Jersti loves to help in the kitchen…and making chocolate chips cookies with me is the best! 

Kale and Uncle Kirk having some fun 

Kale (18 months) and Aunt Cheri 

Danae and Jersti during our “pukefest”. Both girls spent two days like this…it was an awful bug…Nate got it next. 

Nate spending some quality time with cousin Jersti (3) while we had the little ones for a week in February 

Thanks for updating Cara! You could have at least made up some excuse for me…like how busy I am, that I was gone in St. Louis for a week….the truth is, I haven’t been “blogging” because I want to do a good job. I want to post pictures and for me, a beginner, that takes … Read More

I am writting this for my mother it’s cara just in case you were wondering i know i haven’t updated my own blog in awhile but thats b/c i’m skeeming to make it real great, well not really but i’m in the library and i want to put pictures so i decided to help my … Read More

Well….big snowstorm is supposed to hit tomorrow…and I was supposed to meet my sister and family in the Dells to bring back Jersti (age 3) and Kale (age 17 mos) to spend the next 4 days with us. So…change of plans…I’m meeting Dirk in the Dells TODAY….at 5:30ish….so I get the sweet babies for an … Read More

We were about to do group pictures when the kids realized, “Stef & Eric are missing” so Danae went to go find them and take pictures while they did their flowers, but left her “hard-to-walk-in shoes” and Heidi points and wonders, “where’d Danae go?”

The uninvited guest at the bird feeder