Happy Birthday Alex!!!

This was Alex's first day of "life on the outside!" He still looks the same!


Alex's 1st birthday. He took his first steps that weekend!


On his second birthday we found out that he loves chocolate cake!


These are just two recent pics of the big guy. He's grown so much and we are so thankful to God for giving him to us. He is so fun-loving, energetic, and affectionate. He makes us laugh all the time. We love him to no end!

A Nature Walk at Camp

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Here's a little bit of the beauty of the North Woods! Ryan and I took a little walk back to Reflection Lake here at camp today and it was so peaceful and beautiful--if you could get past all the bugs. ;-) We didn't see a bear despite the talk of all the bear sightings this year, but we did see many deer tracks and lots of little critters and Ryan managed to bring two ticks back with him on his jeans!

See You in a Week!

Ryan and I will be taking the teens in our youth group up to summer camp in Wisconsin. We leave around 4am on Monday morning (yes, pray for us!) and don't get back until Saturday night. It will be a long week, but loads of fun. I call it a practical vacation since I have none of my regular responsibilites of cooking, cleaning, changing diapers, etc! The boys will be at Grandpa and Grams Gibson's house in IA. I dropped them off there yesterday. They are having a blast running around their big house, playing on the swingset, and getting into general mischief!! Mom has promised to post a few pics, if they give her 5 whole minutes put together to sit down, on the Gibson family blog so if you would like to see what they are up to then just click on the link on the right called The Gibson Clan. Hope you all have a great week!

My Garden "Helpers"

I had many thoughts as to the prospective title of this post: "Mommy, the Slave-Driver" (that one donated by Ryan) or possibly "Aren't I Glad They Don't Get Allowance Yet?" Actually, the boys weren't really doing anything good or bad to my flower beds. Just simply digging in dirt! Something they love, love, love!

Of course Alex wanted to use my spade to dig....hmmmm, maybe not such a great idea, kid! So I got him a soup spoon instead.

But when Thing 2 saw that Thing 1 had a spoon...well...we had to get another spoon!



Of course Sam finally got wise and took off down the sidewalk toward the church before Mommy really did put him to work!

And these were the irises about a week later!

Night=Night Everybody!

Lunchtime Fun

Just a little video from Papa & Nana's visit. Sam has started "cleaning his plate" to the fullest & Alex is still workin' on those table manners! They are lots of fun, these two boys of ours!