Hi Everyone,
This is going to be short - I am in the library with the kids climbing all over me. :-)
We are doing well in Minnesota - love the neighborhood we are in. Right behind St. Paul's cathedral in St. Paul, MN with parks, coffee shops, and fun restaurants all over the place.
The weather is great - as it always seems to be in Fall. The kids and the dog like the condo we are renting, and Matt and I are reliving the med school days of urban living. I kind of like it, easier than I thought it would be with the kids.
I'll try to get some photos up soon - promise!
Hope you are all enjoying the weather and the beginning of the greatest sports season there is - football, of course.
We send our love!
Thursday, September 13
Wednesday, August 15
ATL
Hey Everyone!
Yeah, so I really am not so great at the blogging thing. But I'll keep trying.
So we are in Atlanta now while Matt is doing an visiting residency thing with a sports med surgeon down here. He is having all sorts of fun not taking call, seeing Hank Aaron in the office, and hanging out with Joey Harrington and the Falcons.
The kids and I are having a pretty good time ourselves hanging out with Matt's brother Tim, his wife Krista, and their little one Jackson, as well as Matt's Uncle Phil and Aunt Stephanie (with whom we are staying), and their boys - Jonathan, Travis, and Drew. Luke thinks he has died and gone to heaven with a house full of boys AND all their old toys to play with. :-) Hailey has also won over the boys, and they keep her quite entertained as well.
It's been ridiculously hot down here so far, so we just go from house to poool to house to eat to house. Would love to be able to go on more walks or go to the park, but it's just too hot. On the plus side, all the trips to the pool have served Luke well. He is swimming on his own now (when he wants to), and loves loves loves the pool.
I'll try to get some photos up soon!
Hope everyone is enjoying August!
Yeah, so I really am not so great at the blogging thing. But I'll keep trying.
So we are in Atlanta now while Matt is doing an visiting residency thing with a sports med surgeon down here. He is having all sorts of fun not taking call, seeing Hank Aaron in the office, and hanging out with Joey Harrington and the Falcons.
The kids and I are having a pretty good time ourselves hanging out with Matt's brother Tim, his wife Krista, and their little one Jackson, as well as Matt's Uncle Phil and Aunt Stephanie (with whom we are staying), and their boys - Jonathan, Travis, and Drew. Luke thinks he has died and gone to heaven with a house full of boys AND all their old toys to play with. :-) Hailey has also won over the boys, and they keep her quite entertained as well.
It's been ridiculously hot down here so far, so we just go from house to poool to house to eat to house. Would love to be able to go on more walks or go to the park, but it's just too hot. On the plus side, all the trips to the pool have served Luke well. He is swimming on his own now (when he wants to), and loves loves loves the pool.
I'll try to get some photos up soon!
Hope everyone is enjoying August!
Tuesday, June 26
Month of June
Whoops! Didn't mean for this to be a monthly blog! Oh well, life happens I guess. We had a great month of June. We enjoyed the weather finally turning warmer for good, went strawberry picking (my jam actually turned into jam this year - hooray!), said sad goodbyes to some resident friends that moved away, and took a little family trip to Traverse City, MI where Matt presented at a conference.
The kids had a great time at the beach in Traverse City, and both just played for hours and hours in the sand and water. Here are some fun beach pictures....
This is actually in South Haven - we went with some friends early last week. Matching swimsuit and hat, of course.
Smiling Hailey, walking the dock.
Luke digging, digging, then digging some more.
Here I go!
The official family photo from our trip.
Things we are looking forward to:
-In just a few short days, Matt will officially be a fourth resident - yipee! Finally some senority and a few less calls per month!
-Our family vacation with the Bolliers starts this Saturday at Snow Lake in Indiana - should be lots of fun, especially with all the cousins (there are five of them now!).
Happy 4th of July a little early, because I'm sure I won't write until after the holiday.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the warm weather!
P.S. Luke is taking swim lessons this week, and "dove" to the bottom to pick up a ring today. Go Luke! It's alright to brag on him a little, right?
The kids had a great time at the beach in Traverse City, and both just played for hours and hours in the sand and water. Here are some fun beach pictures....
This is actually in South Haven - we went with some friends early last week. Matching swimsuit and hat, of course.
Smiling Hailey, walking the dock.
Luke digging, digging, then digging some more.
Here I go!
The official family photo from our trip.
Things we are looking forward to:
-In just a few short days, Matt will officially be a fourth resident - yipee! Finally some senority and a few less calls per month!
-Our family vacation with the Bolliers starts this Saturday at Snow Lake in Indiana - should be lots of fun, especially with all the cousins (there are five of them now!).
Happy 4th of July a little early, because I'm sure I won't write until after the holiday.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the warm weather!
P.S. Luke is taking swim lessons this week, and "dove" to the bottom to pick up a ring today. Go Luke! It's alright to brag on him a little, right?
Sunday, May 27
A Lazy Weekend
Hello Everyone!
Happy Memorial Day weekend! As my title implies, we are having a very lazy 3-day weekend, and that suits me just fine. Matt is off all three days - woo hoo - but we decided just to stay in town and enjoy some family time.
Hailey officially turned one last Wednesday, May 23rd. We didn't really do much of anything since we had already celebrated down in Missouri. I'm afraid the most she got was Luke and I singing "Happy Birthday" a couple times. She is so, so, so close to walking. She stands up in the middle of the room all the time, looking like she's about to take off but then just plops back down. I think she just wants to let the anticipation build for a little while longer. :-) She's been fighting sleeping and naps this week, and I hoping it's just that her little brain is so busy learning how to walk that it is having trouble settling down to sleep. I've heard that can happen when they're learning something new. We'll see...
