Happy Birthday, Jeremy!

This year, Jeremy wanted a German Chocolate cake - like every year. Last year I made the cake from scratch and used store-bought frosting. This year, used the box cake and made the frosting from scratch. Definitely the RIGHT decision. Yum! Addie was so excited - "Birthday cake, Birthday cake!" She has seen a lot of it lately - hers, her little friend Bentley's, dad's, next month is her friend Dillon's and Davis' birthday, she will be on a sugar high all spring!!!!

Happy Birthday, Jeremy! We love you!

Valentines Day, Spring Fever, Etc.

Lots of photos to share, so lets just get right to it:

We had a great visit from Grandma Joy and Aunt Heidi over Valentine's weekend. We were able to take them to storytime at our fabulous local library that I SWEAR I will post about sometime. We went to the park and played with friends, watched it snow seven inches the very next day, played at the Childrens Museum, made Valentine treats and delivered them to our buddies, made a fabulous raspberry-almond tort for Joy's birthday (recipe here) and just had a good time. Sorry for the picture overload, but when your subjects are this cute....

Here is Addison at storytime. Miss Debbie does a fantastic job - each week she has stories, a snack, a craft and songs for the kids. This week she even had a Valentine for all of the kids.

It was so nice outside that after the storytime, we went to the park next door to the library with Dillon. Can you tell Addie is excited to be outside? We will all be excited for spring.

We made and decorated some sugar cookies for Valentines Day. Yum!
Eating the dough - she IS my daughter!

We took the kids to the Childrens Museum and they had a blast. With all of the toys the place has, Addie would be content to play with the toy kitchen in the infant play area.
Davis has been standing up by himself for a second or two lately. He is getting so big!
Davis is getting so big, I swear he will outweigh Addie very, very soon.
Davis just cracks me up. Jeremy and I will literally laugh out loud sometimes just telling random stories about him at night after the kids are in bed. He is such a funny kid.
Addie and Davis reading books in their favorite spot - a little nook between our chair and ottoman in the front room.
You lookin' at me?

The yummy, yummy tort. Mmmm.....

Final news, our friends Jeff and Stephanie (Jeff goes to school with Jeremy) had their baby girl this week. Lauren (or LaurenT as Addison calls her) is a big sister to baby McKenna Reese. She is 6 pounds and when we visited today couldn't get over how sweet and tiny she is. Congrats, you guys!

Little Readers

I swear I did NOT stage this photo. I came in and found all three of them with a book just hanging on Addie's bed.

Love little things like this.

End of an Era

Since we cleaned the house yesterday from TOP to BOTTOM and still cannot find our camera card, I decided to go digging through some past photos for a new blog post.

We recently sold our infant carseat/stroller combo on Craigslist. I was the one who saw it sitting in the garage daily and wanted to get rid of it. I figured somebody should get some use out of it before its expiration date. Anyway, after Jeremy took it to the people who bought it from us, I was surprised at how emotional I was! I found myself hoping they would treat it right, etc.

That was the carseat that brought both kids home from the hospital. The carseat that lugged them from place to place, until they reached close to 20 pounds and were just too big for it (and for me!).

(Addie when we were leaving hospital.)

(Davis a few months old. OK, we did NOT take a "going-home-from-the-hospital-all-cozy-and-cute" shot of Davis. We were just anxious to get discharged and home. Such is the life of a second child. He'll survive.)

Anyway, I'm glad it went to a good home and family. I hope it has a nice and happy life with its new owners.

For the Moms

For my friends who are moms, can't wait to be moms, or those of us who have moms - I saw this article online and thought it was so TRUE! I promise I will add more photos of the fam once we locate our camera card...... (This is as big an image as blogger will let me post, so click on the image and it should open up in a separate window larger. If you still can't read the article, zoom in. If you still can't read it after that, I have no answers for you and you're out of luck.)