Aunt Jane was the one who introduced Felicity to the Fancy Nancy series of books by Jane O’Connor. Nancy is a very unique little girl who loves to dress up and do all things fancy, even using fancy words. The illustrations are great too. Apparently the illustrator, Robin Preiss Glasser was a ballerina at [...]

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We haven’t posted in a while…yadda yadda…as usual we’re playing catch up with the  blog…you know the drill.
Last month Michaela turned one! What a wonderful year it has been, and we are all thoroughly enjoying the rapid pace of her development now…it seems like every day she tries some new sound/word, takes more steps, plays [...]

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Becky’s 30th birthday is coming up on the 21st of December (mark your calendars!). It’s always so hard to throw her a party with her friends because everyone is usually busy around the holidays. Sooooo…I decided to throw her a surprise party over a month early. I called it her 29.9th party!
I have to [...]

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Michaela has officially started to crawl.  It started on Thursday night with just a few steps and now it mad crawling steps.  She can crawl all the way down our hallway now!  Today she even started to pull her self up to a standing position without any help from us.  She is getting good.  Here’s [...]

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We hope everybody had a safe and wonderfully spooky Halloween!!  We had a great time celebrating Michaela’s first Halloween, even though she had no idea what was going on.  Felicity was Princess Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty), of course . . . did you expect anything else?!  Michaela was a flower or according to big sister [...]

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On Sunday the 19th we had a “Baby Party” for Michaela.  We didn’t have a baby shower for her when I was pregnant with because we didn’t know if she was a boy or a girl.  Either way we didn’t need baby stuff since we already had everything from when Felicity was a baby, but [...]

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October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, it falls in the middle of the month of October which 10 years 20 years ago (whoops, it was late!) was declared Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month by then President Ronald Reagan. It isn’t just a day for Becky and I.  Our family and [...]

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So I wish I could take credit for this idea, but I got the idea from our friend Jennifer who did it for her daughter Brenna’s 3rd Birthday. Next time I’ll have more questions planned out ahead of time. But she’s still darn cute…and totally into princesses!

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September 17th was Felicity’s 3rd Birthday…if you can believe it. We started the nearly week long celebration with a party at our house on the Saturday before. I forgot how much work it was to get ready for a party! It was a Princess themed party, and Becky tried out a cute idea and [...]

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She was bred to be a champion. [Fade up sad music] But before Hoover ever set a Weimaraner paw in a dog show ring, her dreams of a best in show were dashed by a genetic defect.

Born on September 8, 2003 as Top Hat’s Avalon to champion parents Windwalker’s Blue Sky and [...]

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