Kids in the Kitchen

This year for Father's Day my thoughts turned towards my sweet husband and then to my fine sons. I don't normally think of getting my boys a Father's Day present, but this year I decided to get the boys the gift that keeps on giving-- a grill that they can use to make breakfast. Usually I am an early bird when it comes to gifts and then I have to have the self disciple to hide away my early bought gifts until the holiday. The grill came yesterday and I pulled it inside and thought of saving it until closer to Father Day. The boys could open a pre-Father's Day since they aren't fathers yet present along with Chris' Father's Day presents. Then I woke up this morning to the usual joyous sounds of Peter wanting eggs along with the usual breakfast lineup of bacon or sausage and pancakes or waffles. Again, I struggle with the self discipline to keep the presents I buy hidden until the proper moment. Needless to say my heart melted and as I learned from my Jehovah Witness friend in high school, you don't need to wait for a holiday to show a little extra love. So I brought out big box, its so impressive to get such a BIG box in the mail! Below our pictures of our adventure. Sam is not feeling well so he looks a little grumpy in the pictures, but Peter is super excited.

Birthday Party for Charlie

Here are some photo's from Charlie's birthday party. He turned 1 year this month and we continued our tradition of giving him his own nice sized piece of chocolate cake.

The boys are growing up

These are all recent pictures of the kids. They are really growing up!

Castle Activity

In case you can't tell we are finally updating our blog some with some updated pictures. Jen's Mom sent the kids a cool castle that you can set up and color. This is some of the pictures once it was set up.

Climbing the stairs

Well Charlie is now climbing stairs. It is funny because at bedtime for his brothers he always rushes up the stairs to play in their room. Only problem is he can't get back down - although he is working on getting down from the couch and beds already. Here are a few funny pictures.

Father and Son's Campout

Earlier this month we had Father and Son's Camp out at Bear Creek Park. I went with 4 of the boys (Charlie stayed home with Mom)and we had a good time. Except for Will getting a little cranky towards the end of the night the boys all did excellent. Sam was super excited because we saw some deer tracks across several trails we hiked. Since it has been so dry the mosquitoes were almost non-existent and the weather was perfect. Hopefully we get to camp later this year as a family.

Here are a few pictures of the boys (by the way Peter holding his hands together is because he is pretending to hold a lightsaber).