Grant hitting the slopes

JANUARY!  My wonderful husband has encouraged me to try posting just once a month, hitting the highlights and lowlights, it doesn't seem quite so daunting this way!  It is so nice to have many of our photos and memories all in one place so, here we go.  

To conclude the month of January...Grant begged us all winter to take him skiing for the first time so, one very sunny afternoon in January we finally obliged.  He did GREAT and was so adorable I could hardly stand it, way to go BUD!

The magic carpet on the bunny slope, SO much better than the rope tow many of us had to learn on!

Parker did fairly well as little bro, tromping around, playing in the snow and eating snacks!  The little turkey never did let us put his gloves on though!

"our" room

With the arrival of my family for the Christmas holiday we decided to bite the bullet and transition Parker into a toddler bed AND (stupidly) also move him into his brother's room!  We knew this was inevitable and thought why not just get it over with....well, hmmm, I can think of about 100 different reasons why not to have done this!  

Thankfully, Grant loves having his brother in his room and though bedtime is still most often a challenge, we are thankful they will grow-up sharing a room among many, many other things as brothers often do!  We have also learned many things about each of them during this, now 5 month process, most notably, Grant falls asleep almost instantly when his head touches his pillow while Parker takes a mere 45 minutes to an hour to finally crash.  His persistence to remain awake each night is admirable but, thankfully, we always win in the end ;)  Each morning Parker is also almost always the first to wake, this has taken some getting use to by his big brother and a LOT of patience by all to have an early riser among us, uff da!  

Grant and Parker, we love you guys and the many, many hours of sleep we've lost due to this transition is still worth it as we lay in bed most mornings listening to your laughter drifting through the hallway! xoxo ~ Mommy

hawaii part II

The last days of Hawaii....obligatory family photos on the beach!

Hawaii, we love you!

Wow, I am so incredibly far behind in blogland, ugh!  It has become a four letter word to me, however, I have high hopes of doing a few photo dumps and catching up as the birth of baby number 3 continues to approach ever so quickly!

We were blessed to spend another wonderful week in Maui this January.  Both sets of Grandparents, as well as Frank's brother and family, were all able to enjoy this paradise together, what an amazing place!
 

Feeding the fish at the hotel lobby, huge hit with all five kiddos!

Grant has really taken to the water since taking swimming lessons most of the Fall! 

 Parker tried to hold 3 balls at once, it was so funny, and cute, to watch him pick one up only to drop another one, over and over and over again!

bowling

To end the month of December we decided to go bowling while Grandpa and Grandma O were still visiting.  This was our very first (and very fun!) outing after all of the sickness over Christmas at our house.

There's just something about those little bowling shoes that is sooo stinking cute!

They were both fascinated and completely enamored with the little hand drier!

We won't discuss Grandpa O winning since we all decided he cheated in order to do so! ;)

7.19.13

2 + 1 = 3

And then there were 3....

So, we surprised our families on Christmas Day with our BIG news!

 On your marks, get set, GO!

Can't you tell how excited Grandpa R is to receive yet another picture of his Grandchildren :)  And then there is a little more interest, this is no ordinary picture?!

And then even he was SURPRISED!

I think it's safe to say everyone was surprised with their last Christmas gift!