Busy Busy Busy

It seems that I never get to update this blog.  I'm always on Facebook.  Imagine that right?  Well since I last posted we have been super busy.  The holidays always seem to fly by and then we end up right back into the full swing of work, daycare, school, activities, trips, etc...  2012 has not been any different.  Shawn and I went to Europe for 2 weeks to celebrate his 40th birthday.  Noah completed his first year of pre-school.  Noah also played soccer this spring and is now playing T-Ball.  We headed up to Lutsen for our anniversary weekend with the boys.  It was lots of fun!  Now we are about to celebrate the 4th of July.  Where has 2012 gone???

I've updated all of our albums so they are current.  Yay me!  And I'm not making promises, but I hope to update this more often.  We'll see how it goes.  LOL!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from

Peter Pan and Capn' Jack Sparrow!

Yes I know I'm overdue for an update. Stay tuned!!!

I'm a Big Boy Now!

Does anyone else have that jingle in their head now??? LOL! Well it's true, our Noah is a such a big boy now. We have finally gotten the hang of potty training. Just in time for school to start next month! He also has now gotten a big boy bike with training wheels too! He's doing pretty well with it so far. :) So what will be next for him???? Only time will tell!

Happy Birthday Brandon!!!

In June we celebrated Brandon's 2nd birthday. It's really hard to believe he's 2 already. This year we were actually able to celebrate his birthday on the actual day. Which was really nice. The theme was Mickey of course since this boy is obsessed with Mickey Mouse! It was a fun filled day with awesome cake which turned everyones mouth black or bright red, new toys to play with, and some t-ball fun in the backyard! Even though it was chilly out everyone seemed to have a good time.

Updates!

My what a busy year we have had so far! It's hard to believe it's already the end of July! We've had lots of fun adventures, but I'd have to say the most fun we've had this spring/summer so far has been our Disney trip in May. We had a BLAST! My folks, and Jaime & Charlie were with. Along with our friends from Orlando the Burns' and then our friends from across the pond the Threshers'. We had so much fun that week! I've finally gotten through most of the pictures, so check out our May album. A lot of these are loaded up on Facebook, but not all of them.

In other news, our little B finally turned 2! And since then he has not stopped talking! He was talking before that, but now it's a lot more understandable. And he's stringing more words together for longer sentences. I've got pictures of his birthday party coming soon as well. I'm trying to catch up, I swear!!!

More pictures of our fun filled summer will be coming soon!

Later Gators!

Happy Valentines Day!

Sending lots of love from our Ladies Man and Little Rock Star!

Sleddin sleddin sleddin...

Keep them sleds a goin... Don't stop for 220 miles... RAWHIDE!

Well that should say 307 miles, but 87 of them we did the first day. Shawn and I headed up to Two Harbors, MN for a weekend of snowmobiling the North Shore Trail. We rode to Gooseberry Falls the first day and put-zed around up there. Note to self... Bring a different pair of boots with if we do that again. My snowmobiling boots are really heavy and not conducive to hiking.

Frozen Gooseberry Falls is really pretty.... Even in a snowstorm....

Day 2 had us going 220 miles total. And it was not an easy 220 miles either. There was 6 inches or so of fresh snow on the trail down in Two Harbors. When we got further north there was 12-18 inches of new snow. The trails were beautiful, but the corners were hairy.... One trail we went on had probably only 1 other sled on it that whole day.

Taking a quick break

Where's Shawn?

Beautiful snowy trail

We had a great time even though we were super sore and tired on Sunday. So we just decided to pack up and head to Duluth for lunch at Grandma's before heading home. It was colder in Duluth then it was in Two Harbors. Gotta love the lake! LOL!

Definitely will head back up there next year if the snow is good again. It was lots of fun and we have a ton more to explore than what we did this year.

Last Minute Trip!

While our friends were in town for New Years we decided to book a surprise trip down to O-town to see our other friends new baby girl. Needless to say we succeeded in surprising the pants off of Shira & Chris! Gem & Rich walked up to their house with the boys and Shira in her sleeplessness was so confused as to why they had Noah & Brandon. LOL! Then when Shawn & I came around the corner she was totally speechless. It was AWESOME! We had a wonderful day with them! Annabelle is just the cutest little button. Noah and Brandon gave her lots of loves. We have yet to decide which one she is betrothed too. ;)

We were able to also make it to both EPCOT and Magic Kingdom the next day. And because it's winter Wishes is shown earlier in the evening so that worked out great for us. The boys were able to see their first fireworks show. And they LOVED it! Noah kept on going "boom! boom! boom!" Gem & Rich's house is within viewing distance so Noah also got to see them the other 2 nights as well. And now he associates seeing fireworks with Uncle Rich's house. That's apparantely where you are supposed to watch them. LOL!

