Double Birthday

It is a very important day in this neck of the woods.....

Birthday wishes are going out to Brian's sister Melanie today! She sure loves hotdogs!!!! Happy Birthday Melanie!!!

Also, little did she know that for many of her birthdays (I will leave that number unmentioned) she was also celebrating mine. I guess that was one of Brian's prerequisites for his wife!

So yes, today I will also celebrate my special day with the fam and a little time to myself. Happy Birthday to me!

Birthday Boy

Today our precious Kaden turns 4, hard to believe!!! Happy Birthday Kbud!

You may ask, Where have you been? Well, we've been here, just a little disconnected from the world since our computer crashed. I think now we are on the road to recovery.

November was a great month, and we had a good Thanksgiving with lots of fantastic food and fellowship. As soon as thanksgiving ended we hit Christmas preperation with a running stride.

We headed to our local tree farm and cut down the perfect tree for our house. Last year it was pouring rain, this year a beautiful day....the only thing that would have made it seem a little more like Christmas would have been snow!

Here the boys are measuring a tree (actually it looks like there fighting over the measuring tape)

Kaden found this beauty?!!??

Lot's of trees to choose from

Every party has a pooper......

Finally, there she is, our 2009 tree

Tree Slayer

Final Update #3

And for the final update.....
Being Halloween coming and all, we have been busy decorating our house and of course carving pumpkins and doing a little facepainting...Kaden is a tiger and Ethan is a cat.

Kaden was really into cleaning out the inside of the pumpkin this year.....Ethan hated it!

The final product.

Then on Saturday we headed up to small Town to celebrate cousin Katie's 13th birthday party. As always we had great food and a good time visting as well!
Here is Katie's cake made of course by the cake expert in the family Grama Bonnie!


Make a Wish!We hope you have a wonderful day later this week as celebrate Katie!

Update # 2

A week ago we headed down to North Carolina to visit some friends and attend a wedding.
The boys had a great time playing at Malachi and Mathias' house....and we of course had a great time vising with friends Hannah and Rodney. Thanks to them for being so hospitable.

No trip to NC would be complete without a stop at Krispy Kreme to get a WARM donut!!YUM YUM!!

Watching the donuts being made.

And most importantly we were able to see our good friends Cherith and Marc get married. The day was a little chilly (the wedding was held outside at the camp we used to work at down there), but the wedding was beautiful and it was great to catch up with old friends. Congratulations you guys!!

Update: Part One

FINALLY, I am updating the blog!
October has been busy for us....

Kaden has found his love for inventing and building things. He is always coming up with idea's of what he wants to build. Here is one of his creations. Don't ask me what it is BUT he sure was proud...he thought of it himself.


We took a FREE tour at the UTZ chip factory....it was surprisingly great!

Unfortunately they would not let you take pictures of the production area...so here we are with all the different chip products they produce.
We have also been taking suday afternoons to go and enjoy one of the many state parks that are close by. The boys have loved the trails and adventures.

Stay tuned for update 2

Tayla Jean

Here are some pictures of my sister and new neice Tayla!!! What a little cutie with the strawberry blonde hair!!

Good job Jen!!

Just precious!! I am a very proud auntie!!!

Baby Boom

It's been a busy baby week.
Congratualtions to my step-sister-in-law Andrea and husband Robb......who had a baby girl on the Sept. 22nd, weighing just over 5 lbs. Cooper Brynne makes girl # 4 in the family!!

Also congrats to my sister Jennifer and husband Tim who had their first baby, Sunday, Sept 27. ( I know what your thinking, I've got the date wrong! Nope, they live in Australia so they actually haven't had the baby yet our time? Funny) Tayla Jean came into the world weighing 8lbs 7 ounces. All are doing well!!

I have not seen either baby yet. I will post some pictures when I get some.