MaKenna is just as beautiful as she was 8 months ago!! She finished her dance class and LOVED every minute of it! She LOVES to dance and still talks about it...she can't wait for it to get started again! She is a good little dancer! She is also very excited to start pre-school. It is mommy pre-school...but it is pre-school none the less and she is very excited! She has loved having the boys home this summer...but I think she is ready to have mommy time without the big boys! Some of her funny quirks this summer have been her use of the word Please. She says, "Clease". We try to tell her it is with a "P"...but she doesn't get it. Oh well...her asking is better though. We used to say, "Ask nicely" and she would say, "Nicely!" Now she says, "May I have_____clease!?" She is such a big girl! She is almost 4 already! And she is ALLLLLL girl! Oh my!!! She is SOOO needy!! We love her so much...but she won't even let us go to the bathroom alone! :-)
Jake is...Jake. He is my mother's promise to me. He has played hockey in the past 8 months...and he is very good at it. He is speedy and he is quite the goal maker. He also has played baseball this summer. He is very funny to watch on the baseball field. I am sorry...but he is. He has a tendency to stand there with his arms crossed, sometimes picking his nose...sometimes not. He usually just watches the ball go by him and waits for someone else to get it for him. Sometimes he isn't even looking. Jeff says he just needs to get hit with the ball one time and he will start paying attention. When he is up to bat though he is a great hitter! BUT...then he speed walks to the base rather than run. Don't know what goes through that kids head sometimes! He will be starting 2nd grade. He has gone out a couple times with daddy and gone "hunting" or fishing. He does love to be outdoors! 
Cam is such a good boy. He is my big helper. He wants to help with Major...not because I ask him to...but because he genuinly wants to help. He loves to hold his brother and entertain him...which is a HUGE help to me. I don't know what I will do when he goes back to school!! Major just adores him too! Cam played hockey in the past 8 months too. He is also one of their tops players! He is speedy and makes goals and assists on a regular basis too! He opted out of any summer sports though...unless you count video and computer games a sport. He loves his webkinz and pokemon. He also went to Timberlake Ranch Camp in Marquette, NE. He was there for a week and absolutely LOVED it! He has had a couple sleep overs with friends this summer and we have had friends over as well. In fact they all slept in a tent in our backyard, so they could have that camping experience. For a couple of the boys sleeping over it was their first time! Cam will be starting the 4th grade and I think he is ready. Both him and Jake will be starting in a new school...it is only about a mile from our house. They are a bit nervous, but they will meet friends quickly!!! Cam has gone hunting with his dad this year. Turkey hunting...and deer hunting. They didn't get anything together, but word is, they are going out squirrel hunting later this month! :-)
Jeff is still busy at TDAmeritrade! They have been very busy since their merger with another company called Phiser or something like that. He coached the boys' hockey teams but was just a sideline dad for Jake's baseball. He also was VERY busy the past 8 months with hunting. He did get a couple of deer which has given us a good amount of meat for the year. He really enjoys it. I will NEVER understand though how he can get up at 3 am to go out hunting with NO problem...but he can't seem to get up at 8 am to go to work. Boggles my mind! He has also kept busy getting our new house in the shape that we want it to be in...he does a great job at that too!
Me? I have stayed busy. Between shuttling kids here and there...piano lessons...hockey...baseball...school programs...library...etc...etc...etc....I don't have time for much more. I STILL haven't fully decorated our house....I STILL don't get a full night of sleep (courtesy Major...and sometimes MaKenna)....I clean the house, I do the laundry, I do the dishes, I feed my family, there isn't much time for much else. Although...I am still the childcare coordinator for our bible study and church and the finance director for our MOPs group at church. In the summer that all slows down though. BUT...life doesn't slow down. It seems like the summer has whizzed by us!! We went to Arizona for Holly's wedding. MaKenna was the flower girl, Cam and Jake were "bell ringers", Jeff was an usher, and I said a few "words". It was a beautiful wedding!
Jeff ushers at church...so he did a great job of course!! We came home from Arizona and we went the following weekend to Storm Lake, IA. We went with Rhonda, Mike and their family and mom. Dad had to go back to Oregon because my cousin Ryan's wife died...so he went back for the funeral. :-( Anyway...it was an indoor/outdoor park and we had tons of fun...except, mom got sick. When we came home we took her straight to the ER and she spent the next two weeks in the hospital. She had some sort of wierd infection and then they found she had brain tumors. So they did the Gamma Knife Surgery on her before she left. Hopefully that took care of her brain tumors. You can stay updated on her health at http://www.carepages.com/ and just type in Suzannestutzman. She was out of the hospital for almost two weeks and she is back in there again with a blood infection. We aren't sure when she will get out...hopefully in the next few days.
The last 8 months was a sad one also because we had to put my puppy Mickey to sleep. Well...she wasn't exactly a puppy anymore...she was 11 years old and she was a Rottweiler...so that is pretty old for a Rottweiler. When we moved into this house she started losing weight. She went from 120 to 55 pounds in a matter of months. We had her tested for everything and nothing really came back with a problem. The doctor did think he felt a nodule on her liver though. He didn't think she would last more than another week or so. She was having trouble getting around and would yelp everytime she got up. That was hard for all of us....
We did get to go to a few concerts. Jeff and I went with our friends Emily and Troy to see, Jeremy Camp, Matthew West, Toby Mac, Casting Crowns and also Stephen Curtis Chapman with Deana and Rich too. We have been quite the "Show goers"! We also went with my dad to the PBR...and we took the whole family to an Omaha Beef game...hopefully we will never do that again...it was WWWAAAAYYYYY to crazy!!! When we were in Arizona we had Major baptised and out here we had him dedicated. He wore the same suit that Cam and Jake wore for their dedications and baptisms...and Cam wore it for Danny and Caitlin's wedding too! I made it with help from Grandma Holbrook, Mom Filleman and Jeff!
Major also has a best friend already! His name is Nehemiah Ramsey! Nehemiah's mommy is one of my best friends, Deana Ramsey! We do A LOT together!! Nehemiah was born just a week before Major!
Finally we have had a ton of fun with our best buddy Tini!! Christine Fukumoto and her boyfriend Matt Rukasin, moved out here a couple of weeks ago!! We are THRILLED to have them here! They bought a house about 20 minutes from us. Tini will be going to Creighton's Medical school and Matt is working at TDAmeritrade! We have been enjoying them being here!! And to think...we have them for the next 3 years at least!!!! :-)
Jeff's littlest sister Dixie, is moving out here this week too!!! We know why God sent us to Nebraska!! To help my family out and to be here for Tini and Dixie! Dixie will be in Creighton's Physical Therapy program. She rented a house about 10 minutes from us! We are excited to have her out here with us also!!! We will have her for 3 years also!!! Who else can we make Nebraskan's out of??? :-)
That's it for now! I have updated the photos page too!! TONS of new photos on our famster site...www.famster.com/thefillemans!! Leave us your messages! I am going to be better about updating this site...I PROMISE!!! So...check in every other day or so!!
Blessings!!! THE FILLEMAN'S!
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