Easter ~ 2012

Both boys enjoyed their visit with the Easter bunny this year.  Christian wanted to touch him and give him high fives, Nicholas wanted to put his arm around him!

We had a very fun Easter and enjoyed some beautiful weather too! This was the first Easter Christian actively participated in the Easter egg hunt.  I think he enjoyed opening and shutting the eggs as much as he enjoyed finding them!  We have graduated from eggs with cheerios and craisens to eggs with peanut m&m's, gummy fruit bunnies, and craisins.  Needless to say the boys favorites were not the craisin eggs this year!

Easter Egg dying with Mimi the day before Easter while Chris and I got to go skiing!

 Christian showing his dyed Easter egg to Mimi.

And Nicholas' egg.  Nicholas loved the experience and left the table with dyed fingers.  Christian on the other hand, cringed at the mere thought of touching the water to dip the egg.  He had no problem dumping it out though and when Mimi went to change his diaper his but was dyed orange from sitting in the cups he dumped out!

Easter Morning

 "The Easter Bunny came!  Can I have candy for breakfast?"  Yes, they did!

   

 "Look what the Easter bunny brought us!"

 Bunny cave!

 "What's inside?"

"More eggs! 

Our attempted family shot!

 And with Mimi!

"Look, more eggs!"

 Stuffing himself with fruit bunnies.

 Nicholas hoping for an m&m!

 The boys checking out their stash!

 The Easter bunny left side walk chalk too!

Nicholas practicing drawing his suns.

Hopscotch with Dad!

Last week was full of special treats! Another pineapple upside down on the 5th to celebrate Chris' birthday. While this happens to be Chris' favorite cake, the boys wished that it was chocolate!   They may not have liked the cake but the boys love their daddy, and who wouldn't?  He is simply the best! 

We hope everyone had an Easter full of joy!

My Baby is TWO!

 Christian has lit up our lives from the moment he came into the world two years ago.  I like to say he wears his heart on his sleeve. He is such a happy little lover and starts every morning kissing and hugging all of the animal friends he sleeps with (which is up to about 8!) and he knows if one is missing! He still loves trash trucks, trash cans and I would definitely say a "hobby" of his is helping me throw trash away-such a good helper!  He is also very into puzzles and legos.  He is a little dare devil and my little wild child, but also such a super sweet and kind little boy.  He spends much of his day laughing, but boy, when he is feeling off you will sure know it!  It's on these days I refer to my sweet boy as "Cranky Christian" We are so lucky our Seattle friends, along with Pop-pop and Mom-mom, were able to come help us celebrate Christian!

Christian is so FULL of life!

 His smile is contagious!

 We had a fun music celebration for Christian's birthday.  The kids really enjoyed it!

 The "bigger" kids making music together!

 The boys and I enjoying the music! 

 Pizza time!

 One of Christian's first words was "Brayden!" (Along with trash can!)  Here he is pictured with the infamous Brayden.

 Christian loved all of the attention at his party!

 And clearly loved the cupcakes too!

 Too cute, his "Sha-sha!" (Charlotte)

 Birthday morning, happy with all of his new toys!

 Sharing a laugh with Pop-pop

Out to dinner, sharing a birthday sundae with his brother.

Have You Heard?

We're moving to Portland!  Yep, that's right, we're doing it again. I'm not too excited about moving again, but I am so happy that it's Portland.  We love the Pacific North West and there is no shortage of great companies in Portland for Chris, as that is the hub of his industry, so it's a great move for us. Bitter sweet --we loved Seattle and will miss our friends for sure.  We will settle into our new home mid February.

Here are the rest of our holiday pictures, this winter is flying by!

Christmas Eve with friends:)

One more picture before Santa comes!

 Christmas morning

Christian trying to figure out his Curious George Jack in the Box while holding onto his lego trash truck.

 Daddy reading Christian a new book

Legos!

Posing for a picture

Christmas is so much fun!

Love them!

A video of Nicholas preforming "Haven't Got a Pet Yet" from his favorite band, Recess Monkeys, with his new guitar.  

Christian having fun with his new basketball net.

And here are some more snow pictures from last week, it didn't stop snowing until Friday!!  We had a ton of fun!  Our street was used as the sledding hill by the entire neighborhood.  Both boys loved the sbow!

Happy Birthday to My Sweet Boy, Nicholas!

It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating Nicholas' first birthday and now he is FOUR!  I could easily let myself get emotional about how quickly time has gone and what a remarkable little boy he has become. Nicholas at 4 wants to be a fireman when he grows up and would like for his brother to be a trash man, his favorite color is red, his favorite animal is a cheetah (because they are the fastest runners), his favorite activity is probably swimming and his favorite book is called, "The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark." In pure Nicholas fashion we celebrated and we celebrated big!  We sung happy birthday to him on three different occasions over the last few days (Not including when we were in Portland two weeks ago where Ruby and Tessa also had a mini party for him.)  Geeze, this kid is loved!

We had a very small pool party for Nicholas on Friday where he takes swim class and invited 5 families followed by pizza and cup cakes in the aerobics room.  I'm so disappointed in myself that I forgot to take pictures of the kids in the pool, I guess we were having too much fun!

Christian and one of his favorite friends, Brayden eating pizza after a fun pool party!

Nicholas and his preschool buddy, Jackson!

Happy Birthday

Several unsuccessful attempts at getting all of the kids together for a picture.

Round two was an impromptu snow day birthday party this morning at his friend Izzie's.  It has been snowing on and off since Saturday here which is very unusual and we are suppose to get another 10 inches tomorrow.  So nice that we live close by our friends, it was such a nice way to beat cabin fever!

 Izzie singing happy birthday to Nicholas, she helped her mom make the cupcakes!

 Yum!

 Christian thinks so too!

 Working man fixing Izzie's doll house

Round Three was tonight, just the four of us.  His favorite, pasta and cake!

Blow!

Presents, Presents, Presents!

Snow!!

What a special treat for us in Seattle, an unexpected snowstorm leaving us with several inches already and it isn't suppose to stop until Tuesday!!

Perhaps getting snowed in will motivate me to finish uploading our holiday pictures, stay tuned!  Yes, that's right snowed in with only inches of snow, in Seattle they don't treat the roads leaving them treacherous for days.  That beats two feet in New Hampshire!

Happy Birthday Pop-pop!!

Happy Birthday, Pop-pop!!

We send our love and wish we were with you to help celebrate!

XOXOXOXOXOXOO!!!!!