Rediscoverd

I've been thinking a lot lately about starting the blog back up.  There are some big things coming up that I would like to document and for others to be able to see and follow along. 

So, I spent about an hour trying to remember how to get on here.  What email address was I using?  What the heck would the password be?  So much has changed since the last time I blogged.  When I pulled the blog up (luckily I did still remember the NAME of the blog) I immediately started reading all the old posts and thinking what a good mom I used to be and how much I had forgotten. 

Three kids went to four and then five and that fifth turns 2 in just a few weeks.  Maybe now is the time to jump back on the bandwagon and write some of the things that our family has been doing.  I may have missed a huge chunk of some of our growing years, but if there is one thing I have learned in my almost 34 (whoa!) years of life, it's that it is never too late to start over.  So, it may be a day, a week or 5 years until my next post, but at least I have rediscovered our blog and I hope that something may come of this rediscovery for my kids' sake.  One day they will be able to search the great world wide web and rediscover their childhood. 

More Catching Up

Cecilia's first meal: Rice Cereal, the aftermath

A visit from Great Grandpa and Great Grandma

Cecilia and Daddy doing the infamous "trick"

Catching Up-Halloween

We went trick-or-treating in Pittsburg with the Paulies on Halloween.

Katie the Cat, Jude as Percy, Dominic as James, and Ethan the pirate.

Trick-or-treating

Adam and Joe with all the kiddos.

Trick-or-treating Tracy at work.

Cecilia's first Halloween

One of her Halloween outfits

Jude at storytime

His storytime snack with Aunt Tracy

Parading through the library

Making Halloween/St. Jude cookies for Jude's feast day.

Catching Up-Burton Visit

Also in October the Burtons came down for a visit. The kids always have a great time and of course the Mom's get to catch up on all the gab.

With 5 boys around there are lots of trains.

The babies even got to hang out.

Not too sure.

Katie had some great activities for the kids including the Hokey Pokey for the left/right challenged.

We always have to have a group photo.

Left to Right-Cecilia, Dominic, Woody, Joachim, Zeke, Jude and Isaac.

Catching Up-Iowa

So today happens to be a SuperMom kind of day, when things are getting done and I'm feeling pretty good about the type of Mom I am, so I will try to get you caught up.
In the middle of October we took long weekend to visit Adam's Godparents, Aunt Minneu and Uncle Bill in North Liberty, Iowa.

We had a great time getting reacquainted with their family and playing. "Aunt Grandma" had lots in store for the boys...wheel barrow rides,

some park time

digging in the sand,

riding the gator, and children's museum, forgot my camera :(

Adam's cousins were able to spend a lot of time with us and Mike and Alyssa even came down from Minnesota. They were great hosts and we had a great time, even finding time for golfing for the guys and a winery for the ladies. Carolyn and Brandon even planned a trip to come see us in the summer. (Which since I'm so late in posting just happened last week, pics to come!)

One Busy Momma!

Oh my, where has the time gone! So I was looking at a friends blog and happened to see that the last post on my blog was 7 months ago! Really? I know friends and family have been bugging me about updating, but I did not think that it had been that long. Then after looking through my last few posts I realized that Cecilia has grown up so much since then. Sorry! I have become one busy mom. After the first few months of life with 3 children I thought I had it down. Now with Cecilia being mobile there is no time to even think. I often go to a cabinet or closet only to stand there for minutes trying to remember what I was doing. So...I'm sorry...and I will try to get you caught up on what has been going on these last few (or 7!) months!

School Days

Dominic loves school! I got lucky the day I decided to take a picture of him coming out of school, because he happened to be line leader that day.

As excited as he is for school, he seems just as excited to see me! It melts my heart a little!

He always has something "cool" or "great" to show me , but this is the only time he has asked me for tape to hang a project on the wall. Of course, it is a train!

When I asked him to get his train picture, he thought he needed the picture of his train set! Silly guy!

After school on this particular day, we went to the park for a picnic with friends. This is the only picture I took, but I thought it was cute how they were sharing. Emily is in back along for the ride.