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!