Silas Nordell Schlax

Well, here they are. Sorry it took me so long to get the pictures up. It has been a crazy week. The first pictures are from the hospital the day he was born and the other ones were from yesterday. We went over with the Burtons yesterday to cook them a steak and potatoes dinner. Little Silas gets cuter by the day. He is just perfect and makes all these cute faces. It is a shame I have to share him with so many people, but I guess it comes with having a big family. Thankfully John and Deana are GREAT about letting us hold him.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. If you would like to see them all…click here.

It’s a Boy!

Silas Nordell Schlax was born yesterday at 1:11pm. He was 7lb 2oz and 20.5 inches. He is of course the cutest baby I’ve ever seen. Here are a couple of pictures from Nick. I will get my batch up on Sunday, but couldn’t wait that long to share the good news!

Told ya he was the cutest….

Still no baby…

Well, the baby still hasn’t arrived. I never even thought that it would be possible for John and Deana’s baby to be born on my birthday, but here it is…February 21 and as the baby hasn’t been born yet, I am thinking it should be born today. What do you think?  Getting to see my new niece or nephew for my 24th birthday would be quite the present.  I was going to say I would get to be an Aunt on my birthday, but as I want to start helping myself and others remember that life begins at conception, I became an Aunt nine months ago.  I just haven’t seen the little guy or gal yet.

Well, just for the record, I am hoping the baby will be born today.  I guess we will just have to wait and see.

To love God better than my earthly dearest

“When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but incresased.”

~ C.S. Lewis

This was just a great and timely reminder for me about keeping my priorities straight. I have started reading a new book, Relationships – A Mess Worth Making by Time Lane and Paul Tripp. It looks like it is going to be a really good book. I will let you know when I finish it.

Mental Health Hotline

Today at work the pastors were listening to a recording from a mental health hotline. It was so funny I just had to pass it on for you.

To listen to the audio recording click here.
To read the recording click here.

So…which buttons would you push?

On blowing up ginger bread houses… (videos)

Sorry it took so long….but the videos are finally here.

House #1 – Third Place

House #2 – First Place


House #3 – Second Place

Dry Ice House – clip 1

Dry Ice House – clip 2

Charlotte House – clip 1 (explosion)

Charlotte House – clip 2 (post fire)

Panning the Croud

“Taking Care of the Ladies”

Ok…I know, I know…I have a weakness for cute videos. But, this one is just to cute not to pass on.

Everyday News Network:
Daniel, age four (barely), reports on three ways he takes care of the ladies in his family. (http://www.visionforum.com)

On blowing up ginger bread houses…

Well, we did it again. Our old family tradition of blowing up our ginger bread house has turned into a big annual event. This year we blew up six houses. There were three teams competing agains each other, one pre-rigged hosue from Charlotte, and two my Dad rigged.

First Place – Team 2

Second Place – Team 3
(This house had a firery parachute that shot out of the “chiminy”.)

Third Place – Team 1

Dad’s House – Dry Ice in a pop bottle
(This house blew pieces from the middle of the yard to the cars in the parking area and allegedly threw pieces up to the tree line. It was pretty exciting.)

Charlotte House
(Tim, Andrew and Daniel pre-rigged their house and brought it down from Charlotte.  It was at least 4 times the size of the other houses and made a great show.  My favorite part was the little donuts on the lg. pretzle polls and each went off before the house went…Great job guys.)

Click here to see more pictures…video clips coming soon.