Summer Fun Day One!

Today was our outside day, we decided to go to the park and picked up Auntie Caitlin on our way! We played for a long time and then had a picnic lunch in the shade.

While the boys were napping I whipped up some sidewalk chalk paint and when they woke up we had a great time painting our porch and sidewalk!

The boys played outside at Gma and Gpa's(my parents) house and then got to hang out with Uncle Cole and some of his friends!

W and B didn't get enough sleep last night so they were a little bit grumpy today, it made me so happy I already had things planned for today--had we just been staying home with no plan my grumpy guys may have spent some time in front of the tv!

Cute W at the park

B loves to swing

B

Our fun sidewalk paint--this was so easy to make and the boys really liked it!

W painting

B's grumpy face...isn't he irresistable!

Hanging with the big boys! Cole got an owie on his knee and the boys were so concerned for him!

We LOVE Summer!

Summer Plans!

We are so enjoying this summer weather!

I have come to realize that my life is a lot easier with 2 two year olds when I have specific plans for our days!

I found this blog that has amazing "staycation" ideas for summer. She has a theme for each day and plans everything out in advance!!

Following her lead I made a three month calendar for the boys with a different activity everyday...last week was the first week on our calendar and it was wonderful! It was so nice to wake up in the morning and know what are plans were for the day!

Here's a little peak at what we're doing:

Monday is OUTSIDE DAY--this week we are going to the park and taking a picnic!

Tuesday is PRESCHOOL or LEARNING DAY--we either attend Summer Preschool with my mom aka Miss Cindy or do something educational at home! This week we're going to Superhero day at Preschool.

Wednesday is LIBRARY DAY--Our library has awesome toys right now and the boys love to hang out there while I go through the children's books.

Thursday is FIELD TRIP DAY--This week we're going to Folsom Zoo--we got passes for the boys bday!

Friday is WATER DAY--This week we are setting up our mini pool and practicing pouring!

Saturday we are doing day trips as a family--This week we have cousins in town from Idaho so we're not too sure what we'll be doing yet!

I've decided I need to take more pictures this summer and blog more, so I'll be trying to post everyday this week about what we're doing!

Hope you're having as fun of a summer as we are!
And of course a few pictures of what we'll be doing this summer...

Relaxing with our daddie...having lazy afternoons!

Playing on our $5 slip-n-slide!


Smothering...I mean Loving our sweet kitty!

And Potty Training!! Wish us Luck!!

BTW--we had Joseph's bday party tonight combined with Cole's--Cole's bday is tomorrow and Joseph's is on Wednesday. I made this cute penguin cake for Joseph, he requested it and I had fun making it--I think it's my favorite one I've made yet!

I love it when we're cruising together!!

Joseph and I got back yesterday from a four day cruise to Mexico for our 5th Anniversary!

We left the boys with my parents and took off for our first time away from them ever!

We had a wonderful time just being Joe and Kira again for a few days, staying out late, sleeping in, and taking long showers(meaning more than 5 minutes and actually taking time to shave my legs!)

And we were so glad to be reunited with the boys on Friday, feeling refreshed and rejuvinated!

I had been a little leery to say anything and to even go!--anyone who knows me well knows that I am very overprotective of my little guys, it was a very big decision for us to leave them for 4 days--the long and short of it is we had always planned to go for our 5th anniversary and we got an awesome deal!

We left early Monday morning and got back Friday evening, our cruise stopped in Catalina and Ensenada. Everything was wonderful and we had a great time! Here's a few pic!

A pic of our ship on our way to Catalina...we got off the huge ship and onto one of those tiny ships to get to the Island...I get motion sickness pretty bad, I had medication so I was fine but the tiny boat makes me nervous!

It is kind of unreal how huge the ship is! View from Catalina!

We saw quite a few of these buffalo around Catalina! It was a beautiful place, the houses were so cute and the weather was perfect!
Back on the tiny boat back to the big ship!
All dressed up on our formal night--no I am NOT pregnant this picture just makes me look like it...unfortunately its the best one we got all dressed up! But look how handsome Joseph looks!
Just off the ship in Ensenada! Isn't my big hat cute?! I got it on the ship for $10--so excited!

I'm so glad we went! As much as I missed the boys, once we were on the ship and on our way we left our worries behind and just enjoyed ourselves--i'm sure it'll be quite a while before we get to do anything like this again, and it was wonderful!!

2 years old today!

