New Fashion Statement

I love this girl! She is too cute... She was up cleaning her room and came down wearing a bracelet, her blingy sunglasses, her camo hat and a necklace. She was taking after her Grandma and wouldn't give me a good pose. So I took what I could get.

Dare Devils '09

The first two summers we owned a tube it was fairly easy to make tubing challenging behind the pontoon. Not so much anymore. Slowly we were able to convince Seth to let go and challenge himself. Finally he did it! So proud of his confidence level.

My boys '09

I love this picture. They are both so happy and so content fishing. It's moments like these that I cherish.

No Baby!!

Seth and Sam collected a ton of glow rocks from Grandma Schiller's yard. What are we supposed to do with them? So I put them in a potted plant where they would glow slightly each night.

Now I'm rethinking their location. All Adelynn wants to play with are these rocks. She grabs a few, sits down, and plays until we bust her. No baby!! She's only 12 months and she's testing her limits. She hands a rock to whoever is nearby, we say thank you, and she takes it back. If anything, I hope she's learning manners.

Such surprise '09

I was going through my Shutterfly albums and decided to grab out a few old pictures to help fill the holes of my blogging. I loved these pictures and this is a great way to preserve them.

While fishing off Grandpa Loken's pontoon Seth caught a ton of sunfish. This time he caught the fish through its eye. Poor thing! I absolutely love his facial expression. He's grown so much since the Summer of 2009. My baby is turning into such a grown boy. *sniff sniff*

Adelynn is walking!

She has been practicing hard on her walking skills. At the moment our finger would slip from her own, she'd fall to her butt.

While at her brother's ultrasound she took three steps to get to Nick. Yeah! She's getting closer.

A few hours later when we were getting settled into our hotel room she let go of the bedside and walked to her Daddy around the corner to the foot of the bed.

From that point on, there was no stopping her!

Adelynn's world has changed.

Happy New Year

Each year I try to put together a greeting card to send out to our friends and family. A little of our highlights over the year. I figured blogging that greeting would ensure we could look back on it, rather than keeping a hard copy which would probably just get lost.

We had a great year - two family vacations - one to Lake Vermillion to camp on an island and the other trip to South Dakota and Wyoming. Vacations take up a lot of energy, but are definitely worth while.

Adelynn joined our family, Sam and I attended horse camp for the first year, I took photography at Inver Hills and resumed my life as being a college student. Sam became a Brownie and Seth became a Bear within scouting.