Summer Review

Kallie ready for dance. Really Liam??

Apple Orchard trip with my brother Stan and family.

The county fair.

Not a big fan!


"Cat in a hat" written by Kallie.


First day of swimming lessons this summer.

MN Zoo

Soil mess...:-(

Hello all! I am finally getting around to updating this thing. Things have been pretty good for the most part for us. I really enjoyed having the summer off with the kids and getting all settled in to the new house. We are absolutely loving the area we live in and are trying to get in all kinds of community activities! This summer we enjoyed going to the numerous parks, the Mall of America, the county fair, the MN state fair, the waterpark, the beach, and so on. The weather was absolutely wonderful for us this summer. I hope every summer continues to be like this one!

Updates on kids:

Kallie has really started to become a little lady now. Some of the things she says crack us up. So grown up sometimes. She really enjoys using that imagination of hers and is very content playing by herself with her Barbies, or Polly Pockets, or My Little Ponies. We also often played school this summer and I, of course, used that to my advantage and worked on her numbers, letters, and writing with her this summer. She caught on pretty quickly, which gives me hope!! She has one more year yet before starting kindergarten. Hard to believe she will be five next month. This summer we also did swimming lessons with her. I will definitely be continuing that. She also had a Little Sporties class where they introduced her to many different kinds of sports. We'll see what happens with that! Right now we are doing an intro to dance class. That goes through November, so we'll see if she continues to be as excited about it as she is now!

Liam is all boy...need I say more??!! He brings us so many smiles througout the day. Such a funny guy. He loves to climb on his sister, which she isn't always very fond of. So the sibling spats have definitely begun. The highlight for me right now is his development of his speech. He is saying so many words right now and repeating so many things..so fun! We continue to worry about him though. He is going to see a cardiologist next month per request of his doctor. He has had a heart murmur for about a year now, and when we lived in IN they did a heart echo and everything looked fine, so they didn't refer him to a cardiologist. This new dr. would like him to see one just to be on the safe side. She said it is a pretty light murmur,which is good, but she'd hate for anything to go undetected. I will keep you posted.

As for Jim and me, nothing too exciting. Jim has been very busy at work and is learning to handle a bigger store than he had before. I am in the process of waiting for sub jobs. The kids have started their new daycare and go just in case I should get called.

Last Fri, the 18th, my Grandma Moore passed away and went home to her eternal resting place. It has been hard, but I am so thankful that she is no longer suffering. She will be missed by all. Thankfully, I will see her again!

Hope all is well with all of you and that you are experiencing joy in your life. Much love.

New house

Front view of house
Side patio

Rear view of house..deck is from master bdrm

View of back patio

Fire pit and lower deck...horseshoe pit is below deck(back part of back yard sits on a slant)

Liam's room

Upper level bathroom

Whirlpool tub in master bdrm.

Master bedroom

Another view

Vanity area in master

Part of master closet

Upper level family room

Another view

Office/Exercise room in upper level of master(still in process :-) )

Another office view

Kitchen

Dining area view from kitchen

Lower level family room

Basement..rec room

Kallie's room...she insisted on being in the pic!

Play room in lower level

Lower level bathroom

Lower level bar area near family room

Here's some pics of the new house. I was blessed to have my mother and my aunt Sue come and paint some of the rooms of the house while I was still in IN and Jim was in the new house. They did a great job. Thankfully the colors turned out great. I had picked out some swatches after only seeing the house two times! I put my faith in my husband, mother, and aunt, and thankfully it all turned out well! They did great! During that time, my mother also did some unpacking and that helped out greatly also. Thanks mom! So when I finally showed up at the end of May, most of my house had been unpacked! Yippee! We are enjoying the home. Kallie seems to be adapting well to being on a floor separate from the rest of us...thank goodness. It is a tri-level home when a basement, so four levels in all. We get our exercise with the stairs! We city that we live in has a wide variety of parks so we have been enjoying checking those all out. There is a lot more to explore to the area, so we are looking forward to checking that all out! Stay tuned!