Thursday, June 9, 2011

Party all Year Long


Our first great news of 2011 actually came in December of 2010. TJ got two interviews for dental school. One with UMKC and one with Creighton. He interviewed at UMKC January 10th and Creighton January 17th.  We decided to just head over to Omaha and have Cohen and I stay the week with Spencer and Nikki while TJ went back home after his interview for his first week of school at Logan.  He then came back the next weekend for his interview with Creighton. The interview with UMKC went amazingly well and with Creighton not so amazingly well but we felt blessed to have two interviews.  Cohen and I enjoyed an fun filled week with our best buddies and partied hard. (Not too hard cause it was so freezing we didn't leave the house much!)


1st we learned cousin Kelan is very good at sharing his pudding if you hop up on the chair to sit by him.


And cousin Beckham loves to share a good ride on the ice-cream truck at the mall


Kelan with his new "brella" he bought with his Christmas money from Papa and Mema

While we were there we got to celebrate two very special Birthday's. Nikki & Beckham!


Nikki's better than sex cake....so yummy!


Nikki and Spencer were down to like 4 glasses...so as lame of a present as it is we got her glasses!


There was lots of snow so Kelan and Cohen went out to play in it with Spence.





Beckham and I decided we'd just watch and stay nice and warm inside.

One of the few days we braved the cold and ventured out we hit the zoo. If you ever go to Omaha...go to the zoo it is amazing!


My Monkey Boy


Best Picture EVER!!!


Best Buddies

For Beckham's Bday bash we headed to the Pizza Machine. So Yummy. We had so much fun but I definitely had my worst mommy melt-down. We lost Cohen for the 1st time and found him after only 5 minutes but it was the longest 5 minutes of my life. I used to judge parents who used leashes but after this experience Cohen is definitely getting a leash....I don't care who judges me!



Me and the Birthday Boy




After the Pizza Machine we headed back home to have cupcakes and juice. 





Kelan & TJ had lots of Nerf gun wars.  What a stud!


Beckham with all his presents


We got Beckham some snack traps for his Birthday.... a must have if you don't own any! 



I think he likes them...they're missing a key ingredient though....where's the snacks???



Happy Birthday Becky-boo! We love you!


And not trip is complete without a couple of good bath's with your cousins. 



Saturday, June 4, 2011

Family Pictures 1.1.11

Once again we had our wonderful photographer Erika in town and begged her to take our pictures. It was freezing outside so we only made it about 30 minutes but Erika still managed to get a ton of great shots. Here are just a few of my favorites!












Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ringing in 2011


Sorry some of the pictures are a little fuzzy! For our New Year's celebration we had our friends the Nelson's over. We bought glow sticks and sparkling cider and played our new Kinect and Karaoke all night! We made it to midnight to watch the ball drop but after that we were all ready for bed. 


Cohen giving Ly her binks


Tyler and TJ were having a contest to see who could get the glow stick rings around my old dance trophy.






Cohen's drink of choice for the night was a tall order of milk served in his favorite sippy.



Tyler and TJ playing Kinect adventure.


Notice Tyler on our custom for the night stadium seating. Thanks Ty for your input on all our couples new years eve photos.



Nothing like ringing in the New Year with some lip action from my amazing husband. Little did we know how wonderful this year would come to be....more to come soon! 2011is going to be great!!!