Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Where does the time go??

It's April already, how can that be?? As usual, I've been sporadic about updating - life keeps getting in the way of my computer time! March was another busy month as it contained two very important milestones...Chance has been cancer-free for ONE year as of March 20th and our baby girl, Halle, turned 4 on March 24th!! It's so hard to believe that it's already been a year since we were in the hospital with him and everything happened. We are so very thankful things turned out the way that they did.

Here are some recent pictures; I also started a web-album where I am putting the lions share of the pictures we take, I will continue to post some here, but to see the ones that don't make it on the blog please visit this site... http://picasaweb.google.com/acmewildcat1 All of the pics are there! I'm actually in the process of uploading some of our older pictures to the web-album as well, which is why there are sporadic older albums there. Feel free to browse through what you want to!! :)


Chance wearing my workout headband... Practicing one of his favorite pasttimes...eating!


As I said above, Halle turned 4 years old on March 24th! She's growing up so fast!


We held a joint birthday party for Brendan - who turned 6 on April 8th - and Halle, this past Sunday at the local bowling alley. Brendan had two friends at the party, and Halle had one. And let me tell you, bowling with 5 kids that are 6 and under isn't easy! It was a great time and the kids had an absolute blast! The best part of the day was that Grandpa David and Grandma Connie and Aunt Kahri, Uncle Colin and Cousin Kenedi decided to surprise us by driving 4 hours and showing up at the party! We had NO idea they were going to come and were all so excited to see them! Grandma Carol and Cameron came, as did Aunt Erica and Josh (both of which were a HUGE help with the kids while they were bowling so I could handle everything else - THANKS guys!) Aunt Erica was also generous enough to make both kids seperate birthday cakes, which turned out beautiful. I'm so impressed with her cake-decorating abilities! The kids are so very lucky to have such a wonderful family!
Here is Halle's gorgeous cake...



















Halle and her friend, Macy - Macy is a month older the Halle, believe it or not! Halle is tall for her age!

Brendan's awesome cake!

Brendan and his friends, Brody and Coby...

Time to blow out the candles!

Presents! Chance and Kenedi hanging out at the bowling alley - (I LOVE this picture! Look at Chance hamming it up, and Kenedi giving him that 'look'! HA! So cute!)

After the party at the bowling alley we headed to our house to have some dinner, open more gifts and share some laughs...

Grandma Carol made Halle this gorgeous princess dress - I wanted to take a better picture of her in it after the party so I told her to put it on and dance in a circle like she was dancing with a Prince. The look on her face is what she thought of that suggestion! :)