love that shines

These are really the pics I wanted to put up of Josh and Emily...action shots of him workin on his man cave. =) Totally can't see the room from this view, but when it's all said and done I'll have to add an update. Now that's nice. Awww.





Also, while this was going on, I was out getting my mowing fix in their backyard and was caught on camera without knowing. WOW. That's funny. And check out the graduation party in the neighbor's yard. Hahhahaaa.


Thanks to one of Ryan's patients, the boys have these nice St. Joe tshirts (boooooo), so they wore them yesterday with their bib-shorts to cover up the front. And then to demonstrate how unhappy he was in that shirt, Ethan bombed up the back. Hahaha.
They were both awake but E kept closing his eyes cause of the flash.

Garrett the QB

Ethan, go long!

I Got it!

Oh Wait, NO!!

FUMBLE!!!! DANG IT!!

The Whitey Whites!!

Well folks, today marked the first day of water weather...actually it's been water weather for a while, we just first experienced it for ourselves today. Thanks to our friends, Josh and Emily White, and thanks to Josh's parents for the purchase of a nice heated pool for wimps like me. Today during my target run I picked up some swimmy diaps, that gives us 9 times to the beach this season....or maybe I'll have to buy another pack and double it.
Most likely the latter. Anyways, the boys love bath time, even though I haven't switched over from the short and to the point bath to the take your time and I end up drenched bath. SO, naturally, they were little fish lovin the water. Garrett took his nap when we got there in the carseat, and Ethan decided to sleep on the bricks ?? Oh well, he took a nap! Josh was in a grilling fury and made us a fine post-swim meal of steak and chicken. Top 3 reasons why we like Whity-white. 1. His wife, Emily 2. His dog, Tackle and 3. His parents' pool. Excellent. Just kidding. No but seriously. just jokin. Seriously though. Ryan and I started meeting with them last fall and we hardly knew each other, but slowly our weekly hangout night turned sort of bible studyish...venturing thru the book of Galatians and then recently discussing some downloaded John Piper videos. We also made an addition to our two family group, Mark and Heather Ring, a few months ago. Currently, we talk about what we want the purpose of our group to be and do and go and say and such. You know. Josh is a man of vision and purpose and a heck of a facilitator. AND! He and Emily are in the middle of a house remodel, actually it's an ongoing process, he's a do-it-yourself-er guy, I KNOW. The list of our projects will soon be underway once we move in. =) He's almost done with his man-cave basement right now. that will be awesome...just in time for Football season. I'll never see Ryan again. But they're both great with the boys and we love them! Thanks Whites for being such great friends! (and for being my age!!)

The Race....

Ok...we'll see if the video actually loads. Aparently yesterday, some Mich folks read my blog. Last night when we were hanging out at Smiths for a church grill fest, someone thought it would be fun to see if the cell phone trick worked. After watching the video, you'll see that it does...Also notice Ethan's intensity as he approaches the goal. Type A?? Garrett's more ho-hum about getting there, and esily distracted- could he have inheirited that trait from me?? It really was a toss up as far as victors go...win a few, lose a few...have a few laughs at the boys' expense (I'm a terrible mom)...and it's all fun and games until someone starts crying. Dr. Neal busted out the video camera for one last horrah...can't even remember who won. That's ok though, it's on film. =) it was awesome!!

Still no sign of teeth- but they're workin on the droolin/chewing everything part.
Our apartment is getting progressively smaller.
They fit into the stroller without the carseats!
Carseats might begin to stay in the car- too heavy!
I lost my keys yesterday and seriously CANNOT find them ANYWHERE!! NOT good.

Actually the last one is the one consuming all my thoughts....I have NO idea where they are. Dang it.

Well boys....

Another weekend under our belts...our sons zeroing in on Friday, their 6 month bday celebration. We will celebrate as a family with our normal daily routine and whatever else may come up that day. It's gonna be memorable.

Saturday in the mail I received an EXCELLENT gift from a close friend living in Florida with her hubby, anxiously awaiting their own little guy set to arrive in August. Kara Plimpton sent the boys two sweet books, one is nursery rhymes and poems and such, and also a Baby Einstein- Mozart DVD. That's AWESOME!!! The three of us watched it this morning, I think I was more entertained then the boys, haha. Man that sound track is good...wonder where I could get some of that music.... Anyways, we all loved it and I'm sure it's going to get used quite frequently.

Another exciting event, Ethan is quickly picking up on Garrett's scoots across the floor...they're pretty much movin about the same now. LOOK OUT. They especially start haulin after the cell phone if it's on the floor. I know...it's really lame, I don't have any pictures of it yet. Seriously. We had some of our friends over yesterday afternoon to watch em for like half an hour. When we got back Tim said, "I hope you don't mind but we raced em." Hahhahahahaaaaahahahaaaaaa. And of course they took a video of it on their camera so I dont' have a copy. It's sooooo funny, I might have to have a rematch. Both boys won once. the one they got on film though Garrett slammed Ethan. Maybe he was tired...stage fright?? Hahha. But the phone was the target...next time Tim said they were going to make the course harder. So funny.

Well, just gettin things back in order from the weekend, so better get back to it!

Just Breathe

Little bit of an update...we, the Thomas family, are now the proud owners of Lot #47 in the Alabaster Estates...now the fun begins!

We have plans tonight and I have an hour to get myself together.
Better get a move on....

Time to play in the dirt!

As many may know, Ryan and I have been house hunting for a few months....and decided that building was our best option, because of our AWESOME friend, Mr. Bill Magrane. He's a middle school math teacher who likes to build houses on the side. What?! Crazy combo, but he's VERY good to say the least, and we're excited to have him walk us thru the process. We've picked out a plan and are waiting to get in with the architect to finalize...and in the meantime we were on the hunt with our other friend, Lars Petzke, realtor and friend of ours. He's been so patient with us, we have no idea what we're doing. hahaha. So this morning we put in an offer on a lot and gave em three days, they got back within 2 hours and shot us down. HAHA! But that's what we expected...they counter offered, and we will too, and hopefully by the end of the week we'll have a lot! yesss!!! YIKES, what am I saying! It's a dang good thing we have people we trust to help us out and be honest in helping us make decisions and such....it's gonna be pretty fun.

Hopefully, if my readers are faithful to my blog, there will be actual footage of the building process...maybe by Feb we will have a new house to run around in! We will sure miss this place though, it's location in the town, not to mention our own beach a few yards away.....but we won't miss the space. =) Our neighbors are pretty great too....but good thing- there will be neighbors where we're going too!! There's a little map of it if you're familiar with the area...that fatty line uptop is the interstate. Great news for all of our traveling friends, it's one exit closer to Nebraska!!!! Locate the red X if you will, and picture us on the front porch drinkin some coffee and watchin the twins mow the yard. yesssss....

Dad, Ev, Cale, and Josh...next summer come prepared to put your handyman skilz to the test. Bet we'll have a project or two for ya! Isn't family great. =)

Some New Moves!

Ladies and Gents, we've got a couple of movers and shakers on our hands. Garrett discovered he can get around about a week ago...I wouldn't quite call it crawling, its' still like a good scoot. Ethan won't be far behind I'm sure. As soon as they figure out how to get their arms going then I'm toast. Better get on that baby-proofing asap!

Also, they've been doing a move quite a bit- we like to call it the dead bug. =)


Hahahahaaaa. Pretty cute. Well this was a totally awesome post. But I'm tired so I'm goin to bed. See yaaaa