September so far

I decided to do a quick blog post on what I've been up to so far this month! Here are some pictures I found on the camera so I thought they'd made a fun blogpost.

New to Old

Janeal, Mom, and I went up to Artist Point to hike to table mountain. It was all fun until I got home and realized I'd lost my little phone that I used like an iPod while sliding down one of the hills. That was pretty disappointing. 

The view

We were all about those shortcuts

The four of us get to be part of the Christmas Eve service this year! I thought all these notebooks with our names on them were fun because it means we all get to do it!

Ya know...making a s'more over a candle is totally normal....

Man on a mission. Who cares that his pants were getting wet. 

Fishing at the river!

That little smile is so adorable!!

Zach wanted to take the twins and himself fishing, but we didn't end up catching anything...

And of course....school.

Nephew update

I thought awhile ago that I haven't written about my nephews for awhile now so I should do a post dedicated just to them. I keep wanting to call them the Twins but now Dwight is with the twins so usually I just call them the Boys. They sure are a cute bunch. These pictures are some of my favorites that I took this month. 

 During the beginning of the month, Zach took Karin to Seattle for her brithday so we got all 3 of the boys! It was a lot of fun having them. Our house was soo hot though during the evening and I think Dwight was getting uncomfortable. Poor Baby Dwight. We still call him Baby Dwight and the twins pronounce his name, DEE white!

Benjamin is defiantly more of the boy who will smile for me when I take a picture so whenever I take a picture of him, I'll say, "Aw, thats a nice picture!" Then Alexander will be like, "Take picture of me!" then he'll usually not look or do something goofy/creative like this picture:

Alexander

Or this picture. Those yellow thing are his shoulders. I actually really love this picture.  

 The twins have finally figured out that Benjamin's freckle on his cheek makes him Benjamin and Alexander is Alexander because he doesn't have a freakle. So sometimes I'll trick them by saying, "Alexander, how do you know you aren't Benjamin?" then he'll say, "Cuz I don't have freakle!" so

I think their smiles give them away though. Benjamin usually
really big and closes his eyes a little but not Alexander. Haha

when they were here awhile back, I got a brown pen and drew a little freakle on his cheek and said, "Now you're Benjamin!" He got the hugest kick out of that. I showed him himself in the mioror and he was just laughing and laughing and saying, "I'm Ben duhmen!
Yes, that is how they say Benjamin and Alexander's name is pronouced, "Anti lan toe' really fast though.

Dad holding them right after they woke up from a nap. 

Benjamin at William's birthday party last week. Isn't his smile just the cutest?

See, he gets this goofy little face whenever I ask him to smile. Its kinda funny though because he knows he is just being goofy and then he'll just laugh at his face whenever he sees what he looks like. :)

Then we have Benjamin who smiles pretty normally. Whenever he sees a picture of himself, he will go, "Awww.." :) 

The twins also have a sort of new thing of saying, "I beat you!" They love beating people. They beat in racing, in eating food, and in who came out of Mommy's tummy first. So Benjamin will win in something and Alexander will say, "I came out of Mommy't tummy first so I beat you!" then Benjamin will get all concerned. One time I told them that I came out of my mommy's tummy before they did and Alexander will say, "No, I came out of Mommy's tummy first so I beat you!"

Another cute thing they do is when they are asking a question they will start it by saying, "I thought...." and then ask whatever their question is. So once Michael was praying before lunch and Benjamin right afterwards was like, "I thought why we pray?"  It is a unique way of asking a question but it is cute.

This is when he was rolling over. Karin and I were watching him
and he did roll over about 3 times! 

 Now we get to Dwighty boy. He is just the cutest, happiest, nicest, little baby I know! He'll just smile and he really is adorable. But I think he is a little shy of the camera kind of like Alexander so whenever I get it out to take a picture, he usually stops smiling. One day I'll get a good picture of him. :) He just started rolling over. He just gets bigger and bigger every time I see him! I don't have a lot of cute quotes and stuff to say about him yet like I do the twins, but I'm sure I will once he gets bigger and starts talking!! :)

Isn't that little face so cute?!

Me and Dwight!

Friday Reivew

• I've been feeling in a blogging mood lately for some reason so I've decided to do a Friday review. And I'm going to going to say that I'm bringing Friday Review's back into the picture because knowing me, I'll say that and then the next week, I won't be in the blogging mood anymore.
• Does anyone know what expression: Crossing the Rubicon means? I thought I knew...but I was waaay off. haha
• Tomorrow is the Farmer's Day Parade which reminds me of last year when Dad and I went. We were walking over to the parade and Dad was saying, "I wonder if next year we will be going to watch this with the little twins." This time last year was about the time that Zach was talking about coming up here again. I can't tell you how happy I am that they are finally up here now. It feels like they have been here for whole time now.
• I have got a serious rash thing on my leg. #weird 
• #DidYouLikeMyHashtag? #ITalkInHashtagsSometimes #JanealDoesntLikeItWhenIHashtag #SorryJaneal #OkayI'mDoneNow
• Haha I seriously will say hashtags all the time because I'm weird that way. ;)
• Today Dad came home and told me that we were going to clean the porch off. So I sprayed some stuff and Dad scrubbed it. ;)
• After I helped Dad, I got our old tripod out and took some wonderful pictures. Well, they look about the same but since I had weird settings, I had to use a tripod or else they would be all blurry. 
• Here is something I learned this week: Do NOT watch 'The Boy in Stripped Pajamas' without a Kleenex. Just...don't. Next time I am going to plan on having a full box of kleenex by me. 
• I've been thinking about Monday too because I have a piano recital that night. Yay for me. Hopefully I don't mess up like crazy...that would be embarrassing...haha.
• Well, I'm going to go bug Tommy now...

