Fire Station Open House

Our boys LOVE firetrucks.  They are obsessed with playing firefighters and do so most days.  They even use the legs of my piano to pretend they are fire poles, it's hilarious!  So when it came time for our local fire station to have their open house, we knew we had to go again.  We don't even tell our boys about it until the night before because we know they will ask us every 5 minutes if its time to go there.

So we headed out Saturday morning and got there about 25 minutes early so we could be first in line for the fire truck rides.  The boys were in awe of all the fire trucks lined up.  Of course, I left my good camera right by the door, so we had to settle for Peter's celllphone pictures, but at least there's a memory right?

They started their fire truck rides a bit early and we got on the first one.  The driver even put on the sirens and the boys loooved that cars pulled over for us (I don't think they were technically supposed to do that!)  After we were done, I got right back in line so they could ride again even though it was going to be about a 25 minute wait.  Peter took the boys to go practice holding and spraying a fire hose before they joined me in line for another ride.

After their second ride, we enjoyed a free lunch of hot dogs and soda, then went to watch them spray down the grounds from the top of their huge ladder truck.  The boys loved this part, Jonah talked about it for days.  He kept playing with his own fire truck afterwards saying, "is this ladder super high mom?  is it super high?"  Yes, sweetheart, super high!

Next we headed over to the field where they were going to land their rescue helicopter.  They pretty much land as close as they can to right in front of you and of course, the boys loved it.  Then they got to sit inside it and talk to the pilot.  This was one of Ben's favorite parts.

The boys had so.much.fun at the fire station and ask at least once a week if they can go back.  We loved spending a fun Saturday with our little guys doing some of their favorite stuff, its so fun being a parent sometimes!

Mother's Day 2014

I had such a wonderful Mother's Day this year.  On Saturday, I took my mom (and sister) out to lunch and to see the movie "Mom's Night Out".  It was a pretty cute movie and it was fun to go out together while my boys napped at home with Daddy.

Sunday morning we had a typical morning before church, a great service, then headed to our favorite Chinese restaurant in town.  The boys also made me super sweet cards, a couple candy treats (which they of course wanted to share!) and Peter also let me pick out a new flower basket for our front porch.

Then we all took a bit of a nap.  When everyone was up, we went for a walk to get some frozen yogurt.  The boys love this place but we don't go very often because its a bit pricey compared to an ice cream cone, so they were delighted that mommy 'treated' them on Mother's Day.

We ate our ice cream then stopped at the little park by our house on our walk home.  Again, the boys were delighted!

We headed home around 7 so I could make us a quick dinner (so ice cream wasn't the only thing in our stomachs at bedtime) :-)  We ate outside on our front porch and the boys thought that was great.

Peter and I sat on our bench and watched our boys play together so well, put on funny 'cool moves' shows for us and just act silly.  We loved every second and it was such a wonderful evening together sitting in the sunshine.  I felt so blessed watching my boys playing in our yard while our new little guy was kicking in my tummy.  The greatest gift of my life was becoming a Mommy and though some days are long I wouldn't change it for the world.  Some days my heart feels as though its going to burst because I love my 3 little guys so much.  I'm excited to see our family grow in a couple months and see my 3 boys love each other as brothers.  What a blessed Mama I am!!

Lots of pictures!

This post is just going to be a big dump of pictures that I need to catch up on before I can post a few more events that have been going on.  So here goes....

Easter 2014

I guess it's better late than never that I get pictures posted from Easter Sunday.  Once again this year I ask(ahem, force) my boys to match in blue oxford shirts and khakis.  They're just so cute!  And goodness, I had no idea what to wear for Easter since I've never been pregnant over Easter before.  I didn't want to buy a new dress that I'd only wear a couple times so I just improvised with what I had.

We attended a Good Friday service at our church Friday night, it was a good way to set the tone of the most important weekend in a Christians life.  And Benjamin really seemed to get it all this year which was really great.  He kept talking about Jesus dying for our sins and rising from the grave, making songs all weekend about it.

Sunday morning we woke up and listened to some Easter music while we got ready and ate breakfast.  We headed to church for worship team practice and for Peter to get the computer stuff setup.  We didn't have Sunday school this week but had a churchwide breakfast that was prepared by the elders and their families.  It was a good time of fellowship with our church family.  Then we had our regular service together and it was wonderful to have a full room of believers singing about our risen Lord.  Afterwards we had lunch and naps then headed to dinner with our friends at their home.  We brought a few sides and enjoyed a great meal together.  We gave our boys just a little Easter type basket that had a few jellybeans, a peanut butter egg, and a new toy.  Ben got a small Ninjago lego set and Jonah got some new Jake and the Neverland Pirates figures.  They were both delighted :-)

Here's a few pictures of the day.  Boy, oh boy, its hard to get our little guys to focus long enough to take a picture.  And Jonah was not having it most of the time, ha!

He is Risen!  He is Risen Indeed!!!!!!!