Celebrating Our 2nd Birthday!!

The other cake didn't fit, next year I will go a bit smaller


Cooking with the boys!

Aunt Heather got them a puppet stand with a shark puppet, C was a huge fan. K didn't get why there was a shark in the forest

Miss Cindy gave Chance a Thomas ballon and Thomas hat, he carried it everywhere and refused to take off his hat the whole next day. It was adorable!

We celebrated Kinley and Chance's 2nd birthday Sunday afternoon doing a cookout with friends and family. They got alot of awesome toys and had so much fun playing with everybody and of course diving into their cakes. Chance wanted to stay pretty clean, Kinley not so much. Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!

Prepping for the big day!

We started baking Saturday since we had two cakes to prepare, thank gooddness I had Sean and Paul there! Paul is an amazing chef so I was very lucky to have him helping, Sean was the logic one who figured out how to put the cake together. I was in charge of the icing, I'm very happy how the cakes turned out but they were a little bigger than I anticipated.

Paul and K watching Little Mermaid

Sunday morning Sean and I took the kids to a bounce house to burn some engery so they would take a little nap before people started coming over. They loved it, at first they both were unsure of it but once they went down the slide thats all they wanted to do. We will be going again tomorrow since it's suppose to rain all day!

Aunt Heather icing the cupcakes, this was her last cupcake that she was allowed to do... I was a little crazy about how I wanted things down.

2 little Monkey's Climbing out of bed

I posted this on accident a few days ago without any explanation, I took this video last week when I started finding Chance in K's bed. I wanted to know how he was getting in and out, after I saw the problem I rearranged the room, I did this 3 times and finally ended up having to change their cribs into toddler beds. The first 2 nights was crazy, I would find almost all of our clothes on the floor, every book off the shelves and both sleeping next to the dresser or door. By the 3rd night K realized it was better to sleep in her bed then the floor and Chance still refused to sleep in his bed. This week has started off a lot better, no clothes on the floor and both were alseep in their beds within 2 minutes!




Happy to have his shorts off

K likes to act like Mommy...

Summer Days are long!

My little man wearing his new swimsuit

Being sillys in the pool

Just recently Kinley and Chance have become a little wacky! I have heard plenty of stories of kids "in the terrible twos" and with the kids birthday right around the corner I'm starting think we might be in for some long days! Our daily schedules are pretty consistent, everyday we had to the gym,wednesdays and thursdays we head to swim lessons afterwards and then we might do a picnic at the park and then it's nap time! I was loving it! But they are having some tough days and on those days I don't get much of a work out in nor a break. At the gym they have started to cry when I drop them off so a teacher ends up having to come get me 10 minutes after. On Swim days Kinley starts crying within 4 minutes into our drive because she realizes where we are goin, then Chance starts crying even though he loves the pool. Chance has become overly attached to me where I'm carrying him or sitting next to him most of the day, if someone tries talking to him he grabs my hand and hides behind me. Usually when I'm holding him K wants to be held to but Chance won't share... so by the end of the day I'm totally worn out. I need 2 mommy's some days!!

Seaworld with the Family

We have season tickets to seaworld and we love to go whenever family and friends come to town. We were super excited to be able to go with my dad, Tammy and the boys, Chance loved being around the big boys. When he wasn't around Brayden and Pj he had to be right next to Grandpa Ho. I didn't get to many pictures because the kids were on the go but I did get an awesome video of Chance doing the Shamu dance, it makes me laugh everytime I watch it. The show was great and K even sat through the whole thing and cheered!

Waiting to see the Shamu show

The Shamu dance! ( we dedicated this to Melissa... it is her favorite!)

Tammy and B checking out the stingrays and sharks

Feeding the sharks with grandpa Ho

Hanging with the Pecks!

We don't get to see the Pecks much since they live out of state so when they come to Florida we try to hang out as much as possible. We met Kelley and Landon at a children's musuem that Kelley had found and it is perfect for any day to get out. It has little areas for the kids to explore and learn. We have never been to anything like it but we will definitely be going back. Chance really liked playing in the balls, and playing with Thomas trains, K loved running around and going down the slide and Landon did some dancing and playing basketball. It had everything! After a few hours of funning around we headed to the best chick-fil-a for a crazy lunch. K and C get so excited to see Landon they get the sillys

The next day we took the kiddos to the playground near by and Chance followed Landon everywhere, he has never wanted to swing before so once he saw Landon doing it he had to join in.

We came back and watched nemo and ate some lunch

After some full bellys the kids went back to playing, at one point Chance grabbed Landon hand and Landon held K's hand and they would run around. It was the cutest thing!

Landon came over the next day so Kelley and her mom could do some shopping. They played in the sprinkles, had a picnic and watched some signing time. We love hanging out with this little guy, we are going to miss Kelley and Landon when they leave this week!

K giving baby girl kisses... we can't wait to meet her!

4th of July in AMI

Every year we go to Anna Maria Island for the 4th. We love it down there, it's so relaxing and we always get to eat awesome food. My dad rented a house a few blocks from the beach so it was a nice walk everyday, I love going down there and spending time with family!

Chance loves hanging with the boys, he followed them wherever they went.

He loves fire trucks!

Saturday morning we took it pretty easy, I got to go for a quick run without the kiddos while everyone was getting ready for the town parade. I was a little unsure how K was going to do because she is afraid of everything but we wanted to go, the first 10 minutes she did ok, but then beads were being thrown and sirens were going off and then came a giant pirate ship that had fake canons go off every 5 minutes, so Kinley and I had to leave the parade early.

The only picture that both kids were facing me for 4th of July pictures

C loves the beach, the whole time he runs around and wants to play in the water

taking a break, one of the only time the kids sat down for us

B can get up and ride a wave in!

Getting ready for bed

Eating donuts with Brayden and pj