Additional Pictures

Adam has uploaded pictures from Cami's birthday and Myrtle Beach to:

http://picasaweb.google.com/acedog2475

Enjoy!!

Busy May and June!

May was a fun month, leading into a crazy month of June! Adam ran in his 3rd Mini-Marathon. Alaina had her Spring Recital for ballet. And Cami, well, Cami enjoyed the last month of being two, with GREAT anticipation of turning three! Here are some pictures from the month of May:

Adam near the finish line!

Sisters playing in the playset

Alaina before her recital (as a caterpillar)

Cami dancing and waiting for Alaina's parade during Spring Fling at The Oaks Academy

June brought some big events: Alaina's last day of 1st grade, Cami's 3rd birthday, and our annual trip to Myrtle Beach. Here are some pics to enjoy:

Cami's party and hippo cake!

Cami on her birthday

Myrtle Beach pictures!

We are looking forward to the remainder of the summer. We have our annual trip to the farm to see our friends the Hern's and some weekend trips to Michigan and Chicago that we are truly looking forward to. I'll have Adam upload more Myrtle Beach pictures to his picture sharing website and will update you when that's completed.

the last two weeks

we've had an interesting last 2 weeks. cami spent a morning in the emergency room for falling and cutting her eyebrow. (not a great pic, but you get the jist.)

they decided against stitches and used "dermabond" instead. basically they superglued her eyebrow back together. it is amazing what they can do these days!

this week, we've spent the last 2 days at home from school because we got over a FOOT of snow tuesday night! the girls were excited to go play. though a foot of snow is a LOT for a 2-year old and cami had a really hard time moving! needless to say, she didn't enjoy the first time out, even with my path through the grass for her. when we went out in the afternoon, she enjoyed it much more and used a sand shovel to help mommy. (adam was in washington dc for work this whole time. not the best timing for a winter storm! shovelling is definitely a man's job!) here are some pics and a video of our morning jaunt in the snow.

(cami, on our enclosed porch - rather than outside!)

(and alaina attempting a snow angel - pretty hard in a foot of snow!)

i did work on digging my car out yesterday afternoon - it took me almost an hour, and i still couldn't get my car into the street because of all the snow plowed around the car. adam ended up being rerouted through HOUSTON to get home from dc, so he got home around 11:45 last night. then spent about 15-20 minutes this morning trying to shovel the street enough that i could get my car out of my parking spot.

i'm hoping for school tomorrow - i'm not sure what i'll do with the girls for a third day stuck in the house!!! and it's super cold today - so cold that even alaina doesn't want to go outside to play in the snow! that's NEVER happened! it's just so windy.

i'm counting the days until spring. only 50 more days!!! it can't come soon enough...

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a lost tooth!

we had a wonderful christmas this year - the girls started the week of christmas off spending some alone time with their grandparents in ft. wayne. this was intended to be a fun time for the girls and a nice break for their parents. :)

instead, adam and i decided to switch around all of our bedrooms as a surprise for the girls for christmas. it was so much more work than we anticipated! when they were brought home on christmas eve by my parents and kev, they found this: (their doors are really not this close together - i just combined the pics)
we told alaina she couldn't wake us up until 7am on christmas morning, and of course, at 7:01 alaina woke us up with cami in tow. here are a couple pics from christmas morning:

(cami just LOVES moons - she always yells "there's my friend the moon!" every time she sees it)

(need i say anything?)

for new year's eve, we spent the evening (and early morning hours!) with some friends - there were 4 couples and 8 kiddos - you'd think it was crazy, but the kids played in the playroom until 11pm and the adults hung out catching up and playing games. here's a picture of alaina, cami and emily in our lame attempt to get the kids to calm down earlier in the night.

alaina started school again on tuesday after more than 2 weeks off. when i picked her up she was telling me that her tooth was getting really loose! so she ate an apple as a snack when we got home - only she took just 3 bites before her tooth starting lodging itself loose and bleeding. after both of us freaked out for about 5 minutes, we composed ourselves and alaina decided she'd just try to pull it out. bam! it popped right out!

and of course cami wanted to show me her teeth too. :)

we're ready for 2009. adam's training again for the mini marathon in may, i've already given up, and the girls are fighting like teenage sisters already. is it 2010 yet?