Christmas Concert

Here is the setting for Jacks first Christmas Concert. It was too cute. He did a fabulous job singing and identifying where we were in the crowd.

Catching Up

It has been a while; we have been very busy!
Jason came to visit for Thanksgiving as did Aunt Julie, and Grandma and Grandpa. We had a full house for sure! It was so nice to see everyone. The girls were up at 4 am the day after Turkey and attempted to tackle the madness that is known as Black Friday. I have to say that it is def an experience that everyone must have!!! It was absolutely CRAZY but it was so much fun and I cannot beat the deals I got! I think I started and almost finished my shopping in one day. I still have a couple people to buy for but it was wonderful!
The boys have spent last weekend at Fair Hill where they watched their daddy come in second in the Fair Hill Challenge. What a mess. We got about 2 inches of snow on Friday and by race time the course was a mud hole! Mike was covered from head to foot and our poor pooches went from white to black....they seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Now we are gearing up for X-mas. School is crazy this time of year, the Holidays are in the air and everyone is geared up to celebrate. We still have seven more school days before break but who is counting!
I am hoping to blog again before the holidays but if not Happy Holidays to all who may wander across this :)

MINE, MINE, MINE

As is common with most three year olds my little three year old is struggling with sharing. Who would have thunk it ? The funny thing is that he is not so bad with sharing with other people as he is with his own brother. As soon as Charlie has something of "Jack's" he wants it, he has to have it, it is the end of the world if he does not have it. We are working on this but have you ever tried to reason with a three year old? Not the easiest thing in the world to do. In the pictures you will see JAck riding around in his blue car, on the back of the car is his scooter. He was giving his scooter a ride but he did not want Charlie to get it so he drove it around the driveway. Not the best display of sharing but def cute and creative anyway!

Dear God

I would like to say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping Matt and Jason safe over this last year. Thank you for guiding them through secret missions and flying bullets. Thank you for bringing them home unscathed and in one piece. Thank you for giving them the courage and determination to do what they do everyday. Thank you for helping them find the strength to separate man and soldier. Thank you for letting them be rich in love. Thank you for embracing them, for protecting them, for guiding them, for loving them and thank you for returning them to us. Thank you for continuing to do so everyday.
Thank you dear Lord, thank you.

Daddy takes 2nd!!!

YIPEEE!!!!!!!!! Way to go daddy! We are so proud of you. Mike went to Ohio this weekend for a big dry land race and he took second place! We are so proud of all his efforts and cannot wait for the Fair Hill Challenge so that we can go and cheer him on ourselves. Keep working hard and having fun! We love you!

Uncle Matt Comes to Town

Uncle Matt came to visit! Yahoo! We were so glad to see Uncle Matt. It has been a long time since we last saw him and he was def a sight for sore eyes. I think, however, that we wore Uncle Matt out. I think that we made him appreciate single life a little bit more! He was so good with both the boys. He rocked Charlie to sleep and endured cartoons with Jack on the couch. He tossed and flipped and played trucks and tractors with the boys. He wiped away tears and blew noses. He even took naps :) He also spoiled me rotten on my Birthday weekend! Thanks for everything Uncle Matt, it was so great to see you and we hope to see you again soon! Please be safe!

Hello Stranger

Can you say slacker? I cannot seem to find time in my days to sit down and post blogs. I love them when they are up there smiling back at me but I am horrible at keeping them up to date; no matter how hard I try. I feel like a slacker these days. I always feel like there is laundry to do and a house to clean, a closet to organize, papers to grade or plans to write. There is never a holy cow I have everything done, no where to be and bored moment. Remember those? Remember on snow days or summer days how we would go to mom with complete and utter boredom. There was nothing to do. Who were we kidding? Such is the life of two hard working parents of two beautiful yet energetic children. They never run out of energy and we idle on empty right around five o'clock. I hope to be better. I hope to post images and stories about my boys as they unfold but I make no promises. I can only do what I can do. I can tell you that Halloween pictures are coming......that pictures of Uncle Matt who the boys had not seen in over a year are coming....that pictures of Mike's big race in Ohio are coming......and that some random photographs I know are on my camera but I am not sure what they are right now because I can not find the adapter cord are coming. I promise.