Good morning!

Ethan helps Mommy make his favorite breakfast - a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter & marshmallows...













While Nolan snoozes!

MWF

Maples Wrestling Federation!

It all begins with the element of surpirse...

Our new car

We ditched the minivan for a 2006 Nissan Altima (with 18K miles)! I am loving it, but Nolan says he liked the van better.

video game fanatics!

crazy weather

In the last few days we have gone from weather like this...







to yesterday's high in the upper 70's!

We went on a walk & played at the park & it was so warm I had to strip layers to my tank top. It was too beautiful!

State of the Union

I didn't watch to all of the State of the Union address, but I watched the end, and (shocker) I cried. Here's why...

Sgt Tommy Reiman



Wesley Autrey








The courage, character and love shown by these two men is awesome. And it did my heart good to see the nation come together - if only for a moment - to celebrate them.

This morning

This morning was just a typical morning, but both the boys made me laugh...

Nolan crawled into our bed around 2am & stayed there the rest of the night. As I got out of the shower I could here John laughing. Nolan was in deep sleep & having what I am assuming was a good dream, because he said "Oh man!" and then started giggling.

Ethan was getting dressed & I came over to hug & kiss him, and he promptly notified me that I could kiss him when I dropped him off at school, but not now - not just anytime I wanted to. It's starting already...I was really hoping I wouldn't hear those words until he was about 12.