Jayla Update

Here are some recent pictures of Jayla for ya. She is now just over 8months old, and coudn't be a happier baby. She loves her big sister and loves to jump in her johnny jummper (i'll have to upload that video on here also). As you can see she looks completely different from Braily, everyone says shes a daddy's clone. Funny that these two girls are so close in age and look so different from one another.

Wedding Bells

So out of the last 3 weekends we have attended two of our friends weddings. Congrats again to Josh and Lisa Moss, and Erika and Jack Irvin! Your weddings were awesome, you all looked great and we hope you have a great time on those honeymoons! Boom Chick A Waah Wahh! Seriously though, you all have been great friends to us and we wish you guys and gals nothing but the best.

Here are some shots of the brides and grooms and when we were in Detroit for Erika and Jacks wedding during Kate's Birthday.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner for the birthday girl!

New Underwear is the Best!

Doesn't everyone love new underwear! Here is a little video of Braily dancing in her new underwear. Not sure where she is learning these moves (probably her mom) but its pretty funny. She gets so excited to wear them and dance around the house all day, and I'm not kidding! She is jumping bean that doesn't stop. Potty training is just a few days away, any advise?

Wish us luck.

BLINK 182 IS BACK BABY!!!

Really excited to see Blink 182 back together and touring this summer with Weezer and Taking Back Sunday! I'll for sure have tickets to this show when the come to Blossom Sept 2nd.

The Spanish Kid

So, as everyone knows Kate speaks amazing Spanish. None of that "Yeah I speak Spanish too", and then can't even hold a conversation with someone that really speaks it. She speaks it like she was born in Puerto Rico, growing up in the cafes and hanging at the topless beaches all day! Not sure if all that was necessary to say, but I'm just gonna keep on rollin. She has been working with Braily to learn the language, and Kate shot a little video with my phone in the car one afternoon of her progress. Not only does she look like her Mamma, but now shes gonna talk like her too! Amazing how this little girl absorbs all that into her little head.
I love these girls!

Do you have an iPhone?

Thought this was pretty cool. Go check this guy out if you have a second, he's awesome!

Fire Pit

So, last year I tore out a tree in our backyard that was planted too close to our garage. Since I already had this huge hole from ripping it out, I decided to build a fire pit in that same hole. I got some fire bricks from Katie's grandfather, and bought some decorative retaining wall bricks to finish it off. Its about 41/2' in diameter. Really only took a day to build it! Now we are ready to cook up some Hot Dogs and Smores for those chilly spring nights! Her is a pic from my phone.

Starvation Diet

So, today starts another try at dieting. This is crap! I know it always seems to get pushed aside, but not this time! Its too easy to get side tracked and then one thing leads to another and I'm eating mint chocolate chip ice cream out of the container! Umm... that sounds really good right now.

So somethings gotta be different than the last try at this dieting thing, or I'll fail again.

So here are a few goals I'm striving for

-Drinking more water, "i never drink water"

-Eat 4-5 small portions of food a day "no more late night 4th meal"

-Start hitting the treadmill. "or running on it"

-Use my iron gym "to get muscles like Arnold"

-Sign up and commit myself to run in a few local races this spring.

I'll keep you updated on how things are progressing. Right now it just feels like I'm starving myself. Haha

Any tips you can think of for me? post a comment below!

Where The Wild Things Are...!

Does everyone remember how great this book was?

Well check out the trailer to the movie!

Do you Twitter?

"If we can't twitter, we don't exist!!!"

Hilarious video!

New Header Pic

Our friend Susie Linquist is the cream of the crop out in San Diego, CA. She did a little work on my Header picture at the top of the blog. Did you notice??

Thanks Susie it looks great!

Susie makes frequent trips back up to Ohio for photo sessions if you are ever interested. She does amazing work! She actually got the chance to do a photo shoot of Jason Mraz, so go check this girl out @ http://www.susielinquist.blogspot.com/

More Babies!

Yes, it seems everyone we know has had, or is having a baby. Must be that time in our lives, man that kind of makes me feel old! Well here is a quick story of two brothers I've known since kindergarten! No joke. Ryan and Josh are only a few years apart in age, their Mom used to babysit my brother and I all the time after school. Ryan, Josh and I have been in the same school together all the way into college at Mount Union. We have had some hilarious episodes growing up together " I'll save these for another post". About a little under a year ago, Ryan, Josh and their wives went on a little vacation get away together. As competitive brothers would be, they made a bet on which couple could get pregnant and have a baby first! Ha! Now, I would of loved to have been there when this conversation was going on, I'm sure over a couple of beverages! So they both agreed to start trying after the vacation

SO THE RACE WAS ON!

The day they get back from vacation Missy and Tara (the lucky ladies) are PREGO!

They both cheated and started early! Ha!

This is a joke right? Nope, and the docs say they are only a few days apart on their due dates. Missy the 12th and Tara the 13th

This is really going to be a close race!

9 months later?

Ryan and Missy had theirs first, a baby girl Natalia

and

Josh and Tara had a baby boy Gabe

So CONGRATS! to the parents and new babies, all are doing great. What a great story, can't wait until the look on Natalia's and Gabe's face when they tell them how this all went down. Here is a picture of the two below.

Natalia and Gabe