Easter Pictures...

 
 
 
  

Easter Pictures...

 
 
 
  

Easter Weekend

 
 
 
 
We had a great weekend! Here are a few pictures of the celebration. The kids had so much fun dying eggs and seeing the Easter bunny...it was as good as Christmas for them! Hope all had as wonderful of an Easter as we did! 

Peakin Easter

 
 
  
We celebrated Easter with the Peakin side on Sunday. It was so much fun to all be together and get to spend time with Tyler and Leah. We had a great, relaxing day and a great meal! The first picture (for those of you who don't know) is Sean's brother, sister-in-law and our niece, Leah. Leah and Tyler were born only 1 day apart and look how much bigger Leah is! Tyler's catching up!

A Few Weekends Ago...

 
 
 
 

Here are some pictures from a few weekends ago in Muscatine. Bode had his first experience with a ball and he loved it! Sorry about the delay in posting these! Enjoy! 

The BIG news!!!

Well, we've pretty much told everyone the BIG news that we are going to be a mommy and daddy! We are soooo excited and now I will be able to update everyone on the progression on this blogspot! For anyone who is just finding this out for the first time right now...no, we're not pregnant. We've started the adoption process and we are soooo excited!
We have decided to do a domestic adoption (which means that it will not be an international adoption) through an agency called Bethany Christian Services. We could be parents within the next 4 to 5 months! Much easier than the typical 9 month wait with a traditional pregnancy. :) Although, it could take around a year as well. I know a couple who adopted through Bethany Christian Services and got their phone call that there was a baby for them just 3 months into the process! Then, this morning at church, Sean and I sat next to a couple that just adopted through Bethany and they said that they turned in their paperwork in August and got their daughter in November. So those 2 cases go to show that it can happen extremely fast! We know it will happen when it is supposed to for us. We are anxious, but wouldn't be devestated if it took a year. We would LOVE to have a little one by Christmas, but we will just try to be patient and if we get one by then, we will be ecstatic. Thank you to all who have prayed for us to have a child...we feel that our prayers are being answered. I have never felt excitement like this in my whole life and I don't think Sean has either, we will feel so blessed when we get to bring our baby home. Please continue to pray for a smooth and quick placement for us! We will keep you all updated as things happen!

 
 
 
 
Here are some more pictures from this weekend! Enjoy! 

 
 
 
  

This weekend!

 
 
 
 
Well, this weekend was so much fun. Cathy and Steve had their 25th Anniversary party. Mom came back early from Florida to surprise them and Donna, Lisa and Macy were able to make it down too! :) They all stayed in a hotel and swam and had a great time. The pictures from the pool are from this morning before everyone left. I wan't feeling the greatest this weekend. I came down with a cold on Saturday while I was working, but after some rest in the evening when I got home, I was able to still make it to the party and have a great time. I just found out that Brigg isn't feeling well now...poor little sweetie. I hope I didn't give him anything. :( Hopefully he recovers soon. And hopefully I do too, I am anxious to be able to breath through my nose again and to stop coughing! Yuck! Well, hopefully everyone had a great weekend. Talk to you all soon! 

My evening...

 
 
 
 
Last night I watched Bode and he made a bit of a mess in his diaper and out the sides of his diaper, SO I decided to give him a bath. Plus, he LOVES his baths and it was a good oportunity for a photo session! :) Anyway, here are a couple of the pictures I took! HE WAS SOOO ADORABLE!
I get a huge smile on my face whenever I look at these! I thought I would try to put a huge smile on all of your faces too! ENJOY! 

Tyler William

Yes...I am blog happy tonight! This is the 2nd blog I've posted tonight and I am still going to post another! I promised you all a picture of our new nephew Tyler. I posted a picture of our neice, Leah a few weeks ago and had yet to receive a picture of Tyler, but here it is! It's hard to appreciate in this picture how small Tyler is! He is soooo tiny, but completely adorable! We LOVE the new additions to our family so much!

Our busy weekend...

We had a busy weekend 2 weeks ago when we moved back to Des Moines! Thanks to all that helped! As you can see, we didn't have our internet all worked out for a while, so I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. Well, things are back and running again, and I will hopefully be posting on a more regular basis. Also, I got a new camera and have been having a lot of fun with it, so there are so many pictures that I am sure I'll want to share with you all! These pictures are all from Chris and Brenda's house on the Saturday that we moved. Knutsons came down and hung out and the whole Burback family was there too. I got some really cute pictures of all of the kids. Bode and Olivia got to meet and it was pretty cute. As you can see, Bode is quite larger than Olivia. Olivia is 2 months younger than him though. We have been so busy getting everything unpacked at our new place and are finally seeing an end to all of the unpacking. WHEW! We still have our bedroom to unpack, but otherwise, we're all done. In 2 weeks, we will be moving the rest of our stuff that we're storing and we'll officailly be out of our house. It's definitely bitter sweet. We LOVED our house, but we really enjoy being back in Des Moines. We will definitely miss a lot of things about Colo, but it will be a good move for us.

