Insta Friday

Friday, March 8, 2013

life lately in iphone pics
 text between robb and I...name that move, haha! 
i think its time you all know how dorky we are :)

as i mentioned before, this little Houdini has started climbing out of his crib, so we turned the crib around so the high side was facing out and the low side that he climbed out of was to the wall. This bought us about 2 weeks, until he figured out how to climb out of the sides!
Next step was to take the bottom spring part totally out of the crib and drop the mattress to the floor, still inside the crib! Genius! There was no way our little peanut could climb out now!
 He climbed out in 2 minutes flat and would continue to get out over and over again.
Nothing would stop him!


We were left with no (safe) choice other than move him into a toddler bed, buh-bye crib...tear
The first night he fell asleep by the gated door!
But we moved him into his bed once he was sleeping soundly and he did great!
We are getting there

I will miss this...


love this...

love our lunch dates with daddy

 finally took myself and my love handles back to Zumba last week!

Target  online Spring shopping on a snowy day

I'm trying some new recipies lately to add a little variety to our vegetable, I made cauliflower rice which was really good, and buffalo cauliflower bites, delicious but spicy!
And speaking of buffalo, I want to try the buffalo chicken pizza recipe in the BlogHer TV video on the top of my blog, doesn't that look yummy!?


Gray found a puzzle that was intended for a birthday present and helped himself to it! at least he liked it!

naps for both boys are now few and far between since Sadler's escaping routines, so rest time watching Ice Age movies is in order!

 Sunday night dinner with friends

Sadler locked himself into the office while we were waiting to pick Gray up from school, never a dull moment!



Monster smoothie in his monster jammies, he's obsessed with them both!


We switched Sadler's car seat to forward facing just in time for our road trip to Indy this past week, he's not a baby anymore :(  he'll be 2 in a little over a month!

I had been looking everywhere for a cardi like this and I finally found one online at kiki la rue, 
love it


This past week my family and I were in Indy for the work truck show, the guys had meetings and us girls and the 4 kids did a lot of shopping (so fun to shop in another town!) and playing in the hotel room




Gray even got to go to the expo for a couple hours yesterday!

 Aunt Lisa was a great pillow for the boys on the way home!

It was 'beach day' at school today! so fun!
 
Sadler and I hit up Target today and found a great deal on towels, for 70% off I snatched some up for the camper!


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Brenham's Birthday Celebration

Friday, March 1, 2013

It took awhile to get to this point, but yesterday I wanted to truly celebrate Brenham's birthday.  His short life had such purpose and meaning and his death taught us so much. 
I was still sad at times, and a few tears still came, but mostly I felt grateful for his life, and his eternity in Heaven. 

Robb took the day off and we started off at Ihop for breakfast. 





Then we headed to the party supply store to get 5 balloons, we let the boys each pick one out to be released at the cemetery. 







After coming home for lunch and naps, we headed to Grand Rapids to drop off 104 baby blankets to the NICU at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. 
*I want to take a minute to thank you for your donations. We really feel so blessed by those of you who donated a blanket in his memory. We know that these blankets will also bless the babies and their families who receive them. 

It was the best part of the whole day for me.

When we left the children's hospital we grabbed dinner at Arnie's, cupcakes were a must!


Then, the part Gray had been looking forward to most, Disney on Ice! This boy had the biggest smile on his face the whole time, and amazingly it got even bigger when Buzz Lightyear came out!


It was a special day, in memory of a special boy. 
Thank you for your love and prayers for us.





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Happy 5th birthday, Brenham

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Brenham Jay, 
Happy 5th birthday, son! These letters are always so hard for me to write.  I stared at a blank screen for a long time. When I write your bothers' birthday letters I write about the new things they're doing, how much they've grown, what they like to play with and share lots of new pictures. I don't know theses things about you and I don't have any new pictures.

I don't know who your friends are, but I know you play with angels.
I don't know what kind of things you like to do, but I know you have more fun that we could ever imagine.
I don't know what you look like now, but I know you have been made perfect.
I don't know what kind of  birthday party you would have wanted, but I know you are having a great time rejoicing in Heaven today and everyday. 

And I know that I love you.
And I know that I miss you every single day.
And I know that I will see your sweet face again someday.

Until that day, we remember you and celebrate you and your short, yet meaningful, and purposeful life. Your birthday holds so many memories for me and I'll cherish those forever.  
I love you sweet Brenham. I'm so proud to be your mommy. 
xoxo

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Origami Owl Giveaway

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

I just received this pretty necklace from a friend of mine at my mom's group. 

Renee sells Origami Owl and she helped me pick out the pieces to design my own necklace from the new "Tagged" line. 
I'm so happy with how it turned out and I love to wear it as a reminder to myself how blessed I am!

