Happy Belated Anniversary

We had a crazy busy weekend around here but in the midst of all the craziness Carl and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary. I will blog about all the craziness later but now I wanted to take the time to say Happy Anniversary Carl. In some ways it seems like the time has flown by and in others it seems like we have been together forever, I sometimes have a hard time remembering what it was like before we were together. Thank you for 6 wonderful years. I look forward to at least 66 more:) I love you so much!


8-10-02approx. 8-10-08d

Tis the Season

Wow two new posts in a row, that's pretty good for me lately. Tis the season for what you may be wondering well today was actually unseasonably nice out so the boys, my mom and I went to take a walk out at Ada Hayden Park. We brought Gabe's bike thinking it would be fun for him to ride it on the paths but the seat seems to be a little too low for him, making it rather difficult to pedal so that didn't work out so well. We stopped at one of the docks first and there were several little fish swimming around near the dock.After we were done at the dock we started walking around the lake. Gabe found all the plants and water pretty cool and didn't quite understand why he couldn't get into the water. He did pretty well until we were probably half way around and then he wanted to ride in the stroller, unfortunately I only brought the single as I thought Gabe would ride his bike so the boys took turns and actually rode together for awhile as well, that didnt work out the best though since they were squished and Ty likes to pull hair. We finally made it to the bridge and Gabe found his second wind and loved running across it and looking down at the water. There were even two older boys fishing near there and he liked watching them throw their lines into the water. The rest of the walk was long and hard for Gabe as he was tired, we managed to entertain him somewhat with rocks with faces on them and then signs where he identified letters. (If the picture looks a little fuzzy in the middle I think I had a little helper fingerprint the lens) At the end of the walk he finally got to dip his feet into the water which he said was cold but kept going back in to dip his feet some more. This brings us to the other half of tis the season which is tailgate tents are up! Very exciting news at our house, Gabe wanted to go down to see them on our way home so we made a detour. We also went to get his picture by the new sign on the scoreboard. He is pretty excited for football season and has the Go Cyclones cheer down pat(hopefully he will have something to cheer about!)

Mommy's Little Helpers?

Last night I had a couple of little helpers making supper. It was a simple supper just semi-homemade pizza(semi-because I bought a whole-wheat Boboli crust) and Gabe wanted to help, harmless enough. Gabe did do a good job of helping me put on the sauce. and macaroni(actually pepperoni, but Gabe for some reason always says macaroni) but then it was time for the cheese. I showed Gabe how to put it on the pizza but I am pretty sure most of it ended up in his mouth. About the same time his little brother decided it would be fun to come in and help mom rearrange the cabinets with the pots and pans. The pizza did end up getting in the oven with cheese and I managed to find all my lids Ty had somehow gotten out and then placed in the strangest places. After supper we went outside to play for awhile while Daddy worked on our countertops(they are all done now just putting tile on the backsplash is left:) Ty only had his shirt and diaper on and wasn't too sure about the feeling of the grass on his legs. We weren't able to stay out for very long as the mosquitos were especially hungry last night but I did manage to get a few cute pictures of the boys playing in the yard. It is especially pretty now with all the flowers out.On a random note this is Ty's idea of sitting in his high chair. He was standing up on his seat and I told him to sit so he did:) Not exactly what I was thinking but I wasn't specific.Friday we are getting the boys 3 and 1 year pictures taken(wish us luck) Saturday my aunt, uncle and cousins are in town and we are all heading to Adventureland for the day(again wish us luck) and Sunday is our 6 year anniversary, hard to believe it has already been 6 years, so much has happened in that time. Hopefully I will have some cute pics to post soon.

Beat the Heat

Goodness it is hot outside, it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so humid. At least today there are no sudden thunderstorms in the forecast, the last few days we have had strange weather. Yesterday the storm woke Gabe up from his nap because it hailed for awhile and the hail stones hitting his window scared him. He doesn't scare easily so it must have been traumatic for him. Today since there was no rain in the forecast we headed to the park and the wading pool. Gabe loves the water and had fun playing in the fountains. Ty usually loves to crawl around in the water but today he was content just to sit and play with the toys around him, fine by me less worrying about the location of two active little boys. Cousin Clark also joined us for awhile but I never could get a very good pictures of all of them together. Way too much going on to sit for pictures. This past weekend we bought Gabe a blow up pool at Wal-mart since they are now on clearance. He loves it and had a blast playing in the water. It had to be drained yesterday since there was quite a bit of debris in it from the storms. We may have to swim from home tomorrow so we are close to the air-conditioned comfort. I haven't gotten any pictures of Gabe in his new pool yet so hopefully soon.

A few rare semi-good pictures of the brothers together, they stayed in one position for more then 2 seconds!

Ty and Brenna playing during the storm, it didn't seem to bother them:)

Just chillin in the water

Too much to do to smile for a picture

Gabe loved the fountains!

Sun Bathing Brothers

My Little Acrobat

Ty is definitely too mobile for his own good some days. The other day I was in the kitchen cleaning up breakfast and was on the phone with Carl I came back to the doorway to check on Ty who was eating breakfast in his high chair and this is how I found him.

The kid loves to climb and fears nothing. This is not a good combo for a 2nd child with an equally fearless big brother to get ideas from.















Our backyard continues to amaze us with all the new flowers that are popping up. Yesterday we went out and looked at all the new ones and Gabe always likes to smell them. He smells so funny, he wrinkles up his nose and basically snorts at the flowers to try and smell them. He always wants to be the photographer now as well and doesn't especially like to be the subject of the picture so we are trying to teach him how to take a picture and actually get people in it. He did pretty good on a few of these.






















Today some college friends came over with all their kids to play. Gabe loved playing with everyone and it was so nice to see the girls and how big everyone's kids are getting! We tried to get a few pictures of all of them together but getting 8 kids all 4 and under to cooperate was not going to happen especially since it was getting close to nap time and we were quickly approaching melt down stage. Gabe was sad at nap time today that everyone had gone home. We all had a great time!

Happy Haircut

well not exactly happy but a haircut none the less. Ty got his first haircut today. His sides and back were getting pretty long so I took him into get his haircut. He didn't mind too much as long as he had a comb in each hand and could look at himself in the mirror, he seemed to wonder what the cape thing was and why it was covering his arms and he only really got upset once towards the end but overall did a good job. The picture of him below is what his hair looks like now. Gabe got his haircut as well and is getting to be an old pro. He really likes the sucker he gets when it is all done. We had a busy weekend around here with a garage sale on Saturday morning at my mom and dads house. We cleaned out our basement and got rid of some stuff we just don't use anymore. It was a lot of work but we did get rid of quite a bit of stuff which was so nice and made a little money in the process. While I was busy at the garage sale Carl took Gabe to see the B-17 bomber plane that was at the airport they were there for over an hour looking at it and then watching it take off and land. Gabe even got to spin the propellers with a little help from Daddy and give the pilot a five. Carl said he was just entranced by everything going on with the plane. Unfortunately he didn't have the camera with him so he couldn't get a picture of him with the plane but he did get a cool airplane toy that Gabe loves and keeps beside him at all times. I will post a video of Gabe talking about the airplane(well kind of I had to do quite a bit of prodding since I had a rather stubborn child this afternoon) In house news the fireplace wall is completely done! It is so exciting to see it finished and it turned out great! Not only a few little things left and the inside will be complete.


















Carl took the camera to work with him the other day to get some pictures for a project he is working on.... I don't think this was the project but found it rather amusing anyway...boys!