1st Day of Preschool

Cruz started Preschool on Wednesday! He goes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from 8:30 to 11:00. He was so excited to go to school and didn't even care when Jake & I left. During the preschool open house the week before he found out there was a train table there so as soon as he found the train table that morning he could care less who was there with him! He's gone 3 times so far and he seems to really enjoy it. Here's a few pictures from the first day of school.

1st Birthday

Levin turned one on August 18th and we had two separate parties for him so I'm just finally getting pictures up here! I took him in today for his one year check up and he's still a big boy like he has been since he was born:) He was 25lbs 12oz, in the 94th percentile for weight, and he was 31 1/2 inches tall, in the 91st percentile for height. He's still just a little heavier and taller then his brother was at this point, as soon as he starts walking I'm sure there will be some wrestling matches going on at our house and it might be a throw up each time of who wins. Levin's going to be tough and I can already tell he's going to be a lot more ornery then Cruz ever was. Here's some pictures from both birthday parties and his actual birthday, gosh that last year went fast!

Fishing

Sunday morning the boys got to go fishing for the first time on Grandpa's boat out at Czechland Lake. The weather was perfect and Makenna and Cruz caught quite a few fish. I think Cruz had more fun playing with the worms then actually fishing but we won't tell Grandpa! Levin hated his pink life jacket he had to wear (poor guy) so he spent most of the time sitting on the floor of the boat playing with his toys or eating snacks. Hopefully many more fishing days with Grandpa will be in the future for the boys!

Colorado Trip

We had a great trip to Colorado. Thank you Scott's for inviting us to come hike with you! We made it to the top of Pikes Peak in 6 1/2 hours and it was quite the workout but we survived:) Not sure we'll ever hike a mountain again but I'm glad to be able to say we did it! We left Thursday and stayed Thursday night at Steve & Leah's house in Colorado Springs (Steve and Jake went to high school together). Then on Friday we did some sight seeing and of course rode the train at Criple Creek for Cruz. Friday and Saturday night we stayed in a cabin at the base of Pikes Peak with the Scott family, it was a beautiful cabin. We hiked on Saturday so Pam took Cruz to Santa's Workshop that day, which he of course had to ride the train over and over again. (I don't think he'll ever grow out of this train stage!) Little Levin got to stay in Nebraska with Grandpa and Grandma Walkenhorst since he doesn't ride well in the car but it sounds like he got spoiled rotten while we were gone so I'm sure he didn't mind! Hard to believe in less then a week he'll be a year old already! Anyways here are some pictures from the trip...click on the slideshow to make them larger.

July

Today my baby is 11 months old! In another month we'll be celebrating Levin's first birthday, time just goes so fast! Our summer has been so busy so that's definitely not helping time slow down any! Here's quite a few pictures from this month, some from the 4th and then most of them from this past week when my uncle and cousins were here from Arizona for my cousin Marcus' wedding. Jeni, Mike, Zach & Zoe stayed with us at our house and Cruz and Zach had so much fun together. I wish we lived closer to them because Cruz already misses Zach! Anyways Katie & Marcus had a beautiful wedding on Friday night, congrats to them! Cruz & Zach got to be ring bearers in their wedding so that was fun and they were so cute! We actually had the whole Keller family together at the wedding so we got a big group shot of everyone, not sure that has happened in quite awhile! Anyways next on our schedule is a trip to Colorado the first weekend in August to hike Pikes Peak, it will be the first time I've been away from my boys for more then one night so it's gonna be tough but I think Jake and I will have a great time! Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Summer so far...

I get worse and worse and keeping up on this blog! So here are some photos from the past few months. In June Jake graduated with his bachelors degree from Bellevue University so we had a little party for him in our back yard. Then a couple weeks ago when the tornado (or straight line winds, depending on who you ask) hit Fremont we had almost half of our huge silver maple tree fall in our backyard so there's some pictures from that. There's also a few from Old Settlers and then some from today when we went out to visit Jim and Sandy on their lake. The kids had a blast and can't wait to come out again, thanks again Jim & Sandy for letting us come out to visit!!!

Army Crawling

Levin started Army crawling on Tuesday night. It was pretty funny so I took a video of it. Now, two days later, and he's already getting around a lot better then this! Cruz is not very good at sharing so now that Levin can get to his choo choos we're gonna have to work very hard on sharing. This should be a fun stage ha!