…but I would happily settle for this dog.

My kinda dog

This morning Jubilee was running around the house with a curtain rod in her hand charging Mommy and me.

She was having a blast, laughing out loud as we tried to escape her little spear like pokes.  I had to take a picture, and since I wanted to mess a little with Photoshop, I decided to doctor it up a little bit.

Here is my Little Amazon Girl!

Today the whole family went to the American Dahlia Society National Show.  It was pretty neat.  I have never seen so many flowers on display in my life.  We have only been interested in dahlias for 2 years now, and will be joining the Snohomish Dahlia Society this year.

Before last year, if you had mentioned dahlias, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what they were.

Last year I did some computer work for a couple that I work with, and I brought by daughter Elisha along with me for some company.  While we were at the couple’s house, Elisha noticed that they had some very pretty flowers growing outside their home. 

Elisha found out that the flowers were dahlias and she learned a lot about dahlias that day.  The next day I talked with the Diana, the lady whose computer I helped with, and told her that Elisha was very interested in growing dahlias.

Diana gave us three dahlia tubers that year, and two of them actually grew.  This year we got a bunch more from Diana and Dave (her husband) and all of them have started to grow.  We don’t have blooms yet, but they are close.  I will post about those when they get bigger.

~Michael Silva

I want to be a good blogger, really I do.  I often think of things to write in my head but then they never seem good enough or I simply put off actually blogging it long enough that I forget.  Anyway, I am going to try to do better at this so bear with me people.

Last night I decided to sleep all night, just so I would be good for church.  The last few days have been weird schedule wise, so I didn’t stick 100% to my schedule.  I figure I will start again fresh Monday morning.

When my wife and I woke up, she was feeling sick (morning sickness sick).  Then as each of my other children woke up, I found most of them were stuffy and having issues breathing, so we decided to stay home today.

The only one in the house still asleep is Elisha.  Gabriel is back in bed all warm and wrapped in his blanket.  It seems like one of those sleepy mornings.  I think we all want to go back to bed!

Anyway, I got some good pictures of the kids this morning and wanted to share them.

Every Saturday morning I get up and with one of the kids help I cook a big breakfast.  We usually have pancakes with strawberries and syrup, with bacon on the side.  Some Saturdays we have french toast in place of the pancakes.

This morning Jubilee woke up early and the breakfast wasn’t finished being cooked yet.  She was hungry so we put her up to the table to eat one of the first cooked pancakes.

She was up to the table for about 30 minutes max and Isaiah said, “Woh look at that.” while pointing at Jubilee.  We all looked over to see Jubilee asleep at the table in one of the worst positions I have ever seen any of my children asleep in.

I carefully picked her up and brought her into the bedroom to snuggle with Momma.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

Most children hate going to bed.  I have 6 kids and none of them like the idea of bedtime and or nap time, but Jubilee is being the best of all our children about bed time.

I usually carry her around for a couple minutes and then I bring her to her crib and put her in.  She lays right down 7 out of 10 times.  She does require a few things though in order for her to lay there without fussing.

• She needs her glow worm stuffy.  (Hotta is it’s name.) **
• She needs her blanket.
• She likes me to rub her back for a couple minutes.

As long as she has the above she does very well.  After a few minutes into the back rub, I walk out (she is usually still awake) and she doesn’t fuss or cry a bit.

I just wanted to blog about my girl.  She is awesome and I love her LOTS.

NOTE:

** Hotta is the name Elisha gave the stuffy.  Elisha says Jubilee called it that, but I have my doubts.  It’s okay though, because even Jubilee has taken to calling this stuffy glow worm thing Hotta.