The end

After 8 years of Blogging on Blogger, I regret to inform you that this is the end.

Good bye!

You can find us at www.jstanis.com!

(Yes, my husband has turned me into a Tolkien fan!)

Exhausted

After the race, the kids were as tired and exhausted as we were. 

But not Wes so much...  

Yawn...  Mommy is....

New Construction

After 8 years on Blogger, Jon and I have decided to move to our own web address...  yikes, I hate learning a new system... yet I kind of love it at the same time!  If you read my blog on a regular basis (Well as regularly as I post anyway) then stay tuned for the new address.  We hope to be up and running in the next couple of weeks...  

We are also planning to combine our Photography portfolio into the same site since we haven't been doing a lot of work outside of friends and family.  Exciting things coming!

Do you want to build a snowman?

Yes, I know its summer, well spring... I know this even if mother nature would rather it stay Frozen! We were riding in the car on our way to pick up Jon's bib number on Saturday when our children broke out in song.  The second round was not a good as the first spontaneous round... but you get the idea of the crazy, awesomeness that can be our family.

My kids, like nearly every kid everywhere, are totally obsessed with this movie.  They love Ana and Elsa and the snowman.  Often times I hear them role playing and pretending to be the characters.  I am going to have to find time to watch this movie if I want to know what it is that my children are up to. 

Cellcom Marathon

Jon ran his marathon today and finished with a time of 5:01:44. I am very proud of this accomplishment.  He has been hampered by a knee injury, and for a while, wasn't sure if he could run at all.  He said he was good up through mile 16.  At mile 18 his knee was very sore and at a mile 20 he couldn't run anymore.  So he walked the final 6 with a little jog as he ran past us cheering in Lambeau.  

Yesterday we snapped the photo above as we left Lambeau Field after we picked up Jon's bibs and registration info. It was pretty awesome to mill around the Lambeau Field Atrium.

 

I still think he is crazy, and I have no desire whatever to run a marathon.

Or another half for that matter... I think I will stick to 5 and 10Ks, or relays. 

Kids do say the funniest things

I'm in the kitchen trying to tidy up after a long week, and Ava comes out of the bathroom...  "Momma!!!!!  There was corn stuck to my poopy!!! Did you hear me?  Corn!!!!"

I'm sure she wasn't seeing things... we had corn with our dinner last night... 

Westli: "I want to open the umbrella" as he hands me my umbrella. 

Me: "No, we are not going to do that right now Wes."

Westli:  "Come on now Buddy..."

I bought Taylor some new shoes.  His first pair with laces as he learned how to tie them in the last couple weeks.  He was whining that he couldn't get his foot in it, so I showed him how to pull the laces so that they were loose enough to get his foot in.  Then I told him to push this foot on my knee hard so that his foot would drop into the shoe... "Its okay Taylor, you can push hard on my knee." Taylor: "I know, you're a girl!"

Dad n Me

Wes has been such a Daddy's boy recently!