What a Life!!! :)

Our lives have been a bit crazy lately, last week I happened to stop by our rental house and discovered a couple inches of water covering the floor of the entire house.  But it is times like those where you find out how great a blessing your friends and neighbors are.  We had neighbors and friends in the house pushing water out with brooms right away and another friend watching the kids.  Its dry now and soon we can start working on getting it put back together.  Its times like these that you realize how blessed you are...it was not our house that we live in and there was nothing in the house.  So we came home late tired but with our loving adorable boys and a nice dry house with all of our comforts of home intact.  :)

Besides that we have been having a lot of fun.  Just enjoying the weather finally cooling off and having fun with our boys which both seem to be growing up a lot all of a sudden.  Jake says the funniest things, wants to walk next to the cart instead of ride inside of it with his brother in stores, AJ is really making great progress in walking and is saying quite a few words, and Jake is already working on writing his letters.  The time goes so darn fast...I just want it to slow down.  :)  But have fun catching up on some of our latest adventures.

Sneak peak...guess what Jake is going to be for Halloween?!?!?

He says he is going to be Firefighter Manny for Halloween (after the new episode of Handy Manny of course) and then when he has it on he calls himself Firefighter Jakey.  He also wants to wear his costume every day...luckily we have talked him into clothes every time...so far :)

AJ cannot feed himself yet...but that does not mean that he does not like to try  :)

AJ just hanging out and having a snack...I love that his feet are crossed under the table

On this morning I took the boys to story time at our library and after hearing a few stories about rockets...they got to build there own...

...Jake LOVED it!!!

And its that wonderful time of year again...apple season!!!  I love going up to Tehachapi and picking apples and getting the wonderful goodies they have up there (dried apple rings, apple crisp, fresh apple cider...yum!!!)  This time we went to a different U-Pick and they had nice big apples!

Jake once again HAD to carry his own bucket and enjoy an apple of his own  :D

AJ was old enough this time to enjoy himself too...

...although the extra large apple was too tempting to pass up  :D

AJ working at picking his own apple

My happy little apple pickers

Mommy and AJ

I love my boys...now matter how your day goes they can always bring a smile to your face...or occasionally drive you nuts.  hehe

Miss Linda has been teaching Jake to write some of his letters which he loves.  Often he will tell me..."color J...help me mommy"  On this day he had brought home some of his work but wanted to work on writing more letters as soon as he got home.  :)

Jake getting ready for Farmer Night at AWANA at church...he was so excited to get there it was hard not to let him talk me into getting to church 30 min early  :)

Jake has lately expressed a big interest in cooking.  While in the bath he will fill his toy bucket with water and stir it with his xylophone stick telling me "cooking cheeseburgers."  (yes I have told Ryan he needs to teach him about the BBQ)  :)  So last weekend when I needed to make brownies for our family bible study I asked him for his help.

He loved it so much...

...he wanted to eat it right away.  :D

And if I am going to teach my boy about baking, I also need to teach him about the best part...licking the spoon!!!

I think he enjoyed himself!!!

I hope you are all having a great week and have some fun planned for the weekend!