Happenings Around Here

Here are some catch-up photos and a video from last month and this month.

Jay and David playing together on the kitchen floor with pop cans and toys. They are getting to be really good playmates (most of the time, that is).

David "hanging" on a Saturday in Daddy's golf visor hat.

This is a common sight. The boys take turns climbing up on this chair whenever their curiosity gets the best of them to look out the window at all the construction trucks and vehicles that have been working on replacing the sewer pipe on our street since last fall. Hopefully the project will be completed by the end of May. We'll see...it was supposed to be completed by the end of March.

Jay drew this picture for me last week. My face is the small round one at the top. He told me I've eaten a banana (the big shape in the middle) and it goes down, down, down for baby to eat (the line leading down to baby's face).

And yesterday I was able to capture this video of David singing "Jesus Loves Me."

Easter 2012

Coloring Easter Eggs!

On Good Friday, April 6th, we traveled to Nana and PopPop's house in Oregon for Easter Weekend. Saturday Aunt Shawn (Matt's sister), Uncle Mike, and Cousins Alex and Joshua joined us for a celebratory Easter dinner (at lunchtime). After dinner and before dessert, Nana and PopPop hid plastic candy-filled Easter eggs around the house for our boys to find. They had a blast!

PopPop's birthday was Sunday, April 8th, and Nana's birthday is coming up on Saturday, April 28th. Nana made PopPop a key lime pie for our Easter dinner dessert. Shawn and I conspired together for a surprise for Nana - I made and brought a secret marionberry pie to celebrate her birthday, too! Here are some pictures of them lighting their birthday candles.

Here they are joining in on the birthday song, singing it to each other. Aren't they the cutest??

And I captured the candle extinguish moment - puffed out cheeks and all!

And the following photos are ones Jay captured when he used the camera to capture his own Easter weekend moments. :) They made me laugh.

After dinner, it was time to put David down for his nap (and I took a nap, too). Meanwhile PopPop and Nana took Jay out on a little walk/explore near their home. When he returned Jay reported all the fun things he did -- throwing sticks in the little stream and watching them travel through a pipe and out the other side, etc. He also returned with a bouquet of yellow flowers which he gave to me with a "I love you, Mommy" and a hug around my leg. MELT MY HEART!! (Special thanks to Nana for helping Jay with that project.)

After church with Nana and PopPop on Easter Sunday we traveled back home. Later that evening we brought the boys to a favorite nearby park with waterfront access and I captured this sweet moment. It was a perfect, beautiful ending to a terrific weekend.