Birthday, Fathers Day and Jumpin around!

Last week was my birthday. I had such a great day. Meredith watched my kids while my mom took me to lunch at a tea room. I love me some chicken salad! Thanks Meredith for watching the kids. Then that night John and I went to eat at a new Italian restaurant which was wonderful and then went to see Made of Honor. It was pretty good. Just your typical romantic comedy but I really enjoyed it. John sent me on a scavenger hunt through the house that led me to all sorts of goodies one of them being a manicure and pedicure gift certificate. He said my big gift was on Monday. Turns out his gift was to stay home from work and keep the kids while I had a day to myself shopping! It was so much fun and I was so surprised. That was the best gift ever. He really did way too much and I told him that this counts for the next 3 birthdays. :)


Speaking of my wonderful husband, Happy Fathers Day to him. He is without a doubt one of the most giving people I have ever met. He is such a giving father. The minute he walks through that door at home he is into his job as a daddy 100%. I definitely could not do it without him and am grateful for all of his hard work. What a blessing he is to me and these kids. They have no idea how blessed they are to be his children.

John and Luke at 3 months

Daddy and Kate in the hospital

Introducing Luke to Kate (one of my most favorite pics of all time)



At the zoo with Kate Christmas morning "out of control hair" Like father like son!

Today we went to a jump around house with Meredith and Dani and their kids. It was so much fun! We are planning on going there a lot more this summer.

Fun in the Sun

I decided to take some pictures of the kids playing outside a few days ago. Sorry they have no clothes on. They were in and out of our little blow up pool.

Mischievous grins

Now some black and whites:

Kate playing peek a boo

Luke swinging on his stomach
I call these next pictures "Kate's modelling session" They cracked me up because the wind was blowing and her poses looked so funny and glamorous. She already has her first set of glamour shots!

This picture was all I could get of them together. I don't know if I will ever get a good shot of them together. They just look at me like "yeah right!"

Slip n Slide

Friday night we went over to John's parent's house and had a cook out with the whole family. They had a slip n slide and a sprinkler. The kids loved it and we all enjoyed watching Aunt Tara throw them down the slip n slide!

Even Daddy took a turn!

Kate is really into scrunching her nose when she smiles now so it is hard to get a real smile picture. She wasn't all that crazy about the sprinkler spraying her with water. Maybe she will warm up to the idea by the end of summer.