San Diego May 2010

At the Animal Misshap Encounters show at the Wild Animal Park, the park ranger, pulled Seth to the front of the audience and SOAKED him!

Seth began his adventure in San Diego by looking for clams, He was determined to find a pearl, He dug and dug, he was cut by a razor back clam. He found about 20 small clams at the ocean. We took them back to the condo we were staying at and steamed them open. He poked through every slimey one of them and still nothing! Finally, uncle Jason came to visit, and low and behold he had purchased a clam that had a pearl in it, after much persuasion from Seth, he kindly let Seth keep it! An answer to Seth's prayer.

Easter pictures

Emily's First Steps

Winter Break

During Winter break in February I decided to introduce Hailey and Seth to one of my favorite things to do. Snow skiing! It has been almost 11yrs since I have been (I took Cheryl the winter we got married. Yeah, she still married me). I promised them that it would be awesome. Hailey was kind of nervous but Seth was confident that he would master it. After two hours of lessons they were tired and wanted to go home. Seth complained that they wouldn't let him go on the jumps (he had not learned to turn yet).

Little Mamacita

Emily loves to be a little mama, she'll fish paper towels out of the garbage and wipe down the toilet, the picture above is her trying to wipe down the refrigerator.

Snow Day!

The kids got the day off of school Monday because of a snow day, We built a snow fort. the kids like to be sneaky, they waited for Aaron to come home from work and they ambushed him as he got out of his car. Hailey especially stays out in the snow all day, and she loves to eat snow. The picture above is the tooth that Hailey just had pulled. She was so brave, the dentist couldn't get over it, he even called me that night to compliment Hailey, he said that adults needed to be as brave a patient as she was.

Spring where are you?

This is the view from my back window. Spring is nowhere in sight.

Emily's First Birthday Party

This is Emily after she had torn apart her cake. It was her first time trying cake and as you can see, she loved it.

Emily's First Birthday

I can't believe Emily has been with us a year. She is the cutest baby! She always makes us laugh and is so full of smiles. I am so happy and grateful for her in our family.


This was Emily's ladybug cake before she started tearing into it.

Emily is bound and determined to skip crawling and go straight to walking.

My Boys

I love this picture!

Fall 2009

THE week after we got back we met our good friends the Wahlquists at MacQueen's apple orchard. We went every year to Mac Queens when we lived in Toledo, so it was fun to relive the tradition and having our good friends there made it even more fun.




as soon as we returned from Washington DC the kids started school at their new school called, Harlan. They were very welcoming to us. It was inspiring to me all the parent involvement and how they have created such a good educational environment for their children. So a week into school we went to say farewell to mom and dad, they left Tokyo on a mission. i am so proud of Mom and Dad but I miss them. We had a fun girl's night out. We went to Gardner village and to THE WORLD OF DANCE.


We took a trip to Washington DC. The Low point was when we found a cockroach in our lasagna at the Embassy Suites hotel's Italian restaurant. The high point was when we visited our good friends The Marrs. We had a great time and it was so good to see them again. I miss being able to see them on a daily basis.

Summertime 2009

Emily is learning to eat and she likes to take baths in the sink.


I told Sam to stop picking his nose the other day because it's yucky. He snapped back, "No it's not! It's creamy!





Seth lost his first tooth. Seth shared with me a sure fire way to know if you are a robot or not. He was wondering if grandpa mitch was a robot because he had such a firm stomach. So he said that by having gramdpa mitch drink a bunch of water it proved he was not a robot! I asked how did he know? seth replied that if he drank the water and he were a robot he would have electrocuted himself.


Hailey had quite a few chigger bites while running throught the tall grass on the farm in Missouri.