Been a While...

Well, you know its been a while that I have updated the blog, when Trevor asks me to please update the blog! Truth is that not only have I just been busy with work, family, life, but also our computer crashed in early May and we lost all of our pictures from mid December until early May and I had no pics to update the blog with! With that being said...here are some recent ones!

First, for Mother's Day..I was a little spoiled this year. Not only did I get some sweet VIP seats to go and see Brad Paisley, but I also got new bedding and a new camera! So hopefully I will have some better pics to post!

Here are a few pics until I get a few more mins to update this!

Lindsay loves to play with her doll house. Here she is in action:

Love this cute bow I got her the other week! Its a good compromise since she likes to wear her hair 'down'.

Tyler at a skating bday party with his friends.

Future Hockey Player:

In May our friends a few streets over had us over for their Memorial Day block party. Here are some pics from it :)

Kid group shot:

Lindsay driving the jeep. I think she needs one of these!!

Tyler driving Lindsay (note the face) in the 'fast' jeep:

Kiddos:

Here are some pics from the Brad Paisley / Darius Ruckert concert we went to in May. We had the BEST seats. It was a super fun night!

View from our seats:

Brad!

Darius aka Hootie:

One of the biggest and most exciting things that has happened in the last 2 months is that Lindsay learned how to ride her 'big girl' Princess bike! Here she is in action:

Another shot:

Happy 5th Birthday Tyler!!

On Sunday Tyler has his 5th Birthday party. To say he was excited would be understating it! He was so happy that the day had finally come. He had it at a place in Ashburn, Jumping Jacks Sports. It has moonbounces and they also play games with the kids. He invited his class at school plus some other friends. He had a pirate theme for the party. Here are some pics below!

The 4 of us...prob should have taken this pic before the party started instead of as we were walking out the door!

Lindsay LOVED the moon bounces. Here she is jumping away!

Attempt at a group shot!

Tyler doing the obstacle course:

Tyler racing up the ladder:

The party room:

He had a pirate theme. Thanks to our neighbors Mike & Heather for the cool pirate hat!

My coworker, Wendi, made this amazing pirate cake! It was crazy good! This picture doesn't do justice to how cool the edible map she made was. Thanks Wendi!!

Tyler with his Birthday Boy medal!

Easter 2010

Not too much time to write this morning, but wanted to post some pics from the weekend. We had a fun weekend! Here are some pics below:

Although we didn't go anywhere special for Easter, I had the kids put on some 'nice' clothes for a few easter pics. I had wanted to get some professional pics done, but we didn't get a chance over the weekend, so hopefully we will do that soon.
Here's Lindsay!

Here's bot of the kiddos. Awe....

Here they are again...I love this picture!

Here are some pics from Easter morning. They had to find their baskets and all of the eggs...

With their loot:

Lindsay all ready with Tyler's slippers on to find her eggs!

Working on their baskets the night before...

Saturday morning was a lot of fun. Their friends had an Easter party for kids. They had an egg hunt, played games and we all had lunch. It was a very fun time!
Here's Tyler doing the bunny hop game:

Lindsay finding eggs...

The kids before the hunt...

Lindsay with her little friend McKenna:

Fun Weekend!

This weekend we had our Brambleton Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning. The kids were very excited, especially Lindsay, as she has been quite chatty and excited about the Easter Bunny coming this year. It was a bit chilly out, but still a great day for an easter egg hunt :)

Lindsay getting her eggs:

The highlight of the morning was watching Lindsay pet one of the baby bunnies. She sure loved the bunnies!

Petting the bunny again...check out that little smile on her :)

Tyler getting his eggs:

Tyler before the hunt started:

The best shot I could get of the two of them together:

On Sunday Trevor along with our neighbor, took Tyler to his first NHL game. They rode the metro (very exiting when you are 4 years old) into DC for the game. Tyler had a BLAST! He came home tonight and didn't stop talking all about the game and how badly he would like to take hockey lessons.....we are thinking about it! We reminded him that he needs to learn how to skate first and he claims that he knows how after seeing the hockey game :)
Trev & Tyler:

Tyler showing off his new prized possession..a hockey puck:

Cute pic!

Swimsuit Model??

Lindsay got all excited after her bath tonight to try on her new bathing suits for this Summer. One of her favorite things to do is go to the pool! She likes to say 'mommy, I am not scared of the water'. And she isn't! She's a little too confident with the water, but hopefully this year she will calm down a little..... :) She asks me EVERY day on the way home from school as we pass the pool 'mommy, the pool open?' Needless to say..she's all ready for this summer!

Below here are some of her pics. Notice she is even in character with her wet hair from the bath!
First one....a new bathing suit that her mama picked out:

Next another one I found. She is showing her 'muscles' in this pic! LOL!

Another pose...as she's watching TV:

This one was given to us from a coworker....a little riskier than the others :)

Visit from Olivia

This weekend we had a fun visit. Tracy, Nicole & Olivia came to see us for the weekend. Tyler and Lindsay were super excited to see their cousin, Olivia. All week they would wake up and ask 'is Olivia coming today?' The kids all had a good time and got along very nicely together. They played inside, outside, went to the park, the outlets, out to eat, Toys R Us...all of the fun stuff!! Needless to say, they all slept well both nights!

Group Shot: (or best attempt to get one :)

Lindsay and Olivia in the bus at the park:

Linsday loved looking out this telescope at the park:

Lindsay running around.

Lindsay and Olivia riding in the car together. We went to Toys R Us where they both got their first barbie:

Bath time!

Awe.....

Playing in their pjs and heels: