The Clausens

Bella

2009-06-13T20:29:00.000-07:00

Here are a few photos of Bella. I hope to get them uploaded to facebook when facebook lets me!

Just some pictures

2009-03-29T18:57:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures from the last week. Parker is getting so big! It hard to believe she's 8 months old already! I'm sure she will be 1 before we know it! Tanner has been having a blast on his 4 wheeler and can't wait for it to warm up so we can finish his swing set.

I just wanna crawl!

2009-03-08T05:39:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been a awhile since I posted. I just don't know where the time goes. Yesterday it was 70 degrees so we spent a good deal of time outside. Tanner needed a chance to run and vent some pent up energy. We also worked on cutting and burning some trees and limbs that had fallen since last summer. Parker is 7 months now and REALLY wants to crawl. She can getup on her hand and knees and then falls to her face when she tries to move. She tried to pull herself up the other day and ended up pulling the toy table on top of herself. One of these days I'm sure I'll look over and she's taken off across the living room...then we will be in trouble.

New Pages

2009-02-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

Just a Cute Clip

2009-02-12T08:35:00.000-08:00

Parker saying Mama

2009-02-12T06:56:00.000-08:00

Parker has just started saying Mama. Here's little clip

from yesterday...it's pretty cute! Don't you just love her

crazy-out of control hair?

Project 365

2009-02-08T12:01:00.000-08:00

Here are a few photos I've taken this week as part of my Project 365.

Parker is now sitting up all by herself! Such a big girl now. It does make for easier picture taking though!

Project 365

2009-02-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

Tanner

Parker's Eye

Being silly

Just plain cute

Maggie Rose

I joined a group the is doing Project 365. It is a project that encourages you to take a photo a day. I am starting February 1st but since I take a lot of pictures I tried to pick one a day since January 1. Here are a few pictures I chose for the project. I'll keep posting throughout the year. Hope you enjoy!

My baby is a big boy

2009-02-01T10:26:00.000-08:00

Today Tanner attended children's church for the first time. He has finally outgrown the nursery and now attends class with the big kids. Okay, I can handle this. What caught me off guard was that I now was the mother of a hot chocolate drinker. In between church and sunday school we have a short coffee time. Looking around, you will notice adults with coffee and donuts and kids carrying around there little cups of hot chocolate. I now have a boy big enough to carry around a cup of hot chocolate in church! I don't know why this event stuck me. Maybe it's because I remember drinking hot chocolate in the same church when I was younger. I can't help but smile at his little face covered in chocolate donut and hot chocolate! I only wish I'd had my camera with me!

Scrapbook pages

2009-01-27T18:03:00.000-08:00

Here are a few recent pages I've scraped. I have found new inspiration from a designer...TaylorMade. I follow her blog so feel free to click her link and then looked at her personal scrapbook pages. They are beautiful and a little different from the traditional scrapbook pages. I started the second course from jessicasprague.com and am learning a lot. Anyone interested in learning the secrets to photoshop should take her class! Enjoy the photos!

6 month old comparison

2009-01-23T07:24:00.000-08:00

Parker will be 6months old next week so I thought I'd post 6 month pictures of both of them. I've been going through pictures and have noticed that Tanner was sitting up by now. Parker is really close and can sit up for 10-15 seconds but is not near as steady as Tanner was at 6 months. Don't they have the cutest little noses?

Just the kids

2009-01-17T10:42:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of the kids from last week. They are getting bigger every day!

Tanner was "pretending" it was his birthday...he just wanted a candle on his cupcake!
Parker is so close to sitting up on her own. Right now she has mastered leaning over!

Our sweet little babies...

The Honesty of a Three Year Old

2009-01-13T06:54:00.000-08:00

This morning Tanner was playing with his toys in the living room and I had turned PBS on. Curious George had been playing and Tanner was entertaining himself with his coloring books. A few minutues later, Tanner comes looking for me. With a speed and enthusiasm which only Tanner can manage, he starts describing a new show that had just come on. After a big presentation, he stops and calmly asks me "Is that a nice show Mom?" Trying not to laugh over the sudden seriousness of his question I asked him if he needed me to come and see if it was a "nice show" or not. Pulling me by the hand, I go "check" the show and give him my approval. Happily, he goes back to his coloring/show watching. I couldn't help but be proud of him since there are shows that we say are "not a nice show". He could have continued watching and never questioned it, but he wanted to make sure I thought it was okay. Of course, on PBS there wasn't anything to worry about.

Family reunion

2009-01-03T19:22:00.000-08:00

The whole crew (Bonnie left early)

Tanner, Avery, and Keeba (Papoppie) wrestling

Cassy, Peyton, Jessie, and Parker

Parker telling Zack a secret

This is baby Zachary...Rach's little boy...a big boy!

