Emma is 1

The last year has gone by so fast I look back over the last year and can't believe how fast it has flown by. Emma is changing every day, she sure makes our family laugh! Her smile just make you smile and her two front teeth are the cutest thing. She started walking about 11 months, we were hoping she would walk before her 1st birthday. Although it was a Frankenstein walk , she was walking. As the weeks have gone by the arms have started to drop and now she doesn't look so silly. Her birthday party was fun, we did a barnyard theme, since Emma can tell you the sounds a cow, a chick, and a dog make. We started the party our by making puppets our of lunch sacks the guests could choose from a pig or a cow. Then we did a little Ol' McDonald lost his animals and the kids had to find them and then we sung the song. Following that was presents, cake, and ice cream. What a great first birthday party!

Opening Presents

Yummy Cupcake

Can I have another one?

Eliza's 4th Birthday

It's hard to believe Eliza is 4, okay she turned 4 in January (just a little late on the post)! This year she decided that she wanted to do a cousins party and have it be Ariel themed. We had a few games such as Ariel Bingo, pin the crown on Ariel and a fish pound. Of course we had to do our tradition of making and frosting a cake to match the theme. This year we decided to put the kids to bed a little earlier so we could tackle the cake and not be up to odd hours of the night, this year it was only till midnight. Every year we say we're not going to do it again but some how a year makes us forget and we do it again. Secretly we enjoy it! I think everyone had a great time I know Eliza did!

Mr. Cake Boss!

Marathon Relay

Since I figure I will most likely never run a marathon, because my knees are bad that I should try a relay. My brother Christian and 3 of my friends( Andrea, Ann Marie, and Lily) all did a marathon relay on September 11 each of us had to do 5.2 miles. It was so much fun, I swear you do one and then you are addicted to running races, just the energy and the excitement that is there is awesome. My goal was to run it in an hour, and I did better then I thought, I completed it in 55 min so I was happy about that. As a team we finished in 4 hours and 15 min. I so glad I did it and thanks team and remember, Live Long and Perspire( that was our team name).



( My good friend Ann Marie and my brother Christian)

Firetruck ride

Our friends and neighbors the Kelly's have a little boy named Myles who loves trucks. I told Andrae a couple of weeks ago that we should go to the "Hook" for dinner and then a firetruck ride. Since the weather was getting a little cold I decided that we needed to do it soon or we would miss our chance this year. So Friday we took them for Myles first firetruck ride, it is so fun to see how excited little kids get, he was so cute. After the ride we came back to the hook and let Myles and Eliza honk the horn and pretend to drive it, here are a couple of pictures.


Eliza, Emma, Myles and Andrae