A Day in the life...

Drawing on eachother's faces....

holding hands in the car...
playing with the "man bag"....

calling Grammie....

waiting patiently for "ready, set, go!"

Happy 4th Birthday Jonathan!

4 years ago......

TODAY, We had a very mellow and low key birthday this year. I made the cake (a first due too being to crazy with babies the past few years) and it didn't turn out I had hoped but he LOVED it and that's all that matters! A train cake.

The yearly picture with their age!

An awesome "BigFoot" remote control truck that he got pretty good at by the end of the night...Daddy had fun playing too! Thank you Grandpa and Grannie Patnode!

A Forklift, a bulldozer and watch sent from Grammie and Grandpie Bak! Another awesome Excavator from Grandma Patnode!

The Happy Birthday Song...Patnode Style

Thank you to Mary (watches the kids) for this DARLING video tribute to me on my Birthday!

More Summer Pictures....

In no particular order, these are events that we had a blast partaking in:-)
Baby Andrew (one of my sister's twins) being baptized. From left to right: Father Ron, Patti Connor (my sister's sister-in-law/godmother), Uncle Phil (my sister's husband) and my brother Pete (godfather).

LOBSTAS!!!!!! Jonathan and Grammie getting them ready!

Our "beach house" when we went to the Cape!

Aunt Kate's Birthday celebration! I believe she is holding Andy (baby Kerry sleeping in other room) and my niece Erin is on the far right!

Doctor, Doctor!!!! HOOORRRAAAAYYYY for Uncle Pete and his girlfriend Sarah! Both recieved their Ph.D.'s from Dartmouth College! SOOOO Proud of them. Pete has been working at MIT for the past year...something about Cancer research (WAY ABOVE my head) and Sarah will be a visiting Professor at the College of the HOLY CROSS (where Pete graduated from)!! You guys ROCK!!! (oh, that's my mom and dad in the pics! Proud parents...and should be:-))

Summer 2010!

I don't have enough time to ever sit and write much anymore...but here is a glimps of our summer, most pictures from our 4 weeks in Massachusetts:-) Thomas joined for the first two weeks, then headed back to KC to work and deal with a lovely problem of our AC going out..that's another story! Anyway, for 3 of those days he was with us, we went to Cape Cod, where my family use to go every summer. I got teary as the kids ran to the ocean as I use to. Although we were sleep deprived, we had a blast and it was an awesome experience for the kids and they haven't stopped talking about all we did there. Since time is of the essence, I am going to post a few pics today but will try to put more up soon as we have over 300 from the 4 weeks there!

A playground on the beach! PERFECT for my kids!

Frogs, mud and pigtails!

Oh little boys! As I was about to get dinner ready this evening, I heard quite a commotion out back. Daddy was mowing and the boys were doing something. I ran down the deck stairs and really couldn't hear with the mower going, but Jonathan emerged from under the deck with his hands a mess and something in it. I, embarrassed to admit, ran screaming away from him because I thought it was a dead mouse (I have no clue why). Over the mower, Thomas yelled that it was a frog. With further examination, I realized poor froggie was about to be squished to death. We put him in a bucket and brought him to a creek near our house to "go home and eat his dinner." (only after showing all the other kids in the hood).

Here is froggie swimming away after being LAUNCHED into the creek! Poor thing, I hope he lives!Froggie safely in the bucket!

MUDDY HANDS.....

occur on a daily basis ...NUMEROUS times a day in our house!

Mom: WHAT were you doing Jonathan?

Jonathan: I was squishing the mud to get worms.

Very logical..duh, mom!


PIGTAILS

I have nothing else to say except I LOVE having a girly girl!

I love my kids...

BUT man are they BUSY!!!!!!