Easter 2009

Happy Easter!!!! We have had a pretty quite day so far. We went to Mass and then out for brunch, just the four of us. When we arrived home, the Easter Bunny had somehow managed to visit our house. We are taking it easy right now and later we will go over to Chris' dad's house for an easter egg hunt and dinner with the family. Hope you all have a very blessed Easter!

Spring Break

I took the kids to Mom and Dad's over the first part of spring break. Matthew enjoyed going outside and playing with some of Uncle Doug's old construction trucks...

...while Kaelyn was all smiles playing with Grandma and Papper!

We enjoyed just staying around the house and playing. On Sunday, we spent the evening rooting for Michigan State in the elite eight and cooking out at Jen and Aaron's house. State won that game : ) but eventually fell to UNC in the championsip game : (

On Monday, we decided to go to the Children's Museum. Matthew was excited because it wa the first day of the new Star Wars exibit. It was a let down b/c it wasn't really an exibit for kids, as it was more of a collection of costumes and artist drawings than hands-on stuff. However, they did have some really neat wall murals featuring the characters. Of corse, Matthew had to have pictures with them all. Here he is with Anakin Skywalker and Ashoka.

What we weren't expecting was the Comic Heros exhibit, which was really cool. What more could Matthew have wanted? He could dress up as Batman, Spiderman, or anyother cool superhero and battle the bad guys in a fake Gothem City. Kaelyn was even taken by the cityscape!

We spent almost 4 1/2 hours at the museum and both kids and adults were exhausted! So, off to home to rest up. We stayed until Wednesday morning and then drove home. Thankfully, both kids are pretty good in the car, so it wasn't a bad drive.

I then wrapped up my spring break week by getting stuff finalized for prom on April 4th. OUr theme was Deep Sea Paradise and consisted of a 30 foot by 10 foot shipwreaked boat that we somehow managed to transport on truckbeds from school to the event center! Boy, I'm sure that looked pretty interesting to cars passing us by! Everything went very well that evening and the kids had great comments at school on Monday.

Pictures of the kids

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile....February was absolutely crazy and I am just now getting to sit down for a few minutes on the computer.

Matthew is doing well with school and is going to experience his first team sport with t-ball sign-ups this week and practices starting the first week of April. He is into superheros and loves to pretend he is spiderman. He can't get enough of playing "Star Boards" as he puts it and always has to use the blue lightsaber, because "it's the good guy".

Kaelyn is now 7 months and is still itty-bitty, 16 lbs and 26 inches. She has been trying to crawl for a couple weeks now. She is quite humerous to watch, as she gets on her hands and knees and then pushes up to her feet. She has perfected the downward dog yoga pose! (You have no idea how long I have been trying to get this picture.....)

We also moved her crib down today and she managed to get her feet through the slats - her look says it all "Get me out of here!"

We are heading up to Indy for the beginning of spring break week (March 20 - 23) and then Sally has to be back for the crazy last minute moving and decorating for prom.

Let it Snow!

The snow started late Monday night and lasted well into Tuesday morning totaling about 4-5 inches. Then came 1.5 inches of ice and finally 3 more inches of snow by Wednesday late morning. Unfortunately, we normally don't get more than an inch or two of snow at a time, so our area isn't well equipped for clearing roads etc. Needless to say, we have had a few snow days (Tuesday - Friday)!

Walking in the snow was odd, as you thought that you would sink down quite far, but with the layer of ice in between it really felt as though you were walking on a frozen pond. You could hear the ice crack with every step! It finally warmed up to the 20's today and Matthew and I took advantage of it. The snow was too fine to make a snowman, but little snow balls stuck together. We had a snow ball "fight" and made snow angels.

We had several icicles hanging from the house and shed that were 2 feet long. I held Matthew up so he could pick them off. Then we wrote with the icicles in the snow. Matthew will tell you that he loved the icicles the best!

Meanwhile, Chris and Kaelyn played indoors. Kaelyn is now sitting quite well on her own, a few tumbles here and there. She was so happy today and her smiles are contagious! They were having as good a time indoors as Matthew and I were outdoors!

Christmas 2008

Christmas Eve was spent enjoying time with the Sternberg side of the family. Our evening began with Santa and Mrs. Clause making an appearance and ended with the true reason for celebration with midnight mass.

We awoke the next morning to Matthew's joyful delight at the presents under the tree. Kaelyn was, of course, too young to understand, but that didn't stop Matthew from enjoying opening her gifts too!

Then we drove to Noblesville to celebrate with the Stewart family over the weekend. We enjoyed playing the Wii together and just hanging out! Doug even brought home his firefighter outfit for Matthew to see and try on. It was really pretty cool to all of us, not just Matthew! I was able to stay a few extra days with the kids so Grandma Marce, mom, and dad really enjoyed those moments with the kids!

Tierney Christmas Party

December 12th weekend, we went up to Clarkston Michigan for the Tierney Christmas Party. We had a great time seeing our extended family. Matthew certainly enjoyed playing the new version of hide and seek - using cell phones to text clues to their hideaways - with his cousins. Kaelyn was very good all weekend and smiled even as she was passed around from person to person (stranger anxiety hadn't hit yet!).

Kaelyn's new trick

Kaelyn was not too sure what to make of it when she rolled over from her back to stomach today! She just looked at all of us clapping for her and smiled and then decided that was enough of that. But when we rolled her over to her back, she rolled right back over again. After the third time, I guess she decided that it was okay to be on her belly because she played for awhile. Missed it with the camera, but here's the adorable smile we got!