Steps!

Jesse's summer landscape project was putting in our back steps.  Check out all the hard work he, Jason, and our Dad's put in to finally give us a finished back yard.  Next year - a swing set!



Formed up

Landscaping finished at last!

My rose garden is finally in too!

Taylor's 3!

Can't believe it - but Taylor Jolee Klingbeil is 3 years old :)

She picked to go out to eat at Happy Joes on her birthday.  Of course we had to bring $10 in quarters for games - but it was a lot of fun.

Hudson even came along for the celebration!

Then on Saturday - last minute - we had a great family get together at the park.  Jesse got a 4 foot Subway sub - it was great.  Easy to throw the party together - and the kids had a blast!

Check out another amazing cake from Grandma Marsha!  It tasted even better than it looks!

2011 Fun

I've been the worst at Blogging - sorry about that.  Here's some catch up.  Here's our most recent family pic.  Christmas!  I'll try to get one with Hud pretty soon :)

Taylor loves doing "Up-Downs" with her Dad.  The higher the better for her!

We've had a lot of water fun.  Pools and water parks.  Tay is a water bug!

Taylor likes to make trains out of anything!

We took a trip to the Madison Zoo too - it was so hot - but we managed.  Lots of great animals - and it's free!  Everyone should go next summer!

The weather here has been very stormy this summer.  Here's one of the not so nice clouds about to go over our house.  I lowered our deductible this year! :)

We had a fishing day at Sebold's again this year.  Taylor had a blast with Uncle Steven.  She even swam out to the raft with Uncle Jake!  No fear for this one!

The Many Faces of Tay :)

Taylor has been very busy learning how to be the best Big Sister there is.  Her personality is growing by the day.  She's so much fun to be around!  This kid will probably be a comedian!  You can tell she's starting to play to the camera too!  Aunt Callie will have her hands full with this one on the next photo shoot...

Hudson joins the Family

I can't believe Hudson is 2 months old already!  Here's some photos of the little man.  We sure are enjoying getting to know him.  Taylor especially enjoys her role as a Big Sister!  She's a great little helper for Mom.

Back to work already this week :(  

I forgot that it's just when the baby gets fun to be around that I'm forced to get back in the real world.  

Jesse Goes to Texas

At the end of March Jesse went to Texas on a week long motorcycle trip.  Along for the ride were his brother Jason, cousin Pete, and friend Dustin.  You can see from the photos they saw a lot of the Lone Star State.  Most importantly ~ everyone came home safe and sound!

 

 

 

  

Hudson Andrew

After a very long & uncomfortable pregnancy (that's the understatement of the year) ~ I followed in my friend Julie's footsteps and had a great acupuncture session on Thursday morning (to help get labor started).  Well it worked!  I started having contractions later that afternoon.  We went to the hospital around midnight and Hudson Andrew Klingbeil was born (via a water birth) at 3:18 am.  He's the perfect little peanut!  He was 7 lbs 2 oz and 18 inches.  Check out this link to see once again the amazing pictures that Aunt Callie can capture!  I haven't even had time to go through my pics yet... soon I promise!

This little man looks just like a mini Jesse :)

 Hudson Andrew Klingbeil