Daddy's in Florida

Austin working on his sitting up. Does pretty good until he stops concentrating and topples over.

"Look Mom, I can almost crawl"

"I can line the bears up too, just like Cee (Sissy)"

"Come on, give me a challenge!"




So Aaron left on Sunday for Tampa. He won't be back until Friday evening. He is there for training for work. Of course the kids don't understand why he has to go there for work, Mackenzie said that he is Already really good at his job! lol And Turner asks me if Daddy is home about a million times a day (do you see a pattern here with Turner getting something stuck in his head) Things are going good here. The kids have been being so good. Of course they get all of mommy's attention, so I think that is a big part of it. We didn't even turn the TV on last night and tonight we have big plans to play outside all night, assuming it isn't deadly hot. Last night we had Mackenzie's Parents-as-teachers meeting. Of course she is a genius! Everyone enjoys getting to play when she comes.

More reunion pics

PRICELESS!!

Matching "I survided the Walker 2008 Reunion" t-shirts - $33

Gas to get to/from the reunion - $265

Daddy teaching Turner how to pee on a tree - PRICELESS!!!

We are home safe - more to come later.

So today could have gone better, could have gone worse. Mackenzie woke up this morning with a fever and threw up. Then once the medicine started kicking in she seemed to be doing better. I babysat the baby while mommy got to sleep in and Aaron and his uncle went golfing. Once they got back we decided to go tot he park to the beach area and hang out. Once there Mackenzie really took another turn for the worse. She just sat in the stroller and then ended up falling asleep on the bench. Turner wasn't much up for playing either, so we only stayed for maybe a little over an hour then left. Got home and Mackenzie threw up again. But then has been fine since, guess as long as we keep her fever down she is ok. I went to the store and got stuff to make dinner which turned out really good. There was a family get together tonight at Aaron's other uncle's house, but I'm here at Curt's with the 3 kids. I didn't want to take Mackenzie out since she was sick and thought I needed to be the one to stay with her while she wasn't feeling well. So we made desserts for the reunion tomorrow and got some cleaning in. Now I've got all 3 kids sleeping and just waiting for them to get back here so we can hang out for a while. I'm trying to make our footprint on their house as little as possible. I know it must be hard to have all of us here with a 2 1/2 week old baby, and now I have sick kids to boot - they are never going to invite us back again! I REALLY hope that baby Dylan doesn't get any of the sickness, gosh I would feel so awful. So tomorrow is the actually family reunion, picnic out at the park. Should be a great time. Hopefully everyone will be feeling ok, but the park is only about 5 miles away from where we are staying so we can always come back for naps or whatever throughout the day.
I still love Michigan so much. I'm falling in love more and more everyday. It is really just perfect up here. Too bad Pfizer had to go and shut down Ann Arbor, gosh that would have been ideal for us. Oh well, other opportunities will arise when the time is right.

minature golf yesterday

my little guy



my sick girl - fever this morning and threw up, hopefully short lived like Turner's was the day we left



this is what happens in only 6 months



Dylan Thomas - 3 weeks old



me in heaven - sorry, no makeup

We Made it

Did somebody say something about a party?!


Could this be the start of swimsuit modeling career!??


I ran out of space in my camera to take picture, but Aaron was buried in the sand next.


We're here, safe and sound. And we may NEVER leave!! Oh I only wish. maybe someday it will be a more permanent trip. It is so weird how "at home" I feel in Michigan. I just love it. So yesterday we got on the road at about 4 AM. At about 8 we stopped for breakfast at McDonalds and let the kids play on the play set for a while. Then back in the car for the rest of the drive to the beach. We stopped in Sawyer, MI to hang out at the beach. We weren't planning on getting in the water when we stopped, hence no swimsuits, but hey, it's the beach - I couldn't say no to the kids for too long. This was their first time being at a beach and they loved it. I would have stayed there all day if I could. I vowed right then and there that we will plan to stay there for at least 3-4 days next summer for a family vacation. Then we had about 3 more hours before we got here. With the 1 hour time change we arrived at 6PM last night. It was a long day - but didn't seem that long. Really it could not have gone any more smoothly if I'd sold my sole to the devil. Funniest thing on the trip so far.....So everyone had fallen back to sleep before we stopped for breakfast (see pic of Turner) and Aaron and I were up front talking about how this kid of symbolizes the end of the summer for us because we've been planning for this for so long. So remember, we are whispering because everyone is asleep, and we were all the way up front and Turner in the very back, and I make the statement of "when we get home I'll have to start planning Turner's birthday party" and out of NOWHERE Turner pops up his head and says "me birthday party!" and then hangs his head right back down and is back to full sleep!! IT was the funniest thing ever. Guess I have fine tuned hearing for babies, Turner has it for parties! lol Anyways, got to figure out what fun we have planned for today so gotta go.

BTW - the baby is SOOO adorable and of course he loves me!! I've already gotten him to sleep when he was crying for everyone else! I've still got the touch!

Happy Anniversary

OH and another thing, today is Aaron and I's 8 year anniversary since our first date. Here is the email I sent to him this morning! Shows a little about us!

Happy anniversary honey. It has been 8 years since we went on our 1st date! Doesn’t seem real does it. On one hand to think it has been that long, on the other to think of all that has changed in a mere 8 years.

I love you so much. I’m so glad you started crashing on my couch! See drinking did do us good in our lives – if we weren’t alcoholics who did nothing but drink every night and hadn’t passed out drunk so many times, who knows what might have happened.! Lol

In all seriousness….I wouldn’t change a thing!

And this is the conversation of emails that followed - good thing we don't take too much too seriously! lol

Aaron:
That was so romantic honey especially the part about passing out drunk. lol. I love you too honey and couldn't have written a better life for myself. You are my best friend and the best wife anyone could ever ask for. I can't wait to leave tonight and spend the week with you. It has been a great 8 years and I am looking forward to at least 2 more! Lol! I love you honey!

Me:
At least 2 more – what things gone so fast you are planning on hitting your midlife crisis early – or will that just be our 7 year itch in the marriage………
Sorry honey, but I run this marriage and I aint letting you out, so you might as well just get settled in for the next 50 or so. At like 50 years, I might give you the option and ask if you are happy, but until then death is your only way out
LOVE YOU!

Aaron:
Is that a death threat. I am forwarding this email to my brother in case I turn up dead someday!

Me:
Oh honey you’ll never turn up dead….maybe missing……….. but not dead!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Aaron:
This one is going straight to the authorities!!!! Lol