Grandma Snay Turns 50!

Friday night we celebrated my momma's 50th birthday.  Thursday was the official day but Matt had to work.  We went over to the house and had cake and ice cream,

Colin and Grandma

Liam was pretty excited about cake and helped blow out the candles.  He also started sticking his finger in the whip cream frosting and eating it (with plenty of encouragement from the birthday girl).

Emily, Colin, and Sadie

Liam digging in to his own personal piece of cake.

We all had a good laugh and Matt's choice in tissue paper.

Grandma has been wanting to get a picture with the boys for a while but it just hasn't happened.  Well both kids cooperated for her birthday!

Cuddle bugs

We had a great time, eating, dancing, and playing outside.

Saturday we planned to head to Vegas for a little shopping and a show.  The boys stayed home with G&G Casson.  Before we left they were having a grand time with the water table.

We spent the day shopping and later went to the show Recycled Percussion.  I saw it back in February with Maggie and Tammy and enjoyed it, plus Groupon had a great deal! Anyway when we got there I was pretty nervous that my mom and dad were not going to enjoy it.  My mom even made a comment about being too old to be there, Ha!  I pointed out much older people.  In the end it was GREAT and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Sadie, Matt, and Emily

Sadie and Chris fighting with their drumsticks

We all went to dinner afterwards and did a little people watching on the strip.

The kids and mom

We ate at Margaritaville and they have people on stilts that make balloon hats so of course we got one for Sadie.  She was SO embarrassed!

She was so funny to hang out with because she really does embarrass pretty easily.

Matt joined in on the fun.

Mom and Dad

Overall, it was a great 50th birthday!  We all had a good time.

Swimming!

Last Sunday morning while we were still at the hotel we took the boys swimming.  G&G Casson already had them down at the pool and Chris and I joined when we woke up.

Little Peanut LOVES the water

Boys getting ready to jump in together

Flying

I love this one!

Playing with daddy

Liam and Grandpa shooting water and Daddy and Colin

My sweet peanut and me

Eventually we all decided that breakfast was a good idea.  Plus, Colin was ready for his morning nap.  On Saturday I went to Kohl's and found the softest Curious George stuffed animals and the boys LOVE them.  Liam made Grandma bring them down to the pool so they could watch them swim.  Here is Colin cuddling with his.

He might be a George lover too.

We showered and packed up so we could go eat and ran a few more errands.  When we left to come home the boys both crashed in the car.  Liam slept the WHOLE way home from Phoenix to Kingman!  When we got home, we drove through KFC.  Colin thoroughly enjoyed his mac n' cheese

He even licked the bowl, ha!

The boys and I were able to hang out and relax on Monday, which was nice.  I have mentioned before that Colin has become quite the climber.  He has climbed into the bathtub and flipped himself in and here he is demonstrating his ability to climb on the dishwasher as I am unloading it.

Liam is becoming very independent lately.  At night when we read a book, he immediately wants to read the same book to us.  He gets frustrated at times if he doesn't know the exact words.  We have been reading one book over and over and when he went to read the book, he spit out the words verbatim and was so ECSTATIC!  He looked up at me and said "I can say the words!"  He wants so badly to read.  He also knows how to get in the fridge and grab what he wants.  I was putting Colin down for his morning nap and came out to this...

Liam grabbed himself a yogurt and was chillin' on the couch! We are also working on potty training and Liam is doing very well!  He mainly has accidents when he is too busy to stop playing.  Today I took the boys to Sonic and we sat outside at the tables.  Liam looked up and said he had to go potty.  I scrambled to gather our stuff and throw it in the car and rush him to the bathroom (I had my phone/purse etc, otherwise I would have left the food and came back) anyway we walked over to the bathroom and I was sure he already went but he didn't! I was so proud of my little monkey.  He only had one accident today and it was because we were at the park and he didn't want to interrupt his play time.  Lastly, Liam asked me to measure him the other day and he is 37.5 inches!

Hall of Flame

This past weekend we took a trip to Phoenix with Grandma and Grandpa Casson.  Basically, we had a little housewarming party to attend and the grandparents were kind enough to come to Phoenix and babysit so Chris and I could visit with some friends.  Saturday morning we all went to the Hall of Flame Museum.  Liam is WAY into firefighters and we thought he might enjoy it.

Colin was exhausted and fell asleep on the way there.

They had multiple displays but the first room had fire engines before there were actual engines.  Chris said this one looks like Cinderella's coach (before it turned back into a pumpkin).  We later found out it was only used for parade purposes.

There was one fire engine that the kids were able to climb on and Liam was in heaven!  He was SO excited to "drive" the truck.

They even had real fireman hats 

Here's a little video of Liam and his daddy cruising in the firetruck.

Everyone had to get in the truck and drive with him.  At one point he had grandma and grandpa sitting in the back and Colin and daddy in the front.

Colin did wake up and enjoyed his time playing too.

Colin did a little driving also and was so excited.

We continued on our journey and found a little kids play area. There was a mini fire truck with a hose.

A real fire pole which Liam enjoyed throughly

Liam did this little skit quite a bit!  This is the probably the slowest time he went through the routine.  By the time we realized we should video it I think he was wore out!

Grandma took Colin on this little ride.

Our little firefighter!

(The little cut on his chin is from the night before he fell out of the bed in the hotel and bonked it)

They had a little firehouse and there we lots of trucks/toys etc.  Then there was this gross, dirty, been-played-with-way-too-much doll that Colin thought was great!  He would look at it and smile and then he would lay down and hug it.  It was seriously the cutest, most disgusting thing I have ever seen.  Here is our sweet boy with the doll.

Afterwards we went to grab a bite and Chris went to play golf.  The boys took naps and we hung out at the hotel and then did a little shopping at Target.  When we got back to the hotel Liam wanted to sit outside with his grandpa.  They had dinner together.

Chris and I went out that night and had a wonderful time with friends, some we had not seen in years.  It was great and we stayed up way too late!  Next up swimming at the hotel!!

July Family Photos!

The lovely Andrew and Johanna were in town over Fourth of July and were kind enough to make time to take some family photos for us!  As usual they did a wonderful job!  Liam took some time to warm up to the whole idea and Colin quickly turned cranky after about 5 minutes.  The wind was blowing like crazy and they still managed to get some GREAT ones!

Colin and me

Colin is always SO smiley but never when we have pictures done!

Little family

Serious

Crazy Dance

Sweet smiling boy

Another attempt with all of us

My babies

LOVE this one!

and this one!

My boys

Sweet little guys

Thanks Andrew and Johanna!