Valentine's Fun

I've got to hand it to her, she has a way of figuring things out. We were playing in the family room when Graycen walked in drinking a cup of water!! I followed her to see where it came from..............

Valentine's Day!

Valentine's party with friends...

Opening gifts from the grandparents....

Just for fun, we had a little Valentine's party for some friends of the boys and Graycen. I enjoyed making LOTS of heart shaped snacks and the kids loved getting Valentines in their mailboxes. We bought these cute little metal mailboxes at the beginning of February, decorated them and then the kids got secret notes and notes from family and friends in the mailboxes everyday. They loved coming downstairs in the morning to see the flag up on their mailbox.

Little Snow Bunnies

As you may have heard, Nashville got a nice little snow over the weekend......It was a lot of fun before it turned to a solid sheet of ice. We had a great time being snowed in together. Here are a few pictures of Ryan and the kids having a blast in our winter wonderland.

They came directly here after their snowball fight....

She's a Big Girl

Our baby girl is about to be 19 months old........She has become a bit more spunky and opinionated about quite a few things :) She loves to put on shoes and wear hairbows in her hair. She has started brushing her teeth (which she would do all day if I let her - she's so cute standing on the little stool in the bathroom brushing her teeth), and is quite efficient with the spoon and fork now. She loves to play tea party and is climbing on everything these days. Here are a few pictures from the past few weeks.............

She has officially moved into her big girl car seat....

One of her favorite games....

Playing Catch Up

Happy New Year......I can't believe we've started another year. I know I haven't been very diligent in updating this blog, but here are a few favorites from the last couple of months.....Great times with family and watching these three precious kiddos learn more and more new things.

The cousins on Christmas morning

Our very own live nativity at Mimi and Poppy's

Charlie Brown Ice! Exhibit in Nashville

Can you believe it? 4 years old already...

Cookie Monster birthday party for Connor and Spencer

The Great Smoky Mountains

It has been a while since the last post, but it seems that the month of October has flown by too quickly.....more fall pictures coming soon! In mid-September, we went with my mom to the Smoky Mountains and had such a great time. We stayed at a resort with a new indoor water park on the property. The kids love riding the little trolley back and forth. We picked the perfect day for the water park, as it rained outside the whole day. It was a blast and just perfect for the kids. We spent two mornings at Dollywood where the boys and Graycen had tons of fun riding all of the rides. We spent a day at the aquarium and Ryan's parents were able to meet up with us to enjoy the marine life!! Here are some pics from the trip......

Not the best picture, but the best of all three from the whole trip (can anyone feel my pain.............)

Spencer and a sting-ray

Everyone at the aquarium

Spencer

Gran - Gran, Spencer and Connor

Train ride at Dollywood

Graycen "driving" on one of the rides at Dollywood

Connor taking Gran-Gran for a spin....

........and Mommy

Spencer loved the bumblebee

Connor

She's such a big girl, now!

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer!

In case you're wondering, these are their game faces.....

I was once voted "Most Likely to Be a Soccer Mom" by some of my counseling colleagues back when I was working and the prediction has now been fulfilled. Connor and Spencer have officially become little boys and are playing on a soccer team with our local YMCA and loving almost every minute of it. When we first signed them up, I took them to buy their shoes and shin guards. It was in the afternoon when we made our purchases - they put the shin guards on immediately, wore them until bedtime, then put them on first thing the next morning and wore them until after their first practice when they had to take an afternoon nap. Can you say, REALLY EXCITED! Ryan and a good friend of ours are coaching the team and the boys are doing really well. There was a bit of an adjustment from practices where everyone has their own ball to games where everyone is trying to get one ball. Let's just say there were tears and lots of hurt feelings. However, things are looking up and they had an absolute blast at their last game.

The sun was a little too bright for Connor's liking.......

Spencer

The first game.....Goooo Red Team!!!!