Going to Work with Daddy!!!

Last Friday the kids and I had the great opportunity to go to work with Brian. Well actually I took the kids in a little later then he went in so he did actually get to work a couple hours that day. We started with a tour of the office and meeting all of the nice people that Brian works with, which Lizzie was not very impressed with. We then went upstairs to where there are many of the conference rooms. Since the clients usually come to this floor for their meeting they have this great meeting desk which we decided to take some pictures in front of to prove where we actually were.

The kids seemed to enjoy playing in front of it for a while. Thankfully there were not to may clients around.

Lizzie also spent some time trying to help her Dad get some work done, but it doesn't look like it is being very successful.

I missed working and thought I would try to help him out, but I didn't do much good either. Lizzie however did take some good notes for him!!!

We couldn't go to his office with out seeing the most important room of all . . . The Game Room, just what every work place needs. Besides the pool table there are about three game systems (including a Wii) and a computer with some instruments and software to make a garage band. And here I thought people went to work to work.

Through out the day they had presentations and activities for the older children most of which we missed. This however is the room which they got greeted in and seemed to kind of be their base throughout the day.

The room had paper and crayons for which Lizzie was very happy as she quite likes to color these days. It also had snacks and juices for the kids.

After lunch they had a movie , in one of the upstairs conference rooms, which the kids and I went to watch for a little while while Brian went back to try and get some work done. Lizzie got bored with the movie and walked out of the room and saw Brian at his desk. She then went want walking around to get to him. She got confused when she was getting close and he disappeared. This is a picture of her above Brian's desk and when ever he would come out she would just giggle and laugh. It was so very, very cute.

By the end of the day Lizzie was really enjoying just wandering around the office entertaining all those around her.

Just another cute picture of Lizzie to end the blog!!!!

May Day in Hasting

As Brian got the first Monday in May off we decided to go to Hastings in hopes of seeing a May Day Celebration. We headed off on Saturday morning and on our way stopped at Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. They were having a bit of a May Day celebration here as well. We learned a little about Tudor times and Anne and King Henry VIII hosted the day. It was a fun visit as we walked around the grounds and had a picnic. I even had a duck take a bite of my sandwich.

On Sunday we went to yet another castle, Bodiam Castle, which a rich soldier built to impress his friends and any French that may think to attack!!! It has this great moat with some of the biggest fish we have even seen. Brian even thinks he saw the fish eating the ducks, instead of the other way around. Brian decided that he wants a house like this so he can go out the front door and catch dinner.

We then went to Battle to see the field where the battle of 1066 took place. The field is just a pasture for sheep so I didn't even take a picture of it. This is part of the Abbey ruins that was built by William the Conquerer to commemorate winning the battle.

This is the front side of the Abbey. The building in these pictures is when the monks lived, the actual church is basically gone.

What a cute happy boy!!!!

Lizzie is getting so very good at walking. She now will walk all over the house usually without holding hands. I had to add a video of her walking. Here she is walking across the bridge at Bodiam Castle (I'm not sure if I am spelling that). This is a few weeks ago and in an unusual place but she is still cute!!!!!



Monday we went into Hastings itself to see some May Day dancing, however I left the camera in the car. The first thing that we saw in the town was tons and tons of motorbikes. It was quite a nice seafront, which we walked along. We then went up to the castle to see the dancing but went into a Smugglers Adventure, which was really interesting. I really enjoyed learning about the Smugglers and seeing a cave which they used to hide things in. By the time we got out of the caves and went to go into the castle the line was so long we decided not to go in the castle and watch the dancing. It was fun to see all the people dressed up as green men or just in green and it was a fun day even though it was crazy with all of the crowds.

That was our fun weekend!!!!

Kids Eating!!!

I found some interesting pictures of the kids eating as well that I thought I would share!!!!

Lizzie quite enjoys using large eating utensil when eating. She often asks for our forks and spoons. Here she is trying to eat off of the salad fork. She has also tried eating off of our plastic serving spoons. It is fun to watch her try to get these large spoons into her mouth.

Jamie has started eating solids as well (more pictures of this later), though sometimes he seems to just want to chew on the spoon!!!

I have been looking for a way to get Lizzie to eat raw carrots. One day she was begging me for a whole carrot so I gave it to her and she really quite enjoyed it.

Another day I was cutting up some pineapple and Jamie was getting a little grumpy so I gave him part of the core to chew on. He chewed away very well and when it was finally time to take it away it was noticeably smaller then it started out being.

Lizzie would not eat the pineapple pieces that I was giving her but she also really enjoyed the core part. This has now become one of their favorite treats. It is great that pineapple will keep them so happy so that I can get other things done in the kitchen, sadly we are now out of pineapples for the time being.

Kids Playing!!!

Well as it has been a while since I have posted anything on here I figured that I should put something up as I have a few spare moments. Not much to exciting has been going on though so I figured that I would just put up some pictures of the kids playing together.

At the bottom there is a movie of what these two are doing while laying on the blanket together!!

Lizzie seems to quite love her brother and will often give him kisses still!!!!

A while back Lizzie decided that she wanted to hold Jamie. I'm happy that I got some cute pictures of this when it happened, because now she cries when we put him on her lap even if she seems to be asking to hold him.

Aren't they so very cute. Lizzie does still try to pick him up sometimes, she just doesn't ike to hold him anymore.

And finally here they are just sitting on the couch together!!!

Here is a video of what these kids really get up to when left to themselves. I usually try not to let Lizzie do some of the things that she does in this video, but for the record sticking her finger in his mouth is one of her favorite things to do no matter how much I try to discourage it. It makes him laugh so I guess it doesn't pother him to badly!!!

Snow in April

Even though we saw a little bit of snow over Easter, it didn't stick and finally we got ourselves some real snow, kind of.

This is what our backyard looked like when we woke up on Sunday morning!!!!! Covered in Beautiful White Peaceful SNOW!!!!!

I was so excited that I had to make a snow man. Due to the slushiness and compactness of the snow that little guy pictured with all of us below took up all the snow from the lawn. It also helped that as soon as it stopped snowing it started melting.

Our girl even played with the snow a little and she might have even like it!!!!!

Brian and I had a bit of a snowball fight with the snow left on our vines.

This inspired our girl to throw some snow as well. I thought it was so cute that I made a movie of it!!!



Well that is our story of the snow we got this winter/spring. I'm sure that many of your stories would take up pages, but not all of you!!!!!

Our Girl is 18 months Old!!!!

Our little girl is finally figuring out how to use her legs all on her own!!!!

This video was taken just earlier this month!! It is so amazing to watch her learn and grow!!

She is contuning since then to get a little better and will even sometimes walk away from us towards toys or other things. Slowly but surely she is getting her legs under her!!!!

Easter Party

I love Easter so I figured that I might as well do something that I know for my first ever children's party!!!!!

We started by painting Easter Eggs, the kids were young but they still did pretty good job painting them, with a little assistance!!!

Here is Lizzie working on her egg, unless if this is her trying to hoard all of the paint brushes!!

Now it is time to find all of those eggs that got hidden in the garden. I just found one of them on Friday in our super overgrown lawn!!!

Yes even Lizzie found a few hidden out there. She is so much fun when it comes to these Easter Egg hunts. We may start hiding empty eggs just to give her something to find!!!!

Well there are just a few pictures of my very first kids party. I had fun and I hope others did as well!!!!