Summer Fun and Milestones

Go Jared! He is a ball of energy. He is eating us out of house and home and he is only 6. He likes doing flips and cool moves on the trampoline.Got to love my boys! Nate wants to be likes his brothers. Mike is here sporting his go-tee. He started growing it when I got sick and decided he would shave it after I got better. That took about 6 months. I was glad to see it go!

Jared is finally riding without training wheels. We just took them off one day and off he went. Kind of like his potty training, just put him in big boy underwear and he was trained!

This was Mike's project from March until the deadline, which was July 26th. Mike is a perfectionist and I'm glad. I will put up a picture of the final outcome!

Jared played T-ball this summer and by the end of the season he was hitting balls pitched by the coaches. He is definitely our sports boy! Would play every single sport if he could!

Aunt Marilyn..what would we do without her

Jared decided he was going to be taking pictures of everyone.

Marilyn came to town and made this awesome baseball cake for an auction that night. Little did we know that most people went and bought cakes and we didn't even stay to see how much Marilyn's went for.

We've learned the trick to how Marilyn stays so thin...she never stops!! She plays with our kids nonstop. They love Aunt Marilyn and so do we!

BOY CAN SHE JUMP!!

Boys will be boys!

Happy 2nd birthday Nate!
Boy it sure went by fast. I would like to congratulate Mike on the great cake he decorated. Usually that's my job, but I didn't have enough muscle in my arms to do it! What a great Dad!

Nate thinks he is big enough to ride the big kids bikes. He actually doesn't do to bad. If only his feet could reach the petals!

Beware, NAKED baby!
Nate has gone through this phase of taking off all his clothes. I think he is getting over it, thank goodness. It's been like 6 months of this phase. Mike found his out here on the trampoline just jumping around like a wild man. We have some funnier ones, but didn't think they were appropriate to post.

Here we have Nate dumping dirt with his little dump truck. He is trying to be like his Dad......

...and believe me, Mike took a lot of dirt from the front yard and put it into the backyard. Isn't it just the cutest when your kids try to copy Dad.

Playing in the mud pit! Mike again found the boys in a huge mess! HMM! I wonder why it's always when Mike is in charge that these things tend to happen....and of course Nate is naked....again!

I love this picture of Jared trying to get the dirt off of Nate...like he could even make a dent with all dirt on himself...at least he tried!

Eggs and Smiles

Nate was our best smiler for these pictures. We had lots of fun coloring eggs although we did the most simple eggs possible. It was quite late when we got the eggs done, but at least we got it done in time for the Easter Bunny to hide them. Well, the Easter Bunny realized we were late getting our eggs done, so he decided to come after church to hide the eggs.
What a nice Easter Bunny!

Josh and Jared showing us the before of their eggs. We used dyes and stickers...so simple, but the boys loved it!

Nate saying cheese. I'm glad he has gotten the hang of pictures. What a cutie!

Searching for the good stuff. We have such great boys! Josh likes the plastic eggs with the candy inside. Jared loves ones he decorated and Nate loves anything he could find!

This was a great picture of all three boys. Nate is half naked, Josh has his tennis shoes on and Jared put flip flops on over his church socks! Got to love it!

All About Nate!

I know that this is blurry, but this was the highlight of my day! It was Jan. 14 (my dad's birthday)and I had to be readmitted to the hospital and Nate gotten himself stuck in the heat register. Mike also got video of it, so we will have this on record for ever!! These pictures look like we have huge heat registers! I still can't fathom how Nate got himself so far down in it.

Nate learned a lot of naughty things while I was in the hospital. Granted, I was in there for 17 stinkin' days, but did he have to go and grow up on me so fast. One of things he learned was how to take off his diaper. Mike finally took packing tape and put it around him a couple of times. Here Nate is trying to get himself out of bondage!

Nate also learned how to turn off the lights, but couldn't reach to turn it back on, so he climbed up on one of the chairs, but couldn't get down. Looks like a good timeout place for Nate.

Here Comes Santa Claus

The boys loved seeing Santa Claus. He even came to my sister's house for
a quick visit on Christmas Eve. How lucky are we!!Joshua wasn't quite sure what to think. This was his best picture!

Jared loved every minute of talking with Santa Claus!

Obviously, Nate had a whole bunch of stuff to tell Santa.
I sure hope Santa brought him what he wanted.

We couldn't ask for cuter boys! Thank goodness I got them hair cuts
before I was put in the hospital!

Ah, that Christmas feeling...and Josh's party too!

My Nate is such a cutie. Jared is my hat boy and when he saw these in the
Christmas boxes, he got them right out and started handing them out.Every year I take a self portrait with my boys and the hats! Here is one with Nate.

And all my boys!

I think Josh is our dramatic candle blower outer. Last year's picture of him blowing out his candles, we could see his tonsils. At least he only looks like a monkey in this one..haha! Mike did a great job on the cake since I was under the weather!

Josh loves maps and books about space. This is a huge map he has on his wall now! Last year at his other school, there was a map on the ground of the United States. At recess, kids would line up by Josh and he would tell them which state to go stand on.
He had a great time with that.