'09= A "Rockin'" Start!

I know...extremely cheesy:)

I never really got to share what we did for New Years! Overall it was a pretty enjoyable evening...and some good partyin'! To start the night off, we went to an early dinner with our friends, the Schrock's. (Brandon & Jess) They came into town for a week from Arkansas. So we always try to get together with them whenever they make it home. Brandon's brother, Nick and his wife Andrea also went too. We had a great time! We went to the new restaraunt that was added on to UP mall, called Granite City. Super awesome place and amazing food!

After that we made it back to Brock's parent's, who were babysitting our boys for our dinner time. Quite nice:) They were having their own New Years bash at their place. So after a few hours of rock band and trying to get Isaac to sleep, we stayed the night! Yeah, Mr. Isaac stayed all the way up to midnight! I think it was way too loud for him to relax and sleep. Sir Kahler didn't mind....he went to bed at 9:30 and slept the whole night! It was even hard for me this year to stay up so late! Once the ball dropped, Isaac and I made our way down to bed and we were both out within a couple minutes!

Here' s where my "title theme" came from:) You don't ever see this going on! The 3 Maust brothers starting their own band:) Or just attempting to play Rock Band!

Introducing Shane(the oldest) on guitar, Brandon (aka "Bub" & middle brother)on lead vocals, and the baby, Brock (who belongs to me!) on drums.

They were quite the entertainment for the evening!

Earlier in the evening, with the Schrock's...

Jess & me
Brandon & Jess

Me and the hubby:)

And last but not least, the weekend after New Years we celebrated my cousin, Brandi's wedding! Brandi and Ben are finally married! They got married on Dec. 19th in Cancun and had their reception back in Goshen at the new Spohn Ball Room. It is a beautiful reception hall. We watched the slideshow of them and a video of their wedding in Cancun....which was probably the funniest wedding video I have EVER seen! No joke. It could win big bucks on America's Funniest Videos or something! You couldn't understand a word the lady was saying in their ceremony...and clearly neither could Brandi and Ben! We were all in tears from laughing so hard at the end of watching it!

Here's Brandi dancing with her dad, Uncle Don

Brandi and Ben cutting the cake

Me and the beautiful bride!

After Christmas break was over, I got off to a brand new start with a brand new job! I am now officially working as a Paraprofessional @ Fairfield! (Where I graduated from). Pretty awesome job that I'm really excited about! I work with the ED kids, and sit in classes with a couple of students. It has it's challenging moments, but I feel like I'm already making good connections with the kids just after 1 week of being @ school.

On top of that, we have found my boys an awesome Amish sitter! We absolutely love them! Isaac and Kahler had a great first week with them and I can see it being an awesome experience for all of us! It is also so super convenient considering how close they live to us right now, and to school. It's pretty great!

So, with now a full time job, this does mean less blogging:( I do spend a lot of time in the evening with the boys now since I don't get to see them all day. And I no longer get to go to Mottt's, which is super sad for me:( Gonna miss you ladies like crazy! Don't be strangers!

I'll try to keep up to date with our lives the best I can:)

Have a great 2009!!

December & Christmas '08!

Lots of pics brought to you by our busy month in December! Enjoy!

Dashing through the snow...

in a one-horse open sleigh.....

(Or Papa pulling Isaac & Lincoln in a plastic sled....that works too! ha ha!)

Isaac loved tromping through the snow (and falling) in his snow suit and boots!
Isaac & Momma

Not so sure about this white stuff:P

The boys ready for the Wogoman Christmas Eve bash!

(Out of order) but Kahler & Kloie were hammin' it up here on their bellies:)

Tongue-twistin' kid...I swear he always has his tongue out, and that thing comes darn near close to touching his nose!
Christmas Eve...Kahler opening his first gift with Daddy!

Isaac's big gift....a Michigan tricycle! Yeah Daddy was happy for sure...I guess Isaac was too! As for Mommy...I'll just suck it up since I'm for the Boilers:) At least it's Fairfield colors, right?!

Probably my favorite part was seeing Isaac in his spiffy Christmas PJ's....I mean how much does he look like a little man?! And his expression cracks me up here!

Best buddy cousins Isaac & Lincoln watchin' Cars together:)

Christmas morning...Stocking time with the boys!

On to Brock's parents' for Christmas Day.....

Isaac got lots of awesome books to read! So excited!

Isaac playing with cousin Izzi's new cookie jar toy...good thing he got one too cuz he really liked it:) She didn't seem to mind!

He was so into his baby brother that day.....they're my sweeties:)

Isaac's Christmas shirt....Charlie Brown!! Loved it!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

Hope you have a Happy and Blessed 2009!!!!

November '08

Ok so it's been well over a month since I've done a post....talk about crazy, busy lives lately...and a slow computer doesn't help either:) But things are winding down this last week of break so I'll try to catch you all up on the last couple of months!

This was actually from late-October but I had yet to post these! We did some Maust pics outside of my in-laws' home. It was a beautiful fall day, so we got some good family pics out of it!

