My Hubby's Blog

With the Economy going crazy, Ben decided to start his own blog about the Signs of the Times. He has done a really good job. Please read and feel free to comment.

http://benwilloughby.blogspot.com/

Look-A-Like

This is a picture of Ben's Grandpa when he was little. I think they look alot alike (besides the dark hair of course)! I posted this just for fun....what do ya think?

7 Months Old

Today my sweet little baby is 7 months old. He is growing up too fast...as everyone says when they have a new baby! I thought I would write about all of his favorite things: EMILY!!! He loves her! All she has to do is look at him and he giggles. He loves to chew on everything! He even has 3 teeth and 1 coming through. He is such a good eater and eats most everything. His recent favorite is pumpkin bread!! YUMMO! He loves his bathes and will bath forever. He loves his Mommy which makes it hard sometimes, but deep inside I love that he loves me!! He loves his grandpas. He loves his Johnny Jumper. The other day he fell asleep in it and was still jumping, it was extra cute!! He also loves to smile and flirt, no matter who it is. He is such a good boy...spoiled but good! We are still working on the sleeping but I know patience is a virtue!! :) We love you little Cabie and we are so glad you came to our family 7 short months ago!!

Here are some pictures I took today...

Its the end of the world as we know it

So with the Economy going to Hades, we decided it was time to finally be more obedient and stock up on our food storage. Ben is going full force and has done alot to make sure we are stocked up for a year supply of food. We are not finished yet, we still have quite a few things left to buy, but we are on our way.

So far we have:

325 lbs. Hard cracked Wheat

100 lbs. Rice

150 lbs. Quick oats

325 lbs. flour

30 lbs. honey

175 lbs. sugar

75 lbs. beans

3.5 Gallons veg. oil

24 cans evap. milk

24 + cans veggies

24 cans tuna

3 Gal. Clorox

12 cans Spagetti sauce

4 boxes Non-fat instant milk

48 boxes of jello and pudding

4 bottles ketcup

5 Gal. Laundry Detergant

25 lbs. Instant Potato Flakes

Water

100 lbs. potatoes

5 lbs. peanut butter

40 Cans of cream soup

Panake and Cake mixes

Ramen Noodles---so easy and cheap

We also took a trip to the Army Surplus store and started getting stuff for 72 hour kits. We have a long way to go yet. We are working on it though. So I guess we can all learn that procrastination is bad! I am the worst, but working on it! :)

This had nothing to do with Food Storage, but I thought I would throw it in because Caleb was being cute in his bouncer. He looks like a little frog and acts like one too. He is so much fun and is getting so big. He eats everything and can almost crawl instead of just army scoot. I love my little man!

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Let's go Fly A Kite

Last Saturday we finally found a kite for Emily. She loves to watch Mary Poppins and has always wanted to fly a kite. We searched a couple of stores and finally found a couple at Kings in Shelley---good ole Kings! Emily was so afraid we were going to let go that she screamed most of the time. But that was okay because Ben had fun seeing how high he could let it go without losing it. He is just like a little kids sometimes, I love it!!

Here is a picture of the roses sent me for our anniversary---I thought they were beautiful. Funny story though....When the lady brought them to me she asked me to sign the paper. While signing she asked "What is the occasion" I answered it is my 4th year wedding anniversary." (Keep in mind that I was still in my pjs, no make-up and I had 2 children screaming in the background) and then smiled and added "and now 4 years and 2 children later here we are..." She answered by glaring at me and said "You don't want to hear my story" and while storming away from my front porch she yelled "You have it good!" I was left in awe!! Where the heck did that come from. My sister and I came up with many reasons why she could be so bitter. Maybe she was going through a bad divorce because her husbannd never sent her flowers, yet her occupation happened to be a florist delivery person. So to that poor florist delivery person I wish to say "Thanks for the flowers and for filling my day full of sunshine!"

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Today is our 4th Year Anniversary so I wanted to tell Ben how much I love and appreciate him. He is such a wonderful husband and father. I have never known anyone with so much patience. Ben comes home from work and is my hero, he rescuses me from the frustrations of life and always can make me laugh or smile. He is my strength and such a great example to me.
We have gone through some of the most exciting times together and have so many fun memories together and we aren't about to stop! Some of the things we have done are: we have visited Rhode Isalnd, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinios, Missouri, Virginia, Maryland, and Montana (this doesn't include the many states we have had to fly into to get to those states). Each of these states also has it's own set of memories to go with it. We have had 2 children in the past 4 years and have bought our own home. I am so proud of our accomplishments!

Jessica aka...

I saw this on my cousin Dayna's blog and thought it was so funny.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Koko Accord
2. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR'S NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) The Digital Thounderstorm Tour
3. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Cheesecake Samoa
4. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
J-Hil
5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Metallic Blue Baby (I love all baby animals so I guess it could be elephant, giraffe, deer, etc.)
6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Dawn Idaho Falls (that is kinda dorkie)
7. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Wilje (It just sounds like E-bonics to me)
8. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) Red A &W
9. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Keith Byron
10. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) Flirtatious Bliss
11. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Jo Paul
12. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Hansen Hubbard
13. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) Autum Tulip
14. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Mango Sweatie
15. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Banana Acorn (hmmmm)

Well aren't you the quirky one.....

My sister tagged me and I am suppose to list 6 of my biggest quirks. Of course I have many but when I tried to think of them all I could think of was perfection!! :) But I was able to think really hard and here is what I came up with:

1) When I brush my teeth I gag. Everytime!!! When Ben and I first got married he would always run into the bathroom to see if I was okay. Now he is so used to it, it doesn't phase him.

2) This is her husband: in order to get a true appreciation for her quirks, it is necessary to be brutally honest. She has the weirdest dreams and then she feels the need to explain every detail to me. They are so weird that I have to share them with someone. I totally get it from my mom. My sister has the same problem.

3) She waits until after she is done eating to drink her whole glass of milk. I don't like to get done eating and have to get yet another drink because I drank it all during my meal.

4) She has to have a 2 pieces of toast with her oatmeal or else she can't eat oatmeal. It is too slimy to eat all alone.

5) She has to have whipped cream on her jello or else she can't eat jello. Again too slimy to eat all alone!!

6) She has to have her bed made before she gets into it, even if it hasn't been made all day. I like my bed a certain way and Ben is such a crazy sleeper that I practically have to re-make my bed everyday.

7) I LOVE to make lists!!! I make them all day long and have a ton of notebooks scattered throughout my house full of lists.

Alright, that is enough of picking on me, I now want to pick on someone else. I tag Elisa, Tracy and Heather.

Caleb is 6 months old and growing fast!!

My little baby is 6 months old already! I can't believe it! He grew up too fast. I took some pictures of him doing some of his favorite things (okay so maybe dressing up like a yellow duckie isn't one of his favorite things, but it was one of mine, he looked so cute! I had to dress him up pre-halloween because I knew it wouldn't fit him in a month.)

NEXT...

Emily decided to put together Mr. Potato Head "all by herself" and this is the outcome. I laughed because she thought she was so cool and so big to do it alone.

Okay so I haven't blogged in awhile so here are some other fun pictures: I got a new camera and I am having so much fun with it! Can you tell???

Emily wearing my new glasses...

Can you say cute???

Emily with her Great Great Grandma Mecham.