Summer begins

So begins our crazy summer. We have everything from 2 camping trips (summer -into fall) to the kids first trip to Disney planned this summer. And yes our annual summer beach trip. We are packing now for Ty and Aidan to spend their annual week during the summer with Granny and Grandad. They are going early this year so Chad and I can sneak off to Aruba to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. How amazing to celebrate 10 years being married to your best friend. We have had a busy past month getting settled into our new house, but we are loving it. As soon as we get back from our trip Chad is setting up their new play set in the back yard. I'm sure it's going to be an exciting day for them when it goes up. We will probably just have to eat lunch and dinner out there so they don't have to stop playing. Aidan has become our little mimic, she copies everything we do and is saying so many new words every day. It seems as if our baby girl has grown overnight. Ty and Aidan are great play mates now, I'll watch Ty lean over and hug her neck and just say "I love you Aidan". They are of course brother and sister and engage in their fare share of quarrels, but it melts our hearts to watch how protective Ty is of Aidan. Aidan is Ty's little shadow, yet she has shown she will do just fine standing up for herself. We are blessed so richly with our family and our children. We watch their little personalities develop, their interests, and their talents and thank God every day for our babies.

March make up

So sorry for not posting in March, we had such a busy month but a quick catch up for that month. We started out the month by having Ty's b-day party with his friends at Monkey Joe's (his favorite place). We celebrated with a Diego party. He had a blast, and it was a great way to spend time with his friends before moving to a new city. Ty and Aidan both got to go spend a week with Granny and Grandad on the farm while Chad and I got us ready to move. Granny and Grandad brought Ty and Aidan back just in time for us to drive the trucks to our new house. Granny was able to spend a whole week with us while we got settled. Then we had a visit from my niece Megan and Ty and Aidan's cousin Brayden. Nana also came up to spend a few weeks with us while I continue to get our new house in order. It's a beautiful home, but it is over 100 years old and we have been doing things in it non stop. From scrubbing the wood floors to Chad fixing things around the house. So far we are really enjoying the area we live in.

New city

We are now all moved into our new house, we call our little town Mayberry since we can walk to a number of things in our little area. We live in the historical part of our town and we take walks around the corner to the post office, library, cute little local shops, restaurants, and a little mom and pop drug store/soda fountain shop. Our back yard looks like our very own park, we will be putting in a play set for the kids very soon. We have already spent 90% of our time out back with picnics, playing ball, and swinging in the little tree swing. We unfortunatley had to become acquainted with the little drug store around the corner after spending all day in the ER with Chad who has kidney stones on both sides. That is just the way we wanted to get familiar with our new town. He is doing everything he can do to have them pass without any form of surgery. Ty keeps telling daddy, "I hope you feel better soon, daddy" Aidan is crawling no more, almost as soon as we moved here she has decided to walk. She is talking, and repeating a lot more things. She screams "TY" when she hears him get up from his nap (she isn't our sleeper and is usually up before him) She will tell you what a doggy, kitty, and cow say - too cute. And mommy, Ty and Aidan all love to dance in the morning- I'm hoping to get our favorite morning wake up song and dance on video to upload on the web site. Ty is getting way too big! Just yesterday I was cleaning up from lunch and getting Aidan's diaper changed to get them in bed for naps. I asked Ty to go on up to his room and I would be right up to put his pull-up on and get him into bed. Went up and my big boy had already taken off his underwear/shorts put on his pull-up and got into bed. Had a tearful moment realizing my little boy isn't so little anymore!