Games and planes!

We had quite the action packed weekend!

We started out Friday evening by watering our little garden. Nicolas loves to help Daddy! And Eddie loves to help Daddy by turning the water on and off

Lots of water is good for little gardens :)

After some dinner it was off to the kids first baseball game! We had a great time and actually made it to the 6th inning.

Awesome view of all the action

One of Eddie's classmates sat next to us during the game and was kind enough to get a family shot- note how thrilled little Eddie looks!

Saturday morning it was time for the Military Child Festival on base! Lots of bounce houses, games, and food. The best part was that everything was FREE!!

Here Eddie is sliding down and Nicolas is getting mentally prepared

And he's off! They LOVED this one and we literally had to drag them off after about 5 slides

We even got to visit the base firetruck!

It was really high, but Nicolas wasn't scared

After a while at the festival it was time to head to Eric and Chantil's in South Carolina! Nicolas had a LOT of fun at the festival and was zonked out.

Eddie was happy to be on his way to see his buddies!

Once at Eric and Chantil's, the kids were immediately obsessed with the dogs. Nicolas loves them, but likes it better when there is a little distance between them. Uncle Eric was a safe spot to be.

Safe to see the doggies, but not get "kissed" Eddie was smitten with them as well- can you tell? This went on for a while...

Aunt Chantil helped Nicolas play with Gizmo without having to get too involved

On our way out of their development headed for our hotel we saw an awesome sunset!

The next morning we got the truck loaded up and I ran in to check out of the hotel. Eddie pulled up to the door but told the kids they were leaving me. They both burst into tears! So cute, had to get their pics since they were still teary eyed when I got back in.

Look at those crocodile tears! (You may have to enlarge the photo to see them)

That day we were headed for the beach- and the Blue Angels!!! We had a 2 hour wait to wander the boardwalks and check things out. Here is Eric and Chantil waiting patiently.

And here is Nicolas waiting "patiently". Looking for alligators I think.

Group shot! Not the best, but you get the idea.

Aunt Chantil was helping to keep little Eddie occupied- he is pretty attached to her.

Uncle Eric, Aunt Chantil, and a monkey!

Giving Uncle Eric some love

After 2 hours in the sun, Uncle Eric's head was getting a little red, so little Eddie let him borrow his hat.

And finally! It was time to watch the show! It was trully amazing.

Eddie was not a huge fan of the noise, so he decided to sit in the stroller to be a little safer

After 3 hours in the sun, running around with Gizmo and Astra, and much playing with Uncle Eric and Chantil, it was time to go home. We made it 2 hours before Nicolas was knocked out- 20 minutes before we got home at bedtime. It was a great power nap for him and a long night for us. But we had such a great weekend!!

Our weekend

We had quite a lot of fun this weekend! Although, I don't have many pictures, so here is just a glimpse...
The boys had a grand time watching Daddy play on his computer! And the boys had their first pony rides!!! There is a wonderful stable on the base and we took the kids. We got to lead them on a nice peaceful ride through the woods, but since Eddie lead one pony and I lead the other, we didn't have any hands for pictures. The only one I have is of Eddie getting on his pony. :( We will definitely be going back though since the kids loved it!

Nicolas had a yummy spaghetti dinner- can you tell?

We visited a local swamp in search of some alligators. No luck, but we did see 2 water snakes, some fish, turtles and tons of bumblebees and wasps!

It was nice to get out and enjoy the weather!

What's your problem?

Disclaimer: We do NOT encourage this behavior! Also, turn down your volume a little...

Backwards post

I realized the very second that I uploaded the very last picture, that I somehow accidently uploaded all these pictures NOT in chronological order!!! I could redo this, but it would take forever. So, we shall start with today and move backwards. :)

Since we are now in the south, we are actually close to several family members! We were lucky enough to meet my cousin Erica and her 2 boys along with a couple of her friends at a really great zoo in South Carolina.

The first animal- the flamingo! And since we learn something new every day, today we learned.... Flamingo's are REALLY stinky!!

But still fun to look at. Eddie and Erica's son Zachary met and became immediate buddies.

Nicolas was NOT a fan of the flamingo's and freaked out when I strolled him too close

Eddie, Zachary and Jack checking out some big liards

A huge turtle sitting on an alligator.

The big boys checking out some fishes

Looking at the big tank!

Eddie and Zachary give this place 2 thumbs up!

All the boys with their Icee's- apparently the highlight of the zoo!

Me and Erica having a good laugh at the monkey's behind us. No, not the kids! The monkeys.

The other day Nicolas came into the bathroom to "help" me get my makeup on and decided to climb on the counter instead. Please excuse the mess...

Last weekend we went to visit the science museum, and they have a real helicopter outside!

And a motorcycle inside!

And a fun kids room that had a water table

Of course the boys were drawn to the trains

Daddy even found something to do in the kids area

There were also several phone throughout the room that you can use to call the other phones

Like this one

And this one

Eddie is watching Daddy on tv while he puts on a puppet show

Eddie's turn to put on a show

Time to groove on- I mean move on.

After the museum they were a little sleepy..

And maybe a little grumpy

So we stopped at Eddie's favorite Augusta restaurant. As you can see, they have artwork EVERYWHERE!! The kids loved to be able to color on the table or anything else.

Last week we also had the pleasure of seeing Grandma Denise! She was with us for 2 nights and it was a lot of fun. The kids loved her and she was such a good sport, playing grocery store with little Eddie for hours.

Nicolas loved to snuggle with her And Eddie did too!

Showing Grandma Denise how much they love each other

Giving her some love

Nicolas wanted to show Grandma Denise how nicely he lines his animals

Thanks for coming to visit us!

On to Easter!! All the eggs and baskets were upstairs in the bonus room as I didn't have to conduct an egg hunt at 5am. Here they are waiting for the OK.

All the goodies are found and now they are shovelling candy as quick as they can since they know I won't let them have too much.

Having a conversation with his chocolate bunny. Probably something like, "You look really nice but I'm going to have to eat you."

Bubbles!! In the house!! The Easter bunny is the best!

Lunchtime on Easter we got a really special treat- Uncle Eric and Aunt Chantil came to spend the day with us!!!

Nicolas loves to talk to Uncle Eric.

Playing monkey on Chantil's back and Nicolas was helping her find him

We always love to see Uncle Eric and Aunt Chantil!!

Having lunch and reading the paper. Just thought it was cute!

Finally, the day has come! Nicolas decided to go for the ears first.

Eddie thought that was a good plan too

Well they didn't eat very much before they became toys, and then just shreds of chocolate everywhere, and then garbage.