http://www.topofahill.com A Knowles Family Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:36:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past couple weeks I have enjoyed the peacefulness of my house. Let me explain. Since October 2008 we have had at least one employee working out of our house. We continued adding employees until April when the office moved out of the house. But then we had a ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1174 I've gotten questions like this before. "What do you do all day long if you JUST stay at home with your kids?" I ask myself that all the time too, because it doesn't seem like I get anything accomplished during the day. If I get one load ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1167 On Friday Jo-Jo had her two month checkup and another round of vaccines.  Poor baby didn't do so well with the shots, but honestly who would?  Overall Jo-Jo is healthy and growing. She's now 9 lbs 6 oz and is 22.25 inches long.  That puts her in the 15 percentile ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1161 Last month I wasn't quite ready to venture out to our pool but Izzy needed some time cooling off in the water so I fashioned a water slide for her using the slide on the swing set and an inflatable pool.  The slide was really fast but looked like so ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1154 A couple weekends ago we got together with a friend of ours who's a Fort Collins photographer and took some new family photos. We love how they turned out and must admit that our kids the ones who really make the photos beautiful.  Here are our favorites: [gallery link="file" order="DESC" orderby="title"] All ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1135 Is it already the middle of July?  Where is this summer going and why is it going by so quickly?!  Oh right, I guess it's because we've been busy with a newborn, house guests, business guests and well, life in general.  We'd like to squeeze in a family vacation into ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1129 Baby Jo-Jo is now one month old and we just moved her out of our room to sleep in her own room.  I gave in and put her into a swing to sleep and have gotten at the most 6 hours of sleep.  I didn't want to have to use ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1118 My graduating high school class of 2000 are getting together this weekend for our 10 year reunion. When I first got notification of this reunion I was shocked to hear that high school graduation was really 10 years ago. Am I really getting that old?! I went to a ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1110 is SLEEP!  Last night was a rough night.  I think I got maybe 3 hours of sleep total.  On top of that Jojo decided to stay up through naptime crying and nursing.  Currently I have her in the infant swing Grandma and Grandpa Knowles bought for baby Izzy and I've ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1105 Summer is officially here.  That means, lots of hot weather, fun times at the pool and LOTS of visitors.  Currently my sister Michelle is here visiting.  A few days after she leaves Luke's brother Jesse will be visiting and working with us. Jojo has gained probably a pound since we left ... http://www.topofahill.com/?p=1089