeping right now and I don't expect to hear a peep from them for another half hour....they just had to much new stuff to process. It is a crisp and grey day here in the 20's with probably somewhere in the range of 8" of snow on the ground from the last storm that passed through here. We have a big ole rib roast in the oven for dinner tonight and plan to lounge in our sweatpants all day and eat way too much......life is good :) Here are a few pics from this morning. Hope everyone is having as fun and relaxing of a day as we are......
Look Who's 2...and it isnt me.....
School Girl Charm
Shit eating Grin
Cuteness abound
Probably did not want to see everyone..but tough.
Our Thanksgiving Trip
Sorry it's been a while, time really is flying right by. Since our last blog post we took a trip to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. It was really great to see all of the family. While we were there the kids had their 2nd birthday. Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate. We had a little celebration with just me, Chris, Wes & Mia before we left for Thanksgiving. Wes and Mia got shiney new tricycles. Here is a pic of them trying them out.....
Then we had a second celebration on Thanksgiving day where Wes and Mia had chocolate pie.....
Then we had a third celebration on their actual birthday where we had pizza and cupcakes - yummy......
Wes and Mia did really great on their first big car trip. We had lots of fun in St. Louis playing with all of their cousins. Thanks for a great holiday....see you all again this summer!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Trick or Treat?......Definitely trick
So I thought I'd post a few quick pics of our Halloween fun and that this would only take a few minutes to put together.......but wait, is that screaming I hear on the baby monitor?? Yes, it is.....that couldn't possibly be our sweet babies - yeah right. I am not joking about what I am about to explain next. So, my lovely husband is in the kitchen making ground vegetable soup (all you Tepen's will know just the tastey soup I am referring to), and I am in the office getting ready to post the Halloween pics, the kids are in their room for nap time. Suddenly, there is screaming being blasted from the monitor. I rush in to the kitchen and ask Chris if he knows what's going on, he doesn't, so I run upstairs to investigate. Let me preface the scene I entered into by saying that the kids are potty training now. At daycare they are teaching them to take off their own diapers and then hop on to the potty. So I open the door to their room and I see both Mia and Wes with their diapers completely off. Mia has poop on both hands and feet. Wes has basically used his bed to wipe the rest of the poop off of his but, so the sheets and blankets are streaked in poop. Oh yes, then there are several stray turds on the floor which happens to also be covered in clothes - clean clothes that were folded neatly in a drawer before the nap. I honestly didn't know where to start. So you ask how our Halloween weekend went.......definitely full of tricks.....tricky babies that is.
We did manage to head over to one of our friends houses last night and joined in some pre trick or treating festivities with them and their neighbors. Thanks to the Nuetzel's for having us over, we all had a great time.
Here are some of our Halloween pics.....
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