Doting relatives!!

It doesn't matter if it's the 1st one, 3rd one or 10th one, there is nothing like a wee little baby. They are just too sweet for words. So do we look proud and happy or what? This child is in for some spoiling.

Celebrate!!

So I am now officially an aunt for the 3rd time. Kellen Samuel Coleman was born on Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1:35 P.M. I was in the room when he arrived and it was awesome. Above is a picture of my beautiful (or should I say handsome?) new nephew, and I picture of him with his brother, sister, mom and dad.

He is now home for his very first night with his entire family at their house. The kids stayed with us last night, and with me all day today, so needless to say Austin and I are pretty tired. Picture this...... Austin on the far left side of the bed with a 2 year old knocking off his covers all night and flipping circles in the bed with me on the far right side of the bed with a 5 year old buried in my back. It went alot easier than I expected it to though. I was afraid they would miss Mommy and Daddy too much, but they did fine. I really don't mind keeping them, it's fun to be an auntie. And they do love us so! :) Tomorrow I have got to finish my Christmas shopping and wrapping. Even though we only have a couple of people left, I don't want to be rushing around at the end of the week. I was looking forward to some rest this week, but I've gotten up early everyday I've been off, and been rushing around all day. I'd rather be busy than bored though, so I really can't complain.

I can't wait until Christmas. Only 4 more days until our family tradition of Christmas Eve at Grandma's and 5 days until Christmas. It's so much more fun, when you have little kids freaking out over everything. They make it much more hectic too though. Little Kellen will only be 1 week old for his 1st Christmas, but his sister and brother will make up for any chaos he can't take part in. If I don't get to blog again, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. Enjoy your friends and family, and have a very Merry Christmas!!

Pictures

Entering Seattle by way of ferry from Bainbridge Island.



This is Isaac. Isn't he adorable?

So I know it's only a couple of pics, but I'm just practicing right now. I'll put more up later. I've never done this before. :)

Wow!!

This is a picture taken from Austin's graduation.

So, it's been a really long time and I don't know how many of you are actually even checking in anymore, but I have a good reason. I started teaching again, and I'm not allowed to enter any blog sites from the school computer. So I haven't been able to even check anyone else's blogs in months, let alone post some of my own. Austin and I just bought and received a brand new computer however, and I hope to be blogging regularly again. It really sucks when 2 computers that are completely paid for die.

Alot has happened in the last few months. I'm still teaching 3rd grade, and enjoying it very much (even when I feel like pulling my hair out). Austin attended police academy for 10 weeks. He was gone for a really long time, but it's all over now, and he graduated with top academics. :) The week after he came home we headed to Seattle to visit family and enjoy ourselves for Thanksgiving. It was awesome. I'll put some pictures up. Seattle is a beautiful place.

My sister is due any day now, and we have no idea what the baby will be. She is getting very impatient and tired and ready for him/her to be here. I get to go into the delivery room which I've never actually done before. I figure this will be my only chance, and I'm really excited about it.

We're enjoying our new house. Things have been going really well with it, and we have all kinds of plans to make it more "ours". In fact we've already picked out paint for all the rooms, and we're talking about enclosing the back patio to have an extra room for us.

Christmas is around the corner, and there are only 2 school days left. I'm so excited to be off for 2 whole weeks. I can't wait until I can sleep in again. We've got almost all of our Christmas shopping done, and I've already wrapped everything here, so we're doing pretty good.

Ben and Melissa had a little girl (Baylee) the day before we left for Seattle. She is a little sweetheart, and Karlee loves her to death.

That's all I can really think of for now. I'm really going to get back in the habit of doing this. It's a great outlet, and I like staying in touch with everyone.

We got a new camera so now I'll be able to post pictures of everything. I've also put some picture on classmates.com for those of you who want to look at my profile there. Anyways, I'd better run. I had dinner with Kimberly and Terra tonight and have alot of work to do since I got home so late. Enjoy the pictures!