Congratulations

Congratulations to Josh and Annie! God was gracious with the weather. A beautiful wedding!

Our Miracle.....Nadia Elizabeth Pylman

I thought I'd show off our little girl, since we've all been praying for her for so long. My water broke last Monday at 4:20pm (at my parents house on the toilet). My mom and dad, Maria and Jake were all over and I didn't tell them. I just got out of the bathroom and said I had to get going to meet Ryan to run some errands. I then went home, took a shower to shave my legs (they had to be done!), and waited for Ryan to get home. At the time I wasn't having any contractions. We then left to go to the hospital just after 5pm. Contractions started when I got to the hospital and they were 2-3 minutes apart right away. They check me and I was at a 6. I was then switched to the delivery room at about 7pm and was given an epidural and they checked me and I was at a 91/2! She was born at 8:07pm. Ryan and I were about 90% sure we were having a boy and when he said it was a girl...we were so shocked, but in a good way. It was a wonderful experience, and she is such a miracle. Healthy and almost full term (37wks exactly). Thanks again for all your prayers throughout the pregnancy-again, God answers prayers!

Nadia Elizabeth Pylman
April 30, 2007 8:07pm
5lbs 14oz 18"

Chopped off!

Happy early birthday to Nicole (Friday, the 4th)! She recently had her hair chopped off and donated to an organization. Here's the proof in the picture...

one of the pregga-nonas

I keep up with this blog all the time at school, but for some really dumb reason, the network / filter there won't allow me to comment or post. Bummer. But now I'm borrowing a computer and borrowing the wireless from someone in our neighborhood (don't tell!) to quick update you all. As Jenny said, we miss the spring-time changes, although the snow I hear most of you are dealing with is definitely not something we're too jealous of. (A White Christmas is one thing, but a White Easter is quite a different story!) School is going well. Today is the culmination of my Spring Break which wasn't very break-like because I was in Washington DC and NYC with 42 8th graders and their families. We did a TON and were able to experience a lot, but now I need a whole other vacation! I went last year and it was scheduled before the break, so I still got a week off. I'm definitely feeling that now. Thankfully, though, I was given a few extra "personal days" that I can take whenever, and we just bought tickets for Memorial Day weekend. Nick was going to come anyway for Zach Blacquiere's wedding (an old high school friend, and Nick's standing in the wedding). So I'll take off a couple days then and join him!

My pregnancy is going well, as far as we can tell. On Tuesday I have an appointment and the 20 week ultrasound (I'm almost 21 weeks), though we aren't finding out the sex of the baby. I've just started to feel it kicking in the past couple of days... I think I had felt it before, but couldn't really tell whether it was just "gas bubbles" or not. So that's really fun, although I'm sure I'll be a little sick of it once the baby starts dancing on my bladder and keeps me up at night.

Here are a few photos: from my DC / NYC trip, and then a couple of Nick and of me. Enjoy!

from Jennifer

i thought i would try this post thing too!
well, i am still in san diego and nearing the end of my first year in grad. school.
for those who don't know, i'm getting a MA in speech pathology (or therapy) specifically in the area of bilingualism, so i'll be certified to work with any kid or adult who speaks more than one language. this means that i've had to learn, and am still learning about the languages of the world, esp. the langugae spoken in the U.S. its been fun i guess, as fun as school can be; but its also tiring...well draining would be a better word. it is a very competitive program...which is a bit difficult for me since i still have to learn about having a competitive spirit...and its also 50 women in the program, and we see each other monday through friday which is also TIRING!!! we could really use a couple more guys in our program, i think having guys would add a new and much needed dimension to our field.
anyways, school is not TOTALLY consuming me; evie came out to visit a few weeks ago, so she and julie came down to visit me. my mom came last week which was fun- we went to the zoo went to the beach, did all kinds of stuff...and slept in. ha!
i'm trying to think. oh i'll be back in Michigan in May for Josh and Annie's wedding and then i will also be back in August, hopefully in time for paul and layne's wedding and also to see all the new babies in our family!
well i hope y'all are well and enjoying the coming of spring (in Michigan). i really miss the drastic change of weather and scenery that we have in Michigan; here things just kind of are the same for the whole year with some minor changes...but in san diego, it is basically sunny everyday, which makes me really miss the rainy days in Michigan. I'm rambling.
hmmm...i miss calvin; i had a really good "school experience" and friend experience there, and being in a new city at a HUGE university is still something i am getting used to. i am slowly making new friends, although the goings in that area have been tough :)
so, i think that is it...tomorrow is my last day of spring break, so i am making myself take a few hours off and go to the beach. as i said before, i hope you all are doing well and i can't wait to see everyone when i get back!
Jenny
p.s. sorry no photos yet...i have to figure things out one step at a time :)

The New Adventures of Jonah DenHartigh

Jonah is such a big help around the house. He particularly enjoys helping unload the dishwasher.....even when the dishes are dirty.



