hey everyone...

finally, here are some pictures from my new camera i got last week. it has been so fun to have a camera again! i hope everyone is doing well and still somewhat regularly check the blog spot. i will try to keep posting. below is my favorite graffiti work in minneapolis, some of our neighborhood kids and the flowering tree in our front yard (for mom). hope to talk to you all soon. matt

ps. abby, congratulations on passing your test.

some pictures when i googled your names. apparently dad is an accomplished musician. peter writes for a random german kids magazine. justin has a picture of himself which could be located online. peter also wrote a kids book on what it is like to be a great dad. and megan married someone else named Jeremy Horn... you better look into this pete ( though megan looks a bit different in the picture, did you color your hair?)

ME LIKE FOOD

It seems like there is a lack of pictures on the blog as of late...well, here are some for everyone to look at. Noah's first solid food...pretty messy. FYI, he rolled over for the first time a couple days ago. He hasn't done it since then, but at the time it was pretty exciting. enjoy
Peter, Megan, and Noah

some more pics

Here are the pictures from 4 months, taken at Baby's R Us.

New Noah Pics

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable week! Peter and I are just hanging out and enjoying Noah. He is growing up so fast. He laughs everyday and he loves watching Toby run around the house. Peter is finishing up his 10 day stretch of work while I have been busy keeping the house clean, making dinners, and having play dates for Noah (or coffee dates for me).

Hope to see everyone soon. We look forward to seeing Paul and Judy (mom and dad) here in the cities soon for the play.

Love,
Megan, Peter, and Noah

Hi everybody- HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! (late)
I had to post something because we've all been pretty neglegent lately. Some might even think that we have boring lives- and though I think that is probably true for me, I know some of you must have some exciting things going on. All I've been doing is working too much.
Thanks again for the wonderful Christmas. I loved my presents, as did the kids and Justin. Justin wore his new shirt from Kojoe yesterday. We just had so much fun. Thank you!
I can't believe how big Noah is! Can you email me the pics of the cousins? Or post it? I want to show everyone at work.
The picture of Anna is with Amelia (the other cousin) and the scarf Anna knitted her at Christmas. Talk to you all soon. Abby

Merry Merry

I guess we are the only ones posting lately. Oh well, Here are some cute pics of Noah this past week. He is preparing for his first Christmas!!! Things here in the chilly twin cities are going great. Noah is getting better sleeping through the night. For the past week he has gone to bed around 8:30/9 pm and slept until 5 am. Hopefully this will continue. The coming weekend we dont have much planned. Megan and her mom are having a big baking day on Sunday while I watch the football game with Noah. Have a great rest of the week!!

Happy Monday

Hello Family,
I hope your monday is going well. Things here in the Horn Household are going great. Noah slept through the night for the first time last night! He went to bed around 8:30 pm and woke up around 5:30 am. It was amazing. Megan and I were able to play a round of skippo and relax together before going to bed. Hopefully this is a sign of whats to come!

Talk to you all soon!

Thankful

I was going to title this "After Thanksgiving"...but thought that would be sooo wrong. Thanksgiving goes on and on, and one of the things I'm most thankful for is my amazing children, their spouses, and my grandchildren...and the family pets :>) Thanks for the time you all spent here - it was such a fun holiday for us, and really relaxing.

And now I'm ready to turn my thoughts to Christmas, but won't have time until the weekend (or next week) to begin preparations. By then I'll really be in the mood since we have our "Christmas in the Country" on Friday and Saturday nights, and our heart sister Christmas dinner next Tuesday. Shirley Johnson and I finished planning the program for the heart sisters last Sunday night, and today I've spent part of the morning putting together a "Mrs Santa" costume for the skits on the weekend (luckily, we keep a lot of odds and ends around this house, so I have possibilities...). Other things on my agenda today - call people for the heart sister affair, and then go to the grocery store and get evaporated milk so I can make turkey divan for supper and use some leftover turkey (sound good, Abby?) The sad news for today is that we have to miss Thomas's band concert since your dad has a meeting tonight (actually, he has two)...so Thomas, stick with your clarinet, and we'll plan to be at the next concert!

