Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Well, Christmas cards did not happen this year. For those of you who were looking for one, I am sorry. This has been a crazy few months (starting Fall Break at the beginning of October) and I just ran out of time! Consider this post your holiday greeting card from the Woleks!

Christmas started for us at the other Wolek's. Santa visited grandma and grandpa's street as usual the Sunday before Christmas. We decided to make that night our gift exchange night as well. The Christmas Eve service at church was lovely. Then Christmas morning we opened presents at home then headed to the Friend's to open presents and have dinner. It was a crazy week but we all had a great time! Click on pretty Penny's picture below to see some of the highlights!

We hope you all have a wonderful New Year! Here's to a blessed 2010!

dessert

I love that my daughter considers gum a dessert.

I am a loser and I apologize for my loserness

I can't believe I've posted nothing for almost 4 months! I hate it when life gets in the way like that!

The links to the right have now been updated so everything should be correct now.

The actual reason for my post is that Nathan decided just before bedtime Tuesday night to take the side gate off of Penny's bed. This makes it a sort-of day bed. We put a pillow on the floor just in case she fell out. We didn't hear a peep out of her after bedtime but when Nathan went in to check her diaper before we went to bed, she was asleep on her back in the middle of the floor! Poor baby.

She has been very excited about her "big-girl" bed and often tells us when it is bedtime or naptime simply because she wants to climb in her bed. Every time she has gotten up (either after naps or in the morning) she calls to us from behind her door and when we open the door she is standing there holding Rory and wearing her "princess rora shoes".

She is growing up so fast. It seems even faster than Bethany. I guess having an older sister to emulate will do that. And, I know, I need to get more pictures up! This week and weekend are crazy finishing stuff up at Stetson, so I will try REALLY hard to do some next week!

Kindergarten!

Well, the title says it all. We are the proud parents of a beautiful Kindergartner. Bethany has enjoyed her first two days but has been completely pooped! I've created an album on the website that, hopefully, will encompass all of kindergarten. I may split it into two pages if it gets too big over the next 10 months, but I'd rather keep all the pictures together.

We are so excited to see how Bethany will learn and grow this year. Hopefully you can come along for the ride. Click the picture below to see the whole album, so far.

bethany dancing

I don't know why this never posted; maybe I got tired of waiting for it to upload and just forgot. Anywho, since it's the one-year anniversary of this video, I thought I'd go ahead and put it up now!

Bethany is dancing at the faculty back to school picnic (one year ago).

Chicago Vacation

We're on vacation. As I usually do, the pics will be posted from the road. Comments come while the memories are fresh. That I would likely never get to them once I got home.

Check out our first two days:
Day 1 - Evanston
Day 2 - Wrigley, Sears and Millennium

Enjoy! I'll keep 'em coming through Wednesday. I hope to also have pics from Oak Ridge soon.

new pictures!

Hey, everyone!  The girls had some pictures taken today.  Check them out on our website.  Click the link "new portraits".

updates!

Okay, so I'm a total slacker.  Not really, I just have not had time for a while.  Anyways, the girls website finally has some new pictures (well, some of them are actually kind of old - but they're new to the website!).  Penny's birthday pictures finally made it up!  Poor Penny.  I need to move back to Hawaii where all I had time for all day was updating the website!  :)  Hope you enjoy.  I will try to post more soon, because I do have more (dance recital, trike-a-thon, etc.).

Click the link to the right called our website.