New playground

The boys are up to it again, and it is cute.  Man these kids are getting bigger and bigger, but Brenda and I were thinking just tonight that this year we will have been married 10 years.  It seems like it has not been that long and if those 10years went by so fast I can just imagine how the next ten will go.

Matthew continues to get bigger and stronger every day.  He kind of has a cold and raspy cough right now, but that will happen when your brother grabs your pacifier off the ground and shoves it into your mouth no matter where you are.

James was showing us how fast he was the other night running back and forth in the living room.  Not sure why he had the goggles, but he will need those when he gets a dirtbike in a couple years.

Matthew hanging out.

My wife must be the cruelest woman in the world.  I mean seriously, who would ever dress their boy up in this hat and let him go in public.  He looks like a little gnome.  Ok, it is kind of cute I guess.

He has really grown up and smiles at us all the time now, but seems to put it away when the camera comes out.  We finally got this one.

I think he really was interested in what I was saying about the motorcycles in the garage

 

Last fall we got a wood play structure for free from some friends that were moving out of town and the weather has finally got to a point where I can put it up, sand, and stain it.  That was more work that it would seem and my back is still reminding me that I am getting older and older.  If I feel like this at 32, I am in for a long long road ahead.

James had a great time exploring on it before I had a chance to stain it.

 

Mugging for the camera as always.

He like to peak out from around the corners and hide from you when he gets a chance.

Seriously cute kid

It is a pretty robust structure and can easily hold me and the kiddos.

Another pic before I get the rock wall handholds on, but with the swings up there was little to no chance of keeping the kids off the structure.

Brenda mowed the lawn last weekend with the boys.  They all loved it.

 

For Easter we thought we would try and go to a egg hunt at a local church.  We got to the field as they were saying go and we thought...ok, there will still be some left.  Little did we know that the hunt really only lasts 30 seconds and it is a free for all where kids lie shell-shocked on the ground wondering what just happened and parents are left opening eggs and creating candy mountains of greed.  I never thought you could get PTSD from a easter egg hunt, but I think I may have to go to the doctor soon if the nightmares don't end. The place was a bundle of chaos and the Guns and Roses music piped through the loudspeakers which really set the mood to celebrate Christ rising from the grave.  There was absolutely no indication that the event had anything to do with Christ or Easter.

 

Needless to say we are not ever...and I mean ever...going to one of those things again.  While we were there we asked each other "isn't this why we moved out of California?".

James did get to go in the petting Zoo  which consisted of 2 rabbits, a chicken, pony and a duck...there was only about 50 kids in line waiting to get in, but luckily we got in at the beginning and headed out of there