Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy! Steve, you are a wonderful role model to our two boys. Colin and Cade could not have a better father! They anxiously await your arrival each night and can't wait to spend time with you. Thanks for being such a great dad to our two boys! We love you!

This afternoon, we celebrated Father's Day at my parents house. Here are the two boys with all of their grandpas and daddy. Grandpa Ray (my dad's step dad), Papa (my dad), Grandpa Gene (my moms dad), Grandpa (Steves dad), and Daddy. They are so lucky to have so many men in their lives that love them!

Happy Father's Day! :)

And we're back after a short...I mean LONG break!

So, I am pretty much the worst mom on Earth! I haven't blogged in a very long time! I was so busy with school and activities, time just got away from me. Then, I never had time to load my pictures, then it turned into I didn't have time to go back and update, and then I was overwhelmed with updating over that long period of time, and now...I am forgetting about updating and just moving on! So, if anyone is still out there even checking on this blog since we took a very long hiatus...I am promising from now on to update regularly and be a better blogger, commenter, etc.

This summer has been lots of fun with the boys so far. If only the weather would cooperate, we could make it to the pool for once! The boys have swam in my parents backyard (gotta love the plastic blue pools!) They have done the slip and slide a couple of times and even the sprinkler. But, no public pools as of yet.

The boys do play well together and it is fun watching their relationship grow. Colin is such a good big brother to Cade. Cade is learning how to be a good little brother! :) Here they are playing outside having fun.

I was welcomed into the wonderful world of 30 last week. I still have a hard time believing I am 30, but it isn't so bad! My family got together for dinner that night at my brother and sister in law's house. Erin and Kevin joined us also. As you can see from the picture below, Erin is expecting and looking quite cute these days. Caroline is due to arrive July 25th and we can't wait! I am so excited she is having a little girl! :) Below is Steve and I at Jeff and Emily Engle's wedding (Erin and Kevin's brother and sister in law) at the beginning of June. The original Jameson family (and a tad of Colin's face...he can't stay away from Papa) and then Erin and Kevin with us.

Here are the boys helping GG make her infamous GG bread. She does that Amish Friendship bread...bakes it every 10 days. I don't know how she can keep up with it, but my boys LOVE it! She even started making muffins and the first thing my boys want in the morning are GG muffins. Do you see how long Colin's tongue is? That thing is so long!!

Fun outside with bubbles and the swingset. Do you see what I am talking about how Colin is a good big brother? He waits for Cade to sit on his lap, jump on his back or lay on his tummy to go down the slide together! Even pushes him in the swing. Too cute! Cade loves his big brother and Colin loves being a big brother! :) Cade is keeping us very busy...he is VERY active and energetic. Always keeps me on my toes!

Well, that is it for now. I am promising to keep up from now on and if I don't...please remind me of this promise! Hope everyone is enjoying their summers! :)

A visit to the doctors

The boys had their well check ups this week with Dr. Emm. Colin's 4 year (a little late!) and Cade's 15 month...hard to believe they are that old already! Everything was good with both boys. Cade was over his strep, thank goodness!

My mom came with us, hence the many pics below! She always has her camera with her. I am not sure what the nurses and doctor thought of us snapping pics right and left! :) Colin weighed in at 47 pounds and Cade was 27 pounds. Both were in the 90% and above. Let's just say I have a very strong left arm muscle from carrying them around! :)

We were in the office for about an hour and a half...long time to wait with 2 little ones. Luckily, the office had lots of fun things for them to do while we waited in the room.

The not so fun part came after the checkup from Dr. Emm...both boys needed shots! Colin got 4 in his arms and Cade got 3 one in each leg and one in the arm. It was a sight to see...I am holding Colin while he is screaming, one nurse quickly giving him shots and my mom holding Cade (screaming also) down while another nurse quickly gave him his shots. All of this is happening at the same time, on the same table! The nurses then let the boys choose from the treasure chest...Colin got an ice cream cone that you can hit a button and it flies off the cone, and Cade got a beanie baby teddy bear. At least when we left, they were happy!

Plastic storage tubs

We have a house full of toys...and what do the boys play with??? Yep, you guessed it...plastic storage tubs. Are you kidding me? Why do we have toys?? Below you will find some uses for plastic storage tubs that my boys have "found".

They can be trains, cars, trucks, etc. They can be hats, beds, or tents. They can be book storage tubs, baby storage tubs, or "get away from me" tubs.

But best of all...they can be play with my brother tubs!

Oreos and milk

I am at home today with Cade. Poor little guy has strep. The doctor was surprised his test came back positive because it is very unusual that kids under 2 get strep. So far, Colin doesn't have it and he is doing fine. He went to the sitter today and got to go outside! It is finally nice enough here that we can do that...although, it is supposed to get cold again by the end of the week!

Here is Cade eating an Oreo. I was changing his diaper, a nasty one, and wanted him to stay still while I cleaned him up (that is a hard task for him to stay still!) I grabbed the first thing I could grab and it happened to be an Oreo. That definitely made him stay still. He just kept looking at me like "are you really giving me this?" I then put him in his chair to finish it up and he loved it! Had to finish up dessert with some milk of course!

Noon Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve DAY, we went to the Children's Discovery Museum. They were having a kids party called "Noon Year's Eve"! What a great idea!! They figured most kids don't get the opportunity to stay up late and celebrate the New Year's at midnight, so they did the Noon celebration. Erin and Kevin joined us with their niece and nephew, Ryane and Edison. They were watching them for the day and decided to join us for lots of fun at the museum.

Here are some pics from the day before the countdown. They had their regular stations/playthings there as well as making crowns (for the big day!), centers to make lots of different things and to top it off, the zoo lady to paint kids faces! There was so much going on that day, the kids loved it!

We counted down to noon...full with confetti being thrown, horns being blown, and kids running wild! :) We had to teach the kids how to use the horns, really funny trying to teach 2 four year olds how to do that! (You will also see below Colin on a stool...he was in time out (for some reason, I can't remember now!), he was cracking me up on the stool though, I couldn't pass up the photo.)

The infamous Zoo Lady in town does an awesome job painting the kids faces. She is amazing to watch and she is so quick. We had to wait about 30 or so minutes in line to even get them done. Colin loved his and had me take pics of him making tiger like faces. Ryane, however, didn't like hers so much because it had too much blue in it. This was the only pic of her I could get because she only wanted pink and purple. Ahh, she sounds so like me when I was a little girl! :)

Happy Noon Year's Eve!

Happy 1 year and 2 month Birthday, Cade!

Happy 1 year and 2 month Birthday, Cade! (Same as Colin's post below...bad mom, I am trying to make it up now for missing it in the fall!)

Cade Douglas Cunningham was born on November 19, 2007. We were happy he joined us after his big brother's birthday instead of on his birthday. We have two special boys and we wanted them each to have their own days to celebrate!

Cade was 8 pounds 3 ounces and 21 inches long. Since the moment he came into our little family, we have been forever changed. Cade is full of life, full of energy, and full of love. We love Cade so much, although, he does tire us out, he is non-stop! Cade loves his big brother and tries to do everything he does...it is so cute. Colin might not think so, but we do! :)

An hour or so after you entered the world...

Cade meeting his big brother, Colin


Cade on his first birthday


Wow...one year changes everything!

Happy 1st Birthday Cade! We love you!