Hiatus

Yes, it's been awhile - my camera was on the fritz and we've been crazy busy!!

So what have we been up to, you ask?!

Well, for starters....

• Scott put in a 'dog run' in the backyard, so we could control the 'pooping grounds'
• I planned a baby shower for Kelly (so much fun!! Can't wait to meet you baby K!)
• We have the "mother of all garage sales" coming up in June, and I thought I'd start preparing now.
• Reglazed our bathtub (thanks to the hard work by my hubby!) and it looks amazing!
• I went on a shopping excursion to Schaumburg over Spring Break
• Scott is creating a food plot for the deer out at his dad's
• Scott is also gearing up to plant a garden in the back yard
• Scott has been enjoying some free time on fridays and has gotten out fishing a couple of times
• With the welcome spring weather (which can come back anytime as far as I'm concerned) it put us in the mode to do lots of 'spring cleaning'.
• We've been trying to get out as much as we can and enjoy the nice weather

Oh, guess what? Did I tell you? I am Dutch Dancing this year - come watch if you can:
Saturday, May 2 4:00 pm - Corner of Central and 12th
Tuesday, May 5 7:00 pm - Corner of Central and 10th
Wednesday, May 6 8:00 pm - On 8th St in front of Dress Code (between River and Central)
Thursday, May 7, 8:00 pm - On 8th St in front of Teermans (between Central and College)
Friday, May 8, 8:00 pm - On Central (just south of 8th St)

In other news...Owen has had some fun lately, learning how to (slowly but surely) move around the foot stool while standing up, he also realizes now what a reaction he gets when he laughs and so puts himself into major laughing fits and has also developed a fake laugh (which is nothing short of adorable), he got to spend some time with Uncle Nathan and Teresa in Fremont Over Spring Break and also some time with Uncle Travis and Katy (while mom and dad went on a date - since the Steven Curtis Chapman/Michael W Smith United Tour was in town a couple of weeks ago, we decided to go with Scott's parents and Jen and Paul - it was an awesome concert!).

Owen has also been growing some more chompers (pronounced: chom-(with a long o) -peas)! He now has three bottom teeth and two top teeth and has started to eat little gerber puff cereal (reluctantly, at first, as he much prefered his 'baby food' - but has since discovered the luciousness that is 'real food' - or partially real anyway, since he still refuses anything else - including bananas, noodles, etc).

Verbally, he still says dadada all the time, but no mama yet!! He's also trying to say cat (every time he sees her he makes a 'k' sound).

He's also still doing awesome after he got his tubes put in and has been sleeping through the night (which really couldn't make me much happier)!!! He got to feel the grass in his toes (along with grass and sticks in his hands too) and though it was just grand!

He takes after his dad (HC!)


Owen also loves looking out the front window (and apparently licking it (pardon the rain splatters))...


So sweet (I think he's in the process of making a fun noise by rubbing his hand over his mouth...


Oh - and when I was getting some pics off my old camera - I stumbled across this forgotten pic - from a couple of months ago...so precious

and to top it all off...this is just plain hilarious, for a number of reasons...