Happy 1st Birthday, Kael!

Kael is one! As I tell Moses he is officially not a baby anymore. (although he still feels like a baby to me) He had a great birthday. Scott was out of town on Saturday, the 9th, his official birthday. So we celebrated on the 10th. We didn't do anything big, just had his grandparents over for his favorite dinner, spaghetti and meatballs, and a cupcake cake (like how I arranged these pictures to make it look like I made the cake myself!!!!).

He is such a sweet little boy. Full of cuddles and kisses. He has blessed our lives in so many ways. I can't believe it has already been a year since he joined our family and at the same time I can't believe he hasn't always been here as a part of our family.

First steps

Kael is no longer a crawler...so sad. :( But his little steps are so adorable that it makes up for the fact that he is less like a baby everyday. He has gotten much better since this video was taken and has almost entirely given up crawling. He just uses little wobbly baby steps everywhere.

Getting caught up

Well, our computer was hit with a nasty virus after my last post. Luckily I'm married to a nerdy, but still sexy, computer genius. He wiped our hard drive and reinstalled everything. I just got photoshop back last weekend. I decided there were too many good pictures and stories not to post everything that happened last month, so I have been trying to get caught back up. I changed the dates so that everything would be in order, so be sure to scroll down and see what we have been up to lately. I still don't have my video editing software, but I have some really cute Easter videos I want to post. You will probably see those much later - but for sure before Christmas!

Ain't no sunshine anymore....

The sun went away and we've been hit with two HUGE snow storms. :( We had a foot of snow outside last weekend. As soon as it went away we got another foot. We still can't see our entire lawn. I keep having to look at the calender to make sure that it is really April 29th! I hear it is good for our grass seed, so I guess I can't complain too much. Still, I was really enjoying that brief stint in shorts and capris. We made the best of it and decided to do some late spring sledding. It was actually a lot of fun. Making family memories - although really they are just memories for Scott and I since neither of our boys will likely remember this.

Girl's Trip!

As Scott said us ladies got away for a day. We had so much fun - it was like a slumber party in a hotel room. At first we all felt like we forgot something, but then we realized it was our children that are usually so attached to us! We stayed in a hotel, ate at nice restaurants, and did a lot of shopping. We took this picture - holding the camera out - on a bench in the mall. It took us about 6 tries to get us all in the same shot without anyone blinking! People were looking at us like we were crazy tourists (or maybe just too old to be acting that silly). The best part of it all was coming home and seeing my boys (this includes Scott) again. Absence makes the heart grow fonder!

DAD

So, LaShauna abandoned myself and the boys for the weekend to go on a quarter life crisis with some friends in Calgary. So yes, Dad is taking care of the boys....and I realized something! Yes I do respect the work and great job that my wife is doing raising our boys day in and day out....but I already appreciated that (maybe not as much as now). But actually what I realized is that.....I REALLY LIKE BEING A DAD!


This realization came in the mini van, after I loaded the kids into their car seats from the park, the windows were all down, I was wearing LaShauna's girly sunglasses, and Fred Penner's version of "The Cat Came Back" was BLAREING on the stereo. We passed three teenage boys with weird looks as Moses and I screamed the "Meow" in the chorus and Kael was laughing histerically. I have never been so NOT emberassed in my life. I REALLY DO LOVE BEING A DAD!

Outside!!!!

Yeah - We can finally be outside. The weather has been beautiful here; we've even broken out the shorts. We have a lot of work to do on our backyard. We rearranged our yard a little and have planted grass. Scott enjoyed the rototiller best. He said it made him feel like a manly man! We are leaving for a couple months for Scott to do a rural rotation the beginning of May, and we wanted to get the grass in first. There was a lot of raking, and tilling, and watering, but hopefully it will all be worth it and we will have the greenest, thickest, grassiest lawn ever!

The boys have been playing together more and more lately. They fight a lot, but in between there are the sweetest moments of happiness. The sandbox is a good place for them to play. There is always enough sand for everyone! Until they start throwing it...

I'm proud to say that Kael did not eat that dirt in his hand. Not that he hasn't tried that before, but this time he was above such things.

Happy Easter

We had a lot of fun this Easter weekend. Scott's sister came to town with her 4 kids, so there was a big family get together over the weekend. We went out and spent a couple nights with the fam - and had a blast. Usually the boys get so exhausted from all the excitement and lack of sleep that about half way through the second day they are little grouchy crybabies. But this time they both handled it very well.

We had multiple Easter egg hunts which both Moses and Kael loved. We all went for rides on the quad and played a lot outside. One night all the grandkids went out to build a fire. It was about 9 pm at the time and I was going to make Moses go to bed, but he was so sad and wanted to spend time with his cousins so bad that I caved. He was tired, but he had a really good time. The older boys (the oldest is 14) started the fire and the kids were out there roasting marshmallows and making s'mores. It was a pretty impressive fire to start considering how much water was in the fire pit from the snow melting. They had to bail out the fire pit with a bucket first! I'm glad that Moses has so many good role models - his cousins are the best.

Kael was so funny during the egg hunts. He would crawl and pick up candy and put it in his basket. We just left him on the grass because he seemed to be enjoying himself so much. Then I came back to check on him and he had figured out how to peel the foil off the candy himself! When I found him he was attacking this full size cadberry egg! I knew it was too late to try and take it from him without really upsetting him, so he got his share of Easter sugar rush early!

Pre-Easter Celebrating

Why wait until the actual day to celebrate. We had to dye the eggs ahead of time anyway! Our good friend, hosted a little Easter party for a few friends (there weren't many of us but we sure filled up her little kitchen). We made a craft and colored some eggs. The kids played while us ladies visited. Moses had a really good time. It is the first time he had died eggs, and he really liked it.

We also did some egg dying at home. Kael was a little young, so the closest he came to the die was standing under the table looking up longingly. Moses really got into it. After we dyed them we decorated them with stickers. They were some of the the most over decorated eggs I have ever seen! Moses has since asked me if we could dye some more eggs. As much fun as it was, I'm glad we only do that once a year.

Busted!

I caught them in the act! Every mother knows that when it is suddenly quiet you need to check on those kids quickly!!! Well, I went quickly and this is what I found. How proud I was of my two little readers!! I really do have good, well behaved little boys. And the fact that they both love reading is just a bonus.