Monday, October 24, 2011

Family Pictures Sept 2011

These hands should really be red...
I love this picture.  So them.  
Oh, "boo-yah-yah", you are so loved.  
This was Luke's silly face... it's such a great fall picture.  Of course, we couldn't get this picture with a big, beautiful smile.  
Meezy-Mae
Such a sweet 2 year old. 
Love how Marie is just dragging the dolly into every picture.  Much like it is dragged everywhere.  I did demand that boo-yah-yah wear clothes for the pictures.  
Can you see the "naughty" radiating from him?  I can.  
Eva- 8
Getting a picture of these two together is impossible.  Luke mostly tried to eat her pigtails in every pictures we took... or choke her.  They couldn't be closer to each other than this or they were fighting. 

Our photographer is my new neighbor:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Marie turns 2!

Our youngest child is 2 years old, hard to believe.  I've never enjoyed a 2 year old in the house without a baby being in the house.  Very fun!  But, then again, how can anything this cute not be fun?
Marie and Eva look exactly the same.  It must've been the flash, because they
 have exactly the same skin tone as well.  (Eva above at 2.)
And then when I was looking for pictures, I found this one of Ingrid
and had to put it in here because it's just hilarious.  Makes me want to drink wine with my friends. 
This is the kind of stuff that happens!
2 year old Marie and Eva have a huge, huge difference in how they played dollies.  Eva didn't, Marie plays dollies non-stop.  Maybe it was because Eva had real babies?  I'm not sure.  But, Marie never stops.  SO DARLING.  She burps her babies just like Sheila does at daycare.  
For my Physical Therapist friends that don't believe I am truly doing my postural restoration exercises every day, and my back STILL hurts, Marie is proof as she does her exercises and takes deep breaths.  Ha!!!!!
Farmer Mi-mi.  
Travis in the same bib overalls.  These started with cousin Jack and made it all the way to Marie!
Speaking of Travis, these are the kinds of pictures that Travis takes with my camera......
small helmet on Marie's head?  Weirdos.  
Oh yeah, and Chris officially hit his mid-thirties a month before myself.  (That's 3 candles and a 5 because I couldn't find a 3.  In a piece of one of his faves, key lime pie.  


Thursday, August 25, 2011

First day of school, summer camping

Looking good Eva...This girl has had lots of injuries, but I've never seen as much blood as was pouring out her mouth.  The neighbors scrubbed off the sidewalks for us as we took care of her!  As I was washing blood out of her hair for the 2nd time, I told Chris "I've never had to wash my hair in 34 years to get blood out of it?"  Her mouth ended up really cut up and 2 front, permanent teeth were chipped and need to be repaired after the cut heals.  LUCKILY, the teeth were not broken off in the jaw, just loose and moved a bit.
The razor scooter is clearly the winner in both of these first day of school pictures, one from 2 years ago. 
For those of you who refer to me as "super mom:"  It's pretty easy to look "super" when you just skip school shopping all together and make them wear something from their closet.  They get an entire new wardrobe each and every season anyways because they are human growth phenomenons.  Travis was crabby about this picture and the fact that I didn't get him a haircut until AFTER school today.  Oh well, old clothes, old hair.  Ha!
Chris and Erika in Vegas!!!!  The Heartland Poker Tour had a party in the Hugh Hefner suite.  And, since our room somehow went missing, we got to stay here for the night!  (Doesn't my husband look so cute in this picture?  I think so!)
Desperate Poker Wives:  Erika, Kylie and Sara
This probably would've been a cooler picture if I had taken it BEFORE the party and before the garbage was all over.  
Boyfriends Todd and Chris ordered room service for breakfast the next morning in the suite while I slept in.
Sara and I drank and sat by the pool most of the vacation.  We just went straight from drinking at the pool by one hotel to another one.  
Chris and Erika, Greg and Sara Lang
I also got to have a fun weekend with my friend from Minot, Ginger, and her daughter Kirby.  We finally caved and put in a Baby Einstein for Marie and Kirby to watch while we got ready to go out for the night.  Yes, weird, a naked Hanson. 
Marie is obsessed with coloring.  Unfortunately, she's not particular that there be paper or not.  She is the worst color-on-things-kid I have ever had.  My walls HAD made it through 3 kids without scribbles on it!
Luke was obsessed with building train tracks this summer.  Most of the time, we couldn't even walk in the kitchen without stepping on them because he'd try to make them go from the office to the kitchen.  Travis could not handle the simplicity of his boring train tracks and tried to make them much fancier. 
Hot rod mi-mi at Grandma Tree's while we were in Vegas.  
We had a great trip camping in Aberdeen at Wylie Park with Uncle Adam, Auntie Sheena, Cousin Halle, Grandma Tree and Grandpa Gerry.  We loaded all 6 of us into the cab of Clint's pick-up and pulled the motor home.  It was so fun.  
 Halle definitely won the cutest and quietest and best sleeper award for the kiddos. 

Grandpa Gerry making breakfast for the troops.  (Look at Marie sitting behind him in the booster chair on the ground.  Hee, hee.) 
Family picture at Story Book Land.
We found out that bikes are a must when camping... which I should've remembered after years of begging dad to take our bikes camping?
OK, so we gave in because I didn't know what to do with them in prime mosquito eating time and they watched a video on the Ipad.  Spoiled brats. 
This is Luke on the way home from camping, which shows how well sleeping went for camping.  

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Marie screaming about cats



If you are a cat person, you will think it's very funny how excited Marie is about watching a video montage about cute, silly kitties. It's Marie, Emma Critelli, Eva and Travis. Doesn't Emma look just like Travis? These four all look like siblings!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Hankinson 125th Centennial

Chris golfing with my dad.  He said that he had never drank so much golfing in his life.  Nice dad.  
The Buckhouses all wore shirts with our "team roster" on the back. We weren't able to get all 12 of us together for a picture though. So great to see Chris wearing a shirt that said "BUCKHOUSE" across the back.

Marie feeding baby Halle very seriously.


Travis takes such great pictures of his Uncles.

So nice and close that you can see Adam's awesome grill.

God Bless America

Safety goes out the window in Hankinson. We also road in the back of a pick-up truck.


95 degrees for the 4th of July. Hottest in 20 years. Why would we want to be at our lake place when we were, instead, standing on main street Hankinson for a kiddy parade in which they handed out hershey's kisses which Marie and Luke proceeded to bath themselves in? Luckily, the weekend was very fun with all friends and family getting to be together for a long weekend with nothing to do other than drink at all activities.