HUGE Catch Up on the blog...

Whew, now I remember why I wanted to do one post at a time. After looking for baby pictures of Will for his preschool graduation, I took a trip down memory lane on the blog and realized how special this blog is to me. I don't even remember half of the things I've written about, so I'm so thankful to have this blog to jog my memory. It made me force myself to get some pictures in order and update our recent adventures.
Family picture after the program. Do you think they wanted their picture taken? Walker will refuse to look at the camera when he doesn't want to take a picture.

This is Walker's "best friend" Drew. He talks about him all the time and can't wait to get to school to see "my best friend, Drewie." This picture is blurry b/c there was so much going on and I couldn't get them to look at the camera.

Just a few pictures I took the other day.

This picture is the perfect capture of his belly laugh.

Spring Program~Walker's class

So cute! They did great. Walker did decide to quack like a duck at one point when the audience was completely quiet and when I made eye contact with him and smile and mouthed the word "sing" he decided to stick out his tongue and make a poot sound while holding his ears like a monkey. NICE :) I can always be assured that my children will be the ones to do something like this.

Spring Program-Will's class

I can't believe another year has almost passed us by. The boys had their spring program at preschool today. It was so cute. Here are a few pictures of Will's group.
Here are the 5's waiting to go on stage.

D-Backs

Two words~adorable and hilarious! There is nothing cuter (in my opinion) than a little boy in a baseball hat and uniform. I have a ton of pictures and I'm sure I'll update more later, but it's late and I've been trying to catch up the blog and I'm to tired too write more.

Walker loves playing in the dirt during the games.

Look mom, no training wheels!

On Saturday, I went to take pictures of a friend's house that Len has on the market and when I got home, Will was practically beating down my window to tell me that he had been riding his bike all afternoon with NO TRAINING WHEELS! He was so excited. Will is very intimidated by the thought of trying something new. He will worry and get all worked up about it, but as soon as he finally tries it and realizes he can do it, there's no stopping him. He has been this way since he was a baby. From the slide at the park, to swimming and the slide at the pool to just about everything, he has always had a fear of trying new things. Now Walker on the other hand has no fear, which is pretty scary for me and Len. He wanted me to take pictures and has wanted to ride his bike non stop ever since.

Len's 32nd Birthday

We have a tradition in our house to make a birthday banner for whoever's birthday it is. It's so fun to come up with new ideas and the boys love to help come up with the design. In the past we have just used butcher paper to color on and cut out the letters for our message, but this time we decided to step it up a notch and add balloons. The boys had a BALL trying to blow up the balloons and help tie them to the string. They made cards and couldn't wait to suprise daddy with his decorations on Saturday morning. Call me wife of the year because it was our spring break that week and I didn't look at the calendar. I had it in my mind that Len's birthday was on a Saturday. On Friday morning, Len woke up and went about his normal routine and went to work. After getting everyone settled, I logged in to Facebook to see a bunch of "happy birthday Len" messages on my wall. My stomach dropped and I felt terrible and he never said one word to me about it. He's just sweet like that. Hopefully we made up for it with his decorations and we brought him breakfast in bed on Saturday morning. We decided to just act like Saturday was his birthday all along.

These boys LOVE, LOVE, LOVE their daddy. Their favorite game is "fight." I can't tell you how many times a day I hear, "wet's pway fight daddy, come on wet's pway fight" and they all pile on top of each other and tackle Len. He's making them tough little boys ;)

The "rock place"

There is a dead end road down about half a mile from our house where they haven't started construction yet. It is full of large boulders and piles and rocks and usually Will rides his bike while Walker drives the gator. They love to climb on the rocks and play with sticks and just get as dirty as possible. On this particular day, I brought my camera and we also took our dog Ellie. It started to rain while we were there and I was trying to get us home in the pouring rain with a dog, a tired little boy and also trying to keep my camera dry. We had walked this time since we took Ellie and luckily I brought a plastic bag in case she had a doggie poo. I wrapped my camera in the bag and put Walker on my back and we ran up the hill to get home. It was chaotic but we still had fun.

Walker and Better, Batter Baseball

Will has started playing baseball this year for the first time. Walker wants to play so bad. I think he is going to be my athlete. He is so interested in anything having to do with balls and sports. He loves practicing on the BBB tee. How cute is it to see a little boy in his church clothes playing baseball?

After church pictures

Now that we've seen a few sunny days, I'm motivated to take pictures again. These are just a few that I took after church one day.

Climbing our Cherry Blossom tree

We planted our Cherry Blossom tree 2 years ago and it has grown so much. The boys love to climb it and on this particular day, it had just bloomed and the sun was peeking through it so beautifully. I decided to do a little photo shoot of the boys with the tree. Spring is such a reminder of God's pure love for us and just how powerful he is. I always think of spring as my "New Years" time because of what it represents. New life, blossoms, the greenery, Jesus' death and resurrection. It's such a great time for a fresh start. I love the warmer weather, the sunshine and the promise of new flowers peaking through the dirt. I love the innocense of a child wanting to climb a tree.

Petting a Skunk and cutting hair

The zoo came to our preschool and one lucky advantage to working at the preschool is getting to take pictures of fun activities like snake and skunk petting. Walker loved it and they also danced with a macaw.

I knew this was bound to happen at some point and I knew Walker would be the one to do it. I was cutting Will's hair and I put down the scissors for a split second to spray his hair. The next thing I knew, Walker had the scissors and I saw a big, long chunk of hair on the floor. Luckily, it's not that noticeable. Check that off the list!