Welcome Spring

What a beatiful time of the year! The flowering trees are in bloom and are a true visual treat in addition to the color-bursting tulips that are out in full bloom now. What a welcome from the brown and white of winter. We are buzzing about now excitedly adding baseball to our schedule. Both of the boys are playing for the city league, we are looking forward to a great year watching the boys on their teams.

Ryan graduated in scouts to Weebelos I, yeah Ryan!

Jeff was sick with allergies for a long while and is now feeling better-yeah! I am still feeling good, trying to keep up with everything and school is going well.

Emily is doing well, growing like a weed and still so very sweet! She has gone 8 hours twice this week and we are all excited about that!

We'll be winding down our school year studies in a month and then we will start our summer studies in June. Those are simpler and a lighter load than the school year. I am a real advocate of learning year round although I have to admit it is hard to do in the summer and have not always been good at getting it done. I am entering this summer with renewed vigor!

Here are some pictures of what we are up to. :)

Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you had a wonderful day, we sure did. It was fun hanging out at a family, seeing friends, enjoying the beautiful day and eating some good food. Thank you Jesus for what you did for us! We will never be the same!!

Here are some pictures from our day, enjoy!

Cats and smiles

Daddy and his girl: no words can describe how cute this picture is.

Slippers decided to take a cozy nap on the couch. Ahhh, the sight of a sleeping cat makes me sleepy.....

Fat cats: That would be Shadow. What do you think? Does he fall into the fat cat catagory?

He is great! Loveable and snuggly. He loves to have his belly rubbed, seriously! He's the first cat that I have ever known that likes that.

Smiles: Do you like Emily's smile? Isn't it great! That was from yesterday morning when I went in to tell her good morning. What a sweetheart!

The previous posts' picture of the boys I thought was so cute! Jeremy was camping out in Ryan's room that night. They had fun chatting a while and making shadow figures on the ceiling.

TTFN

6 weeks already!

Hey, can you believe it? Emily is 6 weeks old already! Time really flies. I'm not surprised though, the boys have grown up overnight it seems like so I know this time goes so fast.

That is one reason why we decided to homeschool. I want to spend as much time with the kids now because all too soon they will be leaving the house and then that chance is gone.

My mom came up for a visit a couple weeks ago, that was sure a nice visit and Emily sure had a fun time with grandma.

BUT on a lighter note...here are some new pictures of the family. Things are going well and thanks to so many friends who have brought meals and the family for pitching in a lot, things are running smoothly at home. Jeff's mom, sister and neice came from Michigan to see Emily and to help out. What a great time we had! They were a ton of help and it was so hard to see them go, I really missed them the rest of the day after they left.

Emily wakes 1or 2 times during the night-yeah! She loves to be awake and to see people and to go places. She doesn't like to go down for naps during the day but gets tired anyway. Settling down is tough but other than that she is an incredibly happy baby. She is smiling a lot now which is soooo much fun and even cooed at me today! It's really fun to go in to see her in the morning. Even though she is hungry she wakes up with many smiles for whoever is there to great her. I am so blessed and very thankful for my wonderful husband, boys and daughter. :)

Baby love

It has been a little more than 3 weeks now and we are doing well! Emily is getting the hang of eathing and sleeping and I am getting 3 hours of sleep at night at a stretch at night so that is good. The boys are loving their sister and are very proud. She LOVES her daddy's voice and smiles at him a lot too. She is so adorable and is just so very kissable. :) She likes her baths at the kitchen sink in her tub and knows that nights are for sleeping. She is good in church and

seems to just have a cool, sweet personality. We love her so much and are in heaven. We are most certainally very blessed with two healthy boys and one adorable baby girl.

Emily Sue Colegrove

She's here!!!!

Our daughter Emily Sue was born on Wednesday, February 10th at 3:55 pm. She weighed 8.0 pounds and was 21 inches long. Very healthy and very adorable! Such a daddy's little girl already. Labor went well, was only 5 hours of active labor and totally natural-yeah!

We are just over-the-moon in love with her and are so glad she is here to hold and kiss.

She is eating and sleeping well, and doing a lot of both but she is also very alert too and loves to look around. She adores her big brothers and thinks that the play noises they make sound like lots of fun and she can't wait to join their playing.

Welcome Emily Sue!