This is my third post tonight only because it's been a busy few days. I thought Abby would want to see pictures of tonights get-together since she wasn't able to by there. We missed you and the kids!..and Shane too..:)

Children's Museum

2009-01-03T19:19:00.000-08:00

We visited the children's museum this week which is always a blast for Tanner. It was very busy and therefore not quite as fun as times in the past just due to the large amount of people everywhere! Parker really seemed to enjoy the blown glass display while Tanner liked the dinosaurs and the merry-go-round! Parker was fascinated with the colored lights and we tried to get a picture for you to see.

Mommy, Tanner, and Parker

2009-01-03T19:14:00.001-08:00

Here are a few pictures of me and the kids. I realized I have very little pictures of me with them because it seems like I'm always the one behind the camera!

The kids at Christmas

2009-01-01T18:36:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of Tanner, Parker, and Peyton from Christmas. Doesn't little Peyton look like a baby doll? She's so cute!

The little food critic

2009-01-01T18:11:00.000-08:00

At only 5 months, Parker is quite the food critic. Her opinion...baby food is bad! We have been trying to get her started on baby food and rice cereal but she makes an awful face and spits it out. She will eat fruit from time to time, but vegetables...forget it! Now, given the chance at "big people food", you have to fight her grubby hands off of your utensils. She makes every attempt to try and steal whatever food you are eating! None the less, we continue our attempts at baby food. Parker would prefer potato soup at every meal if we would let her! As you can see in the pictures, she loves nawing a graham crackers. She was to impatient for me to feed her one day so she decided to try to feed herself! Daddy thought she would like a chocolate covered pretzel and he was right!

Jesus' Birthday Cake

2008-12-30T19:55:00.000-08:00

Tanner wanted to make sure baby Jesus got a birthday cake. Although it wasn't made until after Christmas, we did get it made!

BibiddyBobottyBoo!

2008-12-30T18:30:00.000-08:00

So, while attempting to change the sheets on our bed, Parker got very tickled at Tanner. It was so cute to hear them giggle! Needless to say, it got out of control and Tanner spent 20 minutes "pretending" to fall off the bed. Please excuse Tanner's outfit as he is in the habit of changing into pajamas by himself. He can be found in pajamas at any hour of the day. He doesn't care if they match and he usually likes to wear a plain white T-shirt..."just like my Dad!"...as he would say! I figure it's a small battle to lose! Hey, don't you like to wear sweats around the house!

The Exotic Feline Rescue Center

2008-12-29T12:48:00.000-08:00

Papoppie took Tanner to see the lions, tigers, and bobats at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point. Tanner loves animals and got a big kick out of seeing the cats. You can get really close and as seen in this video there isn't a whole lot to keep you from being eaten!

Is this a baby rhinoceros?

2008-12-26T09:00:00.000-08:00

I got a new recorder for christmas that lets me record little clips and upload them to the internet. I've never done this before so bare with me. Apparently my big recorder lets me up load too, but I haven't figured it out yet. With this one, it plugs in just like a thumb drive and uploads videos like you would upload pictures. I haven't figured out how to edit the clips yet so I have to upload the whole clip. This was from this morning. Tanner was playing with all the baby pets he's gotten from Mamommie and Papoppie. He asked if one was a baby rhinoceros and it sounded so cute. Hope you like it!

Parkers First Christmas

2008-12-22T16:46:00.001-08:00

Parker got all dressed up for church on Sunday. Mamommy got her this adorable red dress (she wore a sweater over it to church). Thought I'd share these pictures!

Pictures from Thanksgiving

2008-12-13T17:42:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks. The first one is Tanner asleep with all his "pets" He takes after his Papoppie and is a true animals fanatic. He started sleeping in a tent on his floor a couple weeks ago. He only sleeps in his bed when he has too many "pets" to fit in his tent. The second picture is of Parker and Brady. They are 5 weeks apart.

The third picture was just funny. I was trying to get a cute picture of Parker and she decided to see how flexible she could be! It hard to take a cute picture when her toes are in her ears! The final picture is of all the cousins on the Clausen side: Tanner, Bryce, Parker, and Brady. What a crew!

Thanksgiving Treats

2008-12-03T17:52:00.000-08:00

This year we had Thanksgiving at our house. Mitch's family and my family all got together. Cassy and Eric couldn't come since little Peyton was still in the NICU and Sadie couldn't join us because she's in Korea. We had a great time. It was a lot of fun to get everyone together. Matt, Danielle, and their boys were in town from Oklahoma so Tanner was excited to so see Bryce again. Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving! I'll post some pictures later!

Camping Out

2008-11-23T06:41:00.000-08:00

Tanner has starting "camping" out in his bedroom at night and for nap time. He has a little tent, his blankets, pillows, and of course, his "pets". Pets are his stuffed animals. He is developing such an imagination. When he yelled down the stairs he was starting a fire I was a little nervous. Of course, I checked, and was surprised to see his "fire" that he made. It consisted of piles clothes, blankets, and sadly, a few stuffed animals. So there he laid, in his tent in front of his "fire" with his animal sound flashlight (thank you Mamommie).

