Our little conductor/engineer turns 2!

Toby became a big 2 year old on Friday! It's hard to believe 2 years have gone by...they have gone by FAST. It doesn't seem like I can remember him much as a baby. He is so much fun and so loved by his brother Caleb and his mommy & Daddy...not to mention his grandparents and his aunts and uncles. We invited friends from next door (whom he loves to play with) to our "Train Party". We had his Uncle Joe and Aunt Beth, and his "E-pa" and his "E-ma" (memaw). We were going to be heading to Dan Nichols park to finish the celebration where there is a choo choo train to ride, but the poor guy developed a fever on his birthday and has had one since...about 102 degrees.

We had Thomas plates and napkins, Toby had an engineer hat and overalls that he loves to wear. My mother and I spent quite a while decorating his train cake, which I know I could not have done without her. My parents have been visiting since the 25th and we are heading for chicago over the 4th of July. We have had a great visit with my parents (Memaw & E-pa). I wish we could see each other more often. They are so great with the boys.

Memaw decorating for the "train party"This is Everyone who came to the "train party" except me (I'm taking the pictures). We had aioli chicken, a homemade southwest bean salsa with chips, cheesy bread, and a pasta salad for dinner. (Not that you care, I'm just recording it for future curiosity). I have to say the records are nice to go back to...It's been two years I've been blogging and It's nice to see what we did two years ago or last year.Toby is eating the "smokestack" off the train cake.

THE Happy birthday boy! We love you Toby! Life is always interesting and joyful

when you're around.

Ketchup

My blog entries are pretty boring now. I'm not really sure if we have much to write about. It seems it's the same old same old....but not really. I checked out a documentary on "The future of food". I thought it was a message of hope and how things were changing for the better and I could learn how to make better choices for our own family, but INSTEAD it made me depressed and scared to eat another thing. I'm thinking the dust on my floor (not to imply that my house is the least bit dirty) is better than what they are SELLING us at the grocery store. You vegetarians out there may not feel threatened, but I would recommend this extremely disturbing documentary---Nobody is safe....especially vegetables.

Caleb graduated from pre-school in May. He looks thrilled doesn't he?
Here is a better one of him and Toby.

We also drove to Ohio in May for another wedding. Ken's friend, Brent, got married. It was a very nice wedding.

We found a frog in Elliott's pool....it looked like pond water (yuck). Caleb thought it was pretty fun to catch it. Boys....

Lots of pictures

When we got home from our visit to KC, MO my flowers were beautiful!

Aren't these foxglove impressive?

I'm a little late with my update. I have so many pictures-May is a busy month for most everyone and so goes it for us as well.

We love to catch our boys sleeping. It's so precious.Ken's friend ,Sebastian, and his wife had a baby girl in April.

This is Kim and her mom in the hospital.
Ken, Caleb, and I went to Lazy 5 Ranch for Caleb's preschool...father son moment.

Smile for the camera!

My college friend Tara got married this month and I was able to attend her "bachelorette" party. We had dinner with her friends and then we went to Chuckee cheese and the boys went to a pool hall. It was nice to see Tara...I'm so happy for her and her husband.

The cousins goofing off....bribing them with gum to smile.Ken's parents and the grandchildren.

Our visit with Ken's granna. I think she is 87 years old

Me, Addison, and Toby.

We went to the park in T-town with my sister, Addy, E-pa, Ken, Caleb, Toby, and me. We had fun...but we missed memaw who had to work.Toby and E-Pa in T-town (Topeka)Back in T-town (Troutman) trying to make those goals.

We had a nice time in Trimble, Independence, and Topeka...I had such a great visit. It was so nice to catch up with old friends, See Ken's family, my parents, and my sister and her family. Addison is talking like crazy. I also saw my highschool friend, Colleen, and her two girls. I wish I would have had a camera, because her girls are so cute. We went to Minskys and her oldest daughter shoved a toy motorcyle down the pool table...oops...had a lot of fun, though!!! I am going to be back in KC in October where I will be "not really celebrating" 1o years out of college.

7 years Today!

Ken and I are celebrating 7 years of marriage today. I remember in Kansas there were a lot of pretty blooming trees at this time. NC is done with the spring blooms. There are some dogwoods left blooming, but we have our leaves mostly.

Last night, Ken and I had dinner and saw a movie. We saw "leatherheads" which parts of it were filmed in Statesville (5 min from us) and Salisbury (1 hour form us). It was a funny movie. Ken and I really enjoyed it. Dad, you would REALLY like it. It's how "Professional" football began...but it has a really witty script and a good story weaved into it.

There aren't a lot of pics this month. I've been taking a weekend real estate course, while Ken has been watching the kids on the weekends. Yesterday I passed the test for the class and now I have to take the state exam! I didn't think I would pass, and if I didn't I would take it as a sign that I didn't need to pursue it, but I passed -which is good, but not sure about the direction it's taking me. So we shall see when I take the state exam... Caleb is a good soccer player. On his 2nd game he scored 9 goals! Last year the story was way different-he didn't know a thing, but now he loves it and can't wait to go to practice.
Chugga chugga chooo chooooo!!!!!
Toby signing "more" in the Truck.

One of the weekends I was away at class

Ken, Toby, Caleb, Beth, and Joe went to chuckee cheese.

Our weeping cherry tree blooming a beautiful pink this spring.

My tulips starting to come up in Early April.

Most of our spring stuff is done blooming here in North Carolina. Onto the summer blooming stuff. We are getting a bit of rain...which we really need.

Ressurection Sunday!!!!

What we left the Easter Bunny...yum a carrot and a strawberry.Nana bought Caleb movies for Easter.

Sunday Morning (Ressurection Sunday)


Caleb and his neighbor Friend dying Easter Eggs.

We went to the Easter Egg Hunt at Caleb's Pre-school. After the egg hunt they all went in to hear the story of Jesus's death and ressurection.

Nana with the boys at the Easter Egg Hunt.
Partnership Play group
Toby loves his sand box....
I'm so lucky my boys love me too!

They Love each other most of the time

Toby fell in the crock. We thought it was funny. He did it again on purpose to see if he could get another laugh out of us.