LEVI!!!!!

Here are all the pictures I took trying to get a smile...





Here is Levi deciding he doesn't like pictures.......

Jen came to see me!

My good friend Jen and her awesome daughter Lexi came to see me Friday night. Jen, Sabrina, Amanda and I used to be really tight friends. We would hang out every Sunday and do tons of stuff together. Jen now lives 2 hours away from Amanda and Sabrina, and I live 6 hours away. It has been hard to keep in touch, but Jen and Lexi finally got to come and see me.
Here is Lexi playing the Wii. She played Mario cart and kept running into the wall.

I love a Dirty Sweaty Man

Patrick and his dad got down and dirty fixing up our house this weekend. They added some insulation to the back of our house where we had some pipes freezing last winter. It looks great and I can tell they were really proud of their hard work. It has even inspired Patrick to think of more stuff around the house he could fix up, so today he went around and got rid of a lot of old yucky, useless wires coming out of our house and made it look so much more tidy.

Visiting my old class!

The school district I used to work for has a really cool tradition called Step-Back day. All the students get to go back to see their old teacher on the first Friday for a half hour to tell him/her about their new teacher and their summer. So, I went back to school with Levi to see my kids. I couldn't believe how big they were! They were really excited to see Levi and were amazed when I told them he probably recognized their voices.

My Pot Bellied Baby

Back when I was skinny, my family and friends used to make fun of me because of a certain funny thing my belly would do when I ate. After a big meal, I would develop a temporary pot belly. So tonight, after I fed Levi, I was changing him after he spit up on his outfit for the ninth time when I happened to notice......POTBELLY!!! I guess he does take after me in some ways after all!

Levi's 1st Galesburg style parade

Levi went to his first parade ever while we stayed with my parents. It was the labor day parade, which is the best parade in Galesburg because of all the CANDY!!!! This parade was alsreally great because my Aunt Linda and my niece Raven were in it. Here are some awesome pictures of the parade!!!





My sister Katie and I, and our sons who are on their way to being best buddies.

My mom and I (yes she is that short!)
Raven did an ariel in the parade! That is a backflip with NO hands! She's the one closest to the camera!
Raven waiting for her turn to do more tricks!
Wyatt loves parade candy!!
Aunt Linda always hooks us up with a ton of candy when she marches with the union!!!
Aunt Katie holding sweet baby Aiden!
Here is my gorgeous family!My handsome husband!!

Here is me and Levi, he looks like he is being choked, but I swear I kept checking and his neck was no where near the Baby Bjorn!!

Family Weekend!!

This weekend our sister Cheryl had surgery, so we drove down to Iowa to help her recuperation. After a few days with her and Patrick's parents, we drove to Illinois to spend some time with my family. We had a BBQ Sunday and EVERYONE was there to see Levi. Here are some great pictures of Levi and the rest of my family.
Aunt Lisa knows how to handle babies!!





Aunt Katie finally got her Levi fix!!!
Aunt Kathy had her Levi fix too!


I finally got to hold my nephew Aiden for a while!!My sweet niece Ember loved her piece of Aunt Katie's birthday cake!


Raven finally got to hold Levi at the end of the day. You can tell he is just about worn out from being passed around so much!!