We went grocery shopping. We had bags of groceries on the floor in the kitchen. We were both in the kitchen putting stuff away and getting dinner ready. I heard Jonah in the other room and said to Tim, "Will you go check on Jonah? I think he took some groceries into the living room." Tim goes to check and sure enough, Jonah dragged a bag in there and discovered it contained something interesting.....

Notice he passed on the cottage cheese.



Jonah watches a two minute movie on the computer while Tim is at work of Jonah and Tim playing with a ball. When it ends he says, "gain? gain?" (again) I finally got smart and put it on repeat play. He sits there with a silly grin on his face the whole time. Any time I sit down at the computer, within seconds he is walking toward me with arms outstretching asking, "Da Da? Da Da?"

Hi from Layne and Paul!

Hi everyone, Paul asked me to check his email for him while he's away this week for work. So...seeing the email from Maria and Stephanie (which makes me a little nosey I guess), and sitting through a boring lecture, I decided to try it out and update everyone about me and Paul. Paul got a job with Combined Insurance as an insurance agent about a month ago, which he was very excited about. Unfortunately, Paul is not enjoying his job because he is in his car all day driving from house to house selling disability insurance. It is not exactly what he had in mind, so he is searching for another job opportunity. As for me, not much has changed; I'm still in PA school at Central and am looking forward to the end of this summer when I will be done with my didactic year (classroom work in Mount Pleasant) and when Paul and I will be getting married. For all who don't know when the big day is, it's Aug. 10! Hopefully we will see all of you there!

news fom the Curtis Family

Well I wanted to see If I could post something! Ive been working at it 20 min already!! I cant figure out how to get Leslies article on the blog but maybe they can help me. Nichole what a great job and how fun to see your routines!! I am having a coffe on my birthday Steph March 23 so hope you can come and everyone else too! all I know is Ria, Mom, and Paula are coming. Leslie and Sarah graduate this year and we will be having a party on May 26 Keep that day open hopefully it will be nice weather so all the kids can swim we will warm up the pool. (sorry that it is only one week from the wedding but who else would we rather spend time with?

Nicole Wins Four Blue Ribbons!

As most of you know, Nicole competes on the US Airborne Gymnastics team. She had a meet this past weekend and did awesome. She received four blue ribbons (which means she scored a 9.0 or higher), one each for her routines on the beam, vault, bars and floor. I thought some of you might like to see her in action on a couple of her routines. The beam and the bars. (The floor routine wasn't in focus on the camera and the vault was too far away......sorry.) Just double click on the highlighted words beam and bars to see a short video. Floor you can watch too, but it's a little blurry.

-Lyn

Happy Birthday to Josie today. She is 3! Thought I would post our family's celebration.

If anyone is interested in voting for my 2006 photo contest, you can visit my web site Go to "Proofing" and you can look through my favorite photos from this year. You may even recognize some familiar faces. You can vote by clicking on the Contact form. Thanks!

-Stephanie

I'll give this a try......

I'm also excited about this blog, and thank you to Stephanie and Maria for getting it set up! Since my kids haven't thrown our camera in the trash (yet), I thought I'd post a picture of Seth and Natalie.
We had a little birthday party for Natalie the other day. I can't believe she's 2 already! She was really excited about openening her presents, and she finally got some girly things. Now she doesn't have to play Thomas the Train and race cars all the time.
Other than that, there's not much new going on. Seth still refuses to poop in the toilet (let me know if you have any tips or advice, because I'm really getting sick of wiping his big butt!), Joel had a good (long!) trip to Brazil, and we are all healthy for the time being.
I'm looking forward to hearing from more of you! How are all the pregnant ones doing?
--Lisa

Kudos!

Kudos to Stephanie and Maria for getting this blog up and running. I too would post a cute picture of my adorable children; however, Austin happened to throw away my digital camera the other day. Of course, we didn't realize this until the garbage was long gone to the dump. My pictures will have to come later after the purchase of a new camera. Anyway, the blog looks great!

-Lyn

1st time for everything!

Hey Fam,
I'm running through everything to make sure that I know how to tell you to get on our family blog. This will be very cool once it's up and running. I hope you all use it to keep us posted with what's going on, post pictures, list birthdays and other special dates etc.
-Maria

Maria and her little man.

If you would like a good laugh, take a minute to visit the farting preacher.

Welcome to the new DenHartigh connection!