A few more pages

2008-11-20T04:20:00.000-08:00

Here are a few more pages from my digital scrapbooking collection. It been a lot of fun.

Fall Photos

2008-11-05T17:56:00.000-08:00

Here are some pics we
took outside today. I'll send the rest out through shutterfly!

2008-11-04T12:00:00.000-08:00

Parker has crazy bedhead in the morning. I thought this picture was so cute. She reminds me of a little pixie! Big brother Tanner is still in love with her. It is so sweet to see him with her. I have dozens of pictures just like this because he always asks me to "take our pitcher"! We are so blessed!

Cassy's Baby Shower

2008-11-02T06:09:00.000-08:00

Last weekend, Parker, Bonnie, and I drove to Evansville for Cassy's baby shower. Here are some photos of all of us. Cassy is having a girl and is due in December.

More scrapbooking pages

2008-10-28T10:49:00.001-07:00

Here are a few more scrapbooking pages I have made. I am have so much fun doing! I ventured a little and made Tanner's birthday announcements using some of the tools from scrapbooking.

Pumpkin Works

2008-10-25T17:57:00.000-07:00

We took Tanner and Parker to Pumpkin Works last week. In addition to pumpkins, they have several mazes you can go through. Tanner chose the 11 acre corn maze which started out great. After 45 minutes of wandering around the maze he started to get worn out. Eventually we found our way back to the barns. They had a smaller maze he could go through by himself. He loved it! He had to crawl through a tunnel, climb some straw bales, and then go down a large slide. I was a little surprised he did it on his own because he couldn't see us the entire time. He wants to go back next year. Parker just slept through the entire trip!

Digital Scrapbooking

2008-10-18T16:45:00.001-07:00

I started taking an online digital scrapbooking class. These are a few of the pages I've done so far. It is so much fun and a lot less messier than paper scrapbooking!

Bug Cupcakes

2008-10-18T16:25:00.000-07:00

Tanner saw a magazine at
Walmart that had bug cupcakes on the cover. He had a great time decorating them with M&M's, circus peanuts, and icing. I helped him with 6, then he decided it was much more fun just to squeeze icing all over them. Needless to say, most of the cupcakes looked pretty messy! After "accidentally" getting icing all over his hands (which needed licking off) he realized it was much easier to go straight to the source....the icing container! At least the cupcakes were done by that point!

Parker's Pigtails

2008-10-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

I attempted pigtails in Parker's hair. Needless to say it only lasted about 10 seconds...just long enough to get this adorable picture! I can't wait for her hair to get a little thicker!

The Funny Things Kids Say

2008-10-13T16:43:00.000-07:00

"Skeeta Spots".............. Mosquito bites
"Torto-Looney".............Tortellini
"Baby Milk"...................Nursery Water
"Night-Night 'Mote"......The remote for the bedroom fan/light
"Jumbo"...........................Elephant (all elephants are now know as Jumbo)

The Elephant Trainer

2008-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

We recently visited the Shriner Circus where you were given the opportunity to ride an elephant. I graciously volunteered Mitch to take Tanner for a ride. As you can see from the photos, the elephant trainer was much to worried about his phone call than the 2 ton animal carrying small children! It was a highlight for Tanner, my little animal fanatic.

I can draw "a people"!

2008-10-09T08:47:00.000-07:00

Tanner has discovered his hidden talent for drawing stick people. Now every things he draws on the chalk board must be given eyes, nose, mouth, arms, and legs...sometimes even "a hair". Every letter of the alphabet that he draws is now turned into a person. He is very proud of himself!

My Little Star Athlete!

2008-10-03T05:53:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I took Tanner and Parker to watch Bonnie's soccer game. Tanner was excited and decided to take his own little soccer ball. Once we got to the field, Tanner was digging through the diaper bag and found a sheet of stickers. He then spent the next 30 minutes carefully placing stickers on each section of the soccer ball. He was totally oblivous to game being played but was more than happy to stick stickers all over the ball!

This Baby Penguin Misses his Family

2008-09-28T13:15:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know, Tanner is an animal lover! He collects animal figures, books, and stuffed animals. As a reward he got to chose a new stuffed animal. He studied the shelves and picked up 3 penguins. I told him only one, so he carefully put back two and chose a little penguin. He carried it around all day and wanted to sleep with it that night. This is the conversation that followed:

Tanner: "This baby penguin is sad. He misses is mommy and baby sister."

Me: "Where are his mommy and baby sister?"

Tanner: "They're at the store."

Mitch: "Do we need to take your baby penguin back so that he can be with his mommy and sister?"

Tanner: "No, we need to go to the store and bring his mommy and sister home."