Meeting Ms. Cecilia!

We got to meet the newest Roth family addition, Ms. Cecilia Anna! What a cutie she is :) Addy can't wait until she can crawl after her and chase her around. It was amazing to me just how big Addy was compared to CeCe...it seems like just yesterday she was that size. It was so great catching up with Maria and Eric as we don't get to see them as much as we'd like to. They are doing great and are absolute naturals at the whole thing!! We can't wait for our next playdate guys :) Congrats!!

Neighbor love

I just had to post this adorable moment we caught! We had our neighbors Chad, Kelli and Kennedy over to grill out on Saturday night. Kennedy is 2 years old and loved playing with all of Addy's toys. He's going to be a big brother so it was good practice to see all the baby toys :) Vinh and Chad think we've got quite a pair on our hands...

It's Official...

Addy is CRAWLING! She just started this past weekend. She's been crawling backwards for a few weeks, but just couldn't get going forward. She's pretty excited about it!

We just started back up with ECFE classes on Tuesday nights. Addy's in class with the 6-12 month olds. We hadn't been in class since she was about 2 months so she's changed a lot in the past 6 months! She is now able to get to all the toys on the mat and we've realized that we have a pretty agressive people person on our hands (we wonder where she gets that from?!)! She loves any toy that any of the other kids are playing with. Any toy her new friend Joey would pick up she was all over snatching it right away!! We just looked at eachother and shook our heads...how do you teach "sharing" to an 8 month old?! Addy loved meeting all her new friends and especially LOVED singing all the songs. Her favorite, by far, is still "Hello Everybody".

Mom's decided that she prefers Tuesday night ECFE class over her Monday night Managerial Accounting class!!

We're Building!

Where to start?! We've made the big decision (one that I never thought I'd ever do) to build a new home! It was quite the decision for Vinh and I, but after a lot of looking around and talking it over...we decided to go for it. We are building in The Lakes at Maple Grove development with Toll Brothers as our builder. Here's our future home!

We've put our house on the market...I'm pretty sure it's never been as clean as it is right now! (and will hopefully stay that way untill we sell) We are sad at the idea of leaving our current neighborhood as we love all of our neighbors. The good news is that we've already met some of our future neighbors and we're all at about the same stages in our lives with young families so that will be fun! The kicker in the whole deal is that we've already been invited to a neighborhood happy hour...SERIOUSLY...do they just know me so well already or what?! :) It seems like a pretty tight-knit neighborood so we're excited about that.

We had our first selection meeting this week which was SO MUCH FUN! In a matter of 3 hours we selected floorings (carpet, tile, hardwood...you name it) all the way to backsplash tiling detail...thanks to our designer Kim for all her great insight and help!! Of course, we're not done yet...next on the list is plumbing and lighting selections. I've enjoyed guessing which selelctions Vinh would choose throughout the process...the great thing is that we have mostly agreed...which I've heard isn't always the case :)

To the Zoo!

Addy got Vinh a family pass to the Minnesota Zoo for his birthday. This weekend was our first chance to try it out! Both Vinh and I couldn't remember the last time we'd been to the zoo so it was fun to experience it all again. It was a beautiful day so we enjoyed the quality outdoor time we got, too! Addy was more interested in the people than the animals for the most part, but did really enjoy the fish. All in all it was a great afternoon and we look forward to going back again!

Addy & Mommy in the Tropics


Addy loving Mr. Bear!

Addy & Daddy checking out all the amazing fish...Addy thought she just might catch them with her own hands!

Future Olympic Curlers!

5th Annual McChung Bonspiel

The 5th Annual McChung Bonspiel had an Olympic theme this year! In fact, Vinh opened the spiel with an oh so inspirational speech that the winning team would receive a bid to the 2014 Olympic games!! Each team represented an "unrepresented" country with team Fiji taking the bonspiel...and of course the traveling trophy! All in all everyone had a great time...including the losing teams that had to grace us with their mad karoke skills...

Team Yemen (Novotny's) bringing down the house with a rendition that was quite memorable...they come from a land down under!!

Grandpa Jack and Mom led us in the "Grand Ole Game" song...after Grandpa explained that he has led that same song many times over in years past...only usually after a "few hookers"! This of course led to a crowd of laughs...ending with Grandpa explaining that "hookers" actually meant drinks :)

Here's the crew after another successful bonspiel...it's amazing how tired the day makes all of us!!

New this year was the McChung daycare for the bonspiel...Grandma Jeanie had her hands full with Addy and her friend Xavier Haffley. The kids enjoyed their playtime and naps...like mother like daughter...I remember basically growing up at the curling club :)