Last Day!

Today is Andrew’s last day of First Grade and Morgan finished preschool on Monday! It is hard to believe that another school year has passed! It is fun to look back and see how the kids have changed over the school year. Andrew on his first day of First Grade … I realize how much [...]

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Fall Foto Fun

I’m tempted to stop catching up on blog posts, simply because all these photos from warmer days just seem evil. It feels like it’s below zero for the second day in a row. It is supposed to be a balmy 34 on Friday! I think we’ll pull out our shorts! ha ha! For now, here’s [...]

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Birthday Celebrations!

We celebrated the birthdays of Andrew, Paige and our nephew, Henry, with a family party on July 4th. It was a little early for all of their birthdays, but six of the party attendees are currently, or soon will be, in Europe, so it seemed like a good time to get together. Here are some [...]

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Summer Fun #6: Grandma & Grandpa Baumer’s

Here is the first report from our summer fun list! Mom & Dad escaped for a few days and the kids spent some time at Grandma & Grandpa Baumer’s house. I stole some photos from my Mom’s Facebook page. Paige giving  Grandpa a push: Andrew reading to his sisters: Then, Paige decided to read in [...]

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First and Last

Here was Andrew on his first day of Kindergarten: And here he was on his last day: (Photo courtesy of Grandma Baumer who was taking care of the kids while Mom & Dad got away for a few days.) He looks a little older, I think. And he got a new backpack mid-year, as his [...]

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Some Soccer Fun

Andrew played soccer this spring, and he seemed to have a fun time. Here’s his game face: They made some soccer fields in what used to be a corn field on the far northwest corner of town. It’s so windy there most days, that we felt like we needed to tie Paige down, for fear [...]

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Beautiful Girls!

I have failed to get Morgan’s 4-year and Paige’s 18-month photos taken by anyone, so I decided to try to take some myself. It was a lot of fun doing our little photo shoot. We took some in Oskaloosa and some in Pella. The weather could not have been more perfect. The only glitch was [...]

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Easter Fun!

Here’s some photos from Easter! We started with coloring eggs. Mom kind of forgot that we had eggs that were already colored. We get them from Great Grandpa VanUtrecht’s chickens. I wasn’t sure if they would work! Fingers got colored quite well! And the eggs turned out really cool! I love the colors. We really [...]

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Spring Break!

Hooray for Spring Break! It’s nice to get a break from the routine. Here’s what we did: The kids picked this book out from the library. It has several Easter crafty things to try. Morgan is wearing Andrew’s birthday hat from school. He got to celebrate his “half birthday” earlier this month. This was our [...]

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Something Beautiful

The song Something Beautiful by the Newsboys has been in my head a lot lately. It’s a fun, upbeat song that lifts your spirits and makes you want to dance. If you’ve never heard it, you can watch a video here. If you look over to the right at my recent Twitter post, I wondered [...]

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