It's been awhile!!

Okay, I know it has been a long time since I have updated. I am starting to wonder if I really have enough time for this blog thing. Okay, yeah sure, my sister who also has two young kids and works full time does it...but I am having a hard time! LOL

Anyhoo....well, the reason (excuse) that I haven't posted for awhile is that we left our camera battery in a Chicago hotel room, so I don't have any pictures to post! I may include a couple gratuitous photos of the boys just for the fun of it, buy they will not be recent. (update...okay didn't find any really cute pictures that I took recently, so I decided to put a pic of Carlie and both of the boys when they were babies...since I really think Micki and I are the only ones really reading these things, I might as well make her smile too!)

Don't let my lack of posting think that we haven't been busy though! Starting way back with Labor Day. We took the boys to Chicago for the weekend and had a great time....we went to the aquarium, Navy Pier and several parks around downtown. I have some really cute pictures...but you will have to wait to see them!

Next, I had my "girls trip" to Hilton Head planned for last weekend. But then, Hurricane Hanna changed our plans so we had to cancel. I was very, very, very sad about this...just ask anyone around me last weekend.

Besides that, things are the same around here. The boys are enjoying the weather cooling down and bit and we are big into bike rides now. Nevermind that it takes at minimum 45 minutes to make it around the block, but it's still fun.

More later...with pictures!

Love,

Lacey

Need HELP choosing a rug!

Okay, I need a little help from everyone, and I just figured out that this blog has a cool polling feature that I am going to try out.

We finally got our new couch for the sunroom (our old one started ripping and they didn't have the fabric match anymore, so they gave us a new one!). Anyway, I am trying to find a rug for under it....which of these do you like? Once you decide vote on the poll on the right side of the page!

Oh, and a couple sidenotes...we are trying to go a little more contemporary in this room, and if we went w/ the polka dots one I think we would need new pillows. Also, the orange circle in the big rug is actually more terra cotta like the wall color...it didn't photo well.

Thanks!!

Go Colts!!

We took the boys to the 1st Colts game this year at the New Lucas Oil Stadium, and it was awesome! The stadium is amazing, and the boys had so much fun!! Our goal was to make it to halftime which we did, so we were very pleased!

We found out the next day that Caden had pink eye, so not very many good pictures of him. I guess I should have known since every picture he is either rubbing his eye, or looks drunk.

Not a good picture of Caden, but check out the amazing view behind him...it doesn't even look real!

Eli was just happy to have his own box of popcorn!!

Alright already...

Geez, having a blog is a lot of pressure. If you don't have any anything exciting to write about in your life for a week or so, people start getting a little impatient! This weekend even my quiet, kind sister in law said I need to step up my blog because I hadn't updated in awhile.



Okay, so now I am just trying to think of things that may be "blog worthy". You already know that they boys started school last week, but they also started a few new "sports"...although, I don't think my father would consider these activities to be sports. LOL They now are getting tennis lessons once a week and they go to gymnastics once a week. Here are a couple video clips of the boys at gymnastics. The first day I was in complete shock that they actually stayed with their little instructor and really DID WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO???!

This is just Eli stretching out before class...until he spots me up in the balcony.

Where did my baby go?

Eli had his 1st day of pre-school today and he was so excited to finally get to go to Caden's school. He was very upset though (and I was too) that when we arrived we found out it was a "practice day" and that Moms had to stick around the whole time. He kept pushing Caden & I to the door and saying "go away now". Hopefully the excitement will last...next week school starts for real...whooohooo!!!

State Fair 2008

We love the State Fair...all the crappy food, rides ,and, of course, the interesting people. It's just good ol' Indiana fun. We took the boys last night and they loved the animals...although they really were most interested to find a animal that happened to be going to the bathroom. Not sure why, but that really was hilarious to them...boys! Of course, their favorite part was "John Deere Land" as Caden named it. They quickly discovered that even w/out keys you can still do things with the tractors...like beep the horns, turn on the hazard lights, etc. They had the buttons figured out on those things within seconds.

At one point when I was taking Caden potty for the 3rd time, he hugged me and said "you're my best friend...I am SO happy!" Awww...now that is what I wish I could save in a picture!

Finally on the water!

Okay, as most everyone knows we live very close to Geist Resevoir, but without a stinkin' boat you can't even get near the water. Finally, our good friends Drew & Latefe got a boat that we can mooch off!! LOL We had a great day celebrating Latefe's birthday on the water. We had a blast tubing until I think I got whiplash and had to call it a day. For some reason, it just isn't as easy as it was when we were kids. We ended the birthday party in Anderson at a new casino that just opened up there. Jerome and I lost every dime we put in, but the birthday girl won everytime! Besides waking up miserable from my "tubing injury" it was a GREAT day! Happy Birthday Latefe!!!!