Thursday, February 25, 2010

Happy 30th Birthday!

Usually when you document the past year of a child's life you see lots of changes...however Im going to document the last 12 months or so of my dear husbands life...thus not causing a great change in appearance:)

March..waiting for Liam to arrive.
April...Watching Elijah play Soccer in TN.

June....what a TAN HANDSOME STUD!!!! One of my favorite pictures:) Can you wear that go-tee all the time for me:)

July...showing off his skills on the wakeboard. You Rock Babe!!

August...we ate at Montgomery Inn in Cinci...this place was our first date night 9 years ago as an engaged couple.

September...I love how my sweet dear is involved with our boys.

October....a mini vacation to Chicago. Always a blast to vacation with you dear.

January...once again he is enjoying his time with Liam.
HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY sweetie. I love you and thank God I have such a wonderful husband who loves me and our three boys. I know turning 30 isn't exactly what you would like to be doing....but just know....the older you get the more in love I am....cause the more time we have to spend together.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

GOING PRIVATE!!

I AM GOING PRIVATE!!! If you want to be able to check my blog please email me or leave a comment and I will add you in. Otherwise this will be for my close family and friends.

Why you ask am I doing this and why so SUDDEN?? My sister Joy and Jason have first hand experienced a hacker.....and it scares me to death. This hacker knows all about Jason and his life....including the name of their daughter!!! So please if you think, pray for them in this time. They have involved the police.

Starting Thursday my blog will be private!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Growing Up!

Its fun to watch Liam find new things to accomplish. Recently he has been doing the "stand" in the middle of the floor without holding onto anything. Im hoping this means he will be walking soon:).

Excuse my silly voice in the background:)

Friday, February 12, 2010

Going For A Ride

So yesterday I was putting away some folded laundry and had just emptied the basket. I came out to the hall and this is what I saw:). Liam really did love it, I just think that my voice scared him a bit.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Potluck Group Weekend

This past weekend our potluck group at church went to LaPorte, IN for a weekend together. We stayed at the Best Western which is where I went as a little girl with my parents...so it was neat to go back and show my kids this place that I remember so well. The only thing I do NOT remember as a little kid was the smoke!! It really is a great hotel for kids with pool, hot tub, arcade room, shuffle board, and putt putt however it is filled with smoke as its a hotel that allows smoking. I don't understand that really with all the kids that are there, but when the hotel goes smoke free....I'll return:). I think there was around 32 of us total. A great weekend had by all. Here are some pictures from the weekend.
Ethan, Brie, Camille, Kelsey(?), Elijah and Caden
Eating dinner the first night. We had KFC...yummy. Tanner, Elijah, Ethan and Caden.

Brie, Kelsey, Landon, Camille, and Taylor eating dinner.


Once the kids were done swimming, playing, running around and sound asleep in their beds, us adults got to play games. Here I am teaching Steph, Phil and Darin how to play Ticket to Ride. I think they liked it:).


The first day of swimming they borrowed others goggles and so the second day nick went to walmart and bought them their own....they were so excited. Here they are getting ready to hit the pool once again. Ive never seen my kids swim so much. Thanks to Phil and Amber for having an extra pair of arm floats for Caden to borrow. By the end of the hotel stay Caden wasn't wearing any arm floats and was showing me how to swim. As long as he can touch he is a brave swimmer and does all sorts of front and back flips in the water.

Caden played a little shuffle board while waiting for dad to take him swimming. Its so funny he has his goggles on.

Racoon Eyes.....and chapped cheeks from so much chlorine. Oh but they had a blast!!


Liam had went to the doc on Friday before we left and he had an ear infection and so was put on antibiotics. However he was still a pretty fussy boy!! It doesn't look like it from this picture though:). He also had diarrhea and a temp of 100.5 for one day. I gave lots of tylenol and he slept pretty much the weekend away. I think he is getting himself another tooth...it looks pretty swollen on the gums.

Here we were having church sunday morning. The next two pictures(plus this one) shows who all was there. I think I am missing Stacy in a picture, but other than that we are all here. It was a great time and I look forward to the next.


Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Saturday Morning Activity

The boys and their daddy had a good time saturday morning attempting to make homemade donuts. The boys sure enjoyed this activity and asked to do it again already.
I made a maple glaze for some of the donuts and then we also did cinnamon and sugar. The donuts weren't the greatest quality so I think the next time we do them we will change up the recipe.


Here they are deep frying in our cool daddy. The last donut we did was a twist...need to make the twist tighter as it didn't stay together once it was thrown into the oil.