Memorial Day

 Hopefully Summer is finally here to stay.  Our Spring has not been too nice to us this year, so hopefully the weather will straighten up and give us nice weather to handle.  Last week, we were almost ready to bring out the winter jackets it was so cold out!

 This weekend, we stayed home to get some stuff done around the house.  Daddy worked on the house and got the front all done with the new siding and new light.  He even got a few of the landscape bricks out back during the rain.  Unfortunately the rainfall on Sunday afternoon dampened all outside plans.

 The boys and I spent some time over by Gg and Papa's helping Grandma Maria and Auntie Tina with some projects around the house.  We moved the furniture downstairs on Sunday and then today we finished up the planting in the yard.  I planted 140 impatiens in their yard plus some geraniums and begonia's.

 After I was done planting at Gg and Papa's, I came home to plant some flowers into my garden.  It is just a start and hopefully I will be able to get some more over the next few weeks.
 The boys enjoyed the nice warm weather by running through the sprinkler.  Brewer ran around saying "I'm taking a shower"!  Both boys even got a little sun on their shoulders too:(
 This afternoon, we went down to the beach to enjoy the summer day with Grandma and Grandpa Beck.  Surprisingly it was much cooler than the 85 degree's at our house.  The boys had a great time throwing rocks into the lake.  Then we went back to Gg and Papa's for a picnic.  Auntie Debbie and Uncle Dennis arrived to help out Gg and Papa for the next few days.  Cooper and Brewer had fun running through the sprinkler with Ava and Conner at Gg and Papa's too! It was a great day!

A Day with Grandma Maria

Grandma Maria came down to Kenosha to spend a day with each of the boys!  On Tuesday, she went with Cooper to the Milwaukee County Zoo with his Kindergarten class and together they had a blast!  Grandma took some amazing pictures of the animals that Cooper is going to put into his book!  Then they went to Gg and Papa's and hung out until Mommy and Daddy came to get him.

Wednesday was Brewer's turn!  Grandma came and picked Brewer up from school and they went out and picked out flowers for Gg and Papa!  They played lots outside and downstairs.  Thank you Grandma for spending your days off with us!

Art Class- Dinosaurs

Brewer made this really cool dinosaur in art class with Auntie Sue this week!  This was also our last art class for the session!  Brewer had a blast going with Auntie Sue and cannot wait to do it again in the fall!  Thank you Auntie Sue for taking me:)

Art Class - Under the Sea

Brewer made an Under the Sea mobile that we are hanging in the living room.  Brewer once again did some painting and gluing with Auntie Sue!  He is loving art class time!

Auntie Sue had a good laugh today.  After class, Brewer gets 2 peanut butter roll-ups and Cheetos's to eat on the way home.  However, on this day we didn't have any Cheetos's and Brewer demanded Cheetos's all the way to school!  Sorry Auntie!

Derby Party - Great Grandma's Birthday

On May 8th, we went to Auntie Sue's house for the annual Derby Party/Great Grandma's Birthday Celebration. This year we celebrated her 80th Birthday!  Happy Birthday Great Grandma! 
I won the drawing too with the help from Grandpa!  Nicole was passing out names, but I waited too long.  So Grandpa shared one of his names with me...and I won the race:)

Mother's Day

I got to spend Mother's Day with very special people today!  First, my boys surprised me with flowers and doughnuts...beautiful and yummy!  And then we went over to Gg and Papa's for brunch with Grandma Maria, and Grandma Beck!  Everything was yummy! 

After the boys woke up from rest, we went down to the lake to walk around before going over to Villa D'Carlo's for pizza!  I had a great Mother's Day!

Art Class - Flowers

When we asked Brewer what he did at Art Class, he said "shh!  Flowers!"  And that is what he did in art class today, Flowers!  Auntie Sue and Brewer made this awesome spring flower windsock.  He got to paint and glue and color all in one project....heaven for a two year old!

Easter Sunday

This year we celebrated Easter with the Beck's and went up to Gabby's house for the special day.  It was extra special too because, today was the first day we got to meet our new cousin Sophie!  She is so little, but will soon enough be running all around with the other three.

A rare photo opportunity...Cooper isn't hiding and has a smile of some sort on his face!

It is also the first picture of all four cousins together!

New family picture! 

Daddy is holding his Goddaughter, Sophie Rose!

Egg Hunt

The Easter Bunny hid 70 Easter Eggs in Gabby's backyard for us to find!  At first everyone thought we should give Brewer a head start, and we said no, because all need to do is to tell Brewer to go find the CHOCOLATE!!

Cooper and Gabby worked together to find some eggs that were bypassed by Brewer!

Brewer found one way under here!

Here Daddy, put one in here!

Cooper even found this Easter Basket full of eggs with candy and a fishing pole!

Brewer wasn't too sure about this...a basket full of chocolate and toys for me?  Who could be sooo lucky!

Time to Play

Brewer was very excited to finally play outside.  The past week has been damp, cool and rainy...not a fun week to say the least.  So at first glimpse of the play equipment in Gabby's backyard, Brewer knew where he wanted to go!

Swinging like a big boy!

Grandpa is trying to catch Brewer as he flys down the slide!

Our View

Randy asked for a room up grade in hopes that we wouldn't be next to someone screaming all night, or a lot of kids running and yelling though the halls.  His wish was granted, and we were moved up to the fourth floor!

The view was amazing!

And peaceful in the back

But not so much during the night...we still had the screaming kids next door and they didn't belong to us:)

Jesus?

Every time that we pasted this totem pole, Brewer would say, "There's Jesus!"  So we thought it would only be fitting to have him take his picture next to "Jesus"!

Egg Hunt at Chula Vista

On Easter Morning, Chula Vista had an egg hunt in down in the tunnel.  So we hurried up, packed up and headed down to the tunnel.  There the boys were instructed to find 8 eggs a piece anywhere in the tunnel.

Brewer found some hiding in the plants!

Cooper was making sure that we found them all in that area.

Found more, they yelled!

Here is the bag full of eggs, now for the fun part...discovering the loot that is inside!

Wisconsin Dells

Our thoughts for Easter Weekend, was to take the boys to Wisconsin Dells to break up the car ride and to have some family fun on this long weekend.  We stopped off at the Mooselodge for lunch.  Cooper was like, hey, we've been here before!"  We asked why we were here the last time and he told us because we were at the waterpark.  We asked him if he would like to go there for awhile this afternoon and he said "No, I want to go to Gabby's!"  It took some talking into, but they both finally agreed.  Next time, we are going to work a little more on the pumping up factor!

On our way to Chula Vista, we stopped to look at the water coming through the dam.  The boys were intrigued on this and asked a lot of questions of why!  We were just excited for a nice sunny day!

Coloring Easter Eggs

On Friday, April, 22nd, we dyed our Easter Eggs for the Easter Bunny and Daddy too!  Both of the boys picked out 7 colors for us to color the eggs and then we took turns dying them their colors!

Brewer dipped his first on in orange.  Overall, he did very well, but we still need to practice not to drop the egg into the dye:)

Cooper chose the colors yellow, green, and red to color his three eggs.  He had funny putting them into the dye and then checking to make sure that they were the perfect color!

Brewer is checking on his blue one!

The boys share a smile of accomplishment - seven dyed eggs with no cracks and no dye on the floor!  Now Daddy has hard boiled eggs to snack on!

Barnyard Moosical

Cooper had his Kindergarten Music Program on Wednesday, April 20th.  His class was the pink pigs, all dressed in brown or pink, sporting these fancy hats and a tail .  He did a great job singing with his classmates..."we are pigs who love to clean!"