Dylan and Colby!

It is fun to see Dylan and Colby playing now that Colby is a little older and more interactive. Dylan pulled all the big pillows that are in the playroom out an made a little area to play with Colby. Colby loved falling on the pillows. Even when Dylan was done playing with him Colby would walk back and fall and roll all over the pillows and his blankets, then he would come out and go back. It was really funny!

Hello Grandpa!

I totally missed this pic!! My Dad got in from Cali just a couple hours after we got to Ohio so we suprised him at the airport-it was tons of fun! My Dad and the kids loved it! And since they were up way way late they actually slept in! but that was probably mostly because of the time difference more than them staying up late!

An Awesome Laugh!

Abby has the touch to get Colby laughing! She can get his to laugh like noone else. It is so fun to hear them. Abby is such a great big sister. I just love her so much!! And of course Colby is just so dang cute too!!

Ohio Fun!

So my parents are moving to California for a while to take care my Grandpa, Great Uncle and Great Aunt. Not the most exciting news for me but I understand why they are going. So after a rather huge pity party that I threw for myself I sucked it up and made myself get over it. Still not all that happy but it is what it is. Anyway so we went out one last time before they left and my brother and his roommates took over the house. I had a couple friends tell me I could still come out and visit them but that would just be weird to "go home" to Ohio but not "go home"-if that makes sense. Plus what would I do out there with my mom and dad gone-its pretty much why we go, so anyway enough of that. On to more fun things.

Dylan and Abby discovered Legos and they LOVED them! So they might be something we will be getting sometime soon!

Abby, Dylan and Lacey were also addicted to my Mom's DS. They were really good at taking turns. While Abby and Dylan were entranced by the legos Lacey took over the DS-she wouldnt even put it done when she had to go to the bathroom. My Dad got a picture of sitting on the potty playing! She is so funny!

Colby with his snarky face-he was tired of us all telling him that he couldnt have the legos!

The weather was great so we took the kids out to a really cool park for a picnic. I love this picture of Colby-he looks like a little Harry Potter casting a spell-hehehe!!

I love this pic too!! Way cute with my Dad and the Colbster!

Lacey wanted me to take a picture of her "playing" me a song on the music notes!

Dylan, my Dad, and Jeff doing a little disc golf. The kids love for Jeff to throw the discs so they can run around and pick them up-I know they are easily entertained!

It is always tons of fun in Ohio! I was very glad to get out there and dont really want to think about how long it will be till we get out there again.

Halloween!

A little late on this post but we have been a little busy! So here is the crew in their Halloween finery!

This pile looks way bigger in person than it does in the picture! I had to carry their bags because they were complaining that they were to heavy-it was pretty funny!

Here are Abby and Dylan in their parade at school. They both had a great time!

Dylan was in charge of the snack for his party at school so we made these awesome sugar cookies. I made enough so they could have enough different pieces to make 2 faces. They loved them!!

Lacey playing

I found Lacey playing in my room while I was running around cleaning and you guessed it-went and grabbed my camera! I did black and white pictures because the outfit she was wearing clashed horribly and if you know my I like everything to match!! It is really hard for me to let her pick her own clothes but I figure she can wear it around the house but I definitely get veto power when we go out in public!

Abby's seed project

Abby had to do a seed project to do for school and she was super excited!! We raided our house for what seeds we could find and then lucky for us her Papa had a seed drawer! She needed over 12 for the full 4 points for the "amount of seeds" part of the project-well she had way more than that to choose from! Then we had to come up with a fun way to display them. She didnt just want to put it on a poster board because that was "boring"! So I dug around in my craft stuff and found this wooden blind thing-and she loved it! So we put the names of the seeds on one side-she ended up with 18 I think because that was what there was space for and then the seeds on the other side. It has a little handle that flips the slats. Then of course we had to use some scrapbook paper to make it look cute! She was very happy with how it turned out. She said one of her friends was waiting to turn his in on the last day because he didnt want anyone to copy his idea and she looks at me with a smile and says "well I can turn mine in because there is noway anyone can copy my project!"

Colby is 1!!

(I know with this post and the 2 before it will probably put you on picture overload but there are just too many to choose from and I have a hard time editing myself!!)

Colby is 1! Man this year has gone by fast!! Colby started out on the rough side of things but man look at him now! You never guess he spent a week in the NICU with some unknown infection. He is just so much fun!

I dont know what it is but I just love babies sleeping in a t-shirt and a diaper-it is just so stinkin cute!

Colbys first time on the slide-wasnt too sure about it but didnt freak out till Bryan had the bright idea to put him down the tube slide where he screamed bloody murder-poor guy!

He got to have 2 parties this year-we had a big family party combined with Laceys birthday and then had Bryans parents over for dinner tonight for his actual birthday so the monkey cake was from the big party and the pumpkin pie was from tonight and I will say he got way more into the pie than he did the cake! So he might be getting pie every year instead of cake!

He is such an awesome little boy and he loves his mama! He will always give me kisses and hugs all day long. It just makes me so happy to see him growing and learning everyday and to just see his sweet smile. It just makes it that much more special knowing that it could have to quickly have been such a different story. I love this little guy!!