Love for reading

To say my boys LOVE to read would be stating it lightly!  They are obsessed and would read all day if I let them!  There are many times I will not know where they are and go to find them in their room, reading books.  This night you will notice at bedtime daddy reading to them and then Tristan wanted to take a book to bed so Jared read to him in bed and he was a happy camper!

Landon on left Tristan right

Tristan started by standing up listening to his book then

Sat down to listen and THEN

laid down to fall asleep...precious

My sweet little boys!

Our Farm (Garden)

This past weekend was again lots and lots of outside, if you can't tell our boys love outside.  If I would let them they would live outside, eat, play and sleep outside!  Saturday I had a Jewelry show...an AWESOME one I may add:).  When I got home boys were napping so Jared was relaxing outside, so I got changed and went out to join him.  Once the boys got up we enjoyed some snacks (outside) and then played in the water.  Another thing the boys really enjoy water.  They will play in Koda's water dish all the time, they love bath time and splashing.  So we put the hose on and a sprinkler on, it was cold but they still liked it. 

Landon loving the hose

Dipping crackers in guac...yummy

Landon messy Tristan just woke up

Having fun playing in the water

Landon running through sprinkler with daddy

Tristan going through the sprinkler

Tristan and daddy

Boys playing in their slide rocket ship from my friend Wendy...Thank you!

Sunday we put in the Farm aka a garden.  Our best friends Jeremy and Kris Craighead and us are putting in a big garden and the Craigheads wanted to call it the farm so we went with it.  Hopefully we don't confuse the boys when we say lets go to the farm they don't think we are going home to Wesley:).  But we planted a lot...cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, green onions, yellow onions, beans, peas, banana red green and yellow peppers, radishes, hopefully I am not missing anything.  We are also going to plant pumpkins, watermelon, muskmelon and sweet corn...wish us luck!!  We started this while boys were down for nap and Tristan woke up to help...then Landon woke up to help!

Jeremy and Jared preparing the soil for the "farm"

Great teamwork

Best friends

Koda and Tristan were helping too

"daddy what are we all planting?"

Landon just spotted the snacks...haha

garden is in behind Tristan

"Mom can I have a tomato?"

Little Sandbox...it will do for now!

The boys love playing in the dirt, but then again what boy doesn't??  So we had an old tire in the grove so I put a bag of sand and made our own little sandbox.  It is not big or much but once  I get the bricks and stuff cleaned out it will be a much better, bigger sandbox. 

Landon enjoying getting dirty...as always

What did you say mom, Tristan

March for Babies

Today was March for Babies which is a walk that is done through March of Dimes to raise money for premmies.  We did this walk last year and it was so fun and great to do.  This year are team had grew, my goal was to have 50 walkers for the 50 days the boys spent in the NICU!  We came up short but hope to have 50 next year.  We did great in donations too, thank you to everyone that walked and or donated, we appreciate it soo much!  Here are some pictures from our team and the walk.  It was supposed to rain and be really cold.  Fortuantely it did not rain but was a little cold but not bad.  IT wsa not windy which helped a ton! 

Team Bodie Boys...a big Thank you to everyone that walked with us.  The twins in the stroller(MaKenna and Keating Mansfield were also preemies 4 weeks earlier than the boys!)

Leslie being a dork and our team behind her

Our team walking, thanks to Taylor and Maddie for pushing the boys, they loved it!

Landon was pooped notice his cereal in his hat:)

We DID it!!

Julie Thompson with her son Jamie, that was born three days before the boys and were in the NICU a couple days when boys were, Landon wanted to go play more.

Just being boys

Boys really enjoy playing outside and trust me after they have played outside with babysitter and then at night with mommy and daddy, it is time for a bath.  There is not a whole lot to this poast besides some pictures of showing our boys being boys! 

Tristan ..Paste

Landon...Copy

Boys with glow sticks in the tub...if you haven't tried this try this with kids of all ages.  you can get the glow sticks at dollar store and shut lights off, they will love it!  They lights went out for a bit in our neighborhood so we used glow sticks.

Boys loving bath time!

End of the year Banquet

This year I volunteered our house to have the end of the year banquet...some of you may say you are nuts, I say no it will be fine.  We wanted to do something a little more laid back and honestly our house is big enough and we have enough space for everyone why rent somewhere.  We wanted to do a park or something but if it would rain then would have to move it so I said lets just do my house and the girls loved the idea.  The only problem was it was going to be in our garage and we had a three car garage that we couldn't see the third car stale.  So nonetheless we had some work to do, but honestly it is something we wanted to do since we have moved and finally gotten settled so this got us moving.  Last week we started on it with Jared getting his master's and coaching wasn't a lot of time before then.  So our good friend Craigheads helped us get started last Sunday.  Boy did we have a lot of SHIT!!!  Jared spent many many late nights down there cleaning it up and not only placing it somewhere else actually going through things and throwing things that needed to be thrown, take stuff to Habitat that needed to go there or garage sale pile.  We made some awesome progress and I cleaned it like crazy throughout the week and Friday even mopped the floor, which everyone said I was nuts:).  Anyways all the work was worth it because the banquet was a HIT!! Everyone loved it many said it was the best banquet they have been to, so that is good and bad.  Great it went great but bad because I think it will always be at my house.  But no honestly it was a lot of fun and really not a lot of work.  We had each class bring different salads, desserts, appetizers, etc. so I didn't have to cook just cleaned.  The boys could nap when they were tired so it worked out GREAT!  We all had a good time.  After eating (we grilled out, Jared and Jeremy grilled), we did awards and then just hung out and played bags!  One of the parents set up a bags tournament which was a lot of fun!! Guess who won?  Yep, Jared and his teammate Jan Trask (One of my players moms).  Fun had by all.  That night Craigheads came over for dinner and to hang out!

Parents, coaches and Koda

A little bags...Hanna(one of my players) and parents

Denny(one of our assistant coaches) Jared and parents

The boys and I and Koda, boys having snack after nap and watching the bags tournament

Landon, Hi dad

Tristan watching the tournament

Tristan left, Landon right