New baby and Nine years

February had its ups and downs but one thing to celebrate for certain is our new niece Maggie. I took the boys and made a road trip with my parents to meet this sweet little girl. The boys were excited to see their cousins and had a blast playing with them. One of the highlights for Collin was going to a train museum in the historic train town (Altoona, PA )Jamie and Angie are living in right now. As you can see it was not the highlight for Clay... he slept the whole time.

Dave and I celebrated nine years of marriage at home and sick. The details are not really worth recording but... it is nine years and that is something.

It's All a Blurrrr

I really can't remember January at all. I am assuming that it was cold so we just watched a lot of movies therefore damaging brain cells that would help me recall the events of the month. I do remember yelling happy new year with the Replogle's, Joel's toast and the passionate kiss from my husband ( he is still a fantastic kisser after 10 years of happy new year kisses)!!!!!

Happy Birthday Jesus????

I know this is April but I am determined to get caught up on recording our memories so... here is what I have to say about December. We held our annual Christmas Caroling party which is one of my favorite traditions we have started. Several of our friends except (Neil and Jayne because they were soooooo busy...just kidding hehe) joined us in going around to friends and elders in our neighborhood with the wonderful and loved Christmas songs. This year was particularly special because Collin knew a lot of the songs and sang his little heart out with a great big smile.

I must note Christmas as well. The prized toys were Transformers for Collin, Lightning McQueen for Clay and a "cooler" cell phone for Alexis. Since I am commenting on Christmas 4 months later I can say that the Transformers are still a hit for Collin but Lightning McQueen wins the cherished Christmas present prize. Clay slept with it, put it in his pocket any time we left the house, pretended constantly with it and he shared his secrets with it (I overheard him whispering to Lightning McQueen "I just went peed in my underwear")... and now he is gone. Because of the pocket travels he was left at the Library never to be seen again. Alexis already wants a cooler cell phone... a "slider" she say's.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Remember November

Well, this is my attempt to keep up with our memories. I know that Thanksgiving happened this month so I will start there. The morning started off with Collin walking out of his room with his pre-school made pilgram hat on. His desire was to find matching attire before we left for Grandma and Grandpas Stults' house. It was a challenge but we found some clothes to satisfied Collin enough to move on with the Day (we really had to convince him that pilgrams kind of had pants like jeans).

My mom had asked me to find a story book of Squanto to share with the children that evening after dinner. I searched our library the night before Thankgiving and only found a rather lengthly childrens story book. I started to glance at it and could not put it down... I ended up reading all 115 pages in one sitting. Because the story was so fresh in my mind I shared the story of Squanto with the whole family. It was fun to share such a great part of our history and how God used such a small child to save the lives of our ancestors. I hope to keep the tradition of reading this story each year to our children.

Three months of life...

Well, like I said before, "I'll get back to blogging...sometime" so here I am three months later.

October

First with fall and all the harvest activities we participate in. We started off the season with a trip to the pumpkin patch and apple orchard that has become an annual event with my friend Jayne and her boys. On the way I heard some interesting news from my five year old and his friend Tommy. Here's the scoop, Tommy (4) and Collin (5) were carrying on a conversation about girlfriends. I heard Tommy say that they were not old enough to have girlfriends and Collin fought the opposite opinion. I asked what they were talking about and they said in unison "girlfriends". I asked if someone in pre school had a girlfriend and Tommy said "well...Collin does". I looked at Collin who was blushing and he said, "her name is Gwendolyn". After a few more discussions I learned that to Collin a girlfriend is a girl who is a friend and he has 5 of them.

Dave ran his 3rd marathon this month making an all time record for himself of 3 hrs and 35 min. His next goal is to qualify for the Boston marathon. This marathon was in Canada and we had a great time hanging out with friends. Here is some of the things I learned about our group:
Carl is really proud of his clear pee
Ben never "needs" a map
Jeremy just laughs
Linda does not know how to open a door
Beth can't hold her pasta
Carolyn is supportive of Carl and his clear pee
Dave is really a super hero
And I like to see things bigger than they are (thats for Jeremy and Linda - let me know if you get it)

We ended the trip by visiting Niagra fall with the Hunts. Gods creation once again proven magnificant.

We ended our October fun trick or treating with our friends the Pittman's. Their two girls Ella (1) and Analiese (3) joined our boys by entering the world of Neverland for Halloween. Collin dressed as Peter Pan, Clayton was Captain Hook, Analiese was Tinkerbell of course and Ella was the ferocious Crocodile ( she is quite scary don't you think). They were adorable and had a lot of fun!!

HIP HOPPIN

Well I'm famous now! The Star Press captured me - (well, at least half of me-see me all the way in the left corner)in a photo dancing in the hip hop class I'm mastering (participating in -maybe I should say). My friend Carolyn made the photo as well, she is the headless one on the right. The rest of the girls I'm taking the class with did not make the shoot - (I'm certain the reason was because you were just to good for the camera ladies). This class has been so much fun. Thanks Jayne for talking me into it!

8 things about me......

A dear friend of mine set me up with a blog page several weeks ago and I'm finding that a blog page for me is like excercise and books - I really want to do it but if often gets put on the back burner. I'm sure I'll get on a kick some day and write alot but rest assured I will probally not be finishing that novel by my bed or using that exercise equipment I assured my husband I will use on a weekly basis if we bought it.

So here is goes, 8 things about me...
1. I love to sing in the shower
2. I love eating chocolate while watching a chic flic
3. I am a really bad speller and depend on computers or my husband to find my mistakes
4. I've been writing a book for over a year and I'm only on page 15 ( i blame blogging, exercising and book reading)
5. I too am in a hip hop dance class
6. I've been married almost 9 years to a sweetheart and I've been in love with him for 12 years.
7. I'm going to see niagra falls for the first time in october as well as see my husband run in his 3rd marathon - both the falls and the run-AMAZING
8. I can blog and pretend with my 3 yr old to be a dinasour all at the same time ( I think my son would like some attention now- I'll blog again????????some time)