A Very Long Week!

Two Saturdays ago, Zachary started having lots of abdominal pain. Of course at first we thought it might be a bug. After a couple days of not feeling better, but worse we took him to the doctor. Doctor number one said it was a virus. Not convinced I took him in again to Doctor number two. She gave him some prevacid for acid reflux. This has helped only a little, so far. We returned the number two again today and she is running some blood work to test for a few other things. Zac was so good for the lab tech. He only squirmed a little. We are still hoping it is reflux and that it is just taking a long time for his tummy to get better. So as we wait to see what happens, my little guy curls up in pain and cries. Can't give him pain meds because he throws them up. It's been eleven days, so let's pray this little guy finally feels better tomorrow.

Easter Morning / Stitches

Here are the boys right before we let them go look at there Easter Baskets.

Oooooooh!

Seth.

Zac wasted no time to eat the candy : )

This is Zachary in the guitar case. He kept asking for me to take a picture.

Zac loves Daddy's motorcycle. He is too small to go on a real ride, but Ryan will sometimes roll around in the driveway with him.

Seth had a teeter totter accident at the park yesterday. Here are his three stitches. He says he was trying to fix his shoe while on the teeter totter, and his friend bounced him off. He hit his chin on the seat as it came up. He loved that he got to watch SpongeBob Squarepants in his room at the ER becasue we don't ever watch it at home. We'll take Seth to get his stitches out in a week.

Here is Seth dressed up like Daddy. He did this tonight, just to have fun. We're on Spring Break right now, so I get to spend time with both boys all week. If they are good we'll take them to see How to Train Your Dragon on Thursday. They are very excited for that.

Enjoy these pictures. I know that I haven't been good at posting this last year.

Ryan's fuzz.
Life is so rough when you eat lunch.

Ryan's new bike.
Look who moved into our neighborhood! It's Herby!

Winter Storm Albert has Arrived : )

I'm sure many of you have seen on the news that the East coast has had a big winter storm. And sure enough we were one of the areas that got big amounts of snow. We don't have a yard stick, but Ryan and I are guessing it was about 20 inches deep.
Zac was very excited to go and play in the snow. He only lasted about twenty minutes before he was too cold. He has had a cold this week, so that might have added to the short play time. He fell asleep soon after I brought him inside.

Those are our candy cane lights. With Seth behimd the bush.

See, there he is. The snow is deeper than his legs. Seth was so concerned that we couldn't open our back door that he tromped around the house and started digging it and the BBQ out with his hands.

And of course there was a lot of playing with the sled and snowballs too. We didn't go across to the big hill because Daddy had to shovel, and I stayed inside with Zac.

Ryan hard at work, shoveling the snow. He sort of becomes obsessive when it comes to shoveling snow, and it has to be done perfectly or he's not satisfied. It's sort of funny to me. I guess I'm the same way when it come to the dishes.

Pictures with Santa!

On Saturday we went to the Christmas brunch at the church. I made one of the breakfast casseroles and it actually turned out good : ) However the roles I tried making from scratch that night were not so good. I guess I still haven't grasped how to make breads that use yeast. Anyhow, Seth and Zac were able to talk to Santa and tell him how "well behaved" they have been.

And of course they were able to sit on his lap too. I can't believe how big they are both getting.

~ Catching Up Again ~

These are from the 30th of October. Ryan received his yellow belt in kickboxing! Here is him and the boys after testing for it.
Here is Ryan again when we got home.

Here are the boys before they went trick or treating. As you can see Zac is more interested in the candy than getting his picture taken.

Zac turned two last month on the 8th. We had a very small party with Auntie Sally and Zac's friend Jeremiah. Here is the birthday cake.

Zac and Jeremiah eating their cake.

Opening presents. I'm not sure if he was more excited to get a basketball hoop or the big box that it came in.

We all went to Chuckie Cheese's for some more fun and pizza.

Here is Zac in the washer. He loves the washer and plays in it everytime it is empty. He loves to help with laundry so much that he asks to start washing the dirty clothes as soon as we wake up.

I know I've been really slow at posting pictures this year. Sorry about that. I hope that you all are doing well. We are getting ready for Christmas. 97% of our shopping is done! It's so nice not have to worry about whether Ryan will be home or not.

October Fun : )

So we've been pretty busy this month. The above picture shows how clever Zac can be sometimes. We keep the rocking horse 6 feet to the right from where it is in the picture. He really wanted to get brother's trophies.

At the beginning of the month we went to one of the local farms to pick apples and pumpkins.

We waited here by the pumpkins for the tractor pulled wagon to take us up to the apple trees. The boys loved the five minute ride up.

Zac picking an apple.

Seth showing us his.

Daddy helping Zac to pick "good" apples.

Yup! I have the cutest boys around.

The kids thought it was fun to sit on their pumpkins. Zac picked a little on because he could carry it. But if you ask him, it's the biggest. Then of course Seth's is the biggest.

Seth's birthday cake. He wanted a dinosaur cake, so this is what I made him.

I think Seth was bored waiting for the song to be over, so he could finally blow out the candles.

Some of the kids at the party. We had 16 kids there. Don't ask why or how. We intended on maybe 10.

Carving pumpkins. Seth still won't touch the "goo". He used a spoon the whole time.

Ooooooh!

We took Seth to McDonalds for his actual birthday. We let him and Zac play in the play place for about an hour.

Then we let him open the presents from us and the grandparents. This is the tool bench we got him.

Today, Seth got to take a ride in a corvette. Her name is Veronica and she belongs to one of Ryan's friends at work. For a couple months now Seth has really been into corvettes, so this was really exciting for him.

What a happy kid!