Training wheels that is!
Ian declared, one day in May, that he was going to learn to ride his bike without training wheels. The following weekend we took him to his school to teach him and wouldn’t you know? The boy picked it up in about 15-20 minutes!!!
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNbQEZMjf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblhtJax_Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblhtJax_Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpabiBzCcU
Back in May, we took the boys mingolfing for the first time at Adventure Landing. We had an awesome time and both boys did great. Matthew even got 2 hole-in-ones! (Or is it holes-in-one? LOL) The super cool thing is that we got free annual passes the following weekend and have been able to take the boys golfing a bunch this summer.
I love this next picture. LOL
Back in April, I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee with a group of women I met online in 2007 on a message board for moms. 20+ of us came together from across the US and we talked, shopped, partied, shopped, ate, and drank ourselves silly. It was a damn good time and we declared it the 1st annual “Mommapalooza”. LOL
Sunrise over the mountains:
On the second day, a house full of guys set off firecrackers from their deck and started a fire on the mountain. It was a little scary and tense but we made the best of it. This is the house you can (kind of) see in the sunrise picture.
I love these girls. 🙂
Or lack thereof.
We started pulling out the various plants in the front bed in the fall with the intent to go hog-wild on landscaping in the spring. And then my work turned into a three-ring circus on January 2nd. Needless to say, we made no progress on landscaping and probably won’t in the near future. Hopefully our neighbors will forgive us. 🙂
We had a specialist come to look at our flowering tree and they’ve treated it with something to bring it back to health. I’m hoping it comes back in the next few years. I really love that tree. 🙁
The boys were up early Easter morning, like normal.
It’s funny that two boys can be so different from each other. Their egg hunting followed their personalities perfectly. Ian was more interested in the eggs with coins inside and the toys in his basket. Matthew didn’t care about anything except the eggs that had candy inside. 🙂
