Breaking the mold

 There's no denying these three cuties are brothers....

 Wonder what the new little peanut will look like....

  ...and what in the world will we do with a GIRL?!?

Disneyland!

It's a right of passage in every child's life to go to Disneyland, and since I had never been as a kid, I was anxious to take the boys so I could experience it too! We left Micah with Grandma & Grandpa Ries and brought Grandma & Grandpa Jones along with us. Lots of fun experiences.

Our young padwons got some Jedi training....

A New Brother

Micah Charles

August 9, 2012

8 lbs, 1 oz

20 inches long

I think the pictures say it all... everybody is pretty smitten.

 

two days

three days

Family adventure - Part 2

On the last day of our family adventure to Tennessee, Aunt Wendy got married! First off, we'll give you Titus' perspective:

Some of the wedding guests

It's Grandma!

The boys' birds-eye view

It was all very exciting having so many people coming over... the boys greeted everyone at the door by saying loudly, "Welcome to the wedding!"

They're married!

Aunt Wendy and her handsome boys

All dad's girls are married now!

New family picture

Sisters

Family adventure - Part 1

For some reason the further I get behind with blogging, the less motivated I get to do it... but I decided that this week it's time to catch up!

Going back to May... we took a family adventure to Tennessee. The boys had not been on a plane in about two and a half years so neither of them remembered it... so this flight was much anticipated!

We ate at the infamous Cracker Barrel!

Visited an amusement park....

(riding the tram)

And the boys went on a 3.5 mile hike!

We spent five days in the Great Smoky Mountains, enjoying the scenery and lovely weather from a 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom cabin that we shared with Grandma & Papa, Aunt Rebekah & Uncle Nathanael, and Aunt Wendy and soon-to-be-uncle Ryan. More on that next :)

Easter

We did a little Easter egg hunt for the boys in the back yard and they had a blast. Yes, I know they are using their Halloween buckets... that's because we still had them on the counter because they were STILL working on eating through all the candy. So I didn't bother buying Easter baskets.

 

 

I found these super-cute suits at Costco so we all got decked out for Easter service on Sunday.

And, we attempted some family pictures...

 

 

It's a...

We used the unexpected snowfall a couple weeks ago to let everyone know that....

I had also baked 'gender reveal' cupcakes so we enjoyed handing those out as well: