Hello

Dear Friends and Family;

Sorry I have been so busy to update our latest news. In all honesty nothing is new. We like the rest of America spend to much time working and not enough time as a family. I have a new schedule at work that will be great once I get in the routine. Cause I can't function till I am in my routine. I have been doing a lot more hair at home. I am trying to grow my business there, so feel free to call I would love to see you in my chair.
David is studding real hard for his test this Saturday the 5th of December.This is the first of a three part series of test to become a Certified Charter Financial Analyst. Please pray for him, this is a challenging time for him and he is doing really well, as far a juggling family and leading our small group Bible Studies. i am proud of him and I believe he deserves to do what he loves.
Quentin is doing well in Basketball this season. Still learning the rules of the game, and how to control the ball in his space. He is doing well in school too. He needs practice in his writing skills, so keep a look out he will be sending you letters in the mail. He is also keeping a journal, to enhance his writing. In his free time he is Playing Legos or the WII.
Ezra is becoming a toddler. He is becoming determined to get what he wants and letting you know when you tell him "No". He is a lot of fun. He is very silly, He has made some names for his special things, and we don't have an explanation for them either. Example; blanket is his "money". A lot of things are "Tee" such as teeth when he wants to brush his teeth. Also this could mean I want a "Drink". "Eee" means he is hungry and wants to eat. We love to watch him learn, he is so much fun.
We Love you and Hope you are all well and Happy.
Happy Thanksgiving.

opps

Ok so it been like two months sense we last visited. I have been so busy. It is such a lame excuse, but it is really true. I have been trying to build my business. David has a new project that can basically be summed up as the final year of his bachelor degree. He is trying to study at least 20hrs a week, work full-time and be a father. This has put me in a similar state, where I am working at home with the kids two days a week, and building a business outside of the home 35hrs a week. I haven’t taken any pictures really.
The only thing that has been exciting to me is that we have had our first snow already. As most of you know I am a lover of meteorology. I follow the weather pretty closely, and for this year I am feeling it’s going to be a winter we haven’t seen in years. It’s going to be wetter and colder than usual. I have also been praying for this setup for the past 2 years. So that’s it my friends, we are kind of boring I know. Hopefully we will have something to share soon.

Look who's walking

A break!

David and I have just returned home from a well over due 7 day vacation in Mexico, ALONE! We have had this planned for a few months and the anticipation grew every day. When we first arived it was such a releaf. Just imagine a full week with no plans, no kids, and NO WORK. Nothing to distract us from eachother. A beautiful place we have never experianced before. It was lovely and just what we needed. Enjoy the photos.

Walking update

Ezzy is not walking yet, sorry. he is really close I can feel it. but we have to be patient.

The 4th of JULY

We need a working bow saw to cut wood.



A happy baby



a scenic back drop



a giant hotdog




a place of shelter




fire to stay warm






friends and games





river rafting





Maybe not!






What is camping with out cows. yes wild or free range cows came through our camp ground every day.

July 1,2009

Ezra is 14 months now. The news is that he will be walking by this weekend. You will have to check out our 4th of July pics to find out. Talk to you them.

Typical June weather

Hi every one. it has been a active June so far, and here is some video for you.

Ezra's Birthday

Adorable photos

I hope you all enjoyed our photo update. I am truly sorry I was slacking on the blog. Please forgive me, I hope to add to it soon.
With much love;
Robyn

Hats

We went through a hat faze. I was no part only to take pictures. I don't know what it is with boys and putting things on their heads. I have a photo of my step dad putting an old pair of torn undies on his head, when I find I'll let you know its the most hilarious thing I had ever seen him do.

Mmm spaghetti

Ezra likes to feed the floor spaghetti.

Cousin Amanda's Wedding

Ezra is going to be like big brother and be a dancin fool on the dance floor.

