Dinner Date

Now that the kids are getting older they are becoming more social than ever!! Play dates, movie nights and now dinner out. (it helps my best friend is the mom)

Buffalo Wild Wings will never be the same again.

Snow Day!!!

Snow Day!!! We are finally getting some snow!
The kids have been all excited and they finally have something to go play in. Brendan is all excited to learn how to use Brian's new huge snowblower & Ben just wants to build a snowman.

Knights

Today we went to Berkley's Winterfest, although we has no snow this year (but that's a whole other story). We got to see the craft show, Maddie entered the coloring contest and also got a snowman craft to make.
But the highlight for the day was getting to watch the knights demo. Ben loved it the most! Of course afterwards Ben then proceeds to beat Brendan up and the two were playing for a good 5 minutes, someone came over to tell us about a kids program they have so we will have to check it out for Brendan.

Lunch Date

My favorite thing (and somehow it's the part I also don't like) about Madde's kindergarten class this year is that it is half day. That means we can still have our lunch dates.
On Wed. we meet my girlfriend out at Hogger's (great BBQ) and one other day of the week we just go out.
This week it is TLC (great soups, sandwiches & wraps).

Till tomorrow.....

Blog on iPhone

I gotta say I love my new phone. Now I am even able to blog right from my iPhone!!!
Here is my Benny date (at least once a week) after we drop the older to off at school.

Snow Hill

Well with all the snow we had on Wednesday of course we had to take the kids out to play in it. (And I use we very loosely, meaning Brian helped the kids while I toughed it out in the warm truck taking videos and photos)

Here are the kids sledding.

Maddie showing off her stellar balance skills while sledding down on Brendan's snowboard.

Ben waiting for Brian to come and get him to be carried back to the top, Maddie being a little snow bunny can carrying the snowboard up the hill her self, and Brendan acting goofy to make Ben laugh.

I have some very cool videos to edit (once I remember how) and will post very soon.

But in the mean time here is a photo of everyone:

Ben is such a ham these days.

Christmas Videos!!!!

I have the Christmas videos up on YouTube but for some reason I can't the videos to load correctly (videos are in wide screen and blogger doesn't like that) so rather than cut off part of the video here is a link to them on my You Tube channel.
(note:it may be smart to subscribe to the channel, you may get emails when I add videos).

Here are the links:
Link #1: Christmas Video

Link #2: Christmas Video 2

Hopefully next time I will know how to edit the videos correctly.

Benjamin's First Hair Cut

Benjamin's First Hair Cut at the Chop Shop.....on Aug. 26th....

he wasn't quite sure what was going on....

he was two face, well two hair for a bit....





he was so done....

I don't think he likes it....

but once he sees the new do he was all smiles.....

Great first hair cut Ben.

Halloween

Here are the kids in their Halloween costumes this year.

We have Brendan the Ninja.....

Beauty and the Beast.....

with Benny as the Beast....

The kids had a blast Trick-or-Treating with their friends and of course getting tons of candy. It is cool now that Brendan is in school, we run into alot of his friends while we are out, plus it helps being a street over from 'the Berkley Boneyard'. Next year we will have to video tape it on one of our nightly visits.

Maddie & Trouble Maker

Madelyn's End of the Year School Picnic.

Of course she loves her Benjamin.

Maddie with her best friend from the school year.

Trouble maker Benjamin.

Ben can clear all the toys off the shelf in 3.5 seconds it seems. We need the shelf here to keep him away from the tv, dvr box and playstation but he just can't play if there are toys on the shelf.

Photos from June 2010.

Summer Update

Now that I have a little bit more time and the computer where I can be on it daily I will try to get photos updated and try to keep on top of it better.

Right now I am trying to figure out how to get the photos web ready and up to the blog and then I will work on some of the videos that we have as well.

So stay posted as hopefully I can even have some photos up today.

Maddie's New Bike

Here is a video of Maddie riding her new bike that she got yesterday from Papa & Grandma Andrews. This is her second time going down the street. She is a natural. And today she rode all the way to Brendan's school and back.

Ben & Maddie's Birthday Party

A couple of days before their party Madelyn wanted to spend some of her birthday money on some clothes. Here are the dresses that she picked out. Ben got a cute summer outfit too. (But girl clothes are so much more fun).....Benjamin wanting to go outside to help the guys grill. They had the front of the garage rocking the 'man cave' with the grill, smoker, chairs & of course a mini-beer keg......
Ben saying "It's my party I will cry if you hold me" but he said that to everyone. He wasn't having what we would call a 'good' day his party day......
The Princess Maddie opening her presents....
Brian trying to help Ben open his.....
Maddie with their cake....Happy Birthday To You.....
Ben trying to blow out his candle....I did teach him to blow for the last week but of course all he wanted was to lick the candle....
And throw the cake on the floor.....yes that is really what he did....and yes of course I said don't clean it up yet I need my camera....(but we didn't get any cake photos of ben since he didn't want his cake).....
The kids birthday cake...we also had lots of cupcakes...

Okay for those I haven't talk to lately......Ben is Brendan all over again. He is in the cabinets, he climbing out of his high chair, climbing up the stairs, trying to fall down the stairs, climbing on the couch...just all out trouble. So we are ready to pass the trouble around....who would like him shipped to them first?
Just kidding, we love our little trouble maker. (and yes Miss Maddie has given him that nick-name)

Easter...Almost

I finally have my photo viewing software on my laptop so hopefully I can keep a better update on this blog.

Getting ready for Easter around here. Our first event was the Marshmallow Drop at the park down the street on Friday. Here are some photos from this event:
The helicopter dropping the marshmallows from the sky.....
Here are the kids (with Brendan's girl-friend who was with us for the day) with their marshmallows in their nets......
After all fun we tried to go to the zoo but it was CRAZY busy so we went to our snow-hill park instead for a picnic instead. Here is crazy Benny on the swing...

On the slide....(he makes that scrunched up nose face all the time)
See nose note again....
On Saturday morning we had Breakfast with the Bunny. Here are the kids looking cute. (Nose yet again).....
My Maddie Princess....
My good-looking Big D....(so handsome)...
All the kids, with no one crying, sitting with the Easter Bunny....
After dinner it was time to dye the easter eggs to leave for the Easter Bunny to hide.....
Tomorrow is the big Easter Day...
Here comes Peter Cotton-tail,

Hopping down the Bunny trail,

Hipp-a-dee Hopp-a-dee,

Easter on its way!

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!