It's been a long tine since I posted anything on this blog. Life just gets so busy, that I hardly find time to sit down and write something longer than 10 min. Usually I just post a sentence in facebook so something. Life is so busy with our 3 boys and trying to keep the house together takes time. In the past year I have tried to learn how to be more efficient and more organized, also I trying to teach the children to be organized. We feel more settled down after buying our first home. We weren't sure how long we would stay in Michigan, but now with Bobby being called the elder's quorum president he feels that we are going to stay in Michigan for few years. I am glad we don't have to move again any time soon. Things are going pretty well and I feel that our family is going forward and we feel closer as a family. Jared is such a great addition to our family. He is such a bright little boy. He is walking already and he is only 10 months old. He can say 3 words, and he really tries to get his mind across, by using different tones of voice which is very cute, but also hard when he is at Church and wants out of sacrament meeting. OK, I gotto go again, hopefully I can find time to work on this blog more this year.

Here are few random pictures.... I'll put more on later when I have time.

Timo was happy to wake for pancake breakfast on his 3rd birthday and loved his guitarr birthday cake.

I love blueberries, do I need to say more...

Jared as cute as he can be.

I have been busy with life so I haven't been able to write on the blog very much. However, this morning I find myself on front of computer chceking messages on Facebook with an ice cream container, so looks like I could do something... ;)

Matthew and Timo are in Head Start (preschool) 4 days a week in the the morning, so I have a little chance to get some things done, and take a little break at times. Life with 3 young boys is so hectic. I love our 3 adorable, smart and energetic boys a ton, but activities at the school and friends is perfect change of scenary for them and I love them even more when they get home from school (after getting a chance to have a peaceful morning with just Jared).

Our kids are doing great. Timo loved his birthday and is very happy to be 3. Timo is a very smart and charming boy. He says some really funny and cute things. Yesterday I was getting a bit stressed out when I was trying to get the driving instructions from mapquest how to get to the stake center. I needed to be there between 4 and 5pm and it takes and hour and half to get there. I was worried that I couldn't make it (or I would get lost...I always do). Timo said: You can do it mommy and he said it 3-4 times. That made me feel happy, and I was able to make the trip bymyself and didn't get lost on the way there...but did get lost on the way back :). That's ok, since my biggest worry was to be there on time and I made it. I always forget the funny things Timo says but remembered one from yesterday... Just before going to the doctor Timo said: Jared is going to the doctor and getting a haircut. I thought that is pretty funny, especially because Jared has only a little hair. One time Matthew told the same doctor that he likes to go to the dentist because he gets candy and cookies there (which was not true). The doctor found it pretty funny too :)

Jared woke up....gotta run...
Ok, Jared is doing great. In just last few weeks Jared has learned to crawl, sit and pull himself up and is already cruising. He just turned 7 months. Seemed like it all happened all at once. One time he was just like a noodle happy in one spot and the next minute he is all over the place. I think he is quite a surpriser. He keeps pretty low profile, and then breaks all the expectations. Jared used to be chubby baby, but now he is this tiny thing always on the move. Changing a diaper can be a challenge because if you are not fast enough he crawls on the other side of the room.

Matthew had a chance to sing "I am a child of God" in Sacrament meeting. He did great and many were touched by his singing. We had a primary sacrament meeting, and Matthew did great on his part. Our family joined Matthew singing I am a child of God.
Matthew is very happy to be back in preschool. I went to his class on Friday and his teacher said that he is doing great. She said that thst Matthew surprised everyone when he was showing how far he could count and he went all the way to 48 without any mistakes :) Matthew is a very bright boy.

I am enjoying our new home. I still have some unpacking to do, but I''ll get done eventually... I have a lot of cleaning to do..there is always more cleaning for moms.... I am certainly not going to run out of things to do.

Sorry, I still don't have the card reader for the camera, so pictures must wait.

Have a great week everyone!

This was a pretty exciting week for us. Here in Tawas City things are starting to cool off a lot and everyone is getting back into the routine of things as school starts up again.

Timo just had his birthday last week on September 14. We celebrated by waking him up to a pancake breakfast in bed with candles. He had to eat it pretty quick though because the bus was about to pick him up! After I got home from work, Petronella had made dinner and a cake for Timo and we gave him his presents. First we gave him and Matthew a Nerf sword so that they could play with them together. Then Timo got his favorite present, a small six string guitar. Being three years old he hasn't learned figer postitions or anything like that on the guitar, but at least he can play along with the wiggles when they pull out their guitars!

Saturday we had a birthday party for Timo that we invited some friends over. I set up a croquet course at Petronella's request for everyone to enjoy. It was a little rough for the kids at first, but I think that they enjoyed it. I learned a little about how to play croquet, but I'm sure there are a lot of rules that I don't know. Kinda seems like golf to me.

Few days ago I took Matthew and Timo outside for an attempt to take some photos of them. I haven't had professional pictures taken of the kids for a long time..actually I am embarrest to say that we have only have a picture of Matthew when he was 3 months and his school picture when he was 3. So I was very motivated to see if I could try to get a good picture of Timo myself. I was pleasently surprised that the pictures turned out so good. I still have to do some editing in photoshop (if I ever have ANY TIME...)

My Sisters Visit
Reina and Kirsti came to visit us a week a go for 3 days and it was great to have them over. It was fun to be together again after the long time. We had a fun time playing scattegories with motified rules that you could write stuff in Finnish or English. We went to see few local attractions. The weather was rainy most of the time so we couldn't do all we wanted, but we did see the Iorgo Springs, The Lumberman's monument and drove by the beaches. I also showed one of the houses to them that I put an offer on, but they didn't accept the offer...oh well... I was very grateful that my sisters came to see their youngest sister all the way in Michigan. Reina came from Las Vegas and Kirsti from Finland. We also were able to bless the baby last Sunday which was a special experience. Here are some pictures from their visit.

Easter 2009

                    

  

Here is few pictures from Easter. The funny thing was that I had the date wrong for Easter, so we end up having it twice this year :) First at the conference weekend and then the week after that. I never did double check... oh well, the kids loved it. 

Matthew's Birthday party

Here is pictures of Matthew's birthday party that we had few weeks ago. Jay, Matthew's friend from school came and also Robby that is from his Sunbeam class. Matthew turned 4.

Boys reading...I thought this one was a cute picture that Bobby took.