9 Months Old!

Oliver will be 9 months old tomorrow and it is hard to believe how fast the time has gone by. He has been sitting on his own for over a months and as you can see from the pictures, he almost has crawling down too. He is doing a half army, half full crawl and is getting more adventurous by the day. His favorite thing is to hang out with his brothers and crack up at all the goofy things they do. You can tell that he thinks everything they do is totally cool and he is just taking it all in. He is weighing in at about 17 lbs and we still don't have any teeth. We are hoping the nice spring weather comes soon so he can start to explore some grass for his first time!

Middle Of April.....

.....and there are no April showers today, but a snowstorm!! This is what we woke up to this morning. Almost 3 hours since this picture was taken and the snow is still coming down. Elton was excited because he thinks this means that it is going to be Christmas again. As you can tell we are greatly suffering the effects of Global warming as I am sure many of you would agree after the winters I have heard described throughout the US and Canada this year (note my sarcasm).

Easter 2009

Sunday morning the boys were excited to see the basked of breakfast easter eggs sitting at the bottom of the stairs and knew the easter bunny had made it. They got us up and were eager to get their baskets and check out in the front yard. Sure enough there were many eggs to be found with treats. I made sausage gravy and biscuits to go with the eggs for breakfast. The day got sunnier, and was just breezy enough that mid morning Dan and the boys were able to go kite flying again. In the afternoon we got together with family and the cousins got to participate in another easter egg hunt and play. Sadly, because Oliver wasn't in on the easter egg hunts, it looks like we missed him for an Easter picture! We will just need to take more of him this week to make up for it. We had a great Easter with family and hope everyone else did too!

Peaches La Brew

Since Dan's dad sampled Dan's homemade beer last week, he came over this past Saturday to help Dan and see what goes into the process. The newest batch is going to be a peach beer thus the name of the post. Dan has been having fun making labels and naming his brews while they sit. This batch will take about 8 weeks to be ready. So far anyone who has sampled his brews have liked the results.

Kite Flying

The boys have been wanting a kite for sometime now, so the other day Dan picked up this shark kite at Costco. Of course Elton couldn't wait until Saturday and would have slept with it had we let him. With the lousy weather and strong winds we have had I was worried what the weather would be like yesterday, but fortunately the wind was better and they were able to go out and try it. They went out to the school yard behind our house, so I was actually standing on top of their Rainbow playset when I took these pictures. This was their first time flying a kite.