Odds and Ends

The last couple of weeks have been busy.  I have failed at taking pictures of everything but here are a few.  My grandma is snowbirding in Lake Havasu and she was able to meet Amelia for the first time.

Colin loving on his sis

Amelia sported her first pigtails

Colin worked on his car.

Sweet girl fell asleep like this one day

I took the kids to Lake Havasu one day to visit with Great Grandma, Aunt Sharon, Uncle Don, and my cousin Eric.  We went to the park there, which they LOVE.  Here's Colin who convinced his very tall cousin to go down the slides with him.

Liam found a little buddy at the park and was all over the place.  He had a BLAST.

Eventually we went over to the water and threw some rocks.

Liam 

One evening the boys were playing in the garage and Colin was suddenly screaming.  Liam said he "accidently" hit him with the broom while he was putting it away.  I knew instantly he was not telling the truth which did not sit well with me.  Chris eventually got the truth out and he was putting the broom away but Colin stepped in his way so he swung at him.  I was so angry I couldn't even talk to him.  Here is Colin the next morning.  His eye was swollen and he had a very purple eyelid.

Scott came to town for a little visit which was nice.  Mollie had planned a surprise 60th birthday for Tim so it was our job to keep him busy on the Saturday of his birthday.  I had plenty of projects to keep him busy.  Here are the boys sanding our dining room table.  It had some surface bump-deformations where water had soaked in past the stain so we decided to resurface it.  It still needs some work but it will be finished eventually.

The boys helping grandpa blow out his candles

Grandpa made some whipped cream and these boys were very happy about it.

Amelia's after-pigtails 'do

Amelia with Aunt Sharon. They came back to town to hang out a couple days before they go back to Ohio.

Me and my babies

Silly faces

Little lady sporting one of her homemade one-sies from Gina at work.

This past Saturday, the train museum was giving away free train whistles so we took the boys.  They had a great time, and then we went to Mr. D'z for brunch, the Powerhouse to check it out, and of course to the train so the boys could climb all over it.  It was a really good morning.

This little gal loves to grab her toes lately

Sunday Liam did some yard work before the Superbowl ;)

Monday while Liam was at school, we were running errands and had about 20 minutes before I needed to pick Liam up.  I took Colin (and Amelia of course) to the park.  He seemed concerned at first and asked me if I was going to play with him.  I think he was worried that Liam was not there.  I said of course I will play with you!  We had such a good time.  It was a nice little park date.

I even showed him how to twist the swing and he thought it was great!

Can't believe how big this guy is getting!

Amelia's 3 Month Photos

Here are Amelia's 3 month photos.  I pretty much love them all.

Sweet baby

Close up shot of her angel baby face

This one was my favorite

Some how the her legs got cut off when scanning these in.  Still cute though!

Holding her head up

Loved her little dress

Happy gal!

Balloon Festival

Last weekend we went to the balloon festival.  We left for Lake Havasu Friday night and stayed at my grandma's condo so we could catch the balloons early (they start at 7:45) plus it allowed us to turn everything on to prepare for my grandma's arrival this last Monday.  We didn't leave the condo until about five minutes after the balloons started lifting off so the boys watched the the beginning from grandma's balcony.  They had one balloon go up and some prop planes fly around it to start the festivities. 

Boys excited to start our day

Amelia and Yoda

We discovered that we didn't have to be at the festival to see all the balloons.  A majority of them were flying over and around the London Bridge but it was cool to get up close to a lot of them.

Daddy and the kiddos

Amelia and me

Attempt at a family photo

Liam was cranky about five minutes into being at festival.  He wanted to go on the Ferris Wheel.  We told him that we would later.  He remained cranky a while longer (he did not sleep well the night before) but eventually snapped out of it.

Humpty Dumpty was one of my favorites

Colin spotted a firetruck and immediately needed to check it out.  Liam did too.

The boys were hungry even though they did have some breakfast at the condo.  While they waited for their pancakes they played tag with dad.

Amelia and I waited for the pancakes

Chris got one order of pancakes thinking it would be plenty for the boys since they did have a yogurt and a banana.  They DEVOURED the pancakes and both asked for more, ha! 

Colin enjoying his pancakes

While we were hanging out eating,  Chris went to grab me some donuts, I was feeding Amelia, and the boys were dancing around to the music.  All of a sudden I heard Liam screaming.  I didn't hear him initially because the music was so loud, but luckily a nearby couple heard him.  He was on the other side of table and ducked down so I couldn't tell anything was wrong.  Well he had his finger stuck in a folding chair!  He pinched his finger pretty good.  It took him a while to get over it.  It basically ruined his morning fun.  Once he stopped crying we wen to check out the hot air balloon that you could walk in.  Liam was still upset and didn't want to take a picture.

The boys

Once we told Liam we were going to the bounce house his finger was magically better and he was back to having a great time.  It was an obstacle jump house with a slide at end and then you run back around and go again.

Colin loved it too.  This picture Chris captured cracks me up.  I think that girl made him a little nervous.

Amelia hung out with us and let us take pictures of her while the boys played in jump house.

Then it was on to the rides.

Love this one of my boys

Then the boys wanted to do the slide.  I'll admit I was super nervous seeing Chris up their with both of them.  I was afraid one of them would accidently slide down and Chris wouldn't be able to catch them but once I went with them I realized there is plenty of room.

They loved it

so much that they went again with me

Then Liam did the roller coaster

and Colin went on the helicopter again.  Colin wanted the red helicopter the first time when both boys went but was stuck with yellow.  I think he was happy to have the red one the second time around.

I should also mention once we got to the rides Liam completely changed his mind about the Ferris Wheel, ha!  As we were leaving the ride area Liam asked if they could get cotton candy and of course Colin joined in.  I told them they had to ask their daddy.  It was the cutest interaction and Chris said he'd need some hugs first.  The boys gave their daddy the biggest hug ever.

We then watched a couple of the dogs doing tricks/courses at the dog show.  The boys actually kept asking to watch the next dog.  It was cute to see how neat they thought the dogs were.
Once we left we went to eat lunch at Red Robin and met up with Grandma Snay and Aunt Sadie who came to town to do some shopping.  Here is Amelia in her hot air balloon dress she sported for the day.

and one with her grandma

After lunch we brought the boys back to the condo for naps and Amelia and I went with grandma and Sadie to do a little shopping.  We all had an exhausting, wonderful day!!!