Just a quick update

Wow, it's been a while, sorry for the delay. Let's see, where to start.

Me - Well I'm still jobless and still looking. It's becoming very hard on my self esteem knowing that I'm not even getting called for interviews (I've had ONE so far) and the worst part is there isn't much out there! Very frustrating knowing that I really do want to go back to work and I don't have any work to go to!

Christopher - Can you believe it, he'll be TWO on Saturday. I'm starting to look at him this week and get teary eyed. Where has the time gone? How is it that my baby is about to turn two? He is SO much fun right now! He's remembering things, repeating things and then using the words again later on his own, he's singing, he's dancing, and just having a great time like his namesake would say. The other day it started to rain and I said to him "What do we say to the rain? Rain rain go..." "No mommy, I sing!" "Rain rain go way, come gain nother day". It was SO cute!!! He is loving anything farm related and of course loves to sing Old McDonald. It just amazes me how much he's learning and growing. He's also getting in two more teeth for sure and I think two others are right behind them so that's been a slight challenge lately but I would be grumpy too if I had sharp things cutting in my gums.

Dave - Dave has been busy working and now has a new toy. He's working on restoring his old Model Car (for Christopher he says...ha!)so that's been fun for him. Hopefully it'll be up and running any day now. Other then that it's been lots of CUBS games and working in the yard and on the Land Cruiser.

I'll share some pictures after Christopher's little birthday party on Saturday. Hope everyone is having a great summer. We've gotten in another camping trip (very little rain this last time which was good) and we're leaving again soon for another trip which I'm really looking forward to. We're camping with my good friend Lisa and her husband John and their son JD and this will be our first trip together to the beach so I'm super excited for it.

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a great Fourth of July this year. It was Christopher's second one and he had a blast! Here are some pictures from our holiday. Wednesday night we were at our friends the Kuiper's house on the Thornapple River for a little private show and also to watch the Forest Hills fireworks. It was great! Christopher was a little frightened after the first really loud one went off but after a while we were able to get him back outside to watch the rest of the show. He also got to go for a boat ride and he had a blast! Thursday was spent at the Cascade parade where he mastered the art of diving for candy thrown from floats and we got to see Miss Makenna enjoy the parade as well (picture of this total doll below). After the parade it was over to the Gronsman home for a pool party and cook out. He again had a riot in the pool. Hope everyone had a safe and happy Fourth of July!!