Sunday, January 13, 2013

Since She Came

Oh, how I feel that life has been crazy busy and fast ever since little, Miss Hadley arrived! I have enjoyed each bit of it, but I am seriously happy to welcome "normalcy" and regular, not-so-exciting day-to-day life again.

I apologize to family for not showing nearly as many photos of our good times as you all deserve... but this is what happens when I fall behind. So here goes! :)


Shortly after Hadley arrived, my mom came and visited! We had a GRAND time! My Dad also later joined us and having both of my parents stay with us made me greatly miss living near them. I truly loved having them visit and watching them play with my kids. Family is wonderful.



Hadley was blessed. Thank you family that came. We missed many who I know would have loved to have been here, but couldn't.... the lame part of living far away.

Cousins


We spent Thanksgiving week in Arkansas. We had a great time chatting, playing in the park (which included feeding ducks and Grandma going down the slide), playing games and of course, delicious food. :) It was wonderful!



We celebrated Koen's 3rd birthday and my 25th. :)

Koen got to wake up to a surprise of his room full of balloons.


He was more excited about this bike than I expected. It was great! :)


I have entered the part of my life where I now ask for cleaning tools and baby gear. And I have very much enjoyed both!


We celebrated Christmas and New Years in Idaho with ALL of my side of the family. :) With our large family... these occurrences are now not easy to accomplish. Our fun included the holidays of course, a new nephew being born, birthdays, our 6th wedding anniversary, mother-daughters brunch, a pinewood derby race, talent show, family photos, sharing of family flags, games, food, and almost everyone getting very sick at the end. Many of us sickos seem to still be recovering. Get Well Soon Everyone!

6 years into eternal marriage
(after writing it that way... I wonder if we'll ever stop counting.)

Everyone's pinewood derby cars.
Jon's in the shark. Koen's is the bright yellow one (made by Grandpa). Mine is the black "Game of Life" car.


4 comments:

jeff and alli said...

Thanks for the pictures, we love seeing them!!!

JoshandMegs said...

Koen got himself a good bruise! ;) I'm at the stage in my life where I feel very 'little house on the prairie', asking for fabric and cooking things for my gifts. ;)

Ess said...

Thanks for sharing. It looks like life is going well there in St. Louis.

Unknown said...

I love those pictures, except for Koen's owie! I showed this post to Olivia who turned 2 on the 10th, and she said 'Sister Williams and a baby!' So cute!