Valentines Day and Pictures

It has been awhile since any posts and updates. To start things off today Mari is 16 months old. Wow, what a big girl.

Let's see what have we been up to. It has been snowing a lot, I can't say I enjoy it that much, but Mari loves to go sledding and play in it. So we try and get out when it is not to cold.

I am not sure if I have posted the updates on baby boy, but he is getting big and is healthy. He loves to kick and push a lot too, especially my bladder. We will be having a scheduled c-section on May 20th. I can't believe how quickly this has went. This last weekend Grammy Quirk came out and helped me get organized and ready for the new addition. And of course love on and spoil little miss. We had a great time with her. Thanks for all your help. We love you!!

Here are a few pictures from the last month....

Mari loves to try and play the Wii with her daddy.

Whoops I forgot to rotate the pictures so enjoy them sideways.

Mari has started to love help cleaning up. It is so cute to watch her try and do things I do. She loves to throw trash away. Here we are going to mop even if we don't need to.

Unfortunately Daddy had to work on Valentine's Day, but after church we made little heart cakes. I thought it would be fun to try and have Mari help out, well she tried, but this was the outcome.

The sprinkles jammed right into the cake. It was still good though!

Using the head scratcher.

This is during kid care at church. Watching a video with her friend Jesse. Too Cute!!

Shooting baskets with Dad. Starting early, she loves to play ball.

A GREAT VISIT!!!

Well last weekend we had lots of family out for a wonderful visit. Mari had her first sleep over. She stayed with Grandma and Grandpa every night and did pretty well. It was nice for Greg and I as well to sleep in a bit. Thanks for that. We stayed very busy and loved every minute. It was very sad to see everyone go. Thanks to everyone for making the trip out and we hope to see you all again soon. Love ya!

Grandpa hanging out with the kids eating their favorite snack of the week. Crushed Ice! :)

Trying out the goggles for the guys before they went snowmobiling the next day.

Greg was great and taught Emmanuel and Omega how to ski and was able to get Matt into a snowboarding lesson. Everyone did great and had so much fun.

Those of us that did not ski, met them for lunch and then hung out at the restaurant. This was how Aunt Cindy kept the kids entertained. Thanks Aunt Cindy for playing with the kids so much that week. It was so fun to watch them.

Liam loved hugging Mari on the ride.

The house that they all stayed in was not the most kid friendly. So we mastered the stairs this week. Here they are upstairs playing on the couch. Once again the cousins got along so well and had such a great time.

We took the kids out to sled in the driveway at the house they stayed in. It snowed most the time they were here. The adults all got cold before the kids did, but they had fun.

WEEEEE.........

Handsome fella.

Dinner time, which is usually a task to get Mari to eat. However, it was spaghetti and she devoured it. Hopefully she will continue to like it.

Giving kisses. How precious.

Here are a couple videos of them sledding.

Christmas Morning

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We had a great day and were very blessed. This was the only day Greg had off out of about 16 days (the price of working for the resort). We have 3 days with him this weekend.

Our morning began very early with Mari puking every where. Thankfully it was just an upset stomach and nothing worse. After everyone and everything was clean we went downstairs for all the gift opening.

WOW!! Santa came.

Mari was ready to dig in.

Let's start with this one.

Santa brought Mari this sled, which has been a big hit. It was also a great place to sit and open a few gifts.

Grandma and Grandpa Keating got Mari this great big girl chair. She loves to sit and have snack or rock her babies. She also loves to stand and sit on the arm rests. We are getting better since we have fallen a few times.

More and More gifts. She loved opening them, not necessarily caring what was in them. She would rip open one and then sign more more.

The after math. What a great morning. It was so fun to watch her love opening all the gifts. It was nap time quickly after.

After she woke up all the trash was picked up and toys put together. Grandma and Grandpa Nienhouse got this fun horse and Grammie and Grampie Quirk got the fun playland with the ball pit.

We can say that everything has been very popular. Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful gifts.

Tonight is the Michigan State and Texas Tech bowl game. Mari and Daddy all decked out and ready to cheer them on to a hopeful victory.

Oh yes, and lastly we had our ultrasound and doctors appt. today. We just want to report that the baby is healthy and very active. HE, yes I said HE, is measuring right on track and will be here at the end of May. We are very excited and now to get ready for this little man to join our wonderful family.

Family Pictures and Santa

Merry Christmas to everyone. We did not send out Christmas cards this year, so we are sorry for that. We will be staying here and going to some friends house for dinner Christmas evening. We wish we could be with family, but living here it is tough to get back home. Some friends had a Christmas party at their house and Santa came for the kiddos. It was a lot of fun to hang out with friends.

Our family pictures at the party.

Our friends Erika and Jude.

Here is Santa, we are doing okay as long as mom is here.

Oh, wait I'm not so sure about this guy.

Now I am happy! No Santa and a gift.

The party.

This picture is for Uncle Brian and Aunt Celine. Mari got this awesome hat for her birthday and we have even worn out.

Here are some of our family photos.

Mari is blowing kisses in this picture.

The outside pictures are my favorite.

Mari did okay considering she decided that she only need a 1/2 hour nap that morning. So as you can see in most of her pics she looks very serious.

Her beautiful Christmas dress.

Who says I don't know how to read.