Happy 1st birthday Ana (Aug 8, 2011)

Happy birthday Mariana!!! We are so happy you are in our family. We couldn't possibly love you any more! You are such a good little girl. You have such a sweet personality! We Love you!

 

 

Jason & Marcy Wedding (July 27, 2011)

 

Jon and Dave both playing games on their phones

Flood nightmare (July 25, 2011)

It all happened when Tyler went downstairs to watch a movie on the big screen. Somehow, it always makes me nervous when the boys say "Mom you need to come look at this." Nothing good has ever come after those words have been spoken to me from my kids. Tyler proceeded to show me how when he put his foot in front of the TV, it was covered with water! I quickly noticed all the carpet around the TV was drenched. Dave was at a bachelor party for his son Jason, playing pool, when I called and said "get home now, our basement is flooded." Bless his heart, he hurried and finished his round (which is great that he answered in the first place on my first time calling if he was in the middle of his turn) then left to hurry home. As a side note, Dave's boys said that his pool was much better when he was all of the sudden in stress and in a hurry.

Dave wanted to somehow salvage the completely drenched carpet. This is when you can tell your spouse truly knows you. It did not take long for my husband to access my mood and my opinion on saving the carpet. So, within min's my husband had a knife and was cutting the carpet into small sections so I could carry it outside to be trashed. It's surprising how heavy drench carpet truly is!

After price shopping, I have decided to hold off onto getting new carpet. Which is a bigger surprise to me than anybody. I have been dying to rip out and replace that old, yucky carpet. I hate berber carpet! But, my practical side won out and I think I'll hold off for a few months.

Washing my car (June 28, 2011)

Tyler had to wash my car for scouts. Will wanted to help out. I think they got more on each other than they actually got on my car!

Will mowing lawn for 1st time (June 23, 2011)

Will begged and begged for me to let him mow our lawn. It is now one of his weekly chores and I am wondering why I didn't agree to this sooner! Will enjoys it and my lawn gets mowed, its a win win situation!

Will and Mariana (June 20, 2011)

We really enjoy getting to babysit Mariana on Mondays! The boys spend every single minute making sure she is completely happy and taken care of! Poor Ana is going to be a little spoiled when we are through with her!

Truck Trip with Dave (June 2011)

This year I got to go to Washington, only a couple miles from the Canadian border and to Chicago IL with Dave in our semi-truck! It was so much fun! Although the twisty, limited sight, mountain roads of Washington got me a little motion sick. It sure is beautiful up North. The majority of where we went however, the rivers were overflowing. It made me grateful for where I live.

It is always fun to drive through Chicago. Although, it took us hours to go only a couple of miles. . . I think I would go insane or have extreme road rage if my commute were always that horribly long.

I always enjoy my truck trips with my husband. It is nice to get the one on one time with him.

Will 6th grade graduation (June 3, 2011)

It is hard to believe my son is graduating from elementary and going onto Jr High!!! Time goes by so fast with your children. Will is a great student and I have no doubt he will do a great job in Jr High. All of his teachers have loved working with. He has not gotten in trouble once in the past 7 years! I'm proud of you Will!

Yard work (May 2011)

I love our front yard, but you can't have a yard like this without a lot of work! We got new woods chips this year & it took a few weeks of trash days with the city to get rid of all the old bark. Good thing it is worth all the work.

Grandma Buck's Funeral (April 27, 2011)

Grandma Buck made it to 100! This was one of those funerals where you are happy for the person who passed on. Grandma was so ready to go and be with her husband again. It makes me happy to picture her with her husband again!

 

Jon & Kaylyn

 

Mariana 

Jason & Marcy

6th Grade baseball with parents (May 27, 2011)

 

Will up to bat!

I am not very good at baseball. Good thing the ball never made it out to me!

 

Will's best friend Evan Rhees. 

Every year the 6th graders have a game of baseball with their parents. It happened to land on the same day as Dave's Grandma's funeral, so I was only able to stay for a few innings. It was fun though, Will looked forward to it all year long, so I was glad I was able to attend part of it.

Piano Recital (May 21, 2011)

I really enjoy the boys piano recitals. They do a great job! Will played Pink Panther. It's a music piece of Dave's that he started out teaching himself to play. I hope they both stick with the piano.

Will 12th birthday & friend party (May 1, 2011)

Will's Dad Bill bought him a sleeping bag for his birthday. So Will wanted a tent to go with it, so he spent what little money he has managed to save on a tent.

After persuasion and the fact that Daddy Dave was out of town :) I agreed to let the boys set the tent up in the front room and spend the night in it. Even the cat decided to join them.

 

Will had his friend birthday party at Boondocks. He had a lot of fun with his friends. 

Tyler LOVED driving the cars. Look at that smile!