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Summer's here!

Whew has it been hot here! I started a scrapbook for my mom about seven years ago, and I'm finally getting around to updating it. Yeah, pretty sad, I know. Anyway, my air conditioner konked out and it's just too darn sticky hot to sit in my computer chair for very long, but I managed to get three new layouts done of my nieces this week - Sam, Ally, and Lilly:








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Aiden and Xavier's first T-ball game!

5-21-07 X & Aiden Tball

A Fun Day

Just some random pictures of the kids playing at home and at the park on a very nice day back in April.

4-28-07 A Fun Day

Soccer

Here are some pictures of Xavier playing on the White Pigeon soccer team. It was a short season, but he had fun.

Xavier - 2007 White Pigeon Soccer

Music Program

Aiden and Xavier's spring music program at Central Elementary, titled "Shake Your Sillies Out"

Aiden and Xavier spring music program

Birthday-mania

Click the picture below to see an album of all four of the kids' birthday parties. With four birthdays from March to May, springtime is birthday crazy at our house, lol.

Birthday Parties

Easter Eggs

Some pictures of Aiden and Xavier coloring Easter eggs at home and then having an Easter egg hunt, and then Aiden, Shilene, Eben and Drake coloring eggs at Cindy's house.

Coloring and Hunting for Easter Eggs

Michal's spring concert

Unfortunately I couldn't get up close to get any better pictures than this, but it was a cute concert! It was a western theme, which means they did some horse songs, which Michal loved of course. :+)

Missing teeth galore!

Michal, Aiden, and Courtney have all pulled out teeth within weeks of each other. We're keeping the tooth fairy busy at our house!

Here are Aiden and Xavier's spring school pictures. I think they turned out really cute:

Went a little nuts on new layouts this week, phew! Just trying to get caught up and finally get the 2006 album all finished. As always, you can click on any photo to view it a little larger.

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IT'S A BOY!!!!!

Just had the ultrasound tonight - it's a boy!!! The ultrasound pictures are below. The first one shows all you need to see to know it's a boy, lol. It's kind of hard to tell, but the picture is looking at his bottom (from underneath), there's a leg going out on each side, and the proof in the middle! The ultrasound was really cool, you could see the baby's heart beating away like crazy, and his heartrate was 157. So excited to share, enjoy!

Ultrasound!

My ultrasound is this Friday, I can't wait!!!! I have been SO impatient to find out if we are having a boy or girl. Xavier and Aiden want a boy of course, and Michal and Courtney are begging for a girl. I don't care either way but still can't wait to find out. What is your guess??????

Aiden and Xavier relaxing together after yummy Thanksgiving dinner. Ain't they cuties?

Xavier making a big mudhole in the yard last summer. :+)

Another layout, I'm on a roll now! This one is me and Aiden just having fun with the camera. He loves to take pictures.

OMG, can you believe it? A new layout! I don't think I've done a page in about 3 months or more. Things got really hectic at Christmas time, and it's just finally slowing down again enough for me to sit and work on pictures. This one is Xavier just being his nutso self! :+)

Christmas

At long last I'm posting our pictures from Christmas and also some pictures of the kids decorating the tree. Just click on the picture below to see the album:

Christmas 2006

My Nieces

Aren't they cute???? My nieces Kenzie, Angel, Brook, and Tona. The first pic is the other day chillin at home, and the second is a portrait they had done in August.

Wow, it's been so long since I have posted, I am totally ashamed of myself. Well, I have TONS of pics to share from the holidays, but let's start with this......Dad helping out with homework, who can resist that? Too precious!

Our Big News!

It seems like I've been waiting for this forever, but at long last, we are having a baby! Yaaaaaay!!

Good Long Weekend

(click on a thumbnail picture to see the whole album)

We had a very fun and relaxing Thanksgiving and long weekend. On Thanksgiving we had a DELICIOUS dinner at Cindy's and then hung out on the front porch relaxing afterward becuase it was such a beautiful day. (Or in the case of Drake, under the front porch, lol. He was having fun playing under there.)

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11-23-06 Thanksgiving

On Saturday we went and walked off some of those Thanksgiving calories at the track at White Pigeon High School. The kids like to roll down the big hills next to the bleachers.

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11-25-06 Play at Football Field

Then on Sunday we went and played at a couple different parks and stopped and petted some reindeer at the Christmas Open House they were having in downtown Three Rivers. The Riverwalk Park in Constantine has a nice little boardwalk along the river (hence the name of the park, lol) that the kids like to check out. They also have a really nice playground and a skate park, so the kids have a lot of fun there.

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11-26-06 Parks

Aiden's Tooth

Aiden lost a tooth this weekend--yaay! He's been working on this one for a while, and he came in the kitchen on Saturday to show me how it was all bent out of place. I said just keep turning it and wiggling it a little bit more and it's going to come out, so he went back in the bathroom to work on it some more and then he came running out, "I got it! I got it!" He tried very hard to stay awake and see the tooth fairy when she came, but he informed me the next morning that she must have been very sneaky because he didn't see her, lol.

Aiden's a very restless sleeper. He had $2 under his pillow, but one of the bills worked it's way out and fell down onto the bottom bunk where Xavier was sleeping. Xavier woke up in the morning and found it and said, "Oh, I think the tooth fairy wanted me to have one of Aiden's dollars." But he was a good brother and gave it back to Aiden. See? Boys can be good, lol.

And just in case you're wondering, Aiden's wearing his Scooby Doo costume in that picture. :+))

Michal's Horse Quilt

After many long months I have finally finished Michal's long-awaited horse quilt, phew! It turned out nice, and she is so happy, which makes all the broken needles worth it. She cuddled up with it on Friday night and gave it her vote of approval. :+) As you can see, it's not a complicated design, it only took me many months because I just don't have enough time with my sewing machine these days. When it comes down to free time and I have to choose between working on pictures on the computer or working on the sewing machine, well, let's just say my sewing machine and I have a love/hate relationship, wheras my computer and I have geeky love relationship, lol. However, now Aiden wants to know when I'm making his quilt. No rest for the wicked!