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Apple picking and Blandford Nature Center

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guitar guy

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More Halloween

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Happy Halloween

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Horses

Funny statement of the week:
Isaac goes running into the living room complaining about Luke running off "Daddy, Lukie let go of his horses!"
Guess he really listens when mike says, hold your horses.

Isaac says today at dinner: "mommy, lukie is growing up and pretty soon u will have two boys"

He is so sweet and knows exactly the way to my heart!

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Isaacisms

Mike catches Isaac eating a tootsie roll today. He says, "Isaac what are you doing, why are you eating that?" He knows he can't eat candy by himself. Isaac says, "Nothin' daddy, I'm just having a protein bar." Apparently mommy's protein bars have too much chocolate and not enough protein if they taste like a tootsie roll =)

Happy Halloween!

Trick-or-treating was fun this year! We went around the neighborhood with our nieghbors and their family. Isaac was a "hockey guy" and I will definitely post pics when I finally download them from my camera! Luke wore Isaac's halloween costume that he had when he was one. It is a pumpkin costume that I made. I really felt like my boy was growing up wathching him run around the neighborhood trick-or-treating, holding hands with his little neighbor girlfriend. I just love being a mom, watching them grow up, seeing all of their stages. I feel so fortunate to have two little boys and they just change right before our eyes. We are such a lucky family! God has given us the best blessings!

Bumps n Bruises

We are initiated into the raising boys club! Luke got his first set of stitches on Thursday. Isaac was the only witness but Mike was in the garage (for a second!) and heard a scream. He came into the house to see Luke walking into the kitchen post accident. Mike couldn't tell where he was injured at first bc of the well, blood, but he cleaned him up and realized he split his forehead. We tried to avoid stitches but he needed them. I am so grateful to my attending, Dr. Taylor, who is a peds ENT, for sewing him up!! It meant so much to me bc I couldn't be Dr. to my own kid. It hurts me more than him! So Luke has four stiches from the corner of the wall, Isaac said he was trying to show him how to be a hockey guy . . .

In fairness to Isaac, he was genuinely concerned and was so sweet and caring to Luke. It was a total accident.

updated photos!

Some photos from Luke and Isaac's most recent shoot! These were taken by my friend, Jenn, who actually delivered Luke!
Isaac: 3 yrs
Luke: 1 yr

We love our babysitters!

Isaac probably didn't mind that mike was working and I am in indianapolis! Jenn and Joe did a great job!!






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Another hockey boy!

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Indy

Well all of our fun traveling is done and now I am doing some not so fun traveling. We all went back to KS for a few days in May and in the meantime Mike and I left the kiddos with his parents and went to Miami for a few days. It was a nice relaxing time to be together. Now I am in Indianapolis where I am doing a rotation for one month. I have to come back here in September too. It is a great rotation, in terms of getting to see interesting surgeries and things that isn't even done in Grand Rapids. I was definitely ready for a change to am thankful to be doing some different and fun surgeries. Of course, I terribly miss my kids. We stay busy here which helps and I am working on a research project. I'm also trying to update some baby books while I am here! I have been running a lot here too and found some nice trails. The worst times are at night when I miss my kids and I'm in my hotel so prayers would be appreciated for my kids who miss me too, my husband who is being a single dad at home for a month, and for me who is missing my kids! So a lot of you may be getting calls from me on Friday nights and Sunday nights on my drive from Indy to GR and back on the weekends I go home!!

On a happier note, it is just amazing to watch Isaac continue to develop his language skills. Last week, he had an owie and Mike told him to pray to Jesus to help make himself feel better. The next day, he said, "Jesus helped me feel better daddy! Daddy, who is jesus? Where does he live?" After Mike tries to explain . . . "Where is heaven?" he's been very inquisitive about Jesus lately. Saying to Grandma as she left today for church, "Gamma, do you love Jesus?!" I guess he wanted to confirm that he wasn't the only one who had heard about this Jesus =)

La Vidal Miami

Heres a pic from where I am sitting right now in Miami! This is the place where the Victorias secret fashion show was this year. Clearly, I fit in, ha ha.


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Love and Laughter

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Cute boys

Yesterday Mike and Isaac watched a little of the royal wedding.

Isaac looking at westminster abbey said " what's that building?"
Mike " it's a church"
Isaac, thought for a moment " do u think they have toys at that church?"
I guess it looked a little fancy to him compared to his idea of a church



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Happy Easter

Enjoy celebrating this special day of Jesus' resurrection!



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The great hunt

The boys and I went off to a local church for an Easter egg hunt. It was fun bc Isaac actually understood the point this year. He was a little overwhelmed w all the ppl but had fun using his baseball Easter basket. The best part was when we got home and I got a big snuggle on the couch while we were warming back up!



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KC love

Here's a picture of "Also" as Isaac calls him. We tried to go on a walk tonight and it was sooo cold! But at least the sun was shining so we had to get outside and playand. Thanks to our Kentucky friends, Luke had a nice new handmade blanket to keep warm in



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Up in the tundra

So this is the view from my frontdoor this am we miss Kansas


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