Boys and their puddles

We’ve had an ungodly amount of rain this year and it just doesn’t seem to be stopping.  Our front yard is just mud….all.the.time…mud.  Friday it was raining (again) and Riley was super sick.  I kept Riley in his jammies all day and Finn was in play clothes but then decided he wanted to be in his jammies too.  These are not battles I care to fight.  So jammies it was.  I had to take Riley to the doctor to make sure he didn’t have pneumonia (which he doesn’t) or a million other scary things (which he doesn’t) and when we got home I let Finn out of the car and he went straight for the puddle.  By the time I turned around he was already covered in mud.  So I let him play!  Daddy came home in the middle of Mudfest 2010, changed into his playclothes and we put Riley’s wellies on him too.  He however wasn’t a big fan, but he was really sick, I’m sure he’ll get into it some day.

 

Finn was running back and forth through this puddle over and over and over and over……unfortunately I was having camera malfunction and only got this short clip….and you can see daddy coming home, ha!

Feeding the birds!

Grandma and Grandpa’s place down in Florida was right next to this bird sanctuary so there were TONS of birds and we took to feeding them every day!  Pictures just weren’t capturing, so I had to take a video!  I love how Finn keeps stepping backwards as the birds keep getting closer!

 

 

Florida!

I took the boys down to Florida for a week to visit grandma & grandpa all by myself!  An 8 hour car ride with two young boys scared the devil out of me, but I am truly the most blessed person to ever walk this earth because the boys didn’t make a peep on either drive!  AMAZING!  And while the weather wasn’t as great as we hoped, it was still a really great trip!

 

 

 

And then it got cold

 

And hell must have frozen over….grandma took a NAP!

Riley found his own space and was giggling and smiling and so freaking happy about this space!

 

Sunset drum session with PaPa’s new drum that mommy and daddy bought in Belize!

Belize

I know this blog is mostly about our adventures with the kids….but this post is all about Momma & Daddy!

In April, we will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary!  We had always said that at 5 years we wanted to take a big trip.  Thankfully we were at a perfect place to be able to do just that!  Last April we made the decision to go to Belize and booked our flights using skymiles.  9 months of anticipation later……

We spent 7 nights in the jungle (3 nights at Black Rock Lodge, 4 nights at Table Rock Lodge) and then 3 nights at the beach (Victoria House).  All places were pure HEAVEN.    We went on lots of adventures….But we also spent a LOT of time sitting and relaxing and listening to all the amazing jungle birds and then the ocean. we spoiled ourselves silly, even Todd, once we hit VH/the beach he napped like he has never napped in his life, spent a good portion of the time in a ROBE and laid around with no agenda and even cancelled the plans he originally had to run around from island to island.  Talk about relaxing!

Vaca Falls at Black Rock Lodge

Five Sisters Falls

Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) Caves

Cave Tubing (aka sitting in a tube in cold water in complete darkness for 2.5 hours after hiking 30 minutes and almost getting killed by a yellow jaw viper)

Caracol

The Belize Zoo

yeah, that’s me getting a massage on the beach.  bliss.

And this is us lounging on the beach together. Heaven.

While we were away….

Momma and Daddy took a trip to Belize at the end of January to celebrate our 5 year anniversary!  We had grandma and grandpa come and stay at our house and watch the boys while we were gone for 10 days!  Momma missed the boys something fierce and was so excited to see the boys when we got home!  And as an added bonus, grandma had these awesome things to show me!  The first is a daily timeline.  They used it as a countdown to when we would be home and filled it in with the activities that they did!  The second is a sheet for each boys of some of the funny things they said/did, how they ate/slept/etc while we were gone.  It was so awesome to have been away but to come back and know what they had been up to!  Both items are so precious to me and I know the boys loved them too!  Thank you Grandma & Grandpa, you are truly the BEST!

 

Backing it up…..

I’ve been a bad blogger lately.  I’ve got things from January that I still haven’t posted.  So, some of the next few posts are going to be kinda “old”.  :)

Girls Just Wanna Have FUN

Purdue Gear:  Check

Basketball Game Viewing:  Check

Pink Guitar playing “girls just wanna have FUN”:  check

 

Rock on my little rock star, rock on!