Clarksville, Michigan Baby Shower

A few updates of Hannah and Nolan:










Jeff and I traveled to Michigan on Friday afternoon to visit our family in Clarksville. Mom DeJongh had arranged for a shower for Reid on Sunday afternoon. What a wonderful day! Aunt Wenda came over along with her three girls and thier children. Kathy, Mike, Julie, Don, Ry, and Ty came too. I can't get over how grown the two boys are getting! I should have taken a picture to update! WOW! We got a lot of beautiful gifts.

Linda made a quilt for Reid and included this beautiful poem:

It's Your Quilt

It's okay if you sit on your quilt,
Its okay if your bottle get spilt,
If you swallow some air
And you burp, don't despair;
Its okay if you spit on your quilt.


There are scraps old and new on your quilt,
Put together for you on your quilt.
If your gums feel numb,
'Cause your teeth haven't come,
Its okay if you chew on your quilt.


We expect you to lie on your quilt.
If you hurt, you may cry on your quilt.
On a cold, rainy night,
Don't you fret; you're all right;
you'll be snug, warm, and dry on your quilt.


-by Nancy Riddell


This poem and the beautiful quilt, made with so much love, made me cry a bit. Linda copied the sailboats on the border in his room to stitch onto the quilt. It is so precious!

Easter in Hartford...

Jeff and Hannah hang out on the couch while she finishes waking up from the ride to Uncle Kevin and Auntie Shannon's.



Reid's Easter basket from his Memere. You can see the belly!


Nolan, the little climber, plays around on the couch with Daddy and Uncle Matt. He is now walking around! He will be ONE soon! Wow, time goes fast!

Happy, Happy Easter to All!

We are off to my brother's house today to celebrate Easter. Happy Easter to you all! We will update the BLOG tonight with photos of the babies and how much they have grown. Nolan is walking around and spitting (he learned it from his grammy Debbie...she says accidentally) and Hannah is laughing and doing "raspberries". They are both so adorable and fun!

It IS April....right??

Jeff and I woke up on Thursday morning to a day off from school and about 14 inches of freshly fallen snow. YUCKY! I was hoping that spring was really here. We had taken out the deck chairs and everything! We headed out to clean up the mess. Jeff snowblowed while I cleaned off the cars and steps and played in the snow. It was a beautiful morning, with the snow all on the trees. I guess we can appreciate that it wasn't more snow than that.

I took the rest of the day to go through more shower gifts and set up the Pack-n-Play. It is in the living room. VERY CUTE! We covered it in plastic to keep the naughty cats out. We also got a screen door to go on Reid's bedroom to keep them out of there without having to keep his door closed. It began as a joke a few years back with a friend of mine but a screen door does make a lot of sense!