Eli--My how you've grown...

Last Day of Kindergarten

First Day of Kindergarten

Eli's First Soccer Game

Eli had his first soccer game last weekend. He loved playing and did a great job. His team won and he scored two points.

Eli on the far left getting ready to start the game.

Eli playing goalie.

Eli (3rd from the right) getting ready kick the ball and get the game started.

Owen 2 month old pics

At 2 months Owen you are full of smiles, especially when your big brothers are around. You continue to do well sleeping most of the night, getting up once or twice. You are learning how to put yourself to sleep at night. During the day you are a "cat-napper" seldom staying up for more than 2 hours at a time. Now that you have been on your reflux medicine for a month you seem much more content with fewer fussy spells. Now that the weather is a little nicer outside you have gone on several walks and end up falling asleep within minutes of starting. You are a good traveler and usually fall asleep in the car. We all love you very much and couldn't imagine life without you!

4 weeks old

A little late, but had to share! Owen is 4 weeks old in this picture. What we're learning about you: sleeper during the day and at night-usually only gets up once at night to eat. Your nickname is "firecracker"-- generally very calm but when you want something you want it now and let everyone around you know. You love having your hands close to your face and it helps calm you. You've been struggling with reflux and so we started you on some medicine to see if it would help ease your fussiness and tummy pains...we should hopefully see improvements in 2-4 weeks.

February Snow

The boys had a blast building a snowman and snow forts with their dad during our last snow.

Our newest addition-Owen Henry!!!

Owen Henry Works

Born January 28, 2011

8#8oz

21 inches

Proud brothers meeting Owen for the first time

December Events (Continued)

The family making christmas cookies for Santa!

Spending some time with dad making Gingerbread Houses.

December Events

Eli's 6th Birthday Meal

For months Eli had been telling us that he wanted to go to El Charro for his birthday so he could have them smear ice cream on his face, so that's what we did! Avery on the other hand wanted to stay with Grandma in fear they may mistake him for eli. As you can see he warmed up to the festivities and actually wore the hat for a little while.

We went and visited Santa in Iola one evening. Eli sat on Santa's lap and told him all that he and Avery wanted for Christmas. Avery kept his distance from Santa and gave him a sweet smile from behind my leg; maybe next year he'll sit on Santa's lap for his little brother.

We were able to get our forms poured for our house the beginning of December when we had a few days of nice weather.

East end of house

West end of house

Building Site-Ground has been Broken!!!

Last week Tony began clearing the land for our future home. The next step is to start digging out the basement.....

More pictures to follow as we move along.

Butterhorn Rolls

Here is a picture of some yummy butterhorn rolls Avery and I made last week. Avery did a great job shaping the rolls and needed little direction from me, quite the little baker!!!

Summer FUN!!!

The boys have fallen in love with Tony's boyhood hobby of building rockets and launching them. The boys were so grown up and safe when going through the process of launching the rockets. This was our first of many launches!!!

This year at the Allen County Fair both boys rode sheep (Mutton Bustin') and "almost" made it out of the gates still atop the sheep. Mom wasn't quick enough to snap the pics "in action" so here are the boys after the event... all smiles and no tears.

This summer Tony and I coached Eli's (& Avery's-he was actually too young for sign-up, but got to play anyways) T-ball team. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to take pictures so here is the one of Avery running to first.

Eli's First Day of Kindergarten & Avery's First Day of Preschool

Avery on his first day of preschool, he was very excited!!! He had a great time and can't wait to go back.

Eli and Avery on Eli's first day of Kindergarten.

Eli "all smiles" on his first day of Kindergarten.

Bun in the Oven

There's a bun in the oven!!!!!

That's right were having a baby!!! Anticipated arrival is February 10, 2011.

Take me out to the ball game...

We took the boys to their first Royals game last weekend. They didn't win, but we didn't care!!! Hope to do it again soon, we all enjoyed ourselves.

St. Louis Science Museum

On our last stretch of driving home from Ohio we decided to stop in St. Louis at one of the boys' very places- The Science Center. Once again it was a big hit and nice break for all of us during our long drive home from buying our Armada.

Tony and the boys putting together a dinosaur fossil puzzle.

Tony and the boys building a bridge

Eli and Avery pretending they are on the moon in a "space car"

The museum has an observation bridge that goes over a road. Along the way they have glass openings where you can watch cars drive underneath you.

Ohio Trip

So about a month ago as family we traveled to Ohio to pick up our new Armada that we had bought through Ebay. We drove straight through on our way, but decided to take it slower on the way home and ended up stopping at one of best children's museums in Cincinnati. The boys loved it, especially the tree house play area. One other activity they enjoyed was building their very own rocket and then knocking it down!!!