Now he is 4.

These pictures are from Charlie's second swimming lessons. He had his ups and downs, but things ended on a very positive note. So, Mommy and Daddy were happy, and Charlie would like to go back again. He LOVES monkey crawling, but isn't too crazy about sticking his head under water without plugging his nose.

 One of Charlie's chores is taking the diapers out of the dryer and putting them nicely on the changing table. He is very good help... not so sure what Juniper's train of thought is, when she's trying to "help" Charlie.

 Happy Birthday! Chocolate angel food cake with 4 candles. Took a while to make a wish and blow them out, but it was a big wish for a machine that does a lot of different things. So that explained it.

xoxo,

Becky

See you all at the campground!

The countdown has begun.

We haven't had any craft projects around here for awhile, so we decided it was time. It's not the fanciest countdown calendar, but it will suffice. Charlie's pretty excited for his party and likes to talk about it, so now we have a visual for counting down the days.

See you in 6 days!

~Becky

Just a few more "Welcome Juniper" pictures.

This time from the Wiste/Zimmermann side...

   

  
 Lot's of Grandma pictures, but of course Grandma and YaYa have been the most frequent visitors. We sure enjoyed Mum, Truman and TaTa's visits this past weekend! And cute adorable cousin pictures. The only thing better would be a picture of 3 cute sleeping cousins, so we'll have to try to get one when Liz's baby is born. Big boy Ronin will be able to have one baby on each side of his lap by that point!

     

Trav also turned 29, so of course 29 candles. He had a little extra help blowing them out this year.
And tucking the kids in... at night if Juniper is with us at bed time, I tuck them in together before they both turn in for the night. Charlie sure loves his baby sister.
~Becky

The day that Baby Juniper joined the family.

Happy Birthday to a Gorgeous Gal!

Happy 27th birthday Lizzie!

Elizabeth at 17

Liz on her 26th birthday

Here's hoping you have a wonderful day... I wish I could be with you- but I'll owe you a lunch or a dinner sometime (maybe you and I should go to the Trempleau Hotel!).

~Becky

Happy Birthday Trav!

Trav is 26 today! I've known this guy now for 10 years :)
*Ice cream cake from DQ, which I have to admit was almost more for me than for him (or can I say, more for the baby?). I wanted to start celebrating at midnight last night, just so we could eat some (after seriously considering buying one of the little cupcakes to eat so I wouldn't have to wait even that long); but we ended up waiting until after grilling out for lunch. And was it ever the perfect day for grilling and ice cream cake. We were sweating buckets after working in the garden this morning.
Unfortunately Trav had to work today; but because of that he gets to have a second party with his parents at a later date, and he does prefer his mom's cake.
**Trav started the Trav-Daddy title, because of his email address. But Liz, who has always thought his email was funny, has also labeled some of the tomatoes she got from Trav, as being of the "Trav-Daddy" variety, because shes unsure of what kind they actually are (the labels disintegrated or something). I thought that was so cute, but obviously with becoming a real Daddy, at 26, it just seemed to fit.
***This is why, the motorcycle picture on the cake. This bike is currently in tip-top shape, new foot pegs, maintenanced, shined up, and all that.

Trav's pride and joy

And we were lucky enough to have our buddy G. stop by today for lunch. We hadn't seen him in a while, and he always pays for his meal with the stories he brings.

I had to throw this last picture in there from last weekend- we had a ginormous double rainbow- that was so big I couldn't hardly get half of it in one shot. Its a little hard to see the second part of it in the picture, but in real-life it was amazing. I actually can't remember the last time I had seen a rainbow before this, though I suppose it was probably last summer. Not something one thinks about until it happens. And it seems like everyone is always trying to take pictures of rainbows, I know I always do. But they just never turn out as good on film, as they are in real life. Its just one of those things.

~Becky

PS Trav got a video camera for his birthday. I'm thinking we're all going to get to see baby videos if I can figure out how to get them loaded to this site. He's definitely our official family videographer (at least between him, me and now the baby). But don't worry, we will not be giving viewings of Baby Lingen's birth; though I'm unsure at this point how I am going to persuade him not to shoot the event, having a new toy and all. I have seen some very tastefully shot live births on blogs, beautiful and touching and all that; not for me, though, I don't think. Unless he climbs in the tub with me, if I have a water birth. Then I might reconsider :)