Happy 60th Birthday, Grandma Jane! We love you!

A fun picture of Mom and Dad from our night at the Redwood to celebrate her birthday.

Colton, Charlie, Cate and Craig Alan on Easter (Mom's actually birthday)

 For Grandma's 60th birthday we are all (18 of us!) taking her to a St. Louis Cardinals game in June.  Cate wore this Cardinal dress and the boys wore Cardinals shirts to let her know.  (Check out Cate's new short hair cut!)

Couldn't pass up this cute picture of me and Chip.  He loved this cupcake.  He worked on eating it for a really long time and when we left he said "BYE, BYE, CUPCAKE!"

SNOW! and ice cream...

 Fun pictures of Cate and Charlie in the snow. While these pictures are cute, I must say all of us are ready for spring and won't be sad to wait a long time before we see more snow.

 Look who loves ice cream like her Papa?  Notice the gymnastics outfit...

Happy 2nd Birthday, Charlie!

A few fun pictures from Charlie's birthday.  He got to celebrate lots with family throughout a couple of weeks. 

He weighs in at 27 lbs now and almost 3 ft tall (35 1/4 in). 

We can't get enough of his smiles and big tender heart.  He is still our sweet little guy.

 His big present from us was a tool box and tools.  

 Fun had by all during the Daytona Race weekend and big grin for Aunt Lisa.

 Lots of fun present from Grandma Jane.  He is quite cute when he says her name too...

 The card from Papa sang "Who Let the Dogs Out" Charlie danced to this for days. I love this picture of the two of them smirking at each other.  They are quite big pals.

Although this picture doesn't show it, Charlie adores "Co Co." We all are quite aware that Carter is "the bomb" but Charlie thinks he might be the whole world. 

Fun times in Florida!

 GO DRAKE!

We just returned from Florida.  I traded one boy for the other--this time leaving Matt at home and taking Charlie.  I have lots of vacation so we thought it would be fun to go to sunny Florida in February and play with Lucy and Charlie Menschner.  All four of their parents have degrees from Drake so we have already decided they will be roommates and the girls will be Thetas.

 Don't you agree that they will be fabulous Theta sisters someday?  BFF for sure!  The kids were really cute. 

 CHIP SAYS "NEVER GROW UP!!!"

 Believe it or not, there were new things at Disney since we went in October.  A new Belle storytime that was really fun (Cate here with Belle) and an Ariel ride that we loved.

Sweet baby boy.  The beach was chilly and we had raain on the last day but we still got some sand time in.  Charlie was petrified of the sand and water at first but loved the birds.

Happy Birthday, Carter!

It is hard to believe that Carter Joseph is 20 years old!

Kisses from Catie and a big smile from Chip!

And...a big smile from Carter when he learned her was going to the Masters Golf Tournament as his birthday present.  The cake was a putting green with a Masters golf ball and both Charlie and Matt were wearing Masters golf shirts to let him know.

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY, CARTER!

One more Christmas post

I had to add two more pictures from Christmas.  Every Christmas we have a picture of Carter and Matt in front of the tree.  I hope this tradition continues for years and years to come. Sometimes the dog is lucky enough to join the picture.  It is quite amazing how grown up Carter is now.

Hopefully this can be a new tradition.  This is a picture of the 4 of us at Cate's Christmas program at church.  Carter was there to see her sing but had to hurry off to watch another Christmas program.  She adored having him there...waving at Carter several times!

Best of friends

Couldn't pass up a quick post of a great picture of the kids together.  They are starting to play more together.  Charlie would like nothing more than to be doing whatever Cate is doing.  Sharing is not something either one of them is very good at and the terrible 2s have definitely started for Charlie.  If he had his way, he would be sitting in Matt's truck all day and night long!  He really, really likes trucks.