Update on the boys

Well Owen is as busy as can be hes is growing so fast and is turning into a walking question machine lol!!! he has 20 questions for me every hour he is so funny he has changed so much he surprises me everyday he is the smartest little man I have ever seen!! Liam has a bit of bigger news he has officially took many first steps and is on the urge of walking he is completely ready and practice almost every chance he can. he is so eager to do as much as his brother can. and why not he is just as big as him they weight about 2 pounds off the only really difference is that Owen is extremely tall so he has a ways to catch up. We also have turned Liam's car seat around so he is convinced that he is just as big as his brother lol!!! They are both growing so fast I am amazed every day about how much they change.... soon I will have a picture of their baptism. We are getting them both baptised on Easter with Sammy yay I am so happy to get this done and sad that I waited so long I am such a procrastinator when it comes to things like this...

Gregory is 27 yay!!!

Gregs birthday has just recently passed!!! He is the age of 27 know he is in his late twenty's hehe and I remind him and tease him everyday!!! we sadly didn't do that much I tried to get him tickets to go to a blazer game but all the home games were completely sold out all 6!!! So I took him out for the day instead we went and had lunch and he got to pick out some new shoes!! nothing to exciting then I made him a yummy dinner and some cupcakes!!! yum!!!

~ Family Vacation ~

~~~ We left the Sunday of my birthday weekend... So one good day of rest and recovery from my birthday night. Owen and Liam got gift cards to stay at The Great Wolf Lodge for Christmas so we planned a 3 day get away in February we usually take a little vacation in February with Ben and Brandy and the kids. Last year we went to Sunriver and the year before that we went to Neskowin... We got to the Lodge and were completely blown away by the size of the place what an amazing lodge they have and by the size of the water park. and of course about a half hour after we got their the boys had us packing the kids up again to go see cobelas!!!! Yay!! the store was amazing the boys were in complete heaven even the little ones their was a huge animal display that the Owen couldn't get enough of and The gun section went on and on. Greg didn't even know what to look at first.. Owen ended up leaving with a little hunters set with a camo truck and two little guys with a tent and a four wheeler... Liam got a little stuffed animal and Gregory got a hat and I got a key chain!! we all couldn't leave without something.. Then we all went out to Red lobster for dinner Yum!!! The next morning we were so excited to see and go to the water park. The park was incredible and they had so much stuff for each age the kids went crazy they had so much fun. The place really surprised me because of all the things they had for everyone. The had an arcade a pizza place a Starbucks and two really yummy restaurants and their was even a bar in the water park on the top floor they had really thought of everything so that you didn't need to leave the lodge. what an amazing and exhausting weekend although it was a pretty spendy place I would like to go back it was alote of fun and the huge funnel was a blast!!! I am really bummed that my camera broke the Friday before we left so I didn't get to get any cute pictures :(

~My 23rd birthday!!!!~

Well another birthday has past :( I am now 23 years old and have decided that I think I will remain 22 instead I do not like that I am getting older EEK!!! But I do love my birthday month and yes I do get a whole month lol!!! My birthday was great this year we usually wait until Greg's birthday to do something fun but this year I told Greg all that I wanted to do is go to a blazer game and out with friends!!! My birthday fell on a Friday so it worked out perfect!!! I pretty much left all the planning to Cait shes pretty good at that stuff... We really wanted to go to a sports bar before the game and meet with mom and dad and Sandy and Toby but we were running a little behind and the girls decided to get ready in the hotel.... so we got some drinks and headed to the hotel. Caitlin did a very good job on price line we got two nice rooms with two beds in each room for $100.00 so SCORE... The game was a complete blast but we were a little bummed that Oden wasn't playing that night :( but it was still a really good game!! after the game all of us headed to the Thirsty Lion to meet mom and dad and Sandy and Toby (and by all of us I mean me Greg, Cait, Jessica Cruickshank, Jeremy Jess C boyfriend Jessica Rex, Jessica Cole, Matt, Nick B, Travis Cornwell) after Thirsty Lion we went to the Dixie for a bit of dancing... all in all it was a fantastic night and I hope that we can make it a tradition!!!

~Are Very Happy Valentines Day~

The night before Valentines day me and Owen filled out his Valentines cards. He picked cars because they came with tattoos it was that or Spider man his two faves.Valentines Day started out really great I set up the boys gift in the living room so that when they woke up they got a big surprise. Owen got a new animal set from Sportsman's and some yummy candy, and Liam got a cat and the hat stuffed animal and some suckers. Owen didn't even notice his gift he went straight to mine that Greg must have set up while I was sleeping. It was a cute little monkey with slick red hearted boxers on and it was holding my roses..Pink roses He always gets me pink or white I am not a big fan of the red... are first Valentines Day before we were even dating he sent Pink tulips with Tera to school for me he is such a romancer ha ha. OH and I forgot to mention his obsession with enormous balloons every year he gets me the biggest balloon he can find and this year was no different Liam was completely afraid of it and it didn't help that Owen loved it and wouldn't let it go for a minute and every time he would enter a room where Liam was he would go bazurk... after Owen got over the shock of my great surprised he went crazy to see his new animals. Me and the boys waited until Greg got up and decided to head to the beach to eat at the Pelican and have some of their yummy beer. On the way down we were thinking that this was not the best idea since it was raining pretty hard but we were just enjoying the ride so we took are time. Greg had to check the rivers to see if the fish were in and then we arrived completely surprised to see that it was really beautiful down on the beach. We spent a few hours playing on the beach and then seen some nasty clouds coming in so we decided to go into the Pelican which was SURPRISE packed so we ended up going to the pizza place across the street which was really good and i am sure we will travel that way more and more now because we both keep craving that pizza...The day was really great and I hope that we can make it a tradition... Then we came home and watched the movie that I got for Greg Step Bothers in blue ray.....A perfect end to a perfect day...

