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So I took a little blogging break! For a few reasons

*It was a little time consuming and with two little kids I felt like I was spending to much time on the computer and needed more of a balance. but since they both sleep longer than I do now I feel like I have a little more time in the morning (finally)

*I felt like I was not being real. I want my blog to show who we really are, but that is very hard to do in the cyber world. If I post all happy things I look like I have my life altogether and it is just perfect and I am just a perfect mom (NOT TRUE) but If I complain about things I feel like a whiner.
When Nicholas was a tiny I had a very hard time! He was not a good baby and I was very hormonal. I didn't want to write to much about it because there are people dealing with things way worse than a cranky baby, there are some people who would love to just have their baby whether cranky or not, so I felt guilty if I shared what I was feeling (which was not always very pretty).

* I also do not want my kids to look back on my blogs when they are older and read my complaining about them, I want them to remember the happy times because I know I will forget about the bad times. I already have forgotten some (ok maybe just a little).

*I really am not a great writer, and my spelling and grammer are horrible (thank you spell check)


But I really do miss documenting about our life and about my kids which is the reason I'm back. So as you read my blog just know that I love my life but I am sometimes very unhappy with it. I love my husband very much but sometimes he irritates me, there are three lightbulbs out in our house right now (I groan when a lightbulb goes out for some reason it just irritates me, doesn't take much I know)  and he keeps telling me that he will take care of them so finally last night I stomped my foot and said "tomorrow I'm going to the hardware store and buying new lightbulbs" and he said "No I will take care of it I'm going to Yale Electric tomorrow and will get them our local hardware store does not have the right ones". I should have stomped my foot earlier:) I love my kids more than I can say but sometimes they drive me crazy and I want to ship them out the door and lock it (believe me I have never done that).

So here is to trying to be real the the cyber world!

I will leave you with a picture because a blog post is no fun without pictures!

 

Tonya

Bike Ride

Nicholas went for his first bike ride in the bike seat. He was overly excited

 

Yes he did wear a helmet if you look to the right you will see it. I thought he looked so adorable with it on but Steve did not, cause it's pink. We may need to quit buying everything pink for Aisha because Nicholas is starting to show up in all things pink and Steve does not appreciate it:)

 

~Tonya

Tomato Soup

So while I was canning tomato soup

The kids were enjoying and endless amount of Cheerios

I really enjoy canning, but with two littles it is quite a chore so I do what it takes to keep them occupied and get it done as quick as I can. Thank you Cheerios!

 

~Tonya

Stoltzfus Vacation

Every year Steve's family goes to the cabin for a long weekend (Thurs-Sunday). OK so we went up from Sunday to Sunday. Steve is doing some work up there so he was working Monday then the rest of the week we hung out! Steve's version of "hanging out" is always doing something (fishing, four wheeling, cutting down a tree) and my version of "hanging out" is relaxing (SLEEPING, reading, digital scrap booking) so that made it interesting:) We really did have allot of fun! Both of the kids love it up there! with all the trips we have made up there the last couple of months they may be confused which is their real home.

Every Year we go up the same time as the Harford Fair I am not much of a fair person but I love the Harford Fair. It is a good old country fair that may be slightly redneck:). This is the first year that Aisha loved the rides, so that's pretty much what we did.

 

We entered them both into the baby show and Aisha won first in her category and Nicholas won second in his.

 

Aisha loved playing with Steve's tackle box so we stopped and Cabela's on the way up and got her, her own tackle box and fishing line. To say she was excited about it is and understatement she may have even insisted on sleeping with it

I love how girly she is, but is not afraid to touch a fish:)

 

 

Shooting clay pigeons

 

These little girls had so much fun playing with the Jeep they literally spent hours on that thing

 

 "I see you Brooke"

 

Friday night we go out to the fair and eat dinner then we gave the kids rides and watched the rodeo

I love how fearless Aisha is, she wanted to go on the ride all by herself

Minuets after we left the fairgrounds this happened! there were about 12 people injured and the neighbor lady at the cabin was one of the injured, She was drug for 12 feet and it shattered her shoulder bone. We were all thanking God for his protection over us, Steve comes from a big family and everyone had left before it happened.

 

Kan Jam was a popular game

 

and of course the annual pinata

 

 

I will leave you with a family picture

 

We had allot of fun and love spending time with our families!

 

~Tonya

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas~ 6 Months

On Tuesday Nicholas reached the six month mark (Yaaay). He started sitting last week and absolutely loves sitting on the floor and playing with his toys. I'm starting to see more of his personality come out and it is so much fun! He loves action and being on the go! He LOVES his car seat and is an angel when we are traveling which makes this momma happy since we've been gone allot this summer!

He adores his big sister and thinks she is funny all the time.

I'm enjoying the ages that the kids are! Aisha loves her brother so much and loves to make him laugh or make sure he has toys to play with.

And of course she wanted her picture taken in the basket.

~Tonya