Monday, July 9, 2012

March! April!

March... 

we celebrated Joe's birthday (#32!) and we welcomed spring! we played outside every chance we could!

**pictures to come soon!**

We even visited the Natural History Museum in Lawrence. Sydney pretended to be an earthworm and Gavin found every dino fossil they had!



April...

April 3, 2012, our baby turned two! We had so much fun celebrating his birthday with friends and family and of course, with dinosaurs!

Our baby boy coming home...

is now our silly, sweet two year old boy!
The cake and goodies!
The fossils!





November....December...2011

Apparently November came and went with very few photos...of course none that I could find on Facebook (since I'm trying to update this lickety-split I've been snagging pictures from my albums!) So let's see...
We played in leaves and enjoyed the outdoors!
            

Had family pictures taken on the coldest, most dreary November day...ever!
                                                                                                                         
 I was introduced to the Pinterest world and with the help of a friend, lots of hot glue, Steam-a-seam, some needle and thread, and laughter...thus the DIY turkey ribbon shirt was created!

December...

brought Christmas trees!

a new playhouse!

a 4 year old and a farm party...
 
a big girl bed!

And a few of our favorite things...
    






  





Sunday, July 8, 2012

September...October...

September 2011....

We visited Grandma Dodo's in Delphos!

And played in the playhouse that Mommy and Aunt Bailey played in when they were kids!
Played outside!
Sydney started dance classes!
Figured out a hiding spot in Gavin's room :)

October 2011...

Schaake's Pumpkin Patch!
Pumpkins and wagon ride!
Halloween 2011!
Gavin the Triceratops...Sydney as Princess Belle

Wow. Almost a year?

As usual, once school began last fall I completely neglected to update our blog. I have a hard time even calling it "our blog" because I feel so detached from it by this point. However! I vow to give updates of the last year before July 25th--the date marking the last time I updated this thing.

I don't even know that people read it anymore and that's okay. I just had this moment of panic today (which happens ever so often...welcome to my "mind") that so much has happened that I want to remember and I haven't documented any of it--at least not in one designated spot. Truly, that is why I first began this blog so I could keep track of all of the comings/goings, changes and growing of our little family. ....Sydney getting glasses...her first dance class and recital...Gavin's ever changing likes/dislikes...his developing personality and his language explosion....family outings and of course, most recently, our amazing family vacation to Florida. So....lets see if I can do this. :)A year in pictures!

Starting with August 2011...
Joe and I were able to escape to Washington, D.C. for a few days (thanks to Aunt Bailey!)
 Jefferson Memorial
 Lincoln Memorial
 Last evening in D.C.!
Gavin started showing interest in bedtime stories as well this month--he pretty much invited himself to this reading of Pinkalicious!

Monday, July 25, 2011

Sydney + Maggie = best buds

Not to mention Maggie is just the right height for snuggles from Syd!

Happy 1st birthday Piper!

Last weekend we traveled to Delphos to celebrate "baby" Piper's first birthday! (we can't call her Baby Piper anymore! :( ) We had such a fun time and the kids did too as they ran around and played with their cousins! It was great to see them interact with one another!

Gavin and the balloon Piper shared
Gavin and the birthday girl!
Little Miss B!
All of the great-grandkids....it gets harder every time to take their picture!
Cousin love... it's funny to think that these two girls were our family's "first babies" in nearly 18 years. Now they are the big kids!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Summer!

Here at the Helget household we are having a great summer! The saddest part about it is that it is FLYING by! I cannot believe it's already the middle of July! So since I was so kindly reminded that it's been a MONTH since I last posted, here's the last month in fast forward. :)

We grew tomatoes....
We went to Potwin Pottery in Topeka with our friends, the Dunns for a special Father's Day morning. The kids listened to a Father's Day story and then painted a mug for their daddies!
The kids learned to share....
G learned to eat with utensils!
We celebrated Daddy!

Got in to lots of lotion during nap time....
Covered lots of miles in a hot red Mustang!
Joe and I found out that Maggie walks better for Sydney than she does for us....
Fishing and 4th of July in Colorado!
G found out just how much he enjoys playing in suitcases!
...and with toilet paper!
Our first family day in approximately 4 1/2 months--to Deanna Rose farmstead!