Category Archives: Family

We have a new nephew!  Becky’s sister Heather gave birth to Isaac Thomas Hofer last night (Oct 29) at 10pm after a long day of labor.  He was 7 pounds, 9 ounces and is doing well.  His older brothers are on their way to see him right now.   We’ll head down to see himContinue reading “Isaac Thomas Hofer”

The Halloween season actually started for us on Labor Day when we got out all the decorations, but now we’re coming to the apex on Wednesday.  Today we had our annual party with our friends and we have the pictures to prove it.  In case you couldn’t tell, Katie is dressed up as Dora Mermaid,Continue reading “Halloween 2007”

I’ve had lots of ideas for blog entries, but for whatever reason I just haven’t put finger to keyboard to crank anything out lately.  Here are some updates:   Amelia is expanding her vocabulary – she can say nah, yeah, uh-oh and daa (short for daddy).  She throws a few other words in sometimes likeContinue reading “Catching Up”

I guess we may have the next Carrie Bradshaw on our hands.  It’s interesting how Katie wants to have her shoes off all the time, but Amelia must have shoes on at all times.   I can’t really pinpoint when this started, but the biggest example was one morning in Branson as we were allContinue reading “Amelia’s Love of Shoes”

Lots of interesting things have happened over the past week, but I was behind with my series on our trip to Branson, so I’ll have to sum them up in one entry:   Prius – we got our new car last Monday just after we got home from vacation.  So far we like it – I can fitContinue reading “Playing Catch-up”

On Thursday night, I knew we had an event at church to kick off Sunday School for those 3 year olds starting this Sunday.  I figured it was informational meeting about how Sunday School was going to work, so when Becky asked if we should bring the camera, I practially laughed at her.  She insisted we bring it, soContinue reading “Cradle Roll”

It turned out to be a nice, relaxing Labor Day Weekend.  We took it easy and didn’t do too much, but managed to stay busy enough and get the house cleaned up.  We also got the chance to introduce Katie to several different sports and sporting events.   Friday night I took Katie to her first high schoolContinue reading “Football, Swimming and Golf”

We had Amelia’s 18 month appointment today and everything is looking pretty good.  It’s been a rocky 6 months since we were last there, but she checked out just fine.  Her stats were as follows: Height – 31 inches, 24th percentile Weight – 23 lbs 4 oz, 29th percentile Head size – 47.3, 69th percentileContinue reading “Amelia’s 18 month stats and random notes”

I’ve said many times that my memory is not very good – but I do remember when Katie was born three and a half years ago.  I don’t know that I’m prepared for how old she is already.    I was asked to sing in church and instead of doing it myself for the 50th+ time in myContinue reading “Our Big Girl”

I’ve really fallen behind updating the blog.  I’ll try to summarize our last few weeks so I can get caught up:   July 30 – we received the very good news that Amelia’s seizures were fever-related and not related to any seizure disorder or malformation of the brain.  This means Amelia should have no ill-effects long-term andContinue reading “I’ve Been Remiss”