The Blehm Family: 2009

Monday, November 2, 2009

Excitement!

There has been a little bit of excitement in our house lately. Cries of "Mom, Nathan's standing" or "Mom, Nathan's walking!". It has taken some time, but Nathan is finally standing on his own and has taken steps by himself recently. According to his doctor he is on time with this stuff due to him being a little early, but it has caused a little concern with us since Thomas, Rebekah and Zachary walked between 13 months and 15 months. Nathan is now 16 months. He has been crawling and he is that fastest crawler we have had. He crab crawls which is very cute and when I go to Bible study it causes the ladies to giggle since they have never seen anything like that before.

Our two peas in a pod!

With Thomas and Rebekah now in school for most of the day, it has given Zachary and Nathan a chance to bond. The have become pretty good friends, playing well, but they do let us know if one "accidentally" hits the other. :) It is neat to see two little boys becoming friends!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Harvest Farm

What a beautiful day we had when we plucked our pumpkins from our garden and visited the Harvest Farm this year. The corn maze, hay maze, barrel trains, Bunnington (bunny village), trike races were a blast now that one more little Blehm could try them out.

The Blehm's posing in the biggest rocking chair!

The four lil' Blehms

Rebekah & Jeni at the top of the bridges in the corn maze

Thomas & Zachary wheeling out the pumpkins from the garden

Rebekah & Thomas posing by the pumpkins

Thomas, Rebekah & Jeni making our way through the corn maze

Nathan, Zachary & Jon taking a break from the walk through the maze.

Yes we pushed strollers through the rigidy dirt!

Nathan watching the bunnies in Bunnington

Thomas in the trike races

Rebekah in the trike races

Zach

Zach & Jon

Jeni & Nathan (he wasn't very happy with me, not wanting to pose for a picture, just wanted down)

Our beautiful daughter Rebekah, waiting for the barrel train ride

Thomas (in the back) & Rebekah getting off of their barrel train ride

Jon & Zach enjoying their ride on the barrel train

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

A day out with Thomas the Train

Yep, we went to spend a "Day out with Thomas" down in Golden. This was at a very cool train museum right outside of Golden. We were first bussed down to the museum due to lack of parking at the site. This meant that we had better bring all that we thought we needed!! All went pretty well other then some minor hiccups. Zachary had a "hold you" melt down (this is when he repeats that phrase and gets louder and louder until you pick him up), while Nathan had one of his own, probably from teething. We got to ride in a train car pulled by Thomas 3 times around the train yard. A walk around the park followed the ride, taking pictures of some of the trains they have there on display. Next, was the stop at the minature train display (which was too cool!!!) and train tattoos for the 3 big kids. A quick trip into the Thomas toy tent for shopping, and then back to the bus. Jeni and I were spent. :0

Nine Years....Boy have they gone fast!

Last week was our 9 year anniversary of being married. It was spent with a wonderful day together doing pretty much daily routine and a delicious dinner at Carrabba's. Couldn;t have asked for a better day at this point!! Time has flown by, and I think by adding kids into the picture it has gone by even faster. With our Illinois trip behind there were so many people we visited with that remembered that day...that cold day! At least we had a memorable wedding! Where has the past 9 years gone? I really don't know, but I know we are headed in the right direction. We are growing as a couple, closer to God.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Illinois

Jeni's dear Grandma Zim passed away in August. Her resting place is at small cemetary right next to where Jeni's Dad grew up. We went back there mid September for the funeral. We also managed to squeeze a few stops in along the way because there is so much to see back there. This included a trip into Chicago, visit with some friends in Iowa, and of course, John Deere in Moline. 2300 mile round trip and the kids were amazing!!. Thomas and Rebekah rode with Grandma and Grandpa Zim some of the time, and the little boys (Zach and Nathan) slept and watched movies. No big problems to speak of (we stopped quite a bit to stretch and run around). Some tears from being in the car seat to much came from both little boys, but not too bad for their first big trip!!!

Steamboat

Its officially a family tradition now to get away to Steamboat every fall. This year was by far the most fun and easiest with the four kids. Zach was old enough to ride the Alpine slide with me and Thomas could go by himself. Nathan is old enough to be a better traveler and the weather was perfect!!!