Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentines and Happy Anniversary
♪ You and Me, Can Do Anything ♪Image Courtesy Jenn Morgan Dassatti
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year!
2011. Wow, time really flies the older we get.
Let's see how I do with making more regular blog posts. Writing is not my forte...Photograph is. So, I'm always behind the camera taking pictures, just recently learned to not always be behind the camera and make just selective photos of times to remember ;)
This year will be interesting. Max is finishing winter break and 1st grade will continue for him. Spence is still in preschool. Tessa is still taking the Kindermusic class with me, Our Time (second semester will start in Feb).
Joe is still really busy at work, but it has slowed so he is actually home at 5pm or 6pm and has had some weekends off. Thankfully, it is busy enough that we are not sweating bills.
Mel's Grad school, third semester, starts at the end of January.
Max and Spence have a new friend on our street that they like to play with (acquired friendship from 2010). Of course, they do not get to play often with him.
Let's see how I do with making more regular blog posts. Writing is not my forte...Photograph is. So, I'm always behind the camera taking pictures, just recently learned to not always be behind the camera and make just selective photos of times to remember ;)
This year will be interesting. Max is finishing winter break and 1st grade will continue for him. Spence is still in preschool. Tessa is still taking the Kindermusic class with me, Our Time (second semester will start in Feb).
Joe is still really busy at work, but it has slowed so he is actually home at 5pm or 6pm and has had some weekends off. Thankfully, it is busy enough that we are not sweating bills.
Mel's Grad school, third semester, starts at the end of January.
Max and Spence have a new friend on our street that they like to play with (acquired friendship from 2010). Of course, they do not get to play often with him.
Wow! A lot has happened in 2010
I had not realized how long it had been since I posted on our family blog. Joe & I officially got married on Feb 14, 2010.
Max finished Kindergarten in our new home in Plainfield. He turned 6 years old. He played soccer over the summer. Had a blast. Max lost three teeth. Started 1st grade.
Spence turned 4 years old. He started Preschool at Light and Life.
Tessa turned 2 years old. But talks like she is much older. Tessa started taking a Kindermusic class with mommy, Our Time.
Joe worked a lot of hours, a lot of overtime hours at work. He worked a lot of weekends too. Thankfully, we all had a very enjoyable summer vacation down in the Smokies.
We added a new family member, Pepsi, a beagle.
So our home contains the five of us, now our two dogs and of course, our five indoor kitties :)
We are very blessed.
Mel, mommy, had a very busy year with her business PhotoBee Photography. She did very well and the business is doing very good, business is up from the year prior. Here's hoping it continues. Melissa also started and finished her second semester of Grad School. She is taking two classes each semester and is working on her Master of Fine Arts in Photography.
Some Quotes from the kids from 2010:
Max finished Kindergarten in our new home in Plainfield. He turned 6 years old. He played soccer over the summer. Had a blast. Max lost three teeth. Started 1st grade.
Spence turned 4 years old. He started Preschool at Light and Life.
Tessa turned 2 years old. But talks like she is much older. Tessa started taking a Kindermusic class with mommy, Our Time.
Joe worked a lot of hours, a lot of overtime hours at work. He worked a lot of weekends too. Thankfully, we all had a very enjoyable summer vacation down in the Smokies.
We added a new family member, Pepsi, a beagle.
So our home contains the five of us, now our two dogs and of course, our five indoor kitties :)
We are very blessed.
Mel, mommy, had a very busy year with her business PhotoBee Photography. She did very well and the business is doing very good, business is up from the year prior. Here's hoping it continues. Melissa also started and finished her second semester of Grad School. She is taking two classes each semester and is working on her Master of Fine Arts in Photography.
Some Quotes from the kids from 2010:
January, 2010 (Tessa 19 ½ months) Tessa has started saying the same things Spence does when upset and throwing a fit: (toward us) “Baby!”
June 2010 Tessa is 2. Saying 3 word sentences.
Max, just finished w/ Kindergarten, makes out a grocery list: Milk, Hune, Chicin, Mac…
Sept 2010 Tessa 28months. “I want to nurse on couch, Mommy”
Max, 6yr2mo. “Dad did you know there’s a national flower?” A flower of our nation? “I mean, of Texas.” What is it? “A rosenbaum helebowl.”
