Oak is 1

Oak turned 1 on March 22! Here are some pictures and three videos at the end.

Oak's birthday fell on a Thursday, so we celebrated by a stroller ride to Sunergos for a smoothie - strawberry with whipped cream! It was Oak's first. He usually just gets a bite of Eli or Otto's. 

 That evening we had family group at the Wallace's so I made a cake and we celebrated together!

 Then that evening we came home and opened gifts! It was a full and fun evening.

 On Saturday we had another small celebration with a couple of friends. Here Brian is decorating Oak's cake!

 The traditional icing in the mouth!

Spring Is Here

The blooming of our saucer magnolia always ushers in spring here! We all enjoy it; the beauty, the smells and even the falling if the petals. Here are a few pictures!

 Oak needed a little warming up to the feel of all the flower petals around him.

New Videos!!

Here are a few new videos. The first two are at Tyler Park. The boys like to go here because it has a teeter totter. It also has a really big slide at a second playground. I will have to get a video of that later.


Here Eli shares a bit about his latest drawings.

The boys love to play in the petals from the flowers on our tree. Oak joined in a bit too this year.

Pictures from the past couple weeks

Candles made by Eli and Otto

 The annual cotton candy!

 Lunch at the festival.

We met up with the Scholtens for lunch! Such a great surprise! 

 Otto decided to draw on his face...

 At the park!

 weeeeeee!

 Eli has been drawing all sorts of things lately. Here are some pictures of his drawings! He is really growing up. All of these he drew by himself.

Otto's monster truck he picked out at the store. It was a long and thoughtful process and he decided on the pink one called "heart breaker" - I had to laugh at that. 3 is such a cute age!

Videos!

In this first video Oak is playing in the kitchen. He loves to dig into the cabinets and play with the bowls. I decided to just keep a few out and I hand him a spoon and he is as happy as can be for about 15 minutes as you can see here.

These next three videos are from the Maple Syrup Festival. This first one is the annual candle making! Otto was able to join in this year.

These videos are showing some of the presentation from Crooked Paw on ancient sugar making. :)

Cabin Trip Late February

Here are a few pictures from our last trip to the cabin. It is starting to feel more homey to us now that we have a futon and a table to eat at. 

First picture: frost flowers! This went on for about 10 feet along side the road.

 Eli enjoyed drilling with Papa's drill here. Brian looking rather mountain man.

 In the loft!

Three cozy sleeping children. Had to take a picture. :)