quick trip

Me, Kim and the boys went up to Fort Bragg on Saturday for a quick day trip to visit my Grandpa. It was the first time we have been back since my Grandma passed away and really wanted to check in on everyone there. We also got to meet my Uncle Chris's beautiful baby Anthony for the first time who was born at the beginning of the year.
The boys like always had a great time with Grandpa playing in the fields and exploring the property. They even played on an old truck in the field that Darren thought was Mater from the Cars movies!

Darren did not want to leave which I thought was so sweet and I explained to him we would be back soon.

Big boy beds!

About 2 weeks ago Mr. Braden started hopping right out of his crib, after two times I decided it was big boy bed time! Braden moved to Dare's toddler bed and Darren got a new bed and on top of that switched them to their own rooms. I wasn't sure about having they're own rooms because I thought they wouldn't play together anymore, I was wrong now they just follow each other from room to room. We are now about a week and a halkf into our room/bed switch and so far so good, I really think they like it.

Jaxson's baptism

My beautiful godson Jaxson was baptized a couple weeks ago. It was a gorgeous day and we are so happy to have him in our lives. I know my boys are going to get into so much trouble with him :)

Tim took the boys to a San Jose Giants game yesterday, one of the first times he has ventured out alone with the boys. They had a great time and even got a foul ball!! Glad they had fun even though I wish I was there with them.

wow!

I asked Darren to help me put some flowers in a vase last week, he helped of course but said that they weren't flowers (because they had not bloomed). I told him we would check on them in the morning and see if the water and sunlight helped them open. When we got up they had bloomed, all he said was "wow".....so sweet.

Opening Day 2012

It's official, baseball is back! Opening Day 2012 was a great one. The boys had a great time and we even discovered a little park behind the ballpark at the Yacht club that they loved.

Amazing weather for opening day this year despite the thunder and lightening storms the night before. Hopefully this is the start to a great season, GO GIANTS!

Easter 2012

The Easter bunny hid all of our eggs at Grammy and Pop's house! This was the first year Darren understood the concept of the Easter Bunny or as he refers to him "that Rabbit" and had a great time.

We had a nice breakfast and then out for the eggs! The boys stood by the back door anxious and both had a great time filling up their baskets when they were let loose.

coloring Easter eggs

This has been the best year yet coloring eggs and we actually only broke one this year! Braden watched while Daddy and D colored eggs. Dare was so careful with everything and the only spill we had was when Daddy knocked over the whole cup of blue dye =) He was excited to see if the eggs were still in the refrigerator the next morning of if the Easter bunny had hid them at Grammy and Pops house like we told him.

family fun

The family got to together a couple days before Easter to celebrate my birthday and cause I knew we wouldn't all be together on Easter Sunday. Jaxson is getting so so big and it is always a good time when we have all the little cousins together.