Childrens Museum in Lincoln, NE

Some funnies from Ezra

Ezra and Rio

Ezra has a lady friend at his day care. They have been super buds. I think what brought them together was they were familiar with their facial features. They are both breastfed babies and have chubby cheeks to prove it.

Some special times with brother

On The Loose PT2

This is mostly the reason why I haven't had time to visit the computer as often as I would like to.

Busy Busy Busy

Oh my gosh life has flown by. I have been so busy doing errands and trying to keep up with all of our adventures.
I'm truly sorry to my family who uses this site to see what their grand children are up to.
Here are a lot of photos to explain what has been going on in our lives.

My apologies
Robyn

On The Loose

I have video of the latest. But I am not smarter then the computer. I don't know what I am doing wrong.
Spoiler warning...

Ezra is crawling and very good at it. He is all over the place now.

Whats the hold up?

Well our computer is on the fritz again. There will be some time before I can get photos up. I'm sorry that there hasn't been much of an update since the holidays.
Hopefully there will be more updates to come.

The Holidays

Wow what a rush! Ezra's first Christmas and New Years celebration. So much happened during the holiday I hope I can remember it all. This Christmas was very nice, we spent it with my mom, Renee and Logan. It was very intimate, I enjoyed the time with my siblings. It was really great to see them engaged in what the whole family was doing.




Ezra was very entertaining, opening his gifts was all he had the energy for. The sound of crinkling paper is his favorite sound I think. He played in his new saucer for Grandma's house while eating bananas; his favorite food.






The trip out to Kansas was unusual; we get stuck either on the was out or the way back. This time we made it with clear skies. I could see every star in sky. I found O'ryan and that's about all I could see in the car moving in one direction.
This entry will be mostly photos. We hope you enjoy.

Ruthless and Toothless NO MORE!!!!

Ezra has gotten his first tooth. When I got him from bed this morning I checked to see if the bottom tooth had finally arived. We are very excited the he is growing up. When I checked again at 10:30 I found another tooth. He has one on top that has cut through too.
More exciting news to come from the Rothe's; stay tuned.

Santa came to Centre

Thanksgiving 2008

Happy Thanksgiving from the Rothe family; we spent our holiday in California. This was my first Thanksgiving to spend with my Dad. It was also my very first Thanksgiving dinner that I prepared. I must say it was a success. We started out by visiting Ventura beach. It was a lot colder then expected, but we managed. We knew that we were going to hit one of the amusement parks assuming it was going to be Disneyland.












Well it was Disneyland; for our Christmas gift my dad and his girlfriend, Sharon made us a basket full of Disney stuff and admission tickets. We chose to go Monday and start off our vacation right. When you go to Disneyland you must start it off with the proper breakfast. Fresh baked cinnamon rolls the size of your head. There was so much to do in only a short time. Unfortunately we didn’t realize that Ezra could have joined us on a lot of the rides till it was too late. He was however able to join us for two rides till he went on sensory over load. My dad and Sharon met up with us for dinner and took Ezra back to their home. David and I along with Quentin journeyed on to explore the rest of the park. It was the place where dreams come true.























Tuesday was a day for some R and R which is California’s way of saying ‘it’s too crappy to do anything outside.” I was looking forward to this week of laziness and not feeling rushed to do anything. By Wednesday David had enough hanging around, so he and Quentin went to the Griffith Observatory. Ezra and I were coming down with a cold. We stayed behind and tried to get some rest. By the evening, my Grandpa Ken had joined us. It was time to get all the preparation for Thanksgiving.
Thursday was a great day; everyone helped with dinner, and football was enjoyed. Everything turned out just right except my dinner rolls. For some reason they didn’t rise. We had dinner crouton instead, no really we had a backup, thank goodness. I was really happy every one enjoyed it California style.






Quentin had his twin Quaden (I don’t know if the spelling is right I apologize) come and play for the remainder of the trip. The real trip about this was how much these two have in common. Quaden’s birthday is February 2nd and Quentin’s is February 6th. There names obviously are very similar, that was fun when we were trying to get one of them to pay attention. They wore the same clothes the whole time too, that was Sharon’s idea.





