Do I remember how to do this!?!?!

Which one of you didn't fall over with surprise that you didn't see Ellery's picture in the hospital when you opened up this blog?! :) Well my friends, after a one year hiatus from the blog, I am back. I am embarrassed that I am a year behind. It's all mom's fault. You see, the next blog post was slated to be Evan and Annica's birthday pics from LAST year, but at their party, my camera battery died, and mom took all the pics. So I was going to update when I got them from her. Which I sill haven't!! So then I just got further and further behind, and then it was just ridiculously behind.... So I'm NOT going to catch the blog up to date. I am just jumping in here, right now.
Dwight and Leshia are the awesomest bloggers ever. Great job guys. We love it! Bethany, you stink almost as much as me. Brad.... you make your girls do it... periodically. You're OK. Phil and Chris. Oh brother. Oh brothers, rather. Lame-o. (okay, sure you both had posts since, mine, but whatever.) Mom, she probably lost her giant yellow legal pad with the notes how to blog. So now I'll have to re-teach her.
So now I will attempt to redeem myself. You might be bored though. I don't fall down mountainsides or see starfish, and I don't have any chickens or goats, so I lead a relatively uneventful life! Maybe I'll take pics of the icky algae slimeball that my pool has become. (equipment failed mid-summer, many dollars to fix..... :( Better luck next year). That' the extent of my excitement.
Okay, rambling. I'll just do pics now:

Oh bummer, I HATE date stamp on pics. I have GOT to remember to turn that option off.

Ev with a toad on his face.
4th of July Parade in Grandville

She's a little bigger now than the last post!

Evan attended soccer camp at CCHS for a week. He loved it.

He's "beckham"

We went camping mid August at the CRC conference grounds. The next several pics are from that trip.

The usual group... you can probably blow this up to see Eddie and Mandie, Kent and Annie, etc.

Cutest Buns on the beach!

Oh yeah... what a babe.

Sleeping on the beach.

Okay, these pics are from the Hudsonville fair....

Spoiled rotten, these two.

Yum.........

This little one takes after her mother.

Evan's first day of first grade.

Jason blowing out his 31 candles.

These pics are from Ellery's b-day.

This table was one of her presents that Jay and I made.

Taylor....

My handsome Poppa.

Ellery and her cake. She doesn't seem to like the taste...

Oh, it must have been edible after all.....

Note the outrageously wrong date stamp. Dumb thing. I have GOT to fix that

Her baby that she got. She just loves it.

Annica cannot keep her hands off Ellery. Ever. She is always picking her up, moving her around, etc. And Ellery is starting to get sick of it, as you may see here.

Silly Ellie Bellie

I'm working on painting a mural on ellery's wall.... I'll show you when I'm done!

She loves to play peek-a-boo with the door. Problem is that she shuts it EVERY time, and she can't do the knob, so I almost knock her over each peek.

Upon finishing up my lawn work one Saturday night, I came around the garage to find this kitty eating milk and Reese's puff, courtesy of our animal lover Annica. She loves to feed the barn cats from across the road. And they keep coming back for more....

Okay, so I did it! I updated the blog, and will attempt to stay current!! Love you all!