Memorial Day Weekend Fun

On Saturday we packed up the boys and a picnic lunch and headed downtown to see the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade. This was the first time any of us had gone to the parade. We had a great time and found a nice shady spot under a tree to watch the festivities. The boys favorite part was seeing the race cars. I personally always love to see the marching bands and Jake was most excited to see the Purdue marching band and their big drum.

After the parade it was off to the zoo to see the new cheetah exhibit. The cheetah's were a little nervous in their new environment so this was the only picture we could get of them.

We all had a great time and look forward to going to the parade again next year.

What happens when nobody is looking...

(alternately titled: Sticker Shock)

Give these guys 10 minutes and 100 stickers and watch out!

Note to Self

Just because it sounds like your 4 year old son in cussing like a sailor in the back of your car doesn't necessarily mean that is the case.

The other day on the way home from school I thought I heard Evan saying f*** then s*** over and over. Jake and I looked at each other like noooo it can't be our sweet little boy with such an awful potty mouth. Just as we were about to question Evan on where he learned such language it became very clear to us what he was trying to say. He was sounding out the word function. Why was he trying to say the word function? Not sure, but at that point I really didn't care, I was just glad that my little boy didn't have a mouth like a biker!

Easter, Bubbles & Argyle

We spent Easter Sunday on our deck, enjoying the beautiful weather and blowing bubbles...lots of bubbles.

We also tried to get a picture of the boys. Let me rephrase, a good picture of the boys. We got plenty of pictures but as you will soon see it didn't take long before the attempt at a cute picture of Evan and Zach in their argyle sweaters went down hill...way down hill.

The Easter egg hunt

My Little Patriot

Evan loves to say the Pledge of Allegiance and will recite it anytime that he sees an American flag. Recently he started singing "My Country Tis of Thee" as well, which I find adorable since he gets a lot of the words wrong, so I decided that I had to record him doing his thing.

Imagination

Today Evan and Zachary had a very full and busy day. They hosted a birthday party. And let me tell you they were hands on with the preparations. They blew up the balloons and baked the cake (chocolate chip pancake flavor - of course!). Unfortunately the party came to an abrupt end when space aliens came and blew up the cake - I hate it when that happens.

Happy Birthday Pop Pop!!

We love you! Happy Birthday!