Dad and Suzanne come to visit...

Dad and Suzanne came in for a quick visit for Peter's first birthday and we had so much fun with them! Jackson and Lauren had really been missing them, it had had been about a year since they had been up here, so they made sure they played 24/7 with them! :) Of course we have seen them in TX some, but not as much as we would like :(

Games...they played LOTS of games!

Trying to help Peter crawl.

pic with the grandkids.

at church together!

bonding with sweet Peter

Lauren had to get in on the bonding time too!

This was what jackson drew when he got home from school (they left for TX after he went to school. He and his Paw Paw going out for ice cream together....he really really loves his Paw Paw!

Sweet Peter is ONE!

Happy FIRST Birthday Peter!!

Playing outside...again!!

It finally warmed up some and the kids could play outside. we have been waiting to go outside for about 3 months! Elenna was over for a little while today and we pulled out the bubbles.

Lauren dumped all her bubble juice in the first minute....then she went to chasing bubbles.

working hard!

first time to watch them...he loved it and giggled a TON!

sorry...

Sorry for the lack of posts...but we have all been under the weather for the past two weeks....I hope to get things up here soon! :)

Jackson writing..

Jackson loves to have homework at home. So we have a few workbooks to practice lots of different things. But yesterday he really wanted to work on writing 3 and 4 letter words. So I wrote a bunch of words on paper and he copied them. He loved doing this!

then I wrote a FIVE letter word! he was very unsure about copying this word. He asked me 'mom do you really think I can do it??' I told him he could and then he did it. You would have thought he was king of the mountain! it so much fun to see them learn and grow!

Here are a few pics from our tuesday...

Lauren is LOVING puzzles and she can do it all by herself! we are hoping to get a couple more for her birthday.

another day inside all day....luckily they all get along really well!

Lauren looks so much older in this pic....she is becoming a little girl :( and :)