He did it!

It is official, Ben is now a graduate! He graduated on Friday, May 8th with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design.

Ben and his family.

Ben with my family.

We couldn't be more proud of this guy. He has worked so hard the last four years. He truly gave his all and we are so proud of him. I don't think I could even tell you how many hours he spent on all of his projects. All I can say is it paid off. I think Ben is glad to be done and now we are off on a much needed family vacation to celebrate!

Wicked

My mom, Ben and I spent about 5 hours back in October getting tickets to this musical. We had two laptops and two phones going at our house. When we finally got through we were extatic and ended up purchasing tickets for all of our family. Our tickets were for closing night which was last night! Before the play we all went to PF Changs. I love that restaurant. Our group was pretty big and I wish I could have talked with everyone a bit more. The play was just wonderful. I had seen it before but loved it just as much this time. I love musicals and have been humming the music all day. I love that this musical is more about friendship than love. For those of you who haven't seen this I highly recommend it.

Escape Artist and Another Virus

The last few weeks our dog has been having some seperation issues. Or so we think. We usually leave him in our bedroom when we go to work and he recently has started trying to open the door. He even pulled down a curtain we had up in the bathroom trying to escape. So we decided he lost his privelege of being loose and put him in his kennel the other day. Well when I came home Cayman was running around the house. I went upstairs and this is what I found....

And this is what he had to say about it.....

I think he was quite proud. To say the least Ben and I are a bit baffled as why he is all of the sudden exhibiting this behavior. Nevertheless, we still love him and are trying to figure it out. In the meantime he is back to being loose in our bedroom until we can fix his kennel.

Our other child has come down with yet another virus. This one hit him hard. We have several days of this.....

this...

this.....

and more of this....

Thankfully we think we are moving on to more days like this......
....sitting on the stairs, one of his new favorite games.

Easter

I have been looking forward to Easter for quite some time this year. I love to plan fun little holiday things and having a kid to do things with is even better. So here is a run down of our events and yes I realize it has been like three weeks since then.

On Saturday we met my family up at the local IHOP for an Easter breakfast. We then went up to their house where the Easter bunny had visited. He brought Logan this lawn mower bubble blower along with a book, some crayons and some treats. He loved the mower. He just kept walking around their house with it.

We then decided to try to hide some eggs for him and see how he would do. I was quite impressed with how well he did. He definitely knew what he was looking for. His uncle Jeff was designated as the egg opener. Logan would keep taking all the eggs to Jeff to open them. His eggs contained m-n-m's and teddy grahams. Logan had a previous encounter with m-n-m's at his dad's birthday and just loves them so he was very excited when he got to have them again.

That night we died our easter eggs. Logan had a blast coloring on the eggs with the crayons. His dad had fun making all sorts of artsy designs on the eggs. Because we are having camera issues, I unfortunately don't have any pictures of them but they turned out wonderful.

Easter morning the Easter Bunny brought Logan a bucket and shovel along with some bubbles. That morning we went outside and had another small hunt, this one was mostly for our dog Cayman. We hide them and put dog treats in the eggs for him. He then runs around the yard and finds the eggs, opens them and eats the treat. Logan even helped Cayman find a few of them.

We then got all dressed in our Easter clothing and headed to church. After that we went to the Ellis home for dinner and the annual egg roll. Every year we hide all the hard boiled eggs for the kids and after they find them we then roll them down the driveway. This usually ends up in an egg fight, however, this year it seemed to be hardly a fight at all. Logan thought this tradition was lots of fun. He loved throwing the eggs down the driveway and he also enjoyed helping pick up the egg pieces when we were done. What a good helper.

Besides Logan having way too many m-n-m's it was such a fun holiday.

New Do

Logan had his first haircut the other day. I am so lucky to have my sister-in-law as a hairstylist to help me out. I really am not so good at this boy hair thing.

Logan wasn't too happy with her. He had just woken up from his nap hence the binky. He started to cheer up when we were leaving. She even tried to bribe him with a sucker but he wouldn't even try it.
She actually cut quite a bit off but when I was trying to gather some up there wasn't much to pick up. His hair is really fine right now. I was a little nervous that he wouldn't look like a little kid after his haircut but was refreshed to see that he still does (or to me at least).

Thanks again Jana for the great haircut and styling tips. I owe it to you!

Happy Anniversary!

Ben and I celebrated our 5 year anniversay this weekend. I can't believe we have been married for that long. Our anniversay was on friday but we both had to work so we had decided to do most of our celebrating on saturday.

However, to my suprise Ben had something up his sleeve. When I came home from work on friday just exhausted and feeling down, he had little notes posted all over the house that said things like.......

(This one just made me laugh. Just random Ben humor.)

These were just some of my favorites. He literally had them everywhere and I am still finding them. It was such a wonderful suprise and very thoughtful. He also suprised me with a box of Girl Scout Cookies.

(He wrote that because that is was the box of cookies says. Took me awhile to figure that out.)

Yum. We hadn't bought any this year due to things being tight so I was WAY excited. I probably shouldn't admit this, but I have already eaten the whole box. I was so caught off guard by all this and it really reminded me how much I love my hubby.

On Saturday my parents offered to take Logan for us so that we could go out to dinner and a movie. We went to see "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and then went to eat at the Olive Garden. The movie was cute and had a good meaning too it. I think bits of it were too girly for Ben but he was a trooper to take me. We then went and had a wonderful meal at the Olive Garden. We both thought it felt weird to not have a child begging for your attention the whole time. It was wonderful to just to get sit and eat and talk to eachother.

We then came home and made up some chocolate fondue and dipped some strawberries in it. It was wonderful!

Thanks again to my mom and dad for watching Logan. I know he had a blast with you and loves being spoiled. They took him to the Cracker Barrell and got him his own macaroni and cheese and a juice. They said he just loved it. They also bought him a soccer ball that he just loves. My dad taught him how to kick it and he loves to go outside and play with it. We are so lucky to have a wonderful family that helps to make our anniversay extra special!

The Treehouse Museum

For Christmas, Logan got some free passes to the Treehouse Museum so we decided to go and check it out this weekend.
This was the first thing we saw when we came in and let's just say he would have been happy with just that. He thought he was so cool sitting up there all by himself. We finally convinced him to move on to some other things. This was his favorite:

He loved climbing across this bridge. We had to help him at first as it was pretty steep but soon he learned how to pull himself across it.

Logan also loved.......

pulling this table apart

putting on a puppet show (even if he was the puppet)

playing chess

playing knights

and making music!

Although we had a blast this was Logan right before we left.....

Ironically right before this picture he had walking over to this frog and gave it a hug! I was very impressed and would love to take Logan back here. I can see that there are fun things to do with them at all ages and look forward to going there many more times.