Happy Birthday Ya-ya!

A pretty stellar day for Dane

If Dane could rate the best days of his nearly 3 years of life, today would be right at the top. Look at what an awesome day he had...

We started the day playing "fire truck" and Dane spent all of Jaeger's ninety minute nap playing with his collapsible fire truck. This photo shows Dane inside, but for most of the time, guess who was inside - - yep, MOMMY - oh and I got to be the passenger, so I got to climb to the back every time (No one is getting any younger in this household - so this was no small task either!!!!)

(This picture was actually taken in Puerto Penasco - fun memories!)

Then we went to Ward Air, Dane's Disneyland, to test out the planes, forklifts, fuel trucks, vans, and other hardware. The icing on this cake was that Dane got to steer the van on Daddy's lap, while we drove around the airport viewing the construction equipment working on the runway expansion.


After lunch and a nap, he resumed his hard work, now playing with this...


Next, we fed the ducks with Payton and his family.....

Not exactly sure who ate more bread, the ducks or Dane!


At the duck park, they also have a fun playground !

Back at home, he spent some quality time in the ditch - a new favorite pasttime. :)


But, I think Dane's favorite part of today was riding go-karts with Daddy! Unfortunately, I was home with Jaeger so we don't have pictures, but I know we'll be going again soon as he absolutely LOVED it. :)
An outstanding day indeed!

Look what was parked on our street today!

As you can imagine, this was very exciting for Dane!

Here he is supervising the job.
Notice his hardhat - as soon as he saw the utility workers, he ran inside to get his own construction hat!

The workers were slightly widening and smoothing out the ditches on our street, so Dane thought he'd help out a bit on our own ditch.

After a hard day working in the ditch, Dane couldn't wait to partake in one of his favorite pastimes - rock collecting!
(Yep, we're at that point in childhood already - I have to check every last pocket to make sure I'm not washing an unwanted friends in the machine.)

Movie Monday!

Happy Birthday Auntie Kissy!




We love you!

Sunday Snapshot

Like father, like son!
And for those of you that haven't seen Dane's "weed wacker" it's actually a giant upside down yellow flower.
Isn't a two year old's imagination fantastic?

Strawberries and "Putella" - a winning combination

Daddy's newest addiction is Nutella and he especially loves it with strawberries. Of course, Dane was completely willing to give this hazelnut spread a try and he fell in love the second it hit his lips. Now, he's requesting all of his fruit with "Putella!" Between his new found love for Sunday donuts (yep, Daddy bribed him - "If you're a good boy at church, we'll get donuts!" I think they're more for Daddy than anyone else. ;) ) and fruit with Putella we've now got a kid who has a significant sweet tooth. He's come a long way from his first birthday when he wouldn't even try his birthday cake. :)

Gotta love how clean it is. ;)

Good to the very last morsel.

Sadly, it's already over!

Nannie and Guy's trip that is.

How did 2 weeks already come and go? We had such a wonderful time playing out in the sunshine (I'm pretty sure the number of sunny days Nannie & Guy had must be a record for any of our guests!), reading stories, playing cars, visiting with many of our Juneau friends, gardening, swinging and sliding, playing firetrucks, learning to sew all over again (I'm sure Nannie is sick of teaching me how to do it - perhaps I should think about practicing in between their visits) eating lots of egg rolls (compliments of Na!) and yummy crab (compliments of Erik & Lindsi), going to the airport, and most importantly, just visiting and spending precious quality time together.

Jaeger Ray LOVED Guy and obviously, the feeling was mutual.

Guy, Daddy and Dane at the monthly Home Deep Kids Workshop. They made the cutest little soccer game - it looks like a mini foosball. And while the boys were at Home Deep, Nannie, Jaeger and I went to my book club. I loved that Nannie got to meet all of my Sworn Sistas as they are such an important part of my life. :)

Spending time with Dane & Jaeger

Dane munching on a donut compliments of Nannie!

Wheelbarrow fun!

Weeeeee

One of Dane's favorite past times - mowing the lawn with Daddy

Dane can't get enough reading and he especially loved listening to Guy and Nannie read!

Nannie snapped this picture of Dan. I thought it was adorable.

This is how we all felt about having Guy and Nannie here and we're all super sad they are gone. It went way too fast and we're already looking forward to their next visit (hint hint!!)