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What a Beautiful Day!!

Today was so pretty! Still a little chilly out but perfect for a bundled walk, or bike ride! Elijah was happy to take his bike out for a ride for the first time this year! And Ethan just loved running around, even if that meant letting go of Mama's hand and taking off in the parking lot! Scary! But a little crash and a scraped hand stopped that! Poor guy... Thank you God for the sunny day! It was very needed!!

Proud Finish!

Elijah received a panda puzzle for Valentines day and was very excited to finish his first 100 pc. puzzle, with a little help from Papa :) He really is a whiz kid!

My husband, my valentine!

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Pregnant and Projects

Well I have just entered the 16th week of my pregnancy! Still waiting for that "2nd trimester energy boost" that all the books talk about. We are very excited for our new arrival this coming July! We will soon find out if it is a boy or girl. I am kind of hoping for a girl, but when I think of 3 brothers that sounds really fun too!! Maybe when we find out the gender Thomas will actually talk about names with me lol! He is stuck on Chloe, a name we fell in love with when I was pregnant with Elijah...5 years ago. Well 5 years is a long time... I now love the names Lyla or Mackenzie for a little girl and Levi for a little boy! So we will see what the future (and Papa's thinking) holds!! We are currently in a two bedroom condo, and plan to be for a while still. So our very near future projects include cleaning, organizing and painting! Then the big switch! Kids get the master bedroom and we will take the smaller room. I am actually really excited because I can kind of redecorate, no more office/library/bedroom all in one, no room for that!!! So we can finally have a normal , romantic ;), bedroom! And the kids really need the space, they are the ones that play in the room all day!! Hopefully our plans continue to flow smoothly, as I would love to have this task done before I am largely uncomfortable! Thankfully With Thomas new job, and the blessing of writing his own schedule, he will be taking a 3 day weekend almost every other week!! Until next time...

Elijah Is a big 4 year old now, and very proud of it!

One week before Elijah's actual b-day we had his awesome batman birthday party!! We did a small, just a few little buddies birthday. The kids had a lot of fun running around in batman masks and playing with these funny little shooter toys! Elijah was very excited about his party but was also very clear that his party was before his birthday and he wasn't really 4 yet! The very first gift I handed him had a sucker tied to the top... well the sucker was the prize gift of the party, it was very hard for him to focus on the presents with a delicious mouth watering candy in his mouth!!

On his actual birthday we woke him up with "Happy Birthday" This is how the conversation went from there:

Elijah: Is it Tuesday? Mama: Yes. Elijah: The 27th of January? Mama: Yes. Elijah: Very excited Am I 4? Mama: Yes! Elijah: Has jumped up at this point and very loudly and enthusiastically says I DON'T BELIEVE IT!! He is so cute and funny! We were all laughing for quite a while! We had a big birthday breakfast, complete with happy face pancakes and candles again! Elijah got a "man watch" from Mama and Papa.

What a fun week!! Happy Birthday Elijah boy!!

Ethan is 1 year old!!

We celebrated Ethan's 1st birthday back in November! It is so hard to believe that a whole has already passed!

As you can see he wasn't very interested in the cupcake. Nor was he much into the gifts! But he did love being in the safe arms of his dear Papa!

Happy Birthday baby boy!

Christmas Joy!

Christmas is so much fun with kids!! We did our familiar tradition of opening new p.j.'s on Christmas eve. Then Christmas morning having a big tasty breakfast and opening the rest of the gifts after that. It is amazing the questions kids ask when you explain the miraculous real meaning of Christmas! Due to the awesome snow storm we had, christmas with family was postponed until January, but Elijah loved that! He thought he got to have 2 Christmas days and that was very special for him!!