The last 7 months....

New Baby!!! Due September 17

Megan Turns 2!!!

Trip to Walt Disney World (of course this will get it's own posts, but here are a few pictures)

Flying Piglet Race

Megan's First Reds Game

Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Egg Coloring, Easter Morning

More to follow....

Let's face it. As the years have gone by since I began this blog, I have become consumed with a few more important things in my life. This blog was started in Spring 2007 to welcome our first child and it has slowly proven the fact that subsequent children definitely get less keepsakes recorded for them. However, I would argue that the second child Megan has actually gotten more valuable time than Anna did. While I was busy sharing her first tooth, first smile, first laugh, first clap and everything else monumental with the world wide web, she was off by herself sitting in her Bumbo seat or something with no attention from me. Heck, she probably did some "firsts" that I missed because I was too busy searching for and uploading pictures to my blog for 90 minutes.

Megan, on the other hand, has always gotten full attention from me. It's a technicality that it came for the first 12 or so months simply out of protection since I had to keep her safe from her big sister Anna only 18 months older. Then the second year brought lots of entertaining from Mommy to keep both girls happy and busy. Any free chance I got, AKA "nap time," had to be spent doing my Mommy duties around the house. A quick trip to the basement to write on my blog and search for my cutest pictures to display for all of our blog fans became a luxury and something I just couldn't justify.

Now that Megan is in her third year, can protect herself and has a best friend playmate in her big sister Anna, I am too exhausted with pregnancy number three to EVER make time for this blog (Surprise! I just told you I'm 31 weeks pregnant in some random blog update. See, this poor baby didn't even get a proper blog posting to announce his or her miracle of life).

With all that being said, I may or may not do a good job on the Zumbiel Family Album, but I love my family dearly, do all kinds of wonderful blog-worthy events with them, and have a TON of pictures to prove it....You just might never see those pictures or hear the stories :)

I'll try to post some things we've been up to since...oh...Christmas??? Oops!

Merry Christmas 2010! Love the Zumbiels (from the fabulous month of February :)

Today is the last day of February and the 59th day of 2011. For the past 59 days, I have tried to force myself to post some Christmas pictures but it clearly hasn't happened. I figure this is the very last day of the year that I can discuss anything about Christmas 2010 since it is still February. When tomorrow comes and we officially say "March," thoughts of Christmas are officially gone. So for anyone who cares, and really that's just me so that I have some kind of "journal like" memories of my kids' childhood, here are some Christmas memories.

Lunch with Santa at Saint Patrick's
Since Lunch with Santa conflicted with a Bengals' home game, my mom joined me and the girls at St. Pat's for pizza, ice cream, crafts and a Santa shop. We had a great time and the girls surprisingly loved seeing Santa.


Southern Lights at Kentucky Horse Park
A Blazejewski family tradition. This was Megan's first visit! Everybody enjoyed the lights, the trains and the petting zoo. Anna especially loved getting her special treats!


A New Downtown Tradition
Matt and I created our own family tradition this year. We began with a visit to the 65th annual train display at the Duke Energy building. We headed over to Fountain Square to ride on a horse carriage and finished with dinner at Chipotle and a walk around the Square. The girls loved it and Anna convinced us that next year we can try ice skating with her on Fountain Square after dinner. That should be very entertaining!


Decorating Our Christmas Tree


Arts and Crafts Nights
Many days and nights during this snow covered winter were spent doing arts and crafts. Whether we made ornaments, paintings or new play doh creations, we always had fun. (The play doh picture is a great capture of the girls' typical goofiness when they start trying to make each other laugh.)


What is Christmas without homemade cookies?
Anna and Megan absolutely loved this part of the holidays. Here we are baking good ole' chocolate chip cookies and Jesus' birthday cake.


Cute Kids Singing Christmas Carols
Can you really celebrate Christmas without this sweet event? Anna takes a Bible school class for 3 and 4 year olds during Mass every Sunday. She really does learn lessons and it's not just a babysitting room (although, that helps Matt and me out!) Her class came up at the end of Mass on the Sunday before Christmas. They sang Away in a Manger, O Little Town of Bethlehem and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Needless to say, they were adorable and brought tears to my eyes. Anna did a great job despite being the only child to refuse to wear the angel halo. These pictures are cute, but the video is priceless!

Christmastime Adventures

Earrings

I have wanted to get Megan's ears pierced for several months and never got around to doing it -really, I never could get a date set with my mom since I needed her moral and physical support (Matt doesn't care about it, his rule is just that he doesn't want to witness it.) Anyway, I definitely wanted her to have earrings before Christmas so we headed out right after Thanksgiving. As you can see, they're adorable!

Snow

I love letting the girls have fun playing outside in the snow, but I hate the effort that goes into bundling them up. This particular night in early December, we brought the snow inside to us and they were just as happy.

....And Anna did get an evening of the real thing sled riding with Daddy followed by a yummy mug of hot cocoa.


Saint Nicholas

St. Nick visited us on the evening of December 5 so the girls had some goodies in their stockings on the morning of December 6. Matt and I were very happy that he left Toy Story 3 because it made a great movie night for us all. By the way, it is a TEAR JERKER. Oh my - I can't remember crying that hard over a movie in a long time. (I'm already sad about the girls going away to Kindergarten one day, then Andy and his toys made me have to think about college! Really though, it was the sweet friendships between the toys that made me really lose it, not college :)