Hey guys! I hope you had a fun weekend! (Yes, I realize it is Wednesday. How did that happen??) This past weekend was a pretty busy one for the Reineke Family! We kicked it off on Friday with the Miami University hockey game, courtesy of John’s work. It was Alex’s first hockey game! He wasn’t too sure about all the noise, but he seemed to enjoy himself. I think he was just…
This morning I was up bright and early because John got up to go to the gym at 5:45 (it’s criminal). I was planning on catching some more z’s, but he proceeded to tell me how he thought there might be a critter in our attic, so I couldn’t fall back to sleep! So, downstairs I went! Luckily, I really don’t think there is a crazed animal in our attic (I hope…
Hello! After staying up entirely too late Tuesday night watching season 2 of Homeland, I mustered up the energy to not snuggle with Alex for his afternoon nap and tackle a project I’ve been thinking about for months, painting my new little friend here. I bought this little gem from a thrift store for 49 cents! I couldn’t pass it up even though I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do…
Happy Monday, guys! I hope you all had a relaxing and fun weekend =] A lot of my weekend was spent becoming addicted to the show Homeland. A few of John’s coworkers suggested that we needed to watch it, so they dropped off the season 1 dvd for us to enjoy. Photo courtesy of Amazon On Saturday evening, we decided to watch an episode before heading up to bed. Well, one…
Ok. Let’s be real here. I’ve never, ever kept to any resolution that I’ve made in the past. I get really gung ho- then, after about 5 days I’m bored and onto a new something or other. So this year, I’m trying to be realistic. I just want to make small changes/improvements that I can actually achieve, and in the long run, they will cause bigger changes–hopefully. So a few things I…
Last week, while John went to Chicago for his annual convention, Alex and I took a little road trip out to Illinois to visit my girlfriend, Jamie! Alex did wonderful on the 6 1/2 hour drive through Indiana and Illinois (which was an awesome drive by the way! Love the farmland =]) We stayed at Jamie’s adorable home in Macomb, IL. I can’t say we did a whole lot, but it was…
Welcome baby Oliver!!! He decided to make his arrival the day after Shalyn’s baby shower =] He was born on June 11 at 10:13 pm. We are so beyond excited to be an Aunt, Uncle and cousin!!! Can’t wait to meet the little guy in August! Here we are meeting him over Skype! Well, I don’t know how it happened, but John has somehow talked me into running not one, but TWO…
Alex slept a full 7 1/2 hours last night! I couldn’t believe it when I woke up at 4:30 and he was still sleeping! I quickly went back to sleep without making a peep so I didn’t wake him. He woke up at 6:00 and was such a happy little boy =] He’s growing up so fast! Of course, I’m sure after bragging about this, he will be up every 2 hours…
In all honesty, I have been meaning to start this blog since before Alex was born. Obviously, time has gotten the best of me! Since we are far from family and friends, I wanted an easy way to keep everybody up to date on the happenings in our little family. Better late than never =] I’ll start with April 2012. Wow! What a month for us! On April 4 we welcomed our…
