Friday, January 24, 2014

Allisyn: Singles Day from Kelly's Korner Blog!

OK, here we go!  I am doing this for our super great friend and longtime babysitter.  She has been our babysitter/nanny for the past 10 years!  We love her like she is one of our own!  She is such a wonderful, caring, honest, fun, easy to talk to, down to earth Christian gal!!
Allisyn is 23 years old.
From Des Moines, IA

She is currently finishing up school to be a paramedic at the University of Iowa.  She is already an EMT.  She loves Jesus with all of her heart!  She loves kids a TON!  She is pictured above with one of her nieces!
She enjoys four-wheeling, ice skating, going on dates with her nephew and nieces, traveling, pretty much anything active.  She is also training for her first half marathon.

She comes from a great family too!  She has a 2 older sisters, an older brother, and a younger brother and sister who were adopted.  Her grandparents live in Taiwan and run an orphanage which she has spent lots of time at!

Allisyn has a heart of gold and is really looking for a guy who loves the Lord with all of his heart and wants to have a family some day!

Allisyn (in all black) with her siblings.  Fall 2013

If you would like more info on Allisyn or would like me to pass on info to her please comment on this post or email me at shayjay13@yahoo.com


Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I have dropped the ball!!  I started blogging so family far away could keep up with us and to keep an online journal for my children!  With Facebook now its all too easy to neglect my blog!  So I need to try and keep this updated more!

Since my last post.  Noah has turned 9, we went on a fun Spring Break trip to Kansas City, had Easter up in Sanborn with my family, went to Tulip Time in Pella, went to Family Camp at Hidden Acres for the first time over Memorial Day and will definitely make it a traditional thing, had a baby shower for my Sister who is adopting on June 2nd, went to Risefest in Sheldon on Father's Day weekend and got to see some of our favorite Christian artists: Mandisa, Matthew West, Mercy Me, and Jep Robertson from Duck Dynasty!,  my dad unexpectedly had a triple bypass on his heart on July 2nd, my new nephew Caleb was born on the 4th of July, we celebrated a great 4th of July with family at Lake Okoboji, celebrated Avery's 3rd birthday on Jyly 8th, and went to RR Days celebration in Sanborn on July 26th, and now its already August 1st tomorrow and our summer is almost over!  How time flies with a large family.  I feel like the years go by faster and faster now!  Its not fair!!

I have lots of pictures too, but will just post a few to highlight things so this post doesn't get over taken by pictures and will post another entry later for wordless Wednesday with all pics!

Titus is all over now!  Been army crawling since about 6 months, started pulling himself up around 7 months, and scooting along furniture about a week after that!  He is climbing up everything and he can't even walk yet!  He is 11 months old now and a lot of fun!  He starts dancing when he hears music, waves hello and goodbye to everyone, started saying Da Da and just babbling like crazy within the last couple of weeks!  He now has 4 teeth!  More than all my girls did at this age!

School starts August 22nd and before then we have a HUGE August!  We will be traveling to Duluth, MN for my Grandma Hoppe's family reunion.  Mlodozyniec!  Yes, that was her maiden name!  Its 100% Polish! It is pronounced (mo la doe zin yit) We are very excited to go and so is my grandma! I haven't been to one since I was about 9 or 10 years old so about 25 years ago!  There are going to be about 90 of us there!  My Grandma came from a family of 13 children!

Then on August 13th me and Titus are flying to Denver to spend 5 days with my sister and BIL Ryan, and my sweet nephew Caleb!  I come back the 17th and we head to the fair on the 18th and WHAM, school starts!

Here a few pics to share!












Friday, March 22, 2013

Spring Break and Noah's 9th bday!

I feel so horrible that I haven't updated in so long!  With Facebook and being able to post pics I sometimes forget that everyone doesn't have Facebook and I need to post on my blog too!

We are definitely ready for spring to be here, but as of today we are in a Winter Storm Watch through Monday morning!  We could get another 2-4 inches of snow!!  We are ready for thunderstorms and warmer weather!  I love living in Iowa bc I get to experience all 4 seasons, and I am definitely ready for each of them as they come!

Andy took all 3 girls to a Daddy/Daughter dance at our preschool for Valentines Day!  They all loved it! 

