Time to catch up

Well while we have been busy living, my blog has been on the side burner. Seriously, I don't understand how quickly time has been flying by. Summer is FINALLY here and I'm really enjoying it. The kids love being able to play outside all of the time now. Cole started riding his 2 wheel bike (with no training wheels!) about a month ago. I'm still working out at the gym 3 days/week and we've been swimming almost every day after my classes. The kids love it and I love it! Let's see what else?? Olivia had her first trip to the ER (post/pictures to follow), Jim and I got a little vacation to Napa (total Heaven!), and now we are gearing up for our annual 4th of July block party. I figured I better catch up on my blogging before all of the summer activities kick into high gear and I never get around to doing it.
Jim was nice enough to upload all of my iphone pictures to our hard drive, which is a great thing because I'm starting to realize that I use my phone more often to take pictures then my actual camera, so I better get them backed up. Anyways, as he was uploading the 200+ pictures, it was like reliving our past year looking at all of our adventures/memories and also made me kind of sad looking at how much the kids are growing up.

I came across a few random pictures that I wanted to post on here so that they will make it to my photo book/blog.
The first one is of Cole last October when he got his new balance bike. Look at that cute butt :-)



These other shots made me laugh as well. Oh my husband...the biggest kid you will ever meet. For Christmas, my brother and sister in law gave the kids this HUGE inflatable ball that you can actually roll around in. Not sure who was more excited to use it.... Cole or Daddy? Jim was out in the garage one night for about an hour and when I went to check on him he had been busy filling this ball up. Apparently there are like 20+ different chambers, so it took forever. We knew we needed to take it to the park to use it because you need a ton of space...well the darn thing wouldn't fit in our car. So only my husband would come up with an idea like this!! We all rode to the park on our bikes and Jim rode with the ball on his head! You should have seen the looks we got!