CLICK HERE FOR BLOGGER TEMPLATES AND MYSPACE LAYOUTS »

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Apple Orchard

The last weekend of September my parents came to our house to hang out, play with the boys and watch Landon play soccer.  My mom was here the first week of August, but we hadn't seen my dad since the first week of July.  We had a blast with them and the time went way too fast, as always.  On Saturday morning, we went to an apple orchard.  Landon went through a maze, the boys saw some animals and we all rode the hay rack ride out to the orchard to pick our own bag of apples.  The boys really enjoyed picking the apples and eating them while they walked and picked.  The apples were huge and we got a ton!  Mom and Landon made homemade applesauce, mom made apple cobbler, I made (and froze) two apple pies and I'm going to make apple brownies this weekend.  We will still have some left and we sent half the bag home with my parents!

A family pic in front of the pumpkin hay.
 Grandma and Papa with the boys.
 Landon in front of the HUGE pumpkin.
 Another cute pic with my parents and the boys.
 Posing with some pumpkins.
 Keegan carrying his own pumpkin.
 Landon sliding down the slide to get out of the hay maze.
 Keeg and Landon playing with some bunnies.
 Keegan got so excited to see all the animals.
 Getting braver...
 Our two apples...
 The boys by the big pumpkin.
 Mom, Keegan and I riding out to the orchard.
 The boys eating their first (of many) apples.
 Landon picking apples.
 Mommy and Keegan
 Another family pic.
 Keegan picking an apple.
 The whole gang deciding where to go next for certain apples...
Keegan picking apples all by himself.
Funny look...
Thanks for coming out, Mom and Dad.  We had a great time and hope to see you again soon!!!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Swimming

The pool in our development closed the weekend after Labor Day so we spent some time there that weekend.  Landon has gotten to be quite the little swimmer this summer.  He isn't afraid of anything anymore and he can even swim in the shallow end without his swimmies!  We can't believe the huge difference between the beginning of the summer and the end.  We are so proud of him!  Keegan also loves the water and isn't afraid of anything either.  He would jump in the pool and even go under water with Matt.  It is so much fun to take them to the pool!!

Landon getting ready to jump off Matt's shoulders
Right after he jumped...
Mid-air...
Almost all the way in...
Jumping in doing his "twisty" jump
Cannon Ball
Keegan getting ready to run and jump...
Mid-run...
Jumping in...

Getting thrown in the air by Daddy
So much fun!
Here are some videos of the boys swimming.  You will see Landon swimming all by himself with no swimmies, jumping off Matt's shoulders, and Keegan and Landon both jumping in!

Sunday, September 22, 2013

First Day of Pre-K

Landon started his first day of Pre-K the week after Labor Day.  He is going to Fit by Five again and he absolutely loves it.  It was a much easier transition to school this year.  Matt dropped him off, Landon said goodbye and went in the room and never looked back :)  He gets so excited on the days he gets to go to school and is so excited to tell Keegan and I about what he did that day when we pick him up after school.  He has a few kids in his class from last year and also one of the same teachers, which I think helps a lot.  Landon has three teachers again this year and there are 20 kids in his class.  17 of those kids are boys!  Isn't that crazy?  Those poor teachers have a lot of energy to deal with!!  Here are a few pictures from his first day!  Enjoy!!

Eating breakfast before school
I can't believe how grown up he looks here, even compared to a year ago.  It makes me sad.



Wednesday, September 11, 2013

End of Summer :(

First off, I need to apologize for not updating the blog in so long.  I don't think I have ever gone this long without posting something in the 5 years I have done this blog, so I'm sorry.  I have been completely swamped with school starting and going back to work full time.  Hopefully things slow down soon.  Anyway, we are very sad that summer is coming to a close.  We had so much fun and did so many exciting things.  Here is what we have done the past month:

We went to the corn festival in North Ridgeville to eat some good fair food and some excellent corn on the cob.  Landon got a balloon hat that was a monkey in a tree.  So fun!
 This is Keegan's new trick.  We know he is tired and about to fall asleep in the car when he puts his dipe on his head!  Too funny!
A few weeks ago we went to Matt's work picnic.  It was at a place called "Swings 'n Things" and there was a lot for us to do.  We played putt putt golf, rode the go karts, Matt hit in the batting cages and we played some games inside.  We also had lunch with everyone and got ice cream.  It was a lot of fun.
Landon golfing
Landon absolutely loved the go karts!  He went once with Matt and once with me!
Riding with Daddy
Riding with me
Just a cute pic of Landon during snack one day!
The boys love to dress alike and I love it too (Not Matt so much but he is out voted)!
Here they are in their matching Super Grover shirts!
 Playing together behind the chair
I love that they are holding hands here.  They do that a lot and it melts my heart.  They have their moments where they don't always get along, but for the most part, they play so well together.  I love how much they love each other :)
Landon in his new Super Grover 2.0 shirt with a hood that looks like Grover's helmet.  He added his own cape :)
My friend Jen that I teach with lives in our development and has 2 kids as well.  Landon and Lexi are almost exactly a year apart and Jax and Keegan are just a couple months apart.  We meet them at the park or pool a lot.  Here is a pic of the boys eating snack one day at the pool!
 Landon is playing soccer again this fall and Matt is coaching again as well.  This year, Landon is on an all boys team and they play four 10-minute quarters.  He is usually worn out at the end of the game but he has fun!!  In the spring he played on Saturdays, but now he plays 8 games and 3 of the weeks include Friday night games and Saturday games as well.  
This was their first game....Matt is strategizing with them before the game!
 Landon kicking the ball.  Although they don't keep score in this age group, I'm pretty sure we haven't won any of our three games so far.  A couple of our players have scored multiple goals for the other team in all the games!  Haha!  They are so cute though.  Landon has had a goal in every game and gets so excited!  I love watching him!
 Keegan loves Handy Manny, and he especially loves the tools and the "Hop up, Jump in" song they sing.  One day they were watching an episode of Manny and he went and got the tools and put on the Manny hat all on his own.  I think he might be like his big brother and love dressing up like characters!
Here is our little Manny!
 I love this pic of the boys so much!!  - I love that they are looking and smiling at each other and wearing matching hats, shirts and shoes!!  We put Keegan in his "Little Brother" shirt one day and Landon wanted to wear his "Big Brother" shirt.  That is the shirt we bought Landon when I found out I was pregnant with Keegan and it is a 3T.  I didn't think there would be any way that it would still fit, but he managed to get it on and it didn't even really look small at all.
 Afternoon snack outside at the picnic table!
 The other day we got out the bubble machine and the boys had a great time running through all the bubbles and chasing them!  Here are a couple pics of them playing outside!


I promise to update again very soon so stay tuned!!