the eyes have it...

  

celebration of learning

Hudson has officially completed his first year of preschool and yesterday we celebrated by attending his "Celebration of Learning Ceremony".  It was SO great to see him receive his first preschool diploma and interact with the other kids.  He's had a wonderful year, with amazing teachers, and has learned a lot!  We are so very proud of him!  He's blossomed into a little boy in such a short amount of time!  Look at how much he's grown and matured...

This was him on the first day of preschool last fall:

  

Look at him now, on the last day of preschool: 

  

Here are a few pictures from the ceremony...

 

 

anniversary

Long time no blog, right?  We've been so busy lately and have so many updates, it's hard to know where to even begin.  For now, lets start with our anniversary.  On May 15th we were so very blessed to celebrate 6 years of marriage.  Looking back, it's amazing to see how God's hand as been so present in our lives over this time.    

About a year ago, the photographer that shot our wedding gave us everything she had from our wedding including discs, negatives, proofs, etc.  (after 5 years she gives everything back to her clients, isn't that nice!?).  It was great to be able to re-edit some of them, too, since obviously wedding photography has changed so much from the way it was back then!  Anyways, it was SO fun to go back through and take a look at those photographs and the amazing memories of that day that changed our lives forever! 

  

  

The funny thing is, we can still remember this day and all the events that took place, like it was yesterday!  There are SO many more pictures, I wish we could share them all...maybe in another post sometime! 

  

Thank you, Lord, for 6 amazing years!  

brothers

these are some random pictures we took in our cul-de-sac of our boys this weekend.  aren't they getting so big!?!  with the nice weather, we've practically been living outside.  these brothers truly enjoy each others company (well, most of time, at least)!

 

 

 

 

ice cream & fire trucks

  

Yesterday, we heard that Baskin-Robbins, in an effort to support the National Fallen Firefighters Association, was having a "Be a Hero at 31 Cent Scoop Night" event.   We could not pass that up so decided to head on down and check it out!  We we pulled in the parking lot, this is what we saw:

  

Needless to say the boys were SO excited!  So we headed in to get ice cream and of course they chose, as any kid most likely would, this flavor of ice cream:

 

 

 

Don't they look just slightly happy about it!?!?  Then we headed out to the parking lot where they got to "drive" the fire truck, climb all over it, get stickers, coloring books and more! 

 

 

wordless wednesday

  

tractor time

Oh man, our boys were in paradise yesterday!!! We went over to our dear friends house for a cookout and they just got a new tractor. Needless to say, the boys loved climbing all over it, turning the lights on and off and, of course, especially driving it up and down the hills!

Their faces absolutely lit up when they got to raise, lower, and dump the bucket of the tractor!

We ended the evening with a bonfire, s'mores, and great friends!