10th anniversary

Wow, I cannot believe it is troy and my 10th anniversary already!  We snuck away overnight last weekend to Red Wing, where we met, troy proposed to me, and we were married.  It was wonderful, even though we just moved from there 3 years ago, it truly felt like we were away.  We drove down to wabasha to go to the national eagle center, hiked the bluff where troy proposed to me, wandered the parks of Red Wing, and enjoyed our beautiful Bed and Breakfast that was built exactly 100 years before I was born!  It was the most beautiful house I've ever entered, the owners have done an amazing job preserving and restoring the home.  Thank you honey for the wonderful last 10 plus years - looking forward to many more . . .

Easter 2009

Wow, this took so long - I had so many pictures to share, I couldn't decide. Our Easter was so wonderful - what a beautiful day for an easter egg hunt at my moms! It's so fun now with 2 boys, and both were really into it this year - even brennan was looking in the rain gutters for his easter basket! It's our tradition to put out a carrot in the boys shoes so the easter bunny can have a snack. We got up early and went to the early service at church, we were bribed by an easter breakfast (the church was encouraging members to go to the 8am, because they have so many people come on easter, and already had 4 services what a wonderful problem!). We came home from church and Kobe found his basket in the bathtub and brennan found his in the closet. The easter bunny was a great hider this year! After an hour or so, we headed to my mom's for an easter dinner and egg hunt. My favorite part was Kobe talking about going to the "happy church service", we had explained to him the maunde thursday service and why it was sad and when troy and I went to the good friday service, it was sad too, so Kobe still refers to the easter service as the "happy service" ;)

Scooter Reward

Look at that face - is that my proud boy?  Kobe completed his sticker chart with 50 stickers for making his bed, and he lucked out that the scooter was also on sale at Target last week, and a little help from his wonderful family.  Mommy and Kobe took a trip to target and HE purchased his scooter - it's only been a few days but he is already a pro - he started out in the house, and is now confident outside, riding it down to the park.  I'm not sure where he gets his coordination - not from his mommy for sure!  :)

cheesy shoes, cheesy face

Kobe at bubba gumps at the MOA on toddler tuesday after a day of bunny surprises.

Kids, Kids, and MORE kids!

Great pic of Abby, Kobe and Ashley, at their "picnic" of snacks. Oh wow, brennan's actually looking!!! Great pics of Kobe, Chase, and Molly, but again, brennan not looking! Yeh!!!  brennan finally looking. Just a few kids watching a movie!

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How can you say no to a face like that - this is my cousin's little girl, Molly.  We've had lots of fun at our house lately - lots of playmates for Kobe and Brennan (although he doesn't like anyone his size right now except for pushing around).  I have the privilege of watching my friends girls about once a week whom are the same age as my boys, and play so well (except brennan).  And then last weekend we had my cousins two little ones all weekend.  It actually  went very well - but I don't think troy and I will be having two more kids anytime soon!  Plus we had an adorable little puppy staying with us, and it's a good think she was adorable, because the potty thing did not go well at our house (could it have been that fact that we had 4 kids?).  Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of the puppy, Liberty Bell was her name.  Libby was fun - but I had no idea how much work a dog is.  Wow!  Good lesson for mommy!  I'll stick with kids for now.

Daddy's HOME!

So glad our daddy and my hubby is home.  I feel kind of silly now - but several months ago Kobe out of the blue had announced that daddy was going to turn 38 and go to heaven . . . I said no, he'll be home with us . . . Kobe said no, he's going to turn 38, be home for 5 days and then go to heaven.  It's weird that everything worked out perfectly, troy turned 38, he was here for 5 days, the next day was flying to DC - so mommy was extremely nervous on Wednesday as troy flew to DC - thank you to all my friends who didn't make me feel silly, and prayed for him to have a safe flight.  After moving to another plane that didn't have mechanical failure which caused a slight delay he had a safe trip, but my nervous knot in my stomach that day and just thinking about how we would survive without our daddy and hubby was a great way for God to show us how much we need and love our daddy and how much we appreciate every little thing that he does, and that he is the highlight of the boys and my life!  We love you honey.

AV library . . .

For those that have little ones - if you haven't checked out the story time at the apple valley library on galaxie - you should!  They have a new lady who is incredible.  She totally keeps it upbeat and moving - even brennan sat through the whole thing!  We just dropped by the library to grab a few books and ended up staying for story time, and sure glad we did!  Kobe even shouted out the names of every construction vehicle she held up - even she was impressed!