June birthdays come and gone!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Steven had a fun batman/superhero party. Despite the thunderstorm that started about five minutes into the party and lasted until about ten minutes until the end, the kids seemed to have a lot of fun!! He had to have superhero capes, so the kids got to decorate their own princess/hero cape. Steven also helped me make a cool bat pinata!!

I think he was smiling almost the entire time!

My new bike

My favorite aunt came to visit!!

Steven seems to have a special place for Aunt Julie. Maybe it is because she used to not have kids and so she would pay more attention to him, or maybe it is because of "that guy with the motorcycle" he still talks about playing with (aka her husband Clint). Either way, he was so excited for her to come and we had so much fun having her here. Julie and Caden
Steven, Andrew, and Caden

Once he discovered his old baby toys, and the baby occupying them was gone,
Andrew claimed them back for his own!!!

What is this baby doing here??

Aunt Julie even went down in the Submarine with Steven at COSI.

How come my mom never does that??

Steven trying to get Caden to smile-he usually doesn't pay much attention to babies, but he really liked Caden and kept giving him toys(not always wanted) and making him smile!

Mmmhhh, this tastes good!

I thought these pictures were pretty cute.

Andrew was thoroughly enjoying his cantaloupe.

Lots of Pictures!!

After the Capital City Half Marathon. I made it!!We had a busy week on Duane's week off last week. After my wonderful husband took apart our car and fixed the fuel gauge and the a/c (I should have taken pictures!!) we drove down to Cincinnati for a few nights. Besides one small child screaming half the night the first night-I wonder who that would be-we were able to enjoy a visit to the aquarium and children's museum. I finished the week off with my half marathon and a nice long nap!

Andrew loved the Children's museum-as you can tell by his drool

soaked shirt(he is getting 4 new teeth as well)

Here he is pushing his shopping cart around full of food and various
other items he picked up on the way

Those are the sharks swimming by in the background. Duane and I touched one of the smaller ones-but Steven wouldn't have anything to do with that!

Look at those frogs!!

Easter Morning-why do I put that green grass stuff in their baskets??? I'm not quite sure, but I seem to find it around the house for the next few months.

Spring!?

We finally had a fun day at the park with nice weather. I love our metro parks here.

Trying to hold Andrew back so we can get a picture of him

It was a lot of work to get me to hold still and smile facing the camera for this picture. I just can't help running everywhere!! My mother wants to know where her little baby went, because I now enjoy running around the park with at least five different sticks/twigs in my hands, I like to chase geese that are the same size as me, I point at every single possible dog and continually say "dog, dog!" And I have started to wear the same clothes my brother wore when we first moved to Columbus (including his Lightening Mcqueen pj's!)

We are still here!

Well, we are still alive! It has been awhile since I have posted anything, but to those of you still patient enough to check our blog-here are lots of pictures from around christmas time. We really enjoyed our Christmas break with Duane's two weeks off of stress free, no school, no studying for a major test time! We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!! It finally snowed this last week-although just a sprinkling we thought we

better take advantage of it
Here is the trouble maker in action-he loves racing for the stairs and climbing up as high as he can get before you catch him. He also loves getting into the cupboards and seeing what noise all of the different pan lids can make on anything he can bang them on!

This is the typical Andrew-drool all over, one sock off, and a huge smile on his face

-the only thing missing is his binkie!

Christmas break projects

So after 7 years of marriage, I thought it was finally time to make some stockings. My original plan was to get all 4 done, but you know how that goes. So I got the person's done that appreciated it the most! We will see if I get the other three done in time for next year. We found a really good deal on some tile and needed to replace part of our shower, so we decided to tile it-we will just say it took a little bit longer then we thought-but I really like it!
My wonderful husband was brave enough to put in some recessed lighting in our main room. It is wonderful!! We no longer live in the dark:)