Time Flies When You're Having Fun

We are now 27 weeks and things are going fairly smooth. I have a little bit of anemia, but I am taking an iron supplement and I'm feeling less tired. (My new Keurig was getting a pretty good workout for a while!) He's a little mover and shaker! I feel him moving a lot more than I did Joseph (even without the caffeine). I'm starting to think about things I may need for him, though it's not a lot it still seems like time is going by faster than I'm ready for.

Joe is 20 months old and growing fast! It really feels like he went from my baby to a little boy over the last couple of months! He's enjoying our weekly music and tumblers classes. He's also learned his A-B-Cs, colors (red, blue, purple, pink, orange, green, white and yellow), shapes (circle, oval, square, cross, triangle and star), numbers (he can count to 10 on his own), and he knows numerous songs by heart (twinkle, twinkle is his favorite). He's usually singing or talking and always moving! He loves swimming, going to the zoo and playing with friends. He also loves to play games on Ruggs' Ipad. I try to keep us busy during the week - it's not hard to do in the summer!

"Cheese"

Snoozing at The Bay

"Cool Dude"

The summer months are always busy for us. Thankfully we are busy doing what is mostly fun activities! Between Mother's Day, Sydney's graduation, the family graduation party, Father's Day and all of our summer activities we've been go, go go!

Sydney had a great graduation and is full steam ahead getting ready for CU this Fall.

We had a family party for the 4 kids that graduated from high school this year. It was a great time and we were happy to have everyone together...

Grads & Dads

Our 4 2012 Graduates!

Mamas of the Grads.

Cousins enjoying a beautiful day!

We also enjoyed a a nice Father's Day. It was 100 degrees so we didn't get a chance to get outside and enjoy playing games until almost dark!

We visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo again. Feeding the giraffes never gets old!!

FAMILY EMERGENCY BINDER

I ran across this idea on pinterest. Not only did I not want to pay for the templates, I also didn't want to have a "template" since our family situation is unique and we have older and younger kids with different emergency info.

I recently found this step-by-step instruction on another blog and I wanted to repost the idea. It could really save time, lives and be truly helpful on an emergency situation! I plan on doing this in way less than 20 weeks, but it could be a nice motivator for those who don't think they'd have enough time to get it all done at once....

FAMILY EMERGENCY BINDER INSTRUCTIONS

If you had to suddenly leave your home due to impending natural disaster, and had only a few minutes to gather everything you would need, including important papers, family history, and treasured pictures, how long would it take you?

Week 1-Locate or purchase a 2” binder with 50 - 100 plastic page protectors. Purchase tabbed dividers, if desired, to divide the book into sections. Store the Emergency Plan in the binder.

Week 2-Locate birth certificates for all family members. Make copies and put in binder.

Week 3-Locate Social Security cards for all family members. Make copies and put in binder.

Week 4-Make copies of driver’s licenses and put in binder.

Week 5-Make copies of passports and put in binder.

Week 6-Make copies of important phone numbers and addresses and put in binder. Include family, friends, doctors, dentist, business and other important numbers.

Week 7-Scan non-digital photos and burn all digital photos to a CD or flash drive. Put in one of the sheet protectors in the binder.

Week 8-Copy family history records to a cd or flash drive and put in binder.

Week 9- Locate voter cards, make copies, and put in binder.

Week 10-: Locate three years of tax returns, make copies, and put in binder, or copy tax files to a CD and store the tax software with the tax files in the binder.

Week 11-Locate recent investment statements, one for each account including 401K, make copies, and put in binder.

Week 12-If you use electronic money management programs such as Quicken or Microsoft Money, copy data files to CD and put cd for software program in binder.

Week 13-Locate your most recent bank statements, make copies, and put in binder

Week 14-Locate credit card statements, make copies, and put in binder—or alternatively, make copies of front and back of all credit cards.

Week 15- Locate loan payoff papers, make copies, and put in binder.
Locate recent Social Security Statement, make copies, and put in binder.

Week 16-
1. Locate all car titles and registrations, make copies, and put in binder.
2. Locate auto loan papers, make copies, and put in binder.
3. Make copy of recent auto insurance statement and put in binder.
4. Locate copy of any extended warranties, make a copy, and put in binder.

Week 17-Locate all Life insurance policies, make copies, and put in binder. Make a copy of your wills and put in binder. If you have a trust, make a copy and put in binder.

Week 18-
Make copies of:
Marriage License (Divorce/custody papers)
Citizenship Papers
Military Records
Prepaid Burial contracts
Adoption Papers

Week 19-
Prepare list of medications for each family member.
Make copies of any important medical or dental records and put in binder.
Make copies of all health and dental insurance cards, both sides, and put in binder
Make copy of living will and put in binder.
Locate all Immunization Records, make copies, and put in binder.

Week 20-
Make copies of any professional licenses and put in binder.
Make copies of any important business papers and put in binder.
Make copy of updated resume and put in binder (includes job and education dates that may be difficult to remember.
Make copies of company benefits statements and put in binder.
Make copies of degrees and professional licenses and put in binder.

Week 21-
Locate recent house payment statement, make copy, and put in binder.
Locate homeowner’s insurance policy, make copy, and put in binder.
Locate all recent utility bills including cell phone, make copies, and put in binder
Conduct a home inventory, print and put in binder.
Take a video or pictures of all items in your home, burn to CD and put in binder. binder