Colorado

We spent last week in Colorado with Johnny's mom and grandma (Mary and Mary, or Gaga and Gigi and the boys call them). Mary had just gotten two puppies so we had to bring the boys out to see them!

Gigi held this little guy for 5 days straight. His days consisted of being fed, rocked to sleep, fed again, laughing, pondering, and complaining about the -14 degree weather.

Auntie SueSue gave Gigi a short break so her arms could rest.

And there was, of course, exer-saucer time

This is how this guy spent the whole week. In January he was gone a few days a week, every week, so what did I make him do the first week in February? Drive 11 hours with kids to visit his mother. He was a good sport, even though he will turn around and do the same thing this month...

Because it was FREEZING outside, there was a lot of watching cartoons and playing with toys.

At Drake's request, we did a sunglass photo shoot. All poses were on his own, he's very dramatic.

Here is Bubbs photo shoot, against his request.

Drake about to get nailed in the head with a car, and who knows whats going on in the right picture.

Proof I have two crazies. They loved this sunroom and spent most of the time in here.

The puppies who happen to be sisters!

Cinnamon Girl

Maggie Mae

On Saturday morning we said goodbye to Johnny's family...

and said goodbye to the cars.

...and headed the opposite direction of home to Alamosa, CO to visit Didi! She is there going to school and getting super fit playing lacrosse. We went to Walmart and got her some groceries, let the boys run around a bit, then started the loooong trip home.

Here's a lonely tree, braving the negative freezing weather.

We spent the night in Parachute, CO where my dad's mom, Grandma Candy, lives. Sunday morning I went to her home where she showed me AWESOME old photo albums of her, her parents, and my great-great grandpa and his relatives. We then went to church with her (very amazing considering she hadn't gone to church in over 25 years until two weeks ago) then got on the road.

It was a long trip, but it was so wonderful to spend time with Johnny's wonderful mom, who never stops telling us to make ourselves at home, cooks great meals, bathes my boys, does their laundry, and lets me get out of the house to re-group : )

Johnny's grandma is the kindest women who never tires of holding babies and it was so nice having her their to help!

Johnny's aunts are all like second grandma's to these boys and the boys love them as much as I do! It was so good seeing them.

This is just a precursor to April when Johnny and I go out of town for two weeks and let all of those wonderful women watch them, I hope they don't regret agreeing to it :)

Some Randomness and a sad story

In case you weren't aware, January 29th is unofficially Take-Loads-of-Pictures-of-Chubby-Babies-in-Exer-Saucers Day (TLPCBES Day, for short). To celebrate, I did just that.

If you didn't celebrate, I took enough pics for the both of us.

I never get tired of watching D-rake play with these little figurines, quoting Toy Story in the different ways he remembers it..."There's a snake in my boot! Buzz, look in your boot too."

This is the last picture you will ever see of Bubba with a binky. Remember this post? Well not only did this guy take a binky super easy, he also weened himself off of it last week. You see, his binky collected fuzz from a cozy blanket he was sleeping with, and he didn't like having fuzz in his mouth. So, he quit his binky cold turkey. I can't even put it in his mouth, he won't open it! Some of you would say this is a good thing, but now I get to listen to him cry himself to sleep at night because NOTHING else soothes him like the binky did (not even my angelic, tone deaf singing voice). It also shows me that my Bubba is growing up and I may have to start calling him Pierce. Isn't that such a sad story?