Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Isaac & Brady. Today you are 4 years old. Wow, where did the time go?? Yesterday we had a little gathering for their birthday. Grandma and papa, Gramgram, Peter, Sarah, Logan, Michelle, Shannon, Megan and Bryce made it to the party. The boys really enjoyed all of their gifts and the cake. They want to thank everyone who was able to make it.

Here are some pictures.

4 year old doctor visit

The boys went to the doctor today for their well kid checkup. Everything is great and they are healthy boys. Here are their vitals:

Isaac:
Height: 39.5 inches (40%)
Weight: 38 lbs (75%)
Blood pressure: 96/52

Brady:
Height: 37.75 inches (9%)
Weight: 33.2 lbs (25%)
Blood pressure: 90/48

Daddy's little helpers

The boys received new shovels from Santa for Christmas. They love to go out and help daddy, which has already been a few times. Daddy says Brady is a really big help. Isaac mostly just goes out to play in the snow.



Isaac however is a big help putting the garbage bin away after the truck came this morning.

Christmas Day 2008

The boys received a few new train toys. Above they are opening up a new train track that winds around. Isaac calls it the roller coaster track because it goes around in a circle. Below they got a couple more additions to the track. One was a tunnel and the other was a cargo loading area.


Christmas Day was a little more quiet. We opened our gifts in the morning and had time to play with some of them. Then we all got dressed and headed over to the Neuser's for the annual Christmas day luncheon. This is the chance when we get to see all of the Uncles, Aunts, cousins, etc in one place. Unfortunately, not all of them get to come, which is probably a good thing because the house isn't big enough to hold them ALL!! But, we did get to see quite a few of them and it is always nice.

Christmas Eve 2008

I didn't get a whole lot of pictures from Christmas this year. Christmas eve night was really busy. We went to Grandma and papa's first to share Christmas with them. Here, Isaac is counting how many presents he wants.
After we opened gifts and ate dinner, we left to go to Uncle Kevin's house to meet up with the Smits. Fortunately, they were all waiting for us to get there to do the girl Christmas gift exchange. Because we got there so late, we weren't able to visit with the family very long before many of them left. But it was nice seeing everyone the little while we had.

I'm back

Hello everyone

Sorry, it has been so long since my last post. I've been pretty busy lately and every time I was trying to do a post, I was having issues with uploading pictures. I think that has been fixed now, so hopefully I will be able to do some more posts.

Since it has been so long since I've posted, I figured I would just post a few pictures from Halloween. It was such a beautiful days for Trick or Treaters in our area. I think the temperature was around 70 degrees. It was almost too warm for what the boys were wearing. Brady was a pumpkin and Isaac was Eeyore. They really had a great time this year and had fun going from door to door collecting their treats. Shawn stayed home to hand out candy at our house, while I went with the boys.


I will post some more updates later today or tomorrow.

Myrtle Beach Vacation

The boys did wonderful during our ride out there. We left about 8 pm Friday night and arrived I think around 5 pm Saturday afternoon. The boys did a lot of sleeping on the ride which really helped the drive. We drove straight through as usual. Don't know how much longer we are going to be able to do that. It gets harder and harder I think for Shawn to stay up all night to do that. This time around it helped that Shawn was able to take a nap before hitting the road so he felt pretty good the entire trip. We usually split the drive up into about 3-4 shifts. I take the first shift and try to drive through Chicago or as far past it I can get. This time I made it about half way to Indianapolis. Then Shawn takes the night shift until about 7 am. We usually stop for breakfast and then I drive through the mountains. Then we stop somewhere in South Carolina, and Shawn drives the rest of the way to the condo.

The weather was great. When we first got there, the temperatures were in the high 80s, low 90s and humid. About mid week, a cool front had gone through and the temperatures were in the high 70s, low 80s, but still beautiful weather. We only had one afternoon of rain.

The boys really loved the water. I had bought some floats for their arms last year at the end of the trip and brought them along for this year's trip. The first real day in the water I had gotten them out for the boys to use. Brady really took fast to the idea of swimming and is really quite a natural at it. Isaac was a little more cautious about the whole thing. Isaac however was the first one to walk from the zero entrance area over to the steps which were in just over 3 feet of water. Shortly after that, Brady started getting a little more daring and realized that the floats would keep him afloat so then he would start walking over that way without my help.

Within about an hour of being in the water, Brady was completely trusting the floats and kicking his legs to swim. Grandma had also bought the boys inflatable rings as well, so I blew those up and let the boys float in them. With the help of the rings, Brady flew through the water. Isaac again was a little more cautious about it all, but towards the end of the trip he was going all over the pool without the help of anyone.

I will try and get pictures up as soon as I can. I'm having difficulties getting them to upload.