Ryan's 3rd Birthday

We celebrated Ryan's birthday at his Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong's this year since we were already there for his birthday.  After much discussion and deliberation, Ryan decided he wanted a Lightening McQueen birthday party.  (This changed from day to day and varied in themes from ocean to princess - that's my boy!!)
He got this cute tool box from Grandma and Grandpa Ford.
He made the funniest faces while opening his presents.  Ryan was SO excited for this little flashlight that my Grandma Butler gave him. 
He got the same face when he opened up his bike (I think he made this face before he even knew what it was!!!  So funny!)

And he made the face again when he saw the card Grandma Sperry sent him.  He loved it and really had fun picking off all the cute stickers of Lightening McQueen and friends.

I put this picture on because I thought Chase looked cute in it.

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We're going to Kentucky, we're going to the fair...

So I know this title has nothing to do with this post...but J.J. got a cd of songs from his Grandma and Grandpa Ford and this song is on it and it's stuck in my head!!  

It's finally park weather here again, and the kids were beggin me to take em.  So, after much ado about finishing their lunch, we went.  Ryan's favorite thing to do is slide, and J.J. is obsessed with the "monkey bars". (Yeah, I know they're rings.)
The most fun thing about the park though was that the sprinklers came on while we were there.  J.J. got a huge grin, so I asked him if he wanted to run around in them.  He was thrilled that I suggested it!!  I'm sure he was expecting me to say no because he was saying thanks a million times over!  So here he is, running around in them.  I was lucky he actually stopped for one pic instead of having his back to me, going crazy in the rainstorm.  I laughed my head off at him, he was too funny!

J.J. and Ryan Are Fighting - AGAIN!!!

I know that sounds bad, but it’snot what you think.  J.J. and Ryan have started playing really well together actually.  But they make ENORMOUS messes.  I wanted to show you one!

They have fights with tons of their “guys”.  They line them all up and have them face each other.  They can play for hours like this.  They have only one problem: Chase!  He’s into everything, which means he is all over their stuff.  If they’re in a separate room from me, I usually hear just after a couple minutes, “MOM!!!  Chase is grabbing my stuff!  MOOOOMMMMM!!”  Then I have to rush in there and grab Chase before he ruins their fight.  

I can’t wait for the day when he can actually play with them.  But for now, I still think it is pretty cute that he wants to be in there with his older brothers…even if the older brothers don’t think it’s so cute!

New website!!!

Hello All!!!  I just wanted to let you know that I've started another blog to house all my crafts, cakes, and other gift type ideas.  It was cluttering up our family blog, so I thought I'd give it a new place to stay!  I actually transferred all of the craft and cake posts I had on this blog to that one...so if you are looking for an old post and it's not here, it's there!  If you want to visit the site, here is the address.

http://stayathomemomcrafts.blogspot.com

Halloween in April

The boys have been paying a lot of Star Wars lately and asked if they could get out the costumes they had. So they played a little dress up and ran around getting the good guys.

Wooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!!!

Oh yeah...school is offically done this semester and I have the whole summer off!!!  I kicked it off with an early morning run, some gardening, and a little bit of vinyl cutting.  (And just a tinsy bit of cleaning.)  I have a feeling I'm really gonna like this summer!