Collin turns7!

Collin turned 7 last month!  He wanted to have a space party because he is just so obsessed with being an astronaut or designing shuttles/space ships.  We had lots of fun planning it!  We launched soda bottle rockets which every kid loved.  Even when we made one of them bleed.  (The kids...not the rockets)  As usual we had a great cake (though it sort of fell over)!  There isn't really much to talk about with a 7 year old's birthday but here are a few pictures.

These are of the kids decorating their rockets prior to the big launch!

Here is Collin's finished rocket getting ready to launch for the very first time!

 

This is the cake! 

 

Here is short clip of the launch!  

A new blog!

Check this out!  I started a new blog!  You might find it interesting to read, you never know unless you try it!

So it might have been a while...

But I'm suddenly in the mood to blog again.  I feel guilty for not blogging since so much of my family lives far away and rarely get to see us.  Of course, we visit them much more often than they visit us, but who's keeping track?

Ahem.

So we have had quite a busy 8 months since my last post in August of 2010.  To begin with Liam had his first birthday.  That's pretty impressive considering we weren't sure we would ever have a second child.  He had an awesome Very Hungry Caterpillar theme.  Aunt Heidi helped plan all the decorations and Aunt Kimi made an awesome cake.  Both of which are pretty usual in our family!  Here are a few pictures:

Collin, Evan and Kira decoration butterfly cookies

The party favor, Liam got the red ball and the rest of the balls went home with guests.

 The awesome cake!

Then in October the next very exciting thing happened to our family.  Our new baby girl Della Corinne was born!  She was born the 23rd and was (we thought) 3 weeks early.  Turns out she was closer to 4 weeks early.  She was so very tiny at only 5 lbs 10 oz, a full 3 lbs 11 oz smaller than Liam!  She is just a beautiful little doll and we adore having a girl to dress up and play with!  She is now 5 months and is starting to get quite the personality!  Here are a few pictures of her!  (Blogger is making me mad so these are not in chronological order. Annoying but true)

The day after she was born with her big brother Collin.  She how small she is?  He is only six!

Uh oh.  Daddy is already in love!

Aunt Kimi showing off the flower on her butt of her outfit she and Terry picked out to take her home in.  We had to buy things in newborn size because we didn't have anything!  The boys NEVER fit in newborn.  Della wore it until she was 2 months old!

 In her car seat getting ready to leave.  According to the instructions she fit.  I wasn't so convinced. 

With Poppa

 She was born with lots of hair.  This is the first time her dad fixed her hair :) 

 Just minutes after she was born!

 11 weeks

 

5 months...in one of the new hats Aunt Lauren made her! 

Della with her cousin Avery.  They are only two weeks apart....Avery might be a bit taller :)

Other than all the normal things like Christmas and such nothing much else has happened this year.  Except Collin turned 7.  Which is a big thing and I want to make a separate post about it.  On a different day because I'm now tired and blogger is upsetting me (or my crappy laptop is upsetting me).