More Posts To Come...

Well, obviously I haven't been the best at keeping my blog updated. I had no digital camera, so pictures are limited. I had to count on only pictures that I have emailed to me and half of those were from events that I wasn't involved in or from other family members' blogs. Also, we have been in the process of getting ready to move this weekend, so I have been very busy, not to mention that we only have dial up internet and it takes FOREVER to do anything with dial up! I am happy to tell you that Sean and I just purchased a digital camera and will be moving into our new apartment this weekend and will have high speed internet by Sunday! I'm already camera happy and have taken a TON of pictures which I will post this weekend or early next week.

The last 2 days, I watched Bode and he is a little angel!!!!! The pictures I will be posting are of our shopping trip with Melissa and Landon. Bode and Landon always get to hang out together on Mondays because Melissa and I both have Mondays off and that is our 1 day a week that we get to spend time together. Since I watch Bode on Mondays also, that gives the boys a play day as well! They really get trained on their shopping skills when they hang out with us. They LOVE shopping as much as we do! :) Anyway, you'll see in the pictures that I will be posting that they are extremely well behaved! They sit in the front of their seperate shopping carts and just hang out and laugh and talk, but I captured the cutest moment of them holding hands while our carts were butted up side by side! It was adorable! I can't wait to post the picture so you can all see it!

This weekend will be a crazy, but fun weekend. Paul and Cassie and the kids are coming so that Paul can help us move, and now Mom and Dad are coming too! Also, Sara Knutson will be coming down with the girls to hang out and see Brigg, Lani and Bode and then Melissa said that she might stop by with Landon after work as well. It is going to be a ZOO at the Stewart residence with all of the children, but it will be so fun and cute to see them all together interacting! And we are so excited to finally be back in DSM!

Well, I had better go get packing! I'll be posting again about the weekend in a few days and will hopefully be able to have some pics of the weekend along with the post! :)

This is our new neice Leah Elizabeth. She is an absolute doll!!!! I just wanted you all to see her. We miss her already and can't wait until this weekend when we will get to see her and our new nephew, Tyler again. They are only 24 hours and 58 minutes apart and Leah nearly doubles Tyler in size. I wish I had a picture of Tyler to post on here, but I don't at the moment. I will post one as soon as I get one! Hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Day!

A Crazy Weekend

Well, we had a crazy weekend as usual! It was a lot of fun though...we got to see our new neice and nephew. We drove to Cedar Rapids on Saturday night and visited Sara, Travis and our new nephew Tyler William. WHAT A SWEETIE! He was a little angel! Every time I have a new neice or nephew, it's hard to imagine that I could love it as much as I love the ones I already have, but then you see it for the first time and realize that you DO love it just as much. It's so amazing!

We stayed in a hotel in Cedar Rapids that night and stopped by to see little Tyler one more time before we headed up to Waverly to visit our new neice, Leah Elizabeth. On the way up to Waverly, we stopped in Cedar Falls and ate lunch at Pepper's. While sitting at the table, we looked up to the top level of the restaurant and were surprised to see Tom and Donna Burback and Lisa, Tony and Macy Borglum! We chatted with them and decided to visit the Borglums and see their new house after we were done seeing Leah. We headed up to Waverly and saw the little angel...and yet again, Sean and I were amazed at how much you can fall in love with someone in just a few minutes! She was a total sweetheart! We are so lucky to have the most adorable neices and nephews!

After visiting Leah, Sarah and Mike Peakin, we headed back to Cedar Falls to see the Borglums. We just hung out and chatted and then decided to give Macy her first haircut on a whim! Anyone who knows Macy, knows how big of a deal this was!!!! She was great and sat sooo still and now has the cutest little bob haircut!

After that, we headed home and watched our TV shows (Sunday nights are the best!) and then crashed. WHEW! It's Monday...the start of another busy week.

I will be posting pictures of the new babies in our lives as soon as I can get around to it! Talk to you all soon!

Sold AGAIN!

So, the first sale of our house fell through and within 24 hours, we sold our house again! We now know that NOTHING in selling a house is official until closing. Well, closing for us isn't until the end of March, but things are looking good so far and we anticipate a smooth ride until then. Thanks to all for all of your prayers, I whole heartedly believe that the prayers are what made this happen! So again, we are relieved.

We rented a place in West Des Moines that we will be moving into in a couple of weeks. It is a 2 bedroom apartment that is much smaller than our house, but it's cute and perfect for us right now. We aren't looking forward to the move, but will be lucky to have the Knutsons helping us get all of our belongings down there. Jeramie's muscles will help us, as well as Sara's van and I am sure Delaney and Olivia will lend quite a helping hand as well! :) Ha. We are definitely anxious to be back in Des Moines and no longer have to commute to go to work, dinner, grocery shopping and whatever else we do on a daily basis. Looking forward to less time in our vehicles, that's for sure!