Quick catch up!

I know, I know it has been a really long time! I will try to recap our lives in the past few months with pictures. One month at a time along with a brief description of the month. Just click on the underlined words to see the pictures!

Aloha!

We can start with May. We started our month in Hawaii for a wonderful vacation for just Andrew & i. Call it our honeymoon/5th anniversary trip. It was great and we are planning ot go back again in the next few years. My parents came in town and stayed with the kids for some grandparent/grandchild bonding while we were there.

At last!

The following week we headed to El Paso to see my brother Josiah comission into the Army as an officer and also graduate from college at UTEP. It was so exciting to see him-he seems so grown up now. I am sooooo proud of him!

The week after that I participated in a town fair selling baby burp cloths and also had a booth with The Body Shop. In the last week of May-Zach got out of school, and I turned 32! What a busy month!

Step 1, 2, 3

I can't believe it! He is walking! For about a week he was taking one step and then he would fall down. Here he is on the 31st of March!!!! I have other video but it is on my old video camera which I can't convert to put on the web. In this take he probably took about 6 steps total but my camera was out of space and of course when I wanted him to do it again, he would have non of it. The next video of him walking will be this weekend though so you can stil tell he is barely learning!

Happy Easter

The kids had a great Easter! The Easter bunny made it to our house despite the fact that it snowed the night before! That bunny is pretty amazing! Here are some shots of the kids all dressed up in their Easter best. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewheelerfamily/show/

Andrew's dad came down for the weekend too which the kids loved. Here is a video of Pop Pop reading an Ariel book to Avery!

Since I am not busy enough...

Since I didn't seem to have enough to do with watching the kids, working a part time business, returning to school and all of the other household chores-I decided to take an online digital scrapbooking class. I think I can be creative at times but never really got into scrapbooking. It was a bit to overwhelming to me but here is my stab at the digital version. Besides-I can't really imagine having more stuff in the house for the little ones to destroy! Check out my first page!

First words!

Blake said his first words today! Avery and I were playing with him in his room after his nap and we were rolling the ball with him when he said ball! I was so shocked I had to get him to say it a few more times and even called Zach over to see if I was hearing things. It took him a while but then he said it to Zach too! "Ball" Yeahhhh!!!!! Now if I can get that on video!

Ready for the princess party!

Avery went to a friends birthday party where the girls were supposed to dress up like princesses. We went all out and had so much fun! Don't forget to see the mini princess slideshow!

Avery the little Diva

Even in her pj's this little girl wants to look beautiful. Here she posed with my sunglasses on and then asked, "How do i look Mommy?" She is so funny!

Let's Play

Looks like he is enjoying those gifts wouldn't you agree!

Happy Birthday Blake!

Looks who turned 1! Blake enjoyed his own cake at his little birthday party! We had his godparents Kelly and Alex and their kids over along with some other friends Tyler and Erica and their kids as well. He got a little riding firetruck from our friends and a little baseball toy, a little barnyard car that he can chase and some clothes from family! I wish I had more pictures-trying to keep him out of the cake was a challenge enough. We forgot the hat and so I snapped a picture with the hat the next morning.

He is getting so big and I can hardly believe how the time has flown. He is cruising the furniture and has 6 teeth with more coming. (lots of drooling lately) He will babble mama and dada and I think he is saying yes and I think I also heard cracker. He loves Avery and she loves to tickle him although she is not always gentle he is learning to be tough. Zach is so protective of him and is a great helped when it comes to taking care of him. He will often get him out of bed and both the kids are so excited when he first wakes up-they act like he has been sleeping for days! He still has those beautiful baby blue eyes and hopefully this means he will keep them. He likes to laugh and scrambles when you are chasing him and had a great little belly laugh. I will have to get that one on video soon so I can share it. What a different household we have now and I wouldn't want it any other way. I love you my little Blake!

One day later...still in one of her favorite shirts

Avery conveniently disappears during the day often times and usually is up to no good. This day she got a sharpie marker from Zach's room and decided to mark all over herself. This was on the 6th and she still has it on her 5 days later! She must be 2 1/2 right. Oh and you can't help but check out her favorite shoes from Grandma. Check out the whole outfit in the Christmas Day slideshow by clicking on the Christmas Day title posting below.

Little Blake

Blake learned something new this month and here he is showing it off. Nothing like getting some extra encouragement from his big sis! He sure is proud!

Our little princess

She loves the Ariel pj's that her uncle Izzy got her for Christmas!

Dad and Zach built Avery this little castle for her and her princesses.