I know I am a terrible blogger, but here is a re-cap from the past several months.....

Our sweet Ethan turned 1!  We had an awesome birthday party at our clubhouse, with a clown, cupcakes, and lots of kids!  It was so fun and he enjoyed it! 

 Next, Ethan had to have tubes put into his ears.....He has had so many ear infections (just like his big brother) that I lost count.  The tubes have helped, but he is still getting them, its just I can now treat them from home rather than taking him to the doctor all the time : )

 Ethan had pink eye and an ear infection, poor baby! He looks pitiful...

 Preston has been rockin' it at soccer!  He loves playing and is such a great player! 

We enjoy this as a family outing on Saturdays!

 Ethan just cheesin' for the camera!

 Preston is enjoying his dirtbike!  He is getting good too!

 Ethan likes to play soccer too!

 Preston sharing rocks with Ethan....

They are so sweet!

 Preston had surgery to have his tubes taken out!  He was fine with it all except when they told him to take off his pants and put on a gown : ).  The anesthesiologist went and got him some scrub pants!

 Ethan got his first "real" haircut.  We shaved his head a couple of times hoping it would grow in better. 

Look at his face, "You are going to do what to my hair?"

 We went to a carnival and introduced Ethan to cotton candy!  He loved it, but we only gave him

a little bit: )

 This was me, Ethan and Preston racing down the slide.  Tim was with us, but stuck behind the camera because of his shoulder.  Did I mention (don't have a pic of him in the hospital) that he had surgery on his shoulder?  So I am the only one that didn't have surgery in the last month, but I did have a broken hand, so that counts for something right?  : )  He was a trooper though!  I was proud of him.  After his surgery we went to lunch and to Lowes and then back home to look around the yard to see what more landscaping we needed to do (also did I mention that my rock star husband did an awesome job landscaping our yard too!  It was a big task but he did it and it looks awesome!  And he built a fence too!).  So our yard looks the best in our street, and I think in our neighborhood : ), but of course I am partial!

 I took Preston and Ethan to see the Easter Bunny, but Ethan wasn't having it!  He cried on his lap so this was the best I could do for a pictre, bunny ears!

 Of course we dyed easter eggs too!

 Preston and the Easter Bunny playing "paper, rock, sissors"!

 Ethan playing in the street with his car!

 Tim riding Preston's new bike with his shoulder in a sling : ).  Glad he didn't fall, he might have

broken his face!

 Lastly, the boys playing in the sprinkler and around the house in their bathing suits,

I love this weather! 



A Day at the Beach......

On Saturday we decided to take a "day" trip (day being the key word : ) to Wilmington.  Living so close to the beach we didn't take advantage of this last year, but even after this trip, we fully intend to incorporate more trips to the beach this spring and summer!  We had so much fun as a family!  We started out downtown where we walked around, did some geocaching (if you don't know what this is...look it up, its fun!), and ate breakfast at this fun little restaurant called Dixie Grill (also eating at this grill was some of the cast from One Tree Hill that is filmed in Wilmington, so that was fun to see them), ate lunch somewhere fun too (can't remember the name), shopped around a little, and got ice cream too!

 Just the four of us!

 Ethan and Mommy : )

 Ethan helping Daddy put money in the parking meter!

 Preston found a dog, bigger than he was!  He wasn't scared a bit, he kept going back to pet it.

 Preston and Ethan on the river!

 Preston hanging upside down on the battleship.

 All of us on the anchor of the ship!

 Finally, some time to put our toes in the sand.... (and of course our mouth, Ethan)

 Daddy and Preston looking for seashells.....

Ethan, playing in the sand (and yes, eating some too)!

So, needless to say, we had a great time....

until this point.  And then,

It was getting late and we were all hungry and tired.  We headed to the car to go home and when we got to the car Tim looks at me and asks if I had the keys, I said "no, you have them".  Well, neither of us placed blame, but I am certain I gave them to him because I had the baby and the bottle and no room for keys, but anyway..... : ) (like I said, no blame)

We went back to the beach and found Ethan's bottle, but no keys. We were running out of daylight so we looked for a while and then decided to figure out what to do without keys.  To make a LONG story short, we got a hotel room, took a taxi to rent a car, Tim drove back home to get the keys while the kids and I stayed in the hotel (with no pj's, $20 dollars for dinner and whatever else we needed because Tim needed the debit card for his road trip back home, no crib for Ethan, etc).  Basically, we had a bed and had to wait until Tim got back in the morning with the key to our car. 

IT WAS A LONG NIGHT.....

But finally about 9 a.m. or so, Tim got back with the key and breakfast for us.  He rescued us!  We were probably driving him crazy on his way back because we kept calling him asking how long until he got there : )We searched the beach one more time and came up empty handed again.  We called the police, re-visited the pier, etc. and still NOTHING!

What an adventure!  Finally after checking out of the hotel, we decided it was so nice out we didn't want to leave just yet so we went back downtown, ate lunch and ice cream, and then headed back home.

Well, even after all that, we still had a good time, just a little crazy ending to our "day" trip to the beach. 

Good Times!