Halloween 2009


Look at that form!!! :)


Look out Joe Mauer!!!

"I have wings!!! "
Cousins!!!

A day out with Mommy!!!

Going to check out the Geese at RCTC while we wait for Aunty Christine to get done with class

"Goose Poop Mommy!!! "

Gavin playing Wii on vacation in the Dells!!!


Louie and Sally with there new son Simon Gabriel at his Baptism


Simon Gabriel Grove


Nice Christine!!! :) or should I say ;)


It is always intense for Nate to carve a pumpkin!!! :)


Reed really got into the whole carving thing this year!!! Gavin......Not so much :)
Finished products!!! :)

Alot of catching up to do!!!!

In Oct. we went to the dells for one last trip before the busy time of the year came for me and also the baby!!! We took my brothers Micah and Aaron along with us and it was a very fun time!!! these are jsut some pics of the trip :) I have alot more catching up to do so I am going to try and get to it!!! (Bear with me:))


Cheese!!!

Loading up his marshmellows!!!

Going down the water slide with Daddy

Gavin and Daddy going down the slide

All by himself!!!

All my boys!!!!

Havin fun at the pool!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!
Well where has the time gone again?!?!?! I looked at the calender and low and behold it
is DECEMBER!!! We have had a VERY busy year to say the least!! But when is it not??
We have been busy with a few things that I would like to touch on :

1.)We have been doing alot of stuff on the house (Of course!!) that never seems to be
boring. We put a new driveway in this summer, did some landscaping and more recently got
the garage heated!! We have some addition plans that we have been sitting on that we will
hopefully be able to take advantage of in the near future (I quit setting dates for when
we will start it because it seems that those dates always come and go, so, no dates, no
disappointments!!! )

2.) We are EXPECTING again (probably for the last time!)!! I only have 54 days left at the time of this letter!!! Feb.16th I am scheduled for a C-Section, if I make it that long!! So that will be another change for us, as both of our boys have been in the summer and this one will be
smack dab in the middle of the winter!!! We do not know what we are having as we chose to
keep it a surprise, so we are all getting very anxious to meet the new bundle :)
Both of the boys are very excited about the new baby as are Nate and I!!! :)

3.) Gavin started Kindergarten this fall!! Kenyon-Wanamingo has All Day/Every Day
Kindergarten, so my 5 year old has now started his full time school career already!! He loves it
and is excelling!! At his conferences his teacher said that he is one of the top readers in his
class and also LOVES math!! He is really coming out of his shell, which I am glad about because I was worried about how shy he seemed around people he didn't know. But he is doing great in
that department also!!! He has also picked up a LOVE for WWE wrestling which is SOOOOO funny to see!!! Cracks us up!!! He has to watch it every Monday night (also Fri night but that is Smackdown not Raw:))

4.) Reed is in the process of Potty Training , which is going.........Well as good as it can go I
guess!!! It is the one thing about parenting so far that I wish that I could send them away for!!! He is really doing very well for only being 2 1/2 years old, I cant (Or shouldn't)complain!! He has the BIGGEST imagination that I have every seen! He can pretend about anything, anytime anywhere. He is our little entertainer for sure! Reed is very excited to be Mommy's big helper
with this new baby, He practices all the time with anything that he can find that resembles a baby :)He has a great big heart and loves to "Make Mommy Happy"!!! (His own words!!)

All in all it has been a GREAT year for the whole family and I hope it has been and will be for
yours too!!! :) Till next year Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

( I cant figure out why this is posting so weird with all the sentence breaks and stuff?? Very frustrating!!!)

Yearly Pictures (Well not the only ones:) )

Brothers!!!

Gavin~ 5 Years old

Wow Gavin!!! Like I said 5 Years old :)

Reed (Aka: Reeder Rabbit!!! Thanks Grandpa :) )

2 Years old

Always checking something out!!! :)

Time gets away from you............

Wow where does the time go?!?!?!? I think I say that every time I write again!!! Well the summer has been filled with lot to keep us busy!!! We have done alot of outdoor projects on the house as well as some not planned inside projects too ;)
We have put a new driveway in and done some landscaping out front and down by the garage and then in the middle of this driveway project our ONLY bathroom decided to spring a leak also, so that brought us to our unplanned indoor project which included tearing up the WHOLE floor to find where the leak was coming from, which also meant pulling the vanity, toilet and shower out as well!!! So we decided to go ahead and do it the way that we would want it to be for good instead of doing a quick fix and then having to redo it again some other time!!!


Also if you have not heard, we are expecting again!!! Very exciting time for us :)
I am due in Feb. and will have a scheduled C-Section again so I am hoping that it goes as good as it did with Reed!!! should prove to be a very busy time as it falls right in the middle of school season and I have always been off in the summer?!?!?! We will make due, thats jsut what you have to do :)
I have the big ultrasound on Fri. but we are not going to find out what we are having, keep with the surprise theme I guess!!! :) I have asked Gavin what he thinks would be good and he thinks that we should have a sister because he said that I am the ONLY girl!!! Awww.......He is always thinking of his mommy!!! :)


Gavin has also started All Day EveryDay Kindergarten!!! Of which he LOVES!!! I was very nervous about this I think for myself more than anything but it has been a very good thing!!! He went on his 1st fieldtrip yesterday (10-7-09) to Tweite's Pumpkin Patch in Byron and I was lucky enough to go along :) It was a fun day, it is really cute to see him interacting with his classmates!!! Too Cute!!! Here are some pictures of the day!!! Enjoy!!! :)

Sun. Night visit with Griffin :)

Ben and Bekki's Nephew Noah Sjoblom, He would stare at my camera and I would go to take a picture and my flash would stutter and this is the face I would get :) Too funny!!! He is really getting a fun personality!!

Cheese!!

Updated picture of baby Griffin, I went over to visit on Sun. night and snapped a few pix.