Happy 1st Birthday Zane!

Yesterday Zane turned 1. Wow, where did the year go? He was born at 5lbs 7oz and is still on the small side. He is my little man and has brought us so much joy. He and Kylee love each other and love to be together which is a huge blessing. He is soooo busy and sometimes gets referred to as a Zane hurricane that has just passed through my living room for the 10th time that afternoon!

Dan and Joanna (Joshua's parents) came down for his birthday. We had a small but memorable (at least the adults will remember it) party. My parents joined the party on Skype! We just had some friends over too who have a little girl who is a couple months older than Zane. I made Zane's cake, and then Joshua decorated it. It was VERY impressive. All he had to go on was a picture. Good job, Babe!

I didn't get good picture of Zane "blowing" out the candle, but here is the picture anyway.

Zane took the fondant off of the cake and tried the cake first. Yum!

Then he tried the marshmallow fondant. Not quite sure about it!

Time for presents. This rocking horse came from Josh's parents. It's a little big now, but soon he will be able to have a lot of fun on it. Kylee has been really enjoying it! He didn't understand why he had to keep opening more gifts when he just wanted to play with the one he had just opened. :-)

Anna and Zane play quite well together. It was too cute.

They love doing this together!! I had to snap this picture because my mom has a picture of my sister and me doing the same thing when we were little. :-)

Kylee decided that Papa needed to be comfortable and tucked in for a nap. I don't think he was planning on a nap, but Kylee must have done to good of a job because Papa fell asleep!

Pinkeye again!

So, last Friday Kylee woke up and one of her eyes was red and I just thought it was allergies so I sent her to school. At 8:30, the school called saying that a little boy that sits next to her had pinkeye and they think that she got it. Oh joy! Neither Josh or I have ever had pinkeye or ever seen it so we had no idea about it. Anyway, her doctor wanted us too keep her home for 48 hours so we ended up having to miss church last Sunday.
And then yesterday comes and I look at Kylee and see that her other eye is pink. Having seen it now, I think that she does have it in her other eye. How does that happen a week later?? I thought you were only contagious for 24 hours. So, here we are again on Sunday morning at home. Josh would gladly stay home, but being at church is part of his job so I have to do part of my job and take care of my girl.
Kylee used to get really upset when she was sick and couldn't go to church and see her friends and go to class, so we would tell her that Daddy was just going to work. Well, guess she got too smart for us. She knew exactly where Daddy was going this morning, but thankfully she isn't upset about it.
Anyway, that's the end of my pinkeye blog. Not that you wanted to hear all about my daughter getting pinkeye, but there you have it anyway!! :-)

Gymnastics

In January, we were able to watch Kylee do her gymnastics.

Zane's first haircut

About a month ago, I decided it was time to get Zane's hair trimmed up a little. He did very well for his first hair cut.

The rest of our Christmas holiday (yeah, I'm a little behind!!)

I know it's February, but I still wanted to post these pictures from Christmas time. We were at my sister's in Minnesota and then also spent a couple days with Josh's family in Iowa.

On our way up to Minnesota, we stopped and spent Christmas Eve with our dear friends Jason and Beth Yoder and their kids. It was a short but very sweet visit.

Now, on to Minnesota pictures.

Kylee and her new doll (she named her Darlene) from my sister and her family.

My dad and Zane

Zane and my Mom

Zane having fun with the sparkling stuff.

Me, my sister, and our Runner cousins

Kylee, her doll Darlene, and Darlene (my cousin)

Cousins Zane and Kade

Tea and her doll (I can't remember what she named her) and Kylee and her doll Darlene. Both got them for Christmas. They thought that was pretty cool.

Me, Mom, Dad, & Christy

The following pictures are from our time in Iowa with Joshua's family.

Nana, Kylee, Zane, & Papa

Papa and Kylee and the small snowman that they were able to build. The snow was nt the best for building snowman, but Kylee was happy with the results.

Zane having fun in Nana's kitchen!

Kylee enjoyed tea parties with Aunt Amy, Nana, and even got Papa to have one with her.

Christmas #1 - At Home

Since there were too many pictures to pick from, I am dividing my Christmas posts into three posts (Home, Minnesota, & Iowa). Before we left for our trip, we made a gingerbread house with Kylee. Actually, the first half was made by Josh and Kylee, and the last half was made by Josh and me. She lost interest in making it and just wanted to eat it.



Kylee sang a couple songs with her Sunday school class and Wednesday night class in the Christmas program at church. I video taped it, but the pictures turned out blurry. Bummer.

We opened our gifts from each other here at home before we left. Kylee enjoyed being able to open Zane's gifts too since he wasn't too interested in tearing the paper. Zane couldn't decide if he wanted to play with the boxes, bows, his gifts, or his sister's.

Family Picture '09

Just wanted to let everyone know what we are still alive and well! Here is our 2009 family picture. I will try to post some more pictures this week. Maybe this year I'll do better at blogging. We can only hope!!

Thanksgiving '09

We spent Thanksgiving here with Josh's mom's side of the family. It was a nice relaxing day with lots of family and food. The day after Thanksgiving, we went and did some shopping. We didn't go till around 9:30am, so we missed most of the craziness! We put the Christmas tree and decorations up that afternoon. Kylee was so excited to put the tree up and also play with the Nativity. Her only complaint this year was that Mary and Joseph aren't figurines that you put different clothes on. :-) Zane's complaint is that he can't touch the tree or Kylee's Nativity! The rest of the day was spent just playing with the kids. It was a fabulous day with so much to be thankful for.

the kid's table

Mallory and Zane (he sat on this riding lawn mower for a long time)

Joshua and Kylee putting the star on the tree. This is her favorite part of putting up the Christmas tree.

Kylee's Nativity - it gets rearranged all season

Zane, finally deciding that playing with the Christmas tree wasn't going to happen!