Hello Everyone~

How are you all?  We are doing well.  Just busy as beavers! I am continuing to work about 4 days a week until orientation is over which is tenatively scheduled for September 2, however they are thinking about taking me off early by a couple weeks or so....I am just that good ;-)!  That has been mine and Derek's ray of hope!  Then I will go down to working just three days a week.  Yay!  I cannot wait!

The kids are doing great.  We are having some growing pains with Brett.  He continues to be about the naughtiest thing ever.  I swear God forgot to put listening ears on him!  Brett now has the rath of mommy coming down upon him!  He has been used to maybe getting away with things at daycare and now he is quickly learning that bad behaviors don't fly around here.  However, he continues to be cute as ever and his laugh is completely contagious!  I just love his age and he continues to say the darnedest things.  Just ask...I have plenty of Brett stories as of late.

Skyler is growing like a weed.  I bet she has grown at least 2 inches since winter.  She cannot wait till kindegarten.   And in fact when anyone asks her if she will be starting kindegarten in the fall she jubliantly tells them,"NO!, I am going to Elementary!!"  It is the funniest thing ever.  Skyler loves the outdoors and continues to be the little mommy of the house!

Ayden is walking all over everything.  He walks when his had is held but will not do it without holding onto something.  He is picking up more and more words.  Baby words of course but it is so cute and adorable.  He does everything the bigger two do.  He is our little copy cat, right down to giggling or crying when one of the other two do it.  He just had his doctor appt and he weighs 18 pounds,  8 oz and is 29 inches long.

Derek is busy as ever with all the management changes at Circuit City.  He is getting ready to go back to playing Hockey after having the last 1.5 years off.  We all really enjoy watching him, so that will be exciting. 

I got new glasses and contacts finally.  I haven't had contacts in about 12 years, so that is something new.  I felt I needed to do something on a more constant level.  I actually really like being able to see, imagine that!!  I got my actual paper license as an RN.  I was completely over the moon!  Still am! 

I put up two more albums: One is from Skyler's Recital, the other is just Candids in June.  Hope you enjoy.  There are some great pictures in there!  Including the one on this posting...titled cranky boy!

Love: Derek, Nikki, Sky, Brett, and Ayd