Florida

I figure since it has been a few months, it is time for a new post! We just got back from a trip to Florida. We had a lot of fun and I am not sure who was more worn out at the end - us or the boys!

We went to Magic Kingdom, the beach, swam, canoed and just hung out with family and friends. We spent most of our time in Gainesville with Jimmy's family. We stayed with David and Pam. The boys had a great time at their house because they have five acres of property, a golf cart, riding lawn mower, dogs, a turtle and fish. We spent one night in St. Augustine at a condo on the beach. It was a great location and we had a ton of fun playing in the sand and pool.

We also spent one night in Orlando with some very good friends. It was a wonderful vacation and the perfect time of year to visit Florida.

Happy Easter

We had a fun Easter weekend with my family. We started out the weekend with a freezing cold egg hunt at the park behind our house on Saturday. The boys had fun, but it really was too cold! We tried to go bowling or something else but the boys did not want to go anywhere. So, we dyed easter eggs. When we went through all of the hard boiled ones Tyler wanted to do more, so we brought out the regular eggs and dyed those as well! Then my mom was telling us about an egg drop contest they did at school the day before, so we decided to let Tyler give it a try. My mom gathered supplies for him and let him go to work. He dropped it off our balcony first and then we went on the roof. It looked like so much fun that we all decided to give it a try. Each of us built a container for an egg and dropped them off the roof. Our neighbors thought we were nuts having the whole family on the roof. It was a blast! My mom was the ultimate winner as hers did not even break on the final round when we threw them off the roof into the street.

We had so much fun playing with eggs that we headed outside with a bowl of eggs and played some more games. I think that we have a new Easter tradition! We had a blast!!

Easter morning the boys got to see what the Easter bunny brought them and then hunted for eggs. We had a fun day just hanging out, eating, playing and building a monster truck (Tyler).

Twilight...

One of my sister's friends knows the band that made this video - it is hilarious!!

Happy Birthday Tyler

Tyler turned 5 last week! He has been so excited for his birthday. We did not do a whole lot on his actual birthday because we went to my parents house over the weekend to celebrate. Tyler did get to take doughnuts to his preschool class on his birthday and he opened a few presents.

We were supposed to go to my parents house on Friday morning but Tyler was really sick and had been throwing up on Thursday. We started to feel a little bit better Friday morning so we went ahead and made the drive - Tyler insisted we go! Tyler was miserable the whole weekend and moved from one couch to another and then to his bed. He stayed in his jammies all weekend. He perked up a little bit when my mom showed him the cake she made and then again when he got to open his presents. Poor kid - he still is not back 100%.


Sorry for the red eye - no time to edit.

Tyler's actual birthday when he was feeling good.

This is about as much as we could get him to smile.

Julieanne- thanks for the cute camping idea!

My mom gave the boys harmonica's - what a great toy for a 4 hour ride home!

Jason and Kylee really enjoyed the cake. It had chocolate rocks on it and they really liked those! Kylee dug a hole in the side of the cake with her hands and Jason found every rock on the cake.

Snowboarding Competition

A few weekends ago, Jimmy got tickets to the Snowboarding competition at Park City. We were able to go watch these snowboarders compete for the last few spots on the Olympic team. It was so much fun to actually see how much air they get! We had a blast!

The last picture is of Shaun White. He is one of the best snowboarders and was so fun to watch. He won the gold medal at the Winter X Games a few weeks ago. We were in the VIP tent and all of a sudden Shaun comes walking in to find his mom, who happened to be standing right by us.

I did not get great pictures...

Visit from Grandma Bruck

Jimmy's mom came to stay with us for a week in January. The boys had a great time playing with Grandma while she was here. We played in the snow, went swimming and just hung out.