Titus turned 6 months old on March 1st!  He is a tiny little thing!  Only weighs 16 lbs which is the 23% and is 28" long which is 53%.  If he continues to grow at this rate he will be 6 ft and 140 lbs as a senior in high school!  Tall and skinny!  He has eaten all the 1st foods veggies and fruits.  Peas, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, peaches, pears, apples, mangoes, prunes, bananas, and rice cereal.  He still nurses every 4 hours or so and sleeps between 10-12 hours at night!  Still naps 2-3 times a day sometimes 4 times a day still! 

Noah turned 9 on March 7th and we had a fun family/friend party at Ramada Tropics Indoor Waterpark Resort on March 9-10th and Auntie Nikki and Uncle Ryan suprised Noah and flew in for his bday!

He just this week started to be able to sit for a little bit at a time without tipping over!  He has been on the move for over a month now!  Up on all 4's rocks back and forth and then lunges forward and in the last 2 weeks started using his elbows and toes to pull himself all around the house!  He is getting so big so fast!   

Avery has also started 2 yr old preschool and is potty training.  She goes poop in the potty all the time, has only had a handful of accidents in the last 3 weeks!  She is doing great!  She loves preschool, she goes once a week until May 15th.  She really needs it too or next year her teacher is going to pull her hair out!@  Avery is very BUSY!!  Into everything and anything on the move constantly and we train and discipline every day trying to get her to listen and follow directions!  She responds well to discipline but still has a ways to go!  Hopefully by the time she turns 3 in July she will be a little better at listening!  My auntie calls her Pistol Pete!  She is the light in our lives right now that is for sure!  She gives us a run for our money every day!

The older 3 also enjoy school a lot and Morgan is super excited to start Kindergarten next year!

We have just been enjoying our Spring Break! We made a trip to Kansas City March 16-18 and went to Legoland, Sealife, and Union Station. My phone died when we got to Union Station so Andy took lots of pics with his phone! However, he has been having major issues with his phone and somehow his SD card keeps getting swiped clean and wouldn't you know it, as he was starting to text me the pics from Union Station it happened and we lost all the pics from that day! But we have it in our minds!

We are looking forward to Easter as we remember what Christ did for us on the cross. He took our punishment so we did not have to die but could live forever with Him! Hallelujah!

We have some other fun things happening in our family and will share about those on the next post!  Here are some pics from our last few months!








Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Our month in pictures!

Well since the entire month of November is gone and the first 5 days of December, I guess its time to show our November in pictures!! So here it goes!


 Noah had a presentation at school about what he wants to be when he grows up!  He wants to be a Robotics Engineer.  He had to tell what his hours would be, how much money he would make a year, and what his job would entail!  He did a very good job and his teacher gave him 100%!
 Crazy Maddie!!!
 Happy boy Titus!!
 Avery's first hike actually doing the hiking!

 Our nephew Max came with us and we had fun, but it was a super long hike and it was the end of the day and it got dark!  Everyone was getting tired and scared and by the end everyone except Max and Noah were crying!  We said it would be a hike we would never forget!

 Sissy wanted Titus to be a princess!! 
 Our Thanksgiving dinner!  Turkey, sweet potatoes, the Pioneer Woman's mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole!
 Avery LOVED the turkey leg!
 Morgan's first Iowa State Men's Basketball game!  She FINALLY got to see CY!!
 Decorating the tree

 Avery putting up her first ornament!
 Morgan
 Noah
 Madison
 The Pelham 5

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Titus 2 months old

Titus is already 2 months old!!! He also already rolled over!! Tummy to back more than once! First time was on Oct. 28th! I knew he was close bc a few days earlier I went in to check on him and found him like this!

He is also FULL of smiles!! His first one was right around 6 weeks old and now he smiles all the time is starting to coo a lot too!! He has his 2 month check up this Friday and I will post stats later from that!<

 

Happy Halloween 2012

 Night Eyes at Blank Park Zoo
 Titus the Pea in the Pod
 A Ninja, 2 witches, a monkey and a pea in a pod!


 Avery wanted to do it too just like sissy, except she wasnt tall enough!  Didn't stop her!



 Beggar's Night Oct. 30th, 2012