Website Updates

I haven’t completely abandoned updating the website, it just seems like I have less and less time to do this stuff. If you have been following the home page there have been a couple of updates but I haven’t posted about them her so here’s the summary from the last time.

  • Caroline’s Birthday – Back in February we had a Mary Poppins themed birthday party for Caroline. It started off with her listening to the movie soundtrack, then she saw the movie, and then it was the party.
  • Alex and Andrew’s Birthday Party – The boys decided that they both wanted to have a bowling/laser tag party so we did a combined party.
  • Andrew Spring Soccer – Couple of pictures from Andrew’s spring soccer season.
  • Alex Spring Lacrosse – Couple of pictures from Alex’s spring lacrosse season.
  • Caroline’s First Haircut – I think we actually held out a really time before we took her for her first haircut but it was starting to get out of control.
  • Yearly Pictures – We did take our traditional yearly pictures again this year and we did do it right around their birthdays which was a small miracle. Here are Caroline, Alex, Andrew, and the Group pictures.
  • Mammoth Caves and Ryan’s Graduation – In May Ryan graduation from Law school at IU and as part of the trip up there we also visited Mammoth Caves, a bit of Louisville, and the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.

Website Update

Once again I’ve been pretty lax in keeping the website updated. There has been all kinds of stuff going on but I’ve just been falling behind.

We kept our tradition of taking yearly pictures of the kids but with all the bad weather we had around Caroline’s birthday we ended up taking her pictures a little late. In fact we didn’t get around to it until May so we just did everyone’s pictures on the same day. This worked out really well since we were able to take a bunch of group pictures that we’ve never done before.I think the group shots turned our really nice and we’ll probably try and do those every year.

Here are the links to the individual picture pages.

Right after the kids got out of school Jen drove with them to Watercolor Florida like we did last year to vacation with her family. Unfortunately I had a conference I needed to attend for work during that same week so I was only able to join them on the last day. Even though it was only for the day it was still fun and on the way back we stopped in to visit the USS Alabama battleship in Mobile Bay.

Then last weekend we surprised the kids with a trip to Sea World San Antonio. Over the summer Jen has been doing a “theme of the week” activity with the kids. The week they started piano lessons they had a music themed activity they did each day. The week before Sea World they were doing water animal themed activities. On Thursday I came home from work early and we surprised them with the trip. I wish I had a picture of Andrew’s face when he made the connection that we were going to be leaving right now, not in a couple of days, he looked like he was going to explode with excitement. Unfortunately we’ve now set the bar really high on surprises and I’m not sure we can top it.

 

Yearly Pictures – Finally Done!

I know it’s just about the end of June now and I’ve finally got around to getting the yearly pictures posted. I got Caroline’s done back in February but just didn’t get around to getting the boys pictures finished even through we took them relatively close to their birthdays.

Here’s Andrew’s Pictures and Alex’s Pictures. And, in case you missed it, here’s Caroline’s Pictures.