11 months

Sean has changed so much over the past two months. He is now taking four or five steps, has two front teeth and can crawl up the steps in 5 seconds flat! He is full of smiles and loves to wave "HI" to whoever will look his way. I am still loving him as a baby a few months longer, now that he is almost walking he doesn't want me to snuggle as much. We are working this month on teaching him how to put up one finger to show he is one-the girls love doing this with him!

Our vacation photos

 Every other year we have a beach week with two other families and this year was it! We left on June 6th and started driving out to Virginia. We spent a night with Nick and Courtney in Harrisonburg Virginia and then traveled down to the Outer Banks to meet up with other friends from Harrisonburg. We spent a week at the beach with Josh, Sarah, Aaron, Melinda and their kids. Then we traveled back to Harrisonburg and stayed with Mitch and Melanie and got to see Colt for the first time. Then we drove to Indiana and spent father's day with my dad and mom. We got back to Iowa on June 17th, the total drive was 2, 658 miles and we calculated that we spent over 48 hours in the van traveling. We had a wonderful vacation full of great memories! Here are just a few photos from our trip.

Daddy Interview

 Below is an interview that I did with Nora and Molly about Brian for father's day. I found the interview on pinterest and think it will be fun to do each year. Our children and so lucky to have the best dad in the world. Brian spends lots of time with our children and shows them each day how much he loves and cares for them. We love you daddy!! Happy Fathers Day!

June 2012                                           Nora’s & Molly

Daddy Interview

My dad’s name is Brian

My dad’s name is Brian

He is 32 years old.

He is 6 years old.

He weighs 130 pounds

He weighs 32 pounds.

He is 20 feet 60 inches tall.

He his 6 feet 7 inches tall.

His hair color is brown.

His hair color is blackish.

His eyes are green

His eyes are green

His favorite T.V. show is golf.

His favorite T.V. show is sports center.

He likes to go swimming.

He likes to go golfing.

His favorite food is spaghetti.

His favorite food is tacos.

For fun he likes to go on vacation.

For fun he likes to to the ocean.

My favorite thing about my dad is when we have parties together.

My favorite thing about my dad is when he wrestles me.

I know my dad is smart because he knows how old everyone is in our family.

I know my dad is smart because I just know that he is smart. 

Molly Spring Concert

Here is a video of the daddy daughter dance from Molly's spring concert. This video was taken at rehearsal.




This is a video also taken at rehearsal, the girls are dancing to Elvis's Spring Fever.

10 months

My little guy is getting so big so fast! He is crawling all over (army crawl) and is starting to say a few more words. He has dada and mama and sometimes we can get him to say "hi" and "bye,bye".

Monkey Bars

Monday was an eventful day for us. In the morning I thought Sean might have an ear infection so I called first thing and made him a dr. appointment for 10:30. At 10:10 I got a phone call from Nora's school saying she fell on the monkey bars and that it is a big cut and she will need to be looked at. Good thing I had an appointment in 20 min!! I left and headed to the dr. and Brian went and got Nora from school and brought her to the office.
They looked her over and said that the cut could be glued back together instead of stitches. The dr. said that Nora could do anything but go swimming for a week. Great! She was ready to head back to school-she wanted to show her war wounds! I took her back to school around 12:30.
At 2 I got another call from the school, Nora broke open her chin and it was bleeding. Wonderful! I called the dr. and they said to bring her back in. Sure enough she was doing the monkey bars at afternoon recess and fell and broke the cut back open. The dr. said that she couldn't do a stitches now because she already had the glue and it would leave a mark to stitch over the glue. So they went ahead and re-glued her chin.
After all these events I went home made supper and took all three kids to soccer. By 8 last night I was exhausted!
Nora was really brave the whole time at school and at the dr. I am glad she was ready to retry the monkey bars but maybe not so soon!

Dance Concert

Nora had her last dance concert this past weekend and of course our camera was not working so we didn't get a video of it. Nora did really well, they danced to two songs "Wishing and Hoping" and a song from Alladin. I am hoping that we can get someone else who taped it and I will then post it. Here are a few pictures that Brian's mom got until then.

 With Great Grandma Yoder

 Dad and Sean with the flowers.

Nora with her dance teachers Emily and Kierstin.