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.

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:

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 ;)