Our Family

Monday, March 30, 2020

Aug 19 misc

Mark and the girls learned the Git Up together and it was /is so cute

Jaren messing around with all our medical stuff we have here - which is to much

Beautiful rainbow out our backyard

Mark and I had our 20 year high school reunion this August and there couldn't have been a more perfect shirt for Taylin Tess to wear. We found this in a box from Mark's folk one time when they were giving us his stuff.

Here is a picture of Amy and I's good High School Friends

Kim, Kendra and Karla Ellenz

We were one of the 4 sets of twins in our class and Then these fine triplets :)

We took a very nice family walk down the trail as we were training for me to go on the walk in Nov.

Jaren got his football playbook and wanted to practice the new plays.

He tried to do it with these cones, but it wasn't working great

So we had some friends/teammates over to practice

Landrie got a tie dye kit from her Godfather for her birthday.

She had so much fun doing this

Adoption Day dinner!!! (Ryland was here just to short to make the shot)

These pictures are so weird to come across right now at this time.

Ryland just had his first Zoom video with his class today for his

continual online learning after school was cancelled for the remainder of the

year because of COVID-19

Here are the kids at open house this year with their teachers.

Ryland and Mrs. Pauly

Landrie and Mrs. Stockamer

Jaren and Mrs. Lilly

Fun family swim day at Goddard Pool

Friday, March 27, 2020

Jaren and Taylin's birthday fun day

Urban Air is for sure a family favorite.

Everyone can have fun and burn some energy together.

Plus out of our 4 children these two spend the most time on the trampoline in our backyard.

I just watched this year, but I am nearing being done with physical therapy on my toe from the MAY surgery so hopefully this coming year (if we are allowed to go in public again) I will get to jump. Sadly I know it won't be the same as I simply don't have the range of motion in my toe that would be needed to 'really' jump on a trampoline - I will get to more walk around with them, but better than sitting on the sidelines.

Taylin turns 3!!!

I know some of these are duplicates from Jaren's post

but when you celebrate two kids birthdays at one party that's what you get :)

Taylin Tess is such a go with the flow girl.

So happy and spunky and full of life.

Buddah - you are amazing!!!

Birthday spankins from Papa Mike

Taylin's birthday day

At three is the first year that I do the video of them answering questions on their birthday's.

So here is her first video!

We got Taylin a big girl bed for her birthday.

We bought it from a friend and painted it black with glitter sparkles on it.

I always have thought trundle beds would be fun so I am living vicariously through Taylin with this one. Extra fun part is the trundle that slides out also raises up and makes this a king size bed!!!

We had her take a nap in our room this day and traded out the beds while she was napping - she had no idea - it was so fun. She had seen us painting this thing in the garage but had no idea it was a bed frame much less for her.