Ian's 2nd Birthday

Back in February we had the chance to celebrate Ian's 2nd Birthday.  Zachary was so excited to be able to see horses up close, but not too personal as they were behind an electrical fence. One day he will get his chance to ride on one I hope.  He enjoyed seeing his friends, riding a "horse" and eating snacks of course.  It was a wonderful morning out.  I was able to actually capture some cute moments of Zachary with the great party favor hats that Robyn had for everyone.  I need to steal the pictures she took of us getting close to the horses as I don't have any of those.  One day maybe I will get to that.  For now and maybe forever, these will do.  What a fun party!

 Not sure what he is saying to the cat, but he does love animals of all kinds so it has to be something nice right?

 Happy Birthday Ian!

 Ride 'em cowboy.

 Isn't he just the cutest thing ever!?!?!!!!  Love this little guy.

 Sweet Karlie.

 Aislinn and Ty with Zachary in the cool jeep that was parked outside.

Teagan, Karlie and Addison joined in on the fun.

Baby Shower

Before Lucas arrived my friend Amber threw a baby sprinkle for me.  I received lots of diapers, wipes, lotions and some new clothes of course for the little guy.  I am sure he will appreciate that since most of his things will have gone through three boys already.  Amber had snacks for all the ladies and a game for us to play which was lots of fun.  What a great hostess!  We all laughed and enjoyed an evening out together at her house.  It was so sweet of her to put this together for me and I appreciate all my friends who were able to make it to celebrate with us.  I am blessed with good friends who love on me and my boys.  Oh and at the end of the night Amber announced to us that she is expecting!!!!  Yeah, another little friend to join the mix. 

Disclaimer

Okay everyone, I am about to add lots of posts I have had in draft form, with no pictures, that I am finally gotten around to adding pictures to.  Please excuse the events that you will be seeing from January in June, but I have to get them all on here.  I tried my best to have them done before Lucas arrived, but obviously that did not happen and I am still slow these days and frustrated when I try to download pictures numerous times and they don't get added.  Here's hoping it works this time around.

Status Updates on Boys

We had Nicholas' 6 year check-up and Lucas' two month check-up this week. They are both doing great and the Dr. had no concerns for either of them.  We do need to try to get Nicholas to stop sucking his thumb, but other than that he is doing great.  Thankfully he didn't have to have a shot so he was happy and so was Burt who took him :-) 

Lucas is now up to 12 pounds 5 ounces (70%) and is 23 1/2 inches (55%).  Obviously he is getting enough to eat.  We are hoping that means he will be sleeping through the night within a couple of weeks.  He has been going to about 3:30 pretty regularly so we are almost there.  He is smiling and cooing more now and goes with the flow most of the time.  He has to with the schedule we keep with the other boys.  I look forward to seeing more of his growth in the coming months.

Nicholas is up to 52 pounds (75%) and is 47 1/4 inches tall (75%).  He is one of the tallest in his class as you can imagine and he is almost done with his first year of school.  This is hard to believe and I am sure it will be emotional at his K graduation next week.

So, there you have it.  I promise to get some pictures and such up here soon.  My mom is coming to visit so maybe I will have more time when she is here.  Until then.....

Sweet Heart

Yesterday afternoon/evening we had a get together with our neighbors to meet everyone and have a "party".  We told the boys this was happening in our front yard where we would have a cook out and they could ride their bikes while the adults talked and got to know each other.  When the party started and we headed outside Joshua stayed inside for a bit.  When he finally came out he had one of his stuffed animals and some wrapping paper.  He wanted me to help him wrap it up.  I asked him what he was doing and he said he needed to have a present for the party to give to someone.  He didn't know who he was going to give his stuffed animal too, but he just knew that he wanted a gift to give if we were going to a party.  So sweet of him to think of that and to take one of his toys to give to someone he was just going to meet.  I love him so much and his sweet spirit.  Just had to share since I am obviously so behind in blogging, but this was easy to post since there are no pictures to go with it, just this sweet, sweet story.  Our neighbors were very impressed too.

Christmas

We had a full house this Christmas.  Burt's parents, plus my Mom and step-dad were here to celebrate with us.  We decided to break in the new house to its fullest potential.  The kids were very excited to get started that morning so we tried to get all the grandparents up and at em to see the festivities.  Unfortuantely my mom was not feeling well so she missed out, but Joshua made sure she got her presents and a run down of activities later that evening.  Thankfully we didn't have that many gifts to open since the big gift from everyone was a playset for the backyard that was put together throughout the week.  The boys loved opening their gifts and stockings and helping us all open our gifts.  It was fun to see Zachary get so excited this year too.  He would squeal in delight.  It was cute.  The big toy gifts came from Uncle Richard.  Already spoiling them :-)  It was a fun morning.  After we opened gifts we had our traditional breakfast and then got ready for church.  It was nice to be able to go to church on Christmas Day.  After the service we had a light lunch and then started to prepare the dinner items while the boys played with their new things and Zachary took a nap.  Later that evening we sat down for a wonderful Christmas dinner prepared mostly by Burt and his mom with a few things from me added in there.  It turned out to be a great day full of family and friends and best of all celebrating the birth of Jesus.

The boys had fun decorating the tree cake.  You can't really tell, but there is "snow" on the top of the tree.

Christmas Eve we put out the loot.

Waiting patiently for the grandparents so they can get started.

Yeah for stockings.

Zachary was so proud of his new chair.  He knew right away it was his.

On to the presents.

Giving Ajee and Ajah their handmade gifts.

Our traditional family picture by the tree.  No smiles from the boys this time around, but that's okay.

Ready for church in their cute outfits.

Gotta love Joshua's expression.  "Why are you trying to be nice to me?"

Joshua never cracked that smile.  What a stinker he is.  We had to give Zachary a distraction to even stay in the picture.

Our dinner "decorations".

Most of the dinner spread.

After dinner entertainment with Gramps.  Zachary loved to be up high.

 Enjoying the new playset the next day when the weather finally cleared up a bit.  We are going to have tons of fun with this I can already tell.  So worth it.