Catching Up

Many would think that when you stop working you have more time to keep up on things such as blogging, completing projects, picking new recipes for dinner...but alas that has not been the case for me.  And its for good reason.  In my first week off as a stay at home mom Ryan had a job interview and a week later we were hearing that he was getting an offer that would move our family to the Oklahoma City area.  Quite the change.  Long story short we are moving in a couple of weeks, well we will be in our new house two weeks from today.  So we have been busy.  Right after AJ's birthday Ryan and I went on a house hunting trip out there and found the perfect house for our family.  Nice open kitchen and great room, nice big rooms for the boys, a great guest room, an office and a big open grassy backyard for us to have a lot of fun in.  So we will be having many more adventures to share in these chronicles.  :)  But before we went to far in the future I wanted to catch up on some fun times and events that we have enjoyed.  These are some from before AJ's birthday.

AJ adores the "Little People" toys and sometimes he even gets his big brother to play along.  They have great fun and its really entertaining to watch them play and talk together.

My adorable little bug :)

Goof Ball :D

Gotta get comfortable when you are watching your toons ;)

Spiderman himself....Jake really loves his heroes

And of course his little brother adores him...

....and does everything his big brother does.  :)

Some fun morning chasing...these boys don't always understand what it means to stay still

In July Jake also got to take part in VBS at our church for the first time.  Almost like it was made for him the theme was superheroes.  He adored it and was really bummed when the week was over.  Good thing AWANA was soon to follow.

"Do I get any more cute?"

One of the newest interests in the family is puzzles, the boys love them.

And Jake is getting really good at them, this was the first time that he put his puzzle together all by himself.  As you can see, he was very proud of himself.  :)

AJ is very serious about his coloring

I know AJ is wearing Dodger clothes but still...is he cute or what?!?

The boys have really become the best of friends.  Although they do fight and have major sharing issues, they really do love each other and always want to be together.  I love watching this strong bond form and pray it will always be this way!

After an employee day at work the boys were enjoying their souvenir hats.

Jake building a gear structure on his own...he loves to build.

One afternoon Jake decided he needed to get comfy on the couch....

...and guess who decided to do the exact same thing.  :)

AJ has graduated!!!!  No more high chair for this big boy, he is a booster seat kid now!!!

And here was a GIANT milestone.  Jake's first day of preschool.  He was soooooooooooo excited to go to school and be a big kid, even ate his breakfast with his new backpack on....

Ninja Turtle backpack of course.  :)  I think part of the reason he was excited about school was because he got to wear his cool new backpack!  :)  But he loved it and did great.  When I went to pick him up afterwards he asked if he could come to school again.  :)  It all comes too fast for this mommy but it warms my heart to see him so happy.

About a week before AJ's birthday weekend his Grandma Peg and Pa Wayne were able to come out for a visit and Grandma got to stay with us during the week when Pa had a business trip.  We had a lot of fun together, and got some good house organizing and garage sale prep done.  :)  But here are the kids just having a great time hanging out with their grandparents :)

This picture is fun for me because this toy used to be at my grandparents house when I was growing up.  It as old hot wheels set with a flexible track that you can do anything with.  The boys love playing with it and seeing who can race their cars the fastest.  :)

The boys enjoying their grandparent's technology and face-timing with Pa Wayne while he was on his trip.  They thought it was pretty cool. :D

 

Well onto birthday stuff.....