March...it's gonna be a long one!

Yep, I did it again...the late July posting about March and beyond. I can think of many "excuses" but none sound quite as nice as I've been living life and not reporting on it. However, in all honesty I've been doing more posting on facebook - what a time sucker. There are entirely too many pictures and too many memories to post (although I will attempt to include all that I can remember) and looking back is a big reminder to me to "stay in the moment", which seems to get increasingly harder to do with each passing day.

Where do I begin?

Yet another birthday for me. Ada and Emmet have seemed to grasp the concept of "birthday" a little bit. They kept asking, "when are we going to eat mommy's birthday". Apparently cake is all that matters at this point!








(I just realized that I put these pics in backwards order...oops)


Fun with pig tails...



The biggest event of the month of course was Ada and Emmet's 3rd Birthday. I can't believe it! Nana and Pops were kind enough to host the party so we'd have some room. It was such a wonderfully happy day. At one point I had that full of happiness/wanna cry feeling as I was looking around at my WHOLE family; mom & dad's side altogether under one roof. I was just so proud of my family and my children...and at that very moment Ada said, "Mommy look, everybody's so happy!" with this huge smile on her face. Words just can't describe the moment. Once again, I find myself wishing life would just slow down - it's all going by way too fast.


Nana made the cakes. She's so spectacular!


Emmet loved his car cake!






Great Grandma Arenz & Ada


Emmster & his new Thomas shirt


Mostly everybody


New bikes!!!


Great Grandma Flynn watching the bike practice.





The weekend after that (I think anyway) we went to A-Z Farm to see the baby lambs. What a fun little trip! Nana even made a little book about it for Ada and Emmet, which they love looking at!

Twin lambs!







I think Ada was showing off her nails here but I can't be sure...either way I think she looks pretty darn cute.


I love this picture of Ada & Nana.


Building with Pops after (actually I think this was before) the farm. eek...check out the mess!


Nana reading the book she made about our farm trip.

Here are some random shots from Pops. I don't know what we'd do without him & his photo skills!



And last but not least...some random shots of silly times, thanks again to Pops!

Mommy's Little Monkeys

Roger caught me havin' fun with my babes. He joined in after Emmet tried to confiscate the camera!

More dancing.

As promised here is a video with Emmet dancing....and no video (or day, or hour) would be complete without a little whining from Ada.

Reading together

Even though this video is not the best quality I had to post it!!!
I love that Ada and Emmet love to read!

Dancing machines

Emmet and Ada both love music and singing but I do believe it is safe to say the Ada has most definitely got the Arenz music gene. She is constantly singing and dancing. Seriously. So, I thought it only appropriate to post this little video of Ada and Daddy dancing. Emmet's version of dancing usually turns into a wrestling match. Someday (when I'm not being tackled) I'll get a video of him dancing too. BTW - Ada is dancing to a song by Sara Barielles....a new household favorite.

February

Ahhh February. What feels like the longest month EVER. The weather is awful. Students and teachers always seem to fall apart in February. The cabin fever sets in. We tried to keep busy. We had some fun outside in the snow on a relatively warm day...I think it was around 40 degrees.




A&E were so excited to see grass! They started asking for to snow to go away this month!
I can't say that I blame them one bit!



Daddy making paths in the snow. They LOVED this! Daddy can be so creative sometimes!




I love this picture!



Emmet loves to snuggle with Daddy while the Nascar race is on.

Speaking of Nascar. For Roger's early 40th birthday present (yes, that's right, I did say 40!!!) he took a trip to Florida to visit his oldest and dearest friend Rob. While there they attended the Daytona 500.

Roberto....we miss him so! But I think Roger enjoyed having to go somewhere warm to see him!
It has it's perks!

Roger defrosting in the Florida warmth!



He had to get a picture of Matt Kenseth. #17.



Valentine's Day was fun this year! I surprised Emmet and Ada with a little goody bag and we enjoyed a visit from Andee and Diego!

Emmet loves driving his cars (oops, I mean red truck - he always corrects me) over bumpy surfaces.

Yes, much to my dismay, Ada has found the wonder of princesses and I have decided to indulge her on special occassions :cringe:

It's amazing to me how much entertainment a balloon can provide to little ones.


Andee reading to the munchkins who are snuggled up on my bed.



Cold and flu season....YUCK! Ada and Emmet both came down with Pneumonia and an ear infection. Poor Emmet got hit with the one-two punch...just when we thought he was on the mend he spiked a fever and went downhill again. Thanks to nebulizers and antibiotics they recovered - although it felt like it took forever!
Emmet passed out on the couch with a fever. My poor little man. This just happened to be the day that Aunt Kathy came to do our taxes (Thanks Kathy!) along with Greg and Gina. Poor Greg came down with the yuck shortly after this.



Nana and Pops took us all to the Zor Shrine Circus. Ada and Emmet were coming down with the above mentioned (damn, I got this out of order) Pneumonia and were not feeling 100% but nevertheless they enjoyed themselves. Ada was freaked out by the height of the seating and did not like how loud the music and announcers voice was - she was literally shaking and covering her ears. We didn't make it to the end but instead went to Red Robin for dinner where we ended up sitting next to Bumpa, Julie and some of Julie's family. A happy coincidence!