Loving the outdoors

Look at that innocent, sand-filled face :)
The boys love their new playhouse!

Caleb enjoys splashing in his pool!

Reunion

I had a mini reunion this weekend with some of my best friends from high school! Most of us live around here and get together on a regular basis, but one of us lives all the way in Texas! It was nice to get out (thanks grandma and grandpa Jastifer for watching the boys) and catch up and laugh about old times and we had a lot to laugh about!

Loving Lowes

My 3 year old LOVES going to Lowes! They have this "Build and Grow" activity every Saturday for kids that is free. Kids get a cute apron, glasses, and some sort of kit (this week it was a car) that we get build together. Ethan enjoys hammering in the nails all by himself! We have to visit and sit on every tractor before we can leave of course, but what can I say, the kids loves Lowes - like father, like son!

Getting ready to build our car!

Finished product!Riding the tractors!

A night away...

Jim and I headed to Traverse City for a night last weekend while my mom stayed with the boys. We had a great time and it was nice to have that time together. We went wine tasting and went to a couple breweries and stayed in a hotel that was right downtown. The next morning we ate breakfast and headed home. It was short but sweet visit to a town that we never really had the chance to check out before. The boys had a great time with grandma! Thanks again mom! A few of one of the wineries that we visited....beautiful!

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy fathers day to our wonderful dad's and to Jim, the best dad imaginable for our boys! We love you!

Hooray Caleb! He is now an official walker!!

(You will have to excuse the crying in the background. We had another boy in timeout.)

Strawberry picking

Our playgroup went strawberry picking and the boys had a great time! They preferred to eat them as they picked them, or we would have had a lot more!

These boots were made for walking....

Ethan loves to wear our shoes....

Congratulations Ethan!!

Ethan is officially potty trained!! We are so proud of him and the hard work it took. He is dry during naps now and wakes up dry most mornings. Our boy is growing up....way to go Ethan, we are so proud of you!

Memorial Weekend

We had a great Memorial Day weekend! This was Jim's one holiday off this year and we took full advantage of it! We went to the zoo on Saturday with the Jackson Family and the kids had a blast! Ethan loved riding the train up to the Wild Africa exhibit and feeding the giraffes. They were both fast asleep by the time we got on the highway to go home. We just hung out the rest of the weekend - working outside with it being so nice out. We went to a parade in downtown Kalamazoo where Ethan snagged TONS of candy and the boys enjoyed checking out the animals and "big trucks with lights." Even though it rained all day on Monday, we had a nice three day weekend which we never take for granted around here!!

Happy Memorial Day!

Sporting Boeing!

My sister works for Boeing in California and bought each of us something for Christmas last year from the Boeing store. Well, we went out for dinner the other night and as Jim was walking into the restaurant he noticed that Caleb was wearing his Boeing outfit, then we realized that Jim was too, and then we looked over at Ethan and he was too! Not even planned, each of the boys were sporting their Boeing gear that Kelly bought them. Here is the picture to prove it. Thought you might get a kick out of this Kel!!:)

Splish splash I was taking a bath....