The Aden's

Its been a LONG time since we updated our blog. So, here's a bunch of pictures of the past few months (not including Christmas morning pics, those will have to come later... maybe by Easter).

What can I say?  These are the most perfect kids ever!

Grandma Connie said she wanted to see more pictures of me, so here I am!

Daddy had to spend 6 days in Richmond this week, but he had Friday off so we had a "Family Day" Friday. We went to a place with a bunch of big bouncy toys. Zoe was scared at first but she eventually figured out how fun it was. The boys played hard for hours and hours. Zachy had no problem climbing up the tallest slide. It was great fun! It was sure great to have a day together after being gone all week.

Joel and Som Selway were in town visiting us from Michigan and we decided to drive up to DC to see the fire works. Just the Selways, us and 500,000 of our closest friends.
We parked and road the train in, which was nice. The fireworks were pretty good. The Finale was for sure the biggest we'd ever seen. There must have been a couple hundred fireworks in the sky at the same time. It was cool.
We got rained on a bit, Joel and I had to run through the rain to find someone selling umbrellas. Then we got trash bags and made a little shelter for the kids.
Taking the train home was nuts. We waited in line for a long long long time. every 10-20min we'd get to move about 3 steps forward. We finally made it back to Charlottesville about 3am.
I'll post some slides (as soon as I figure out how).

Finely summer is here and the weather is nice here in Charlottesville. School gets out in 4 days and we are excited. This last week we went and picked yummy strawberries. The kids had red all over their faces and clothing. We also have been going to the sprinkler park. It was great to have mom here for 11 days when Dawson came. What a great blessing that was. Mom has made Zoe and Jackson scripture quilts. They are much loved. Justin's mom came in the beginning of May which was fun too.

Jackson has done really well in Kindergarten. He really liked his teachers. Jackson is reading chapter books and is really excited to have time to read this summer and play school with his brother and sister. Jackson is still in Karate and enjoying it. Jackson turned 6 in May and had a Pokemon Party. His favorite thing to do is play Pokemon with his dad and play the Wii (that he and daddy got mommy for mother's day!) Jackson continues to be a big help and a very loving and obedient child.

Zachary is growing to be a big boy. He potty trained himself 3 days before Dawson arrived. YEA! He absolutely loves Dawson and gives kisses to him and makes him laugh constantly. Zachary enjoyed his gymnastics class. He has started Karate with Jackson. He was very excited when Sensei gave him a white belt. Zachary will be turning 4 in two weeks. He wants a Pirate Party. He loves Pirate stuff right now. Zachary is love and always teasing or playing tricks on us…brings laughter to our home.

Zoe is 2 years old and busy. She can talk so much. She loves to help with Dawson by changing his diaper or pretend feeding him with her doll bottles. Zoe loves her daddy and if he is around she doesn't want anything to do with anybody but him. So, sweet. She continues to love Dora the Explorer. She loves to tell knock, knock jokes. She generally doesn't have a punch line for them. She loves to play outside and dance.

Dawson is growing. He is almost 4 months old. He is giving me a 5 hour stretch each night which makes a world of difference. He loves to cue and babble. He smiles for whom ever is playing with him. What a joy it is to have him in our home.

Janis is doing well. Continuing being busy in RS. This summer we are looking for fun activities to do around this area. Mandy and Martha Turley came and helped me make quilt squares for a quilt representing Michigan. Keeping busy with the house and little ones.

Justin is keeping very busy with work. He is finally done with being President of all the Residents in the hospital. He will still help in the different committees. They gave his a beautiful picture of Thomas Jefferson's School Building. He starts his Masters Degree in June. We are so proud of all the hard work he does for our family. Justin reads to the children every night. They love this special time with him. He continues to be a great father and husband.

We love you all and hope everything is going well. Hopefully I will get to come with the baby to mom's 70^th Birthday Party at Jay's house. So…everyone come!! We Love you all.

Love Janis Justin Jackson Zachary Zoe and Dawson

This was one morning after daddy had worked 24hrs putting epidurals in laboring women. Still had just enough gas in the tank to wrestle a little before heading to bed.

Gotta get some pics of the new cute boy. His brothers and sister sure love him. They are always hugging and kissing him and he loves it.

Jackson turned 6 last Saturday. He is totally into Pokemon right now so we had a big Poke-party.

And one of our favorite things to do is make popcorn and watch cartoons!

She turned 2yrs old on March 23rd 2008. We had a little cake that Jackson decorated. Of course she got Dora stuff. Her brothers got her a Backyardagins ball (she loves to play catch).

He arrived a little early but just-in-time. Born on Feb 7th 2008.