Our New Baby Girl

Millie Arleen Morgan

March 7th, 2012
6:07pm
8 lbs 10 oz 21 inches

Carter, Anja & Fischer were thrilled to meet Millie!!

Mommy and Millie right before leaving the hospital.

Sledding Trip

Short clip of Clinton and Carter sledding.
We had fun in December on the mountains.

Fischer's a Sunbeam!!!

On January 1st, this little man started Primary. He is loving it! So glad that Fischer is a
Happy Little Sunbeam!

It FINALLY Snowed...and stuck to the ground...

Hooray!!! Last night, after the kids were in bed and I was resting...Anja came walking into my room at 8:30. I asked why she was still up and told her she needed to be asleep. Her response was, "But Mom, it's snowing outside and sticking to the ground!" We went and looked, sure enough...it was a winter wonderland for Portland. I got her back in bed and went to show Carter...who was also still awake (?) I showed him and he was ecstatic!

Needless to say...both kids were out of bed and I asked if they wanted to walk in the snow. Silly question! Of course they did. In their slippers, snow coats, and eventually gloves (b/c we ended up playing outside for 1 1/2 hours)...the kids had a great time in the snow.

I want to add that yes, I tried to get Fischer up...showed him the snow...he sleepily looked at it and informed me he wanted to go back to bed.
(he was very excited to see the snow this morning)

Here are a few pictures from the evening:

Carter getting ready to throw a snowball.

Anja eating snow off the car.

Our fabulous snowman...equipped with hat, gloves, carrot nose, ears, arms, eyes, and mouth!
(I haven't been in many photos with the kids and thought my pregnant self should get in one!)

Clinton with the kids.

Carter and Anja right as the snow started to fall. Getting Carter to keep his eyes open in a picture is actually quite hard. Had to take a couple to get this photo.

We had a great time in the snow...and then this morning the snow was still there...but the rains had come to early and made the roads slushy and too drivable for everyone. The kids are currently at school. (which we figured would happen...that's why we played in the snow last night and didn't get the kids to bed until 10pm!!)

I Tried...and Fischer's Clementine Story

I just tried to upload pictures and blogger wouldn't let me. Just wanted people to know that yes...I did make an effort. :)

Fischer just brought me a clementine and asked me to peel it. It's his second one.
I asked,"Did you eat your first one?
"Yes."
"Did you peel it yourself?"
"Yes."
"Did you leave a mess on the floor."
With a smirk..."Yes."
"Are you going to clean it up."
Total straight face..."No." Followed with, "Here Mom, will you please peel this orange for me?"
Of course, Fischer.... :)

Disneyland Trip

Yes, our Disneyland trip was in May...and I'm just posting three pictures today (November...pathetic). We had a fabulous time. Thanks Oma and Opa...we still talk about the trip.Fischer with Chip and Dale

Anja with Toy Story Soldier
(this was so darling. She kept watching him, standing back and before the truck started to drive away, he let Anja honk a little horn and took a picture with her. She was thrilled!)

Carter fighting Darth Vader
Yes, Carter was a Jedi and fought off Darth Vader. He LOVED it!!!

Good Times at Easter

Yes, it's July 4th, and we are waiting for Clinton to come home to grill our family dinner. I've got everything ready and was talking to Holly (my sister) on the phone and we were talking about future plans. I mentioned something about how when move I'm gonna need to be better at blogging and that my father-in-law is probably going to give me a hard time because we've been living in Oregon near my family and I've done a horrible(!!) job at blogging. "Well, Arlen, to beat you to that point and to defend myself, I was decent at blogging when we moved to Oregon, but then I broke our camera and it took me a while to get back into uploading pictures to the computer. And I'm gonna be better a year before we move...starting now. So you won't be able to give me a hard time when we move to New Hampshire." :)

Without further adieu...our Easter photos...

A funny picture of Fischer with his shag hair!Carter excited about his new Star Wars book!
(it should be mentioned that this child LOVES!! Star Wars)

Our family Easter morning.
(yes this was the best picture taken...we couldn't get Carter and Anja to smile at the same time)

Alexis and Clinton

The Timmerman Family
We celebrated Easter on Saturday, b/c Clinton worked Sunday night

I have a friend who blogs once a week...she picks a day and sticks to the schedule. I need to figure out something like that. And yet it's hard, because it's summer time. A time for no schedules, no early mornings, no deadlines. We'll see! :)

When Aunt Sharla came to visit....(in April)...

Carter, Anja, Clinton, and Aunt Sharla climbed the Astor Column...visited the County Jail, a jail that the bad guys break out of in the movie, The Goonies...

Alexis and Fischer got stuck in jail...

And we all rode the Trolley ...

that is until Anja got sick!

Our Little Ballerina

Anja is excited because she is old enough for the 'big girl ballet class.' She was in the 3-4.5 year old class and now is in the 4.5-6 year old class. She says the girls are bigger and she just watched on her first day. She is our bashful child. But last week she said '"I was brave and I danced!" Yeah for Anja!

Preparing for Valentine's Day

While Carter and Anja were busy making valentine's for their friends, Fischer was in the family room drawing on the window. Thanks to Oma and Opa Fischer now has window markers and LOVES to draw on the windows...it's great!Carter prepared a lot of valentine's. It was fun this year to make them from scratch. I cut out hearts, the kids glued the red doilies on the paper and decorated with stickers. We put suckers on as the final touch and glued messages on for each friend. We had a fun time.

Anja made sure her hearts were pretty and each was made with love and lots of detail. What a sweet valentine!