My Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day to my two favorite valentines. Here are some photos of my guys over the past few years.

I love you guys!

Richard's Walk to Emmaus

We had the privilege of going to my brother's closing ceremony tonight. It was so good to see him, and of course, words cannot express what an amazing experience he had.

YEAH!!!!!!! We get to see Uncle Richard!

Noah sat (colored, snacked, etc.) so quietly for an hour and a half waiting to get to hug his Uncle Richard.

Noah, Richard & Marco

Noah and his Uncle Richard

Dad, Richard & Noah

Richard & Kathy

:)

Painting Picasso

I bought these really fun dot-paints for Noah, and we opened them up today and tried them out. He loves to paint, so they were right up his alley. It's a good thing tonight is bath night!

Grace's Birthday Party

Today was our friend Grace's birthday party. Noah and Grace have gone to school together since they were newborns and are sweet friends. The Tumblebus was the highlight of the party. It is a gymnastics classroom on a remodeled school bus. It visits St. James every week and has been an exciting party of Noah's school days since he turned two. We were excited to get to see him enjoy it since we've never been on it before. There was a trampoline, swinging net and ball pit on it today (they frequently change out the activities on it). Noah's favorite was the net. Several of the other kids were scared of it or cried when going across, but of course, our fearless Noah had a blast and laughed and squealed all the way through.

Noah and the birthday girl, Grace

Tumblebus!!!!

Wheeeeee!

Noah enjoyed hiding himself under all the balls

Happy Birthday Grace!

What a cutie-pie!

What Super Bowl?

We had a Super Bowl party tonight with our Life Group. I don't know if the Super Bowl was actually on or not though b/c I didn't see a single play. I was having a nice time visiting with friends. I think the guys might have been watching a football game or something. Anyway, it was nice to visit and laugh. We had some good conversations about boobs and gas. Our kids had fun playing together as always and there was lots of good food to keep us away from New Year's Resolutions.

We all donned our special 3-D glasses for the advertised "big event" after the 2nd quarter, but to our dismay it was no big event. Oh well, it was fun sporting our super cool glasses for awhile. Of course Noah has a perfectly legitimate question as some of the grown-ups were working to cut them all apart and get them ready. "Why are you making paper glasses?" Good question kid. I've never thought 3-D anything was all that impressive, but the thought is what counted. Thanks Nick!

Noah playing with Ranae and anyone else that will let him crawl in their lap. He has no problem just going up to people and getting in their lap and talking to them. In this case, he was impressed with a spikey hair-do.



Cutie-patootie Carson and his Aunt Reyna

Carson is a major cutie and such a cuddly thing. After carrying him to the car, I realized I really missed out on some good snuggling that night. I'll have to make up for it next time.

Bella, Noah and Maddie jumping on the bed in the "fun room" Brooke and Craig set up for them. Craig and Brooke always do a great job of helping the kids feel welcome.

My Valentine

It is SO HARD to get a good picture of my child. Most of the pictures are of the back of his head or he's making some ridiculous face and saying "cheese" while basically looking at the ceiling. Here are a few that I got yesterday. They're not wonderful, but he's my very sweet & handsome boy nonetheless.

my sweet boy

He's been working on his fishy lips lately.

a very short moment of silence and stillness