our world...

staycation

Since we are headed to the beach for our family vacation we decided to hang around home for Spring Break. We enjoyed an outing at the Daisy bb gun museum. (highly recommend...kids are free...16 and older are only $2)

Special cupcakes @ Kirby's Kupcakes (their variety is crazy!)

and lunch at Chicago Dog. It was such a good cheap outing to do with the boys. I am so thankful we live some place that offers all kinds of fun things to do!

build a birthday

Since Grady's birthday was going to be on Easter this year, we opted out of a big party. I told him he could pick a day and we could to whatever he wanted....

He wanted to take his best buddy Luke to build a bear...

He didn't want to invite his brother Benji, but Benji said if he didn't get invited then he wouldn't invite Grady to his party...

Luke and Grady are best friends from school...

Don't let the innocent look fool you...this kid is a handful :)

and of course we had to go to chickfila.

After lunch we headed to the movie theatre to see HOP. It was a great day for everyone!

eggcellent

Due to the monsoon that hit this week...we had an indoor egg hunt. The boys enjoyed decorating their eggs and finding them. Benji and Grady were disappointed to learn you can't save your hard boiled egg forever. I think they would have been more disappointed if we had let them. :)

Happy Birthday Grady

Grady's birthday just so happen to fall on Easter Sunday this year. I can't believe he is 4! We were delighted to have a small family party for him at our house. He enjoyed his Hop cake and playing with his cousins.

He said he was wishing for a cookie monster play-doh set. He opened one a few minutes later :)

I am one proud momma......

of all 3 of these little guys!

Happy Birthday Grady! You are a perfect blessing to our family. We love you!!!!

ole' man winter

Crossing Over...

Well being that I have 3 boys I guess I am going to have to catch up on this boy stuff they do. Thankfully Ben is a good teacher and has been trying to explain to me all this Boy Scout stuff. I still don't fully understand the badges, awards, camping out in the freezing cold..yada yada yada....but I do know that Tyler loves being involved in scouts and so does Ben. It is amazing to look at all of the stuff he has learned and all of the opportunities it has provided. I am so proud to say he is officially done with being a cub scout and has moved on to a BOY SCOUT. I am sure he will follow in his Dad's footsteps and become and Eagle Scout as well.

(side story: Ben's mom leaned over to Benjamin during the ceremony and said "just think you will be up there one day soon" His reply was "No I won't...I am gonna play basketball" ahahahaha

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We celebrated in style this year with too much food, karaoke, loud kids, and even louder adults. We are so blessed to be surrounded by some awesome people and so thankful they accepted our invitation for cheesey fun!