Update!!!

Ok...so I gave a bunch of you admin privileges so you could post pictures of your families on the side like I did with the Hulewsky's picture. I also invited Sam, Grandpa & Lee and Nik & Jessika to be authors on this blog. I saw that some of you have set up blogs for your own families so I listed those on the side so we could all check each other out. I also put my friend Cindy's blog up there too. She's married to Tom Wilhelm's cousin Ron Kersey so it's sort of like family...ha. It's fun to keep up with everyone this way. At this point I can't find my dvd with the family photo's on it so if one of you has a picture of the whole family you want to post as part of the header that would be great. I gave admin rights to Rachel, Danny & Janessa, Ian & Melissa, Caleb & Jamie, Annah, and Faith. I'm so glad more people are getting involved.

Haylee's sixth birthday

Haylee turned six yesterday. I can not believe how the time flies!!

We started the day cleaning the church building, how many of us can say that's what we did on our birthday?!? And then Haylee, Bryan and I went miniature golfing in the 100 degree weather.

This picture was taken around hole 5, so before Haylee started complaining of her head dripping sweat.

Then later in the day we had a Hannah Montana party and watched the 3-D movie.

Her and all of her cousins and friends had a fun time.

Once the party was over and everyone left, this is what I was lucky enough to have.

Thanks MOM you are the best!!

The "Bunkers"

Hey Family! Like Rachel, I don't really know what I am doing but I figured I would try. I think the blog thing is a fun idea.

Karlee just celebrated her 6 month birthday friday! Its very exciting for us that we haven't killed her yet :) Haha...J/k. We celebrated by getting her first pictures taken ( I know...I'm a bad mom, I missed newborn and 3 months...).

Our First Family Picture

Karlee loves the bath!

Isn't she so cute? :)

Besides that...nothing too exciting. We are just waiting for Holly to come home, which happens the end of August. Everyone is excited about that. It will be nice to have the whole family "home". Jason is in the middle of race season...they just won their last race (which is pretty exciting for them). His Grandpa raced, now his dad races the same car. Jason just works on a car (for now), which is good for my sanity and nerves...seeing that the cars go about 220 MPH. Here is a picture of the cars.

The car Jason works on....

The car his dad now races...

The last piece of news is that we are planning on having a reception/renewal of vows in October at our one year anniversary! We are pretty excited, but we will keep you posted...

Thank you Betty Crocker

Now that's a beautiful stew. The picture doesn't do it justice. I decided to make a stew and I love to look at recipes so I looked online and they all seemed a bit too complicated so I pulled out my Betty Crocker cookbook and used the basic simple recipe contained in that incredible cookbook. I always tweak a recipe when I cook and tonight was no different but the end result was wonderful. I invited Caleb and Jamie to eat with us since there appeared to be plenty of stew. In the midst of all of the usual commotion around here Caleb asked..."aren't the missionaries coming for dinner?" I can't believe how forgetful I've become. They just called last night to set up the time and here I had forgotten. Well we barely had enough and I'm sure if there had been more it would have been eaten too. Thank you Betty Crocker. I think that I will order several Betty Crocker cookbooks from Amazon and use them as wedding gifts. A good cookbook never goes out of style...

Attempt at something new

Alright I am trying this thing. I am not sure how well I'll do but it doesn't hurt to try, right!! We like being able to check up on everyone and Haylee always asks whats on Haylee.com and I try to tell her "Not you" but she thinks it is kind of cool to see pictures of everyone online so here are a couple of the "Wilhelm" family.

We went on a very short notice family vacation at the end of May to a cabin up in Tahoe. It was right through where the big fires were up there last year. It turned out being great.

The cabin was really nice and the weather even cleared up enough for us to spend a day quading.

At the end of June, actually the weekend of Nik and Jessica's wedding, Haylee had her dance recital.

We were a little shocked by her outfit...but she did a great job. It was amazing to see how much more confidence she had at this recital versus her first one that she performed in last June.

The lucky girl...her dad even gave her roses!

In case you don't know, Bryan and I are having our second baby in December. We had our ultrasound and they say he is a body!! We are all very excited for our new addition.

We are sad...

Funny angle on this one. Makes it look like the van is driving down, down, down. Who knows where down is?

These pictures are out of order...this one should be last. Leaving the driveway.

Loading up the van...

Even Leah knows something is up.

It should be illegal for children to move far away from their parents especially once there are grandchildren involved. We are all so sad our little buddies left. Our house is just too quiet. Nik and Jessika are married. The open house is over. Caleb and Jamie and Liam will be moving soon. Emily and Grace will be starting high school in a couple of weeks. Gabe will be a senior. Where does the time go? Right now I am sad that time is moving on. I know that's the plan so I will just have to buck up. I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks Ian and Melissa for letting us take your boys for a little while. Please let them come back. Until then we will all miss them. Love you guys.

Story Time

Those boys love story time and big Caleb had fun reading to them all.