June 24

Hello,
let's see.....
Friday and Saturday Mommy went scrapbooking.
Saturday Daddy took Emily, Pete, Daniel, Joy, Laurel, and Levi to a Dairy Breakfast. They also went on a dairy farm tour.

Sunday we visited a church nearby us.

Monday we went to Old World Wisconsin with the Babiaks. It has different towns of different nationalities. Most of the buildings have been moved from other parts of WI. And most of the houses are from people who came from other countries to WI. It was fun. It was also pretty hot!!!

Yesterday was softball.

Today the stove guy is coming to fix the bottom oven. It stopped working a few days ago. Today is also Joy's half birthday. She is turning 7 1/2.

Sunday I'm leaving to work at camp for a week! I'm really looking forward to it! =D

Paige

June 19

Hi everybody,
Just a quick update. I finished all my school today!!!! Actually it was tonight at like 10:50, but now I'm done with 8th grade FOREVER!

Also when we brought Samantha up to camp she drove from the cabin to the dinning hall while I was in the passenger seat! Daddy was in the next row, but that was the first time I (or anybody besides Daddy) had ridden with her driving!!!!!

Paige

June 16

Kaylee and Samantha making food for the party.
Everybody wanted to be where Kaylee was!



Nathan decided to lay down a have a rest
at the party.



Daddy and Mommy gave Samantha a diploma
on her graduation day.



A normal face. Except she likes to smile
a lot too.



Lillian likes to lay on her stomach.




The video is of Lilian standing at the foot stool all by herself!
(That was today)

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Hello everybody,
To continue the every busy narrative of our life.....

May 28 was Pete's 11th birthday.

May 29 Samantha's friend, Kaylee, came for her graduation party.

May 31 was Samantha's GRADUATION!!!! There was over 100 people who came! We had a really fun and memorable time!

June 2 Kaylee left.

June 4 we went to a viewing for our friend Pastor Paul Rudy. The next day we went to his funeral. He was my piano teacher's husband.

June 11 Mommy, Joy, Laurel, Lillian, and I went to Children's for Joy's annual heart check up. She is doing fine. The rest of the family went on a ice cream social boat tour on Lake Geneva with 4-H. Then at supper time we drove up to camp to drop Samantha off. Daddy, Samantha(of course!) Emily, Pete, Daniel, and I all went. Daddy worked on their computers for a while. Then we drove home. We didn't get home until about 1:30 in the morning.

June 13 we went shoe shopping. A mostly successful trip.

Sunday we did home church.

Yesterday was our monthly 4-H meeting. We had a policeman and the junior leaders come and do a presentation.

Tonight is softball.

That is our life!

Paige

Psalm 74:16-17

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;

You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have set all the borders of the earth;

You have made summer and winter.

May 26

Our new van.


Levi got a scooter for his birthday.


The back of her quilt.

Lillian with her baby quilt from Grandma Sandra.

She is holding a baby doll Grandma sewed and made

clothes for.

Lillian laying my bed.
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Hi guys! Wow, we have had a busy year so far!!! It amazes me to think that the year is almost halfway gone! This promises to be quite a lengthy post. What has happened since my last post? Lets see.......

We started the month of April with my dad's birthday on the 6th. Then Levi had his birthday the 18th. He is now a grown up 3 year old! We bought a new big van on Levi's birthday. My dad's softball season started towards the end of the month. We enjoy going and socializing with our friends while he plays. Also several of us finished a subject or two in school!!! We were really excited about that.

May...... The first weekend Us girls, my mom and Lillian spent at our friends the Alberts' house. That was a really, really fun few days!!! The next week we brought cake to softball to start celebrating Samantha's 18th birthday!!! (Can you believe I have an adult sister now???!!!!) Then the 8-9 Samantha and I and our friend Lauren went to camp for the work weekend. That was fun! I brought along some earrings from my mom to give to Samantha on the 9th (her b-day) and we stuck 18 candles in her dessert. Her friend Kaylee was there too, which made her very happy! When we got home the rest of the family had decorated the dinning room, living room, her school room, and our bedroom. Then the next day Emily, Pete, and Daniel put over 60 balloons in her bed. We have just about finished removing them from our room, 3 weeks later. Then about a week after her actual birthday we ate her cake--chocolate oreo cheesecake.

We worked on finishing our schoolwork. Emily, Pete, and Daniel have finished all theirs. Samantha and I are getting closer, I only have a few weeks of math left. This week and last we have been focusing on getting ready for Samantha's graduation party! We are almost ready--a good thing seeing as the party is 3 days away.

