Summer's here!

Okay.. so it looks like we can officially call it... winter is dead and we are heading into the summer... although it looks like we are skipping spring again this year, 60 degrees and rainy yesterday and 90's all weekend!... Although this is what I was looking for!..These are the days that I appreciate being at home w/ the kids...we got Anna a water table for the backyard and put the pool up as well!...Here's Joey Mesmerized by his new mobile above his bed...

it buys me a few moments to get things done!...

Wish us all luck this weekend!... Jake is off for a much needed vacation with the guys!.. He's going fishing in MO. for the weekend with some buddies, hopefully he'll come back Sunday with a string of fresh catches for us and maybe a bit of a tan ;)

Updating!!!

Okay... been awhile since I updated!...

So little Joey is trucking along nicely!... He continues to grow and is changing everyday...much more interactive and is starting to giggle which is fun. He was baptised last week and everything went well... i would post a photo but in my rush getting ready I neglected to charge the battery in my camera!...Ugh, there goes my mother of the year award!...We had a fun celebration afterwards...and I did manage to get a good pic of him "talking" with Grandma!

We all took a trip to Bethies house in Souixfalls last weekend... It was funny because when we were packing the only thing anna wanted to take was her balloons!...It was quite entertaining to watch her try to catch the helium ones in her suitcase

Anna and I have been going to a local gymnastics place on fridays for open gym time...she has a blast and gets to jump on trampolines and release some energy! We also went to see Anna's two favorite cartoons Shaggy and Scooby, she was so excited and sang them the entire theme song, I think they were impressed...she did it all for a scooby snack!

We had a big event with Anna as well!.. Yesterday she traded in 3 binkies at the store for a new and improved Andyboy!!! We've named him "buddyboy".. Can you believe the deal!!.. she really did it, never thought I would see the day. We brought in the binkies to the store and she handed them right over without a fight. We had a small setback at night when Anna decided she didn't want buddyboy anymore she wanted her binkie back but Jake calmed her down and she slept peacefully through the night!

I started working again at Firethorn Friday nights...good way for me to get out of the house for some adult time 1 day a week and I think it's good for Jake to have a little hands on time with the baby!

We're off to DesMoines this weekend for Memorial day.. should be fun as Joey and Annie will be in town... we plan on breaking in that new deck of theirs with a summer bbq!