Girls night out

I went to dinner with my friends, Amy & Amber last night for a "girls night".......we had a fun time at Cheesecake Factory, great conversations and laughter.  Amber is moving to Austin Texas in less than a month, so it was our last girls night.  I am really going to miss her, she has been an amazing friend, and I know we will continue our relationship, just stinks she's going so far away :-(

We embarrassed Amber and got her this chocolate vase, she liked it :-)

Snow day!

We got some snow today and the boys wanted to go out and play, so I caved :-)  Emery wanted to go down to the play area and in his words, "walk the trails too".  He loves being outside and exploring, even in the snow.

Owen did not want his picture taken and kept hiding from me :-)

Emery is such a cheeseball!

Jake slept during the outside activities, but when he woke up, he decided it would be way fun to climb inside the laundry basket and then stand up.

And show ALL of his teeth :-)

I asked the boys to go in Jake's room and say hi to him so I could just finish something and this is what I found when I came into the room.....oh man, they are totally going to teach Jake to climb in and out of his crib!

I just love these boys to pieces..I am ggateful for these sweet blessings.

Some things I want to remember about this time in the boy's lives

Owen:  Today, 2/29/12 (it's leap year :-)  he was upset and I was consoling him and he says "I you mommy" (translation, I love you mommy).  And then he says "you back hurt mommy".  That was random, but my back has been hurting and he knew it :-) 

Emery: He has created a special goodbye with Jason and I......it goes like this "Kiss, hug, squeeze" and he asks in that order and you have to do it at least 5 times before he is happy with it :-)  And a real squeeze is required, it's pretty sweet!  This happens every morning before Jason leaves for work, when I go to work, when he goes to preschool, anytime :-)

Jake: He is giving big wet and slobbery kisses and is happy to give them at any time!  He is trying to stand up by himself and just crawling all over the place, up the stairs in the living room and trying to do big ones too.

Pics from the weekend

Just some pics of the boys from the weekend.  Here are the boys before church on Sunday.....lets just say Owen did not want to participate :-)  Oh well, that's real life!

I am SO in love with this baby!

Jake's new thing.....crawling over Riley..the funny thing is that he's old and tired, he doesn't even move :-)

Jake LOVES cherrios!

Chocolate chip pancakes :-)

Silly boys!

Emery's 2nd time to the dentist....what a huge success!!!!

I took Emery to the dentist for the 2nd time in his life this morning......he did AWESOME!  He is SO independent....when we first got there, I sat next to him with Jake & Owen of course :-) and was talking to him and he says "Mommy, go out there and wait".  He didn't want me in the room with him.  He let the hygienist polish his teeth and everything, holy cow!!  What a BIG boy!


I peeked and took a picture :-) he didn't see me!

Way to go Emery....you made your mommy so proud!!