Busy Bees

This Lovely spring has been a blessing! We have been able to spend much time outside. Ceili has been very helpful working in the gardens and working with our new honeybees. She likes to explain to people that the bees are making honey. For those interested we have started a blog about our gardens and bees. check out " Our Woodland Garden" on blogspot.

We have also been fortunate enough to be able to spend time with many of our Friends and family. This past week we got together with our family group from church, went to Ian McCabes birthday

party, shared a meal with our friends leaving to join the Peace Corps in Ghana Africa, visited with our neighbors Joel, Shannon, and Natalie, and are looking forward to celebrating Mother's Day a bit late over this coming weekend. We will be traveling to Longville to see Grandma and Grandpa Burgers and Grandma Otis. Hopefully Ceili will get to go boating and fishing (fingers crossed) because the weather looks amazing!

Take me out to the Ball Game!

On Monday, April 12th we went to the first regular season game at Target Field! Go Twins! Ceili took a nap before the game with a baseball just to get ready! She's learned several words to "Take Me out to the Ball Game," and the weather was just perfect!



It was a lot of fun, Ceili loved it! She got a great view of the airplanes and helicopters! I'm not sure she understands the concept of baseball, but she loves crackerjacks and fireworks!

She also got to ride a train (big hit) and ride on Uncle Josh's shoulders! Thrilling!

Looking forward to spring!

We are all looking so forward to spring! We have thoroughly enjoyed winter and playing in the snow, but, it is time to move on! St. Patrick's day is right around the corner and Jon and Ceili have their outfits picked out. Erin is still looking and trying to decide. Erin, Pat, and Alicia have made a "Double Irish Chain" quilt to donate to the Red Wing Irish as a fundraiser. We are excited to visit Mike and Abby again this year for our annual Red Wing Irish Celebration. We look forward to this trip all year!

Ceili is becoming quite the little talker! Her vocabulary gets bigger and more complex everyday. It is amazing to hear her put together ideas and sentences. She has been enjoying her "Pony-Lacey" and sometimes insists on dressing up. One day she spent the morning in a dragon costume!

We are getting ready for our garden again this year. After paging through stacks of seed catalogs Jon narrowed the choices down and we have seeds on the way! Ceili helped set up the "grow lab" so we can get some of the seeds started indoors. In addition to the garden we have decided to join a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. A CSA is a farm that you support by purchasing a share and in return you receive a weekly box of food from the farm. The growing seasons range from 15-18 weeks of produce. Ceili is excited to visit the farm since it is so much bigger than the garden!

We hope you are all well and look forward to seeing you soon!

2009, a review of the year! (I know we missed something!)

2009 was filled with many great memories. It is amazing to us how much a baby changes from 6 monthes old to 18 months old. We have seen Ceili grow so much and feel blessed to create these memories!


















Baptism
Ceili's Godparents, Jamie and Debbie
























St. Patrick's Day Celebration!
























Fun in the Sun
























First Birthday...mmmmmm cake!



















Me and Daddy at the Zoo!
























Visiting the Farm with Grandpa!


















Halloween! I loved getting my face painted!


















Friend's Thanksgiving.
Lucy (left),
Aiden (middle)
Ceili (right)
























Monkey Business


















Hope everyone had Happy Holidays! Ceili and Jon went Christmas Tree hunting early in December and came home with this beauty! They also picked up a wreath with birch bark bows!
There are so many other memories and great pictures from 2009. Check out our Shutterfly link if you'd like to look through them. We have had a great year. And resolve to post more often in 2010. I'm thinking there will be a new video of Ceili at her daily 4:00 Dance Party! Or Clippity Clopping on her new "pony."
One of Ceili's biggest changes has been her vocabulary. She says words I didn't even think she knew! And at Christmas she used a 4 word sentence! "Papa on the phone!"
She is also adament about getting her diaper changed as soon as it's soiled. She points and says "Diaper!" So, we just went out and picked out a potty chair. Not with expectations, but hey, we'd better be prepared here, no need for us to hold her back!
Ceili loves to be outside and this winter has been a long one so far. It has been very cold, so there haven't been many opportunities to play in the snow. We hope it warms up, just a little, so we can get some fresh air!
Ceili is very interested in our computer. (Maybe she can do her own posts soon!) We've tried not to use it around her much because she just wants to push the buttons. Jon showed her some Elmo videos on it and I think she's trying to find more! It's gotten to the point where she gets really close to the computer and says, "No buttons for babies!" (Something she hears us tell her!)
She is so fun and such a joy to be around! We have really been enjoying our daughter!
We wish all of you the best in 2010. We hope to see you! Take care and best wishes!

We're Back! (Again!)

We finally have our computer back, our pictures loaded and we're ready to make a new post!

As summer ended, we went to a Bubble Festival with the Consie girls. We had fun making bubbles in all sorts of different ways!

Ceili went to the zoo and loved all the exhibits! She especially liked chasing the geese!

Uncle Josh and Ceili playing on the piano that

we got from Grandma Otis!

Ceili and Grandpa B. at a farm across from Great Grandma M.'s House! She's not too sure about this piglet!!

Auntie Kim and Ceili in the refrigerator looking for something sweet to eat! Looks like the whipped cream wins!

Ceili and Grandma O. carving pumpkins at our Pumpkin Party!

Guess What?!?

You will never believe what happened!

The backlight in our computer went out and we had to send it in for repairs!

By the time everything is said and done we should have a brand new computer.

It's already been in the "shop" for two weeks, so hopefully we get it back soon.

We will be sure to post with pictures then!

Hope everyone enjoys fall!

Does summer have to be over?

Well, summer has certainly slipped by and it is starting to feel like Autumn! We have had a very busy summer, filled with adventures and activities.

Ceili has been using her musical talents like playing this drum. She marches all over...I guess you could say she marches to her own beat!

Jon taught her to blow bubbles in the water. She loves "motorboat!" We didn't have many days when it was warm enough to do this, so we took good advantage of them when we could.

We took many road trips. Ceili is a very good traveler! This happens to be a picture of a time when she'd had ENOUGH!

She likes to help Erin with housework! Somehow she doesn't understand that the swiffer only works on the wood floor...not the carpet!

Ceili and Kavu are great pals! Kavu is so patient with her. Ceili even climbs into her bed to snuggle with her!

We started a painting project with Grandma O! Ceili thought that the foot washing tub was a perfect spot to splash in!

Ceili is wearing one of Jon's old T-shirts!

Too cute!

Hope everyone enjoyed their summer!