Heidi's Shower

Today I went to a baby shower for Heidi, a girl that I worked with before I had Tate. All my favorite girls from that job were at the shower as well. Of the 7 of us only 2 are still with the company. I really really enjoy myself everytime we get together, though it's been a year since the last time I saw them. We try to make an effort to see each other during the year but now we're very spread out and have growing families so it makes it difficult to coordinate something where we're all together. Babies will bring us together for sure! I LOVE babies!!! Anyway it was a wonderful few hours and I can't wait to see them all again, hopefully sooner than another year from now.

Chocoholics

Tonight I made a chocolate birthday cake for a girl at work. The boys really enjoyed it. The spatula, whisk, and bowl of batter that is. I know I'm not supposed to, but I let them lick it anyway. When I was a kid I did and nothing ever happened so why not... I couldn't resist taking some pictures. At one point Julian had his whole head in the bowl trying to lick the remains. Tate quickly followed his lead and before long they were both covered. We went straigt to the tub after they had polished the bowl.

Boys & Girls at the Zoo

On my mom's side of the family there are 18 cousins. Of those 6 of the girls have started our families. 5 of us have 2 children and both of those children are the same sex. So I have 2 boys, both my sisters have 2 girls, one of my cousins has 2 boys and the other has 2 girls. None of us have made it to that third child yet and that I know of, no one has one in sight in the near future. It's just kind of weird how it has worked out with us all having same sex kiddos.

On Saturday my cousin Jessica and I took our kids to the zoo. Our oldest are about 16 months apart but you would never know there was that big of a gap. Callie keeps right up with Julian, she is absolutely one of his favorite kids to hang out with. Our littlest are exactly one month apart. They're both at that stage where the random hoppity skip flopping is a normal way of walking. They were so fun to watch together.

I took a lot of pictures and I'm sorry but I couldn't narrow down to just a few so there's a bunch on here. Oh and most of the pictures are of the backs...

This is not going to last long. These two want out so they can see!

Not sure if you can see this guy's MASSIVE claws. We were trying to figure out how he could even walk with these things.

We went in the giant bird cage so the kids could feed the birds. This is always a high light at the zoo. Julian really enjoyed seeing the birds so close, though I think he might have been a tad nervous too.

Callie is fearless.

We had to be at the football fields ready for the game at 7:30 this morning. Guess I should have taken that extra 30 seconds this morning to comb down Julian's wild spot. Still a cute pic.