Living & Loving Life

Not much has been new with us lately. We are just going about our lives and trying to enjoy every minute of it. Ryan decided it was fun to make raspberries on my leg. Check it out.

Nathan went to a birthday party and did this for 2 straight hours.

We had a BBQ at our house and Ryan played with his friend Austin the entire time. They are going to grow up to be great friends.

Here is Ryan trying to play with big boy toys. He wants nothing to do with baby stuff.

I love snuggling with my munchkin and my bug.

And last but not least, we have a wonderful new addition to our family. My cousin Holly had a little baby girl this week. Welcome Hannah!

One Lucky Mama

My special weekend started with a Mother's Day breakfast at school. I love this every year.

The only thing I really wanted to do today was go on a picnic...so we did.

When we got home, all Nathan wanted to do was play baseball.

It was a great weekend! I absolutely loved spending tons of time with all my boys. And getting some new bling wasn't so bad either (thanks Randy - I love you!)

Running Around...Literally!

I've been remiss in blogging for the last few weeks, mainly because we have been in the final weeks of training for the half marathon.  Our weekends are filled with 10+ mile runs and also all the sports that Nathan has been involved in lately.  Well - our efforts finally paid off and we completed the Pittsburgh Half Marathon yesterday morning.  It was a hot morning and the course was very hilly (compared to the flat training runs we did in Jersey), but we both did fairly well.

We were blissfully naive about what was about to happen...

Our groupies came prepared to cheer.

I decided early on that I'd take a few pics along the way since it really wasn't going my already slow pace.  This is heading back towards the city as we're about to cross the first bridge.

Crossing bridge #2.

Here is my proof that I finished.

Randy's good friends from Texas were in town to run the race too.  We met them on Friday night for a few drinks.  I'm sure that had zero impact on our times...

Here are the boys just hanging out at Grammy's house.  Notice the high chair from when I was a baby.

And since we haven't posted in a while, I wanted to share 2 awesome videos of my boys.  The first is of Ryan crawling.  He is already a pro at it and will actually probably start walking in the next few weeks.  Ryan also got his first 2 teeth.  The first came in the day before Easter and the second came in just a few weeks after that.

Then here is Nathan at his first wiffleball practice.  I think the video speaks for itself.

Boys Being Boys

Ryan has finally started to annoy Nathan...and I love it.

Hoppy Easter!

We had an awesome Easter. The boys absolutely loved coloring eggs and then finding them on Easter morning. This was the first year that Nathan really got into dyeing eggs. Check out how happy he is.

On Saturday morning, we went to the Cherry Hill egg hunt with my good friend Tessa and her son, Roland. There were literally 25,000 eggs and Nathan got 4 of them. We waited 45 minutes for it to start and it lasted all of 45 seconds.

Aren't these baskets cute?

Here are all of the Easter morning pics. Ryan loved just scooting around. He got his first tooth on Saturday morning so he has been chomping on anything he can get his hands on.

The Easter Bunny left Nathan 2 water guns in his basket. Nate decided to torture Calvin all afternoon by squirting him.

7 Months and Counting

I can't believe Ryan is already 7 months old. He is getting to be quite the pro at standing and crawling.  He wouldn't sit still on the sofa for our monthly shot so I had to resort to a floor shot.  

This is basically what he's been doing this past week.  Nathan has had so much more fun playing with him now that they can interact.

Since daycare was closed today, we decided to grab some breakfast and then head to the zoo.  This was Ryan's first experience in a high chair out at a restaurant.  He did fantastic.  

When Nathan saw me taking a picture of Ryan, he wanted me to take one of him too.  He also wanted to eat Cheerios like Ryan.

We were accompanied on our zoo trip by 2 of Nathan and Ryan's best buddies, Roland and Brad.  They loved looking at the orangutans and the rhino.

After all the excitement of the zoo, its no wonder they zonked out in the car on the ride home.   

We are dyeing Easter eggs tonight so I'll post the infamous video of the event some time later today or tomorrow.

First Swing Ride!

Ryan rode the swing for the first time at the park over the weekend. He loved it.