too much

Chris and I are currently househunting. We would LOVE to have a contract by April 30 and get the tax credit but........ We've already looked inside 11 houses, drove past half a dozen more and put 3 bids in. Tonight we put a bid in on my dreamhouse.....just not my dream price. We spend many of our few hours together looking and dreaming at houses. Below is the house I hope to call home.

The boys are keeping me very busy. Braedon has started climbing up stairs, and whatever he can get his hands on. He also will put ANYTHING in his mouth. Most of my days are spent chasing him around the house and getting him down from furniture and taking stuff out of his mouth. Glamorous I know. Robbie's talking so much more and learns at least 1 new word a day (today the word of the day was "sausage"). He also started translating Braedon's baby talk and according to him Brady's favorite phrase is "I want Papa".

P.S. I realize that this is all underlined but after spending 3 hours on the computer today trying to scan our contract I give up and will post it like this!

Spring has Sprung?

Chris and I are both in agreement that snow is to be hated everyday except for Christmas. I know as a kid I had a different outlook on snow so I wasn't surprised when Robbie took a fascination to playing in the snow. These pictures were taken in early February during a massive snow storm.

Climbing up Mt. Roco

and sliding down Mt. Roco (it's not that big of a hill but it keeps the kids entertained)

Due to throwing snow in the face and cold fingers Sophia and Nik came inside early while Robbie made no plans to leave the snow.

Meanwhile Braedon was busy just being himself

But evidence that spring is around the corner? This picture was taken less than a month ago on my birthday. And yes I realize that Robbie's hat is a little on the snug side. That kid has one big head!

Happy Spring

PJ's, Pluggies and Pictures

Life has been crazy. I haven't had time to blog. But here's some of the latest pictures of the kids (most of the time in their pj's, I'm not sure why).

It's very rare that all kids are looking at the camera much less "smiling"

Robbie refers to Sophia as "LaLa" (her middle name is Ella and Chris and I sometimes call her "Sophia Ella" or "Sissy Ella"). He also calls Braedon "Brady" which is soo cute!

We LOVE our pluggies (pacifiers)

I know the time is coming to cut Robbie off of pluggies but I'm dreading that day

This is typical Braedon, just being silly. He, like his brother, likes to fake cough and the reaction it produces for the people around him.

A sweet lady from church made Robbie (for his baby shower) this hat and gave him a summer outfit that had firetrucks on it. I wasn't sure when to pull out the hat for Robbie to play with but this day he discovered it by himself and wanted to do everything with it on.

PJ movie night! Nik was really excited over the premier of "Chuggington" the newest show on the Disney Channel about trains. So we had a pj party to watch it.

Happy March!

The Flu!

It's been over a week and the stomach flu has been sweeping through our family. Chris and I got it first and boy was it brutal. A few days later Sophia and Braedon got sick. Luckily it's only a 24hour bug but this morning Nik got sick. Robbie's still holding on strong but I'm spending most of my time washing hands and blankets and separating the "clean" from the "unclean" ;) Sp this post is short but sweet and hopefully we will all be healthy again soon. Until then here's a pic of our only survivor of the flu......