Hoppy Easter!

We had a great Easter! It was too rainy to find eggs outside, but the boys didn't seem to care. Keston loved his new swords and loved popping the eggs open by stepping on them. Calon loved his new board books and taking all the eggs Kes found out of the basket. We had dinner with our friends/neighbors, which was really fun and delicious. It was a good day. Here are a few pics as well as a few from today when we had another egg hunt outside and some from a week or so ago when it was actually warm enough to swim one day!

Backyard Makeover

We have finally redone our backyard!! Our yard was landscaped when we bought it in zeroscape- which is fine for some people, but for us it was awful- no comfy place to play for the boys. It also had a large slope at the back that was covered in rock that made half our yard unusable. Now that the weather has been nice we finally have fixed it to be what we want. We had a retaining wall put up in the back to give us more unusable space, we pulled out some awful bushes, took out 3 yards of crusher fines, we made a little play area for the "castle" and we laid sod!!! Hooray grass!! Most of the credit goes to Chad- he is such a good worker- really Chad rocks- except for the retaining wall he has done everything else. Thanks Chad!!

We went in the back so seldom before we have no before pics, but here are the afters- we still want to put in some trees on the sides and more bushes up top, but here it is so far...

Calon Walks!!

Well, Calon didn't want to be rushed into walking- we thought he'd walk by 11 months, then he learned to speed crawl and lost all interest. He would hold up his legs in protest if we tried to hold his hands to get him to walk. He has cruised for months and even taken 2-4 steps from me to Chad or Keston, but nothing on his own. But on Sunday I was on Chad's laptop at the kitchen counter and the boys were on the "castle" (20 ft away) and out of the corner of my eye I see a toddling Calon, with Graham crackers in both hands walking over to me- so cute. We got some videos from his first day walking and some videos of him walking to Keston ( his favorite person to walk to) that I am putting on here. I'm sure it will take a few weeks for crawling to become obsolete, but he is well on his way- Yay Calon! He seems like such a big boy now.

Auntie Monica Visits

Monica came to visit over spring Break- we had a great time with her. Great company. Keston and she became "best friends" instantly. Monica and Chad on the other hand had a mini war going on- we're talking food in the face, squirting with hoses, cars in the bed, poop remarks on facebook- they are funny! We love you Monica!

On the way to get Monica.
Had to go to Chuck E. Cheese- where a kid can be a kid.
Made some good food together- mostly sweets like lemon bars, brownies and muffins- but we did get some healthy stuff in too, like chicken catchatori and here Cal is enjoying it.
The boys loved reading with Monica!Calon learned to open the DVD player while Monica was here.
Cal is rocking the spikes- nothing to do with Monica, just had to add cause he's so cute.

Happy Leprechaun's Day

Keston is such a great age- holidays are so fun! We started talking about St Patrick's Day a few days ago and it has officially changed to Leprechaun's Day. We took a long time making a great trap to catch the Leprechaun- so we could get his coins and candy. We used rainbow paper and drew clovers, rainbows, coins and candy to be sure to lure him in. Keston also found really good green stuff to put in the trap to get him to come inside:) We wore our green clothes so we wouldn't get pinched by the Leprechaun and when we went to the store today Kes pointed out every person that had no green that was going to get pinched. So Fun!!

At the bottom are a few pics of Calon's new favorite place.

The Boys

Here are some pics of what the boys have been up to the last couple weeks...

Calon loves eating- most of the time.













Trapped himself in Kes' new bed frame.













Kes' new bedroom- rough draft.













Calon loves playing with flour.













He's so cute!


























Look at that new block.













Experimenting with pulling...













...and crushing.













Can't put nugget down, but must crawl.













They love the great outdoors- even in jammies.













What a nice big brother.













My darling boys!!













Playing with rice crispies is too fun to stop and pose.

Monster Jam

Chad and Keston went to Monster Jam last night. Chad says, "We went to Monster Jam. It was fun!." And Keston says, "They crushed cars and they jumped very high and Superman truck was there and Grave Digger was there- everyone was there. And they jumped very very high and very big like this (arms open as wide as possible). And I loved it."

A shot before they left.















El Toro Loco, from NM.















Superman doing an awesome jump.















The Grave Digger.















Limited leg room.















In-between entertainment.















Self shot- complete with awesome purple earplugs!















Cute!















Trying out a ride.















The new love- Grave Digger.















Bush photo op.















Bell photo op.















A little video they recorded.