We spent Christmas with Amy’s family this year and it was fun to have all of her family together in the house. Overall, Christmas was very different this year.  First, we did not open presents on Christmas morning, but rather that evening because Emily and Nick didn’t get in until 1pm on Christmas Day.  We [...]

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Wow, it’s been a long time since our last post…apologies for the delay.  We had an action-packed Christmas & New Year’s, so we’ll break it down into a three separate posts to catch you up.  It will go a little something like this: – Part I: Christmas – Part II: New Year’s/Allison’s Wedding – Part [...]

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We’ve been gearing up for the holidays and Anna has been very excited with all of the festivities.  She helped us decorate the tree, met Santa (sort of) and has been enjoying all of the lights around the house.  She’s not a big fan when Mommy & Daddy sing Christmas tunes, but if Grandma has [...]

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We headed north to Seth’s parents for Thanksgiving this year.  Anna kept herself entertained for most of the car ride with books, stickers & games and was very good.  While home we played outside when we could, went to the mall, saw the annual Blaze of Lights parade and started to get some of the [...]

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Hey Everyone!  I am finally getting around to posting pictures of our fun little Halloween celebrations.  Anna and her cousin Joey went as matching bumble bees on Halloween thanks to thrifty costumes purchased by Pom Pom at Kid’s Closet in Hoptown.  We had our dear friends the Kichler’s over with their sweet twins Mike and [...]

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We have had a jam packed October, full of great activities with Anna and lots of our friends.  In order we have: 1) Celebrated Allison and Dan’s engagement with 2 wonderful showers 2) Taken a day trip to Miami with Mom and Dad to see the Redhawks play.  This was Anna’s first visit to campus [...]

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We still need to catch up with what’s been going on lately, but we wanted to post a video from August showing a few of Anna’s new favorite things.  In this video she is 19 months old, and starts off by showing us how she can jump.  At the time, this was still a work [...]

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One of the most exciting things that happened over the summer that we have not yet mentioned on the blog, is that my sister Emily and her husband Nick are pregnant with their first child.  We could NOT be more excited for them.  Yaaaaayyyyy!  They made the announcement in an adorable way.  While we were [...]

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Wow, time truly does fly by when you’re having fun.  It’s hard to believe that we haven’t made a post to the blog in over a month!  We are very sorry about that, and promise to do much better in the future.  So many things have been going on…since our last post, we have: – [...]

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Anna loves puzzles, and a while back we found a gently-used, wooden one with the alphabet at a neighborhood yard sale.  We debated on how long we should wait until we gave it to her, because she still enjoyed her other ones with farm/jungle animals, fish and bugs.  I think she was a little overwhelmed [...]

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