Mother's Day

 We went to Lowe's one Saturday morning to pick up a few things and they were having a craft day for kids.  The project was a mother's day picture frame.  They went straight to work to make me these gorgeous frames.  I think I will treasure these cute pictures of them more.

 Our friend Ben was in town. The boys always have a good time with him.

 On Mother's Day it was the traditional breakfast in bed, although lately all my food is disappearing quicker with 4 extra hands to compete with.

 We also had our traditional strawberry picking. Everyone enjoyed lots of fresh juicy strawberries and we picked over 5 pounds. We didn't even have to freeze them. They were gone pretty quick!

Look at this cutie!

April Soccer and bike riding

 Soccer games are always better when Grandma and Granddad are here to watch.

 And they have fun times at the playground.

 Kaleb learned to ride his bike in April without training wheels. He learned in exactly 49 sec. I videoed it and he was riding by himself in less than a minute.

 He has also decided that he wants to be a race car driver when he grows up.

We got him a big boy bike and helmet and he has not stopped since.

March 2013 Weddings and Easter

 My best friend from PT school, Alison got married in D.C. this March. This was the first time we both left the boys overnight. They stayed with our friends the Tumlins as we headed off for the most relaxing and fun weekend we have had in a long time.

It was good to rediscover there was still an Amy underneath the Mommy in which I have identified with for the last 5 years.  It was a little hard to come back after getting a little taste of the life I once had and completely forgotten about. Good Memories!

 I believe they got more candy this Easter than they did at Halloween.  They went to numerous egg hunts. Kaleb declared it was his favorite holiday, changing his mind after saying that on the last holiday, Valentine's Day

 They drew pictures for the Easter Bunny and we left him some carrots and grass to snack on.

 Found this cute matching suits, although Chase did not want to pose.

Best family pic we could get.

 Chase was so controlled during our egg dying this year.  At age 2, Kaleb was flinging all the colors and the eggs around and it was a complete disaster.

 At the end, they had lots of eggs and lots of fingers dyed.

Chase has a best friend these days. It is his monkey. He goes everywhere with Chase. He sleeps with him, eats with him and hugs him often. He is so sweet!

February 2013

 More indoor activities include modeling at the local Children's Place.

 Chase is so into clothes and fashion.  He has to pick out his clothes everyday and often tries on 3 different shirts before he makes up his mind.

 Everytime there was a forecast of snow Jason would get so excited...Oh no, I would say...all we got was a few flakes of disappointment! Poor snowman!

 We did fondue this Valentine's Day. We all had fun stuffing our bellies, except for Chase...he did not want anything to do with the chocolate fondue...he would say "Oooo, yuckie! It's durty!"

 Kaleb and Jason took on a big project which took up a few days. A paper mache volcano.

Then painting...

 Then drying the paint b/c we were too excited to wait for it to dry on its own.

Voila! The finished product!

Then, the eruption with baking soda and vinegar. The boys were in awe!

 Then, there was lots of time to dress up...as superheros...

 Elmo.

 Monkey and Dragon.

 Dr. Giraffe.

 Dragon Jr.

Skeleton. Being pinned up in the house the boys liked to fight a lot, which drove me crazy...very happy spring is around the corner.

Winter Fun! January 2013

 This winter seems especially long.  We tried to spur on the summer by eating ice cream.

 Chase felt so much power deciding who to give the ice cream to...He chose me! Yeah!

 We went to the circus again this year and it never ceases to amaze all of us.  This year they had a lion in with the tiger act. So cool!

The circus held Chase's attention the whole time.

 This year Kaleb took swim lessons at the YMCA. It was good to get out of the house for a little while.

 We did lots of inside activities, like making ice cream play do.

 Superhero masks...

 Jason had a project of his own to do.  We gave each other a backslash for Christmas this year.  We were going to pay someone to put it in and then Jason ended up having a slow week at work and he decided to do it himself. He did a great job!

 We did lots of finger painting.

And got all tated up.

 Chase is being his goofy self and balancing a plate on his head at our favorite Mexican spot. This just came out of nowhere.

 and he practiced being super cute!

 Chase became a master at hide and seek.

 Kaleb got some cool projects for Christmas and did some dinosaur excavating.

Chase again, hiding in his dirty clothes hamper w/o his pants!