Lynden's 2nd Birthday!



Lynden's birthday was a complete success. Michael spent almost all night the night before making his cake. This is a tradition in our family now. We love making our kids birthday cakes. I do what I can to help but Micheal does such a great job and it is special to him. I am very thankful for that. This saves us lots of money and gives our kids awesome birthday cakes. All along we were going to do a car or truck, something Wiggles related, then changed our minds at the last minute. Bob turned out so good.

It was a very nice day and the kids had a good time and plenty of room to run around. I like to consider myself one that often takes the time to stop and smell the roses but I will tell you....birthday parties stress me out for a number of reasons. I am ready to get the cake & gifts out of the way and just let the kids enjoy themselves.

We did have a good time. We also brought several boxes of cereal and the kids got to feed the ducks. They loved this part, I think they all paniced and thought the cereal was going to be disappear. This part went pretty quick.

Lynden and Papa

He just could not help himself. It was really cute.

I love it when little kids point with their little bitty fingers. It is so cute to me.

Lynden and his four wheeler from Nana and Papa. He has ride on toys outside so we decided to keep this inside with winter coming up. If Lynden so much as hears one of the sounds going off on it, he knows that Spencer is on it and flips out. He starts yelling "NO" or "MINEA" or just starts screaming. He does not like Spencer touching it at all. He is not the biggest sharing kid there is out there.

I will post more pictures once we get them off the cam-corder. Thankfully, Judy let us borrow her camera since ours is on it's deathbed. These pictures were still on her memory card. Score! Anyway, of course I have taken a ton of pictures since borrowing this a week ago and I will get those posted soon also. Hope everyone is doing well. We love you.

My camera is messed up so I have not blogged in a couple weeks. But I still wanted to list a few things the boys have been doing so I would not forget. I will post some older pictures of them.

This was Spencer's 3rd birthday. He could not have been any prouder of his new guitar.

There 3 pictures are of Spencer around 4 months or so!

He was about 3 1/2 here. Just a cutie pic.

Spencer was in therapy recently. He & his therapist were playing a game called peanut butter & jelly. When she asked Spencer what it was, she said "peanut butter & jj" , so he would finish it & he said "peanut butter & Jesus". I could not have been any prouder of him than I was in that moment. Priceless! I didn't get to hear it for myself but I still so proud.



Lynden is really into saying "where'd it go?". He says it all the time. Even when you are sitting right next to him playing cars, he will cover his up or put it under his shirt, then ask "Where'd it go?" Then he gets it out & is so excited & says "there is!" It is too cute. This morning he got a flat truck magnet off of Mom's fridge. He was standing it up like he was driving it, then he turned it over & layed it down on the table black side up & said "Where'd it go?" It is so adorable. Anyway, he loves our bed. Last night, I was picking up his room & he ran to where I was at & said "where'd it go?" & I said "I don't know, where'd it go?". Then he ran across the hall into my room & said "the BED!" as if he had found it. It was so cute. He has also started saying "What's at?" I love it!

The other day Michael was looking at a book with Lynden & he was asking him what the colors of these boxes were. When he pointed to the red, Lynden said "MER", that's right as in Murray from the Wiggles. When he asked about the purple, it was "JEFF", the yellow box was "GRE" (Greg) & the blue was "NEE" (Anthony). It was so darn cute.

Lynden at around 9 months.

Lynden's first Valentine's Day. Daddy got him this bear. He loved it. He loved & still loves stuffed animals. He will just lay on them & kiss them & hug & squeeze & say ahhhh.

I could not love this picture any more! He is so precious.

Just a few cute pictures I took in the last week. When I realized the boys both had superman jammies on I had to get a picture for Uncle Jason. So, those are just for you Jason. The ones of Spencer are just too cute!

Happy Birthday, Mommy!


So, before you look at any of the pictures, hear me out. I am the proud mother of two of the most handsome boys in the world. Having said that I tend to get a bit carried away with pictures of them sometimes, especially if we are doing something that they absolutely love. Spencer took me to ride the Branson Scenic Railway on Saturday for my birthday (I'm 30, it was on the 4th)! It's official, I'm old! Anyway, I think Daddy helped him out a little bit with arrangements. He loves trains, it is all he has talked about every since he knew he was going to get to go. It was so special & wonderful for me to be a part of that. He loved it so much. As you know, your happiest times are your kids happiest times. We had a great time & it was really nice. It was a wonderful birthday present. We could get up & walk all over, from car to car. I think I got a picture of him in most of the cars. WHAT! I really can't help it, it's an addiction. Thank you Spencer & Daddy, I love you both so much!

His only complaint was that it was over & that he did not get to ride on the red one. I don't think it is for passengers.

He kept this sweet little smile on his face the majority of the train ride. He is so precious!

I really got carried away with the reflection pictures, I just loved them!

At one point we met another train & we were stopped for several minutes for it to pass. We had never been so close to a moving train before (Silver Dollar City does not count people). Spencer love that part.

This was an upstairs section where it was mostly glass.

I told Spencer this was the quarry on Thomas. He liked that.

My Handsome Spencer!

Spencer went back to school today after being out for two weeks. He was excited to go back. I love this picture. It is his giggle face.

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WAKE UP JEFF!!!

Lynden loves the Wiggles. Thankfully he has never been a big fan of Barney like Spencer was. That is a nice break. A girl can only stand so much of anything that involves Baby Bop (man, she is obnoxious). Anyway, he love the Wiggles. He is constantly doing this "wake up Jeff" bit. It does not matter where we are or what he is doing. You will notice when he starts counting. He will say " two, two, wake up Jeff" & start shaking as if he is biting down really hard. It is about precious. Notice though, he was not about to put his cars down. Sometimes he will be standing up & he will just close his little eyes & lay his little cheek over on his little hand & start counting. It is priceless.

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This us Lyndens favorite toy when we are outside. I know, a car, that's weird!

Spencer loves water more than anything else on the planet. He prefers to swim but will take whatever he can get that involves water.

So big & so nosey!

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So this was Lyndens new obsession (or Boo Boo is what he called it) for a few days.

He got this new mole & he showed it to me non stop one day & kept pointing to it saying boo boo!

He tried to scratch it off. It was very entertaining to his old mom!