ST. LOUIS CHRISTMAS

We left Springfield after work on Thursday night, December 21 to head down to celebrate Christmas at Papa and DD's!

Molly Moo

Maggie May

WELL IT'S OFFICIAL...ADAM'S A TEENAGER NOW!

13 years our little baby boy was born...and now look at him!! Although he is quite a bit bigger than the 8 lbs, 4 oz. when he was born, he is still the cutest, funniest, sweetest and smartest boy in the world. We sometimes still can't believe we were given the gift of this wonderful child, but we still feel like the luckiest parents on earth!

After the 3rd year in a row for dinner at Palermo's, we went back to our house for presents and cherry pie for the birthday boy!Grandma and Adam
The Powers family (which includes a teenager now!)

Make a wish Adam!

EMILY'S 9TH BIRTHDAY

We celebrated Emily's birthday at the Pizza Machine! She got to play some games and we all had the pizza buffet. Then it was back to our house for cake, ice cream and presents. She also had her friends over the following Saturday for a sleepover!

Look who came to Emily's sleepover - Justin Bieber!

LINCOLN MAGNET FALL BASEBALL

Adam played on the Lincoln baseball team again this Fall. We had a pretty good team, even though we played a lot of very good schools! We won our first regionals game but then were defeated by Chatham Glenwood. Overall a great season for the boys. Adam did great as usual on the mound!

Little sisters - Emily and Olivia

Celebrating after the win at Regionals in Girard!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL - 7TH AND 3RD GRADE!

Hard to believe the summer is gone and our kids are ready for 7th and 3rd grade! Time sure flies!

NEW COUCHES!

AUGUST 2011 - MINI SUMMER VACATION

We took our annual summer vacation the week after the kids summer camp ended. We had Kelsey and Ethan with us too, which was a lot of fun for all of us. We spent a couple days at Papa's lake house in Marissa, then went to St. Louis for the day...up in the Arch and then to a Cardinal game. We had a great week!