Reunited and it feels so good...

I'm BACK...

I could go on and on with excuses reasons why I haven't written a blog post since January, but the truth is boring its called life, someday I will write about all of the things we have done since January, but until then lets focus on Memorial Day Weekend. We headed to Iowa to spend some time with all the Cleveland's. 

We always love going back to IOWA to see Josh's family and the girls spending time with all of their cousins.  We love watching the kids play together and get quality, quiet, and relaxing adult time.  Wait that won't happen with 12 kids under the age of 6 for a few more years. 

Always love checking out the neighbors pond

Meeting the newest member of the family Gunner Owen King

Bo (4y4m), Gunner (5w) Van (4y8m) Crosbi (2y1m) Pyper (1y10m)

Pyper loved giving Gunner his pasifier

Bo was so excited to hold her newest cousin

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Baby Kallie is so not a baby any more

Celebrating Avery's birthday at Happy Joes

Loving watching the kids play together

Bo and her mini-me Ada

All 12 cousins

Private Grandpa Time

Cousin Love

Loving that cheese smile

Kallie time

They might be sick of us taking pictures of their cuteness

Seeking pictures when their not paying attention

Trying to get adult time in

Getting her hair done by Grandma

Working on starting a cousin band

We loved every minute of it, it always goes way to fast.

Quick scenic stop on the way home

Showing off her sister skills

 Until we meet again..

Christmas at the Theis'

As my Grandma Mary gets older we cherish the moment she can spend the holidays with us

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Great Grandma Mary with some of her Great Great Grandchildre

 As we have gotten older it is harder to get all of us together for a whole day without someone having to go here or there, but this year we got a whole day together and it was great.  (My sister and her family are always missed at Christmas time)

We also celebrated our nieces 10th birthday

Playing Christmas Trivia

My dad redid this old fan that was my mom's grandpas

Hanging with Great Great Grandma Mary

The present exchange

Annual Sibling Poker Game

Playing cards with the kids

Dad as Mom's puppet

Annual Theis Cookie Baking Day

Each year the tradition gets more special to me as I am able to start sharing it with Bo, and soon Pyper.  This year we stayed in the cities instead of going to my mom's.  It was really nice to be able to spend more time with the cousins instead of someone always having to head back to their busy lives.

Playing with Ella while the adults talk

The Kids Frosting Cookies

Grinding the peanuts for our "Moose Turds"

Time for cookie exchange

Angela, Hailey, Lisa, Heather, Ella, Becky, Holly, Marilyn, Holly, Gavin, Jody, Me, Bo, Nancy, Audrey

Bo Loved the Santa Bear

Love this Picture of Becky and Rob heading to their 80's prom Christmas party

Thanksgiving with the Theis'

It's always so wonderful spending time with our nieces and nephews, as well as watching our kids relationships grow with their grandparents and cousins.

Playing with Grandpa

Making Maple Bacon Cookies with Grandma

Doing Puzzles with Great Grandma Mary

Dinner with the cousins

Clean-up, Clean-up, everybody do your share

While we celebrated Thanksgiving with my family the Josh headed to Iowa City to watch the Hawkies football game.

Old home New look

We decided to move the girls upstairs together and make their old room in to the playroom.  

Pyper's new corner

Bo's half of the room

Loving that she is in the same room as her sister again

We moved the desk at to the top of the stairs

Check Out the new playroom

We also added the frames to the living room too.

We also finally got to painting the stairs white and they look 100 times better.

Now for the runners and print on the stairs, and we will finally have our stair way complete.