Day 27: happy memorial day!

Call it festive or cheesy, but I made my boys wear red and blue for Memorial Day and took their picture.  :)  Candy may or may not have been promised for cooperation.  

1st birthday!

So, we took a blogging hiatus this summer, and forgot to tell you that this little cutey turned one!

isn't he handsome? we had a small party at home to celebrate our crazy little man. 

S had fun teasing Pops and playing with his glasses.  

Excited about his first cupcake!  Of course big brother E and friends were there to help. :)

hmmm.... interesting... 

 I think I like this.

owl cupcakes! 

playing balloons with Nana

he got a new chair from Nana and Pops. he loved sitting in it and loved his card that played music.  

then took a little bite out of the card. :) 

he had fun with all of his gifts!

 

at that point he was walking a few steps just to get to something he wanted.   (now he's walking all over the place!)

he still loves to be held by his mama.  

but talks nonstop about dada and looks around the house for him when he's at work. 

(for some reason dada kept hiding from the camera, but we wanted to prove he was there :)

yay for birthdays! 

Easter!

 

Happy Easter from the P's! 

We were a little shy at first since it was early in the morning...

But we hit the jackpot at the neighborhood egg hunt!  :)

 then E and I had fun dying Easter eggs.  and we only spilled one of the bowls. :)

serious face 

"cheese" face

then on Easter Sunday we went to church with Nana and Pops. 

where we had another egg hunt!

 

and we tried to squeeze in some family pictures since we were all dressed up.  

Pops and E.

sweet baby face

Love these boys!

We pray you had a wonderful Easter.  

"But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.  He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed."  Isaiah 53:5

...pictures from E's first beach trip coming soon!

feliz navidad

oops where did december go?  oh well. :)  E says "Christmas is over momma. :(  No tree, no star, no more stockings."  He really enjoyed it this year.

we had a great Christmas season.  celebrations with our class, small group, and friends.  most of those we forgot to take pictures at, but here's one...

 we've been having a Christmas dinner with these friends for 4 or 5 years now? something like that... back then there were only 8 or 9 of us.  :)  Now we're up to 17!  (one not pictured...)

 and we always make Christmas cookies with Nana

 he was a good helper this year.  just got a little flour on his shirt.  

 

 Christmas hugs!

 can you tell what E is into this year? 

 

S enjoyed the wrapping paper

 E liked helping everyone unwrap their gifts

 

 while S literally drooled on his gifts. :)

 we had a delicious Christmas brunch with my parents and Uncle L.  Very thankful for our family and our Savior's birth. 

Here are some yummy recipes to ruin your new year resolutions ;)

Gorilla bread

Eggs Florentine Casserole

Banana nut muffins

halloween!

As I'm sure you all know, Halloween was several weeks ago... We went to the fall festival at our church and then took E trick-or-treating.  here are our pictures!

 

 Our football player and little football. :)

We went pretty low-key this year.  E is so picky about what I want him to wear on a daily basis that I knew dressing up was going to be interesting.  He watches football with B sometimes so I talked him into wearing his football shirt and then I just put some black face paint on him without saying anything.  Surprisingly he didn't throw a fit!  

he had fun this year playing games with daddy

he was pretty good at the fishing

and liked the petting zoo 

he's got 'saying cheese' down... now if we could just make eye contact

this time he got right up in the camera and still didn't really look at it. :)  but he's a cutie!

riding the train with Jonathan!

trick or treating with our friend Mia.  

E was excited this year and had fun going door to door.  However, I think B might have been more into it than he was... after a while when the people would try to put candy in his bucket he starting saying "no, I have enough". :) I think his pumpkin was getting too heavy.

Then we did our first family pumpkin carving!

E was all about helping 

 

but didn't like the ewwwy stuff

once there was a 'fire' inside he really liked it

 

happy halloween!