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!
Check back soon and often for Team Saip pictures, videos and updates on our fun filled adventures!
We had a great time over at Aunt Lori’s making Valentines today! Ella, Kiley and Connor all got involved and had a great time making Flowers, Butterflies and even Superman Valentines. Aunt Lori is really crafty!
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As I mention above, it’s been a very long time since we last posted! That should change moving forward and here is our chance to catch up.
We spent Thanksgiving in St. Louis and had a great time. December went by pretty fast with Gizmo turning 4, I turned 31 and we celebrated Christmas many times during the holiday week. Santa even brought Grandma Debbie a new puppy from Ella’s wish! His name is Dasher and he’s really cute! There is a picture below!
New Years was quiet and January flew by. Connor turned 2 and Kiley turned 4! They are getting so big. That brings us to February where we will pick up!
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!
Congrats the newlyweds! What a great wedding!
We certainly had a blast celebrating with Chris and Ashley last weekend! Kids did great and got some cute photos! My favorite part was the best man speech – killed it!
Click here to view photos from the wedding! More to come!
Last night, Beth and I accomplished something we had set to do in the fall and that is run a 5k! Now, this wasn’t an official event or anything but Beth and I did run for 3.5 miles in 48 minutes! Super excited that we were able to do it and we aren’t even that sore today!
Grandma Debbie had come over for dinner last night and once Connor was in bed, we set off! We ran 1.5 miles at first, walked a couple blocks and then ran to 2.75 miles. At that point, we were close to home and walked along Lakewood. I wasn’t going home until we hit 3.1 miles and we exceded that.
The official time at 3.2 miles (which I thought was a 5k) was 42 minutes! We walked the rest of the way home and hit the 3.5 mile mark!
The couch never felt better last night after a shower!