Mason's Baptism

On Sunday, August 23rd our precious Mason Dean was baptized. It was such a wonderful day for our family and anyone who celebrated with us. He is such a blessing to us.

I sat down the other day and just starting thinking about our life and how much it has changed. In July Mike and I were together for 5 years. We got engaged in November of 2004...in a couple weeks we will be married for 4 years...4 YEARS...and now we have 3 beautiful children and a wonderful marriage. It's so unreal to me! I've loved every second of it (even though it is going way too fast) - I'm sure Mike can say the same. Our children are our world and with having our youngest little bug baptized it just puts everything in to perspective.

Our Gifts from God

I seriously don't think Mason could be any happier. He is always like this. :)

Mason's Cake

Our Family (take 1)

(take 2)

(take 3)

He might be the only child that has ever laughed while getting water put on his head.

Listening intently

August Miscellaneous

August 4th we had a shower for my sister at our church. It turned out great! I think she had a good time...now we are just anxiously awaiting the arrival of that sweet little girl!! Come on Baby A...we are ready!!!

Me and Melanie

Julia (my cousin's daughter) and Myah - they are BFF's

Mr. Kohen...yes, him and Mason were also at the baby shower...only those two boys are allowed (oh, and Grady)!

The shower favors that I made...they say "Melanie's about to Pop!" and we filled them with popcorn. :)

The diaper cake I made for Mel. It turned out really cute!

Mr. Mason...looking so old!

Laughing as always!

and again!

One of Myah's early birthday presents was her bike. She loves it and does really well on it now. She'll ride around our developement a couple times and want to keep going. :)

We had Myah's 3rd birthday party last weekend so stay tuned for pictures from that. I'm trying to stay up with the blog but we've been so busy!! Be patient with me!! :)

Whitecaps Game #2

Two days later, Saturday, July 18th we headed back out to Fifth Third Ball Park for another Whitecaps game with Mike's company - Roskam. We were out in right field and had such a great time. I think we could go to a ball game every night. They had a few extra tickets so my parents and Sheree were able to join us. So fun!!

Myah and Papa watching the game.

Daddy and Kohen

Me with my boys!

Daddy and Myah

Watching intently...
Mason being smothered by Myah :)
One of the pitchers gave Myah a foul ball...I guess it does pay to be cute! She was so proud of it!

Mason all smiles with Grandma (Mimi)

After the game there were fireworks and instead of sticking around in the stadium we headed out to the van so that we could leave as soon as they were over. The babes watching the fireworks...first time Kohen had seen them this year since he fell asleep before they went off and the 4th.

He LOVED them!

Just LOVE this picture...melts my heart!!

Whitecaps Game #1

On Thursday, July 16th we were invited by Rob and Kim to the Whitecaps game. Rob works for Gainey and they have a suite at Fifth Third and he tries to get at least one game a year for all of us to go. It is definitely the way to watch a baseball game (especially with little kids). It's even better now that they built the outside seating onto the suites. The kids are able to play inside or sit outside to watch the game. Plus they are in a closed location - perfect!! :)

On the 16th the Whitecaps were playing the team that Ryne Sandberg manages, the Peoria Chiefs and Rob and Kim are HUGE Chicago Cubs fans (for those of you who don't know Ryne played for the cubs years ago). So they wanted to meet him and get something signed for Giada. Unfortunately Ryne didn't travel with his team so they were unable to get anything signed but the coach that was there gave Giada a ball - they were super nice.

It was a great game with lots of hits!! Fun fun and to top it off it was Thrifty Thursday at the ballpark so everything was $2 - can't beat that!!! We had a wonderful time and are so thankful for such great friends to spend that time with. We spent the night with the Bruwers, Czarnecki's and Woods (Zimmers were too busy!). Lots of fun!!!

Kohen and Myah checking out the view of the field soon after we got up there.

Kohen was too interested in the ball park to even turn around for a second for a picture.

Baby Mase

Look at those faces!! I think they are already sick of pictures and the night has JUST begun!!

Eating $2 hotdogs and pop!

Myah being Myah

Myah with Giada...I wish you could see Giada's shoes...they were Chicago Cub shoes and SO cute!!
Mommy and Kohen with CRASH!!!

Myah, Kohen and Brayden eating popcorn and looking out the window.
Sorry this picture is blurry...Myah wearing daddy's hat on backwards!

Just because he is so stinkin cute...here are a couple pictures of Mase-a-Base :)