Playing on the Front Porch at 1216 Marydale

We said goodbye to our little 2 bedroom 1 bath house at 1216 Marydale a little over a month ago now, and since this blog has been in draft mode now since March I figured it's about time to catch up on my posts. Who knew moving could be such a long involved process?!?! As much as I will always love that little house, I really have no idea why I waited so long to move into something a little bigger...at least something with 2 bathrooms :) The boys have adjusted well to the "new house", and love having a play room. Jason and I love having our own closets, and I can't wait to host my first dinner party! There is still so much work to do, but at least now we have some space....I feel so grown up :)

A Boy and His Ruff

Reid has one true love right now and his name is Ruff. He loves Ruff with his whole heart and takes him everywhere he goes. We began to worry when we accidently left left Ruff at school one day and Reid began to cry and ask for Ruff. I told him we left him at school and he would curl his lip out and make this horrible sad face...then I told him "but daddy will go get him" and he would say "K"...and he was ok for a minute...30 seconds later he would being to whimper again, and say "Ruff go??" I told him again that "we left him at school"...and he immediately turned down the lip and poured on the tears again....we did this over and over until daddy came back from school with Ruff. It was that night I began the search for my first ebay purchase...."Porter the Puppy". I think I paid at least double what I paid for him originally when Babystyle was still open and a girl could get a fair deal on a ruff, but I thought it would be worth it in the tragic event something horrible happened to Reid's dear 'Ruff'.

So we got him in the mail last week, and silly me thought it would be a good idea to see Reid's reaction. I showed him 'Ruff #2' and as you can see below it was love at first sight...afterall what could be better than 1 Ruff, but 2?!? The only problem was that after he saw him he didn't want to give up either one...not a smart move on my part i know...but we all have days where we're not thinking straight. The next few days were spent trying to sneak the 'backup Ruff' away so we could save him...just in case we really need him some day.

Ruff #1 and #2

Brotherly Love

I thought I should document as many of these moments as possible...

Birthday Party

The boys had a fire truck birthday party last Sunday, and Daddy invited his friend Fireman Curtis to bring by his big Fire Truck. This was such a treat for Grant and Reid (and a few of the grown ups too)...not sure how we'll top this one. It was supposed to be a low key 'no fuss' birthday....but who can pass up a fire truck?!?! They got to climb and explore the truck, and even go for a ride and sound the alarm! To top it all off they got to spray the water hose! Not too bad when you throw in a few friends, presents and birthday cake :) Who ever said 2 wasn't a big deal!?

Reid, Grant, Peyton, Maddie Cate



Big Wheels!

Grant loved driving the fire truck...

Fire Chief Blake

We even got to spray the water hose!!!

Fire Chief Grant

Reid loves to swing with Papa

More Pwesents!!!

We love the tee ball from Logan...

Sweet baby Logan!

Grant & Reid Turn 2!!

Grant opens pwesents!! "Melmo Boon"

Birthday Boy

Reid's Birthday Review

Playing Peekaboo

Where has the time gone...

It seems like it was the other day that my sweet baby cubs joined this world, and just yesterday that they were turning one and learning to walk, and it will be next week that they turn 2!! Where has the time gone??

So hard to believe that these little preemie outfits were too big...at one point.

I still get these looks from Grant...and they still get him anything he wants :)

My Sweet Valentines

As you can see we're very good at saying cheese :)

The finer things...

Reid seems to have a thing for the finer things in life: mama's pearl bwacelets...that he would wear to school if Daddy would let him :)

And her "pweety" pink shower cap...what could be better??

And as I sit here and blog Reid is busy getting into my jewelry box...

He told me..."pweety-bwacelets-me"

I have assured Jason it's just a phase :)

The weather has been perfect for playing in the yard...here are a few pics of the boys playing with the tunnels Nana & Papa gave them for Christmas.

Grant

Reid

Merry Christmas

So Christmas was absolutley perfect this year! Busy put perfect. The boys were so much fun, and it just amazes me the amount of joy a candy cane, a "yum-yum" (M&M's), and especially "pwesents" can bring! The boys loved opening presents (of coures it didn't matter what was inside), although when I asked them what they wanted Santa (or "HoHo" as they so affectionately call him) to bring, Reid said he wanted a ball....I mean really!?!? So simple...good thing Santa over nighted that TeePee from The Land of Nod when all he really needed was a ball he could pick up at the local drug store! Oh well we are enjoying our teepee too. So our Christmas celebrations started early with the "Turman Christmas" at The Ranch on the 20th and the boys had so much fun opening presents and visiting with Santa who happened to drop by on his four-wheeler?!?! Don't ask :) Then we went to cousin "Bake's" house for more fun. We had fun exchanging gifts with Blake, and cousin Colin. Jay made the boys the most adorable old fashioned rocking horses just like our great grandfather made for Jay when he was little. Probably the coolest gift we received this year. Then there was more...Christmas Eve at Grammie and Pop's with more cool presents, lolly pop cookies with yum-yum's and lot's of egg nog :) Reid loved Grammie's Egg Nog! After that we went home and put out cookies and "melk" for Santa, sprinkled some reindeer food on the front lawn, read the Christmas story, and surprisingly the boys went straight to bed. The excitement on the their faces when they woke up to all the pwesents...ugh there are no words. We went to Nana and Papa's for a late night present marathon, visited with Pap and Nana Nik-Nik the next day, and the celebrations continued Saturday, and Sunday too!! I'm pretty sure Grant and Reid think you get presents every day now...good thing they have a birthday coming up :) I mean honestly 8 Christmas celebrations in one season??? Who says that too much?!?

Too Much Egg Nog!

We love Grammie and Pops

Reid Feeding Grammie his Candy Cane

What could be better! Cookies and Yum-Yum's!

"I'll tell you what bro..."

Grant, Blake, and Colin riding the new horsey's

Cousins

Early Christmas Fun

December was another busy month. We started the month off with a little decorating, I put up the tree while Jason put up the red and white Christmas lights on the house. We got out Thomas the Train for the boys which they loved so much we decided to take them to North Park to see the huge "choo-choo" exhibit! What could be better?! We met Santa Clause for the first time...he's a pretty cool guy; he gave us candy canes. We spent a lot of time playing at Grammie and Pop's house...they have lots of very cool Christmas toys! We loved the Brio train, and couldn't stop kissing the Santa and Snowman yard art :)...the second half of the month will have to be another post!

Making out with Santa and the "noman"

Grant and Mommy in choo-choo heaven!

Jason and the cubs with the giant ornaments!

Our first Santa visit...their faces crack me up...check out Reid's face...he's like "is this dude for real??" meanwhile all Grant needed was a candy cane to get over his fear of Santa.

Gigi and Pa-pa gave us this Thomas the Train last Christmas so we put it together for the first time this year...I think the faces say it all :) The boys played with this train for hours, and it was all they could talk about for the last 3 weeks. "Choo-choo, choo-choo"

Reid kicks it in the laundry basket while mom decorates the tree.

Practicing our Cheeeeese!!!!