Rolling in 2010!!

Wow, I can hardly believe I am actually posting things from this year! What a relief... ;)

So, here are MORE pictures of our winter this year. We had so much snow this year and Samuel really loved it. We don't have a sled, but he and Michael would ride Michael's snowboard without the bindings down the hill in our backyard. They really had a good time, but Samuel's favorite part of the snow was snowballs and snowball fights! It was hard to not go outside with them, but with Owen's recent bout with pneumonia I didn't want Owen outside unless it was absolutely necessary.

The boys pretty much stayed sick all winter. Not with anything real bad, just cold after cold. I thought I would never see the end of snot in our house! I know this is probably because Samuel being in school, so I hope that we are getting through it now, instead of later.

So, most of you know how much Samuel loves to dress-up and pretend to be super heroes. And he has acquired quite a collection over the past year and I thought what better thing to do than create a slideshow just of his costumes!! Enjoy...

Fall and Winter of 2009

I am finally done with school!! I just took my LAST final, and all I have left is my student teaching in the fall. I will be at China Grove Elementary in a fourth grade class. I got the boys enrolled at South Rowan Academy which is right down the road from the school, and my cooperating teacher has her boys there as well. It is Christian daycare/preschool, and I am really looking forward to them going there. It will definitely be a deciding factor as to how quickly I begin teaching school. I have thought about pursuing other options until it was time for Samuel to start kindergarten which won't be until 2012. So much has happened since my last posts, but here is a brief catchup as to how the boys have grown...

Here are some random pictures from the end of 2009:

Here are some pictures from Christmas:

Earlier in December, we went to Columbia for Lisa's big graduation... Officially DR. LISA YOUNG!!!!!

The day of her graduation, we got there just in time... Owen had been sick the night before and had a pretty high fever along with being completely miserable. I got him into the doctor that morning and he was diagnosed with pneumonia! I asked her if he would ok to still go to Columbia and she said he would be ok, just keep him bundled up when outside. She gave us an antibiotic injection as well as oral ones to take for the next ten days, and we had to come back three days later for a follow up and things had already cleared up. Thankfully, we caught it early!