Oct, 2010 Max, as we sleepily finished reading in bed, “I love sleeping. It’s just like watching TV – You don’t have to move anywhere. Plus, you get to rest your eyes!”Nov 2010 Max, after throwing up but wanting to get in the shower to see if he could feel better and go to school, “Even my voice has changed. I kinda talk like an alien. Listen: I don’t want to go. (in monotone “alien” voice”)”
Dec 2010 Max: “Dad, can you not have any more beers today?” Dad says, “Why?” “Because it will mess up my pattern.” (He had started collecting bottlecaps the day before)
Dec20, 2010 (Mel’s BDay) Max, whispering to me as Mom went out of the room, “Dad, remember what we were talking about a couple days ago? About maybe you taking Mom somewhere special…I don’t know, maybe Pizza King, I don’t know.” (In Max’s world, Pizza King Station, in Avon, where the train brings you your drinks, is the epitome of SPECIAL)
Please view PhotoBee Blog to view Melissa's business, to see her most recent work. Also, please view Our Family Pictures ~ Wagley, to see the latest pictures ;)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Been a while since posting...UPDATES!
Tessa is 1 years old...actually 15 months. She is a billy goat. lol. She loves to climb. She is learning to talk, she can say: up, down, poop (say & sign), eat (sign), drink (sign), more (say & sign)please (sign), mama, dada. Oh, I almost forgot she can say "cheese" & "nigh, nigh"& "out" (outside)...I'm sure there are other words that I'm missing. She loves her brothers But is very good at pushing them away, since they tend to smoother her. & I mean SMOOTHER! Anytime she hears music she starts to dance (a daughter after my own heart).
Spence is 3 years old. He loves bugs & isn't afraid of anything. While in the Smokies he picked up a crawdad & when we went swimming at a private lake. It was no big deal. He got stung in the finger earlier this year from trying to pick up a "dead" bee. He is really growing up, he can get himself dressed, buckle his own seat belt...He has continually been a 1/4inch up to a full inch taller than what Max was at his age.
Max is 5 years old. He's in Kindergarten, 1/2 day. Rides the bus home. He has a learned a lot before starting school...reading skills, spelling skills, addition & subtraction. Hopefully, the social aspect of school will keep him interested in school & hopefully they hurry & catch up with him. He seems to enjoy it, but has complained about not wanting to go or about being bored. Thankfully they only spent a week on colors. He has had a job in class this week, so he's been very happy about going: handing out papers. Whatever works, I really want him to enjoy school (especially since both Joe & I did). Max's favorite soup is tomato.
Joe is still working at SM&P & for the most part really enjoys his job. He is very good at his job. Of course, he'd really be good at anything. He got his first eagle a couple of weeks ago at Twin Bridges Golf Course...Yay!
If you didn't know all three of the boys LOVE peanut butter & honey!
We went on our first family vacation this year, since Max was one. To the Smokies National Park! We went camping for a whole week. Thanks to the help of several people who took care of our kitties & house. A big"Thank you"! We had so much fun...The boys explored, we went on a couple of family hikes, Joe fly fished (not as much as he wanted) & Tessa & I took naps in a hammock. We also got to spend a lot of good quality time with Joe's' parents (Nana & Papa). Joe's' sister was able to visit for a long weekend. & Two of Joe's' Aunts got to visit. It was a lot of fun! We hope to go again next year! Camping with Joe's' family is awesome...in some many ways...But they definitely don't eat just hamburgers: spaghetti, pork chops, chicken, coffee cake (breakfast)...just to name a few. yum!
We are trying to get all of our ducks in a row, so hopefully we will be able to buy a house, soon. We have been living in this huge 100year old house for over a year now, it is wonderful. There are many things that need updated or improved, But since it is a rental, it is not our place to do what we believe should be done.
I am going to be starting graduate school tomorrow via online ~ working on my Masters of Fine Arts in Photography, for the next three years (5 semesters). I look forward to learning all I can about photography, of course, this will most likely be just a beginning point.
