It's been a long while since we have last posted on the website! So much has happened since Luke's 1st Birthday! Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Birthdays and January have all come and gone! It's now February and we are making a promise to post more on the website moving forward!
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We celebrated Luke’s 1st Birthday this week! Ella, Kiley and I met up with everyone on Wednesday night at Red Robin for his Birthday Dinner! It was the first time we got to see Luke walk! Super Cute!
On Saturday, Aunt Lori and Uncle Joe threw a spectacular party for Luke! It was a Cowboy Theme and had great decorations, food, games and sweets! The pictures are up on Flickr! if you want to check them out!
We went to St. Louis over Labor Day weekend to spend time with Grandma for her 80th Birthday! It was a lot of fun and we sure did cram a lot into a quick weekend!
We left Friday around lunch and the trip seemed to take longer than usual for some reason. We still can’t figure out why it took 6 hours but it did. We had dinner at Grandma’s house and stayed with Aunt Teri for the weekend! Saturday, we had a party for Grandma at Aunt Teri’s and had a great time. Grandma was really happy we were all there! She was a little iffy on her gift which was golf lessons but she did enjoy the blown up photo of her playing golf at a Cousin’s reunion, her painting from Aunt Dena, and the other gifts!
We went to the Cardinals game that afternoon and were a little worried about the weather. It was 102 degrees out as we were getting to the game, but a storm came in and it dropped 30 degrees while we were there. So, it became a lot of fun hanging out in the stands (luckily, we were covered from the rain). Cardinals won 6-4!
Connor stayed back with Aunt Teri and slept for 4 hours! Aunt Teri was bummed she didn’t get to play with Connor. We had dinner when we got back and got ready for the next morning.
On Sunday, we went Apple Picking! We had never done that before and it was a lot of fun! Got some great photos of Connor eating an apple in the orchard! Had a family style lunch at a Hotel and headed home. We spent the afternoon hanging out at home with people taking turns seeing movies! Beth and I got to go see Crazy Stupid Love and it was a good choice!
On Monday, it was time to head home. We had breakfast at Grandma’s, packed up, said our goodbye’s and headed home! I’ve posted the pictures here!
Ella’s 6th Birthday was this past Wednesday! We surprised her with an outfit for her American Girl Doll and went get ice cream at Baskin Robbins! Today is her actual birthday party! It’s at the Dance Studio they take classes at and should be a lot of fun!
We had Kiley and Connor’s Birthday Parties a few weeks after their birthday this year. Everyone had a great time and there was a huge turnout! Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for their birthday! They got tons of cool gifts and had a great time playing with everyone. Kiley’s favorite gift had to be the baby bunk beds!
Aunt Lori, Grandma Debbie and Beth out did themselves by making sports and cheerleader themed cupcakes for dessert! They turned out great and the homemade frosting was awesome!
Here are pictures from the event!
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Happy Birthday to Connor! It’s been an exciting year for sure and it’s gone by super fast!
It’s been a busy few weeks! Since the Cardinals weekend, we have helped John and Jill move, attended Nathan’s 6th Birthday, worked my last week at Americaneagle.com and went to Jake’s 1st Birthday Party! We’ve posted a ton of new photos and videos on our Flickr account!
Hopefully, everyone reading this caught that I worked my last week at Americaneagle.com. I recently received an offer from Digitas that I couldn’t pass up! I start on Monday, August 9th and it’s going to be a busy first week! The office is on Wacker and Michigan in Chicago. I’ll be taking the train in every day and can’t wait to join the team! I would just like to say thanks again to everyone at Americaneagle.com that I worked with! It was a pleasure working with everyone over the past 4 years!
One last thing, we had a great day today celebrating Jake’s 1st Birthday! It was fun hanging out with family and friends! We have some really good photos on John’s camera (let’s just hope he gets them to me in a timely fashion)! Our favorite moment came when Jake and Connor were on the play mats together. Jake took Connor down (in a playful way) and then gave him kiss! Connor proceeded to kick him and knock him over. It was pretty cute to see them interact with each other! They are going to pick on each other all the time. I caught most of it on film so I’ve included that here as well.
Check back soon for more updates! We have a busy few weeks coming up!