Wrestling with Dad!

It has been a difficult week for us here at the Veenis Household. Kyle was let go from Heritage on Monday. They said they could not afford him. Bummer. And on top of that news, a friend of mine from broomball went into full cardiac arrest on Monday, was put in an induced coma and died today. It truly puts life into perspective and helps us to re-prioritize what is important. We will miss Rose greatly and just hope for peace for her husband and young daughter. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers please :)

On a much brighter note, Koen and I have been able to spend more time with dad this week! We've loved it! Dad is teaching Koen how to wrestle.....


Check out that look on his face!

Happy boy with dad!

The latest job update: Kyle flew out to Baltimore, MD for an interview with OraPharma (dental divison of Johnson and Johnson) on Wednesday. He is down to the final two. The territory is close to home, so we have our fingers crossed this works out. We will find out more next week!

We love March!

March is a great month...for many many reasons! We get to celebrate lots of Birthday's, the weather starts to show signs of SPRING, and we get to party on St. Patty's Day! First, Grandpa Neil turned 60! We celebrated with a great meal that Granny cooked....and a delicious Kowalski's-Syle Birthday cake (Happy Birthday Neal!)...Koen did get a little taste of the buttercream frosting. LOVED IT. Happy Birthday Grandpa! Then on Sunday, we celebrated Uncle Matt and Uncle Joe's Birthday's and Grandma and Grandpa Pop's place. Koen enjoyed playing hockey with his cousin's....and wrestling with Finn! Happy Birthday Matt and Joe!

St. Patty's Day was absolutely beautiful! 60 degrees and Sunny all day! We had a great group to watch the parade in St. Paul: Joe, Finn, Tini, Keelin, Jennifer, Zoey, Amaya, Malik, Koen and I. The kids loved hearing the bag pipes and watching the crazy Irish-folk in the crazy attire! It was a great day!

We continued the Irish celebration with The Morud's (the real Irish) at the Wild Game. Koen and Keelin are just starting to interact! Here is Koen taking Keeling down.. :) Probably the first of many wrestling bouts!

Cheering on the Wild!

8 months!

I feel like it was yesterday that I posted his 7 month pictures....well okay, it was just a few days ago, but I was too busy with broomball to keep up with my posts :) It's so hard to believe Koen is already 8 months! As soon as I get used to saying how old he is, he's a month older! Koen has been obsessed with electronics...computers and cell phones to be exact! His Grandpa V got him his own cell phone...maybe he can get him a laptop too! Here he is looking like a little business man...in his business suit :)

Today we had a pre-birthday lunch with Grandpa V and Meg at Noodles. They both have birthday's on Saturday! (March is a popular month...Uncle Matt and Uncle Joe also have Birthday's!) Meg hasn't seen Koen since he was 3 weeks old! She was amazed that he's grown so much and how active he was! It was a great lunch!

We had Finn over for a few hours tonight and we got some fun pics in the tub! Koen absolutely LOVES watching Finn run around the house. He sat in his high chair and smiled and laughed while Finn was being 'crazy'!

State Champions!

Who would have thought at age 31, I would be a State Champion! Seriously. I just started playing broomball a few years ago and fell in love with it. I'm now playing pretty competitvely....and even roped Lindsey into playing with me! The month of March is tournament time....state for women's, state for co-ed and nationals for co-ed....Kyle, Brettski and Koen have been our biggest fans! However, it wasn't hard to convince them to come out when Coors Light was the sponsor!
This past weekend, Grandma and Grandpa Veenis even made it out for the double-over-time victory for the Women's State Championship!

I got the ball and Lindsey is above me!

Koen may have smuggled in some beer for the guys :)

Cheerleaders!

Linds and I.

Gotta go to the Auto Show!

Koen was lucky enough to join his father and grandfather to his first ever Auto Show! Start 'em young, as Kyle would say!!!! So the tradition starts! Kyle and his dad go to the Auto Show every year....and dream of the cars they will someday own! I gave Kyle the camera in hopes he would take a few pics, but in reality thinking that he probably wouldn't! He proved me wrong! Here they are!

7 months in pics....

The milestones for the month:

CRAWLING! Once he figured it out, he's been moving faster and faster each day!

Pulling himself up into standing mode...scary!

Still giving us his HUGE smile!

LOVES to babble.....

Kissed his first girl. Seriously. Crawled over to his friend, Isabella, at ECFE class and planted one right on her cheek... The whole class laughed!

Giggles....a lot~

Is finally sleeping without a swaddle. But still waking up OFTEN. Too Often.

Starting to get some stranger anxiety... :(

Here he pulled himself up in his crib...time to lower it!

He's over at his Autie Elly and Uncle Ali's house....crawling on the table!

He loves to play with his hockey stick!

Cheering mom and Wingy (Lindsey) on at Broomnball!

7 months...

Wild game...a lot better than the very first one we took him to!

The smile...

Hanging out with his buddies, Barrett (9 months!) and Ava (3).