I'm back!

Well, many of my friends have been complaining to me recently that this blog was a little outdated. Very true... But as of today we have the internet again! We finally got it all set up again! Now I have no excuse... but please be kind, my blogging is almost as sparse as my journaling... which I am working on improving as well.
The following are a few sets of pictures since the last time I was able to update. Not too much has happened, that I actually took pictures of anyway...
I will soon take some pictures of the house now that it's painted and moved into, so stay tuned...

On Easter Sunday we spent the day with my sisters and their families. Aunt Ronda had a big Easter egg hunt prepared. Sammy had been sick the previous day and this day (probably thanks to the pizza...) but when it came time to find all the blue eggs, he was all of a sudden just fine! He had lots of fun finding them... especially when he realized there was something in them, and that it was something yummy!!

Easter egg fun

On Good Friday, my sisters, Ronda and Leesa came down to our house with their families to dye Easter eggs. As you might be able to tell by examining Sam's mouth, we had pizza for dinner. The little honker,unbeknownst to me, ate 4 pieces! (Which he threw up by morning...) He had so much fun with his cousins and with coloring the eggs.

New additions to the Riskedahl family

We have recently added a couple more special spirits to our family! On January 24, 2008 my sister, Ronda had a beautiful baby girl. They named her Brynja (brin-yah) Rebecca Christenson.
On February 29, 2008 another sister, Leesa had a handsome little boy, Adam Daniel Jones. They are both so adorable and so precious. Sam just loves them and every time we are with them he wants to hold them! We just let him hold one at a time though...

A few projects for our new home

On painting day Sam really wanted to help with the paint. Since we know what he is capable of, we didn't really want him to show us all of his artistic abilities yet, so he just got a dry roller, which he was quite content with!
We had lots of fun with the taping, oh wait, no, that wasn't fun at all. Just a necessary evil.
After a while Sam started getting into more things than dry rollers so we had to put him in the pack-n-play. He amazed us by tolerating it for most of the day. Poor kid. We put it by the window so he could at least see outside and look at the 'pones' or as we know them, ponies.
When we closed on the house, we never had a chance to see the lawn due to the snow. The day after signing our lives away... the snow melted. It wasn't until then that we realized how bad the lawn really was. Luckily Jason knows a few things about yardwork... cuz it's gonna take a lot of it!
Sam really likes to help his daddy, especially when it means being outside!

We closed on the house on Feb. 28th and on Mar. 1st we started with painting most of the main areas of the house and the master bedroom. That took a lot longer than we thought! We made the move a week later on Mar. 8th. We had lots of family and friends to help us, for which we were extremely grateful. I don't know how all our stuff fit into our apartment, but it definitely filled the house a lot more than I expected! Looking back, I'm surprised our apartment floor didn't collapse from too much stuff! We have pretty much everything (that is important anyway) unpacked and put away, so it's really starting to feel more and more like home.