Dad cleaning the porch

One of the pictures I got today. 

And another one of Sparky. 

Thinking about this a lot today! One week ago was the wedding! That was fun

The 2 couples

Oh and I found this random picture of Dwight and Janeal. Little Dwight it so cute

Oh and this was a funny random thing that was going on awhile back...

Memorial day camping trip

This past Memorial day, all of the siblings decided to have a camping trip in the woods behind Michael's house. It ended up only being Michael, Zach, the twins, William, and me staying overnight in the tents we had set up, but I even ended up leaving to go sleep at Michael's house around 12:30. So I'll try to tell what we did through these pictures. :)

We got to the campsite around 4ish and took several trips down the steep hill and through the brush to our 'campsite'. See that picnic table? We were wondering where we were going to set all our food and Michael was like, "I have a few boards up at my house that I can go get." So he went running off. Pretty soon I heard him come crashing back and when I looked over, he had this picnic table all thrown over his head. Zach was like, "Yep, that's a few boards!" We were laughing about that. 

Emily and Jeffrey ended up joining us for dinner so that was fun. 

After dinner, we headed over to the river to do some kayaking. I didn't kayak but Michael and William did. I took lots of pictures of Emily and Jeffrey instead. :)

Nooksack river

Michael and William

Hahaha, they wanted an awkward picture and I love this. They both look so funny and awkward! :)

Better

Then we saw an eagle with a fish...

Once we were done kayaking, we went back to have some s'mores.

The food table. Trust me, we had a lot of food...:)

Okay, I just think that this picture of Benjamin is sooooo adorable. Look at his little face. Oh ya, its an okay picture of Emily and Jeffrey too. ;)

The next morning! Tommy, Janeal, Emily, and Jeffrey left after we had s'mores because they were busy with other thing/didn't want to camp. That was okay because I ended up getting a whole tent to myself. Well...until 12:20. Benjamin started throwing up because he ate to much and I freaked out because I always do when someone starts throwing up so I went back up to Michael's house and slept there until morning. Anyways, I came back down and the boys wanted to go see the water so I took them there. We were playing a game where we had to hit that big rock out in the water that you see. That was actually where I was standing when I took those pictures of Jeffrey and Emily the night before. :)

These two. They are so adorable. Oh, here is a cute story. We went back and were eating breakfast and it had already started to rain but it wasn't to bad yet, and plus we were under a lot of trees so we weren't getting to wet yet. Eventually it started to rain harder so I found Alexander's baseball hat and put it on. He noticed I was wearing it and came and took it off and told me it was his hat. So I started to make up this sad story about how I was going to get all wet and how I really needed to wear his hat because I didn't have a hood like he did. I think he was starting to feel a little sorry for me, but it didn't last long because he wanted to keep that hat. Pretty soon though, Benjamin comes walking over to me and pulls out his hood so that we could both be under it. It was soo cute! He was like, "We can share!" It was so thoughtful of him. I love watching how those two act and trying to figure out their personalities. :) 

That was about it for the camping trip. After breakfast, we took several trips up the hill with all our stuff. I got pretty wet and dirty so I was thankful to go home and clean myself up. Later on in the afternoon, William, Janeal, and I went play games with some our friends and that was a lot of fun. Then I finished the day by watching YouTubes of military men coming home and surprising their families. I had a fun memorial day. I'm so thankful for the people who gave their lives for America's freedom. And here is a picture that really made me think of how some people who have lost their loved ones must feel on a day like memorial day:

Whats up?

Hello everyone!!
 I've realized that I haven't written a blog post in forever so I'm here quick to write one and make you all happy. ;) I'll give you a brief look on my life since I last posted. :)

First off...welcome to the world Dwight Ethan Arnhart!! He was born a month ago exactly. He is so cute with all of his different facial expressions.

some of his facial expressions...

 The second big news is that these two started dating. I'm so excited that they are dating. Jeffrey Balvanz is a friend we've known all our lives and we all like him alot. :)

Jeffrey and Emily

And here are some other pictures. Most of them are from Mother's day last Sunday cuz we were taking a lot that day. :)

I brought Charlotte outside and told her to smile the last time we had them over and this is one of the pictures I got. 

the twins. I love this picture.

BBQ at Zach's house. 

Benjamin was like, "Take a picture of me!" Such a cutie!!

this is what happens when I tell them to pose for the camera

This is also what happens when Dad and Tommy pose for the camera. hahaha

Waiting for Mom to come sit in the chair

All the siblings

Until next time! (which might be awhile...;)