The new tagged line has so many fun word options to choose from like; hope, love, faith, believe and more. Such a great way to make a statement about who YOU are!

Renee has offered to giveaway a necklace to one of you readers as well! The lucky winner can choose between either a 16" or 30" chain, one of the Empowerment tags, the I am, I have, I can, I will, or Be and one of the Inspiration tags, there are 12 options for those. 
Origami Owl has so many fun products, it would make a great Mother's day gift for you to give to your own mother or give your hubby a little hint :)

To enter the giveaway (open to U.S. residents only) 
1. Click here to go to her Facebook page and 'like' it, then leave a comment letting me know you did.
2. Check out the Origami Owl website here and pick out your favorite item, then leave a comment here telling me what it is. 
*Be sure to leave your email address so I have a way of contacting you if you are the winner.
* Giveaway ends on March 8.
Good luck and happy shopping!


*there's also a couple more days left to enter the St. Josephs giveaway!

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Weekend Wrap up {Splash Universe}

Monday, February 25, 2013

We had a super fun weekend!
 Kicking off on Friday morning, Grayden was the special helper in class, which means I was the the parent helper and it was also pajama day.

Grayden had been looking forward to that day for a long time!
We had a great morning at school and Sadler had fun with Grandma L. too.

After school we headed to Indiana to meet up with the rest of my family at Splash Universe as a Christmas gift from my parents.
The boys slept on the way down there and once we got to Shipshewana we did a little shopping at the cute little downtown shops. 
The kids loved the carousel ride.
We grabbed dinner at a pizza buffet and then checked into our hotel.


We got changed and headed straight to the water park. the boys were so excited to swim!


Both boys loved the water, I was super impressed with how much braver Gray had gotten since the last time we were there, he went down even the biggest slides!









At one point during our time in the water park Robb said something like "if we looked up 'water rat' in the dictionary I'm sure there would be a picture of Sadler." 
so true!
He couldn't get enough of the water, if he saw me coming at him with a towel to dry off, he had a fit!

Probably his favorite thing to do was go down the blue slides, I kid you not he had to have gone down these at least 100 times. He always wanted to race whoever was next to him. 
He also enjoyed a few laps on the lazy river with Aunt Lisa!
and playing ring-around-the-rosie with Makenna


after a few hours in the water we headed to bed. the boys slept great!

a little morning snuggle

The next day we had a delicious breakfast at the hotel and then played again in the water park for awhile. 
After it was time to check out we hit up the bulk food store and the bakery. 
Sadler has fallen asleep both times he's been in this bakery. its the strangest thing, the smell of donuts must make him tired.

Fall 2012  and Feb. 2013

Then we hit the road for home. On the way back we made a stop to look at a travel trailer that was for sale and also stopped in GR to do a little more shopping for campers. 
We ended up finding one there that will be just right for us. 
Can't wait to camp this Summer, we've really missed it the past couple years. 


after we left the trailer dealership we headed to Costco and had dinner at Qdoba. 
Such a fun day!
The boys were so good! We were so proud of them!
Thanks again mom and dad!
We had a typical Sunday with church, naps and revolution. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend too!

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Weekend Wrap up

Monday, February 18, 2013

We had another great weekend!

Friday night we went to Robb's cousin, Jenna's high school basketball game. It was a really good game and we loved watching Jenna!

Saturday morning we did a little family workout :)
After that we showered up and gave the boys baths.
When Sadler got out of the tub I noticed all these bumps on his skin!

My first thought was maybe it was an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin he was on for his ear infection, but it was his 8th day on it and he's been on it 2-3 other times as well and never had a reaction. I called the pharmacist and she thought we should take him in. 
Then I started to wonder if maybe he had chicken pox, so we took him to urgent care.

Turns out it WAS an allergic reaction to the antibiotic so we got him 2 new meds and we were all on our way back home to finish getting ourselves ready for the party!

We had a fun night celebrating Makenna's second birthday!

On Sunday we went to church. Robb and I finished teaching our last lesson on the "Five Love Languages" during Sunday School.
Grayden spent the afternoon by my parents house playing in the snow, he loved every minute of his one on one time with them!
We had Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Alyssa come over for a bit later in the afternoon and then headed to the Revolution service. 
It was a nice, laid back Sunday!

I've been overwhelmed (in a good way!) by the amount of blankets landing on my doorstep lately, thank you SO much for your donations in Brenham's memory. Just a reminder if you'd still like to donate a blanket to the NICU, we will be delivering them on the 28th, so there is still some time to get it here, just email me or leave a comment with your email address and I'll get you the info you need to send one here. 

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