This was also quite a task getting Isaac to sit still for them! They were attempting a grandkid add picture for Brock's Dad's business. This one was probably the funniest...Isaac's rear end! We are thinking of embroidering Dalin on the rear of his jeans:)

A couple family pics of us four....
Our favorite one in the leaves:) Even though the boys aren't lookin' we thought it looked so good!

The whole family and our kids!

Me, Brock, the oldest brother, Shane, middle brother, Brandon and his wife, Brooke

Brock's parents Linda and Gary,

Shane's daughter Kaitlyn, our boys, Shane's son Cody and Brandon and Brooke's daughter, Izzi.

The main event in November was the wedding of one of my best girl friends, Jess, who I met @ Purdue. Her wedding was completely amazing. We traveled the day after Thanksgiving to Chicago for the big weekend! I was honored to be a part of it and stand up with her! It was just overall a great time and the wedding party was so fun....we all had a blast!

Me and my great friend, Tricia!

Jess' best friends from high school, Julie and Ashley....they were a BLAST!

So excited to get to spend time with Ara!....hadn't seen this chick in like 4 years! It was great:)


Me with Kahler and "Super Dad" for the weekend! Brock had Kahler with him pretty much the whole weekend and did an awesome job taking care of him while I got to do my girl things:) Thanks babe:) (Isaac stayed home and went to all the thanksgiving dinners with his grandma's!)

Jess was truly a gorgeous bride! She was so excited the whole time...it was just awesome!

The day before the wedding @ the spa getting all pampered! We were given BRIGHT bridesmaids sweatshirts to wear...pretty funny!

Rewind back to Thanksgiving Day: Sir Kahler started rolling over! Hasn't really done it much since, but he started!

December and Christmas '08 to come!!

Frustration!

So I have so little time and SO much to blog about! I'm super duper way behind in all the events going on with the kiddos, pics of all kinds of fun stuff to post..including the fabulous wedding I was in over T-giving weekend...(gosh that was forever ago!) Kahler's 3 mo pics, Isaac's 18 mo. pics, our Wogoman Fam pics, the Maust pics, yeah....WAAAAY behind!

...and to top it off...x-mas is just around the corner and I know I'll want to do a post about that too! Yikes! So whenever I can get our computer working correctly and faster...then I'll do it:) I didn't fall off the face of the earth so don't fret! Ha ha!

Hope all of you are enjoying the Holiday season so far!

Milestones...

So it's been a while since I've been able to do a post! Computer hasn't been running very efficiently and I'm not so patient when that happens:)

But anyways, lots has been happening with our boys!

We'll start with Sir Kahler:)

Milestone #1: On the 10th he turned 2 months old! My little baby isn't so much a little baby anymore:( At his appointment he weight 13 lbs and 14 oz. (90% on the charts!) and he was 26" long! (100% on the charts!) Seriously, where are these big boys coming from?!

Milestone #2: On Saturday night he slept through the whole night! Yep, from 9:30 Pm to 6:30 AM! 9 HOURS! He did that actually 2 nights in a row...and I was so excited! However he hasn't done that since, but the kid only wakes up once still in the middle of the night to eat, so no complaints here!

Milestone #3: Aside from smiling a lot now, he's breaking out the coo's! I LOVE to hear him talk away!:) It's seriously the cutest thing ever and I'm reminded why I love this age too!

Here he was talking to me while laying on the floor....( I know..u can't tell!)

And him and his big self for a 2 month shot! Not so happy here! ha ha!

Now for Mr. Isaac!

Milestone #1: He turned 18 months on the 16th. A year and a half already...whew! It's flyin' by!
And what do you think he did on that same day....

You'll never guess...

Yeah he went #2 in the toilet! ha ha!

(with some major help from Daddy of course!) It was the funniest thing...Brock went to change his diaper and noticed he was still trying to go( I know TMI!)...so Brock takes off his diaper and runs him to sit on the toilet. Of course Isaac didn't like this so much so he clinged onto Brock like a hug and eventually he relaxed enough that he finished his duty on the toilet! It was definitely a Kodak moment but yeah the camera wasn't working that day:P Nothin' like starting to get him familiarized to start a bit of potty training:)

Milestone #2: This has been huge for us....Isaac in staying in the nursery now! I know not a big deal for most parents, but he was having a big problem with me leaving him @ church. I couldn't remember the last time i was able to sit through an entire church service until the last 2 Sundays. He has done so well now. I take him to Mottt's on Thursday mornings and he stayed in there today too! So I'm so proud of him with his progress when I leave him to go play with the kids:) He's such a big boy...he's even holding my hand to walk into places now, which is awesome since the kid is over 30 lbs now! One less thing for me to literally lug around:)

So that's the update on the fellas! Time to work on nap times now! I'll leave you with some funny pics of Isaac checking out Kahler....:)

Have a great rest of the week!

Kahler's 6 Week Photo Shoot

Here's my big boy, Kahler and his 6 week pics taken by Darcy! I loved how they turned out! They're kinda backwards, but these are some of my faves...and of course big brother Isaac had to be in some of them too, but he didn't really cooperate all too well...surprise surprise:P

Enjoy!