Easter Weekend!

Easter weekend was so busy - and fun! Cooper went to his first Twins game with James - as you can tell, it was a cold one! They made if 4 whole innings, and when he came back all he could talk about was the food they had.:) Then we did a lot of football in the yard, dinner with friends, went to Hop with both boys (it was Miles' first time going to a movie theater - long story, he needs more time to mature before we do that again!) Easter was fun! I love the excitement of the boys when they know what day it is when they run out of their rooms bright and early. Miles was the first up - and started right away with 'It's Easter time'. We were out in the yard getting our eggs at 6:15, and even though our neighbors might have been annoyed, they had a great morning! Brunch with family and then a day of relaxing and fun family stuff.

The boys are at awesome ages. I hope they are like this for a while! Hope everyone else had a great Easter!

Crazy Cold Weekend!

It was another weekend in temps below 35 degrees at times, and although we woke up to snow on our cars Saturday, we decided to head to the Twin Cities home show with my parents. They bought a sweet new house on Prior Lake, and are planning on putting in an outdoor kitchen, pizza oven and patio this spring/summer so they were scouting out some places. Anyway, the boys' favorite part was meeting and following around the Michelin man, which they acted like was no big deal - but they followed him for like 20 minutes. Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!! ~

$1.50 of fun!

I thought of a few things that the boys and I could do outside that would be fun, and more creative than just hitting each other with balls while we run around the yard (which is actually really fun!), and I decided that bringing our waterproof table outside and coating it and the boys' hands with the cheapest shaving cream Target had. They LOVED it, and it was a 20minute break from our swinging and running, which gave me time to relax for a few minutes and start the next activity. An added bonus...drop a few drips of finger paint and turn it different colors. They thought that was awesome too! Any other ideas are greatly appreciated!! It is only April, but thank God for the great weather!!

Friday - Funday

I would like to know why it seems like I am ALWAYS doing a mountain of laundry and my kids still smell like pee. I do so much laundry I can't even tell you how many loads a week - they never wear the same PJs twice, they never wear jeans twice or sweatshirts. They take a bath every night. They get a little wet from being outside, and I put them in a different outfit, they wear something for a few hours and I will throw it in the hamper, and yet....pee smell. Maybe it's them. They are both potty trained, so they aren't sitting in pee, and yet I can tell if they have worn something because there is a faint pee smell on the article of clothing. Ahh!! Don't even get me started on James' running clothes. Gross. Straight up nasty. What is their diet that they smell that bad as humans. I am the only girl in a house of pee smell and dry fit stank. Barf.

FULL Family Weekend!

My cousin Brian and his wife, Kelly, and two sons, Tyler and Conner, came to town from Raleigh this weekend. Tyler is 7 and has Spina bifida, so he plays sled hockey. I didn't know what to expect, but it was really kinda hard core! It was a youth tournament, so I thought it would be less aggressive, but they still slammed into the boards, slid all over, and the play was pretty fast. Anyway, that was fun to watch, and his team ended the tournament in 2nd place!

There were 6 kids running around for 4 straight days, and my boys thought the new cousins were the best thing ever, so we had to seek them out from sun up to sundown! They played hard, napped well, and slept well each night! Fun times watching them pal around with kids they have never met and acting like they were separated at birth! Anyway, hopefully the Jacoby family will come a lot more often, and we can make it to North Carolina to see them sometime soon!

After the Jacoby family headed to the airport, we ran around preparing for our week ahead, and ran some errands and enjoyed the nice(r) weather. We even got a chance to grill out this weekend, so we are so close to my favorite time of year!!

Spring...we need you!

Another weekend with James traveling and gross weather outside....what to do? Body paint! Right now the boys are totally into superheroes, so when I bought some body paint at Wal-Mart, the first thing they wanted was Spiderman faces. Don't try this at home, unless you are going straight into the tub...red faces for too long kind of stain the skin orange....they didn't care.