Trip to DuPont & Adventure Aquarium

(post 2 today!)

May 26th we had Ethan’s annual visit with Dr. Bober & Dr. McKenzie at DuPont. We were able to make appointments the same day as the Camenga’s . So we were able to make a little fun trip out of it!

Ethan had two perfect check ups! Both doctors said he’s doing great! No worries at all! So we dont have to go back until next year!!! After our appointments we went over to the Ronald McDonald house to relax & spend the night.

Here are the boys chillin w/ Ronald.

  

All of the kids posing together in the Ronald McDonald house. (love the windy staircase!)

Collin is still gaga for Gracie!

The day after our appointments we headed to NJ to the Adventure Aquarium. The Greene’s drove up to meet us. It was a blast despite the 20 bus loads of school kids on field trips!

       

Snack break!

 

 

 

We found Nemo!

  

   

Sharks!!!

 

Gracie is now a pretty butterfly!

  

Daddy being silly saying he was gonna throw the kids away!

  

We ended the day with hot dogs & pretzels on the lawn.

  

Liam with his super squishy cheeks!!!

 

We had a great time! Hopefully we can do it again next year!

Monkey is 3!!

(I am trying to play blog catch up! I am so behind! So there will be multiple posts today, I am going to try to make my posts quick ones!)

On May 2 Collin turned 3! I cant believe it!  This year he insisted on having another monkey birthday party! So together we picked out a monkey beach party theme!

Started the party with some racing around on the Radio Flyer Zooms.

 

Then moved on to the Bounce House!!

                 

He was so excited to have so many friends there! Especially the Camenga’s! & his Gracie love!!

Squishy lil Liam!

 

Cake Time!!!

  

Cousin Sophia sporting her cool shades!

    

He had such a fun day! & got lots of great gifts!   

In Love????

 

Tonight at bedtime Collin was doing his usual “stalling” getting into bed. You know the whole game of “Me need a drink!”, “I happta (have to) go poop!”, “Me don’t know how go to sweep (sleep)!”…… Well he did all of these tonight & then completely floored me with this one-

Collin- “Mom… me happta tell you a sneakret (secret)”

Me- “what is it?”

Collin- “Gracie lobs (loves) Collin… Collin looobs (loooves) Gracie!”

Me- “Oh really!?!?”

Collin- “Yep…me do!”

Me- “Who told you Gracie does?”

Collin- “Hers did!

 

LOL!!!!!!!! Guess Emily & I are gonna have to start keeping a better watch on these two!!

Little Rockers!

 

I feel bad that I haven’t had anything to share lately! Really havent had anything exciting going on. So until I have something real to post here are a couple cute pics of my little rockers jammin on their paper jamz guitars.

Christmas Day *2010*

 

 

Santa has arrived!!

The dogs are always as excited as the boys are about Santa’s arrival!

“Oh – My - Goodness!! AC/DC Paper Jamz! Just what we wanted!”

 

“a Bobcat with a snowplow!”    and   “the orange snowplow truck I wanted!”

“This is the best Christmas ever!!!”

 

Team effort!      "What is it?”

“A new train!”

“WOW! An aircraft carrier!!! Awesome!!”

This is what Buddy thinks about the boys getting all these presents!

My little artist!!

After presents & breakfast clean up we got ready to have our family come visit for the day! We always have the holidays at our house, A few years ago I decided that I didn’t want to spend Christmas day cooking & cleaning, but wanted to be able to enjoy the day too! I wanted to be able to relax & watch the kids play with all of their new stuff! So I started an *Open House Christmas*. Anyone is welcome anytime after 1p.m., food is out all day, eat when ever you want, stay as long as you want & relax! It works out really well since some family members “house hop” and this way they can come whenever. I make all kinds of picky food ahead of time so I don’t have to do it that day!

 

This is our niece Sophia loving the new baby that we got her.

Collin zonked out! Such a rough life!

But after his nap he preformed a great little concert for us!

Hope everyone else had a great Christmas! Happy New Year!!

Twas the night before Christmas * 2010 *

 

Christmas Eve after church service we had a little photo session with my boys & my cousin’s two boys.

What a bunch of hams! Especially this one. . .

 

 

Before the boys went to bed I attempted to get a nice picture of them in their new matching jammies. Ethan wanted nothing to do with taking a picture with his brother.

Finally after a dozen bad pics & a lot of coxing I finally got this one.

Then they were off to bed to wait for Santa to arrive. Ethan was asleep within 5 minutes!!