Samantha went and took her learners test and got her learners permit to drive!!!!!!! She drove last Wednesday(the 20th) for the first time!!!!!! That was really COOL!!!!!!

Today Lillian is 3 months old! She is growing and doing well. She is almost able to roll over and she loves to smile and talk to us! If we make noises she is able to make she will mimic us! She is really fun to talk to. My mom is feeling much better now and is able to do more of what she could before she was pregnant.

In all we are all doing well. We have been busy, but are all happy it is summer. We (especially Samantha and I) have a busy, fun, and exciting summer planned. We are glad to be able to enjoy the life God had given to us! This year is going to be and already has been a year with a year with many, many "firsts" in it---First 18 year old, first sibling to drive, first sibling to graduate, all the first of a baby(smiling, rolling over, sitting up, eating, and MUCH more), first time I get to work at camp, first time we spend 3 weeks in VA with Grandma........

In closing I leave you all with these verses from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,

And a time to die;

A time to weep,

And a time to laugh;

A time to mourn,

And a time to dance;

A time to embrace,

And a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to gain,

And a time to lose;

A time to keep silence,

And a time to speak;

A time to love,

And a time to hate.

March 21

Hi everybody!!!
We have been kinda busy, but kinda not.

March 1st was Emily 13th birthday. This was the first time Grandma was at one of our birthdays in WI.

Then on the 2nd Alena and Elizabeth came to spend the night. On Tuesday we sent Emily up stairs with Elizabeth so we could get a "surprise" tea party ready. Emily knew that we were getting a tea party ready, but what she didn't know was that we had about 2o-ish friends over! She was really SURPRISED!!!

The Thelens and Hartlaubs both brought us a meal when they came for the tea party.

Saturday the 7th the Babiaks brought us a meal.

Sunday we went to church with Grandma.

Monday I went over to the Babiak's house. Rachel and Kendra went came to our house.

Wednesday the 11th Grandma went home.... :( Thursday Anna came over for a while and then Mommy went to the chiropractor. It was Lillian's first time to go somewhere.

Saturday the 14th, we all went to Delavan. Mommy and Lillian went to Miss Linda's scrapbooking shop. Everybody else went to a train exibit. Then we ate lunch and went shopping.

Sunday we went to church.

This week we have been trying to get caught up in school. We didn't really do any when Grandma was here or when Lillian was born. We have also been enjoying warm weather! It has been in the 50 and 60's.

Today we are going to Anna Albert's orchestra concert.

That's it. Our sorta busy life.... although school makes it more busy.

Paige

February 28

Grandma and Lillian.


Daniel made her a hat.



She is wide awake a lot.

Levi...

She has lots of hair!

Last night we washed her hair.

Sleeping in the baby moses basket in the cradle

we have all used!(including my mom)

Joy and Lillian.

Pete and Lillian.

Daniel and Lillian.

Levi loves holding her.

Laurel and Lillian.

Emily and Lillian.

I got to be the first to get her dressed!!
I also weighed her.

Samantha and Lillian. Almost 18 years apart.

Dad and Levi.

Everybody watching Lillian get all checked out!

Lillian was wide awake when she was born.

Levi was really cute watching a movie!

He had his feet propped up on the movies.

Hey guys!!!! Guess what!!!!! She is born!!! Lillian Rebecca McIntyre was born Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 5:26pm! She weighed 9lbs, 6oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long. She and my mom are doing well.

Grandma came this morning, she is staying for a little more than a week.

A very, very, very happy big sister!

Paige

Psalm 127:3-5
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

So are the children of one’s youth.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;

They shall not be ashamed,

But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

February 19

We haven't been doing much, but we did have a few things happen. No baby yet. :(

The 13 was Mommy's birthday. We had breakfast casserole for breakfast, bacon quiche for supper, and chocolate cheesecake for cake. I made the cheesecake and I even liked it! It had Oreo pieces in it and on top. She got a cast iron Dutch-oven, her rings re-sized and a micro SD card for her phone(so she could get the pics off). On Valentine's day we each got a few Reece's hearts and some gum. Mommy got a set of heart teaspoon and Tablespoons instead of gum. Daddy got some cherry filled Hershey Kisses. We also got some candy and cupcakes from our neighbors.

Samantha went to work at camp on the 13 and 14.
We went to church on the 15 and the midwife came yesterday.

That's all that we have done.
We are sill waiting for the baby, but I'll post within a day or so when she is born.

Paige