sweet laughterBrian's 30th birthday (unfortunately that means it was my 30th as well!)

Isabella's 1st Haircut!

FLOOD!!!

Here is what the flood looked like in our neck of the woods!


This picture is across the street in my neighbors yard. The kids had a blast running through the water! There were about a million worms that had all floated up to the surface and that's what they are all looking for! L to R: Daisy (my neighbor Kenny's daughter) , Jackson (neighbor Kelli's son), Cheyenne, Miles (Kelli's cousin Rachel/also my good friend, son), Lili (Kelli's daughter), Zac (aka the love of Kaylins life! Kelli's son), and Kaylin.Zac and Kaylin (they are "married" don't ya know!). The girl has taste... he's a sweet sweet boy and cute to boot!

daddy and matt laughing about all that rain!

This is just a short distance from our house in Munster. This is the road that I take to go to Target and much to my surprise when I was on my way there that the entire store was pretty much under water as was the road to get there! this whole area had been evacuated. I had never seen anything like this in person before! It was like how you see on the news where the people row up to their houses in boats - crazy to see in person!

pointing out the disaster

hello 3 kids... goodbye blogging!

trying to catch up again! it's a little busy with all these babies!

In September I signed up Kaylin for ballet school again - my cousins daughter is in the class also, and Amanda decided to send Cheyenne - The girls love it!

First day of school!
The second week in September we started preschool using Five In a Row. They are having a great time doing school (their favorite part is finding the countries and putting their story disks on the map, as you can see - ping is in the backround hanging out in China!). Kaylin is doing really well with phonics and has already started reading short stories! She's a bit proud of herself too ; )

Isabella "playing" with Matt - she lays all the little people on the boppy next to him "cause he likes 'em"!

One of the several races Brian participated in while the weather was still nice!
The Human Race in Chicago

Shortly after Matt was born Amanda had come over for a visit. The girls wanted to help me out by doing to dishes - they were soooo cute in their little aprons cleaning up!