Family fun

Today we met up with Auntie SaraLyn, Uncle Eric and cousins Maci & Malorie at the Children's Museum. We had fun doing art and looking at the turtles, but spent most of of time playing in the toddler area. Lydia was happy to see Aunt Angela & cousin Addy show up! What a fun surprise!

Using the potty

Yesterday we brought home a potty for Lydia. Not that we are in a rush to get her potty trained...she's only 19 monts old. She was pretty excited about so we decided to take off her diaper and put her on it. After a minute or so we took her off and.....

She went peepee!!! YAY! We were shocked!

About an hour went by and she grabbed her diaper and said "poo poo". So I asked her if she wanted to go on the potty and she said "ok" so off we went. The diaper came off and she sat down...POOP!! I did take a picture, but I will spare you all! hehe!

At the park with the family

On friday Aunt Heather, Uncle Jason, Keegan...Aunt Angela, Uncle Joel, Addy, Lydia and I met up at Lion's park in Mount Vernon. It was so much fun watching the kids play. Won't be long before Keegan is chasing those girls around and playing with them! This was Keegan's first time at the park...I think he enjoyed himself!

Matt's 30th Birthday

I had to get pictures from Matt's Birthday from my mom...I was so busy with the party that I hardly took any! Thanks Mom!!

some pictures from my mom's camera

New camera!

Matt got me the Canon Rebel and I am so excited about it! I can't wait to start taking great pictures...so I took it for a "test run" tonight! We had just finished eating so she was still wearing most of her food, but was just being so darn cute! Then we got a couple bath time pics!

Childrens museum 2 days in a row!

Lydia got to go to the Children's Museum 2 days in a row this week! Matt and I took her on sunday and she had so much fun! She played for close to 2 hours. She drew a picture, Daddy made her a necklace, she looked at the turtles...she loves this thing that blows air and you put a whiffle ball over it and itholds it in the air. She kept going back to that one! She also really loves the music room!




watching the turtles
loving the music room



drawing a picture
Daddy making Lydia a necklace

playing in the sandbox



Aunt Angela had today off so we went again with her and cousin Addy. The girls had a lot of fun playing in the Sickelsteel Crane...
Lydia loves playing in the huge rice bin! It's this clear plastic container fitted on a table and it's filled with rice. It's got bowls and spoons and measuring cups. Lydia played with that for the majority of the time.

This and that...

Things are good in our neck of the woods. Matt had a milestone birthday and turned 30 on Monday. We had a big party for him on Sunday. There was a great turn out and we enjoyed a BBQ dinner and birthday cake!

Matt is going on week 2 working at his new job. It's been so awesome to have him working "normal" hours. We never realized what we were missing with him working nights. He seems to be enjoying the job and has been learning a lot. He has to go to Minnesota next month for 2 weeks for training...we're really going to miss him!

Lydia is becoming so expressive...with her facial expressions to the things she says. She said a swear word the other day, making us realize we really need to watch what we say...she's beginning to be like a little parrot! Big oops! She puts her pointer finger up to her mouth and says "hmmm". She is also counting in English and Spanish. Sometimes she mixes them together but still counts in order, like this..."uno, dos, cinco(still leaving out 3 & 4), six, seven, ocho, nine, ten"! She's so smart!

Ocean Shores

This weekend our family went to Ocean Shores and had a great time! We would have loved to have stayed longer. We had a fun time on the beach and playing in the sand, spending time with family and watching the kids play.

Jason & Keegan at the Irish Pub

Heather, Angela & I

The guys having a cigar

Papa & Addy

Lydia had fun running around

big steps over the car tracks


Walking to the beach