Merry Christmas!!

The Rempt 2009 Christmas card pictures... We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season!

Radio Flyer Walker Wagon

Sam received one of his Christmas presents a little early and he is loving it!  I searched hard for a walker that was a little more sturdy and not as light weight as the plastic ones.  This is just perfect and pretty cute too!  He loves to motor around behind it and is so much more upright and confident in the short week and a half that he has had it!  It's fun to watch him.  His normal is to go across the living room and into the kitchen and then he ditches the wagon and walks along the dishwasher and cupboards!  He is getting so close to being able to walk on his own!  We had our first session with our new Iowa physical therapist this week and things went well.  We are happy to be back at that again and excited to see how much Sam keeps learning and changing!  He's worked pretty hard to get here!  We're close and oh so proud!

Here's a video of him the other night before bed.  He's a little grumpy and doesn't really want to be showing off for the camera but his mother made him!  Not quite his best performance but at least he kind of cooperated!  : )

My Grandpa

I should be working on our Christmas cards right now but I'm lacking motivation.  I so enjoy receiving them from family and friends but am struggling to get our's done! 

So instead I wanted to share a few pictures from today!  This morning we were able to visit my grandpa in Hampton at the care center.  He said he was feeling pretty well and he looked great.  He really enjoyed watching Sam play and it was wonderful to get to spend a little time with him.  He is hanging in there healthwise but just seems tired.  It's sad to seem him without the light hearted fire I remember.  We are so thankful Sam knows him so I wanted to share a few pictures of their time together today. 

Four generations

He'd rather watch Sam  : )

Special.

Just checking him out a bit more

Pictures

Playing before bed and getting into his hip brace for the night

Evidently a little work to be done after his bath  : )

Enjoying Mom's birthday cake!

Too cute to just share one picture

New Christmas jams

A little extra snuggle time to end my 28th birthday

Never gets old.

We hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving with your family.  Thanks for checking in on us! 

Hope you enjoyed seeing a few pictures of our Sam.

First Fat Lip

The chair got the best of Sam this morning.  I'm sure he'll be back for more soon!  : )

Pictures I Enjoy

Messy snack but he loves them!

I love love love HyVee (a grocery store in IA)!  Sam loves loves loves balloons so we were looking the other day while getting groceries.  They have a clearance tub where we can get balloons for only 50 cents!  Only catch is the choices are a little limited.  This time we could choose baby's first christening or American Idol!  Cheap and easy fun for Sam though! 

Cute as he was climbing on my lap not cooperating for pictures.

Funny eyes/ face while making strange noises as he played!

Showing the puppy a little love.

Sitting still for a second - handsome little guy

Missing These Guys Much---

Haven't caught up with any more pictures or posts of our last few weeks in Denver yet because it makes me too sad to go through the pictures.  These are a few of my favorites- pictures and people I mean.  We are sure missing them already!

Iowa

Hey friends.  We are here!  We are 85% settled! We are happy to be spending the week together before Bryan starts work on the 16th!  We are feeling pretty blessed and thankful for the great opportunity that lies ahead of us.  And we are busy loving on our delightful little boy!!!  Pictures of Sam coming soon- I have a few I'd love to share.  Hope you are well!  JR

Sheesh

Hooorrrrrrrrrraaay for Stellan!  God is amazing!

Iowa Bound

Well it's official and the secret is out... the Rempt's are headed to Iowa for good at the end of this week!  Bryan accepted an offer from County Materials in Iowa City and starts mid November.  It is a great move for him careerwise and he's excited for the challenge of running the plant there.  Meanwhile, Sam and I will be holding down the fort at home in Coralville!  We are excited for this opportunity look forward to being back in Iowa with family and friends.  On the other hand, we are sad sad sad to be leaving Denver.  It's a wonderful city to live in and even more so, we hate to leave my siblings here.  It has been so so wonderful to be 10 minutes from Matt and Jamie both this past year.  Pretty strange that all three of us ended up in the same city for a bit.  If we could have been picky, this opportunity would have come two years down the road but evidently we were just meant to have one short, jam-packed year here.  Bittersweet for sure.  We make the official drive back later this week!