Oh my goodness, it has been a LONG time since I’ve
posted! I could make something up about
how I am so busy teaching my children Greek or grinding my own wheat or
something like that, but truth be told, I’ve chosen to spend my “free time” on
Facebook or Pinterest! J But perhaps (perhaps!) in the new year I’ll
devote some more of my time to Our Minnesota Family!
Speaking of... here are a few of our Christmas pics, compliments of photographybynealy. :)
Anyway, I’ll begin with our Avery Sue who is ALMOST THREE. She
is something else. I’m sure everybody’s 2.75
year old is contstantly cracking them up, but verily verily Avery is so
funny. Jahnaya told me the other day
after she had said something outrageous, “I hope you write this stuff down
because you’re going to forget and it’s too funny to not remember!” So I suppose I’ll have to document her antics
(NYResolution #1?!). But she is really growing up to be a very sweet,
thoughtful, gentle young lady. She is a
very considerate big sister (most of the time).
She is super dramatic and likes to explain things with tons of hand
gestures and longer-than-necessary descriptive explanations. Two days a week Avery attends a short
pre-pre-school program for 2s and 3s.
She LOVES “school” and has really come out of her shell in a lot of ways
due to it. Avery also recently completed
a ballet class with one of her friends, Julianna! It was about the cutest thing ever to see her
prancing around out there… but I’ll tell you one thing—that girl lives and
breathes dancing. She has been spending a lot of time with the next door neighbor, Zoe! And last, she loves to be silly with her daddy when he gets home from work!
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| Julianna and Avery and "Baby Ballerinas" |
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| Snow Day with Zoe |
Evelyn-ey-Sue, as we have so pet-named her, is THE SWEETEST
LITTLE BABY I’ve ever met. She’s 7.5
months old. She has two little bottom
teeth sticking out. She LOVES her big
sister, daddy, and mommy, and pretty much just loves looking at and “talking to”
people! While Avery got a little scared
of strangers at this age, Evelyn liked to study them and talk to them. She
still loves to nurse and lets us know when she’s hungry (Eeee!!! Daaa
daaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! Etc!). Just like
Avery, Evelyn likes to be carried around the house and involved in everything, like
making dinner or doing laundry. Bottom
line is I’m cherishing these baby days because I know they go by quickly; I’ll
like blink and she’ll be 25! J
I guess I should update on Matt, too! He’s still working at Boston Scientific and
recently got a new position at their Maple Grove location working on a new
therapy. He’s had some fun travel
opportunities through work lately, including Belguim, Salzburg, South Carolina,
Orlando, and Miami. In his free time, he
plays with the girls and lovingly completes things on my honey-do list!
Let’s see! Then there’s
me! I am enjoying teaching two
days/week. I typically just teach in the
ESOL department, but this past semester I taught a new class in Century College’s
Education program called Teaching English Language Learners. My students were aspiring educators and
paras. It was a lot of work, but I
personally learned a lot and enjoyed sharing my passion for teaching with
others. Next semester I’ll be just teaching
1 class again which will be a nice (little bit slower) change of pace. I’m also still doing MOPS and my mom’s book
club—both of which I could not live without.
We just finished up our last Christmas celebrations. This year, the Waites came up to our house to celebrate mid-December, and the Rebarcaks just had our Christmas last night at Nealy's house.
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| Elizabeth and Evelyn |
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| Everyone in their new Christmas Eve jammies |
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| Grandma got all five girls matching jammies! |
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| Another jammie pic! Can you tell we've been lazy around here lately?! |
We have had some very exciting times on both sides of our
family. LeAnn and Mike just had their
third daughter, Elizabeth, born in October, and Brady and Jahnaya just had their
first, Kinsey! I had the privilege of
being at Kinsey’s birth on December 17 and it was SO exciting. She had a long (24+ hour) labor at home and
seriously rocked it. They are adjusting
to life with a newborn, and I am getting my tiny baby fix in the form of a
niece—which should hold me over for a few more months. Wink wink!! ;)
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| Baby Kinsey! |
