Oh Bother . . .

So our little friend Piglet decided to take a little swim/dive down the toilet, with a little help from his good ole buddy Ronan.  As I flushed the toilet, Ronan decided to toss Piglet in.  I don't know what happened to me, I just froze.  I kind of really didn't think it would make it through.  I was wrong.  Very wrong.  Thanks to Gramps (Cody's dad) for helping dislodge the toy.  Of course not an easy task.  Yes, we ended up having to take the ENTIRE toilet off, drag it into the yard and shove a hose in it to dislodge said toy.  Ugh.  But Piglet is free and the toilet is back in working order.  Thanks again Gramps!!!!

Catching up again . . .

So, I am really bad a keeping up on the blog now.  Life has been so busy the last several months, I don't even know where to begin.  Wish I could promise that I would be better at this, but I can't.  In the mean time,  here are a few recent pics:

Grammie, Ronan and Jacob on the park slide

Jacob and Aidan

Rona-roo!

Slip and slide fun!!

Soaking up the sun

Love, love lovin' it!

Showing off his boogie board.  And yes, it is a kneeling pad for gardening . . . :-)

He melts my heart

Swim lesson time!!!

Jacob was NOT into it the first day . . .

But by the second day he had warmed up . . . shall I say cooled down . . .

Aidan wanted to play with the "frisbee's".

My cute boys

Getting a little help from the instructor

What's been keeping us busy . . .

We have been very busy the past several weeks.  I apologize for the lack of updating on the blog.  I've got too many hobbies going on myself.  I will try to throw up a few more pics to update everyone in the next few days.  I am making no promises.  There are two main things that have kept us busy: illness and visitors.  My poor Ronan has suffered from 4-5 (I've lost count) ear infections since December along with colds and a stomach bug that landed him in the ER for IV fluids.  He is fine now - well a little runny nose with a little fluid in the ear, but no infection . . .yet.  Ugh.  Luckily he stays happy through all of it!  Jacob and Aidan have had it a bit easier.  Just a cold or two and Jacob did get the stomach bug.  Luckily, we managed to stay somewhat healthy while good friends of our were visiting from Boston.  We had an absolute blast hanging out with them at the zoo, the Botanical Gardens or at home.  It didn't matter where we were, just that we were together.  Anyway, that's about it in a nutshell.  There were a few more fun times in between Christmas and the present and I will touch on those soon . . . I think . . .

Ronan enjoying his first ride in the "Big Boy Forward Facing" carseat.

Sweet Rowdy attempting to comfort our poor sick Jacob

Zoo time with the Ulrickson girls!!!

Fun at the Desert Botanical Gardens with the Ulrickson girls!!

Oops, said I would post these and then didn't.

It has been brought to my attention, many times, that I forgot to post our Halloween Part II.  SO here it is.  These are the photos I took of Ronan and Owen (our good friends Dave and Heather's son).  Owen is almost exactly 1 month older than Ronan.  They were so cute together in their costumes.

"Dude, I don't get all this, do you?"

"I don't, but you look good."

"Um, you got a little something here..."

"CHEESE!!!"

"Dude, I already told you, it's right there.  On you cheek."

"Here, let me straighten that for you..."

"You didn't quite get it . . ."

"All better and lookin' good!"

Almost Forgot about Zoo lights!!

Can't believe I almost forgot about our annual Zoo Lights outing.  A whole bunch of us go - although you wouldn't know it from my pictures.  Apparently I took photos mainly of Ronan.  Probably because he was contained and I didn't have to chase him to get a photo.  We all had a blast!!

Christmas Morning with the Thomas side

Each year after we open our gifts, Cody's parents and siblings come over to our house for more gifts and family time.  This year Travis' sweet, sweet girlfriend Raquel was able to join us.  It's always a great time with Gramps, Farmor, Aunt Jamie, Uncle T and Raquel!!

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was awesome!  The boys loved the gifts from Santa and from Mommy and Daddy.  I love to watch them get so excited.