Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Pictures

I know I've been a huge slacker on my blog. You'd think I had three crazy kids and two part-time jobs! :) Anyway, I wanted to get some pictures up because I know Grant and Dylan some day are going to yell at me about how I took tons of pictures of Nora and none of them. Enjoy!


Happy Birthday Daddy!


Valentine's Day at daycare with Miss Megan. Pajama day too!! 


Making "stew" on the kitchen floor



Eating in her beautiful dress at the Daddy-Daughter dance. 


After school cupcake for FINALLY learning to strap herself into the car!!


Daddy and his beautiful little girl


All I did was load the dishwasher but suddenly, Grant had painted his whole mouth


Here is Nora's new hair cut. If you remember she cut it herself a while back so it is finally evening out. 



After they saw my reaction to Grant's painted face, Nora and Dylan promptly followed suit!


Also, the boys turned two back on December 20. We celebrated with a trip to a local play museum called Detroit Kid City. Then we opened presents and had cake and ice cream at home. At two they are doing a lot of new stuff. They can both speak in 4-6 word sentences, sing their ABCs and count to ten. They can jump on two feet, they will both jump off the side of the pool into our arms and they run everywhere and climb on everything. They are already both much more independent than Nora ever was, which I think is the younger sibling thing. They want to get dressed by themselves, put their own shoes on, climb in the car, etc., etc. They still fight constantly but they are starting to play together a lot more. They hug and kiss each other, ask where the other one is and say thank you to each other all the time.  They are really sweet little boys and they make our days both challenging and rewarding. I can't believe I'm just now getting to their birthday post in March, but hey ... at least I did it! Love you boys!


Grant at the play museum.




Opening presents


Saturday, January 19, 2013

Wow! What a year!

Wow! What a year 2012 was for us. I'm so late in updating this blog. We stayed home in Michigan for the Christmas holiday and had my mom here to help and celebrate. I will do a separate post on the boys' birthday. They turned two on December 20th. We had to celebrate Christmas a little early, since Jarrod had to work Christmas this year. Our holiday included a couple of excellent meals - ham and prime rib - a wonderful church service and a very nice visit from Santa. He was very good to the kids this year. Then New Year's Eve, Jarrod and I attended the Zac Brown Band concert in downtown Detroit at Joe Louis Arena. Zac Brown played until past 12:30 - it was amazing. On New Year's Day, we flew with all three kids to San Diego for a week-long stay in my brother's stomping grounds. It was a wonderful trip! Lots of beach time, a trip to Balboa Park and a trip to Sea World. The kids had a great time visiting Uncle Rudy and Aunt Nicole!



 This was Memaw and Nora's hilarious attempt at making 
one of those pre-packaged gingerbread house. It was a complete disaster, but they had fun.




For the boys' 2nd birthday we took them to Detroit Kid City. An indoor play museum in the area.












Now that's a bubble bath!


Chinese food on Christmas


The first big snow!



Puppet show with friend Mercy over Christmas break from school. She loves puppets and Santa brought her puppets and a puppet theater for Christmas!


Ms. Lauren and Nora wearing her new Stompeez slippers - another Santa gift.


The boys are sometimes nice to each other :)


Zac Brown Band


The first pic I took in San Diego ... the graffiti is a little different there.


Santa brought the boys a train table for Christmas


Our first sunset in San Diego



Another puppet show in San Diego


Sand fun!






Aunt Nicole is the best at braids!




Sesame Street's Bay of Play at Sea World




At the Shamu show


Skyview from the top of a tower



A recent trip out to eat. No peace for daddy!


Nora at her new tennis class



Our beautiful girl




Snuggles for daddy