Spring is Here

Gerrit's new thing to do is to wear my cycling shoes while riding his bike. He usually gets sick of them and will leave them on the side walk and end up riding his bike with just his socks. In the 'basket' part of this trike is a bunch of golf balls. He will bring the trike on the grass and dump out all the golf balls. He will get Adam and I a club as well as one for himself and we are to play golf in the back yard. When he is done, he will put all the balls back in the trike and bring it in the garage. Clever....

Emmit's new thing is to hang out in the exersaucer. I'm thinking we need an indoor and an outdoor one this summer!

3 Years, 3 Months

Here are a few of the pictures that were taken this weekend. The rest are on Shutterfly now and can be ordered. (We own the rights to the pictures.) Gerrit was a real 'pill' and wasn't the most cooperative 3 yr old. We even tried the car (even though it didn't match his outfit). I havn't decided which pictures we are going to order but I love the fact that I can order and do what I want with the pictures!

Pictures

I uploaded the Easter pictures per request. You can get to them by going to the 'our pictures' icon on the right hand side of the site. We just had professional pictures taken this weekend of the boys and I will be able to upload them as soon as we get the CD, which should be Tuesday. We are excited to see how they turned out! So stay tuned and you can order them too. I'll let you know when they are posted on Shutterfly as well. Enjoy the nice weather!

Emmit

I took this picture tonight and it pretty much sums up his personality.

He's laid back and a happy kid (now that he has started to outgrow his reflux).

Emmit's sportin' his cousin's outfit that is 12 years old (so glad I like my sister in law's taste!).

Egg Hunt #2

Following church, we came home and noticed the Easter bunny had visited our house. Gerrit knew what to do this time and found a lot of eggs in the yard that led him to the front porch where he found his Easter basket as well as Emmit's. I love how Gerrit took Emmit's book and started to 'read' it to him! Gerrit enjoyed a new book, garden gloves (so he doesn't always wear Adam's), flash light, golf balls, cars, and of course some candy!

He's wearing a new pair of bike gloves he got for Easter from Luke and Paul. He rarely takes them off - even wears them to bed! At least Adam gets his gloves back!

Following the egg hunt festivities we headed over to friends for the 'orphan dinner' as she called it. 3 families joined together to celebrate as our immediate families were too far away to get together with and celebrate.

It was a beautiful day too and Gerrit enjoyed playing outside with the boys. We were able to take a nap only to head over to other friends' for a bike race viewing party. (This is where Gerrit thought he could stay outside and play Ghost in the Graveyard).

Having great friends sure makes it easier to be away from family!

Easter

One of my favorite parts of the Easter service is the beautiful garden that is up front (and the smell too). I remembered the camera so we could take a few pictures in front of it. Gerrit was not the happiest kid as he was tired - he wouldn't even wear his sweater or let me comb his

bed head! Emmit didn't mind the bunny hat I made for him and wore it proudly all day.

(Sometimes 3 month olds are easier than 3 yr olds!)

Go STATE

Saturday afternoon we headed to our friends in the cities for our annual Final 4 party. This year was extra special because MSU played. We had to sport the colors and rub it in to our friends that our wonderful Spartans were playing. Emmit has on his 12 month onesie and the hat I made him while Gerrit wore his Junior Spartan shirt. Of course Adam and I too had on our green and white.

Even though our Spartans lost, we are still proud they made it as far as they did.