Just a quick hello!

I wanted to post a weigh-in: 208.5/157.5/150...just a few pounds away from my high school weight, wooohooo! Also, just this week, someone said this to me "Well, aren't you a petite little thing". That totally made my day! I wouldn't consider myself petite by any reach of the imagination, but it sure felt good!

Emily and Aiden are doing well. We just started back to ECFE classes this week and I am proud to announce that Emily did wonderfully!!! YIPPEE! It was awesome!

Bruce was in San Diego this past week and we are sure glad to have him home. He will have to go to Orlando in a few weeks too, so that sucks. I can't wait until the kids are older so that we can start going with him. (But, I don't want them to grow up too fast either, so trips can wait!)

Not much new and/or exciting here. I think we are going to do pictures this weekend; Aiden's 9 month photos and a family one for Bruce for his office.

Sleeping beauty is 2 1/2 today!!!













Emily is 2 1/2 today! Wow, I can hardly believe she was ever this small! (Pictured with her new cousin, Olivia -- 4 days old!)

Aiden is 9 months old today!!!!!





Here's my big guy just minutes ago...
He is growing up too fast!
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I'm an Aunt again!!!

My sister, Danielle, had her baby girl, Olivia Reese, on Sept. 4th! Here is the happy family...

She looks just like my sis...what a doll!!!! :)

Family vacation...

We spent 4 days at Wisconsin Dells and had a great time! We went on tons of water slides and played in the water so much! Emily and Mommy went up a lift in our tubes and rode all the way back down through a tunnel slide. It was so much fun we had to do it FOUR times! We had a great hotel room and just had a fun time!

Then, we went to the State Fair and had more fun! We ate yummy things like Tator tot hotdish on a stick, pizza on a stick, Pronto Pups (hotdogs on a stick, but NOT a corn dog!), deep-fried candy bars (OH MAN, the Milkyway was sooooooooooooooo good!) on a stick, and a few other things. Emily also jumped on a bungy trampoline thingy and had a blast! (I don't think I was able to breathe for the full 3 to 5 minutes she was on it). The lady asked Emily if she wanted to go higher and Bruce and I both yelled NO!!!! It was nerve-wracking enough as it was! She must have jumped 10-12 feet in the air!, and she isn't even 2 1/2 yet!!!

Then it was nap time and the kids were getting crabby so we had to leave. Bruce and I were bummed because there was so much we hadn't eaten yet, LOL! There were pork chops on a stick, corn on the cob...on a stick and I could have eaten another deep-fried candy bar, they were THAT good! Oh well...next year.

At the fair we also saw tons of animals and Emily got to pet a baby duck, 2 baby lambs and 2 baby cows, oh ya, and baby bunnies. We also saw horses, cows, pigs, and other animals.

I will have to post pictures soon.