The Boyz

Landon taking some steps!

Chase's favorite new gesture! He does this with his hands all the time.

Chase finger painting

At the jump zone. This slide was HUGE and scary for me. We went down together the first couple times until I felt like he would be okay going on his own.

Landon and myself. He was pretty tired by this point and I was disheveled!

Coming down the slide sideways

Chase and I right before we went down together

Landon after his first "real" haircut!

Splash park fun

Landon going to explore the water

Enjoying some time in the grass. I love that little lollipop head of his!

Time for some updates on the boys!

We’ll start with Chase. This boy melts my heart. He is just an incredible little creature and I love how sweet his is. He loves his friends in nursery and gets so excited for church because he knows nursery is involved. He loves playing with his friend Gage and they have such a cute little camaraderie. Chase has started to take up a love for puzzles and art. We have a couple boxes of the 24 piece charater puzzles and he loves to work on those a lot during the day. He's talking and understanding more and more each day and I love the way he describes things to me. We went to Costco a few weeks ago and I got him a fruit smoothie when we finished shopping. The straw cracked so I broke it the rest of the way and stuck the broken side in so he wasn’t sucking on the sharded side. The straw fell into the cup as he was drinking and he said, “Oh no! Mommy my straw is swimming!” I thought it was so cute. Today he told me, “you’re my best friend” I just about bawled my eyes out and said, “Chase, you’re one of my best friends too! Thank you for telling mommy that.” To which he replied, “You Betcha!” He’s a gem! We’re hoping to sign him up for swim lessons this year. We missed it last year and he would totally love it. He is ready for the “shrimp” level which is a step up from “tadpole” because he already knows how to hold his breath under water for a good amount of time and blow bubbles. The 8 week sessions are only $25 and they are 4 days a week for 30 minutes. Depending on how our time looks we may even sign him up for 2 sessions this year at that rate. We’ll have to see. He’s an awesome brother to Landon and usually a great help to me around the house. He just finished the summer reading program and got a bunch of beach toys and a free book. I can’t remember which one it was, but it was an Olivia book. We think that little pink pig is hilarious around these parts.

Landon has started walking and he walks more and more everyday. He loves it! He claps for himself when he makes it to his destination. I have realized with him starting to walk that I have finally discovered my favorite “stage” I LOVE the walking stage! It’s so exciting seeing my kids discover this whole knew world, and go from baby to toddler all in a short time. So fun! He talks more and is definitely more vocal when something is offensive to him. He says “Dada” whenever he’s asked to or just whenever he sees him, and he says “Mama” only when he’s in trouble and needs help or is sad. He says,”No no no no no!” whenever someone does something he doesn’t like. He still snuggles and NEEDS that time at some point during each day, totally cute. He has started patting me on the back when I’m snuggling with him which I cannot get enough of. He squeezes our necks tight too, which is a change from Chase’s “limp noodle” hugs. He loves to have books read to him and he gets a better attention span daily. Chase still has a great LOVE for books and will stop whatever he’s doing to come listen to whatever new adventure we’re dishing out for his brother. Coming soon...doctor appointments and 1 year old pictures.

I may be extremely out numbered in this house but I love the boys under this roof like nothing else! Here are some pictures of our little rascals.

Catching up

Chase at the fish hatchery on he way back from the Father Son's

In the tent with Daddy, getting read for bed

He wanted the camera, and badly by the looks of it. I made sure he packed his angry eyes, good thing too, because he definitely used them!


My cute little mom after graduation holding baby Ty

Mom saying hi to Landon while I (standing, black long sleeved shirt) feed him cake
Receiving her lamp after getting pinned

Walking up to the stage

Waiting before the start of the graduation.

One of my goals is to get ths blog caught up a bit. We’ll see how it goes considering my days lately are chock-full of “to dos” and “daily essentials” as I like to call them. So I’m just going to jump right into what we’ve been up to.

Last month I had the privilege of flying to Arkansas with Landon to go to my sweet mom’s graduation from nursing school. These past two years have been so extremely difficult for her and she has worked SO extremely hard sometimes I thought she might go insane if she pushed herself any further. Her days were packed with reading and studying and classes (except for Sundays) a rule she diligently kept for herself and stood by during the entire duration of her program no studying or homework or anything school related on Sundays. Whatever she did truly paid off, because she graduated at the top of her class with honors and even received a prestigious award at her graduation. She’s received offers from every place that she’s interviewed with, and wherever she ends up, they will be very lucky to have her! She is such an amazing example to all of us and I think she’s just the most amazing lady I know.

While Landon and I were in Arkansas Kyle and Chase spent the weekend at the Father Son’s campout Chase’s first one! He had so much fun with his daddy and still asks to go camping every weekend! He got very dirty and Kyle lost him not once, but twice in the woods! One time was even at night! Needless to say we had some words over that one. Thank goodness we bought two mini maglites (sp) before they went and Chase always had his on him and on. That was how Kyle found him at night. Regardless they had a wonderful time. I made Kyle document the entire weekend so he had our camera meaning that I was camera less. So I stole pictures from my sister’s blog for my mom’s graduation.