The many faces of Kai

Mmmmmmmm

I made chocolate covered strawberries the other night for dessert and they were a big hit, if not super messy, with Eli!


Notice the whole strawberry stuffed in his mouth!

Wanting more

It's a girl!

I had a Longaberger home show at my house on Thursday and we did a spin off of the acadamy awards where everyone wore tiaras and beads. Of course Eli seeing all the fun wanted his "hat" too and next thing you know, well like I said "It's a girl!"

Thomas the Train

Today we went to see the Thomas the Train stage show at the Everett Events Center. Eli just loves trains (he calls the choo choo's) and I thought he would just have a blast seeing his favorite storybook trains in real life. I was right. He had so much fun singing, clapping and waving to all his choo choo friends.

my bike

At least that what Eli calls it. It doesn't have pedals, but to him its the best. He defiantly has a interest in real bikes though when the big kids ride by!

Sunny day at the park

Dispite it being the middle of Febuary, the weather today was beautiful so we headed out to the park to play.

Happy Birthday to me!

I unfortunately celebrated all by myself after the boys went to bed (Brian is still working out of town) but the ice cream cake was yummy!

BTMLS FRZ R 2D4

text speak translation................... Bottomless fries are to die for!


and Eli agrees too!


Kai thought his fingers tasted great!




And a bit of a mommy bragging moment. The boys were so well behaved and just awesome. I had one of the most relaxing and pleasant meals I have had since Eli was born. I was able to take my time and enjoy my food rather than scarfing it down before all hell broke loose. A couple sitting near us even came over as they were leaving to say how well behaved Eli was and how precious and quite Kai was.

Now if it could only be like that every time!

mommies little helper

Eli loves to do chores with mommy, lets hope it stay s that way when he is 13!



Granted mommy has to redo all of the little helpers work once he is finished!

When did you get so big!

Kai seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. I cant believe how big he looks for not even 4 months old!

Pieces of a broken heart

Well taping it to the door didn't last long..................

Two burritos please!

I cant believe Eli let me swaddle him for this picture! Ah, the torture mommy puts him through.

Monday Morning Movie

Eli even got his first taste of popcorn! He loved it.

A piece of my heart

we made this fun little heart sun catcher yesterday. Unfortunately we have had no sun yet for me to get a picture of it catching! We have it taped to our front door, waiting for the sun, so if you come visit you can take a peek at his artwork. Eli had a blast with this craft since it required getting really messy with glue and tissue paper.

Superbowl Sunday

Pictures are a few day late but better late than never!

Missing Daddy

Brian was sent to work about three or so hours from home so he is staying there in a hotel. That leaves me and the boys by ourselves Monday - Friday for the next couple weeks. I know Brian is homesick and misses his babies I can hear it in his voice. We miss him just as much. Here is Eli talking to daddy before bed tonight.

One crazy night

Finally finished!

As many of you know we started a small bathroom project Labor day weekend (yes back in September!) well we finished it just days before the new year. Yikes!

It started out that we were just going to put in the new sink and the new floor, to make it look nicer, and then later finish everything else. Well when we took out the sink we found all sorts of water damage and some mold so the small project became a whole bathroom redo!

I was 8 months pregnant when we started and for that whole month of September we didnt have a bathroom in our home. Thats insane when the crazy pregnant lady has to pee every 5 minutes. Luckily we still had the camper trailer in the back driveway and I was able to use the bathroom in it. It was a really tight fit though! So multiple times a night I would put on my barely fitting bathrobe and shoes and treck across the backyard to the camper. Same deal for showers. we showered out there too.

We did get the toilet back in the bathroom after a few weeks and that was a huge relief (pun intended)Unfortunalty we had all sorts of trouble getting the new plumping to match up withthe original 1950's plumping in the house and it took much longer to get a working bathtub and shower.

Our home is built on a concrete slab so we have no crawl space under our home so just simply moving plumbing around didnt work so Brian had to do a lot of trial and error plumbing to get things to line up and work. Lucky for us Brian is as smart as he is and he got it all figured out and running.

I am so in love with my new bathroom and cant believe we did all this ourselves and for less than $3000!

I do recommend never starting home improvemnet prjects however when you are about to burst when having a baby!