More birthdays!

You can tell we are all getting too old! I have no pictures for anyone else's birthday celebrations. Noelle turned 15 on May 28th. We took a bunch of girls down to Cedar Rapids for pizza, a teen dance club and an overnight. It was pretty fun, kind of interesting at times, and continues to live on as she met a boy there. Wow!

Jake turned 19 on June 17th. Mostly he just wanted cash. He left for a trip to Italy and Spain the next day. Poor guy! But we did celebrate with lunch at Newton's Cafe with Grandma and Grandpa and Franco. Franco and Jake ate the biggest tenderloin sandwiches you have ever seen and then couldn't manage to eat the fancy birthday cupcakes!

I turned 45 on July 11th. I celebrated with dinner at Montage with Mom and Dad and the family! Mom and Dad got my table refinished for me. Scott is sending the girls and I to Colorado to see Heasslers and meet our new nephew Hudson and our blogging buddy, Brandi!! And Jake and Noelle took Teme and Sabrina bowling and to Taco Johns so I had like two whole hours with the house to myself!!

Super Sabrina!

So...I never would have believed that I would go to another preschool graduation!

But, here she is!

Graduating from Sonrise Christian Preschool.

The same place that Jake and Noelle attended.

(Jake for K and 1st and Noelle for P, K and 1st.)

Sabrina and cousin Elizabeth goofing around!

Ballerina Sabrina!

The Birthday girl turned 4 on June 24th!!

We planned on a swimming party but the weather

did not cooperate so we headed to Chuck E Cheese!

(Teme's first trip there:)

Dora, Dora the Explorer

Cousin Christian

Our fancy new bike from mommy and daddy!

San Francisco!

Each year Scott has an opportunity to win an incentive trip at work. This year he won a trip to San Francisco! At the last minute, we decided to bring Noelle with us. We had a great four days in San Francisco.

Easter

I REALLY wanted a picture of all six of us! Which obviously did not happen. We were all together in one place...YEAH! Jake had initiation for his frat, Pi Kappa Phi, the week before. He came home Saturday. My sisters and their families were here as well. We had pizza at our place Saturday night. Church all together on Sunday and Easter lunch at the Dike Country Club. The Good Friday service at Prairie Lakes on Friday night was probably the spiritual highlight of the weekend. I felt a little bit of a spiritual letdown on Sunday. How sad is that? I am sure I have no one to blame but myself:( But HE IS ALIVE AND HE IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!

Cute pics!

Aren't they cute! Sabrina's hair is on a braid rest:) I usually take them out and leave them out for a day or two before I re-braid.

FYI: Teme started wrestling practice!! It is a feeder program for West High School. Look out Anthony Robles! Teme is so strong that he can do pushups with his entire lower body off the ground. It is crazy!

New Leg is coming!!

It has been a really long process to go from Teme's amputation to an actual "leg". But...we are well on our way. March 22 we met with Clark Prosethics to create a cast of Teme's stump. From this they ordered his gel sock/protector. April 22 the gel protector was back and we met to create a cast over that to create Teme's socket. Today he tried out the first version of his socket. Hopefully Friday we will meet again to try out an updated socket and Teme's lower leg components. Everyone expects Teme to fly through the learning to walk process!

QUASH

Not long ago my good friend, Sue Flynn, lost her daddy to Alzheimers. A couple of weeks ago she, her daughter Megan, Rachel Kauten and I participated in a fun fundraiser for Alzheimers. It was called the Quest to Unravel Alzheimers Scavanger Hunt. It took place at the University of Northern Iowa, where both Sue and I attended. It was a cool day but we had a great time. We were Harald's Angels!