Merry Christmas

Rich hard at work making breakfast.

Cute of Dad and the girls.

I like that we do this picture every year. How cute are all of them??!!

Early Christmas

Last week we went to celebrate Christmas with Jim's parents in Florida. Since time is short (to prepare for the next Christmas) here are a couple favorite pictures.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Many people brought many things. Thankfully, we were able to keep the wine that Dan and Heidi brought very cold.

Shoes and a Bath

For an early birthday present my mom and dad got us a new camera. Now I can post more pictures!


Seriously. She likes to wear my shoes, but how we also have to navigate around them on the stairs. Notice how they're all lined up the same way too?


I've never used this tub, but at least someone has.


She's now 9-months!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had fun!
Boo!




Our neighborhood holds a party in the park the weekend before Halloween; this is Mom and Anna having a deep conservation.

ER

Well, we've been spending way too much time in the Emergency Room lately. Anna fell down the stairs, had a large bump on her head, wouldn't lift her head, then wanted to fall asleep. So, we went in. Thankfully, after x-rays, everything was fine.

We completed the Detroit 1/2 marathon (Heidi and Katrina did the whole thing -crazy)and that sent me to the ER. I will say this, it was the scariest day of my life. My body has never reacted the way it did. To sum up, I would rather give birth several times (without medication) than to go through how I felt that day. (See their blog for pictures of the race)

On a different note, I broke our camera so I don't have many pictures to post. I was, however, able to get this one of Jim, Catherine and Jack putting together the fireplace.

Yikes

My mom keeps telling me how much Anna looks like me. I didn't realize it until I saw the pictures below. -- Also, for those of you who like milestones, she is crawling, standing and trying to cruise. Again, yikes.

Anna

Me

Labor Day

Thanks to Tom, Jen, Elizabeth and Adam for a wonderful Labor Day. There are too many pictures to post, so here are a couple of favorites. Thanks, we enjoyed your pool, your beer and everyone's company.

Just love this photo of Rosie

Catherine says "surfer dude" everytime she see this picture of Elizabeth.

Mike took this picture. I think I will have it printed.

Just love this shot of Liam. I think Mike did this one too.

New favorite picture. Sarah took this of Jim and Catherine.

Grace & Jack

Grace and Jack spent the weekend with us. We had a lot of fun -- hope they did too.


Making Pizza

Just some cute shots of Anna.

Creative or Redneck?

So, after Tom and Jen's, Catherine has been talking non-stop about swimming. I filled up her pool, but it was a bit chilly this morning. Being either creative or redneck, I got out my old horse water bucket heater. It worked! Pictures are below, please vote and let me know.

Aunt Jen & Uncle Tom's

Catherine made Adam put this on. -- He is a good sport.

They took turns pretending they were Lucy (Elizabeth's dog.) But, isn't that a nice picture of Elizabeth?

Elizabeth and Catherine relaxing.


Ten minutes after we left they were both asleep.

Short update

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the weekend.

Aunt Ann and her fans.
Just a nice shot of Uncle Mike.

Vacation

I don't want to bore everyone with our vacation shots, so I'll try to pare them down to just a few (we took over 250, so consider yourselves lucky.) Overall, we had great weather, great company and probably too much food that we felt we needed to consume. Thanks to Mom and Dad for all their help watching the girls and allowing Jim and me to exercise together. As we pulled into our neighborhood, Catherine said: "Not this house!" Yes, why does the vacation week go so much faster than the others. -- Next stop? This fall to Florida to let Grandma and Grandpa Woloskie watch our kids. :-)


Grandma and Grandpa arrive. I think she has Jim's sprinting capabilities.













Anna tried peas when we got home.

Smiles

New favorite picture.

Happy 4th of July

Hope everyone had a great long weekend. Here are some pictures...

Mirror, mirror.

Aunt Kathy and Gary heading out on the jet ski.

Catherine went for her first motor boat ride and watched Danielle and Amy tube.

She and Ethan going for a ride.

Then it was time to relax.

Emery's Baptism

We went to Emery's Baptism on Sunday. It was very nice and we sat in the Friar's Chapel. As always, Uncle Dan did a wonderful job.

Nice picture of all of them.

Uncle Dan's "helpers"

We checked out the new votive chapel too. Here's the brick that all of us got Mom & Dad for Christmas.

Thanks again to "Camp Hull" for all the fun last week. I think we're still catching up on our sleep! :-)