"sx" typed by Tess
Spence is 3 years old. He loves bugs & isn't afraid of anything. While in the Smokies he picked up a crawdad & when we went swimming at a private lake. It was no big deal. He got stung in the finger earlier this year from trying to pick up a "dead" bee. He is really growing up, he can get himself dressed, buckle his own seat belt...He has continually been a 1/4inch up to a full inch taller than what Max was at his age.
Max is 5 years old. He's in Kindergarten, 1/2 day. Rides the bus home. He has a learned a lot before starting school...reading skills, spelling skills, addition & subtraction. Hopefully, the social aspect of school will keep him interested in school & hopefully they hurry & catch up with him. He seems to enjoy it, but has complained about not wanting to go or about being bored. Thankfully they only spent a week on colors. He has had a job in class this week, so he's been very happy about going: handing out papers. Whatever works, I really want him to enjoy school (especially since both Joe & I did). Max's favorite soup is tomato.
Joe is still working at SM&P & for the most part really enjoys his job. He is very good at his job. Of course, he'd really be good at anything. He got his first eagle a couple of weeks ago at Twin Bridges Golf Course...Yay!
If you didn't know all three of the boys LOVE peanut butter & honey!
We went on our first family vacation this year, since Max was one. To the Smokies National Park! We went camping for a whole week. Thanks to the help of several people who took care of our kitties & house. A big"Thank you"! We had so much fun...The boys explored, we went on a couple of family hikes, Joe fly fished (not as much as he wanted) & Tessa & I took naps in a hammock. We also got to spend a lot of good quality time with Joe's' parents (Nana & Papa). Joe's' sister was able to visit for a long weekend. & Two of Joe's' Aunts got to visit. It was a lot of fun! We hope to go again next year! Camping with Joe's' family is awesome...in some many ways...But they definitely don't eat just hamburgers: spaghetti, pork chops, chicken, coffee cake (breakfast)...just to name a few. yum!
We are trying to get all of our ducks in a row, so hopefully we will be able to buy a house, soon. We have been living in this huge 100year old house for over a year now, it is wonderful. There are many things that need updated or improved, But since it is a rental, it is not our place to do what we believe should be done.
I am going to be starting graduate school tomorrow via online ~ working on my Masters of Fine Arts in Photography, for the next three years (5 semesters). I look forward to learning all I can about photography, of course, this will most likely be just a beginning point.
"sx" typed by Tess
Monday, June 8, 2009
Off to the Zoo!
Spence gets to go to the zoo today with Sonja. His first adventure without mom or dad. The zoo trip was Spence's birthday present from Sonja.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Surprise !
Spence turned 3 years old on May 26 & Tessa turned 1 year old on May 27.
Joe flew Papa Morgan in from Montana on Wednesday, May 27. I had no knowledge of this until after Joe drove up & was unloading my dad's suitcase. I did a double take. lol! What a marvelous surprise.
Who's birthday was it? Was it mine? It sure felt like it. It was a nice surprise.
A year ago when Tessa was born I saw my Mom & this year when she turned 1, I got to see my Dad.
The time prior to this visit when I last saw my Dad was when we went to Montana for my 10 year High School reunion, which was the June ('06) after Spence was born.
Joe flew Papa Morgan in from Montana on Wednesday, May 27. I had no knowledge of this until after Joe drove up & was unloading my dad's suitcase. I did a double take. lol! What a marvelous surprise.
Who's birthday was it? Was it mine? It sure felt like it. It was a nice surprise.
A year ago when Tessa was born I saw my Mom & this year when she turned 1, I got to see my Dad.
The time prior to this visit when I last saw my Dad was when we went to Montana for my 10 year High School reunion, which was the June ('06) after Spence was born.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tessa Is A Walker!
Tessa can officially walk. She was walking in the hallway yesterday. Today she stood up in the middle of the room. & Of course, lots of walking.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tessa Is Taking Steps
Tessa is feeling confident. She took three steps from one push toy to another today. She also has attempted several other times. She did take four steps towards me today & then sat down and crawled the rest of the way. She is on her way to becoming a walker.
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