Where do these kids get it from???

Mikaela!!! After reading your last blog, i realized i'm not the only one with a "curious" child! About a month ago, aubrey learned how to open the fridge. She took the chocolate syrup out and dumped it all over our bedroom floor. Then about 4 days ago, she dumped my crystal lite that i had sitting on the nightstand, all over the floor! It took about 10 hours of scrubbing, 50 dollars in chemicals to get it out, and a new carpet cleaning machine! Shes pooped in the tub the last 4 days in a row, likes to strip and run around the house naked, and it seems shes picked up your son's fettish for torturing cats! We recently got a cat and she is all over that poor thing. Sounds like we both need a vacation! lol. Kids....gotta love em'. At least your close to home.....I cant even pawn her off cause im on the other side of the US! haha. jk. Love you all!

Korrine

One More Thing....

....I'm a little slow at coming up with this plan. Sorry! Anyways, I added THIS address to my safe address list to view my blog as it's private. So if you have the password and log-in to the family blog, then you can access my blog directly from here. I just thought I'd tell all of you that. It's easier then adding individual addresses! ~Mikaela

Milo's Incident

Here's Milo! Notice anything different about him?!



That's right, my darling little McKay has put toothpaste on his head. Penny's running around with pink paws from the Kool-Aid that was spilled everywhere in my kitchen. Anyone want an almost 3 year old?

Oh, and last night he took his diaper off and peed all over his bedroom floor. He needs potty-trained, but I don't have the desire to do so right now. Any takers?

Oh, and yes, btw, in the background, that IS snow. Yes, it snowed again today! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A little update

Hey there fam!

Glad everyone had a great easter. We have been going crazy trying to pack and get ready for the move on the 11th. It seems like its coming a lot faster than i'd like it. I'm very excited for our new place though. we will finally be living in a house instead of an apartment!!! YEY! We dont have to worry about neighbors below us hitting the walls or coming up to our apartment and complaining that aubrey is too loud! For that, I am VERY excited! We are moving to a farming town; very quiet, small, and very polite. You should ask my mom to google earth it for you...it literally is in the middle of nowhere....kind of reminds me of connell. haha. Alright, I've got to head out before aubrey gets into something else. We really cant afford to deal with another carpet expense! We love you all and will keep you updated with the move.

'Twas a Great Easter

Yesterday was great, excepting for Cyd and the Utes! We sat out to watch the game today and Dad was so sure that I didn't get it recorded right...I guess I didn't, so yeah, we just re-watched U play Y the second time. They did just great! The baptism was great and Lexi was the star of the day with all kinds of right choices. Even the nursery was grea...maybe it was the chicken inside the egg on my lapel--I'm trying to figure out what for next week! Korrine and Alan: the girl is definitely becoming quite a lady. Jana showed me her cell video, so cute! I've tried calling, but probably catch you at the wrong time. Good seeing everyone yesterday. Love, Grandma K.

I Went Private

Hey family! I took my blog private. I know a few of you read it religiously (and come on, let's face it, who wouldn't? I'm so entertaining, right?!) so if you want to be added to it, my email address is: mikaelaselbe@yahoo.com. Some stuff's just been going on, and I really didn't think that it would become such a big issue, but apparently it has, and I'm trying to make sure Lisa and Marci aren't caught in the cross-fire of me opening my big mouth! So for now it'll be private, but I'm sure in the future that might change! Hope you all have a great Easter, and I will try to be able to make it down, if the snow stops up here in Spokane! ~Mikaela

Oh, p.s., mom, kelli, and nichole, i've added you guys already.

Home to the Cold!

Just had a great get-away to sunny L. Vegas. Certainly was great to watch Cyd's game, but such a dissappointing results. They played the poorest I've seen them play and so the score reflected it! But, the weather was perfect and we got to have Kelly and Chris stay w/ us. Sorry, Chris for the "crazy Grandma"!! Somehow, I just did not connect "Chris" w/ Christopher. I kept thinking this is not Chris E. Anyway, Christopher must have thought I had a drink or two! Thanks to Kelli we got to go to the show "O". She did a super job of getting us the last two tickets and it was an amazing show!
Of course the way home was intermitten snow and sun. Was a massive pile up of semi's and cars (mostly semi's) after leaving Tremonton. But, snow dogged us somewhat all of the way home.
Good thing we got home for Sunday, because my nursery sub did not show up! Great group in nursery and after V.teaching, I found out that Jada (Louise P) had gotten up to get water from the sink at home to water everything--our lesson was on water and Deliska had the kids water a plant! Guess they do absorb things!
Well, Cyd it looks like you gals have your work "cut out" for you...Purdue, huh, then Tennessee, What a schedule! But, you will do it. Good luck. Love, Grandma K.

Its's a miracle!!!! We are in fact ALIVE and kickin'

Alrighty, so honestly the reason I've been so horrible at posting blogs is because i totally forgot! Lame excuse i know, but its the truth! The first picture is of AUbrey eating a Krispy Creme Donut. Alan brought them home for breakfast one morning and she loved it. As you can tell from the picture, shes just a little protective of the sprinkles;) I tried to take it away from her cause i thought she was finished, and that caused war between mommy and daughter! The Second pic is of ALan and Aubrey on the couch. He was playing Halo and aubrey sat right next to him and cuddled until she fell asleep. I love this pic...2 loves of my life sitting next to each other.

So I enjoyed seeing all the pics of everyone and the comments they posted. Its good to see how everyone is doing since we cant be there a lot of the time.

Everything is super here in Maryland. We just had a cold front move in and its FREEZING! Oh well...i better enjoy it while i can cause summer is coming and i KNOW ill be complaining about the heat and humidity quite often. We are in the process of looking for a place to live as our lease is up next month. Alan gets out of the military in a year and we are preparing for that. He will be going to school full time after he gets out. We are all great...aubrey is wearing 3T clothes now. I cant keep her in clothes for more than a month and its costing us a pretty penny. lol. Alan is working a lot and training people at work. As for me, ive got my hands full chasing a 19 month old around th house all day. I spend most of my extra time making treats for the pharmacy(where alan works). Thats about it other than alan and I are now working out 3 days a week and im on a diet. I cant have any sweets....do you know how hard that is????

We love you all and definatly miss you. Aubrey sends kisses. I'll try to get better at posting these things.HAve a great day!

Alan, Korrine, and Aubrey

Pulling Teeth...

Getting People to blog is like Pulling Teeth! So I figured that I'd post over on our family blog since I haven't done so in a while. Not much is going on up here. We're busily working to get our house on the market. We're trying to sell it ourselves, so we'll see how that goes. So this weekend I'm sure Charles will be working on fliers and whatnot.

Charles starts his job in Salt Lake on the 17th of March...so a week from Monday. We're headed down to Utah a week from today to find him somewhere to stay. So it'll be nice to get to Utah, but sad that McKay and I will be staying behind for a while.

I've applied for the English teacher job at the high school in Connell though. I'm not sure I'll get it, but at least I tried, right? If I do, I'll just stay in Connell and finish the year then come back to Spokane on weekends to show the house and maintain the yards. I have a few friends who are willing to show the house during the week if need be while I'm gone too. Just keep us in mind so we can get our house sold ASAP!

That's all from around here. Our snow's almost all melted, which is nice. Hope everyone else is doing great!