Another weekend has come and gone!

Well to sum it up..... we had a good weekend! Nothing spectacular just a good weekend. We went to Billy and Heidi's Friday night for a cookout, my Dad came to visit over night Sat. (he is from Manton), took a nice long nap on sat while the boys slept, had a sunday roast for dinner, layed in the sun, went to the store... by myself to get a few groceries. Just one of those refreshing weekends that I have not had in a long time! I got a few cute pics of the boys too! And guess where they are playing, the landscaping rocks, where else! LOL!












Teagyn's little airplanes Grandpa got him for his birthday!

Teagyn's 1st Birthday!

So here is what Teagyn's birthday looked like! At the last minute someone took the last few hours of my shift! I was so excited! So anyway, this is Teague with his first piece of pizza. Loved it!

A little help from big brother wiith the candle!

Loved his cake!

He gave me the best smile here! It is what he does best, such a happy baby! We am so blessed!

He ripped right into these.

Wow! It is so hard to believe that my baby is not so much a baby anymore. Heartbreaking in a way. But I have to say, I love how big he is getting and how much easier things seem to get with both of the boys now too! Thank you all for coming and for Teagues gifts!

Tomorrow is the big day!

OMGosh, tomorrow my baby is going to be 1! Can you believe it? It sounds so cliche to say, but it has gone by so fast. It seems like it was only yesterday that we at the hospital! I cannot believe how much they grow in just one years time! Just this week Teagyn is standing alot on his own AND walked 3 steps to me yesterday!! So the bad news... I have to work on Wednesday 12 hrs : ( ! I am so bummed. I know, he has no idea. It isn't that big of a deal really, I am just bummed (did I mention I am bummed?)! So we are having a little birthday party for him on Thursday night.

Last night Gavyn......... WENT PEE PEE ON THE POTTY!!!! For the first time ever! I was so surprised he went, and he was embaressed! I am so proud of him! Tim said I made too big of a deal about it and got him all embaressed, typical mom. LOL! At any rate, with any luck we are on the path to only 1 child in diapers! That would be so nice!

I will be back with some birthday pics soon!

Gavyn's Fish

Last night Tim took Gavyn fishing at a little fishing hole by our house. Gavyn caught 2 fish! Even bigger than Daddy's! Gavyn came running inthe door around the couch, yelling "mommy I caught 2 fish". With his hand held up, all five fingers in the air with 2 fingers to the side, trying to show me 2! It was so cute! These are memories that he will have forever! I am so blessed that Tim is the Dad that he his. He love se to do these things with Gavyn. My boys are lucky little guys to have such an awesome Dad!

A few new pics....

The boys are both getting so big. Gavyn has finally begun to round out his TERRIBLE two's, I think. It happened pretty much overnight! I am not sure exactly how or why, maybe all of the praying I did finally paid off, but I am so thankful! I feel like I can actually enjoy him again. Doesn't that sound awful!? But if you know me/him you know some of the "terribles" in terrible twos I am talking about, LOL! Gavyn is really into coloring right now . so when we went grocery shopping we got a pencil box for his markers and crayons- he loves it! It is nice to have something for him to do independantly. Even if it only for a few minutes!

The picture below is a pic of my beautiful flowers that Gavyn picked for me. Almost daily he will come inside with weeds (literally roots and all) with the most angelic face saying," here mommy I pick these for you"! The most precious words I have ever heard!

Teagyn is standing for a short amount of time, solo! He want's to walk in the worst way! He has gotten very opinionated in the last week. Whenever Gavyn eats he wants a snack as well. That too is getting easier. He is eating "people" food now for the most part. Here is a pic in Teag's fav new spot! Yep, the landscaping rocks. If you remove him from that spot he will scream, it is really funny!

The joys of summer- hope you are enjoying them as much as we are!

Family picture's at Kirk Park...

Here are a few pics from our Family pictures that we had taken. They turned out so good. Jessica from, jessicafaithphotography.com took them and did an amazing job! We are all doing good. Gavyn is talking like nobody's business, full sentences. Teagyn is very close to walking- can't believe that he will be a year August 6th. Tim is busy as always. He picked up a side job so this will consume him for the next week- but the money is worth it! I have 1 more test and 2 labs, then my final exam and I am DONE with the class that I am taking. Then off for a month untill fall semester starts.
We have camping plans in a month with the Vandenberg's at Yogi in a month. We are all so looking forward to it- especially Gavyn! And I will be going down to Indiana to meet up with my best frind from New York for a few days. That about wraps up our summer "plans".
More later!

I'm back

I have not been to my blog in quite some time! SO busy with school work now- and summer, summer spells out busyness to me. I love the warmth of summer! Gavyn is unstoppable from going out that door every morning. Where ever Gav goes outside- so does his Tonka truck! He is so cute.

Teagyn is crawling. It only took him 9 1/2 months to get it down, LOL. He is such a big boy. @ his 10 month appt. he weighed 25lbs. Healthy none the less.

Tim is staying busy with work, has been is E. Lansing for the past few weeks but thankfully that is over now. Still not in Holland, but closer to home. I always get all worked up when he is away. I know it sounds silly but being home alone in that big house with just the boys and I there can be scary. I would like to think that Max would protect us should someone come around, but Max is such a wanderer that who knows where he is half the time.

With all of the rain we had this past weekend, our basement flooded. It is so tough to have to throw all of that stuff away that was ruined. Tim and his Mom worked so had are vacuuming up all of the water (about 1 in.), as I was scheduled to work 10-10. Thankfully, I asked for voluntary on-call and I got it around 7:30. So Tim had quite the day to say the least with both of the boys and the mess. I left all of the windows open down there today so hopefully that helped dry up what little water was left. On the bright side... I have a clean basement. It so desperately needed to be sorted through and cob webs cleaned out so that hopefully sometime in the near future we can get that area finished.

Well, now that I have you up to date... I will try once again to "keep up" on it! Enjoy the beautiful day!

Ps, I have some cute new pics, I will get them up soon!