Happy Birthday Beau

Monday was Beau's actually birthday but last Friday night we out to celebrate. Kasey found this really neat resturant in Arlington so we met them and some other friends down there for dinner. It was really nice to have dinner with friends and be able to talk and actually enjoy the meal. I love my kiddos but going out has become somewhat of a challenge. Once Jacob is done eating he is ready to get out of the highchair. Ok back to our dinner, so sorry. We had a wonderful time and I must point out that the cake in the picture was made from scratch by me. Ya'll know I am kidding. Kasey made this beautiful cake for Beau and for all of us to enjoy. It was very very yummy. We had great time and I think Beau had a very Happy Birthday!

Let's get this party started

Mom got into town so lets get this party started. Since I have two boys close in age I don't really need a thing as far as toys and cloths go. I got this great idea from Kasey to have a book swap for Jacob's birthday. Instead of gifts for him I asked everyone to bring a book and we would have a book swap. We put all the wrapped books in the middle of the floor and the kids took turns picking out a book. It was fun and all the kids got to go home with a new book.

Tucker got a really cute sing a long book and Jacob is trying to take Mary Raines book away from her. I mean he is the birthday boy. Give it up May Ray!

From the looks of it I think the kids had lots of fun.

Jacob's 1st Birthday cake!

Yummy!

More Please!!

Hi Tucker.

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble.

Birthday Fun

Since my Mom is coming up here next week we decided to wait for her and have Jacob's birthday party when she gets here. So, for Jacob's actually birthday we went to our favorite place for lunch, Chick-fil-A of course. They have the best play area around so both boys have a blast. They have a specific area that is just right for Jacob.



Jacob loved playing on the baby slide.




Tucker had to be where all the action was.




My new favorite picture of Jacob.


After lunch we headed over to our favorite ice cream shop Cold Stone Creamery. Tucker will eat ice cream any time of the year.



From the looks of it so will Jacob!


After the ice cream party we took Jacob to the toy store to pick out something for his birthday and he went right to this. We took it home for him and course Tucker took it away from him and played with it all night. We had a really fun day with the boys and look forward to partying with our friends and family next week.

Happy Birthday Jacob

A year ago today at 2:48 p.m. this little guy was born. I checked into the hospital at 7 a.m. got my epidural around 10:30 starting pushing about 2:20 and he was born at 2:48. For those of you who don't know this or forgot, my sweet dear patient husband talked me into not finding out what we were having when we got pregnant with Jacob. I had always been totally against this and thought people were freaks that didn't find out. I didn't want to be a freak but I went along with it and waited until he was born to find out the sex. It was hard at times but I am so glad I waited. It was such an emotional and fun day. I will never forget looking at Johnny and seeing the excitement and emotion when he said "Its a boy"! At times I thought it was a girl because everything was sooo different than with Tucker but deep down I knew it was a boy. I had packed my bag for the hospital and had a boy and a girl outfit and at the last minute before we walked out the door for the hospital I took out the pink outfit. I just knew that we were having a boy. As much as I would love to have a daughter someday I could not imagine my life right now any different. I love my boys so much and feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Happy Birthday Jacob!!

Nemo On Ice

Saturday night we took the boys to see Nemo On Ice. The show was in DC so we decided to take the Metro instead of driving . This was Tucker and Jacob's first metro ride and boy did they both love it. Tucker was so excited he couldn't stop smiling.



Jacob is trying to push Tucker out of the way so he can sit by the window.






We had to switch trains before we got to the show. Here we are at the Pentagon station. Tucker was very excited to see the train pull up and get us.




We finally made it to the show! We were very surprised to see Mickey and Minnie. They came out to greet all the kids.

Valentine's Party/Date Night

This is Brianna. She was born right after Jacob.



This is Ms. Audrey. She is a cutie!

Here we have Luke, Jacob, MayRay, and Tuckie


Here is Mr. Ty Barrett. He is full of energy!!


Mary Raines enjoyed the company but was fine just reading to herself.

This past Friday Kasey had our play group over for a Valentine's Day party. She made a very yummy breakfast cassorole and garlic grits. Sounds wierd but very very good. We a great meal and the kids really enjoyed playing together. All the Moms were told to bring there kids favorite treat so we brought Valentine chocolate chip cookies. Kasey had bags that the kids got to decorate with there favorite stickers and then they got to pick out all the different treats to put into there bags. We had a really fun day and are so thankful for these days with good friends.

After the party we got home and the boys took a nap while I got ready for date night with my Valentine. A girl from church came over to watch the boys while we went to Ruth's Chris for dinner. The resturant was located in Arlington on the 11th floor of a corporate building. We had a great view of DC and the Reagan airport. It was very romantic!! We had a wonderful time just being together for a couple of hours. The boys did fine without us even little Jacob. Saturday was an even more exciting day but I will save that for later. Have a great Monday. It is 64 degrees here today and we are heading outside.

911 what's your emergency? (again)

Well, its not really an emergency but I've locked my keys and my baby in my car! Ok, I will send out an "officer" to help you. So this is what happened: We were leaving Panera Bread and Johnny decided to take Tucker to the bathroom and I went on out with Jacob. I thought I would go ahead and get Jacob in the car and pick up Johnny and Tucker at the front of Panera. I unlocked the car, threw the keys in the front seat and put Jacob in his seat. I closed the door and walked around to the driver's side door. I tried to open the door and what do you know the door was locked. All the doors were locked!! Um, what just happened? I just unlocked the door and put Jacob in the car and now the doors are locked with my sweet but very attached baby in side all by himself. I just stood there in shock not really sure what to do. I turn around and here comes Johnny with Tucker on his shoulders all ready to start our fun family Friday. Um, Johnny do you have your keys? No, why would I have my set of keys? Um, so if I locked my keys in the car with Jacob you could unlock the door. My first thought was to call Beau and have him run by the house and get the keys and bring them to us but I knew that would take to long so I just said we need to call 911. I don't even want to look in the car at Jacob because I know he is going to be out of control but I have to look and well he is asleep. What?? Ok, good news he is asleep. Back to the 911 call. The nice lady informs us that an "officer" will be out to help us. We stand by the car waiting for the "officer". When she informed us an officer was coming I thought a police officer not the Fairfax County Fire Department. My first thought was please don't be the same fireman that came out to my house at 1 in the morning when my fire alarm would not stop going off. All five fireman get out and it takes them about 5 minutes to get the door opened. Tucker enjoyed seeing the firetruck and Jacob never woke up.