Luke played a whole lot of basketball this week - he loves shooting and attempting to dribble. After he makes a basket, he gives you this huge smile and shouts "I made the team!" What? I think it's a combination of "I made it!" and "Go team!", but I'm not sure. He's not too bad at shooting, so maybe basketball will be one of his sports - hey, he's got the size 12 feet already.
Luke and I took our first bike ride together on Friday night, that is with both of us on bikes. It was a neat moment - he's old enough now to do an activity together that we both really enjoy. I only crashed into him once (he does quite a bit of spontaneous braking).
Hope you and your family have enjoyed some fun moments this weekend as well!
Christy
Happy Memorial Day weekend! As my title implies, we are having a very lazy 3-day weekend, and that suits me just fine. Matt is off all three days - woo hoo - but we decided just to stay in town and enjoy some family time.
Hailey officially turned one last Wednesday, May 23rd. We didn't really do much of anything since we had already celebrated down in Missouri. I'm afraid the most she got was Luke and I singing "Happy Birthday" a couple times. She is so, so, so close to walking. She stands up in the middle of the room all the time, looking like she's about to take off but then just plops back down. I think she just wants to let the anticipation build for a little while longer. :-) She's been fighting sleeping and naps this week, and I hoping it's just that her little brain is so busy learning how to walk that it is having trouble settling down to sleep. I've heard that can happen when they're learning something new. We'll see...
Luke played a whole lot of basketball this week - he loves shooting and attempting to dribble. After he makes a basket, he gives you this huge smile and shouts "I made the team!" What? I think it's a combination of "I made it!" and "Go team!", but I'm not sure. He's not too bad at shooting, so maybe basketball will be one of his sports - hey, he's got the size 12 feet already.
Luke and I took our first bike ride together on Friday night, that is with both of us on bikes. It was a neat moment - he's old enough now to do an activity together that we both really enjoy. I only crashed into him once (he does quite a bit of spontaneous braking).
Hope you and your family have enjoyed some fun moments this weekend as well!
Christy
Saturday, May 19
Here we go!
Well, here we go.....my first blog! I am feeling lots of pressure to be interesting and exciting. But no one really knows I am blogging yet, so maybe I don't have to be so interesting...
Basically, this is just a new way to communicate with our family and friends that live far, far away - to let them in on the goings-on of our daily lives.
We just got back on Thursday from visiting my parents down in Springfield, Missouri. It was a really fun trip - although I don't think I drove down Battlefield Road once, so I feel I really did not experience Springfield fully. I think Liz drove down National to pick up some dinner one night, and came back ranting and raving about Springfield traffic - so maybe it's not so bad I missed Battlefield. Marc and Liz and little baby Drew were down visiting the same time we were, so we had a little miniature family reunion. Here's a photo of Luke, Hailey, and cousin Drew (2 months).
We took the kids down to Silver Dollar City - which none of you will have heard of unless you are from Missouri or Arkansas. It's a really neat amusement park done around the theme of the early 1900s - and I absolutely LOVED it as a kid, so it was really special to take my own kids there. Here's Luke after his ride on a real steam engine, and Hailey on her very first amusement park ride.
The kids did really well with the 11-hour drive down to Missouri and back. We only had maybe a 10-minute period of all out screaming from both of them :-). Let's just say the DVD player was well used. Luke and I did play some traditional car games, though. That was weird because I feel like it hasn't been that long since I was playing car games with my mom. How can Luke be that old already?
We had a little birthday party for Hailey while we were down there, since her birthday is coming up soon. She was much more fun to watch with her first piece of cake than Luke was! No offense Luke. She dove right in and destroyed it - good thing we were sitting outside. I know every mom says it, but I can't believe she is one already! She still seems so small. But she will be walking any day now, and is learning new words all the time. Some days it's a blessing that time goes so fast when they're little, and some days I want to yell "Wait! Hold on!"
That seems like enough (or too much) for my first day, so......
So Long,
Christy
Basically, this is just a new way to communicate with our family and friends that live far, far away - to let them in on the goings-on of our daily lives.
We just got back on Thursday from visiting my parents down in Springfield, Missouri. It was a really fun trip - although I don't think I drove down Battlefield Road once, so I feel I really did not experience Springfield fully. I think Liz drove down National to pick up some dinner one night, and came back ranting and raving about Springfield traffic - so maybe it's not so bad I missed Battlefield. Marc and Liz and little baby Drew were down visiting the same time we were, so we had a little miniature family reunion. Here's a photo of Luke, Hailey, and cousin Drew (2 months).
We took the kids down to Silver Dollar City - which none of you will have heard of unless you are from Missouri or Arkansas. It's a really neat amusement park done around the theme of the early 1900s - and I absolutely LOVED it as a kid, so it was really special to take my own kids there. Here's Luke after his ride on a real steam engine, and Hailey on her very first amusement park ride.
The kids did really well with the 11-hour drive down to Missouri and back. We only had maybe a 10-minute period of all out screaming from both of them :-). Let's just say the DVD player was well used. Luke and I did play some traditional car games, though. That was weird because I feel like it hasn't been that long since I was playing car games with my mom. How can Luke be that old already?
We had a little birthday party for Hailey while we were down there, since her birthday is coming up soon. She was much more fun to watch with her first piece of cake than Luke was! No offense Luke. She dove right in and destroyed it - good thing we were sitting outside. I know every mom says it, but I can't believe she is one already! She still seems so small. But she will be walking any day now, and is learning new words all the time. Some days it's a blessing that time goes so fast when they're little, and some days I want to yell "Wait! Hold on!"
That seems like enough (or too much) for my first day, so......
So Long,
Christy
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