Merry Christmas!!!

Here we are another year almost wrapped up!!! We have had a lot of new thing happen this year.

*Gavin is 6 1/2 now and is in 1st grade and LOVES school (even thought he might tell you different). He is becoming a very good reader and speller and continues to excel in math :) Baseball still consumes all of his time in the nicer months and he continues to really hone his skills in that as well, funny how they can do that at such a young age!!! He has lost 8 teeth, 4 on top and 4 on bottom so he can REALLY say that all he wanted for Christmas was at least 2 front teeth :) And his 2 top ones came in over our vacation to FL in Oct. and took up all 4 spots on the top :/ YIKES!!! I have no idea where anymore teeth are going to go!!! And now he has one of his middle ones on the bottom that is poking through, so we will have to see how this pans out for him!!! I am sure that braces are in his future some time :) He still enjoys watching wrestling on TV and Nate bought him tickets for a WWE when they come to Rochester in Feb. so I am sure that Gavin will be flying high when he finds that out!!!

* Reed is 3 1/2 now and is by far the comic relief of the family :) He comes up with the darndest things all the time!!! He is always fixing things also, whether it be a broken bone or a car that needs some fixing. His imagination is a marvel!!! He has mastered going on the "Big" potty so that is a GREAT thing!!! He also seems well beyond his years, people are always amazed when they hear him speak that he is only 3 :) He continues to love being a Pirate or a Fixer Guy or a Cowboy or a Train Conductor or whatever he is feeling that day!!! His imagination never disappoints :) (Him or us!!!)

* Liam is our newest member of the family. He was born on Feb. 10 of this year at 6:56am via C-Section weighing 7lbs. 3oz and 18in long :) He has been a real joy!!! He was such a good baby from the very beginning, with sleeping through the night and being a great eater really making the transition from 2 children to 3 not to bad!!! He is now 10 1/2 months and has 6 going on 7 teeth and has taken multiple steps many times over the last couple weeks :)

* Nate & I, well we both are staying busy enough at work so that is good, but even more exciting is that we have been staying even more busy at home working on our new ADDITION!!! We are adding on to our house to make it into our "DREAM" home ;) Well at least a little more spacious anyways :) We are adding on to the main level with a basement under that. On the main level we are adding a Master bedroom, Laundry room and a Bathroom, and in the basement there will be a Family room, Bedroom and a Half Bath!!! We will almost be doubling the footprint of our house!!! I can hardly wait :) We hired the concrete work (Block and slab) done but otherwise we are doing most of the work ourselves with the help of our Dads and other family!!! I am so happy that God has blessed me with a Husband that is not only willing but enjoys doing these kinds of projects and also that family and Friends have stepped up the way that they always do to make this possible!!! Thank You to all of you that have been helping!!!

Well I hope that this update finds you all in good heath and spirits this Christmas season and I hope that the Lord blesses you in the year to come!!! The Sommer Family :)

Liam update.......

Here is a little update on Liam (I am horrible at keeping up with this :( )

These pictures were just after he turned 8 months he now has 4 teeth with 2 more just about to poke through, the same morning I noticed his first 2 teeth with in a half hour he was pulling himself up and walking around the furniture!?!?!?! YIKES!!! He is now a crawling very fast anywhere he needs to go including up all the stairs and even tried to get outside the other day :/

He mostly walks while holding on to something where ever he wants to go but if he does not have anything to hold onto he will just crawl to something he can pull himself up on :) He is very smart for his age I think :)

Liam 6 mo. old

How could you resist a face like that??? :) We Love him so much!!!

Its the Small things 1st.......

Getting the driveway finally finished :)I think that it turned out REALLY nice!!! Nate did a great job!!! He has really been working hard at getting these small projects done while we are waiting to start the addition. He has gotten this done and the soffit and fascia done on the rest of the house and also the porch.

Then Nate got everything leveled out and rolled and seeded so we actually have a front yard with real grass that we had to water everyday and mow like every other day!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Garden........

This is our 1st attempt at a garden this year and let me tell you we have REALLY been enjoying the bounty of it!!! I think we might even double it next year :)

8 Weeks old

9 Weeks old and SMILEY!!! :D

Start of Summer......

