What I'm Doing

Sorry I haven't posted, but I'm having fun this week with these people:
Cousin Emma and Davis

Cousin Alex and Aunt Emily

Alex and Addie (Addie's hair needs some help at this time of night!!)

Emily, Alex and Emma came out to visit her sister who just moved to Omaha (yeah!) so we get to visit with them and Addie is in HEAVEN.

Oh, I also get to spend the week with THIS guy:

(Most recent picture of us two on the camera - pretty sad. I will have to take some this week!)

Jeremy is on SPRING BREAK!

I'm already thinking the week is going by too quickly and it hasn't even really begun. And the weather is supposed to awesome - high of 74 degrees tomorrow!

I hope everybody has a great week!

Spring Fever

Jeremy and I have gotten into American Idol this year - totally on accident. I usually watch the auditions and then that's it. But we saw ONE audition that we just thought was so funny and we loved. Anyway, here's a shout-out to Anoop. We weren't home last night so Kater was nice enough to text me the play by play of him making it to the top thirteen.


It was 70 degrees and sunny here yesterday. It could not have been more perfect. We played at the park twice (before AND after naps) and went for a nice, long walk. I think it's safe to say we are suffering a case of Spring Fever.

I took this photo with my cell phone at the park yesterday.

Notice how Davis' pants are rolled (they are too long - 18 months size. But I refuse to buy him 12 month stuff because I know he will just grow out of them so fast) and Addie's pants are high waters. She is definitely having a growth spurt - she eats as much as ME at every meal lately (even out-eats me at breakfast sometimes) and all of her 2T pants and shirts are getting too short. Her nice winter shoes are getting too tight. (Sometimes she says "ouch" when I put them on! I'm like come on, give me ONE more month of use shoes!!!) I'm trying to hold out until April then I can just go and buy some spring clothes that will actually fit her.

So, for future reference, don't judge the mom at the park with the kids in clothes that don't fit. And dirty faces. And snotty noses. It's probably me.

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.)