Trick or Treat

Caleb was a cute little bumble bee this year for his second Halloween. He hasn't quite figured out that Halloween is a fun time for little kids, but we think that next year will be a whole different story.

Here, you'll see daddy putting on the headpiece to the costume to show Caleb that it's "ok" to wear it.

Say CHEESE!!!

We've taught Caleb how to say "Cheese".......and here is the result with him and daddy saying "Cheese".

He also just loves to ride on Grandpa's John Deere tractor. He's 100% BOY!!!

Caleb, Mommy & Baby

Caleb knows right where his little brother or sister is and he gives mom's belly a kiss and pats it when you ask him "Caleb, where's the baby". He's so cute.

Beth & baby #2

We thought that we'd put a picture of Beth with baby #2 on the way. Beth's now 23 weeks pregnant and everything is going great. We had an ultrasound done a couple of weeks ago and the baby is doing just fine. We didn't want to find out the sex of the baby, so we'll be waiting until February to find out!!!

Just chillin out

Does he look like a PENTONEY?????

Little Man

Did I say that he loves to climb "on" things, well, "into" things as well. We are hoping that he'll want to take up piano lessons someday. He is always wanting to sit on the bench and play with the keys.

Caleb and Gracie Playing

What a good doggie.....letting Caleb sit on her back and play. He is such a nut. He's into the climbing stage right now and if he can reach it, he'll try to climb it.

Here's the scoop.

Well, as most of you have probably already seen, Caleb's shirt said, "I'm gonna be a big brother". Beth and I are expecting our second baby on Feb. 27th, 2010. Beth is 11 weeks along right now and just started into her 12th week. We went in on Friday morning to her doctors office to listen for the heartbeat and it was 160 bpm. Beth is doing great. She's had a fair amount of morning sickness this time around, but other than that all is well. Thanks for all the comments and emails from everybody. Enjoy our hot weather today and stay cool.

Caleb's new shirt!!!

Some new photos

Hello everyone. Here are some new photos of Caleb. He's just about 15 months old already and he's doing quite well. He's walking all over the place, trying to climb anything in his path that looks interesting enough to climb and learning new things all the time. (even funny looking faces as you might see here)

Just an update

Hello everyone. We thought we'd give everyone an update as to what's been happening lately. Caleb is finally walking!!!! He's so cute to watch. He'll go from one piece of furniture to another or to something else that he wants all on his own.......stopping often in the middle to adjust his balance and smile at us. :) He's gotten very good at using his walking toys and we should rename them as "running" toys. He chases Gracie all over the house and gets to laughing so hard while doing it that he gives himself the hicups. All we can do is just laugh.....it's so fun to watch him.

Other than that, our pool is opened up and ready to use. The water temperature was up to 78 degs. today. It's been climbing about 3 degs. each sunny day thanks to our 168 sq. foot of solar panels. We are planning on using the pool this weekend with Caleb and it should be fun since he LOVES the water.


We'll post some pictures or video of Caleb walking very soon. We hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday weekend.

1 Year Old

Well, it's been a while since we've posted any new pics of Caleb on here so we thought that we had better step to it and get it done. Caleb turned one at the end of March and we had a nice little Birthday party for him at our house. We kept it simple and enjoyed having our immediate family members there to celebrate Caleb's big day. Beth and I made Caleb a cake that was in the shape of a train.............we had some balloons filled up for him (which he LOVED smacking around, and laughing at) and of course many gifts for him to open. Here are a few pictures of our little boy.

Beth and Caleb flew down to Augusta, GA with me last month and Caleb had a blast pushing all the buttons in the cockpit. I love the last picture of him sitting in the co-pilots seat.....it's almost as if he were flying the plane, one hand on the yoke and one on the thrust levers. He couldn't get enough of all the controls. Made me SMILE!!

Some Precious Moments!!

These pictures just melt out hearts out. Our little guy is gonna be 1 year old in a couple of weeks. The past year has just flown by and our little baby is gowing so big. I hope you like these pictures as much as we do. Caleb is almost ready to take his first steps. We are thinking that he might take his first step just before his first b-day, but we don't want to rush him. We like having him dependant upon us. Once he starts to walk, he's probably not going to want to be held as much.. :(

10 Months old

Caleb turned 10 Months old last week. He's really taken up his crawling very well and is starting to pull himself up onto our laps and other low level items. It won't be long and he'll be taking those first steps. I just hope that I'm (Rod) home to see it. Since we laid off another pilot last week, things are SUPER busy and I'm gonna be gone a ton. Anyways, here is his 10 Month photo that we made.

Cracker Barrel is Great!

Here he is at Cracker Barrel with Mommy & Grandma.

Growing fast.

It has been a while since we've placed any photos on here, so we thought that we'd place a few odds & ends on here.

First official swimming lesson

Caleb had his first of 8 swimming lessons this weekend. He's like a fish in the water. He loves it. Obviously, he can't do any of it on his own yet, but he just loves being in the water and has a blast. I think a lot of that is because we've had him in our pool from the time he was 2 months old.

Here he is waving his hand (which Grandpa Hopfinger tought him last week) at the little girls who where there for swimming lessons. It's so funny to watch him......as the little girls walk by, his head follows their every move and he stares at them. We are going to have our hands full!!!

How low can it go?

This is a picture that I took this morning outside on our deck (-20 F). Our temperatures tend to get a little lower than those reported on the news due to our location. With us sitting back in the woods and being protected from some of the elements and also, that we sit in a little bit of a valley just makes the temps colder. We could hear the deck and roof truses popping last night. Sounded like a gun going off. You know it's cold when all that wood contracts that much.

Greetings from West Palm!

Well, as many of you know we (Rod and I) are down in West Palm Beach, FL for the weekend. We are staying at a Hilton on Singer Island. We have heard about the snow back in Michigan and thought we would share some of the sunny 80 degree weather we have been enjoying. The weather has been beautiful and its actually kinda boring not having Caleb to be running after. We are enjoying the short stay together but we really miss the little bugger and can't wait to see him on Monday. Here is a picture of me on the balcony of our hotel, Rod on the beach, a fun night shot and some shells (which are everywhere along the beach).

Hummmm, what's this????

Our little guy is so intertaining. He's all over the house doing his "army crawl", checking out new rooms, toys, electronics (which he loves to push buttons and mess up our programing.....uggg) and he loves to hold his own bottle.