Happy 30th Birthday, Zach!

For Zach's 30th birthday, Stephanie rented out the YMCA gym and invited people from their church to come play volleyball. It was actually really fun although, I certainly couldn't be very competitive. Made me want to get out and get more active, however, my back definitely gave me some problems. Anyway, while the young adults played volleyball, my parents had a blast with all 3 of the grandkids. Although, they quickly realized that they were a handful and hard to keep up with so they tried out this glorified ball pit.

Andrew and Tyler LOVED it. They sat in there for an hour while my parents switched on and off pushing them around the gym.

Daniel did good for about 20-30 minutes and then he was done. :) Then my parents just took them all out in to another gym and let them just crawl/walk around playing with cones and balls.
Tyler was worn out and his poor little knees had bruises on them. He certainly didn't seem to mind though.

I had the wrong lens on my camera and was caught off guard when we started singing Happy Birthday to Zach so this is the only picture I got as we were singing. Couldn't get the next picture of him actually blowing out the candles fast enough.

Happy Birthday anyway, Zach!

More pictures of Tyler's first Easter basket later...too tired, going to bed :)

The Seigneur Family

This past weekend we headed over to Wheeling, WV where my sister Stephanie lives. We celebrated my brother in law, Zach's 30th birthday and just had a good time with the whole family being together. Even Marisa, my youngest sister, was able to be home from college for spring break. I'll post pictures of the birthday festivities later, although, there aren't many, but here are some that Joanna wanted me to take for them of Andrew and a couple of the entire Tim Seigneur family. Hope they turned out like you wanted them to Joanna!

This would would have been perfect if Tim hadn't been hiding his face!



love this one...he looks like a little boy model :)

Tyler at play

A cute little video of Tyler at play. Sorry, a little long! :) Enjoy!

Tyler's belly laugh

BEWARE! You will probably at least smile when watching this. :) Tim took this one evening while I was gone. He said Tyler was laughing hysterically while Tim jumped and spun around so he set up the camera and did it again, and sure enough, Tyler still thought it was hilarious. :) I think this is one of my most favorite videos of Tyler.

Short little video of Tyler clapping his hands for the first time. At least the first time witnessed. He was SOO tired in this video and ready for bed but its still cute to see him clapping his hands! He is a pro now. Just don't have an updated video.

Father/Son Times

I know I'm a little bias, but I think that Tim is just the best Daddy in the world to Tyler and I absolutely LOVE watching them together. On Tim's days off, I am pretty sure I would be content to just sit and watch them play and interact all day. Tyler is definitely a Daddy's boy and so his face just lights up when Daddy is home and playing with him. His offers the best giggles and smiles when Daddy's around. He's not the only one that likes Daddy home though! I sure wish we could all be together as a family in the evenings. It is the longing of both of our hearts. We have been praying about other job opportunities for Tim that would allow him to be home in the evenings but also to pay a little more so that I can stay home more. So, in this waiting process, the Lord is just teaching me patience and contentment. Neither of which are fun lessons to learn at times.
A few weekends ago, Tim was outside working on burning some brush so I took Tyler outside to be able to watch Daddy and so Tim could play with Tyler for a bit. Of course, we had to take Tyler's big K-mart special ball with him so he and Tim could pass back and forth.


sweet boy

Although I didn't get near as much of both boys as I would have wanted, I did get some pictures of Tyler and Tim that I will forever cherish. They aren't wearing fancy clothes and the background is primarily leafless trees, but in my mind, they are priceless pictures because they capture Tim and Tyler for who they really are...what I see them to be.

see what I mean? ...probably not...but thats okay

I am one blessed girl, thats for sure. I don't deserve this man that I call my husband, and I certainly don't deserve the gift that God gave us in Tyler. But I am so very very thankful for them and don't know who I would be without them in my life.

An update

Its been awhile since I posted anything on here and I have lots of pictures to post! March has definitely been a fun month in comparison to February's snow, sickness, hospitals, and just plain YUCK! We have had several beautiful days where we've been able to get out and take walks and just enjoy the changing of seasons. This year is going to be so drastically different having Tyler at an age where he can actually play and explore things. He sticks everything in his mouth, but I figure a little dirt never hurt right?

Our first walk together this spring. Tyler was a bit tired, but at least we got a smile still!

He LOVES the swing

Tyler is developing more and more with each passing day. He pulls himself up to stand, cruises on furniture, walks behind his walker, (a little shaky still) and actually plays catch and passing the ball really well for his age. He loves playing with balls or really anything that we will let him throw and bounce around. He has become quite the little racer with his crawling skills and loves when we just let him go explore without being limited on where he can go. He especially loves our church's activity center which of course, has to be one of the most nasty floors ever. Our friends Joel and Cynetta's oldest boy turned 5 a couple weeks ago and we went there for his birthday party. We let Tyler roam free and he LOVED it! But he was absolutely filthy when we got home and it was already so late that we decided to just give him a quick bath in the sink before bed. I figured that would be quicker and easier. It was definitely quicker but I don't think easier is the right word to describe the experience. We haven't given Tyler a bath in the sink since he was just days old, before his cord fell off. He is definitely MUCH bigger now and MUCH more squirmy. He loved it though.
This picture makes me laugh because he looks cross eyed.



Tyler has a new fascination and that is with Widget, our cat. I wouldn't say Widget is necessarily a fan, but she definitely has some motherly instinct in her. She has always been really gentle with Tyler even when she is in a playful mood.

It is hard to get pictures of him outside because he is literally NONSTOP movement. But he stopped just briefly to "talk" for a minute so I snapped a picture and this is the expression I got.

It seems like even here in the past week, Tyler has REALLY started babbling/talking a LOT. It is so cute hearing him and trying to get him to repeat things. So far, he says Ma and Da Da and I could have sworn he repeated "shoes" one day. Who knows.
I don't want to rush Tyler in growing up at all, but one thing that I am hoping for is that he will be walking efficiently by the time this baby is born. Although there are some days when I feel like he is SO far from it, there are other days when he does this (standing independently) MANY times and makes me realize that its going to be soon...too soon.

We can't believe that its been almost a year since Tyler entered the Schramm's household...and since I don't want to get emotional about that right now, I will simply just leave it at that.

Tyler's 9 month photos

After several attempts and working around a sick but still very active baby, Tim and I managed to get some decent pictures for Tyler's 9 month photos. It took both of us and this is still not the greatest. We had some lighting issues and a couple bulbs went out on my umbrella lights but they are done! I finally got around to editing and uploading them...over a month late. Oh well...Enjoy anyway! :)



Proof that Tyler doesn't look JUST like me...see that dimple in his right cheek? That is from his Daddy! :)

and this is ALSO proof that Tyler definitely has some of his father's characteristics :)



Yes, we feed our child

tehehe! We have a growing boy on our hands!!

You can click on this next one to see it bigger. Just some pictures of Tyler's sweet face!

Our Little Secret

A little over a week ago, I had my 20 week ultrasound and Tim and I decided to find out what we were having. So, our little secret is out! Enjoy the pictures and video below. :)

Handsome Boys!

Just some shots of the littlest handsome boys in my family :)