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Manly Men

Having 2 boys I am always thinking about ways I can help them grow up to be strong, sensitive, caring but yet aggressive men- right? Well I have news for ya, these little boys hang out with a girl all day long- and even though I play "trucks" and "tools" with them they still see me everyday doing my hair, putting on make-up and getting dressed... so I can't help it that Christian came to me so proud that he was able to get my bra on all by himself. He may kill me when he's older for posting this, sorry buddy.

A Surprise Helper

Okay so maybe on some lazy Saturday mornings after we have put Evan down for his morning nap me and Dan will put a movie on for Christian and slip back into bed for a few more minutes of sleep. This time Christian got bored of his movie and came upstairs. I woke up to some noises in the kitchen and found Christian diligently washing the dirty dishes. He's a cutie. Dan actually has a similar picture of himself doing dishes at this same age, I will have to see if I can find it and add it to the post.

Loving The Books

I know I have posted before about how much Evan loves to read books... but he really does. He will often sit and look at books by himself for quite a bit of time. I think we may have a serious reader in the making. Here are some cute pics Dan got of him just chillin laying on a pillow and looking at a book.

Christian's Funny Imagination

Christian is starting to pretend that he is another person or animal and it is so fun. I spend A LOT of my day sitting on my sleigh bed with Christian because it is a TRUCK. Christian does all the sound effects from the doors open and closing, seat belt clicking- and he will make sure you put your on too- to patting his pockets and saying "Oh where are my keys...oh here they are!" This truck is sometimes our Blazer which he always hooks the trailer up to. Sometimes it is a garbage truck or a fire engine in which case we do not make "normal" car driving noises but a siren instead :) He is fun to play with, that is for sure.





In this first clip Christian climbed onto the counter (which he knows he is not suppose to) while I was making lunch. I told him "Get down Christian boy" he replied "I not Christian boy, I a Giraffe" He then proceeded to be a giraffe for the next couple of minutes. I caught the tail end of this make-believe session. Hope you enjoy :)



Christian also pretends to be a rockstar a lot. Our coffee table is his stage. He jumps up there and says "Attention everyone! I'm going to sing the popcorn song!" You would think that this song starts out like "I looked out the window and what did I see..." but my friend, you are sadly mistaken.

Black Beans Anyone?

Scholarship Concert

My good friend Ben has gone completely insane, let me explain. A few years back we lost our good friend, teacher, and director, Syd Riggs. She was very influential and so talented. Starting last year Ben decided that it would be a good way to honor her by producing a concert that all the proceeds would go into a scholarship fund for a student each year. He ropes very talented people into rehearsing for just one week and putting on two shows on Saturday. Last year I had just had a baby so we couldn't participate, but this year we thought we would try the madness out. It was tricky with arranging babysitters for evenings and having the kids with us for part of the all day Saturday rehearsal. But we pulled off a pretty decent show and it was really fun. Of course I remembered to bring my camera on Saturday but somehow only managed to get one picture!

Like I said before we had the kids with us for part of the Saturday rehearsal, Christian was hilarious. He climbed up on the stage several times and would say "Attention Everyone, I sing popcorn!" Then he would sing "A pop pop pop, A pop pop pop!" Then take a bow, it was hilarious. The other cute thing he did was he discovered a drinking fountain that was low enough to the ground that he could get a drink on his own- he was in heaven. He would run all the way up the aisle, out to the hall- get a drink, run all the way back down to where we were sitting and start all over again. I think he probably ran that route at least 50 times. Evan, of course, was as good as gold and just happy to be where we were. We have such great kiddos :)


Here we are with some of our Bestest Friends

Devin Spann, Heidi Spann, Dan, Kevin Goertzen, and Me

Happy Birthday To Evan

Here's Evan with his loot, he was very distracted by how many people were crammed into our living room. But he really does love all those presents.



We finally got Evan feeling better enough to celebrate his First Birthday! It was a mad house here because our families are both so big, but we were grateful everyone was able to come and be a part of Evan's first birthday. We did a test run with a cup cake the day before, just to make sure we would have to rush Evan to the ER during the middle of his party. He really liked the cup cake so imagine my confusion when he wouldn't even try the cake. I realized I should have put icing on the cup cake because that's what totally through him off his game.


Evan examining the cake


Evan thinking, "What the crap is all over my hands?"


Evan finally trying the cake once I got him a spoon so he could eat it in a civilized manner


"Hey this is not that bad, I think I like it!"


Evan now finished with cake starts contemplating squishing it and getting ready to throw it on the floor, thankfully I was able to intervene before there was too much mess


Happy Birthday little boy we sure love you!