Party Time!

We have been having one party after another this past couple of weeks. Cole's 5th b-day was on March 15th and so we had a family party that evening. It was just us and Tyler's parents since Tyler had to work that day. Because we were having the party in the evening I made Cole wait all day to open his presents so that no one would miss out on the fun of seeing his reaction. Boy was that kid anxious! He probably asked me like a hundred times if he could open them. At first I felt bad, but then it got annoying. I'm not sure who was more annoyed - him with me for not letting him open them or me with him telling him to wait. Well we made it through and Cole finally got to open the scooter he had been dying for.
The following weekend Cole had another party with his friends. We had it at Jeepers Amusement Paradise. They had rides and games and all kinds of stuff for the kids to do. Cole and Brady were so funny - Cole didn't want to ride anything and so he played games the whole time and Brady wanted to ride everything, and did, but looked so unamused. He would be on a ride and just have this blank look on his face. Never even cracked a smile. Oh well - I'm pretty sure they still had a great time. Cole was very excited to see a few friends from Anthem and then some of his new friends.
So onto the next party because the next day was Easter. I kind of felt like the easter bunny slacked a little when it came to this holiday this year. I think she was a little pooped from all the previous events. Luckily, I have awesome in-laws who picked up the slack and made it a wonderful day for us all.

Time Flies!

Holy cow - so I haven't written for quite some time now. I got a little busy. We moved! Gosh I don't want to do that again for a while. What a pain! We worked night and day for about 3 days. The only good that comes from it is purging all the crap I don't use. I have finally gotten the new house somewhat organized and all the fun of painting and decorating has now begun.
We have been fully moved in for about a week and a half now. Besides missing the wonderful friends we left behind, we are really enjoying the new place so far. Tyler has reduced his work commute from 75 miles one way to about a half a mile. That has been good for us all. What a difference it is to have him home that extra 3 hours. The boys and I are loving the new street we live on. We went from a somewhat busy street to the very end of a quiet culdesac. There are lots of kids on our street(even two other boys named Cole) so Cole & Brady have had lots of fun playing out with new friends. In the short time we've been here Cole has taught himself to ride a bike. He has his own bike that had training wheels on it, but one day ran into the house telling me to come outside to watch him ride one of the neighbor kids' bike. I didn't really think that he could do it yet, but thought I would go out and see. Sure enough he went out and rode the bike without training wheels up and down the street. I couldn't believe he did that all by himself. Now if I could just get Brady to potty train himself!