Nicolas is 3!!!

The 17th of April was Nic's 3rd birthday....(and i can not believe it has been 3 yrs already!!!) We celebrated at home the day of his birthday, and he opened his gifts from us. On the 18th we had a party for him....Thomas themed of course. It was a fun day, and Nic got lots of presents.....actually, he was totally spoiled!

Nic saying "I'm 3!" Happy Birthday big boy!

Nic with his cake that grandma Rems made for him...she did a fabulous job as usual!

Nic enjoying his yummy birthday cake....

Happy Easter (a lil bit late)

We had a great Easter this year....It was Linc's first Easter, and Nic was really into the Easter egg hunt thing this year. We had alot of fun. Easter baskets before church, egg hunts after church, and spending time with the fam.....it was a great day! The Easter Bunny was very generous too! Both of the boys got lots of goodies!Th boys all dressed up in their Easter outfits. They were not very cooperative when it came time for pictures though...this was the best one i got : )

My goofy Nicolas after the Easter egg hunt.

Lincoln wasn't too enthused, i think he was wondering what all the hub bub was about...

Nic's 3 Year Pix

i took nic to get his 3 yr pictures taken on monday, although he isn't actually 3 yet....it wont be official until April 17th @ 12:25 pm : ) still can't believe my baby is gonna be 3 already....it just doesn't seem possible! the pictures turned out great! he is such a camera ham : )
every single picture turned out great! it was soooooo hard to pick out my favorites, but i think these are the ones, lol his personality really shows in every single one....i gotta give props to sears portrait studio @ the mall. they do an excellent job every time i take the boys to get pix taken....but it can't be too hard to make my beautiful boys look so good : )

a day with nic

today nic and i had a nic and momma day, and it was a great time! we dropped linc off at the depot and took off for lafayette. our first stop was walmart for a few odds and ends, then we made a pit stop at mcdonald's for a little lunch. then we decided that we should probably go to target and get him an outfit for his 3 year pictures....3 years old already, can you believe it??? after target it was back to the west side to get the grocery shopping done. we had a great day, and nic even got to play outside at the depot for a little bit when we went to pick up linc. when we got home the power was out (never know what you might get on a windy day in benton county), so we played outside some more! this was way more fun than doing the laundry and other household chores that i had planned on doing!

the 1st pic is at our first stop...wally world! nic got some new thomas the train shoes that he is very excited about! the next two pix are at mcdonald's. we started out at a table, but we decided to move to the couch beside the big screen to finish our lunch. nic kept on asking me where the mote (remote) was, because he wanted to watch cartoons : )

1st pic is in the target parking lot after we got his outfit for pictures, he is also showing off his new spiderman toy that he got in his happy meal. the next two are at payless. he had to have the blue car, so i had to dig it out from behind the orange and green ones...i told him if he was a good boy that he could get some m & m's when we were checking out. apparently he decided that taking a little siesta was the best way to keep himself out of trouble : )



by the time we got to the truck he was completely slouched over...it didn't look very comfy, but he was still sleeping like a champ! i stuck to my word, and when we got home i gave him some

m & m's while i put away the groceries. we had a great time and it was good to spend some one on one time with my big boy. he was quite the trooper while i dragged him around all over the place : ) i look forward to our next mom and nic outing!

5th Annual EDGE Lock-In

This is the 2nd year that i have volunteered with the EDGE junior high youth group with our church. Each year we do an all night lock-in for the kids in the school gym. It is a survivor style competition, with the kids broken into 3 tribes. This year our theme was Survivor: Mexico. We kicked off the night by attending 5:00 mass and then after that, back to the school for pizza and other goodies. We also rented one of those giant inflatable obstacle courses, which is a hit every year! After dinner we broke the kids into their tribes and, it was time for the competition to begin! The EDGE core team did a great job creating games for the competition and decorating the gym. We all put alot of time and effort into making this a great time for everyone!

The EDGE core minus Theresa and Chris C.

Since the theme was Mexico, we had fiesta decor and let each tribe smash a pinata filled with candy...Our Lady of Guadalupe was also a central figure in our decorating and we even had a game dedicated to her.

the whole group of kids

This was the food competition, which i was in charge of : ) I got a bunch of nasty foods and a few that weren't too bad as well. Each kid had to pick a covered plate and eat what was on it. The tribe that was fastest to eat all the foods won. Some of the foods included sardines, oysters, beef baby food, tapioca pudding, okra, asparagus, refried beans......YUCK!

This year i did not stay all night (i did last year, and it was a blast)! I wanted to, but the thought of taking care of kids the next day on no sleep did not sound too appealing!

nic and linc cute pix of the week

here is nicolas wearing daddy's glasses....he looks like daddy's mini me : ) here is lincoln cheesing in the walker....yeah, yeah, i know they are supposed to be so dangerous and all, but he loves that thing! he cruises all over the place in it : )

lincoln on the go

lincoln has become quite mobile in the past few days....he isn't exactly crawling, more of a scoot or army crawl. it is pretty cute! he is 8 months old today....can't believe it has been 8 months already!