Oh, my sweet boys....Father & Son

After Sam went to bed, Matthew & Daddy had some one on one time watching the hockey playoffs. They were so cute together, I had to break out the camera. I managed to get a few tender shots, but then they realized the camera was on them.

I should think of something better to say....

This was our conversation last night in bed at about midnight....
It was very, very windy outside....
Kurt "Is everything ok out there?" referring to our backyard Toys r Us crack house.
Stacie "Yes, everything has been put up" Of course, I did it - you didn't.
CRACK - CRASH - BANG
Stacie "Except my car getting hit by a tree"
Race to the window. Yep, there is a huge branch that fell out of the tree, laying right by my car.
Kurt "Next time could you say 'Why don't we win the lottery'!"

Well, unbelievably, my car didn't get hit by the limb (tree). It really sucks because my car is never outside, but it was last night because the neighbors and I are getting ready for a garage sale this weekend. In the morning we were able to inspect the limb more closely & there was a void exactly where it broke and there was a bird's nest in it. Check it out....

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to an Easter egg hunt this morning and the boys had lots of fun. Sam was a little slow on the line, so he didn't get many eggs. But Matthew more than made up for him. I love this picture of these two. They can drive me up the walls a lot of the time, but look how cute they can be.

Happy Easter

Good thoughts to everyone this Easter weekend. God Bless.

Mom card's

I found this cool idea in Parents magazine. Mom card's. Since most of us use to have business cards when we worked - why don't we have them now. When you have one of these, next time you meet someone at the park, mall, or McDonald's, you don't need a pen and the back of a napkin, or you hand. Plus, most people don't remember your name. For example, to Matthew's entire class, I'm Matthew's mom. Yep, you guessed it, I did this digitally all by myself!! Kuddos to Digi Artchick Designs for the Krista kit I used.

Hoop Stars

These are outfits that Nannie & Pa got Matthew and Sam. Matthew was running around all day saying "I'm on the blue team and Sam is on the orange team". They were a big hit. In fact, when a neighbor friend, Griffin, came over to play for a while he ended up with Matthew's uniform on before he left!!!

Sleepy boys

This is what happens when we go to an early afternoon birthday party and try to skip naps. Sam was so hilarious falling asleep while sitting on the couch. As for Kurt, I guess running around after two kids for 3 hours, just plum tuckered him out!! Funny, he should try caffeine, like me!!!

Peace Lutheran Preschool Parents Picnic

It was the Week of the Young Child, so Matthew's preschool had many activities. One morning we had donuts and another we had a picnic. Matthew was especially excited because Daddy got to come to both activities. At the picnic, Mommy brought McDonald's and we participated in games (bubbles, sand art, Hullabalu, and of course, chasing) and we got to plant flowers. Matthew and Sam are here eating lunch with Matthew's teacher, Ms. Laura and a friend, Cori.

Digital scrapbook layout

Here is my 2nd attempt at digital scrapbooking. I'm getting faster, but there are still things that I know what I want but I am having trouble figuring out how to do something. Oh well, I think this one is cool. We all have to start somewhere. I look back at some of my first traditional scrapbooking layouts and think, oh, those look like crap. Hopefully someday soon I can think the same about these!

Sam is 2

Sam celebrated his 2nd birthday on Saturday. He had such a great time, he is quickly turning into a happy, go lucky, fun little boy. Who would have thought 7 months ago, he was sitting in an orphanage in Russia, not knowing if he would have a loving family. Well, now he is here and everyone is totally in love with him. Not only does he have a ton of love from family, but he has so many friends that love him.

His party was a blast, we had a farm theme. There was a jumpy, bubbles blowing machine, and instead of a petting zoo, we had many blow up farm animals. The animals were a great thing, there was no sticky animals and no one got pooped on.

There was only one problem, Matthew got very sick. On Friday night, he threw up on me. Not just a little spit up, but a huge three puke hurl. Kurt was running around trying to get a towel, meanwhile, I was holding about 2 cups of vomit in my shirt. Well after that he was ok, but he then got a high fever and has just been laying around. He slept through Sam's party. He is better now, but really bummed that he didn't get to go to Sam's party.