Baby Yuri

Welcome Yuri Diesel Schafbuch!

Born February 27, 2015 at 9:53 am

8 lbs 5 ozs, 20.5 inches long

 

 

Five...

So we've had a month and a half to get used to the idea of living with a five year old, but I thought I'd be official and share some photos of the birthday girl's big day and festivities surrounding!

 

 Hello sprinkles!  Everly enjoys her cinnamon rolls (and everything really) with a little extra sugar on top.  She did an exceptionally wonderful job decorating breakfast on her birthday morning!

 

 We hadn't ever been to Sky Zone before and decided to go as a family and burn some energy! They happened to have a toddler open jump time on her birthday, so it worked out great! She had a blast bouncing away.  What fun!



After that Uncle Cici took her to Build a Bear for her birthday present.  It took a while to find the perfect dress, but after many outfit changes she made up her mind and managed to pick :)  She loves her new bear Natalie!

Every year she picks a birthday theme and five was Snow White! Happy Birthday to our sweet and precious, thoughtful, funny princess! Can't wait to see what this big year ahead holds for you!

Baby Boy

We are excited to let everyone know...a little brother is on the way!

First Fish

Tonight we went fishing at Raccoon River Park.  It was our family's inaugural fishing outing together. It was a lovely night and Dustin and Everly each had their own respective catches! 

 

Here we are on our way to the fishing spot and Evie even carried the worms!

 Lines out, all set!

 

Dustin was the first to catch a little bluegill.

And here's Evie's first catch!  She called the fish 'blue gales' all night :)  

Success!

Everly's First BALLET!

Last night, thanks to a Christmas present from my parents, Dustin and I were able to take Everly to her first professional ballet performance!  We went to the Civic Center to take in Ballet Des Moines' spring show, Cinderella!  Pretty dress and new sparkly shoes in tow, she got situated in her seat that liked to fold up, and was very very eager for that curtain to go up. 

 

A nice intermission to stretch our legs and show off a few dance moves, inspired, of course, by the performance onstage...

I wish I could've taken pictures of Everly's cute little face as she took in the performance.  She kept track of where everyone was on stage and off and enjoyed seeing the different costumes. She even made sure to whisper when she had something to say :) She did great!

 

The first of (hopefully!) many ballets to come!

Belated Birthday

We have now had the privilege of living with a FOUR year old for the last two weeks! Unfortunately the recognition of this milestone is coming late due to computer technical difficulties. She had been requesting a 'Belle birthday' for the entirety of her threes so hence the cake attempt in photos below. By the end of the night she was a pro at singing happy birthday [to herself] and blowing out the candles as many times as possible...

 

What a wonderful girl and such a blessing to our lives! Oh how pleased we are with her and thrilled to spend our days watching her learn and grow. Can't wait to enjoy this next year with her and looking forward to the already decided 5 year Snow White birthday.  [We'll see if that changes :)]

Pumpkin Patch 2013

Today a few moms and kiddos took our second annual trip to Williamson's Pumpkin Paradise!  The weather was perfect and we sure had a great time!  Here is the highlight reel from our outing:

 

 Climbing hay bales...

 

 

A long, bumpy pumpkin train ride...

 

The BIG tire swing...

 

Corn pit!  Best idea anyone's ever had.

 

And the animals...  Everly was so brave and found the courage to pet the calf, donkey, and goats!  They really liked the goats.

 

And more pumpkin themed photos...