~ The ultimate Blazer fans~

The Grahams Officially don't have to miss a game now because we finally got Comcast Yay!!! Greg has never been happier and if you know Greg you will know the his obsession he has always had for the Blazers he is definitely not a fare weather fan him and miah have been fans since they were extremely young like single digits young. Me and Dena fully know not to interrupt during blazer mode lol. He is even loving them more lately especially now that they are kicking butt. The boys Love to get involved and love to jump up and down like their dad. We are on the look out for some blazer Jerseys for the boys and us and me and Greg have picked out players for them. Me and Dena got Miah and Greg tickets this year on the bottom level the closest they have ever been they had a blast and it came just in time because Miah and Dena just moved so they got to watch their last game together, and we are looking really forward to Celebrating my 23rd Birthday at the Blazer game Yay!!!! Their was a random post that goes with a very cute picture....

~Girls Night~

This girls night was really a bigger deal then most because we reunited with all the Jessica's...

the girls all came and brought their beautiful daughters Owen and Liam were in heaven... Owen had so much fun with McKinley and Liam and Breanna just laid back and took it all in. It was so much fun to catch up with all them and get all are kids together I hope that we can do it again soon and more frequent. Me and Jess


jess me cait jess

Owen and his girl friend lol

I do not know?

Busy Busy Busy......

I have been meaning to update the blog lately but I will have to say that me and Greg have been so busy since I have gone back to work which started out as just part time and I got an opportunity to get a better position so Greg told me to take it because I will get to be with Owen when he starts school In April and it will get us to are goal of living in the country sooner then later. I have been enjoying working but I do miss the boys but we are fortunate to not have to send them to a day care and I really am only away from them for like four hours so mostly just their nap time in the afternoon. We haven't really been up to anything new just alote of this and that we have been enjoying the sunny weather and it couldn't have came any earlier for Owen he was so ready to bust outside he spent everyday on are deck, and after I got back from running we would take a walk around the block with his new four wheeler.. HERE ARE SOME RANDOM PICTURES I HAVE TAKEN RECENTLY...

UM I DONT REMEMBER HAVING TWINS?

yes i did just get up ( bed head)

The amazing year of 2008....

This past year has been crazy, fun and completely unpredictable. We had so much going on I had to sit down and try to remember it all. the first thing that I could think of in 2008 was are trip to sunriver with Ben and Brandy and the kids. We try to go somewhere every year in February and we ended up in Sunriver this year with matching condos it was a blast although I think it was the coldest it has ever been it was 1 degree the entire time... the kids had the greatest time and sunriver was pretty deserted because school was in so if I hadn't have been pregnant with the soon to be Liam we def. would have hit the Mountain with are snow boards. Be we had an amazing time just hang out and playing with the kids in the snow. Then as the year went on I decide to sign Owen up for swimming Lessons he was completely in love with it the first day. I knew he would be he is so in love with the water, We went every Tuesday and Thursday and I think I had to remind Owen a million times a week that it was only two days but he was completely in to going every day. It was so much fun we were sad it ended I am signing him up for the next class and I know that he cant wait. We still bring him back to the Dallas pool time to time and he loves it. And of course the biggest part of are 2008 was the arrival of are beautiful Liam 8pounds 3 ounces . We welcomed him on April 30Th at about 8:03. I had a really easy birth with him I actually was laughing while I was delivering him but if you were in their with Gregory you would too he does not handle stress that well but he keeps me calm because I always know he will stress out enough for the both of us. and about two weeks after the arrival of a perfect baby boy we celebrated Owen's second birthday it was the perfect day we had a cowboy party at Nana's with ponies and it was so hot all the kids really spent most of their time in the water. Summer was the best this year we bought a brand new camping trailer last year and we finally got to take it out once the weather warmed up a bit although we didn't really wait we went in the rain about 3 weeks after we had Liam. we started the summer off by making about two to three reservations a month at different camp grounds including Shasta. then we would just go anywhere that was open on the other days. We went camping so much are camper began to feel like are second home. I would have to say we are camping pro's. This was all when Greg still worked 4 days on 4 days off and we would just spend all his 4 days camping. Camping is Definitely something that me and Greg never get tired of we are extremely outdoorsy people we love it in fact Greg's dream life would to be to live in the woods around no one else in a log cabin and live off the land. I would have to say I love the camping but I couldn't live in no deserted woods I love shopping and hot baths that I don't have to boil the water by myself. and towards the end of the summer Greg convinced me we needed to sell MY quad to buy a Rhino :( but I do have to admit we have got a lote of use out of the Rhino already especially during hunting season and the big snow storm. and as the summer was almost gone we had to very big things to celebrate mom was finally done with treatments and cancer free Yeah finally!!! Me and Greg also got to celebrate are 5Th year together and are one year wedding anniversary WOW!!! We took the weekend together and had an amazing time in Hood River.

