Happy Birthday Caden!

(I don't know why it's posting as Friday the 18th since I posted this Sunday the 20th morning... oh well.) Caden turned four on Tuesday! We had a joint party at a park on Monday with two of his friends who also turn four this month. Then on Tuesday he opened presents and played with his new toys and the wii all day, and when Taylor got home we all made his dragon birthday cake. Then on Saturday, we took him to the movie Toy Story 3, that was really fun.

Caden is such a sweet boy, I can't believe he is four already. It's amazing to think about how fragile his life was when he was born, and to look at him now so healthy and enjoying life! What a miracle, we sure love you Caden!!

Baseball Hall of Fame

So, Taylor made it through his first semester! He did really well, got good grades, and I'm really proud of him. He had about 2 weeks off before his next semester started, so we decided to take a family vacation and see some places that we've always wanted to see. We were really excited to have some fun family time. We started with Cooperstown, New York where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. Taylor was WAY excited for this place, he's always dreamed of going there and we live only 4 hours away.

This is the drive there, I just wanted to show how green and foresty (is that a word?) it is out here.

This is right in front of the Hall of Fame.

This is kind of random, but it's called the "holy cow". Caden really wanted me to take a picture of it.

Taylor had fun showing Caden everything. The kids did suprisingly well through it all, I even enjoyed it!! It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, and I really don't know anything about baseball:)

I'm probably not going to do the description of these pictures justice, but these are the Chicago Cubs' (Taylor's favorite baseball team) original jersey and glove.

This one is great. It's the 756th ball Bary Bonds hit, to break Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record. The story behind the asterisk is that the kid that caught the ball sold it to a sports collector who then held an online auction asking what he should do with the ball. Fans could vote for him to either keep the ball for his own collection, send the ball to the hall of fame in its original state, or mark the ball with an asterisk (Barry Bonds is accused of using steroids and many fans don't think he deserves to own the homerun record) and then send it to the hall of fame. Well as you can see the asterisk won out, and so here it is proudly displayed for all to see.

This is the locker dedicated to the Cubs. Taylor really wanted to get pictures of it. The uniform is Greg Maddox's (according to Taylor one of the best pitchers to ever play) and the locker is full of various memorabilia that apparently means something to Taylor:-)

Easter

Be sure to read on after this post, there's more! We had a good Easter this year. We just spent it at home as a family, nothing too fancy, but we had fun! Caden really got into the egg decorating this time. We had a small Easter egg hunt and the Easter Bunny came and brought him and Tyson a basket of candy.

And Taylor also got into the egg decorating :-)

Happy Easter!!

My Boys

I'm posting a ton of pictures of my family, but they are just so cute, I had to share it with everyone! Here are just a few pictures of my boys. Caden and Tyson LOVE their daddy. Whenever he comes home from school they both bolt to the door and jump in his arms.

The "serious" look. (Can you tell Cade's trying to make a serious face? :) )

These two rascals are now at a point where they can play together and they NEVER fight! hahahaha, I wish :)

As challenging as it is at times, I sure love motherhood!

Caden

I haven't posted pictures of just my kids in a while, and I think they've been growing and changing a lot lately. Caden's had a blast here in Connecticut so far I think. He's made some really good friends. We've started Joyschool a little while ago with a few people in our ward. It's kind of like a preschool, but us moms switch off teaching the kids, and Caden REALLY loves it, and I think it's great for him. He's learning a lot and having fun. Anyway, here are some updated pictures of our Cadester!

Tyson

Here are some updated pictures of our sweet Tyson. He is growing up so fast, it's fun to see him doing things that I remember Caden used to do. Yet he's a lot different too, he's definitely our cuddler. He'll just come up to you and give you a soft hug and lay his head on your shoulder for a minute and then he's on his way again. Then he'll be back a few minutes later to do the same thing, it's sweet. But his favorite thing to do right now is climb. If I hear him laughing really hard somewhere, it usually means he's climbed up on something that he probably shouldn't have, I've had to watch him really carefully lately!

The End!

Boston

I'm not really sure why, but our Ward is assigned to the Boston, Massachusetts Temple even though we are much closer to the Manhattan, New York Temple. So, for Spring Break we decided to take a little vacation and go up to Boston for a couple days. We had never been to Boston before so it was a fun opportunity to explore it a little. We went with our two families of friends from Utah that are here for school with Taylor, which was fun and made it possible for us to even attend the temple. (We switched off babysitting all the kids.) I can't believe, however, that I didn't even think to take a picture of the temple and it was the main reason that we even went to Boston, oh well:)


Taylor was really excited to see the Fenway Stadium as we drove by so we took a picture with our phone while we were driving.

We went to a big aquarium in Boston which was actually really cool and the kids loved it. They had penguins, sharks, jellyfish, seals, and all sorts of fishes.

Taylor says that he would love to own a jellyfish some day. I don't know when, but we'll probably get one. He's really serious about it. I really like how they look, but ever since I saw the movie "seven pounds", I've been a little creeped out about them:)

We want to go back again and see a lot of the historical sites next time. This is Caden and Addison. They sure had fun!