My handsome boys

A few weeks back Ben had to go to a school for work. Of course I had a get a picture of all my boys going to school! :-)

Before Bed....

Kyle absolutely loves for he and his brother to dress alike....I am not sure why because I have never pushed it but he has always asked. So when Kyle found Lighting McQueen pajamas the other day and they also had Evan's size we got both of them a matching pair. The boys looked SO cute! So of course I tried to get a picture of them....

Well the first one didn't turn out so well... Evan is trying to escape!

Yes, take two got a little worse...Evan was REALLY trying to get off the couch.

So both boys got off the couch and finally take three....we got a good picture! Okay so I must tell the truth and this was really like take 32...but who's counting! :-)

Now I know why Evan was trying to get off the couch, he had a phone call to make!


Now that Evan is "off the phone" He had time to stop and smile for a picture!

Evan's first birthday

Where in the world did this year go?!?! I absolutely can not believe Evan is one year old! He has grown up so fast right before our eyes that it is almost unbelievable at how much he is doing daily.

A couple of weekends ago we had Evan's first birthday party. I am so glad that all our family could attend and celebrate with him. We were able to get one family picture before everyone arrived.

Since we met at a restaurant, everyone was able to order exactly what they wanted off of the menu. I have to admit I was very nervous about having a party this way but it really worked out. We requested the private dining room so the children all got to run round and play. It was nice.

After dinner, and when it was time to cut the cake, I was able to get the first birthday hat on Evan. This is the only picture we have of him in his hat, because he kept it on for about 2.5 seconds.

And as you can tell, Evan definitely, positively does not like cake or any part of the whole cake smashing process! Which I guess this is a good thing that he doesn't like cake or icing. However I must admit....he DEFINTELY did not take this trait after me!! :-)

Another first....

Tonight was Evan's first time using a big boy tooth brush. I don't know why we haven't started sooner, but it was one of those things that hit me earlier today. I was talking about how fast he is growing up and when I said "He has 12 teeth" this light bulb went off in my head that said "you need to be brushing his teeth!" So after work tonight we ran to Wal-Mart and I let Kyle pick out Evan's first tooth brush. I promise you it took almost 15 minutes to find just the perfect Thomas the Train toothbrush and tooth paste. After bath time tonight we opened the new toothbrush and tried it out.

At first he let me brush his teeth for about 20 seconds and then I would get this face! I would have to pry his mouth back open for another 15 to 20 seconds of brushing. I can't tell you how many times we went back and forth on this one.

Yeah! Evan got to hold the tooth brush! (I really should have started this way...) He was VERY happy holding it! :-)

Then once Kyle came in to brush his teeth Evan thought it was great. He watched Kyle and tried to do just what his big brother was doing.

I have two little boys with very clean pretty smiles tonight!

Week 2: Swimming Lesson Continues

Kyle continued to excel beyond belief during his second week of swim lessons. By the end, Kyle was swimming across the pool!

I love being able to go see him in action during the last Saturday lesson! However, I don't know if he was so happy with me snapping pictures the whole time. ;-)

Evan stayed awake for this lesson and was a COMPLETE ham the entire time. He also perfected his hand eye coordination while playing with GaGa on one side of the pool by picking up tiny ants on the concrete.

Now for Kyle's favorite part of the day....and my scariest....THE DIVING BOARD! (insert dunn dunn dunn scary music here!)

And for the jump...

He did SO good! He got to jump off the diving board twice and both times he did great! I have to admit I did pretty good and stayed really calm (well for the most part!) I am so glad that he got the opportunity to participate in these swim lessons at school, go with all his friends and most importantly learn some really great fundamentals and swim techniques that he will use the rest of his life.