It was a great although short weekend visit. We go back down in May to celebrate our 5 year anniversary (a month early) with my folks, Jaime & Charlie, Threshers, and Burns. It's going to be a great trip and we can not wait!! We are staying in the Treehouse Villas on property and that will be fun! So excited!

Roll on May!!

2010 Holiday Happenings!

The holidays have been over for almost a month now, but it seriously feels like they just got done. We were very blessed this year to be able to spend the holidays with our family and good friends. Our celebrations did not end until after the New Year. Here are some collages of our fun times over those couple of weeks!

Christmas Eve & Day with the Turner's and Strandmarks/Marshiks!

Brandon's first haircut!

New Years Eve Weekend with our good friends the Threshers, who made the trek all the way from the UK (via Orlando... LOL!)!

I can neither confirm nor deny that there may have been drinking involved this weekend. ;)

Up Next.... Last Minute Trip!

Turner Family Xmas 2010

We celebrated Christmas with the Turner side of the family last weekend. Brian, Val, and Tyson are heading to Wisconsin, so we celebrated early with everyone. It was a good time and the boys had lots of fun playing with their cousins. All of their new toys are currently spread out over the living room floor. The cats do not like the R/C T-Rex that Noah got. Which I had to torture them with today for fun. LOL! :D

More holiday fun is just around the corner for us!

Happy Holidays From Our Crazy Clan To Yours!

With Love,

Shawn, Faith, Noah, Brandon,

Tank, Ginger, & Jasmine

Cookie Decorating & Snowmobiling!

We've had some fun during all of the snowstorms that we've gotten this month. Shawn took Noah out on the snowmobile around the neighborhood the day after his birthday party. It was a bit too cold for B so I kept him inside, but man was the lil B itching to go! Noah had a lot of fun and Shawn can't show him he's going now without a fit ensuing from said 3 year old. B even throws one, especially if you take him off said snowmobile after he cimbs on it. SIGH... I don't think I'll ever get to move to warmer state now. :(

The day before Blizzard 2010 as it shall be called in our house, I decided to pick up some cookie making supplies to try making xmas cookies with the boys. B had more fun eating the cookies then decorating them. Noah as you can see was decorating, but then got annoyed at Momma for taking too many pictures. Two words for that "Tough Cookies". Momma takes pictures, deal with it. LOL!

Captain Noah's 3rd Birthday!

How did our little baby boy turn 3 already? I know I say this every year, but I really don't understand where the time has gone. Is it always gonna go this fast? Thank goodness I take lots of pictures!

His birthday party was a pirate theme this year. I must say it was a hit. There was sword fighting abound that day! Thank you Mom & Dad for bringing the foam swords & eye patches. The kids (and adults) loved them!

E - AH!!!!!!!!

A Recap in Pictures

Collages of our adventures from the summer through the fall.

Brandon's birthday

Como Zoo

4th of July Weekend

MN Zoo and September Fun

October Disney Trip

Halloween Weekend

November

Musings of a 3 Year Old Boy....

I SWEAR I have nothing to do with any of these fun new things Noah likes to say. NOTHING at ALL....

"Mommy you get back jack"

"Daddy, I need to talk to you"

"Brandon, get back here! I need to talk to you!"

Noah: "I want something!" Mommy: "what do you want Noah?" Noah: "Something!"

When asked to eat his tortilla: "I can't Daddy, it's too big" OR "I can't Mommy, it's too small"

"Mommy, you stay here." As he puts me in the kitchen and closes the gate we use to keep Tank out while we eat.

"Mommy!!! Brandon spilled on the ground!" When Brandon threw up.

"E-AH!!!" While sword fighting

"No... That's silly..."

And the list will go on....

Happy Friday!

Cough cough....

Man is this thing dusty!! Yes, I know I'm a slacker with this blog... Yes, I know I s*ck. But life has been so busy we are lucky to know which way is up! I think things are finally calming down a bit here which is wonderful. I could not tell you where the summer or fall has gone. It has literally blown by! I'm finally catching up on pictures of our family now that I've gotten all my client ones done. Which reminds me I need to update my photography blog too. Jeez...

So here's a quick synopsis of life since our last post...

Noah keeps on amazing us with his vocabulary and his fascination with "reading" letters, numbers, drawing, dancing, etc... He started a gymnastics class last week and seemed to really like it! So we'll see what happens with that. We've got his 3rd birthday party this weekend and I'm sitting here thinking to myself "How is my baby 3 already?"


