Happy Birthday Mom!!!
Photo Shoot – Twins
Meet Landon and Addison, good friends of Lance and two adorable little kiddos.
Full of energy and personality! I acted as baby wrangler for most of the shoot. Tough job, let me tell you!
Aren’t they adorable?! It was sweet to see them interact as brother and sister.
Behold, children are a gift from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is His reward.
I actually caught this shot and I do believe it’s my favorite.
Thanks to Cassia Harrison for being available to come out and act as photographer and lend the use of her camera.
Rugrats
A few mornings ago I heard Lance laughing in a particular way so I grabbed my camera as I went to check it out and got this picture:
Apparently we can’t just unroll the toilet paper anymore, we have to rip it into shreds and render it entirely useless in the process.
Next is two adorable children in bathrobes:
Cute? Almost. This is the product of one too many accidents. I found myself telling Brian that I washed the clothes on Tuesday because Lance was out of underwear, and I found myself doing laundry on Thursday for the same reason. He has nine pair.
Finally, an attempt to capture Ivy’s latest trick on video:
These two and their antics keep me laughing – that’s for sure!
Walking
Ivy seems ready to take off walking at any moment so Brian thought we should help her with a few lessons. Going between the two of us didn’t work so well because she kept sitting down but Brian discovered she would go for a solid object pretty well. This video is from Friday.
Not much longer and we’ll have two munchkins running around!
Biking adventure
Saturday morning we decided to go on a bike ride. I wanted to go somewhere different and Brian had seen some new “river walk” development from his window at work so that’s where we headed. The morning was beautiful, the kids excited and we were ready for some adventure!
We biked the 4 miles to work then headed off in search of the new area Brian had seen. There was a bunch of construction in the area because the land is still being developed, so in order to get where we wanted to go we took a little short cut. Unfortunately, it had rained the night before.
Brian went first and his tires got so caked with mud that he couldn’t even move the bike. I decided to look around for a different way.
We made a pit stop while Brian scrapped his tires clean, Lance checked out the bulldozer and Ivy checked out the snacks.
Getting things clean, we proceeded to our intended destination – a portion of lake edged with a sidewalk.
Along the way we discovered a playground which necessitated another break.
We resumed our ride and finished getting around the lake. Then we had to get back without taking the same trip through the mud.
After several attempts we finally crossed a grassy field only to find a 30 yard strip of mud still cut us off from our desired destination. Not wanting to retrace our steps we forged ahead. The mud was so nasty that we couldn’t push our bikes ten feet before they were inoperable so we ended up carrying them, kids and all, the rest of the distance. My shoes picked up mud with each step until they became so heavy I could hardly walk and carry the bike. Brian came to my rescue 🙂
Scrapping off what we could, we retraced our 4 mile trip back home. Brian started riding through every puddle he saw and I soon followed his example. After half a dozen puddles we were splattered with muddy water and grinning like little kids. We finally made it home, wet, tired and hungry. Brain washed the bikes and shoes while I prepared lunch. We all got showers and then Brian and I watched a movie while the kids napped. What a fun day!
