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February 21, 2016

IMG_4449Check out our little exercise man! I’ve been doing P90x3 for a couple of months now and Griffin has taken to my yoga mat pretty well.  He loves to exercise with me – and man is his core strong.  Oh to be young again, lol! This particular day I put him down for a nap. I had been checking in on him using the video monitor as I could tell he wasn’t falling asleep. About halfway through my workout I hear “Momma, I done sleeping”, so I yelled up and asked him to come down and lay on the couch and rest while I finished.  That lasted about 10 minutes and for the last 5 or so of the video he got down on the floor and exercised with me 🙂  He is also really great at push ups!IMG_4445 IMG_4444When I do my workout videos in the family room, I usually have an audience of Lily and Cameron. It has certainly been a very emotionally taxing time for our family over the last couple of months, and weeks, in particular. Cammie’s health (really her tail) wasn’t improving and we made the very painful decision to say goodbye to her this week.  It is such a hard thing to do, this girl has been through all the ups and downs of life with me and our family for as long as I can remember. And as I said in our post about her, she was a sweet yet stubborn and sassy girl.  We miss her (and the sound of her beating her tail) a lot and Finn regularly talks about how she is up in “heben” (heaven) chasing balls. IMG_4408 IMG_4417 IMG_4415Finn and Sammy ventured outside this week and built Frosty, complete with a hat and gloves! IMG_4429 IMG_4428And quite a mess of his books:IMG_4432(1)And some snuggles (or smothers!) with Lily:IMG_4437 IMG_4438And a simple mommy and son dinner one night. I’ve told some of you this before, but I originally bought the Fruity Pebbles (although they are the ALDI brand) cereal for me. However, it quickly became Finn’s cereal of choice and he asks for it by calling it “colored” cereal. This particular night I had the “adult” cereal and Finn had the “colored” cereal.  About halfway through he said “let’s trade”.  So sure enough, I got the “colored” cereal.  Yum, lol! IMG_4440And this weekend included a boys adventure to Enon, where Finn and Daddy enjoyed lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa, checking out the progress on their new house.  Kevin used the warm day to empty out a storage unit from back in his single days :).  An extra special treat was the warm, sunny, and windy weather which made for a nice afternoon at the park that is right down the road from Grandma and Grandpa’s new house! Joe went along for the ride too. Joe, you know, Finn’s scooter.  He pretends he is a horse and when he’s finished riding him he puts him back in the barn for the night.  Oh, and he does his business outside in the yard, like Lily.  This boy – his imagination is non-stop!IMG_4452 IMG_4454 IMG_4455 IMG_4456 IMG_4464 IMG_4462 IMG_4463 IMG_4461While the boys had their fun, I spent the afternoon hanging out with my college girl friends Amy, Jaime, and Kim. We basically hopped from restaurant to restaurant, from Dublin to Easton, and back to Dublin.  We enjoyed catching up on each others lives, kids, spouses, and such. And it was a treat to be able to enjoy the nice and unseasonably warm weather. Though we don’t see each other as often as we would like, we always have fun when we get together!IMG_4457

February 1, 2015

DSC_0270I took a day off this week to join my parents at Amy’s house along with all of the kids to make marshmallows!  We had three mixers all running simultaneously as we whipped up three batches of pure white marshmallows. All of the kiddos enjoyed pouncing on Grandpa for a good portion of the day, especially Finn.  He actually bounced right off the couch at the end of the afternoon and bonked his head pretty good on the wall, but he hardly cried and seemed ok.  Only to follow shortly thereafter with another bonk as he fell off Rody, the horse. It was definitely time to head home for a nap!DSC_0220 DSC_0222 DSC_0228 DSC_0232 DSC_0233 DSC_0235 DSC_0238 DSC_0240 DSC_0242 DSC_0246
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We had a fun and adventurous weekend beginning on Friday when we headed for a brief trip to Enon to go to Kevin’s high school, Greenon,  for a hall-of-fame induction ceremony for one of his high school class mates. The ceremony was in between the JV and Varsity boys basketball games and luckily we made it with about 15 minutes to spare before the ceremony! We even had a few minutes to walk the halls and find Kevin’s soccer team photo! There was a reception prior to the start of the varsity game, which Kevin attended while Finn and I explored the high school and watched a bit of the basketball game and cheerleaders. He was pretty mesmerized with all of the action, including the band. It was pretty loud! We were able to join Kevin at the end of the reception for a quick bite to eat before heading to Uncle Brett and Aunt Missy’s, where Grandma and Grandpa played with Griffin and the four of us headed out to meet up with Kevin’s classmates.  His high school class didn’t have a reunion last year, so this was a quickly put together gathering, but in the end there were about 15 or so who made it. I enjoyed getting to meet several of Kevin’s classmates, some of whom I’ve met before and others I hadn’t. It was a late night and an early morning, as Finn got up at about 7:40 as he stood up in his crib and said “pa pa”!  Saturday morning we enjoyed a tasty breakfast at Cracker Barrel with Grandma and Grandpa too and we then headed to Schuler’s Baker on the way out of town for some tasty take-home donuts for Sunday morning.  Yum. DSC_0278DSC_0281 DSC_0282IMG_20150131_244908909DSC_0283 DSC_0287 DSC_0290 DSC_0291 DSC_0294 DSC_0300 DSC_0302 IMG_20150131_115659847_HDRAnd here are a few other shots from the week.  Debbie, Sam, and Finn made a baby snow man, Finn plays IN Lily and Cam’s toy bucket, Finn working extra hard under the tool bench, and he and I catching some cuddles 🙂 photo (6) IMG_20150125_101641047_HDR IMG_20150127_205919481 IMG_20150124_124016499