A little Boo-Boo that Reed got

when he tripped going up the stairs of our deck :( I looks A LOT worse than it really was and it has healed up really nice!!! The picture on the above left is how we found Reed after we got his tongue under control, I went inside to clean up and came back out and he had fallen asleep under the neighbors tree :)

Gavin has now lost 6 teeth ALL in the front :) I guess no Corn on the Cob for him this summer ;)

Addition getting closer???

This is from Easter 2010 :) Shows how busy we have been!!! Time just gets away from me. Liam was almost 2 months old and it was a BEAUTIFUL day.

At this point we were getting closer to the addition being more of a reality :) (More on that in a later post!!!)

Well where in the world has the time gone??? Sorry it has been so long since I have posted!!! There have been alot of things taking up our time lately and I will try to get you caught up on them :-)

Liam is now almost 12weeks old and is growing like a weed!!! he is about 14lbs and sleeping through the night!!! YAY!!! He is such a good baby :) I really have nothing to complian about with him!!!

Well I am going to post more in a second as I have alot to tell about upcoming summer projects at the Sommer residence!!!

This is Liam at 3 weeks, we had a little photo session in my room :)

Liam has been a GREAT baby!!! I really have nothing to complain about at all!!! he is pretty much on an every 4 hour schedule which is ok....he had his 4 week check-up this last wen. and has gained 2lbs. in the last 3 weeks!!! So I guess whatever we are doing is working just fine!!!

The other boys are adjusting pretty good, they love him very much, but like to really put on a show when people come over : It can really start to get to be alot at times :) But this too will pass (all to quick I might add!!!) Well I just wanted to throw up a quick up-date, will post again soon!!! :)

Liam Douglas Sommer

SURPRISE!!!

So I had my 38 week apt. this last Tues. morning (I was really like 37weeks 4days) and I was just going to have him check if I had a Yeast Infection or something?? Something just didnt seem right, so he checked me out and said that there seemed to be some swelling due to the pressure from the baby pushing down but he was not concerned about that and he also checked my cervix which was not open at all so he really was not concerned at all!!! Sent me home with a time to be there bright and early at 5:30 the next Tues. morning for my scheduled C-Section!!! Bummer right??? That is kinda how I felt, I was just really having a hard time sleeping and over all was just not feeling very good for the last weeks up till then!!! So I went home and continued with the rest of my day and did a hair cut then went home ( I was supposed to be done with work now but you know how that goes!!) I let Nate put the boy's to bed that night as I was just needing to put my feet up and chill! so I was just minding my own business watch American Idol and at about 9:30 I had this weird crampy pain and all of a sudden my lap FILLED with WATER!!! YIKES!!! I just sat there not really knowing what to do or what had really just happened!!! I started to yell as quiet as I could as to not wake the boys but loud enough that my deaf husband would be able to hear me!!!! :) (I knew that he had fallen asleep and I didnt know if had shut his hearing aids off or took them out or what!!) When he finally came down he was really kinda annoyed with me for some reason, so I asked him to come here please and we both just sat and stared at my lap that had continued to fill with fluid!!! Wondering what we should do????? We thought we should call my Mom (we needed someone to come stay with the boys who were sleeping) oh wait maybe we should call the hospital 1st??! Yeah we should do that, so that is what I did and they said that I should probably come in as soon as I could, so I called my Mom and told her what had happened and she was going to bring someone right in!!! I had my bag all ready to go because I brought it with to my apt that morning in case he decided to keep me there, but I still felt so very unprepared!!! and the whole way to Faribault I kept asking Nate if he had remembered this or that which he of course had remembered everything!!! He is so good at stuff like that :) We got to the hospital at about 10:30pm and they got me hooked up to all the monitors and about 11:30 or so the contractions started!!! WHAT???? Are you kidding me??? now I have to sit here and go through all of this because they are not going to do surgery till the morning!!! :( So no I did not get more than an hour of sleep all night and yes I had contractions ALL NIGHT LONG!!! And then they came in to start prepping for surgery at about 5:45am and at 6:56am they delivered a healthy happy 7lb.3oz. 18in. baby boy!!! :) He has been the "Perfect" baby, more than we could have asked for!! Here are some pictures of the big day and those after:

Pre-Op Picture

Fresh out of the oven!!!

Nice Lungs :)

Love at 1st sight!!!

Daddy's Love

1st picture together thanks to my nurse :)

Hello World!!

Brothers checking him out

All my boys :)

1st bath