Easter Egg-stravaganza!

We had a great Easter weekend. Here we are at Zack and Danica's watching the kids search for Easter eggs. Clar and Chris' little boy Tommy (the cute little thing shown above) quickly discovered that there was chocolate in the plastic eggs. He was surrounded by the eggs on the ground and instead of picking them up, he was taking eggs out of his basket to eat the candy! It was fabulous.

James was walking around with Miles showing him the eggs. He was really good at picking them up and putting them in his mouth.

Then we made the mistake of putting him on the ground to pick up an egg.....

Oh! That was a BIG handful of dirt....good times!

Here are Clar and Danica helping Tommy to find some eggs, and try to distract him from eating all his candy right then and there.....big THANKS to Zack and Danica for inviting us!


Then on Sunday we went to Bart and Katie's for some good ol' egg dying. It was so much fun to feel like a kid again and dye some eggs. They have great new tools for doing it too.


Here is Amy (7 months pregnant, and looking fabulous) She made really detailed and pretty eggs that I had to copy :)


And here is Katie, laughing at my incessant picture taking.

And finally...James, posing for his obligatory "I want to get one of you dying the eggs" picture. He had way more fun then he would care to admit :)

Friday Flashback!

Chad and Jess got married in 2006. We went out to North Dakota for the wedding. It was so beautiful, Jess suprised Chad at the ceremony and sang him a song. I was so impressed, I would never be able to do something like that. I love this picture, not only because it has the cake in it, but because Chad made their cake topper out of styrofoam...isn't it fabulous.

Here we are at the reception. Geordie and Beth were so much fun to hang out with. The reception was a blast. James and I had been watching Dancing with the Stars (I know its lame), so we were a big hit on the dancefloor. Now Chad and Jess are expecting a little girl this spring. So exciting!!

This flashback is from Thanksgiving 2005. We all went pheasant hunting the day after Thanksgiving. Here James is awkwardly, almost femininely, holding his gun. He is sporting one of my Mom's jackets, so that explains the hot pink collar.


Here is my sister Amanda...isn't she beautiful! We started out skeet shooting and she is always one of the best ones. Its pretty impressive and surprising how good she is.

This is my youngest brother Christopher, putting on his game face....it says "I'm not afraid of you pheasant!"

Here is my Mom putting on her game face. She is going to kill me for posting this picture. I love you Mom!

Of all the things about that hunting trip that I will never forget is my niece Taylor. I think she was 7 at the time. Her Dad Bill had shot a pheasant, but it wasn't quite dead yet. She ran up and eagerly asked if she could break its neck!!!!! Isn't that hysterical. I swear we are not a crazy family....well maybe a little :)

Miles at the Park

Here we are at the park again. Miles loves to have us walk him around and around. He even thinks he can do it on his own sometimes, and then gets so mad when he can't. Again....thank goodness for these Sunny Days!

Miles laughing

Here we are during our typical evening routine. When Miles gets really tired he is very easily amused. He loves to laugh and squeal. Please forgive my outfit of yoga pants and a hoodie, I don't have much of a reason to dress up these days. This is just a snipet of the video we took, I think he was laughing for 15 minutes or so. Hope you enjoy!

You are all in trouble....

So I am so excited. I finally have figured out how to put videos onto my blog. I know, I know....how lame am I that it has taken me this long, but in my defense my computer is in serious need of an upgrade. But let me take this time to apologize ahead of time if there are an inordinate amount of videos posted. What can I say, I think my kid is cute. :)

We had an incident...

So yesterday Miles was having a rough day. I had worked early in the morning and Miles woke up a little early, but wouldn't take a bottle from James. From then on, it was an uphill battle. I am sure I can't complain too much, he was still pretty fun, but for Miles it was rough.
OK, that was the prequel, now fast forward to dinner time. Miles ate dinner and I felt like he had a big poop. We gave him some time, but nothing happened so we headed upstairs for bath time. I was downstairs pumping, yep pumping :( And I heard James getting Miles out of the tub. I called up to see if he needed any help and he said no...then immediately after said "Miles just pooped in the tub" So I ran upstairs. I thought of taking a picture, but figured James might be mad if I was snapping shots instead of helping clean up. Needless to say I was right....the boy had to poop. And Miles felt much better. I tried to take some pictures of him to catch a mischievous expression, but he was pretty much all smiles.