Wednesday nights!

Micah started Awana on Wednesday nights at church a few weeks back.  Our little boy is a Puggle!  

Staci and Tina ordered -tshirts and backpacks for the kids...it is so cute!!

Micah had a great time last night.  He learned that God made the sky and everything in the sky-clouds, moon, sun, and stars.  

Strangely enough, Mama is learning the same things in Genesis in BSF this year!

 Rocking our opposing teams- "Future Wolverine" and "Future Spartan"!

 Jennie-26 weeks on Friday, Alli-31.5 weeks! Time flies!

Baby Addy and Baby Maddie

Camping

This past weekend was our church's annual camping trip to Van Buren State park.  It was quite an adventure as it rained a lot of the time, huge gusts of wind, and it hailed three different times! Gotta love tent camping! Luckily Alli and Miles borrowed another family's pop up camper, so we were able to stay dry during the day. Micah, of course, was a star camper.  He just loves being outside and exploring.

 Chilling at a campfire during a dry spell, Sunday morning

 Micah and Matt built this fire!

Now back tracking these past couple of weeks-Matt turned the big 3-0 on September 15th. We had a big get together at our house to celebrate with grilling and a bon fire.  Ashamed to say I did not take any pics of the day....I'm a bad wife!

Then this past Tuesday, September 18th, a new nephew arrived! Jess and Myke welcomed their first baby, Braeden Elisha! We went to South Bend that night to visit. He is just too precious! I can't wait to go and visit again now that they are at home!

And in not so exciting news, Micah helps fold laundry and Matt built a new storage system for Micah's toys in the living room!

22 weeks

22 weeks as of yesterday!

 Micah loves to kiss the baby belly! He says Adelie as "Alalie"!

Happy September!!! 

I hope I get to meet a new nephew here soon, should be anytime now!!

Our Baby! It's a...

We had our ultrasound appointment this morning. Our baby is looking perfect!  We found out the gender and decided to have a revealing party with family.  I made cupcakes and filled them with the color frosting coordinating with the gender...Everyone bit in at the same time, and...

 Mama Maier squealed, best reaction!

 The frosting was PINK!!!  Its a girl!!!

 Mom and her daughters, and their future kids! Probably the last opportunity for Jess and I to still be pregnant at the same time (she is due in 1.5 weeks!!)

 Ultrasound pics-I didn't blow them up or anything, they weren't that fantastic. If you want to see them, just ask!

 The kids enjoyed the cupcakes!  

So here it is, our baby girl!  Her name is Adelie Jane Maier!

We are so thrilled!

Trip to Mancelona

We went up north this past week to Dave and Ashley's cabin in Mancelona, also with the Maier's.  Had such  a great time swimming, playing with cousins, and the grown ups playing too much Settlers of Catan!

Our fearless swimmer! Before this swimming time, he actually said he would be right back, ran into the cabin to retrieve for me a swimmer diaper to put on him!! The boy loves to swim

 The flying squirrel

 Finley and Micah eating Craisins like it is their job!

 Beautiful sunset

 Micah and Teague watching the Elmo movie that was watched a few too many times

 Micah found a new friend-a fuzzy catepillar

 Still holding his "bug" in his hands

 Pooped after an awesome week up north! Thanks Dave and Ashley for having us for the week!!!

Where did the summer go??

Finally realizing summer is coming to a close.  Matt has finally received his assignment/placement -Lincoln Elementary School, 5th grade! He has been in his classroom since Tuesday (which was the first time he had seen it) getting ready for the year.  He is very excited for this move! Good to be a Bear again!

 Another Kramer incident

20 weeks as of yesterday!!! Half way point

Next pregnancy post will be after our ultrasound on August 28th! We are so excited to find out the gender of our little Jelly Bean!!

Just some pictures!

Built a fort with Daddy

 Eating his first Twinkie

 Updating Micah's room-finally making into a big boy room! The desk is downstairs, moved the dresser to the wall where the desk was, Paris pics are down, and his name is on the wall!

 Name above his bed-pardon the unmade bed

 And Kramer has a boyfriend...Just brought this lion home from Matt's classroom because we needed it for VBS this week, and Kramer wanted to hold his paw!