More Fall of 2009

Air and Space Museum with our kids and cousins.

Before our run the day after Thanksgiving.

It was beautiful running weather!

The ladies and cooks on Thanksgiving Day.

Most of the kids ready for their Thanksgiving Feast.

Not the best picture quality,

but I had a great visit with Rachel and Emily!

D.C. Zoo field trip!

I had a great time with Cameron and his friends.

Rich man, poor tooth fairy.

Cameron lost 4 teeth in one week!

Random Halloween shot with friends and family.

Pedro, also known as Zachary.

Banana, also known as Cameron.

Cupcake delivery boy,

also known as Lopaka.

Some cute little trick or treaters.

Caroline, Owen, and Madeline.

Madeline Turns Three!

Madeline wanted cupcakes again for her birthday this year. I think she must love cupcakes! This year she wanted to help me make them, so we had fun making and decorating cupcakes together!



Blowing out the candle.



More dress up dresses and happier than ever!



Too many shoes? A girl can never have too many:)



Madeline loves her baby dolls!



Dancing!

Since his daddy might not like this picture, I just want to remind him that....TOUGH GUYS WEAR PINK! This is Maddie's cousin that she loves to play with almost daily!


All the ladies that Madeline was giving a dance lesson to.

From left to right: Mom, Oma, Maddie, Grandma, and Aunt Joni.

Madeline's Uncle made a special appearance all the

way from England to visit Madeline for her birthday.

What fun!

We have been so blessed to have Madeline join our family. She is so sweet, cheerful, and fun to be with. Madeline is a loving girl, who is always right there to help you with whatever you may need. Madeline loves to give hugs and she loves to make people happy. Madeline was early with just about everything. She is a talker for sure. She loves to talk with everyone!

She is our beautiful, smart, and happy little princess! What joy she brings into our family!

Some of the things we were up to last fall......

We visited the Baltimore Science Museum last October. (I know, it's taken me a while to post this stuff.) We all had a great time digging for dinosaur bones, putting bodies together, and Madeline LOVED the huge water play area! Grandma and Grandpa Olivier were there with us at the museum.

Yes, we were crazy again! This is us after the marathon. My brother Paul and I ran the Baltimore Marathon last October (all 26.2 miles) and Mike ran the half (13.1 miles). Paul was kind enough to run the whole thing with me. I came in close to my best time (4 hours and 10 minutes). I think Paul wouldn't want me to leave out the fact that this was his worst time (like I said, he was kind enough to run the whole thing with me). This was one of the most fun marathons I've run! We're all gearing up for our next one here soon.

Cameron's Birthday and Baptism

When we were living in AZ, we were actually going to travel to MD to celebrate Cameron's 8th Birthday and Cameron was going to be baptized in MD, so we could be closer to cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. It's funny how things work out, though. We're now living here, so there was no traveling required.

Cameron was able to be baptized and have cousins, aunts, uncles, and both sets of grandparents there with him! What a wonderful day it was!

I cannot believe that eight years have gone by. Cameron is loving, full of life, super fun to be with, makes friends quickly, and the list goes on. Cameron is the child that makes the party come to life. There is NEVER a dull moment with Cameron. Cameron we all LOVE you and we are SO glad you are a part of our family!

Cameron also loves the gospel. He's super smart when it comes to remembering things he's learned in church, family home evening, and family scripture study. We are happy that he made the choice to be baptized.

First Day of School and Mike's Birthday!

I'm really late in posting this, because I've been very busy.......I was going to post things to my blog when things calmed down a bit. I put it off, got all my Christmas shopping done, mailed all my Christmas cards and thought....wow....I have almost everything done...maybe I'll have time to post to my blog. Then guess what? Shortly before Christmas, I got called to be Primary President. We have about 110 children in our Primary and I have an awesome Presidency. Needless to say, I've had a few things to do. Now, I feel like things are settling down a bit.

So.....back on August 31st, the boys had their first day of school here! Cameron is in 2nd grade, Zachary in 4th, and Joshua is in 7th. School here is VERY different from what they were used to in Arizona. I am happy to report, several months later, however, that they have adjusted VERY well! They are all in gifted (two years ahead here for everything gifted!) and they are making good friends!

Since Mike's birthday was on the first day of school, I decided to make a school bus cake!

We managed to fit 39 candles on the cake! ...(and we didn't burn down the house!)

A few of us...there were more, but I didn't get many pictures.

Wedding!

The oldest boy cousins on the Schoeny side (missing the 5 youngest).

All the girl cousins on the Schoeny side (they're outnumbered)!




Madeline climbing the steps at the Washington D.C. Temple. She's been talking about and planning her wedding, wedding dress, etc. every since this:) I guess we have a few years to plan:))

My brother, Joseph, got married to Alyssa this past summer. It was a beautiful wedding. It poured the entire weekend, but it turned to a mist outdoors while we got these and more pictures. I'm glad they got some pictures in front of the temple!







Us!


Chocolate Bars



Refreshing!



Madeline and Trevor dancing.


Trevor was a good sport for about an hour of Madeline dragging him around!





Luncheon.

Owen in his little tux!

Cousins.

Enjoying some sparkling punch.

Orioles game!

The kids all got free tickets to the Orioles game for reading this past summer.

We used them in August.

They had a blast with their cousins who also got free 'library' tickets.

Makena and Madeline enjoyed cheering.

I'm not sure if Madeline knew what she was cheering for,

but she enjoyed it anyway.