Hi boys and girls...sorry for my long absence but I will be posting again shortly. We have been having some computer issues in the Minnig asylum the last 3 or 4 weeks. Our laptop's hard drive and then motherboard were toast, so we broke down and got a new desktop. Now that I have a computer again I can post pics of what has been going on lately. (Not to mention our new sweet computer.) Blog to you soon!
To this........so fast? Wesley turned 4 years old today, but if you ask him he turned 4 yesterday because thats when we had his party. Silly boy. We had Wes' party at Chuck E. Cheese and let me tell you, that was an adventure. My parents and I got there about 40 minutes before people were supposed to arrive to set up balloons,cake,divide tokens, etc. When we got there we found the last of 2 parking spots left and when we went in the place was PACKED! Between the 3 of us we scouted around and there were NO tables available and I was expecting a party of about 20 people to arrive. Needless to say I was panicking, finally a table for 3 opened up. 3?! At least we could put the cake and party supplies down. Then a few minutes later a booth for 6 a couple of tables down opened up and about 1o minutes later another 6 person booth opened up and now at least we had some room. We hurried and got stuff set up just in time for the birthday boy and guests to show up. All in all it was stressful, but it worked out and the kids had a great time. We were there for 3.5 hours and boy was I glad to get home.
My cute little 4 yr. old
Me and Petie=party animals
Petie riding the rides...she loved this one and rode it about 10 times.
Wesley actually riding the horse. Last time we went he wouldn't go anywhere near this thing. I guess you get braver as you get older, eh?
Wes and his cake. He is starting this new posey thing were he has to wrap his arms around himself to smile for a picture. I don't get it either. Wes picked out his own cake and he was super excited that it was Batman on a motorcycle.
I think he now owns EVERY Batman action figure and or vehicle known to man, but he is happy.
Wesley and Mommy waiting to be taken back and checked in.
This was Wes right after surgery. We came into his recovery room to him sitting on a nurses lap just crying and clutching onto his stuffed puppy, which he has named dog. (How original.) He was so upset....I felt pretty bad for him.
He had to have an IV in until just before we left, in case he needed fluids or something to help with nausea. Luckily there was no throwing up, just a bit of crying. He would not relax and go to sleep, and EVERY time he caught sight of his wrapped foot he would just start crying all over again. Needless to say we kept his foot covered with the blanket as much as we could. He cried pretty good too when they unwrapped it and took the IV out. They put some gauze on it and wrapped it up again and told us we could take it off when we got home. Wesley told me we had to leave it on. (I think he was afraid it would hurt to take it off.) And since he had a bandage on his foot he obviously couldn't walk anywhere. Silly boy.
This is us about 30 minutes before we left the surgical center. Yeah I know I look lovely in the glasses, but Wes had pink eye earlier in the month and shared it with Mommy and Petie. That meant no glasses for me for a few days, hurray. Anyway....I love the look on his face in this picture...it just says it all.
Wes about 5 hours after being home from surgery. If you noticed he had to get dressed, he could not stay in his jammies. He also got to have some pudding and right after he finished that he told me he needed some lunch.
Later Grandma and Papa Wellwell came to visit and bring him some prizes. (I accidentally erased some pictures while blogging and am too lazy to put them back.) They brought him a rose and a Joker action figure so that his Batman has a villain to fight with.
This was Wesley's preschool Christmas program, it was so cute. I'm not sure that any of the kids knew the words to the songs but it was funny to watch none-the-less.
Wesley and Daddy decorating our new fake tree.
More of Wesley decorating.....
We made us a rockin' gingerbread house which Wesley will not let us throw away and is still living on my kitchen counter to this day.
A crappy fuzzy Christmas morning picture before they opened any presents from Santa.
Trinity would tear up the wrapping paper and then "decorate" Zora. Good thing she is so good around kids....she also tried riding her a few times that morning.
Wesley's favorite thing he got at our house was his "giant dinosaur".
Petie Pie in her way too cute tutu from Grandma Wellwell.
Trinity thought that she was supposed to sit on every present that she could...and so she did.
Krystal & Blake
Jessica & Sean (sp?)
Jon & Andrea
Wendy & Brandon
Kyle & Kathy
Mike & Melanie
Brian & Shelley
Nisa & Colby
JJ & Ashlee
Me & Bret Just an FYI. We took Wesley to the ENT (ear,nose,throat) today and found out that his tonsils are so enlarged that they are touching his uvula and he has sleep apnea from it. (He stops breathing while sleeping.) So.....in January we are having his tonsils and adenoids (spelling?) taken out. It sounds like that will be some fun week. We will let ya know...I'll have lots of time to take pics cause we'll be at the surgical center for 5 or 6 hours. Hurray. Wish us luck!
This first lovely shot is from "girls night out". We went to Olive Garden and some yummy food....our waiter (who's name suddenly escapes me) was very deft with his glass refilling abilities. I was quite impressed. After we were supposed to go to a corn maze but decided, instead, to go hang at the Layton Hills Mall. We ended up going to Time's Ticking and found this awesome assortment of sunglasses & had the clerks working there take our picture. It was a fun night. (Note: Next time, girls, may I suggest we go to the mall and split up into teams and see who can get the funniest shots. I personally would like to see Marylynne riding the kiddie carousel.) Let me know!
Finally after MONTHS of waiting it was time for the midnight showing of Twilight! Hurray! A small group of us bought tickets a month ahead of time to make sure we got good seats. The pic above is my sister-in-law's , Steph, shirt. She went that day and got us some!
The rest of the crew that braved the wee hours of the morning. Wendy, her Mom-in-law, Andrea (looking serious), and her sister-in-law (who by the way fell asleep during the movie. *shock*) I must say the movie was better that I thought it would be for the short amount of time they had to squeeze so much book into. I really enjoyed it and am looking for a chance to go again. It did have its cheesy moments but how could a movie about vegan vampire romance not?
Wesley's preschool had a Thanksgiving Feast. It was cute, they made Indian headbands and everyone brought something to share. The kids sang songs and then we all had a thanksgiving dinner at 11 o'clock in the morning.
The kids singing their songs.
Wesley was in a grumpy mood and I was trying to get our picture with my camera and he did not want to cooperate. So you get a nice up the nose shot.
The one and only thing that Wesley would eat at the feast....pie.
And lastly, we are finally doing a little remodeling. Bret and I have been saying for over a year now that we wanted to get rid of the carpet/linoleum in the kitchen/dining area. This is a before shot of the kitchen/dining. Bret painted the entire downstairs first though.
The tiles being marked out.
This is what the finished part will look like minus the dust and dirt. He's still not done with it though. He needs to replace all the baseboards, but at least the fridge isn't in the living room anymore. Next its onto the bathrooms to paint and tile those. I will post pics when Bret starts those projects......it could be a while. 
