New computer

At the beginning of last year, our computer went down. We had all the info from the hard drive transferred to a portable hard drive. Then we bought a netbook, which is kind of like a laptop, but smaller. It didn't quite do all that I needed from a computer. It could hardly even handle the picture files that I would load on it. Anyway, we have a new Gateway computer. It is so fast! I am loving it. So, I'm thinking I'll be blogging more these days, and even try to catch up on posts from the past year.

Christmas morning 2010

What a fun Christmas morning we had!

Kids and their pillow pets

Gretchen's Dance recital

Gretchen is taking a Jazz/Hip Hop class right now. We all got to go to her dance recital. They danced to the song, Hot Chocolate from the Polar Express movie.

Lights on the house

Mike did a great job putting up lights on the house. We did red, green, and white. Our neighbors were calling it the Italian house. I love the snowflakes across the front of the porch.

First Day of school

Taylor now in 3rd grade

Gretchen now in 5th

Dylan in Kindergarten! Time is going by so fast!

Blake turns 1!!

On April 2 Blake had his 1st birthday! We invited both sides of the family over to the house. We had Bbq beef sandwiches, and side dishes, cake and ice cream. Blake was so cute. He loved opening presents and seemed to love everything he got! He was grabbing handfuls of cake and as you can see from the pictures below, loved that too! Everyone was laughing and enjoyed watching Blake. He is such a good baby. He loves being held and cuddling. He is such a fast crawler and loves going over to the stairs and climbing those. He knows he shouldn't do that and looks around to see who is watching him be naughty. The bigger kids are so good with him. They all play with him. Gretchen is so great with him, and he gets excited to see her and Taylor when they come home from school. Blake has been a joy is our family. We all love him so much.

Two weeks later

This is the scar two weeks out. It is pretty bumpy, raised, and red. I just hope with time it will keep fading and smooth out a little. My plan is to stay out of the sun, use that mederma cream...and we'll see what it looks like with time.

The accident

The Sunday after Christmas, I got the stomach flu. After throwing up all day, I decided to take a bath, then got into the shower to wash my hair. When I was in the shower, I passed out, fell and split my head open. The wound was open to my skull. An ambulance came and took me to the er. The doctor did three layers of stitches. On the top layer, there were 17 stitches! The next couple of days after my eyes got more swollen and kind of greenish/yellowish (bruising I think). Now I am 2 weeks out and recovering pretty well.

Beyond crazy

Life has been insane lately. The holidays were way busy, from November on. Then just before the new year, I had an accident that has side-tracked me a bit. I hope to catch up on old posts and post some new things in the New Year!