Elliott turns 6!

Yes, he's 6 now. He was up bright and early to let us know that it was his birthday and that he didn't want anyone to butter his nose (we all know that was impossible)! In fact, he drew a picture of ALL the things that he didn't want to happen on his birthday, including NO TEEBALL, NO CHOMPING, NO FACE WHISKERS, NO NOSE-BUTTERING, NO WATCHING COLLEGE FOOTBALL and NO NOISES FROM ETHAN (this last one being the most difficult as any of you who have spent any time with Ethan lately would agree with). So we had birthday pancakes, he took treats to school, he got to eat at McDonald's for lunch and we opened gifts and played this afternoon. I think he had a pretty good day since he was still saying that he couldn't get to sleep at 9:30 tonight!

a little recap....

Here's just bits and pieces of what we've been up to lately. I'll try to be better about keeping this updated!

Nana and PaPa visit

I've been way behind with the blogging...sorry!!! I'm trying to catch up with summer now and one of our biggest things this summer was Nana and PaPa's visit from Florida. They got to stay up here for almost 2 weeks and we were very sad to see them go. We had so much fun and we usually don't get to spend that much time together so it was nice that they were able to get away for a while!

First Day of Preschool

Tuesday was Ethan's first day of preschool this year. It was a pretty smooth day since he has the same teacher again this year - we love Ms. Wendy! Of course I could hardly get him to stand still for a picture, let alone make a face that wasn't silly. That would be too fake for him. This is the real Ethan. Anyway, he had a good day. He was a little miffed that we wouldn't just drop him off in the circle drive and let him go in by himself like Elliott does for kindergarten, but he survived. Independence sure is fun!!

Triathlete

Brian completed his first triathlon yesterday morning at Alligator Creek in O'Fallon! He and our neighbor had been training for a while and we were excited for both of them to finish. It was a grueling course with tons of steep hills (apparently not so good when you have a heavy mountain bike and your chain keeps falling off). We're ready to watch the next one, guys!!

New look

Just wanted to say sorry for all the changes in the blog lately....I've been trying to make it more interesting - I like to change things up a little every once in a while. I'll probably still mess with it a little over the next few weeks, but hopefully it's just about done. But THANK YOU to Vicki for getting me the instructions on how to make the blog look cool!! I owe you one!

Ten Years Today!

Ten years ago today I got to marry the love of my life....I can't believe it's been ten years. Here we are, 2 kids, 3 apartments, 2 houses, 3 churches, 5 cities, 5 cars, 3 computers, uncountable cell phones and 10 years later. God has truly blessed our marriage and I'm so thankful to be able to spend this day together.