Jumping into June

June was moving month! We were packing, making sure all the paper work was moving along, inspections, insurance quotes, etc, etc...

But we still made time for some playing!!!

Trying out the sprinkler ball from Pat & Jessica. He wasn't too sure about the cold water spraying out, but he likes to roll the ball!

Swim shoes are just cute. :)

Using his pool for the 1st time. He didn't want to get in it the 1st time, but he liked putting his toys in and out.

Helping Mommy pack the kitchen.

Wearing Aunt TiTi's sunglasses!

We moved into the new house June 17th. It was a little crazy and unorganized as moving always seems to be. Drake adapted better than I could have asked for. For a while he would panic for a few minutes when we put him in his bed, but has since gotten over that too! It is great to have a bathroom for him and our own bathroom in our bedroom! I also love having the washer and dryer on the main level, the only thing better would have been by the bedrooms. But beggar's can't be choosers.

Moving on to May

May was filled with Birthday parties, playing outside and procrastination on packing to move. I did not feel well at all for most of May. Luckily Drake was able to keep my busy and my mind off of it most of the time. :)

Drake found a new favorite spot under the end table. He is a perfect fit!

He LOVES to mow with Daddy!! He hears the mower start in the house & starts yelling to go outside.

Trying out his new water table from Aunt TiTi! It sure is messy, but he enjoys it very much!!

Just being silly with Mommy!

Again another water favorite, playing with the hose!

It was fun being able play outside before it got soo hot!

Rewind to April

April was a busy month for the Steinhauser Family.

We started out the month by selling our house to a friend of ours. We mentioned that we were thinking about putting it on the market to take advantage of the stimulus deal and he said that he would be interested. The rest is history.

It took a while to get everything finalized with the sale so we ended up only having a week to find a house and sign a contract by April 30th. A little stressful, but probably a blessing for us. I think we could have looked at houses forever. It is one of our favorite things to do!

We found a ranch that we really liked over by Maple Woods College and had signed a contract. But something in my gut was telling me it wasn't right. With 2 days left Dustin suggested I get online one more time to see if anything else had come available or if there was something we may have missed. Sure enough there was a 2 story just about 4 miles from our old house that had only been on the market for 2 days! We went that afternoon, looked at it & wrote a contract! There are a few things we are wanting to update, but it has most everything we were looking for!

We also found out at the beginning of April that we are expecting Baby #2! This was defiantly a surprise for us, but with all the struggles we had the 1st time around a surprise was kind of nice. I have felt pretty sick most days, but it's all part of it. Drake will be 19 months when the baby arrives in December. Having 2 little ones that close will for sure keep us busy, but it will be great when they are able to start playing together!

Of course at the end of April and the beginning of May we celebrated Drake's 1st Birthday!

I included some random pictures throughout the month of April of Drake. Enjoy!

Check me out Mom!

His favorite thing to do, play in the dog water.

Making some waffles.

Helping with the dishes.

Riding in his favorite car Grandma Roseanna got him for his Birthday!

Drake's Party

We started out May celebrating Drake's Birthday with family and friends!! We had a Backyardigans/Elmo Party at our house and it went great!! It is so nice to know we have so many people around us that care so much about our little guy!

Hmm..What's in here??

Sporting his Drake "1" jersey from The West's!

Couldn't walk quite yet, but he got where he wanted to go!!

Trying out his new wagon with Mia who is only 1 day younger than Drake.

Thank You so much to everyone who joined us to celebrate!!

Drake Turns 1 ~ April 29, 2010

Since I haven't posted in 8 months we are going to have to go back a couple months to at least blog about Drake's 1st Birthday! Hopefully this week we can catch up to now & then do a little better about keeping up!

Happy Birthday Drake Boy!!!

Enjoying some morning playtime on the deck! A perfect way to start his special day!

Birthday Cake

I think he liked it!!

We had just a small celebration just us on his actual Birthday day. He had such a good day & LOVED his cake! More pictures to come of his party!