More DC Pictures

After a week of illness between 3 of us, I was finally able to pull some of our pictures together and share on a slide show.
We had a great trip and thank our dear friend Jane for sharing her tickets with our family. Our boys are still talking about the characters they saw and rolling the eggs. We are enjoying a slow saturday around the house today catching up on the little things. Hope you enjoy the pictures. There are a lot of them but we took over 200 while we were there.

Easter 2008 at The White House

We are still trying to unpack from a quick but memorable trip to Washington DC. Peyton came down with the stomach virus an hour before we were to leave for the weekend so that delayed us getting to DC. Fortunately he was better by the time we got there and no one else got it. Now that we're home, I thought I'd spend most of today doing laundry from the trip. However, both boys came down with a second round of stomach sickness most of the afternoon so I've been actually laundering todays clothes instead. Hoping tomorrow I can spend some time on posting pictures and putting things away. We had a fantastic trip. We stayed in an awesome hotel, saw close friends, and had a lifetime opportunity to attend the White House Easter Egg Roll tradition. We took so many photos I'll have to sort through for the best ones and figure out how to put them in a slide show instead of just posting. I also made the boys outfits - with help from Julie, Leslie, & my mom, but still need to take a close up picture of just the outfit. They turned out really cute. Hope you all had a good Easter too. More pictures soon.

Record Snowfall

Last weekend we had a record snowfall. We got 20.5 inches in 2 days. Needless to say we didn't go anywhere for the weekend. Since we live on a cul de sac we are the last ones in the neighborhood to see a snowplow. On Sunday we finally were able to clear enough at the end of the driveway to get our car out and go up the street. We took the boys out to play but the snow was so deep they were more frustrated than having fun b/c they couldn't move.

They liked walking on the cleared sidewalk and driveway much better


Tad & Connor trying to make snowballs

We took them to the backyard because they kept asking for their playhouse. It is much deeper than it looks in the pictures. We had to carry the boys and once our boots broke down the snow they could move a little better.

Mailman delivers

I'm just getting around to posting new pictures..these are from Valentine's Day. Earlier in February my mom gave the boys some valentines in the mail. For several days in a row she would drop an envelope in our mailbox for each of them(they were the school size class valentines). They got in the habit of watching for the mailman and then opening up their own mail each day. Well they also got other valentines from MiMi & Papa and MeMaw & Papaw. My sister sent them the best gift of all. Their own Elmo mailboxes. Thank you Aunt Valerie. They still play with all the cards & mailboxes everyday. I'm actually tired of the mess and finding these valentines everywhere but they have so much fun with them that I can't see putting them away for a while. Here are a few pictures of them opening up their mail. Connor- Blue pj's & Peyton - Red pj's



Peyton pretending his valentine is a camera. He kept saying "cheese" and covering his eyes like this.

They both like to sit in our adult chairs (they each have kid size chairs for them) but usually don't want to share them. Here is them just hanging out watching tv
Peyton

Connor

Ships Ahoy & finger painting

Sometimes before the boys eat breakfast they want to play for a few minutes or watch a tv show. This morning they went straight to their tent and started hiding and scaring each other. When I came from the kitchen less than 5 min. later to tell them it was breakfast time this is what I find them doing.
(Peyton)
The tent was some how knocked over and they sat inside calling it a boat. They kept taking turns going in and out of the boat, asking mommy to get in the boat, and also putting several stuffed animals in the boat. I don't know where they think of these ideas but they sure are funny. I guess now we have multiple uses for the tent too.
(Peyton)
During lunch Connor decided he needed to try something new...finger painting with yogurt on the refrigerator. I was not impressed. Niether was Peyton who was yelling "oh no a mess! What are we going to do!" Seriously I wish you could see him say this. He's hilarious b/c he puts his hands on his cheeks and looks seriously distressed about it. Connor on the other hand was cracking up. At times they are SO different it is hard to believe they are identical.
(Connor)

Tad's case is going well. The defense surprisingly is almost done calling their witnesses- much shorter than anticipated. They will probably still work a lot this weekend on the govt's closing arguments but we see the end in sight. It is a great feeling. We are almost certain Tad will go with us to the White House Easter Egg Roll. We can't wait.

We're getting at least a foot of snow today. It started just after 9 am this morning and is to snow until tomorrow night. We are hoping to get the boys out to play once it finally quits. I should have some cute pictures outside by the end of the weekend.
That's all for now.

Mom's Weekend Off & Voting Day

This past weekend I was able to fly to Nashville for a 36 hour kids free get away trip with my two best friends from college. I met Leslie & Julie on Friday night and we spent the 1 1/2 days shopping, eating, and catching up WITHOUT any of our normal everyday responsibilities. It was WONDERFUL!!! We owe all this to our wonderful husbands and mom's that encouraged us to go, kept the kids, and will allow us to do it again every year. I had only a couple melt downs before I left...it was my first time away from the boys overnight since they were born. After 5 intense weeks of Tad being in trial, it was such a nice break and really "re-charged" me to come back and keep it up for probably another month. I think Tad enjoyed the time with the boys too since he's been gone so much.

What did we do? Well we rented movies but never watched them b/c we talked too much. We went shopping in Franklin & had some great meals out. I also got my first sewing lesson from Leslie & Julie. I have no sewing experience, but these girls are great at it. While we were out, we bought a pattern, fabric, and supplies to make the boys an outfit and they turned out SO cute. Taking measurments of the boys over the phone actually turned out ok. They just fit and are only a little long...which we expected but I didn't want to make them too short. As soon as I finish hemming them and put on the buttons I'll post pictures. A HUGE THANK YOU to Leslie & Julie for basically making these and letting me "watch". My official duties kept changing. I did some cutting, some ironing, covered buttons, and was assigned the task of making brownies..which somehow Julie still ended up doing that.

Everytime I look at these outfits on or off the boys I will think of our trip and how special they are. We have 3 weeks until we go to the White House Easter Egg Roll in DC. We are so excited and still hopeful something will happen and Tad will be able to go along. We are so excited to see our best friend Jane & spend time with her.

I have no pictures from the weekend. We only took one of the 3 of us but Leslie has that on her camera...and we are waiting to get that emailed to us....PLEASE!!!

I set out in the rain today with the boys & stroller to do my civic duty and vote. It wasn't busy at 10:30 am. We went in this QUIET voting location and my boys said nothing. I couldn't even get them to say hello to the registration people. However after I was done at my station and we were leaving the boys SHOUTED out "BYE GUYS HAVE A GOOD DAY". Everyone - voters & workers burst out laughing. I just shook my head and pushed the stroller out of there as quick as I could. Did I mention it was extremely QUIET there.

Hope to post pictures soon.