First haircut

In August, daddy decided to give BOTH the boys haircuts...

Aaden eating his blue eggs! He is a picky eater most of the time....

May-June

MOMS Club

We love being a part of MOMS Club. It is so great to have so many fun activities weekly to attend! We are looking forward to many more fun outings this summer! Aaden and the other kiddos play so well together and its so nice to have the support as well as the friendships with the other mom's as well. This past summer we took a trip to Deanna Rose Farmstead in KC. It was such a fun time. The best part, its FREE! Aaden had a so much fun feeding baby goats bottles, playing on the playground(s) throughout the park, RIDING a PONY for the first time! I will admit I was a little hesitant, especially when they kept asking me if he was 3. However, I let my mommy guard down and let him be a big boy and he did wonderful! The funny part was he was the only one that was of age at the time, but the only one asked. My little man! I grew up with the same experiences. LOVE HIM! Here are a few photos from the trip!

Milestones and some......

We had a great first summer with our little guy, Garrett......

We got a puppy......

Aaden got potty trained......

Garrett is walking......

Garrett was crawling.....

Garrett is eating table food and drinking milk (still nursing).....

Aaden is undressing and dressing himself.....

Aaden is so SMART, his vocabulary has grown tremendously!!! His little personality is just so lovable.....

Both boys are just in awe of each other, they are definitely boys, wrestling, yelling, throwing things, punching and hitting! I don't know what has happened to my sweet little boys.....but I have to say its fun to see they are like all the other boys we hang out with :) lets just hope its a phase!

Better late then NEVER!

I can't believe I let it go this long. I really wanted to follow up regularly and be good at this. However, life happens! Let me see, since May there has been a lot of changes. We have experienced both good and bad, but that is all expected in the life of a young family. School started back up for the both of us as well as taking on an internship at SRS. It has been amazing! I love everything about it as well as everyone I work and come in contact with, within the office of course. I have grown tremendously in my professional role as well as many other roles within me personally. I am so blessed to have a loving husband and kiddos support me through this. My dream is becoming a reality. We have had some ups and downs and really just searching for our place here and our support system here. We have been in Topeka for about 6 years now (or 7) and I am getting to the point where its like, "How did I get here?" I miss my family, I miss my family for my boys as well. I am ready to move back home......homesick :(

A FIRST but many will follow

Garrett is just moving right along in the developmental stage, things he is doing as of now:

-Rolling Over (Back to Stomach and Stomach to Back)
-Rolling (Multiple times to get to something)
-Army Crawling
-Eating Cereal (w/ Banana added is his FAVORITE)
-Cooing
-Reaching and Grabbing Toys
-Laughing (He is very ticklish too!)
-Sitting up with support

Garrett is not a happy baby all the time, but when he is its so fun! He loves to be sang to and talked to. He loves to be smiled at and gives you a huge one back. He loves to wrestle with his big brother and thinks he is the coolest person in the world. He loves baths and loves to cuddle (ALL THE TIME).

Easter

As the boys get older I know I will become more hesitant to actually go on trips during every holiday. I would love to have some kind of stability for them on certain occasions as well as traditions. It seems that we are down in Wichita for each one of these and when we are home-bound we have no idea what to do. I am getting to the point that I would rather choose to be here and call this my home or move back and be able to experience traditions at home and still make it to the family gatherings. Thinking within the next few years this will all come together, whichever we decide to do. However, we did make it down for Easter and continued the tradition for us to stay with the Fair's (Richards Grandparents) the night before Easter so the boys could get up, enjoy their baskets and celebrate the day with the family. I think Aaden had the most fun out of all of us, the kiddos always do!