Kaboom!

Last month people from all over the city of Pittsburgh came together to help build a new playground in Fowler Park, across the street from The Pittsburgh Project. Friends from Northbridge helped out building and the Samuels have had fun playing there a few times since it's been built. It looks awesome and it feels even better playing there because we took part in building it.



Negley was going for the 1993 look... she smells like teen spirit.

A rare glimps of Katy on the blog.

Jayson never let go of the grunge look... he wishes it was still 1993.

Poor Rhys... she misses out on everything.

Fun at the Mall

In the quest to find out how to loose weight while taking care of my girls, the mall has become one of the top choices. I walk around like an idiot (the second floor doesn't have any kiosk people to ask you annoying questions) and then the Negs gets to play in the playground when I'm done. The trick is that I don't take my purse in, so there are no shopping opportunities. The only sad part of going to the mall is that Tillie doesn't get to come along... so sad.



Negley Anne pleading with me to stop walking.

Rhys happy like always!



Negley Anne swinging around like a little monkey.

Fun on the Farm

On Friday we went to go visit our good friend Jerry on the farm. Alta (tillie's mom) just had her third litter of puppies and we wanted Negley to have a chance to play with them. There was one there that looked a lot like Willie, and that made me very sad, but Negley Anne had a blast. Going to the farm is always a blast!



Jerry made sure that Negley understood that she could only sit in the swing if she was happy... this was her response.

This was Rhys' first trip out to the farm... lots of puppy kisses.

Sorry for the delay

So we haven't blogged in quite a while... anyone having their second child will understand this. I thought that I would have all this time to do fun stuff like this... oh well, I was wrong.

A little update on the Samuels...

Jayson is now full time working at Northbridge Community Church as the Family Pastor. Northbridge is the church that he started with our good friend Jame Price and it is located in Cranberry. It is also a "partner" church of Northpoint Church in Atlanta. If you are in town, please come check it out! All the info is on the church's website: Northbridge.org

Katy (me) has taken the first semester off of work to try this stay at home thing. As of now the plan is to go back to Langley at the end of January. I love being home spending all this time with the girls, but I do look forward to getting back into the fun of being a gym teacher.

Negley Anne now speaks in complete sentences and surprises us everyday by how much she knows. She also makes us laugh out loud a ton.

Rhys has found her hands.

Tillie is doing well, but misses Willie, as do I.

So there you have it! Hopefully it won't be this long again inbetween posts.

Peace

Dropped the "E"

For the record we decided that we were going to drop the "E" from the name and go with the traditional Welsh spelling Rhys.

Ms Rhyse Samuels is Here

Katy and I are the proud parents of another little girl. Ms Rhyse Corinne was born Monday July 9 at 9:14am. She was 20 inches long and 7lb 8oz. She came very quickly but we did manage to make it to the delivery room with about 3 or 4 minutes to spare.

Some Pics From This Last Week

Sorry I've been gone a while

I know that I haven't personally posted since October... how horrible. Things have been up and down in my life for the past few months, but I'm begining to see the end of the tunnel. I will finish up Geneva in May, finish up school at the end of June (thanks to snow days), and welcome the new Samuels baby in July. Crazy. Luckily through all of this Negley Anne and Jayson have been wonderful fun. Here are some pictures that I just took off of my phone. They aren't necessarily new, but new to you! Happy Weekend Everyone!

New Pictures

SNOW DAY3!!!!

SNOW DAY 2!!!!

SNOW DAY!!!