Ulrich Updates!!!

Wow - it has been a long time - I apologize! We don't have internet anymore, so my posts are probably going to be few and far between. But here is an update for now . . .

Scott's uncle has been in town for the past couple of weeks and so it has got him back into hunting and fishing even though it is freezing outside. (But I guess that's when you go pheasant hunting huh?) He shot this beautiful pheasant for the first time in years. He was so excited and so were the boys. He caught two this hunting season.
His dad and him also went fishing and Scott was really disappointed that his dad caught a bigger fish than him, but hey - you can't always be the best :)

After Scott graduated from PA school, we moved in with my parents when we sold our house and stayed there for about 2 months until we found a place of our own. We finally found one and moved in the 2nd weekend of November and are loving it. I don't have any pictures of it yet, but here is Koen in his new room snoozin' with his legs crossed. It's so fun to have so much space and have lots of room for the boys to run and be their wild selves. There is plenty of room for visitors so come on over.

We spent Thanksgiving Day with the Ulrichs and had a great day. It all started off with a fantastic meal of course!

The kids love getting together and playing!

We thought we would let all the kids watch a movie and a little while into it - this is what I found. Austin kept saying, "Shhhhh - he's asleep". I thought it was so sweet he would be so concerned for his brother. It's times like this that are so rewarding to be a parent.

That evening we got a little "crazy" and did some "shot contests" with pop of course. We had contests who could drink the 6 little cups the fastest. I got wasted!

These 3 guys were all pretty fast - they all finished at about the same time. It's amazing what entertains us huh? We had a great holiday and it made it even better that we were able to be with our family. It's such a blessing that we get to live so close! Thanks for a great holiday - Ulrichs!

We also celebrated Koen's 2nd birthday. We had a great day with lots of family and loads of treats. Koen was in heaven. It was fun to be able to have so many people in our new place and not feel totally crammed.

Koen is obsessed with any kind of car and you would think that we had enough cars, but in our house - you can never have too many cars. He was so excited for every single little car.

Our boys love these tangle toys whenever we go to the doctor's office, the bank, etc. Koen was saying "WHOW" in the picture. He was so excited. Whenever we would tell him "Happy Birthday" - he would say, "Hap Biday Daddy" or whoever's name said it to him. It was hilarious. He had a great couple of days celebrating it. We want to thank all those that celebrated with us and your generousity and kindness. He loves everything!

It has been a crazy and fun-filled month and we are looking forward to another fun-filled and crazy month of December. Hopefully I can post again before Christmas - we shall see!

Halloween!!!

Well Halloween was fun-filled and very exciting for the boys! We kicked off the weekend by finally carving our pumpkins! The boys loved it! In fact, Koen even tried eating the gooey stuff out of the pumpkin - that was a little gross, but they loved being able to pull it all out and get a little messy.

Koen helped Scott with the big one and Austin helped Katie with the little one! Obviously Scott and Koen's took much more time!

They were trying to copy the faces on the pumpkins - just a little off!

Austin's pumpkin with his pumpkin hat that he made at preschool!

The night of - right before the trick-or-treating begins with the Tanner family (cousins)!

Austin the ninja turtle and Koen the fireman! They loved Halloween and I think have already forgotten about all the candy they got! Hallelujah!

Oh - and by the way - WE ARE HAVING A BOY! :)

Baby Ulrich!!!

Blue or pink?

Koen's Anger Management

This is Koen's way of getting out his frustrations. He sees his reflection in the stove and has to take all his anger out on it. He does it pretty regularly. There would be times I would hear him screaming and look over and no one is even remotely close to him and then I realize he is yelling at his reflection. Pretty funny! Wouldn't it be nice if we could all get away with that.

Preschool Time!!!

Well it is officially that time of year when the kids go to school and things start back up again. Austin has started his first year of school (preschool that is). He is loving it - he has only been 2 days, but is loving every second of it. The night before his first day of school, we told him he had preschool the next morning and that is what made him go to bed so good that night. Who knew?

This is him on the first day!

Whenever a camera is pulled out - Koen has to be in on the action! I wanted to get a picture of the two of them anyways - so it worked out great! These two are growing too fast. It is crazy!

Graduation Day!!!

Well, I am way behind on my posts. A lot has happened since the 4th of July, but I will catch up soon. I just wanted to make sure I posted this today because today was a huge day for our family! Yes, Scott graduated!!! It was a day full of mixed emotions - excited and so happy to be done with school, but at the same time sad because we probably won't see many of the PA students for a while. We have made some amazing friends and they will be our friends for life - but we are all going different ways for jobs, so it will make it a little more difficult to get together. All in all - it ended up being a really nice day and a huge relief. There were only 48 graduates so it made for a fairly short program (which was nice considering my kids were so not into it.) Luckily we had both sets of parents there to help entertain the kids. Thanks to both of you for coming. That really meant a lot to Scott and I.

This is when Scott got hooded. And when he received his diploma.

The PA graduating class of 2009.

These are some of Scott's PA buddies. They were a very tight knit class. It was fun for us wives too.

Our little family afterwards!!! Austin was so pumped to hold the "big folder".

Ryan, Heather, & Hattie Williams and us!

Scott and Jon Pittard - Jon & Scott had some of the undergrad classes together and become pretty good friends and then Jon moved to Boise and they both went into the PA program. In Boise they have an extension from ISU and so they were classmates again via satellite.

PA school was an awesome experience for our entire family. It was hard at times, but it's exciting to see that it is all paying off. It's exciting to have the school part of our lives done, but at the same time it's crazy to think of how life will be without school. Hopefully much better. We just want to thank everyone for all of their love and support as we went through this program and want to wish all of our fellow PAs good luck and lets make sure we all keep in touch!

4th of July!!!

We had a great 4th of July. We didn't know what we were going to do until the day of. We went out to the Ulrichs and had a yummy barbeque. Always a good time. We were trying to kill time until it got dark, but it was really hard to wait THAT long. We let the kids start off with the regular snaps. They love them.

Koen wasn't sure at first, but after a little bit he would walk around and pick them up and make sure they had been snapped.

It was so hot! The kids were dying. (I don't know why Austin is in pants. Whoops!!!)

It was starting to get a little darker, so then we could bring out the sparklers.

Koen made me really nervous with the sparkler. He almost started my hair and his on fire a number of times.

When we finally started the real fireworks, Koen just wanted to sit on Aunt Leisja's lap. It was really cute.

The kids did really good just sitting and watching. No incidents fortunately!

Our little family after a long HOT day of fun and fireworks.