In the Goossen lives.

Hello people.

So what's been new with us? Nothing. : P

I am excited though because this weekend is the Beltrami fair woot woot. Saturday we'll be taking the boys and walking around. There are barns full of animals and TONS of fair food, and a few rides. Sat. night is the rodeo and I hope i'll be going to that as my niece Whitney shall be riding in it.

Koi has been walking everywhere. He never crawls anymore. Well, sometimes he does but he looks funny. He wants to go outside all the time and walk around. He's been thinking he only needs one nap a day, but i have news for him. He always, always takes a morning nap though, that's the one he needs the most.

My garden is coming along pretty well. It sure gets weedy fast though! lol. Stupid thing.

Derrian just finished summer school so now he's back to being home all day. He has chores he has to do if he wants any money : ) he's trying to break us AND LAURA with his collections. First it was Cars and now it's Star Wars. They keeping getting more expensive as he gets older!

Kurt's been getting home Friday evenings and it's been so easy to get used to. It's SOO different from seeing him every 10 days. The weekends go by so much faster though. A lot of the times he'll get done at 3:30 on friday though, which puts him home at a decent time. Especially since he's working about 1-1/2 hours away now. Koi gets so happy to see him. He loves his daddy so much BUT thankfully, he is a complete momma's boy and i am not going to complain for one tiny second because as they get older, that goes away and then dad is the cool one : ) Derrian is the same way : ) except he's still a momma's boy, yay. : )

I think this weekend we may go look at new cell phones. A while back Unicel switched to Verizon so we need Verizon phones. who knows, it's kinda expensive. And i've been thinking that i maybe want to take derrian down to Valley Fair this year? We also still have a gift card to Grand Rios!! Who knows. It seems like we've been so busy it'd be really nice for us 4 to go on a family vacation and spend time together outside of this house, just the 4 of us. Selfish, i imagine some people may think, but i bet everybody else finds time for just their families. Whatever, who knows, just ideas and thoughts.

Anyways, I believe Koi has finally fallen asleep so i need to get some house work done instead of him being a little mess maker right behind me. : )

Hello again.

I just wanted to extend an apology for my previous post about commenting. It was brought to my attention that maybe some of you are uncomfortable leaving comments and i never thought of it that way. I certainly don't want to make you feel bad, while some of you should feel guilty because i know you have no problem leaving comments ; ). But for those of you that don't know how, don't like to, aren't even computer people...i still appreciate you taking time to check out all the pictures and videos. I've received e-mails and phone calls to let me know there are still people out there checking out this small little blog. It is my duty and privilege to show all of you our beautiful kids. So again, i apologize, and thank you for checking our site! IF you'd like to leave comments however, i welcome them : )

Yay for us!

Just recently Kurt and I celebrated our 5-year anniversary! woot woot. It's hard to believe that it's been that long! Seems like LONGER! ; )

He got me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Everybody always said marriage was different than just dating. I didn't believe them. How could a tiny piece of paper make any difference? We're still the same people, we're still together..... Well, it does make a difference. You really do have to work at it. Try to always put the other person first. Kurt does an amazing job at putting me first, he gets an A+ for sure. It's really exciting to know we're a team, him and I. And no matter what life throws our way, we always have each other. Nobody and no amount of drama or b.s. is going to tear us apart. That's a good feeling.

Well, i must get back to cooking his lunches : ) He's out mowing the yard, koi is sleeping, and derrian is playing in his bedroom. We're going to go out to my mom's in a little bit when koi gets up. I haven't seen her in quite awhile actually.

Is there anybody out there?!

Okay, so I've posted a LOT of pictures now and still nobody has said anything. I don't need to post these videos/pictures, i already know what my kids look like. It takes a lot of time uploading them on the computer and then uploading them on the website because it's not like it goes all fast. I'm pretty irritated, as i once expressed to you all before. I'm not directing this at any one single person so save the drama of taking this personally. I'd just like to see some feedback here, make it feel like I'm not doing this for my own benefit, and that you guys actually really care to see these. I'd gladly quit because it'd be one less thing for me to do but i do it because i want the family that can't see these guys on a regular basis be part of their lives as much as possible. A little feedback wouldn't kil you, you obviously have time to look at them, why not make a comment or two!?

New Shades

Laura bought these little tiny sunglasses for Koi hahah, they were crooked though : )

Waving

Man, i just took these not long ago at all and it already seems like he's grown up so much since then!

The start of the birthday cake.

Happy Birthday! : )

In the background you can hear Ladie telling Kurt to kiss her toe, well he rocked over Debbie's toe with one of the chairs.
Then you hear Lyndi telling him he's gross lol.