W and B turned 2 today! I can't believe how big they're getting! We took them to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner yesterday and they had cupcakes with candles to blow out today! Auntie Caitlin and Tyler brought some balloons by and the boys took PB cookies to share in nursery at church today!

Walker before church--they looked so cute today! Brayden did not want to cooperate, he took his bottle and sat down in the swing!

After church they took a nice little nap on the couch-BWWaiting to blow out their candles--B blew his out mid song so we had to re light them! They were so excited to finally get to blow out the candles! They pretend all the time!B WDancing off their cupcakes with Tyler!Their super cute new outfits--skinny pants and bowtie made by me, upcycled from a hand-me-down skirt from Joe's Gma. Vests from Babies R Us-50% off clearance last week. Converse shoes from thrift store!If I have some time this week I'll tell you how I made the pants and bowties! They were super easy and hardly took any time at all!

I can't believe my babies are 2! My how time flies! A few things about W and B...

They talk ALL the time!

They say lots of words and are starting to put sentences together.

They also talk to eachother constantly!

They love to dance and sing and have amazing pitch and rhythm!

They love animals and know what sounds they all make.

They love to color and help mommie cook.

They go to bed at 7pm and usually don't get up until 9am--A-mazing!

They love going to nursery at church.

They follow directions super well and are such good sweet boys!

W

Collects toys, he will carry as many as he can at one time for hours at a time!

Calls his brother "Baby" or "Bayden" and always gives him loves!

Loves chocolate

Loves to jump off things, especially the couch!

B

A total momma's boy

Always concerned about his brother, check's on him when he's sad, takes him toys, snacks, etc.

Loves bananas

Loves to tickle and be tickled!

They are such fun and smart little boys! We love them to pieces!

Vday Shirts!

I made t-shirts for the boys for Valentine's Day this year, and I think they turned out super cute! Not sure if you can read them from the pics, so I'll tell you what they say!

Walker's says...
I enjoy...
Long walks to the playground,
Pizza and Juice Boxes,
Doggie's and Kitty's,
Driving my (little tikes) red car,
And collecting toys.
If you are...
Sweet, have pig tails, and enjoy watching Toy Story
I'm your guy!Brayden's says
I enjoy...
Long walks to the playground,
Cookies and Juice Boxes,
The Wiggles and Backyardigans,
Driving my (little tikes) red car,
And dancing in my diaper.
If you are...
sweet have pig tails and enjoy watching toy story
I'm your guy!

They are always happy to give their brother a "love" though...this pic makes me smile--such sweet boys

5 Year Anniversary!

We celebrated 5 wonderful years of marriage on January 7th!
So, here's 5 things you may or may not know about Joseph and I...

1. On our first date--which I thought was a date but apparently Joseph didn't--there was another girl who thought she was also on a date with Joseph...lucky for me I charmed Joseph by chugging a full Dr. Pepper in 16 seconds flat and burping louder than any other boy in our group...yup I was a charmer!
2. The day of our first "date" I told my friend Ashley that I was going out with Joseph and she double dog dared me to hold his hand...at this point I wasn't even sure I liked Joseph but I could never back down from a double dog dare, needless to say as soon as he sat down next to me I grabbed his hand--according to Joseph he thought that was "super hot" and I credit Ashley for the fact that he asked me out that night!!
3. We started dating May 25, 2005, got engaged September 17, 2005, and got married January 7, 2006!
4. The way Joseph proposed was by having my family lug me to Dillon Beach for a "family vacation"...long story short he was there dressed as a pirate--we were HUGE pirates of the carribbean fans--I followed a treasure map to where he was, climbed over huge rocks out to the rock that was furthest out into the water, and he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!! BLEW MY MIND! Of course I said yes!
5. We honeymooned for a week in a cute little cottage at Dillon Beach, my favorite story from our honeymoon is that we went to visit the Point Reyes lighthouse--if you're not familiar with it there's about 300 stairs leading down to the actual lighthouse--we walked down looked around for a minute and for some reason decided to race back to the top...mind you we were both in much better shape then than we are now...we collapsed about 2/3's of the way up and died laughing everyone around us thought we were crazy--but we were oblivious...
We have always had so much fun together...I always say we ended up together because we out-flirted, out-smarted, and out-crazied eachother--and we had never met anyone else that could...I'm so glad I met and married my perfect match!
Love you Joseph!!!!

Wordless Wednesday!