A Lifetime of SPORTS!

Life as we know it is sports! It seems that we live and breathe them. While, I do absolutely LOVE them, I think we may need to subject our children to the arts or something educational (not saying you can't learn things from sporting events :). Despite that thought process, since Ragnar works for the Houston Rockets, we are able to enjoy other perks of that association. We were given free tickets to the Houston Astros game and were able to take the kids to enjoy some baseball. Now, since our paycheck comes from a different sports team, and we had on a different logo, we got a few looks and comments of people wondering if we indeed knew we were at a baseball game not a basketball game! It is already super hot here, but we tried to enjoy it until the sun went down. Let's be honest though, the Astros aren't really making the season worth our time.

Here we are.....sweat and all!

Cavin, much like his Opa Hellmut is obsessed with finding trains and therefore loved this train at Minute Maid park.

He loves his shades and hat and the huge baseball behind him!

Yes this is an Astros game! whoops!

We had a nice night out. You will have to forgive me if the space of time that lapses until the next post is longer than usual. My brother, sister, and grandma come in town for my other brother Corey's graduation from his m.d./p.h.d, then we celebrate my grandmas birthday, then the next day is the Taylor Swift concert, my sister Marisa's baby shower, then we leave the same day they do to Hawaii for a week. I know, I know, I am not complaining, they are all fun things, but it will be busy busy busy, and I'm not really used to that. I will keep you posted........until then..........

Ella is FOUR!!!

My little girl turned four and I can't believe it. Time has flown by. I felt like her first year of life lasted longer than the last three! She is such a fun girl. I am so lucky that she still takes a long nap everyday, and loves to play by herself. She is a pretty obedient girl and is pretty logical. She loves to dance, and pretend. Her best friend is Laya, of course no one else can see her :) She makes me smile and she is a great big sister.
For her birthday we had the traditional birthday donuts, then we had a teaparty, went on a picnic, took a nap, watched a movie, and then had her family Cinderella birthday party. She got so many fun things. She is spoiled!

A teaparty with Cavin, who probably needs a brother!

This is her castle cake....she loves to wear her silly sunglasses.

Then on Saturday she had her friends come over for her friends party. She was very excited. Paige, Jaemi, Tayla came and then Summer and Kylee were there (only for a short time so no pictures of the twins). They had a good time being cute princesses at her Cinderella party!

We played games and danced and decorated. She is pretty competitive so she has a grumpy face because she lost the game. Still working on that one :)

We sure love her and are glad we have gotten to spend four wonderful years with her!

SeaWorld 2010

This past weekend Ragnar and I were able to leave the kids with my parents and take a couple days to ourselves. Basketball season doesn't allow a lot of time together, so for my birthday Ragnar said when the off season began we could have a weekend away. It was great. We drove down to San Antonio, TX and spent the night there. We went to the Riverwalk and shopped, and then on Saturday morning we went to Seaworld. It was nice weather and we enjoyed the shows and the rides. Although, I couldn't get Ragnar to join me on the Great White Shark ride, maybe next time!

This was a new show called Azul with acrobats and such, it was neat!

Of course, good ole Shamu!


Keep dreamin babe!

My love of pigs still stands :) Thanks Rags for the nice weekend and thank you mom and dad for watching the kids. We are so glad we live close to family!

Aunt Naomi

We have had a lot of company this last month, and this last week we had the pleasure of having Ragnar's sister Naomi come to stay with us. Due to the volcanic ash instead of only being here a couple days, she was here almost a week. It was nice to see her and the kids were sad to see her go. She had just run the S.L.C. marathon, but still obliged me and we went running a few times. We shopped, watched a movie, played games, play do, went to dinner, and my favorite was miniature golf. Although I don't have any pictures, we had fun under a black light golf course. At first Cavin was terrified, then the softy got comfortable and loved it. Naomi is a fun Aunt for the kids, and they loved being silly with her.

Airplane!!

Play do jewelry

and more....

Check out these amazing glasses Naomi has :)

Thanks so much for coming and visiting. We look forward to next time.

We Love Aunt Natalie

This weekend my sweet sister Natalie came to hang out with us while Ragnar was in Utah. My kids love their aunt Natalie! We had a picnic with Grandma and their cousins John, Madi, and Aunt Steph, and then Natalie hung out with us. She went and got the kids a new toy and sunglasses and then took us to dinner. What a great Aunt! Then we had a dance party, played games, and when the kids went to bed, we watched a movie. We love that she lives so close and we love having her around!

Ella's "wacky to wacky" tower as she calls it

Blocks, we sure love Cavins birthday present!

Pretty pretty princess game, they love to play!

Our dance party!

And finally...the cute glasses the kids got. They are silly and they love Aunt Natalie. Thanks for hanging out with us sis!

I can't BELIEVE my boy is TWO!!

I can't believe my sweet boy is two years old! Crazy! I feel like I just had him. He had a fun birthday yesterday, but some of the fun things we had planned he decided to sleep through! Your birthday isn't that fun when you take a 5 hour nap! We had his 2 year appointment today and he is 33 1/2 pounds and 35 1/2 inches. He has always been one solid kid, and we love him. He has always been the peacemaker in our family and is so loving. He always says thank you mama or thank you dada after everything. He is super ticklish, loves cars, balls, and balloons. He gets scared pretty easily, but loves to run back and forth in our house and says "on your mark, get set, go!" all the time. He makes the funniest facial expressions and we sure have loved all two years of him. Here is a little recap of his special day....

Breakfast donuts are a tradition in our home!

He helped me make the cake...or ate the leftovers :)

His cute cousin John had to help him get the candle out.

He loves Cars everything!

An interesting attempt at a tire cake?!?!?

Grandpas airplane fun.

Fun blocks from his cousins John and Madi.

He loves his new basketball hoop from Oma and Opa (we got one he could grow into)

Here is our little "chill pill" on his bean bag from grandma and grandpa. We sure do love you Cavin!

A Visit From A Friend

This past week my good friend Ashley and her son Ian came to spend their spring break with us. We were so glad they came, and we had so much fun having company.

We got really ambitious one night and went to see "The Last Song" at 10:00 p.m.. I felt like we were teenagers again with a teen flick and being out so late. Partway through the movie we heard what sounded like a muffled gun shot and we got pretty nervous. There was only 20 minutes left of the movie though, so after the 6 ladies in the theatre got up to talk to see what they thought it was, we all sunk pretty low in our seats and finished the movie. Surely if it was something they would have warned us and told us to leave the theatre right!? After that I leaned over to Ashley and said...welcome to the ghetto....I mean Houston :)

Ian and Cavin had a fun time together. They are only about 6 weeks apart in age and although they have completely different personalities, they had fun. It just took a little warming up from Cavin. Cavin is a little too sensitive for his own good, and Ian has lots of energy and likes to have fun!

Sweet kid!

The kids loved to hang out and watch movies and talk!

We went to the Houston Zoo and the kids did great. They all stayed in their strollers and looked at the animals. Ella kept saying she loved the sea lions and Cavin would say he loves the Lions and then proceed to "ROOOOAAARRR"

They were excited about the giraffes because when we went to the DC zoo there weren't any!

This is Ian who loves to play. Here he is tackling Ella. She loved it for the most part. Cavin not so much. If Ian even looked at him funny, he would cry. Poor kid is such a calm kid he can't even have fun!

A quiet activity that they both enjoy!

Playing with trains.

These three really did have fun playing together and I loved having Ashley to come spend her precious time with us. Thanks so much for coming guys, we sure wish we were still neighbors!