What a cutie!! :)


Me and Kate and Baby Molly


Kate with her favorite cousin at her first sleepover!!


Jack was singing and rocking the baby to sleep in the cradle. It was so cute!


Jack loves to feed himself! It just gets a little messy sometimes! But I did get 10 minutes of quite while he ate. :)

I figured that since Jack's diet consists mostly of pureed foods like baby food, oatmeal, yogurt and applesauce, I'd at least let him learn how to feed himself! :)

It's been long enough now...here's an update

I keep thinking I should blog. It's been almost 2 months now. But I have had very little motivation...or time, I guess. Now I lost my camera cord so I can't put any new pictures on my computer from just before Christmas till now.

Here is a quick update:

My kids have been sick a lot.



I got to watch Kate perform a dance in her dance class.



Dustin graduated college!!!



Dustin got a job!!



We are buying a house!!

It needs some updating inside and some shutters or landscaping outside but we're excited about it!! It are welcoming the change from our small 2 bedroom apt. we've been living in to our new HOME!! We can't wait to make this place our home. We close on Feb. 14th.

Will that be enough Mommy?

I was talking to Dustin about a dinner our library is having on Saturday and how I'd like to go with my friend. It costs $20 so I wasn't sure I should spend the money to go. While I'm telling him about it, Kate gets a chair and gets her change off of the top of the microwave that she uses for her register. She comes over and gives it to me and says, "Here Mommy, you can have my money for your dinner. I don't need it for my register. You can have it. Will that be enough for your dinner?" Her 24 cents melted my heart. :)

Jack with his one true love

Smoothies

You can not pry this boy away from his smoothie. He throws such a fit every time it's all gone.

I know I haven't been blogging lately. I don't know why really. I don't take many pictures and I don't post anything interesting. I'm in a bit of a funk lately. Staying at home with the kids in this living room all day long is driving me crazy. But its pretty difficult to take Jack many places. He a crazy 1-year old. So going out drives me crazy too!! :) O'well. Here's a few pictures of nothing too exciting!!

Jack's first experience with finger painting. He loved it!





Kate in a typical day's dress-up.


So excited for Halloween.
Me and Jack (photography by Kate!)


The kiddos at a hay maze.

The fam posing by a giant hay pyramid.


Jack was SUPER excited about the hay maze!

I gave Jack his first M&M and he LOVED it!! He kept bringing me the bag for more!!

Poor Kate had a slight collision with the corner of the TV stand. I was so scared for her to look up at me. I didn't want to look. But everything was okay. She just had a little blood. It bruised afterward and is still a yellowish tint. (Please pay no mind to the food on her face and the fact that she's not wearing a shirt. Who knows??)

Sing it girl!!

Can you guess what she's singing?!



You might not recognize this one...It's a new Christina Aguilera song called Bionic.

Goodbye college towns!! (Soon!!)

Well, its official...Dustin has decided to graduate in December with a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology!! I'm secretly (well it's probably not a secret at this point!!) SUPER excited that he has decided not to get his master's in Secondary Education to be a high school math teacher. He has changed his mind and gone back and forth from IT to Math teacher quite a bit but he has dropped all his classes except the 1 IT class he has left. So there's no going back now. I'm nervous about what the next few months or year will hold for us but am ready to move on from this "student life!!" I've started searching houses online too!! I cannot wait!!! Let's just hope this all works out and all goes well these next few months!!

My little twinkle toes!!

Kate started dance class this week. She is so excited!! After her first class she kept saying, "I love dance class!!" The whole way home!! I'm really looking forward to it, too!! I took dance for 11 years and loved it so I'm so excited for her to love it too!!





Kate is showing me first position!! She's trying so hard!!

My baby turns 1!!

This weekend was Jack's 1st birthday. We decorated the room for when he woke up. He loved the balloons! Then Sunday we had a party at my in-laws' house. It was a fun time.


Birthday Boy!!


Birthday decorations




Decorations


Cake and smash cake









Kate and Jack in their shirts Dustin made them for the party.


Cake!!




Kate helping!




Going for it all!


Opening presents


Jack gave up on the presents and left Kate and Dustin to do it alone.


Pinata!


Getting some candy!