Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Ragnar, Reunion, & Holly's Birthday

It has been quite awhile since the website has been updated. I have added a few links. One is for the playhouse, there is a video showing the assembly as well as some pictures. It is still far from completion, but getting there. Another link is for a photo album of the girls. I also included a link to our homeserver.

Cyrus convinced me to run in the Ragnar relay again. I trained even less this year than last, but still I didn't bring the team down too much. The first picture is from my first leg...that is why I am still smiling! I also included a picture of the Real Man's sport drink!!

 

 

 

 

 

We all had a great time this year at the Swarthout Reunion. It was in Manitou springs Colorado. I have included a few pictures from Garden of the Gods. It was fun just to be able to put life on hold, and hang out with family.

Holly turned 4 this month, we had a little birthday party for her in the backyard, complete with a piņata! All the kids seemed to have a great time, and she had plenty of help when opening her presents.

 

 

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

2008 Odyssey Navi Hacked / Playhouse update

I was able to hack our new Navi unit and change the Splash screen. The newer version is harder to do since it has three images overlaying. But since we have three beautiful princesses a princess van splash screen was the perfect idea.

 

I have been working on the Playhouse every free minute I have. Here is the most recent picture of the structure. It is finally starting to take some shape, too bad it snowed a little today!! That dang Global Warming...

I have included a few new pictures of Evelyn she just had her 2 month appointment and is in the 50 percentile all around!! Holly never got above the 20%, and sienna was only in the 15-30%. Evelyn has started to smile but rarely when a camera is around. She is also beginning to make noises at us.

Sienna recently seems to enjoy sleeping in the hall... We will put her to bed for a nap. When we check on her a little while later there she is asleep in the hall. She doesn't make much noise, if any, when she climbs out of bed. She will just be out in the hall sleeping. She doesn't look very comfortable to me, but seems to sleep fine. And I have no idea why she put a sock on her hand, maybe it gets cold in the Hallway!!

 

 

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Easter and Updates

It has been busy with 3 girls, but I decided to take some time and update the website. I have included a few new pictures of Evelyn. She is much chunkier than holly and Sienna ever were! She is our first baby to surpass her birth weight before her first doctors appointment. But she is still beautiful.

 

The Girls had a fun Easter, nature cooperated and it was around 60 degrees so we were able to hide eggs in the backyard, then we went to the grandparents and they got enough candy to last till Christmas.

Holly is very outgoing in Primary, she is always volunteering for things, and I am told she sings her heart out even if she doesn't know the words. Knowing this it came as no surprise to me, a few weeks ago, that she had volunteered to give a talk. I recorded it on my cell phone, and thought it was so cute I would post it here. http://www.the-foxes.info/video/hollytalk.wav . We just used a excerpt from the friend, she just held up a picture with each statement. She is quite good at memorization.

I am in the process of building a playhouse for the girls, It will hopefully have a Swiss look to it, here is a small picture of what it will somewhat look like. there will be much more detail on the actual building, this was mainly the picture to get all my dimensions correct.

Also we are now the proud new owners of a 2008 Odyssey EX-L with DVD and Navigation. Our 2005 Odyssey had some issues, and the banks wanted 10%+ on a used car loan, Honda had already Pre-approved us for a vehicle, So we decided to see what are options were and walked out with a new vehicle!!

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The new Arrival & snowman

 

 

Well at 2AM we headed to the hospital, after an initial check the admitted us, and at 7:41 AM we had Evelyn Hazel Fox, she came out quite purple, the cord had pulled around her neck, but after they cut it and cleaned out her mouth she started screaming, and within a few minutes her color was normal, and everything checked out. She weighed 7 lbs 5oz, and is 20 inches tall.

 

Utah has gotten a lot of snow, so much for that global warming conspiracy. So Holly and Sienna were able to make their first snowman. The girls had a lot of fun helping Daddy put it together, and it actually lasted a few days since the weather stayed cold.

Thursday, February 5th, 2008

Christmas & Sienna turns 2!

I realize these two events are over a month apart...but when you update your website as often as I do it seems more like a couple hours apart!!  This Christmas we decided to do a gingerbread house form a kit. They are much easier to assemble when made from a kit. I would put icing on and let the girls put candy where ever they wanted. Unfortunately I think the wanted more of the candy in their mouth rather than on the house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas morning they came down Holly was ready to open all the presents, Sienna wasn't sure what was going on. After she opened her first present, a baby and stroller she just wanted to play with that, and didn't care about all her other presents. So next year we only need to buy her one thing :). We got the girls a big dollhouse also for them to share, Holly wanted a princess one, but we got just a normal dollhouse. This did not fool here but she still plays with it.

 

 

 

 

 

Sienna has been going through a phase where she loves "fishy," and her favorite show is Finding Nemo. So for Sienna's birthday her grandparents bought her and Holly a fish Tank and some fish. She will just sit there and stare at the fishy. She calls the Black Molly Fish "mean guy" So far only one fish out of seven has died. (but he never really ate, probably was sick). She also got a Finding Nemo cake made by her Mommy and Daddy.

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