Frankenmuth 2011- Part #1

We made it to Frankenmuth...got a killer deal at the Bavarian Inn for an overnight stay so thought we would bring the kids up for a few nights since Kris is on his Spring Break this week. I have Nathan 3 days a week so we picked him up from school and headed straight up here. Jim and Tami met us later in the evening with Nickolas. Here are Kris and the boys in the pool....they had a blast! Here are all the boys all cuddled up in their towels, minus Wyatt, he doesn't really seem too interested in the water so he was mostly dry.

But thankfully when Wyatt did give the pool a try I snapped a cute picture of he and his daddy!

Does this picture really need a description? I don't think so. Owen continues to be our adorable little stinker.....so sweet and innocent and yet can be so evil at the same time. Tonight we had an issue with him in the arcade....he didn't want to turn in his tickets for a prize...he wanted to KEEP all of the tickets that he had won! So Kris basically ended up dragging him out of the arcade while Owen was kicking and screaming and throwing a tantrum. Hopefully tomorrow morning we can go back down to the arcade and he will FINALLY pick out a prize! So after all of that drama tonight, we come back up to the room and with the sweetest look on his face Owen asks me "is this apartment our new home?" As you can see we don't get out much and at that Owen is used to traveling with the fifth wheel, not staying at hotels.....it was very sweet!!

More pictures to come later, but thought I would share the few pictures that I took today. Enjoy!

Nights like these I love my job

It's nights like these where I love my job.....Owen and I are cuddling before bed and I have my computer out trying to get some work done. Typing with one hand and giving my boy a back scratch with my other hand......it doesn't get much better then this! Don't get me wrong.....there are plenty of times where it is very hard to separate home and work life while working from home, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! I love being home with my boys! LOVE IT! I know that I am very blessed to have such a wonderful opportunity and a great company who trusts the work that I do from home....SO blessed!

WYATT IS WALKING!

Just shy of 10 months Wyatt is a little walker! He is so stinking cute all of the time. This particular day he walked over to his/Owen's chair and crawled right up in it and started smiling and was just having a blast! Here is our adorable little stinker clapping! He really is a very happy baby.....we are SO blessed at how happy and content he is! Love this child!

Pine Car Derby 2011

Another year for Owen at Cornerstone's Pine Car Derby race. This year Owen was a little more involved and I hope that each year in the future will be more and more exciting for him. Kris helped him this year with the actual car shaping/molding or whatever you want to call it, however Owen painted the car all by himself and put on a bunch of police stickers/decals. He said it was his police racer car. He did a great job! We were proud! Below is a picture of Owen getting his medal (all kids in his age group get medals, but hey he still thought it was pretty cool!) Owen's car is the third car in from the left, it is yellow with all of the stickers on it.....not bad for a 3 year old, and yes he decorated it all by himself.

Wyatt loves the dishwasher!

Without fail every time I either load or unload the dishwasher Wyatt is crawling over as fast as he can to try to get in it. I think this particular day I finished unloading the dishwasher and then ran the trash outside and when I came back Wyatt was literally in the dishwasher.....never a dull moment at our house!

An afternoon at GG's

We were all tired, however my mother-in-law was the lucky one who scored some nap time with Wyatt man.....a nap and a good cuddle, what is better then that?

Owen had fun playing with all of GG's blocks. He built a HUGE tower and was so excited that he could keep on adding to the tower without it falling down.......but.......
Grammy was a bit skeptical at how high the tower was going to get before falling down so she sheltered Wyatt so that he wouldn't get hit by any blocks......I think that this was the final block before the tower collapsed....and no Wyatt didn't get hit by any blocks but he didn't like the noise the falling tower made and started crying hysterically. Poor boy!

GG is doing a lot better....she was up and walking a little without her walker. She has good days and bad days but thankfully Kris' aunt is in town for the week to help take care of her and get her up and running. All in all we had a very nice visit today!

Me and my boys.....

chilling out at home after a busy weekend......love them to pieces!!