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  • Harvey Cousin time

    Last night Maddy, Shea and I went to hang out with Jami, Grace and Emily. Tim is in Arizona playing in a baseball tournament so Jami asked for Maddy to help out with Grace as she went around the block trick-or-treatin…

  • Savoring the Time Left

    This weekend was full of fun for the Hermon's. Marc and Niki actually ran in a 5K on Saturday morning. There were over 400 runners at the event and Niki scored big by placing 2nd in the age 13 to 19 year old division. He…

  • Good for the soul

    It was like good medicine being together tonight. Shea was even good for us! Of course he had good entertainers...

  • 6 Years We've Missed Her

    Today is the anniversary date of Pat's physical death, yet spiritualvictory for the Lord. We always have to comfort ourselves withscripture on this day (as well as others). Our favorite passage to encourage comes from I …

  • A Visit To Great Grandma's

    Today Shea was wide awake!Thanks to Aunt Dani for my cool outfit.Maddy was a good helper... she did highway clean-up for the Student Council and came home and helped with Shea too. During the day we made three special…

  • Happy Mole Day

    Yesterday Shea was exactly one month old but even more exciting it was Mole Day which is to be celebrated at 6:02 on October 23rd in your local chemistry classroom. I believe Grace has posted the lyrics to the following …

  • Shea is One Month Old!!!!

    What was life like before Shea!?... As Marc teased the kids (Niki and Maddy) one night (apparently when I was neglecting them and tending to Shea), that it seems like life is all about HIM anymore. Although that has a te…

  • Bath time for Blake

    Blake e-mailed me today and wanted to see more videos of Shea. I filmed him and Marc posted the below entry of Happy Baby, Cry Baby. (Thanks, Marc)Later Niki, Maddy and I had some fun with Shea in the bathtub. Too bad …

  • Happy Baby - Cry Baby

  • Fall Beauty

    Although it's a sign of winter coming which is a season I could do without the fall colors around our house are beautiful and so I went outside this afternoon and snapped a few pics of some of my trees. I thought I would…

  • Carlisle Citizen

    The Hermon's are big time celebs in the local newspaper this week! Niki's 9th place at State article and Oshea's birth announcement are in this week's edition of the "Carlisle Citizen."When the town newspaper is only 5 p…

  • Good Family Times

    This weekend was full of family fun... On Friday night we anxiously awaited the arrival of the Harvs. Kelly and Matt were anxious to see Oshea. We were anxious to play with Blake! On Saturday we went to Maddy's VB ga…

  • JH State X-Country Meet

    Niki competed in the State JH X-Country Meet in 8th grade boys Division 3A and medaled while placing 9th place. We have four classes of schools in Iowa from smallest to biggest 1A-4A. Carlisle is 3A. Niki ran the two mil…

  • 3rd Best in Conference

    Tonight (Tuesday) we all went to cheer Niki on at the Junior High Conference Meet in Dallas-Center-Grimes. All of his hard work this season paid off with an impressive third place finish in the two mile run. We were supe…

  • 2 Weeks, 1 day old

    Today was an exciting day for Shea. He is definitely showing evidence of outgrowing that newborn phase. He awoke a little before 6 a.m. and stayed awake until after 9 a.m. (longest awake time period yet!) Niki did some e…

  • Gingerism # 458

    We have a designer clothes store downtown called The Chic Boutique. Ginger came home and was trying to tell me where a certain baby daycare was located. She said, "It's somewhere down by the Chick Bouquet

  • Look-A-Like Contest

    Cast your vote- Who is Oshea and who is Niki!?!? HAPPY 81st BIRTHDAY to Great Grandpa Vern today!

  • "Showered With Love!"

    This week was Carlisle's Homecoming. Niki still felt pretty miserable on Friday but he didn't want to miss out on the activities so he went to school. Shea and I met up with Maddy in the afternoon and watched him in the …

  • Emotional Great Pa Meets Shea

    This morning I had to wake up Shea. He has been staying up through the night and sleeping through the day. I know the "First Years"book says that he'll work it out on his own but I thought I'd try to help him (and myself…

  • I have a few good pictures from yesterday to share. Today Shea and I took Niki to the doctor. He (Niki) had upper resp. infection. He was really bummed not getting to go to school (seriously! he was!) - he was to h…

  • Happy Mama

    Today was an excellent day! Shea had an appointment to check his bili count and he had dropped over 5 points... so NO MORE BILI BLANKET!!!! Yahoo! That made his mommy really happy! He also surpassed his birth weight - he…

  • Lots of Visitors!

    Along with Ginger, everyone was super sad that Oshea couldn't attend church services yet. Instead Ginger took Shea outdoors for some UV rays and listened to some of the talks she missed at the Labor Day meeting. After ch…

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