Rosy cheeks

This morning Kevin and I ran the Rosy Cheeks 5K. I've learned these races sound like a lot of fun when they are months away. I seem to dread them as they draw near. To make matters worse have, I some head cold/sinus infection mess which really tempted me to not run but we were also running with Josh and Jill. Oh peer pressure! So I strapped on my big girl panties and ran...then walked a bit and ran some more. :)
Now Kevin and I have 2 under our belt...that might be enough. ;)

Halloween Flashback

Since I didn't have the blog when SKV was this age...I thought I'd do a SKV Halloween Flashback.
Her first Halloween-as a cow

Moooo

Visiting Grandma-sure do miss her. SKV has found pictures of her recently and asked who she was. I remember Grandma always saying to her "You won't remember me." Well, my job is to make sure she does.

First porch picture at Uncle Keith's...there are a lot more kids these days!

hahaha-favorite picture...Addison was a skunk-it appears as though she sprayed SKV!

Trick or Treating

We started off the night with a trip to Uncle Keith and Aunt Emily's for our annual Halloween picture. We missed the Freemans this year, but hopefully we'll all be available next Halloween!

It's never easy taking the pictures...and apparently it isn't easy smiling for them. But man aren't they cute!

Our second stop was Mama's. SKV was counting our trips for us...this was our second she noted.

ECV was reaching out of Mama's arms...Mama gave her a piece and she plugged that baby right into her mouth.

Third on our route was Gran Mary and Papa's.

Followed by Mama Cox's house...

angels singing right? I don't even know what they were doing but it's funny.

Our final stop was Uncle Josh's house. We made him our last stop in hopes that Aunt Jill would make it home from work. She didn't-doh! Apparently Halloween is not a holiday she gets off...maybe next year. :)

Of course SKV wants to feed Gui treats before she gets hers. Yummy raisins for the little fella.

Cheese!! We missed you Aunt Jill!

...We started our "treating" after daycare...but those pictures are on Mommy's phone...they might make it here one day. :)

Last Days Before ECV

Here are some pictures of our events the Friday and Saturday before Embree Claire's big debut! We hit up some Mexican food Friday night...surely Mexican food and a trip to Wal-Mart induces labor...right?! Well, it's didn't that day but it might have helped. :) Here are Daddy and Sidney Kate in the beautiful tree outside the restaurant.

We're all pretty sure this induced labor for Miss Embree Claire! Uncle Josh is getting his MBA and part of his project this semester involved none other than KRISPY KREME! We spent Saturday evening with friends at Uncle Josh and Aunt Jill's. We ate super yummy food and taste tested doughnuts for dessert! Sidney Kate, Brett and Lindsay went first for the taste testing. Giving numbers 1-5. Very intense!

Anytime we talk about going to Aunt Jill's, SKV whispers to me that she wants to "feed her rat." Haha! I think he's technically a Brazilian rat...it worked out for everyone. Jill fed our kids a lot of doughnuts and our kids fed hers a lot of raisins.

Party with Brett

We've not had a party with Brett and friends in awhile so we scheduled one right before Christmas. Brett and Sidney Kate had such a good time that when it was time to leave she told us, "But I'm not done with Brett yet!"
Aunt Jill, Uncle Josh, Uncle Andrew, Jason and Grayson (future in-laws) all gathered, ate and laughed at a dancing reindeer and the kids paid us no mind. They only needed each other and a house to roam in.

We'll have to do this again soon!

Dash Game with Aunt Jill

It just so happened that we were offered tickets to go watch the Dash play.  Well...we decided to go sweat out another one :)

This time Aunt Jill went with us, while Uncle Josh stayed home to study (although we told him we'd be way more fun!)

Here is a video of our evening.  SKV is going to be a baseball fan just like her mommy and Aunt Jill.  "Go, woo woo!"

April Birthdays!

To celebrate everyone's April birthday (all except me, I celebrated my 1/2 birthday), we headed to Grayson, Jason and Brett's house. I love seeing these two play together. They pay close attention to what the other one is doing. We were all impressed that they actually sat and ate!

Sitting in the time out chair together.



We're remaking our picture from last year...and a million years ago...

The Bean Stalk @ Brett's Party!

Okay, so there is this really cool 2 floor + bean stalk that we all immediately wanted to climb. But, we're thinking "kid's place"-us big ol adults aren't allowed. Well Uncle Josh asked and they said ANYONE!!
So check out the pictures to see who went up!

I heard this one was a tight squeeze!

AWESOME!

More Magical Fun @ Brett's Party

That's my girl!! Get those doughnuts!

So fun!

What you can't see is Aunt Jill giving the hand signals. I dare say these 3 make a pretty good team!

Thanks Uncle Josh!! I so wanted a picture of her on this V...
:)

Brett Turns 2!!

Our best birthday buddy Brett turned 2 three days before Sidney Kate and we all went to celebrate! Pucker up!

He was very excited over his cake and yelled for Saul to see it. Glad he was so happy!

Party people! Grayson and Jason had his party at the most fun place around! The kids had just enough attention to last for the hour party and then plenty more to take them through the 2 stories of fun!

This is so like something on Yo Gabba Gabba! Uncle Josh had to get all technical on us, but Sidney Kate just liked that she could make music by sticking her arm in it. :)

Valentine's Ice Cream Party

We headed over to Aunt Jill's for our Valentine's Ice Cream party...any reason to have ice cream you know.
Here is Sidney Kate giving Brett her Valentine.

Sidney Kate's favorite activity when visiting Aunt Jill and Uncle Josh is to ride the bicycle. She gets the easy part of sitting while Aunt Jill gets the workout. She and Brett weren't sure about the sharing part, but they'll work on that.

We attempted to make candy necklaces, Brett did much better than SKV. (Shhhh, don't tell Jason.) Sidney Kate was way more interested in eating them and told me, "No! Mine!" when I tried to make her necklace.

"My Boyfriend's Back..."

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Saturday we had a playdate with Aunt Jill, Uncle Josh, Grayson, Jason and Brett. It has been awhile since we've all gotten together and we were all looking forward to an evening of fun!
Check out her earrings, bracelets and headband...ready to impress!

No better way to start a (play)date than to clean house. They both wanted to vacuum; I get the impression that lil Brett is going to make a great husband one day!

When Uncle Josh saw the Sit n' Spin he couldn't resist...turns out it's just like getting back on a bicycle!

Sidney Kate wanted to show him how it was really done.

Random note from the evening: Sidney Kate has yet another new thing...responding with, "What Honey?" This cracks us up every time because we never know when she'll say it. She said it to Brett after he called for her-we all died and wished we had a video camera on that moment!