ramblings...

lots going on....this will be all over the place! :) Here's 10 things going through my head right this minute.

• mad that grey's isn't new tonight
• Alex has 2 new teeth that finally popped through the top. If you rub your finger over them, he laughs and laughs. It's pretty funny actually...the best part is when Evan is around and watches me do this, he laughs the loudest because Alex is laughing too!
• It's been a crazy week around our house. The weatherization guys are here....lots of nail guns, installing windows, doors, pounding, hammering, sawing, putting new insulation in downstairs and in the attic. The good news is that it is looking good, progress is being made and I'm hoping they are done soon to start cleaning up all of the dust and starting to get things reorganized, etc. The bad news is all of the dust and cleaning we'll have to do once they are finally done.
• Evan has had the best few days at preschool and I'm so thankful. He's been a helper to other kids and even got to call down for breakfast using the phone. He calls everything "lunch" lately, so he told the cooks, that they needed 8 lunches. (they realized that at 8 am it was breakfast...ha!) :) Fun! He also has been using the big potty at school and at home, so I'm hoping that he'll be out of diapers soon! :) Fingers crossed!
• Project Life is still going great and I still have last week's to post, but just know that it is a great way to document the every day life. I'm so thankful that by the end of the year I'll have our 2012 scrapbook done! :) Trying to get Alex's 1st year album and baby book caught up.
• I am in the midst of putting together Evan and Alex's yearly picture slideshow. I can't believe how fast  this year has gone. Looking at these pictures and how young and little they are....wow! Kind of makes me want another one sooner rather than later...but that is definitely not going to happen soon! 
• Mike's been busy with his PdD classes and projects and papers and trying to keep up with all of his cases at work, but when he is here, we've been playing Ticket to Ride. Thanks Ryan and Heather for introducing this game to us! Love it!
• Alex has his ENT appointment tomorrow...hoping we'll get some news and answers about his ears.
• So excited for a wedding reception this Saturday! I'm excited to get dressed up and go out with my hubby and see friends. 
• March Madness...can't wait to fill out my bracket! :) 

How's that for random!?!?! Enjoy! :)

Wordless Wednesday: leap day

Happy Leap Day!!!
Playing chase in the hall

hello, Monday

Hello, Monday...not sure I really wanted to see you today, but here you are. Another work week, back into the routine. I miss the weekends for sure...especially when we didn't have any plans or any place to be. It was fun. We had a small game night on Saturday night and church on Sunday. Other than that, is was a nice, low key weekend and I want at least another day of that!

Hello to a cute, wanna-be walker

Hello to a transformer tooth brusher

Hello to a sunshiny day today



Hello to a wedding reception this weekend and a night out!



Hello to party planning a certain almost 1 year old and almost 3 year old Superhero birthday



Hello to the Bachelor and all the craziness tonight



Hello to beautiful sunsets (the traffic light/pole make a nice touch, don't you think!?!) :)

lots to say....

just can't write it here...in the meantime, can you pray?

Prayers for my friend and her marriage
Prayers for my husband
Prayers for my boys


Have a great weekend everyone...

progress...

In a span of 4 hours, our backyard went from this:

to this:

Hello, Monday

Hello Monday!

Hello to getting caught up on Project Life!

Week 5

Hello to week 6!

Hello to the Presidents (and a day off of work!)


Hello to finally finishing off all of the candy hearts!


Hello to our rock band, footie pajama boys

Hello to a short work week due to conferences (no school Friday too!)


Hello to getting St. Patrick's Day decorations up


Hope you have a great week!

Transportation Museum

If you haven't been to the Transportation Museum in St. Louis, you are missing out! We have a few groupons to go there, and we finally went this past Saturday. It was an Evan/Mommy/Daddy date. Alex got to stay with Me-maw and Pa-paw and had fun as well. Evan had a blast and I can't wait until it gets a little bit warmer to go back, ride the train (that part isn't open until March), spend time in the Creation Station and walk around and see all of the different kinds of trains.

 This place was amazing! It has all different kinds of boats, cars, trains, trucks, dress up costumes that have to do with transportation, puppet show puppets, a huge climbing boat (and you can go underneath of it too), crayons/painting, play kitchen, and Ispy on the walls too. It was so fun and Evan did great with all of the other kids there too! :)

Evan the pirate...argh!!!

 He left this Astronaut costume on for almost the entire time we were there. It was a good thing it had a helmet, because he kept hitting his head underneath the boat playing with another little boy and girl and their dad as the "alligator". They were running and chasing each other to try and get away from him and get out of the water.

Can't wait to go back!

Date 2 of 12

For our February date, we went to the Fox Theater to see West Side Story. I had no idea what the story was about, so I was glad that Mike and I were able to go and spend Saturday afternoon together (and bring our friends, Cortney and Matt to enjoy the show too!) Thanks to my mom for getting the tickets and to my parents for watching the boys for us yesterday afternoon. We had a great time and I loved the story!

Here are our other dates in 2012
January
February (was supposed to be Jan) 

For other date ideas, click here!

Friday Five

1. Our yard is seriously disgusting right now. I've mentioned before that we are getting weatherization done on our house. Step 1 is to dig a well....right now, it's just a big, old muddy hole in our yard. Ugh! Evan has been in heaven though! :)

This is where most of his meals have been...

2.  Evan has his Valentine's Day exchange at his preschool and it was the cutest thing ever. LOVE it there and I'm so glad he is learning and growing and making friends.

3.  This guys seriously needs to slow down! He is pulling up with ease, trying to walk across his crib and making us laugh every single day.

4.  This is the new face he's been making for the past week or so! Hilarious!!!!!!!

5. And a little project I'm working on...this is just a start. I needed a place to put all of our paperwork, receipts, outgoing mail, invitations, etc. so this is the start of a command center. I'm not sure what else to put up there yet...or if I'm going to move the calendar over there (it's on the fridge now). But for right now, it's already a huge improvement. Jesse...this is the piece I want to paint!!! :) In the bottom part of the hutch we have bowls, etc. but I'm hoping to make it into our arts/crafts supply. I have slowly started cleaning it out to add construction paper, etc. We have a ton of plastic pencil boxes I'm hoping to use for markers, glue, fingerpaints, etc. Hoping this will help keep it all organized since we don't have an office! :)