Happy 1st Birthday Brody!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRODY.

 

 

I cannot believe you are 1 year old already. My how time has flown by. You are walking and able to understand things. You know how to throw garbage away and how to go up the stairs when I tell you it's bath time. You have been such a joy to us and we pray God's blessing on your one year and many more to come. We love you Brody Dylan!

Family Picture Time

 

My good friend Rachel took some pictures for us in our backyard last week. We knew we were getting close to not having the weather hold out for us, so we quickly got them done. Sawyer was not so happy in a couple of them.  Here is a sneak peak of the pictures. I am sure you will see a similar picture for a Christmas card!



I love fall

A quick shot of the kids after preschool.

 



Banana time!

Here we are at Artprise 2012

Sawyer showing off his stuff

 

Family shot at Artprise

 

 

 

 

A beautiful day to be eating donuts and checking out the animals at

Post Family Farms

 

 

 

Brody is just giggling at the goats

 

Fun times with the neighbors

 

 

We love our donuts

Not too much new here other than us enjoying the beautiful fall weather. We went to Post family farms today and got to see the animals and have the best homemade donuts. The kids love being outdoors and this past Sunday, Ella and Nathan spent almost 2 hours playing outside in the leaves and enjoying the warm weather. We are getting pretty far on our basement. The next step is drywall. It will be so nice to have more room for having people over and to having a spare bedroom downstairs for guests. We have a new nanny starting with us next week. Becca will be watching the kids at our house. It will be so nice for Tim not to have to bundle them up and get them in the car and we are excited that the kids can just stay napping in their own rooms. Becca is wonderful and the kids have already become attached to her. Hope your enjoying your fall too.

No No Brody!

This is Brody's new "naughty" thing to do. The minute the door is open and Brody is left unattended, he will check and see if the toilet is "available" for play. Enjoy the clip of me catching him in the moment.

Brody on the move

 

Brody has quite a lot of energy lately and it is so fun to watch him "play!"

Ella and Nathan's first day of Preschool

 

 

 

I am little late in getting these out, but here are Nathan and Ella's first day at Hudsonville Christian School Preschool. They were very excited and were even more excited when they found out that they get their own lockers. It was a weird feeling to watch them interact at school. When they are home, they are the older of my kids and I sometimes expect them to act older and responsible, but when I saw them sitting on the round carpet with their teacher, I saw how little and vulnerable they still are.

We are excited to see what they learn and what friends they make.  



I do still blog

Hi everyone. I all of the sudden had a strong desire to get my blog up and running again. Hopefully you are still checking for new posts. We had a great summer. The weather was extremely warm and for awhile our poor grass really suffered but now we have gotten lots of rain and everything is green again. We went out to Minnesota in June for a wedding of my cousin and to spend time with family. We spent a couple days in Minneapolis and had fun seeing Darin and Tricia's new house and going to the Zoo. We then headed to the farm and got to see extended family and grandma Trena. In August, we went camping up North in Leelanua. For camping with 4 kids, it went quite well. We had great weather and got to go to the beach and the dunes. My mom spent 2 whole weeks with us at the end of June which was awesome. She helped out a lot and we could have had her stay for months. Ella and Nathan did 2 different vacation Bible schools and had fun playing with friends and neighbors this past summer. So now we are into September. Sawyer Daniel turned 2 (those pictures are on Tim's I phone). Ella and Nathan just had their first day of preschool and the fall weather is right around the corner. The kids also started at a new daycare lady named Miss Tina. She lives right around the block so that is nice for Tim.  I will try get some more pictures posted soon.

Spring Fever

 The kids had a blast when my parents came out in early March for a visit. They played so hard that Nathan fell asleep during Grandma's book reading

 Grandpa and Brody

 Daddy with 2 of his boys

 Our neighbor Ryan styling it in a pink ride on. His dad was proud!

 Ella and Nathan had fun on our neighbor's 4 wheeler. They were not the best drivers to start, but improved to be left alone for this photo!

 Neighbor's, Caden and Emmerson, taking Sawyer for a ride in the Cadillac!

The Cadillac even had a radio, so they went jamming down the road!

Can you believe this was in March.

 The kids loved being outside and were highly entertained with the pool

 My baby is already 4 months old!!!!!

 After helping the neighbors move a shed, we all enjoyed some pizza and beer in the back yard to celebrate our accomplishments. So fun to have great neighbors!

Since I have to work on Easter, this was our attempt at getting an Easter picture of the kids. 

Brody was just giggling in this shot. Needless to say, I don't think we'll be taking any professional pictures anytime soon with this crew. Were lucky to have them all sitting together for this long!

I thought it was high time that I send out another post. As most of you all our also enjoying the nice weather this spWering has provided, we too are loving the fact that we can be outside a lot! Who would have guessed I would be pulling out the pool and filling it with water in the middle of March.  We had a great time with my parents visiting the 2nd week of March. The kids love it when grandpa and grandma come and I think Tim and I may like it just as much. Instead of Tim and I being out numbered, now we were 1 to 1 each being able to man a kid!  Brody is growing and becoming so much more alert and part of the group. He can grab for toys likes to jabber, and is rolling from tummy to back. He is happy go lucky. We are waiting for a steady stream of sleeping through the night. He seems to be on a growing stretch and wants some snacking during the night. His mother is not too happy about that. Just this past week, we ended up taking Ella into the ER for some "stridersous" breathing and a barking cough, also known as croup. It was a little scary. By the time we got to the ER, she was doing better and enjoyed watching "Cars" and getting a slushy in the ER. Otherwise life is good and busy. We hope to go home to Minnesota in June and see all my extended relatives. I pray you enjoy Easter with family. Alleluia.....He is risen.