Another Creation

Aaron was asked a few weeks ago to create a Batman cake for a friend.  Of course, he did it and it looked terrific.  Here are some pictures of it.

This is going to be the last of Aaron's cakes for a while.  They take up a lot of time which means not a whole lot of playing with the little guys which never goes over very well.  So, the next cake will be in October for Blake's birthday.  Aaron really enjoys doing these cakes but playing with the kids is more important.

Time with Family

Two weekends ago we had the pleasure of having Aaron's sister and her two kids visit us.  Connor could not wait for them to get here.  Although they didn't get here until almost 9:00 Friday night, the kids were wound up.  They played so hard.  When we finally convienced the kids for bed, Connor and Alex went to sleep on the bunk beds.  My SIL said that around midnight she could still hear them talking!  On Saturday morning Connor came to me and said "Don't look in my room."  Of course, my response was "Why?"  Well, apparently he and Alex stayed up very late looking at all of his toys.  Boy was his room a wreck.  But, that was okay. 

Saturday we decided to introduce Joy, Susie and Alex to geocaching.  We knew that Alex would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.  And, he did.  We even found one that the Boy Scouts had placed.  He's in Cub Scouts, so that was really exciting to him.  Plus, Joy was fairly sure he was suppose to find a GeoCache for a badge or something.  So, that was pretty exciting for him.

The crew heading for the 1st geocache.  We had previously found this one.

Alex and Connor looking around.  Clue said "Just hanging around."

Heading for the second one.  This one was put out by Boy Scouts. 

Running back to car after a hot day.

After some long geocaching, we decided to head down to the ice cream shop.  It is kind of an old time ice cream shop.  We all loved it.

We had a great weekend with them.

Another Cake Creation

I just remembered that I haven't shared Aaron's latest cake creation.  Our best friends' little boy was having a Toy Story birthday party and Aaron volunteered to make a Buzz Lightyear cake.  In my mind I pictured torso up.  Was this what Aaron had pictured in his mind?  NO!! OF COURSE NOT!!!  Here is what was in his mind...

Here he is...all 28 inches of him!

Away for so Long

I've sat down numerous times over the past week and a half to write a blog and just couldn't figure out what I was going to write about.  We haven't really been up to very much lately.  My mother-in-law came and stayed with us two and a half weeks.  She actually came in preparatin for my sister-in-law having her baby.  Well, Reece did not decide to make his entrance into this world until a week after he was due.  So, the first week my MIL was here we just hung out, went shopping, etc.  We had a great time.  We really enjoy having her here.  Reece did finally make his arrival a week ago Tuesday morning.  Here are a couple of pictures.

Connor could not wait to get to the hospital to see Reece.

I think Blake likes him.  He kept giving him lovin'.

Aunt Jen with her new little buddy.

Nana and her boys.

We are looking forward to the other cousins coming for the weekend.   Connor can hardly stand himself he is so excited.  He hasn't seen Alex in two and a half months and hasn't seen Susie in 2 months.  I so wish we all lived much closer so visits would be much more often.

So, that is really all that has been going on in our lives the past couple of weeks.  Connor is still loving school.  I'm enjoying spending some one-on-one time with Blake.  Blake is talking so much.  A lot of it we can understand.  That's about all for now. 

First Day of Kindergarten

Well, it happened overnight, or at least that's the way it feels.  Connor has grown up and off to kindergarten he has gone.  Thursday was his first day of kindergarten.  It started off as a great morning.  I got up and ready and then headed downstairs to make his chocolate chip muffins that he had requested.  As I was about to head back upstairs to wake him up, down Connor came...dressed and all!!!  It wasn't even 7:00 yet!  He was so excited.  We had a terrific morning until...Well, let's just start this way.  Connor was dressed in a lime green polo shirt.  I told him a couple of times to be extra careful with the chocolate chips that might get on his fingers.  "Whatever you do, please don't get the chocolate chips on your shirt."  If you know Connor at all, you might know that he is pretty much a great little guy.  Very obedient most of the time.  Can't complain.  BUT, he has this little part of him that just HAS to push the limits sometimes.  So, we're sitting there eating and I notice he's gotten melted chocolate on his finger.  At the same time my mother-in-law try to say "Stop", Connor looks at me and then proceeds to wipe the chocolate right on his shirt!  ON PURPOSE!!!!  What a terrific way to start the day.  I lost my cool for a minute.  If it had been an accident, I'd have been a little bummed that his shirt was now dirty but he did it on purpose and admitted to doing it on purpose!!  Thankfully the shorts he was wearing was plaid with almost every color in them, so when I was unsuccessful at getting the chocolate out, I just went and got a different color polo. 

So, once Aaron was dressed and came down, we read our devotion and headed off to school.  Here is a picture of us getting ready to leave the house.

He looked so big walking in to school.

Aaron and I were able to stay about 45 minutes with Connor as we did activities together.  Five of his classmates came that day.  When we first got there, he was allowed to pick a table with an activity while we waited for the principal to come on the intercom for announcements.  Here is Connor working on the blocks.

Now painting his hand. 

After the two activities, we went to the carpet for a song, story time and some sentence time.  We had a great time with him.  After we left, Connor said they read another story, had a fire drill, playtime and craft time.  We picked him up at 12:00.  He had a great time and wanted to know when he could go back.  I hate to see him growing up so fast, but it was also very exciting to see him start a new chapter in his life.