Yesterday it snowed and we got somewhere around 20 inches of fluffy stuff. Today it isn't snowing, so after Jeff spent three hours shoveling out ours and some neighbors cars (with our neighbor Bill's help), Laura and I went out for some fun.

Snowman

Snowangel

Halloween

The kids just got dressed up and ready for trick-or-treating. Mommy wanted pictures.

I have been wanting to post a video since blogger makes it so easy, but have had trouble finding one that I wanted to post. So finally, a fairly recent video of Paul playing:

A week or so ago Laura and I colored some pumpkins. Unfortunately we used washable markers and left them out in the rain. Fortunately we took pictures before it rained. The neat part is that we grew these pumpkins ourselves from the seeds of last year's pumkin!

Laura turned 4 years old over 1 month ago. Labor Day weekend we went up to visit the Pennsylvania grandparents and celebrated Laura and Grandpa Jeff's birthdays...

Birthday boy


Birthday Girl


Great-Grandma Anita finishing up Laura's cake








The next week, on Laura's birthday, we had birthday celebration II, and the Stum's for the family in Maryland. Our friend Marc and his daughter Kaitlyn came to celebrate along with the family.

Paul prefers the view from sitting rather than laying, so even though he hasn't started solid food yet he has spent some time in his highchair so he can have a better view. He isn't sitting on his own yet, but the chair has enough support that it sure looks like it.

And a recent picture of the whole family:

Paul is 4 months old TODAY. Mom is on it!

A couple of weeks ago we were up in PA visiting the grandparents. It was the week before the fourth of july and their town had a lot of things going on that week. One day we went to a 'penny carnival'. Laura got to ride a pony AND a firetruck. Fun times!

Laura riding the pony:


climbing to the top of the firetruck:


Laura and her cousin, Luke, peeking out from behind the ladder:


the riders posing in front of the truck:

Its already been another month! Here is Paul at a little over 3 months old.

He is just starting to roll from tummy to back, having done it a few times. But, I think most times it has been unintentional, so far.

He also has been smiling and laughing a lot, and has really started to babble a lot.

Paul at 2 months old:





Thanks for the pictures Aunt Christy!

A couple of weeks ago we had our first nice weather. So the kids and I got to get out of the house. Here we are hanging out in the backyard.

While we were having fun with the hose, this is what Paul did (he's about 1 month old in this picture)...

Saturday we went to a garden show at a park near Sykesville with some friends. Of course I didn't think to get pictures there. But, Laura got her face painted and insisted on taking a picture while on the car ride home. Of course she was asleep by the time we got home...

After she woke up we took a few more pictures.

Here is an up close picture of Paul at 3 days old...

and with big sister, Laura...

Here's the new baby. Paul Jacob, born March 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm.

Laura -- just a few days ago. Nearly 3 and a half years old. Soon to be big sister!

Christmas 2008: Laura -- playing with her new apron and pots. I never knew there were so many possible kinds of soup!