Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Little Lame Playground


This is a post dedicated to the little lame playground at our apartments, and to our friends Tiana, Ches, and Ellie who are not lame. So if you look in the background, you can see this little tiny playground. We are so grateful for this little tiny playground, and how it can keep our kids entertained for years. Literally years...our boys were playing on this playground when they were learning to walk, climb, jump...etc. Somehow they still find it as entertaining as ever (even though Tiana and I might not). Damon and I love the late afternoon texts, or calls to meet at the playground. They have saved us so many times in that late afternoon crunch of needing something to do before we go nuts. We are so glad that our friends have lived in these apartments for almost as long as we have, and that they are always there for us when we need a quick drop off babysitting favor, or a couple of eggs. Tiana and I sit at the park and talk it up for hours while the kids play, play, and play some more. They haul their trucks, buckets, shovels, footballs, and whatever else they can fit in their wagons to keep themselves entertained. All they really need is each other, and I am very grateful for such great friends, and a park where we can just meet in the middle - almost every day.

Monday, October 5, 2009

The Most Fun Day

After Mike had taken Damon on a long early morning bike ride, and to hit balls at the driving range, we went up to Rockville to meet up with Mike's cousin Heather, her little boy Gavin, Mike's aunt Tamara, our good friends Richard and Dana, and their daughter Sienna. We all went to this awesome Fall Festival at this big Farm. They had little stations for the kids to do all kind of little farming chores. It was so cute. They ground up corn, fed the chickens, painted the fence, cleaned the rugs, dug potatoes, and sawed the logs. They also just got to dig around w/ farming tools, pet goats, go on hay rides, go through a corn maze, and do other fun stuff. We had so much fun with our awesome family and friends!

Damon, Gavin & Sienna - ready for the hay ride

feeding the chickens

I know this is a weird picture, but Damon and Sienna kept hiding in the corn and jumping out to scare us. I personally think this picture is great


Beautiful Heather and her sweet boy Gavin

the kids being crazy after the corn maze

just digging around

pigs, w/ Mike and Damon in the background



yes, Brixton was there too...just in his stroller most of the time. poor kid

the men of my house...sawing away

grinding up some corn

paint the fence

digging potatoes - my dad would be so proud

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Daddy...You know what I always dream about?.....

A few weeks ago we were all just driving along when Damon said "Daddy? You know what I always dream about? SPORTS!!!"

We thought it was pretty cute, and it did not surprise us one bit to hear him say that. This kid really is obsessed with sports. Although we complain that he doesn't show as much interest in other things as we would like him to, we do love that he loves sports.

his first day skiing

i need new pictures of him on his bike. He goes up ramps and off curbs now.




he gets down in this position and tells me we are going to play "ready hike", rather that just playing catch.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

bedtime?

So about a half hour ago my little baby was getting fussy...so I looked at the clock and thought - alright, it's bedtime.  So I wrapped him up tight, gave him a kiss and tucked him in.  I heard him babbling for a while, then it was quiet.  I went into my room, excited to be going to bed early...I looked in his bassinet...and this is what I got back.  A wide awake - VERY happy baby.  Gosh I love him.  

Friday, September 18, 2009

Mike's trip, 2009

In August Mike went on his annual trip with his old roommate Connor.  This year Mike flew out to Seattle, a group of them drove up to Canada, took a ferry out to Vancouver Island, then kayaked out to the Barkley Sound and set up their camp.   There was a group of about 8 people and they hung out on these islands all week long.   They went on long kayak adventures, and saw tons of sea lions,  and a few hump back whales.  Amazingly, Mike said the sea lions were actually a lot scarier than the whales.  The whales were only about 100 feet away and they would come half way out of the water.  Damon LOVED hearing all of Mike's stories and had so many questions for him.  Here are just a few pictures....

a ton of sea lions




now that's manly!  ughhh! 

see the low clouds

Mike and Connor



Connor with a new little friend
Mike and Connor
Mike works so hard every day to provide for our family...I think I look forward to this trip as much as he does because I know how much fun it is for him.  I love him so much and I'm glad this trip was a successful one.   Until next time! 

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Recent...

  I have been so bad about blogging lately!  But this is just a quick and simple post with a few pictures.  

   Everyone that sees our Brixton makes a comment about his huge eyes.  Yes, we know they are big...but we just laugh that EVERYONE that sees him mentions it.   His eyes have earned him the nickname of Bugsy  

I love this picture.  He's such a goof
huh?

The big brother telling Brixton a story.   He looks very interested




Thursday, September 10, 2009

Spiderman?

Yes, that is Damon with the red face.  This was the first time he's ever had his face painted...it was so weird to not really recognize him.  Our own little Spiderman....with his sweet little friend Sienna. 




they thought each other were pretty funny