Santa Claus!

Gearing up for Christmas!

Nolan has been busy helping put up decorations and practicing posing for Christmas pictures. He even got to meet Santa and tell him what he wants for Christmas.

Dancing Nolan

Nolan hasn't been feeling well lately, but he can still bust a move!!

St.Louis

Congratulations Eric and Betsy Van Keulen!!!

Over Thanksgiving weekend we got to travel to St. Louis with all the Van Keulens to join Eric and Betsy in their wedding celebration. We had the chance to tour a little bit of the city and visit with family. Nolan got to stay in Minneota and saw lots of family there. He stayed at Grandpa Dave's and Grandma Jean's, with Uncle Joe and Aunt Kelly and with Grandma and Grandpa Hoffmann.

On Sunday night Nolan was sleeping when we got home. Luckily he woke up not to long after we were there and of course we let him get up and play for a while with his new Budwieser Clydesdale.

Almost the whole Van Keulen crew


Some sampling after the tour of the Brewery

Nolan's cousins kept him busy over the weekend!! It sound like they had lots of fun together!

Check out video of Eric and Betsy's Wedding on the link below

http://www.vimeo.com/7890048

10/22/08

We are all settled in at Tim and Vicky's house. Lots of changes over the last couple of weeks! Nate got a new job doing ad sales for the newspaper and our house is sold. Of course, Nolan is keeping us busy as always. He is walking all over and climbing when we let him. He has gotten 6 teeth in the last month and I think more are on the way. He has conversations with us and with himself:) and we all have fun guessing what it is he is trying to say.

This video is just a glimpse of how much fun he is to be around!

Happy Birthday Cindy and Nolan!

We celebrated Nolan's 1st Birthday on Saturday, and Cindy's Birthday on Monday.

Sorry if this takes a little to load, but it is very hard to decide which stuff to edit out because I think everything he does is cute. Enjoy!

Parties and Tractors

We celebrated Grandpa VK's birthday on Saturday- They pulled up to his house with a parade float and then brought him to the town hall where all of his friends and family were waiting to wish him a Happy 75th Birthday



Nolan got his first tractor ride this weekend. He didn't want to let go of the steering wheel and he made tractor noises as he was driving.

Nolan thinks he is a pretty good looking boy- he was giving himself kisses in the mirror

He got the chance to play with Tana G. few weekends ago, the three month age difference is getting harder to see as they get older. They paid most attention to the toys and not much to each other.

Summer time

Get better soon Great Grandma Hoffmann!!

Nolan and his Teddy Bear wore themselves out praying for great Grandma H. to get better quickly.

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Summer is going by fast!! Nolan has been busy.

He went to the zoo in Little Falls and got to pet some animals.






He plays with Mojo!!







He visits dad at work

He went to the lake and went swimming





He hangs out with mom at home. Some days he likes it, and some days he doesn't

Video

The first part of this video is from about a month ago and Nolan thought it was hilarious when I would pretend to sneeze. The second part of the video is just from the other night, he can really get going in the bouncer. He is such a fun and happy baby!

Pictures

Fun Pictures from last weekend. Nolan had lots of fun spending time with his cousins. We had to peel him off of the tractors- he loved them (red and green)!

Congratulations Ben!

We got to hang out at Grandma Vicky and Grandpa Tim's house last weekend for Ben's High School Graduation.

Nolan helped decorate for the party.

He got to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma. Then Ben had some time to teach Nolan how to play the piano.

Nolan also got to hang out at the Hotel with Grandpa Kenny and go swimming for the first time. Grandma bought him a new lifejacket to try. Unfortunately his cheeks are a little large and the life jacket squished his face when he went in the pool with it on. Nolan loved swimming and was a little disappointed at how small the bath tub was when we got home.

Happy Mothers Day Cindy!

Nolan got all dressed up for Mothers Day. Aunt Andrea got pictures of him picking flowers for Cindy. After tasting it he decided to give it to Cindy.

After giving Cindy her Mothers Day flower Nolan was in such a good mood we decided to take a few more pictures.

Nolan doesn't have a favorite color tractor yet. But he is keeping an open mind and trying out both colors. He looks pretty happy in International red and John Deere green. It looks like he is trying to keep both Grandpa Dave and Grandpa Kenny happy so he can always get a ride in a tractor. But if I have any influence on it, he will eventually be a John Deere fan!