sorry it's been so long....

I'm so sorry it's been so long since I posted....time has gotten away from me, as well as my laptop was out of commission (along with all the pictures I had put on it). So here's a little of what we've been up to... Andrew put his personal touch on his pinewood derby car....

Drew has been studying about penguins among other winter things....

The boys had their Valentine's Day parties...

Catholic School's week kept us busy....here's a picture of the balloon launch they did for kick off...

We stopped to see the penguins at the Zoo, since the boys were studying about them in school... they kept swimming up to the boys, and even got them wet splashing over the glass! (Austin said he smelled like penguin all day)

a nice break....

We had a good Christmas break...it seemed to fly by...
We got a little snow during it, and the boys were determend to sled and make a snowman! We got a snowman and snowdog...even though it had melted by the next day.

Chevy kept snifing the snow dog (probably because it was wearing her collar!)

Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas! The boys were up bright and early at 6:45... they were so excited, and what a beautiful morning with snow! I'm trying to catch up from all our holiday activities....there's some pictures from some of them

We gave Drew a Joe Mauer shirt (his favorite player)...he was so excited!

Austin with his playmobil dinosaurs...and Andrew with his Playmobil pyramid (what he's been asking for since his birthday)....the boys have quite the playmobil setup in the playroom!

Austin doing his wizard experiments.....

Austin and his class christmas caroling...Austin was asked to dress as Santa and amazingly he did! (he's on the far left)


The boys were very excited to get their own BB guns at Nana and Papa's... and Drew got a new playmobil to add to his egypt set....

Andrew was so surprised to get a bike from Oma and papa O...

and our annual cousins picture....we've been doing a picture of the cousins for about, well, since I was like 10, so you do the math....

and some pictures from their Christmas concert....sometime I will upload some video from it....




Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Austin!

My baby is six....I can hardly say it....

It's so amazing watching him grow...he's such a sweet boy! As much as I miss my baby, it's so amazing to see where he is heading....

I love you, Austin!

Austin got to have a birthday party this year...a tae kwon do party... we were so glad so many friends got to come! I think they all had a good time!

too long!

Sorry it's been so long since my last post....Here's a video of Drew reading a petion at church... he was very excited!

Halloween

This year for Halloween, Andrew was a mummy again, but a spookier mummy, and Austin was a volcano...
Austin loved his costume until the end of the night when he said next year he's going to be something that can sit down!

Uncle Jason helped get the guts out of the pumpkins (well, helped Austin, Drew is squeemish about the guts...)

Oma and Papa O came up to see the boys in their costumes....

Andrew's mummy pumpkin

Austin designed this face all by himself!

Post 100!

So this is my 100th post on my blog! Crazy! We've been pretty busy lately...this weekend we went out to Washington for my friend Becky's wedding...is was beautiful...
Here's a few pictures from it...

The views here were spectacular....the fall colors, and it overlooked the Missouri river.... unfortunately it didn't even break 50 degrees that day, so she had to have the ceremony inside (which was still beautiful).

This is looking down what would have been the isle...the men are standing where they would have had the ceremony at...

Inside where they had it...

My boys all looking handsome...

Austin and Drew had a great time dancing....

This was from last weekend, we went to the Hartsburg pumpkin festival...

And this weekend we got to see Sarah and Dave's new house...it is very cute...

Here's Dave playing the organ with the boys in their dining room...

The boys getting cozy by sarah's electric fire....