Catching up

 Here I am with 10 weeks left. I believe this was taken right after Valentines Day in February.

 This little green machine has worked hard for us for 11 years!!!  We have brought both of our babies home in it, and unfortunately it was time to say goodbye.  We did make some money on it though, which helped with the purchase of our new "swagger wagon".  I am a little embarrassed to say the Mini-van kinda rocks!

 So, for Spring Break we took it out for a spin to the beach.  We stopped at Camp 18 and ate Cinnamon Rolls and saw the logging artifacts throughout the property. 

 We made it out to Seaside, with a race to get to the Bumper Cars!!!  What fun those are!

Once on the beach, Trenton decided to dig a hole until he fell in upsidedown!

 I... didn't move much.  I am a little slower now...

 But, Simon is anything but slow when it came to showing his Flipper a real live seal!

We did as much a s possible during Spring Break!  I ended up getting sick, but still wanted to have fun with the kids, so we had sleep overs with cousins, went golfing, had lunch dates, did Easter crafts and prepared for our big hunt on Sunday.

 Look at these guys?  

They are the best of friends and we are lucky enough to know we will be a family forever!  

Happy Easter!

My dream came true!

I dream of this image, but NEVER would have thought they would have behaved to actually capture it! I cried when I saw it... and I just HAD to share!!!
Please go see the rest here.. I'll be blubbering over them for the next few days.

Texas or Bust!

The Lone Star State beckoned us a few weeks ago!!!
I've never had a reason to visit this state, until Lee and Sarah moved there, and believe it or not.. I'd go back!!!

It was SUPER HOT when we landed in San Antonio. We didn't last long, and there weren't many people out because they all were smarter than us! It was not a day to be outside!

Hello Alamo!!

We traveled quickly away from land, and went straight for the beaches!!! This is pretty much where we stayed too. The boys were so happy building sand castles and surfing.

With all the heat, humidity, water and castles...
we would crash at night telling stories on the couch.

we got goofy too...

then went back to the beach...

We visited a real air craft carrier.. and the boys now will not stop obsessing over jet planes!

The Texas State Aquarium put ours to shame!! We played with crab, anemones, turtles, watched a dolphin show, and even pet sting rays.

But we didn't last long in the heat, so back to the beach .. to surf!

We mini-golfed...

surfed...

Visited museums...

surfed...

built more castles..

and even played instruments.

Big thanks to Lee and Sarah for bringing us down! We cannot wait to do it again! We miss you already.

Christmas toys

Really... who golfs in their living room?

Boys boys boys

These cute boys went and had a day out at the circus and pretended to be a Pizza Man to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. I just had to show you how much fun they have together. It was certainly a memorable BNO!

Observation Book

To keep Trenton busy a few weeks ago, I decided to cure his need for hunting with this....

...this is his "Observation Book". He picks leaves and flowers from everywhere and we tape them inside along with a small picture so he can remember where he found his treasure.

This has been running smoothly until recently when I found leaves (yet to be taped in) all over the house, car, table, bags, etc.
So, I came up with something new.
I told him we could go somewhere special and instead of picking the leaves and flowers we could take pictures of them to put in our book.

This turned out to be my super mom moment. We went to the most special, non-flower-picking place I could think of, the temple.

It was so sweet to see them loving the beautiful grounds, the flowers, the leaves, and it was fun for me being with my slightly irreverent boys. They are my treasure and these moments make me remember that there is nothing better in this world than them! They are at such a fun age and I'm so glad this moment is captured in pictures forever.

While I am quite proud of myself, this idea of really doing something adventurous and somewhat educational is a new to me. I'm much better at sitting in my lawn chair watching them run in the sprinkler. We'll have to try this more often, it was fun!!!