The whole family showed up on Saturday for my dad’s 55th birthday party. It was good to see everyone. I hadn’t met my niece and nephew yet, they are 3 and 2. I met Kim; Sharon’s daughter who was in love with Ezra. David met everyone for the first time. I’m talking about my step-family; this includes my step brother Michael and step-sister Christina. It was good to see all of them on a happier note. The next time we hope to plan a camping road trip.

Jump Jumpy Ezra

Ezra is 6 Months!!!

Wow Ezra is already a half a year old. Where has the time gone. He is growing so much, and learning so much. He is very vocal and happy. He has been such a great baby so far, David and I are really blessed!
Here are some of the things we have been doing this past month.
Eating this is something Ezra has got down. There is no struggle here.







Playing is great fun; Ezra’s favorite thing right now is jumping. He loves to jump. One day I walked into the daycare to pick him up for the day and he was in a jumper thing that is called a jumperoo. This was the funniest thing I had ever seen. He was going to town; I couldn’t stop laughing at him. He thought he must have been pretty entertaining because; if I looked away he would stop. Then when I looked back at him he would start jumping all over. He had the biggest smile on his face. I let him play for about 15 minutes. He slept the whole way home.







He is really progressed in sitting. He can sit by himself now, but I put the boppy behind him just in case he gets too excited and throws his weight and falls back. He is getting really strong arm muscles too, I think he will be on track to becoming mobile in the next three months or so.




Halloween was typical holiday fun. I had a hard time trying to come up with a theme costume for the family. We ended up going with Jelly Bellies. I was Pink Lemonade, David was Popcorn, Quentin was Skunk Spray, and Ezra was Very Cherry Cola. I took Q out for the first round of trick or treating. He changed his costume to Ghost Face for that, we learned that masks are no fun. He fell off of a porch and banged up his leg and knee pretty good. We came home after an hour I think. Got cleaned up and changed back into Skunk Spray, to finish the night out with David. It was a great success of trick or treating. He had a homework assignment that was fun because it allowed him to count all of his candy and sort it out by type. He followed that by watching the Simpsons Tree House of Horror all four of them that we have on DVD, and eating as much candy as he wanted.














Quentin is loosing his teeth!!! We thought he should be a jack o’ lantern for Halloween. He really is excited that the tooth fairy has been breaking into our house and steeling his teeth. David and I are setting traps all around the house to prevent these break-ins. Someone has got to stop this crazy woman that is obsessed with teeth. It is a real disgusting thing to collect.



The other thing Quentin has been really growing in is his reading. We are still going to the library every three weeks and checking out books. I am really enjoying this time with Quentin because reading was such a struggle for me growing up. I don’t want him to struggle with it like I did. David loves to read and has a large passion to learn. And because of that, I am eager for Quentin to love reading. Goosebumps are the books that he has been choosing lately. Last month we read “The Ghost Next Door”. This month we are reading “The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight”.
I have heard a lot about a book called “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. I was at my mom’s house the week I heard about it and I saw it on the bar. I picked it up and started reading it; it seems to be really funny. I got so excited about it that I had David look for it at the library. There is a wait list for this book. It is very popular, I guess. So that is on my list of books to read next year.

Ezra pictures

A Quentin Update.

Here is Quentin's second Grade photo. He is doing really well right now. We are currently reading "Goosebumps, The Goast Next Door" by R.L. Stine. He is growing and healthy, just like normal boys his age. He is very social in school this is causing some learning struggles, but nothing unusual. He is very smart and very helpful.
He had to say good by to a dear friend last week, Jet our dog. We found a new home for him. This was a hard disision to make, but the best one for all who were involved. Quentin has a lot more free time now, and can spend time playing with neibors like a kid should.

Some more photos