Sunriver Trip Swimming lesson Welcome Liam lee Gregory Graham

Owen getting ready for his Party

are second Home
kids at Lake billy Chinook

of course and amazing thing also that happened this year was that I was able to potty train Owen before Liam was born Yeah!!!

New Years Eve!!!!!

Well for New Years eve this year we had so much fun we decide to have a little party at are house. The boys had a poker tournament and Greg ended up winning like 70 dollars. Brandy and Ben came with the kids and they brought their margarita machine and me and Brandy got to drink together for the first time in like four years because we were both not pregnant this year its Megan's turn... Dena and Jeremiah came with the kids and then Brandy's brother and Travis cornwell and of course Nick and Meg were their.They all seemed to pass out about and hour before midnight which in Owen case that means he played way to hard if I let him stay awake on any night until he passes out he would easily stay up until 1 am. Gage made it and then soon after midnight passed out. They had so much fun with their cousins then we woke up the Next Morning and went down to coyote Joe's for breakfast... That was about it a small evening but it was so much fun to have everyone together.

The Morning after

Well what an amazing month I really don't even know how to begin. I pretty much covered the Snow stuff Just a lote of being stuck in the home which sucked to a very get up and go Family but we all enjoyed the time to be together. Greg also got time off so it made the stay at home even better. Well Christmas was amazing this year even with the crazy weather we were able to spend it with are families. Christmas Eve was Great we spent it at My Grandma and Grandpa Bishops. The kids went crazy and enjoyed running around with all their cousins. They loved to open presents although Lee lee was just way to interested in the bows and the boxes I really don't think he made it past the wrapping paper. although they were scored so many gifts at Christmas eve that was only the beginning of their very many Christmases.

Christmas Eve was so much fun we ended up getting back home sorta late and after getting the boys to sleep I stayed up till like three trying to put their big toys together so that they could Wake up to them under the tree.. Santa brought Owen a power wheels four wheeler he has been wanting one for so long we were planning on getting him a Rhino but we were to late they sold out really fast. But we new that he would love the four wheeler. He also got a remote control Jeep, and so much more but I am not going to explain everything. But keep in mind this is still only the stuff that me and Greg bought him. Then Lee Lee got one of those stationary play systems which we decided not to do all the little stuff like we did with Owen because it kinda just played with it for about 3 days and then wasn't really any more interested. Then of course he got plenty more that I'm not going to describe. That morning was so much fun although Owen still really didn't know what was going on so he didn't even want to get up and join us he just kept saying nigh night mommy.. But sadly we had to wake him up because we had to be at moms at nine and i think that we finally got up about 8:30. Lee lee was so excited he really just seen all the bows and really wanted them..I finally carried Owen out to the living room and.... lets just say he seen his bike and that was it... His expression was (this is Oweys bike momma right Oweys bike) and then he told me to ride on the back he was going to take me ridding...

Then after all that we had to beg him to continue with the rest of his presents which became easier with each present then he decided he would help his brother because he just wanted to eat the paper and Owen was way to curious about the contents inside..

Then after a few min of playing we had to convince Owen that Santa brought him more gifts to Grandma and Grandpas. So then we packed the kids up in their Jammys and we were off...We got to moms just in time for more presents the boys had now figured out the whole trick to the presents and were totally digging through all the presents the min we got their then mom didn't make then wait so they began their third Christmas and their second just that day and it was only Nine o'clock...
Mom was told no to get them any more toys so they got them a weekend at Great Wolf lodge ya!!! So we will be enjoying their present in Feb... they also got a few toys and of course the toys they got from their Uncles and their family's by then I think we could have filled two or three cars full of toys Sheesh. Well after that mom cooked us a nice breakfast and then the boys played for awhile then we got to rest before we went to Nana and papas for their Fourth Christmas celebration which was at about 4 then we had dinner and many more gifts but we also got to play annual bingo game and I won on top of my presents many more great gifts it was a blast and my uncle Dennis def. has a calling as a bingo caller...

Then The next day we had are final Christmas with the Graham family. I would have to say it way better then all them because we were all kinda tired and we just ate really good dinner and hung out and visited it was really nice to know that we could just sit their and enjoy one anothers company and of course the kids were not tired they still had enough energy to run around with all their new toys.... And as for me and Greg we got each other gifts right before the holidays and some after the holidays he got Me a camera of course you could probably tell with all the picture's that I got these holidays... I got him a new Gun and surprised him Christmas Morning with blazer tickets... and he also gave me some money to get my ipod touch on top of all the money that I got from everyone else... Then we also got many gift cards from family I mean many gift cards and I cant wait to go shopping..