PaperBackSwap.com

So I found the website paperbackswap.com and I'm hooked. I have a fairly large bookshelf in my room that is full of books that I've read and will probably never read again. I just don't read a book again unless I do it by mistake so when I found this website I thought it was great.

I think I've posted about 35 books so far and I think I've gotten rid of about 10 of them. How it works is you post your first 10 books and get 2 credits. Each credit is worth a book you can order from other member. Then once you mail out one of your books to another member you get another credit for more books. So the cost for you is to mail out your books to other members. But you can use the paperbackswap.com postage program so you can print the postage at home and it's media rate which is pretty cheap. So far the most I've spent is $3.00 which for a book from someone else is not bad in my mind. Plus I feel good about someone else being able to read a book that I enjoyed.

I would highly recommend it to anyone that has a lot of books and wants to get rid of a few of them and get others in return!

Preschool Artwork

Here are a few pieces of artwork that Ian has brought home from preschool. It's always fun when he brings these home because his teacher always asks what he drew and then she writes on the picture. Some are pretty obvious but others are not so and it's funny how a 4 year old mind works!
The above pictures says: A Tree by Ian Field Trip Coming - they went on a field trip this week!

This is one of those pictures that you are not quite sure what it's supposed to be but Ian tells his teacher:

Baby Ian

Aunt Shannon ran across this picture a couple weeks ago and emailed it to me. This is from Ryder's 1st birthday party so Ian would have been around 6 months old. I love seeing pictures of when Ian was little. He was just a round ball ofchubbiness - and that smile! It's still hard to believe my baby boy is almost 4 1/2 and baby #2 is on the way. Our family is changing!

Preemie Clothes

So this week we were going through baby clothes - getting ready for baby #2's arrival. Chris saved the day by finding the tub with the preemie and 0-3 month clothes. He pulled out this outfit and showed it to Ian. This is one of the preemie outfits he wore when he was first born. I can't believe Ian was that small at one time. And it's quite amazing how much a little person can grow in 4 years. We tucked the preemie clothes back away - no preemie coming this time! Now to wait and see baby #2's size!

Willa & Washburn

Willa and Washburn got to meet for the first time this week at bookclub. It was pretty cute!

Dinner Club

We hosted dinner club two weeks ago and here were some of the highlights.

Pat has already taught Kael how to hold his own bottle so Kael was showing off for us!
Amber and Chris had a deep conversation. I have no idea what about but it looks pretty interesting. This while we were playing Chase The Ace and LRC. We had a fun night with our quarters!

Willa grew wings!

Overall it was a very enjoyable dinner club and we look forward to traveling to Omaha for Amber's turn!

Hanging Out

Last week I was sitting at the computer doing something and I noticed that Ian and Indie were enjoying some show on TV and had to get a picture. In the last couple of months Ian has really taken to loving and playing with our dogs. Which is nice because for the last 4 years Indie and Jack have not been priority #1 on our list. Ian loves playing fetch with them.