Actually, I won't keep going on, but just wanted to say how great it was to have each of you here for the weekend. I found Anna's little note this morning as I was putting things away - "Luve Yor litL grand children"...and I surely do! Each one is so precious - Noah so new and sweet, with all his cute expressions; and Anna - growing so fast and drawing and writing and still looking for the bear brothers; and Thomas, already so grown up - hey, he's not sure he even wants hugs anymore! ( but he gets them anyway)
'Tis all a good time!

So - now I know you're all back to your normal routines, and I hope you're each having a good, good week. Farkle on.... Love you, Mom

And some more pics

I am 8 weeks today!

Hello Family- Noah is doing great and is growing so fast. It's hard to believe it was 8 weeks ago that he ventured into this world. In the past few weeks, Noah has made some big changes such as smiling, a few random laughs, and being much more alert. He went from being a blob to having a personality. We are so in love. We have also had some big family changes. As a family we have decided that Megan will not return to work but instead have the best job ever at home taking care of Noah. Possibly in a year she may return. Enjoy the pics- and we look forward to seeing you all soon next weekend.

hey everyone, hope everything is going well. just wanted to let you know that we have a new member of the horn pet family. as of today, Gizmo the cocker spaniel is a permenant resident of 1418 emerson in n. minneapolis. she is 6 years old, has one eye (one was removed due to glaucoma this year), is potty trained, loves to sit on your lap, and is pretty calm. she will probably be home for thanksgiving so i am sure that you will all get to see her then. talk to you all later and i will try to post a video at some point. maTT

Noah's first Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! Noah is finally napping so I can post some cute pics of my son on his first halloween. Hope everyone had a fun and safe night on wednesday. I love the costumes Thomas and Anna. Very cool!

Enjoy the pics!

halloween 2007

Army man and Little Miss Muffet- it was a great halloween. I'll write about it later. I worked this morning and I picked up noc shifts all weekend. Abby

hallo

here are some halloween pictures for all of you... freshly carved two days ago.  hope your halloweens were spookirific.  matt

Halloween

OK, where are all those great Halloween pictures? I'm pretty sure Thomas and Anna had something to do with costumes and candy on Wednesday night, and I heard that even Noah got to celebrate his first holiday in style...and didn't anyone carve an artistic pumpkin??? So --- how about some posts so we can see all the fun?!

We had the usual halloween crowd here, and it was a lot of fun...probably about 80 kids. Your dad was at church so I had all the duties at home myself...I really didn't sit down for about two and a half hours, as the doorbell just kept ringing, so it wasn't the most relaxing evening, but it was fun to see kids having such a good time. And especially the little ones were just giggly and so excited...it was great weather and most kids had adults with them, and often the adults were in costume too. I even found a big orange plastic light up pumpkin in the basement (a momento of your dad's days at LLMHS) so I put that up outside. I haven't done outdoor decorating for halloween since the ghosts on the light fixtures and the resulting "teenager trap"...and this was pretty tame, but at least I felt I got in the spirit of it all :>)

I'm now glad the work week is over for me - I've worked 10-12 hour days trying to catch up on things, so I'm ready for a break. Tomorrow we go to Dennie and Cindy's - your dad has a meeting in the morning so we probably won't get there until about 3:30...but hopefully Cindy and I will have some time to shop, and then we're going to relax for the evening (and eat steaks off the grill) --- sounds like an excellent time.

On Saturday I plan to catch up with lawn and house work, and on Sunday I serve communion, work in the church nursery (I don't know yet how I'll do both), plus we have a potluck...so that day will start out busy...

I know you all have a lot going on...I haven't even talked too much on the phone this week because of my long hours at work, so feel I need to touch bases with all of you and find out about your lives. But hope all's going well....and as I said at the start...how about some Halloween posts???
Love you, Mom

A few pictures

Here are a few pictures of Noah. He is doing great...a little rash on his face, but nothing to worry about. Enjoy
Peter, Megan, and Noah