mutti's pre-birthday celebration

happy birthday mutti!! we were so glad that we were all around to be able to get together for your birthday! hope that you have a great day tomorrow, on the actual day! we love you!!! :)

mutti getting ready to blow out the candle on her delicious
molasses cookie with ice cream!

"fort crib"
while we were visiting, all 3 kiddos needed to take naps. since eli had been here a night already, the pack-n-play was spoken for. we didn't bring one, ours doesn't work very well, so we had to compromise...we made her a pillow surrounded area covered by a sheet on the floor...believe it or not, it worked!! she didn't climb out! :) it took her a bit of whining to finally relax and lay down in it, but she did and took a decent nap too! good girl.

"fort toy box"
eli in the most popular fort of their grandparents house! they all like to get in this thing. this one also requires some supervision when they have first mastered the entry...the exit takes a little more practice (a smooth one anyway), which is why his pretty mommy is on stand-by! :)

yellow "monstert" hands!

claire and wyatt found nana's cleaning gloves!!

today the kids and i arrived at matt's parent's (papa and nana) to visit for about a week. we wanted to do this last summer, during judy's (nana) summer break, but last year was busy enough as it was with fun things like a wedding (john and ash) and a baby (eli)! this year had ended up being much busier than we had thought it would be, but we were still able to make this work! yay! thanks so much for having us!!

watch out for the yellow "monstert" hands!!

Happy Birthday Matt!

happy birthday hubs!! i love you so much! i hope that you had a nice relaxing birthday...the kind you like. (no tricks from me this year! ;) )

Thomas the Tank Engine

wyatt and claire were able to see one of their (mainly wyatt's) favorite characters at the delaware state fair.