Aaron's Blessing & Indepenence Day!

We spent the 4th of July weekend in Champaign, Illinois with the Jessen & Linda fam. It was an 8 hour drive, which went easier than I imagined...except when Emmy started pulling hair, pinching, and biting for fun. We learned our lesson and isolated her from others on the way back, much better.

Saturday we visited "Beeches", an Amish store in a cute little Amish town. Got some fun unique treats. We won't talk about the "fair" that wasn't :)

We blessed Aaron on Sunday, July 3. It was a beautiful blessing and a special day.

 

He is such a sweet and good baby.

Note to self: don't hold Emmy by her diaper anymore & look into child modeling for Kaela & Luke. Talk about striking a pose!

Luke & Clairebear were inseperable. We would find them laughing and dancing together.

It was a treat to stay in Jelinda's new house. Isn't that kitchen to die for!? They built and did a fabulous job.

Happy 4th Munchkins

Sparkler time...Luke tried to light the grass on fire more than once...

Emmy wasn't so sure about this. She exclaimed "ooowwww" when a sparkle landed on her arm.

Kaela & Allison are buds for life & did a lot of trading things together. Couldn"t get a good shot of both of them so save my life!

It was Aaron's turn to cry at the "boom booms" as Emmy says. He drifted off once we covered his ears. The fireworks were quite spectacular.

Thanks for the fun and memorable weekend Jelinda family! Your house will never be quite the same, but weren't the memories worth it!?

Color Wheel Genius

Joey is now an official color wheel genius in my book. A few weeks ago we were enjoying a little Avatar when out of the blue our tv made this huge popping sound and the picture went whack. We quickly turned the tv off and couldn't get it to turn back on. This tv is only 5 years old mind you...we laughed at how we have his parents old tv in the kids playroom and it hasn't had any problems. Gotta love newer and bigger and supposedly better technology.

Do we buy a new tv for over $1500? Do we have someone come out to fix it for $400? We didn't even think about fixing it ourselves until we researched online that it was most likely the color wheel that needed to be replaced (whatever that was). And viola, I found this guy on utube that gave step-by-step instructions on how to replace the color wheel in a Samsung.

We ordered this color wheel and figured we had nothing to lose.  After dismantling the back of the tv, unscrewing millions of screws, and pulling apart random pieces of metal - Joey did it!!! Our old color wheel was actually missing an entire segment of color (hence the popping noise). He put in the new wheel, replaced every piece of metal and all the screws, turned it on, and it works like a charm.

What a man.