Memorial Day Fun

Weeeeeee! Christian can swing all day!

The problem is finding a "pusher" all day!!

Chase loves Uncle Nanny!!

Just Hangin' Out!

Here was our wonderful BBQ with the family!! We had so much food and FUN!

Ashley and I talked the whole time while we made the food, and the men did the meat grillin' (and veggie pattie grillin'). Ashley and I had quite the appetite after just finishing a 6 mile run in 50 minutes!! For anyone of you "Northeasterners", you know that we couldn't of asked for a more beautiful day!! It was perfect!! Such fun memories with family!

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

There is no story to this picture, all I am going to say about this shot is this is what I hear when I don't answer sweet, adorable, patient Christian quick enough...

MMMMMOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!

On a side note, have any of you gotten the scary email where you are supposed to follow the red dot all of the computer screen, usually while looking at in the background peaceful pictures and soothing music? Then all of a sudden there is a crazy, rediculously scary person or "thing" on the screen which makes you scream?? Well I think Christian could be that scary person in this picture!! He really is a sweet boy I promise!!

Christian is 2!!

There is a story behind this cake....First of all, I was completely ready to make an actual cake that looked like Lightening McQueen and also make cupcakes using Cars cupcake holders. Had everything ready, and then all of a sudden time started creeping up on me. You know how all of a sudden you get that sick gut feeling that you aren't going to have time to do everything you wanted? Well I got that feeling....Thanks Price Chopper for the cake. Funny thing about the car on top. Since we literally have @ 15 Lightening McQueen's, I grabbed the newest looking one, sanatized it and stuck in right on the cake. Christian saw me do it, and he threw a fit!! Apparently, Lightening doesn't belong on cakes, he belongs on roads! So I finally got him to stay on the cake after several attempts and several sanatizes! I think by the time Christian had like 5 other McQueens in his hand, he didn't care about the one on his cake!

Just a little more sprinkles will do the trick!! Christian loves sprinkles!! Wait until I download the picture I took this weekend of his hotdog!! It is really funny...err...gross??? You can decide, but he ate it. More details later...

He loved opening presents!

This present was a "hit" It only took 2 times of hitting the ball/tee right on top, until he figure out to hit it from the side. A baseball player in the making, daddy is so proud!! He loves this gift, in fact I still have it inside b/c he plays with it so much.

Uncle Nanny (Nathan) and Aunt Shirley (Ashley) came up for the weekend. Christian's BD happened to fall on Memorial Weekend so they got to spend the whole weekend with us!! We call Ashley, "Aunt Ashley", but the night they came (arrived @ 10:pm) Chase was either really tired or really excited, actually a combination of both, so he piped out, "When is Uncle Nanny and Aunt Shirley coming???" I thought it was Hilarious!! Too bad Aunt Ashley already has the cute nickname, "Shugee" or else she would have the cute name, "Aunt Shirley"

Kami's 9th Birthday!

Happy Happy Birthday!! Kami wanted a Tier cupcake cake. As you can see that is what I attempted to make without reading the directions! As I am finishing up, I thought, why is this leaning so much? Well as my mother always says to me, "Tiffany, you have to read the directions or it won't turn out" Most times, I can get away with it, a little dash here, a little pour here.......how many eggs was that, oh well, one more won't hurt....but this time, mom you are right, I should of read the directions!! I don't think the girls noticed!!

Kami and Sarah
Kami wanted to have her Birthday Party at home this year because she wanted to "invite like 20 million friends". Thank goodness we don't know 20 million people, but we do know 28 kids. I thought maybe half would show up....all but 26 came!!! We are so glad though because we had a great time.

We had pizza, cake and ice cream, and then played a really fun game of Music Jeopardy. If you look in the bottom right hand corner of this picture below, you can see a big wall. Walker got the projector and made the wall into a theatre screen. It was massive. He used his jeopardy computer program and had the questions all about music...Jonas Bros, Hannah, Miley etc. The girls were split into 2 teams and it got crazy from there!! After the game, they watched Hotel for Dogs on the wall. It was seriously just like a theater. The girls had pillows, blankets etc. So much fun. All of this actually was supposed to be outside but it was pouring rain!!

Heart of Hospice

George (my father in law) received the 2009 Heart of Hospice Award.
They held a very nice banquet at the Troy Country Club honoring him and all that he gives to Hospice. It was a very wonderful night and the kids were very well behaved. The only mishap we had was when Reverend Schweigardt (only New Yorkers have names like that) gave the invocation and Christian started a fit only to knock over the glass full of water all over the table. Beyond that, it was alot of fun!!

I am amazed at how well Christian eats!! He loves fruits and vegetables!! Kami is a great eater too, Chase is a little picky, but hey, we are all healthy!! Despite all the candy we eat (Christian's favorite sign is "candy")

A little bored but still on their best behavior! Christian loves to eat my Cherries out of my diet coke!!
I absolutely love this picture!! I am thinking AT&T would love it too!! Can you guess why?? Take a look and see....
More Bars!! What a coincidence!

Daddy and the boys!

Again, I just love this picture, Daddy hand in hand with his 2 boys. He is such a wonderful father and wonderful husband.

Chase's Track Day

Chase had his kindergarten Field Day and boy, was he fast!! You can see the determination in his eyes!! It was alot of fun and these kids were so excited!!

ON YOUR MARK......

GET SET........

GO!!!!! And he's off!!!! Go Chase!!

Run Chase!! Don't let a GIRL beat you!!!

(It is so funny that I say that, I don't think one boy beat me in anything until I was in @ 9th grade! I was one tough Chica!!)
Relay Races Tug of War!!
By this time (@2:30) Christian was just about "done". With no nap and a hot day, his patience was running thin. So, I didn't get the best pictures here, but this was really fun. The kids against the parents!! So here is Chase, and to your right (his left) is his best buddy Hayden. Apparently they have been joined at the hip from day one. He is a very sweet boy! The children are pulling with all of their might, and to my surprise, they were quite strong!!

Here is the back side of Walker (like I said if I had 2 more arms I would of had some great shots. Crying baby in one arm, camera in the other, "butt" on another side note, this isn't such a bad shot for me!!) Walker was literally sliding across the gym floor!

I love mommy....

I woke up on Mother's Day only to find that my children and husband had been doing some planning and shopping for me! They made me a very sweet card (see below) and bought me some nice gifts.

This is the card they made, on the back they each wrote something to me.

After a wonderful day at church, we then went to grandma and grandpas, had a wonderful Mother Day's Lunch at the club and then did a couple holes of golf.

Grandpa giving Chase pointersKami loves to play golf, she is a natural.

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful Mothers!!