Brandon FINALLY started walking! And now there is no stopping that boy! We found out he is far-sighted and he got glasses at the end of September. He looks like a little scholar in them it's so cute! He also thinks he's a comedian and will not stop if you laugh along with him. His latest thing that he started last night is to "jump". Which means he bends his knees and pops up, but never leaves the ground. Then he giggles and claps his hands. It's pretty darn cute!

As for Shawn & I, we are doing fine. Work has been so busy this year, that we took a kid free vacation to our favorite place in October. It was some R & R that was greatly needed. We hung out with some friends and also just us! It was heaven! We missed the boys terribly though. Since we've been home it's been crazy! Between work, photography, and the boys we seem to not have enough time in the day. But now at work we're heading into the year end freeze for technology so our jobs are lightening up for the rest of the year. Which is really really really nice.

I'm working on getting the rest of the summer & fall pictures up on the web album. But I've gotten some of October and most of November done already so make sure to check them out!

Till next time! (which will NOT be 4 months from now... LOL!)

Updates #2 - June!

June

June was filled with a trip to TX, Lil B's birthday, graduation parties, B's birthday party, Noah's first movie theater experience, and a trip to the zoo. Quite a lot! So let's get started!

Texas!!!

Mom and I headed down for what hopes to be a yearly girls weekend trip with Jaime. :) We had a ton of fun just being together. There was a lot of drinking involved, plus some evil torture of making me workout in the extreme heat & humidity by Jaime, the beach in Galveston for the sandcastle competition, lots of outdoor music, Sex and the City 2 party & movie, and more drinking.... MMMMM white sangria in a juice box! :D Did I mention we did a lot of drinking??? LOL!

Pics are in the June album!

One of my favorites from the weekend... The three of us drenched at the Friendswood Music in the Park on Friday night!


I also took some updated photos of Jaime, Charlie, and the girls. They haven't gotten a chance to get a picture of the 4 of them together. Just the 3 of them when they got Kirby so we needed to get one with Sammers in it too. Here's my favorite of the day. It was kind of dreary, but we got it to work!



Can't wait to do that again! It was such a fun weekend!! :)

More to come on the rest of June. But this lady is tiiiirrrreeeeddddd.

Updates #1 - May!

It's been 2 months since I updated. EEK! So here is the first of the monthly updates.

May

May was another busy month for us. Mother's Day weekend we were lucky to have Jaime & Charlie visit us! It was so nice to be able to see them and as an added bonus Mom & I were heading down the first weekend in June so it was even better to be able to know I would be seeing my sister shortly after this visit. :)

We did our annual Race for the Cure 5k on Mother's Day morning. It was a bit chilly, but we bundled up the boys and made it through!

The four of us at the starting line


The whole gang with Grandma after the race


At breakfast with the others


The rest of the month was a rather blur. We spent Memorial weekend at home and it was nice to do that.





Up Next... June & Our Little B turns 1!!

FT Photo Blog!

Is now up and running!!! I've been meaning to get this going for a while now and I finally did. The first post is of a 3 month old little boy I shot recently. I've been photographing this family for a year and a half now. J is their recent addition.

http://www.faithturnerphotography.blogspot.com

Share it with your friends!!! I love referrals!! :)

Blast from the Past!

A package showed up on our doorstep yesterday. It was our Magic Kingdom Bridal Portrait session pictures! We waited the 3 years to buy them because if we bought them before that it was $1000 for the high resolution disc. Yep, you read that right. But if you wait 3 years (or rather 3 yrs 9 mo for us LOL!) you can get it for $100. Um it was worth the wait! We have enlargements of our wedding day pictures that our awesome photographer Randy took. But we never did any of the Magic Kingdom ones. Because let's face it... As much as we love Disney, they can be thieves! So now, I shall be getting some of these printed for our bedroom. :)

In honor of that day here is a slideshow of the pictures! Man I love my dress. SIGH. Was I really that skinny? LOL!

Park Time!

It was a beautiful evening today so we decided to take advantage before the next bout of rain comes upon us and head to the park. So we had an early dinner and dashed on over to the park in the new development in Cologne. It was Brandon's first time on the swings and such so I made sure to bring the big dog with.

See Brandon this is what you do!


Uh, I think I get it...


This is fun!


Static head after the slide


Playing in the tunnel


Stick that hand in here again lady and I'll bite your fingers off!


Cheese!!!!


Riding the Toucan


It's been another busy week so far! This weekend will be plenty busy as well. Next weekend we get to see Jaime & Charlie for a wee bit on their whirlwind tour of MN for Mother's Day. Oh and we are running in the Race for the Cure 5k on Mom's Day morning. Boys will be "running" this year too. Well if you call chilling in the stroller and going "Weeeeeeeeeeee" as Mommy & Daddy push the stroller at our lightning fast speed. LOL!

Lots of fun coming up!

TTFN!