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!
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!
The past two weekends have been HOT HOT HOT! I’m not a huge fan of this weather but we have made the best of it with time in the pool and cooking out with friends and family.
We spent time last weekend at Aunt Eve’s house in the pool, went out to Bristol, WI for a visit with The Elliott’s and then spent time this weekend with Allison and Donnie while they were in town. It’s always a blast spending time with everyone!
Here is a great photo from today!
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It’s Day 2 of our 4 day weekend and we are having a blast! Yesterday, the kids and I spent time with Aunt Lori, Luke and Grandma Debbie at Dana’s Pool! It was before it got too hot so it was great for the kids. We had a quick lunch, got Connor’s nap in and Grandma took the kids to see Mr. Popper’s Penguins! We all had a great time!
Today, we got up early to find out Kiley’s dance class was canceled! We went to Kohls instead and bought some running shoes. We saved more than we spent by going to Kohls and got two pairs of shoes! Can’t wait to use them tonight for the first time!
Beth is off to get her haircut and then we are heading to the Crystal Lake Festival with some friends of Beth’s! Should be a good time!
Hope everyone is enjoying their time off!!!
Kiley and Ella had their Spring Dance Recital this past weekend! We had a great night of rehearsal the night before and the girls were super excited.
On Saturday, we got ready for the recital and got Connor a nap in before. Beth and the girls headed out around 1 to get there by 1:30pm. Beth got them ready and we found out 5 minutes before the show started that it started at 2pm. Beth and I thought all along it started at 3pm and let everyone know to be there by 3.
So, to our surprise, it started at 2pm and a few of us missed the Ella and Kiley perform! Grandpa Mark, Grandma Marsha, Jill, John and Jake made it in time to see Kiley. Grandma Debbie, Grandpa Lee and Grandma Sue made it for the second half and everyone got to see Ella, Kiley and Me do the Family Dance! We rocked it!
We went out for dinner afterwards to Georgios in Crystal Lake! It was a lot of fun!
We did learn a valuable lesson that day and that is to pay attention to show start times 
Videos are posted on Flickr! Pictures to come soon!