New Nephew

So, as many of you have heard I have a new nephew in Fargo! He was born on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008. My mom flew home that night, just in the nick of time! As soon as they settle on a name I will let everyone know, they have narrowed it down to a possible one today, right now we are calling him "baby D". He was born 6 weeks early, but is doing really well, mom is doing good to - now we need to have the baby shower and get them some baby stuff! I will also post some pictures as soon as Jeff sends me some.

Congratulations Jeff & Tonah!

5 Years of Marriage

Here are a few pictures from our 5 year anniversary, May 3rd. We went out to eat and exchanged gifts and then met up with our neighbors for a few beers and a little friendly bowling competition, it was a great time.

Dan got a new watch.

I got new diamond earings!

Dan, Taryn, Ryan and Sarah

Congratulations Lindsay!

2008 Graduate Lindsay Reichel

Hail

Here is a picture of the hail that hit our house and the backyard. Of course for our day off today it ends up being only 50 degrees outside, what a bummer, and that also brought some more hail to our neighborhood.

Tornado Blows Through Neighboring Town

A massive tornado ravaged Northern Colorado on Thursday, killing at least one person, injuring 13, and destroying dozens of homes and farms as it ripped a 35-mile swath that cut directly through Windsor.

The tornado was three-quarters of a mile wide and had estimated wind speeds of at least 158 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

They stated the tornado was 3 miles from Milliken. My mom is in town visiting from Minnesota and had called me at work and said our entire backyard was white with baseball size hail balls, it's been a little crazy. Dan's truck was outside and has some serious hail damage and we need to have our house looked at to see if there is any major damage to the roof and shingles, but all in all we still have a house and we are all safe. Pleasantly surprised the insurance company has been on top of things and very understanding about the entire ordeal and has been calling all morning setting up appts. and estimates and re-assuring us that everything is going to be good again, (I hope they are giving this plus some to any of the resident in Windsor who have entirely lost their homes). We didn't have electricity last night (but we do have a generator that was on), but a neighbor called as I was leaving for work this morning and said power had been restored, so maybe when we feel safe to turn the computer back on at home I will get some pictures attached. A couple are attached from a local website.

Sanibel Island, Florida!

Here is a quick slide show of a couple pictures from our vacation in Florida. Katelynn was amazing on this trip, she did so well. We are all excited to go back some day!

See Me Run

Here is Katelynn's favorite part of Tumbling class.

Beach Ready

Okay, I cut the hair, got my summer look going on and I am ready for the beach! We leave next Monday. I am a list maker, so, tomorrow I will be scavenging the Internet for the perfect packing list for myself, Dan & Katelynn and will start to slow but surely be packing and planning for the rest of the week!

Random Pictures

I have been battling a sinus infection since last Friday and finally went to the doctor today to get some drugs, I am praying they kick in tonight and the headache will go away. My house is in dismay from leaving it up to Dan and Katelynn to keep it clean. Here are some random pictures that I've taken with the new digital camera.


We are counting down the days to vacation - 11 days, we can't wait to be sitting on the beach!

Me and Katelynn

Katelynn on the high beam
Trying on our new swimsuit for the beach
Saturday morning breakfast!
Dan getting irritate with me taking pictures! Ha Ha

Slide

Gotta Love the Free Stuff

Free stuff anyone! I love, love, love the grocery game! The other weekend I went in and got 2 bags of cat food for free. Here is my proof! You can't beat that price.

Dan's New Toy

Okay, so it looks like after I shook my "small" money tree to buy a new digital camera my husband went and shook the biggest tree he had and took all the money out of it. Here are some pictures of Dan's new joyride or as some of my girlfriends have told him "his midlife crisis car"!

It's a beautiful thing, now we need a babysitter to watch Katelynn so me & him can go and take a cruise in it together - where are those grandparents when you need them?

Family Easter Picture

Wow, I cannot people how much we have changed in 3 years, these were taken Easter Sunday.

2006

2007
2008

Grandma & Grandpa Davids

Here are a couple of pictures from when Dan's parents where here visiting.

Shake The Money Tree

I've been considering buying or at least wanting a digital camera for quite some time and with the big vacation on the countdown (less than 30 days away!) the feeling of needing vs. wanting a digital camera has been changing. I need a digital camera the voice inside my head has been repeating over and over and over for the last 2 weeks. So, this weekend Katelynn and I went shopping on Saturday and checked out a couple of camera's at Sam's Club and on Sunday after our grocery shopping went to the store and I bought one, I couldn't help it, the voice has finally calmed now and the joy of having a new toy is in full swing! I just cannot lug around my big 35mm Cannon Rebel to every playdate, to the park, or to Katleynn's tumbling class any longer, it's just too big. I bought a small digital Cannon Powershot that I can drop into my purse or pocket and it even takes little video's on it - so cool! My family is already tired of me in 2 days taking numerous pictures around the house of them, just for fun (because you can do that with a digital, not with a 35mm). Katelynn even told me the other day to stop taking her picture because the flash was starting to hurt her eyes - oops, bad mom. I am however interested to see after I actually have a few pictures developed if the quality is as good as my other camera, only time will tell. So hopefully now my blog will be more up-to-date with the times and I won't be posting Christmas pictures at Easter time!