On Saturday morning we headed downtown to Union Station to see the dinosaur exhibit. We’ve been down there before to look at the trains and Noah remembered the trains and didn’t really care too much about the dinosaurs. So we didn’t even go into the exhibit, just looked at the dinosaurs outside the building. Then we headed over to the trains…and we got lucky! Just as we were walking up to the trains sitting on the track, another train came through!! I think Noah was in heaven!!

When we got back from downtown, we changed into our swim suits and headed down to the neighborhood pool for a pool party to kick off summer. Noah really liked the pool and running around. Faith pretty much slept in my arms the whole time. Right before we left, they brought ice cream to the pool so everyone could have an ice cream cone. I think Noah wore most of his ice cream!! He needs to eat it way faster so it doesn’t melt so much!! We all seemed to have gotten our first sun burn of the season…hopefully it’s the last sun burn too!!

Hope everyone had/has a good Memorial Day weekend!! We thank everyone who has given their life to protect our country!

Noah and Faith have a new cousin…another boy!!!! Ryan and Deanna had their baby boy on May 25th at 7:34 am. He weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. They named him Nicholas Dean. We can’t wait to meet the newest family member!!!

Faith is definitely outnumbered by her cousins. We now have 5 boys and only 1 girl on the Krull side…all under the age of 4!!! Oh my, the Christmas’s and family gatherings are going to get interesting!!!! Maybe Grandma Janice should start stocking up on aspirin now!

4 Generations – Rachel, Faith, Gusta, Janice

Great Grandma Timmerman

Great Grandma Krull

Great Grandpa Timmerman

Faith is so lucky to have such wonderful Great Grandparents that love her!!!

My nephew, Kahle turned 3!!! Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Renae & Micah threw him a birthday party at Mom’s house…and the kids and I were there to help celebrate!!! Rick brought us to Omaha to met Mom on Wednesday. Then we headed to George. We got to Mom’s house and unpacked the car and got everything put on place and then Renae, Micah and boys drove up. They got ready for the birthday party and then the rest of the family started showing up!

The four boy cousins all played together very well!! They went downstairs and played with all the farm machinery. I think Noah was in heaven–new toys and boys to play with!! He didn’t even want to come up to eat…at first! The boys all sat at the kids table that Mom has.

After eating, presents and some play time…it was time to cut the cake!!! Renae did a great job on the cake, it looked good and tasted even better!! Then it was playtime again! After everyone left, it was time to get the kids to bed…but Noah still didn’t want to go to bed. He didn’t have much of a nap on the ride to George and it was now about 10 o’clock and he was wide awake. After a few tears and some rocking, he finally went to sleep! My Mom took Faith in her bedroom so I could get some sleep and Faith only woke up once during the night to eat!!! I was pretty excited about that!!!

I had a nice surprise late Saturday afternoon. The doorbell rang and, of course, Noah went running to the door, so I had to get it. (I don’t think I’ll be able to “hide” from those door-to-door salesman’s for awhile if Noah keeps running to the door!!!) But to my surprise, it wasn’t a salesman – it was brother Reid!!! He told me that I should have been a little more excited to see him, but I was so surprised to see him standing at my front door!

His friend, Ross, wanted to go to a Royals/Twins baseball game and asked Reid if he wanted to come along. It was raining on Saturday afternoon and they didn’t want to sit at the baseball game in that, so they came directly to our house. I think Reid had more fun playing with Noah’s train set anyway!!!

Sunday morning, there was some donut eating by all of use, some Mario Kart racing on the Wii by Rick and Ross and some train playing by Reid and Noah! Then we ordered Papa John’s – it’s a stipulation that when Reid’s here, we need to have Papa John’s at least once! After we ate, the boys needed to get going to the game.

It was a great weekend and Reid got to meet his niece for the first time!!!