Q and his G'pa

'Nuff said. :)

New old things

I distinctly remember running around under a sprinkler with a garbage bag on that had holes cut out for my head and arms. (I think I might have been pretending I was a princess...) I also remember a bright yellow slip-n-slide. I don't remember if we just threw ourselves on the slide or if we did something more creative.

All this being said, Brent and Bridget gave Isaiah a new version of the slip-n-slide for a gift. It was finally hot enough to use it. Izzy loved it and he was quite entertaining to watch. I do wish for the days when I would be brave enough to jump on the little blow up boogie board that came with it and slide down the bright yellow fun-ness. As it was, I sat on the chair and watched, occassionally taking pictures. Oh, to be young again.

I'm growing things...or going to be...

So once again my fabulous parents (and sister) helped me achieve increased domesticity. For the past couple of years I have desired a garden but have a horrible yard for it. We get very little direct sunlight on most of it and pine trees drop pounds of needles on the rest.

My thought was that maybe a small raised-bed garden would be do-able. Anyway, after talking about it last summer and this spring...my dearest mother made my father make it happen :) (do you understand that???)

We actually had quite a packed weekend. Isaiah had Grandparents Day at school and he wanted G'ma and G'pa Troyer to come to his school with him so he called and asked them. Dad decided that they would come up the night before and help build my garden. Little did I know the work this would entail. Eric knew even less. :) As he was helping dad rip up sod, jump on a shovel and shovel in piles of dirt, he looked at me and said, "you got me...you got me good this time." He then went to work the next day and proceeded to tell everyone how I had fooled him into thinking we were going to build a "cute little garden." While there was never any attempts to trick him, he truly wants to believe there was. In reality, I had no idea how much work it would take.

Regardless of E's belief, my garden turned out awesome. I planted 2 tomatoes, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 jalepeno plant, a mound of cucumbers and a mound of zuchini. It is awesome. Thanks mom, dad, Eric (and Mego for watching Q while it was happening). It was a great weekend! On a side note...they stayed two nights! They never stay two nights!

The February Recap

Our February was FULL! So much to say...the slideshows might be a little long but so worth it (in my opinion of course) to see all that was going on.

The first slideshow is of Isaiah's 8th Birthday! Our baby is 8! Can you believe it? He is such an amazing kid...he is growing like a monster, is a fantastic big brother and is so incredibly loving and soft hearted. We are so blessed to have him.

He chose to have a few friends over for a slumber party, they enjoyed pizza and a sundae bar for dessert. They crashed out on the living room floor watching a movie and were up and ready to roll earlier than I would have guessed the next morning :)




This next slideshow is the rest of our crazy February...the first few pics are just of the boys and Quinn at 10 months old. Feb.10th was Chloe's birthday (our niece) and we enjoyed fun in the snow in Ohio. We took a little weekend family trip to Indy where we visited our friends, Kevin, Jen & Nolan and Dory & Tom. Unfortunately I realizes later that I only thought totake pics when the babes were playing. Sorry Dory & Tom. :( Kevin and Jen offered to watch Quinn while we took Isaiah to the Children's Museum as a surprise. We had a great time but didn't get any pics there either since when we walked in the door I realized the camera battery was completely dead. Sigh. Oh well, I guess we always have memories.....

Our January

Here are some pics from the rest of our January....

Happy 1st birthday, Quinn!

Happy 1st Birthday Quinn!!!

My poor baby was so incredibly sick and miserable for his first birthday and all of Easter weekend. :( He was running a fever and barely maintained so I didn't get many good pics...BUT...

QUINN,

what a surprise you were and what a blessing you are! From your perfect smile to your crazy, wild hair, you are amazing. God knew we needed you in our family...to brighten us with your laughter and silliness and to keep us on our toes with your spunk.

We love you!

Daddy, Momma, Isaiah (and Jeb)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2010 is here. Craziness.

This year we spent the evening with our friends, Shane & Nichole. Isaiah spent the night at his friend's house and we took Quinn with us. We started the evening by serenading Shane for his birthday...(yes, he is a NY's baby: the debate would be, do you always get jipped on your bday if it is NYW or is it cool because there is always something going on?) Anyway, we ate a ton of food, played cards, talked, laughed hysterically and had a fabulous time. We enjoyed getting to know S&N's good friends, Jen & Rick and their 2 kids. It was a wonderful, low-key way to bring in the New Year with people we have come to love and cherish!