Farewell to a friend...

A few weeks ago, through tears and heart ache, we had to say goodbye to our wonderful friends, the Tuetkens.  I make it sound so morbid! Perhaps because it IS morbid to us.  We were so blessed and super psyched when we moved here (and Chrissie and I certainly did a lot of nudging to make the stars align and get the move to work out in the first place).  You may remember TJ (ahem, Reverend) is the one who married us.  We ended up having our boys just a few weeks apart, so it was even more exciting that they would get to play together and become buddies.

And become buddies they did!  Matthew loves "Ty Ty" and knows exactly where his house is (well...was).  I'd say it's the first friend he's had where he was actually "aware" and played "with" him, if that makes sense.

Anyway, they moved to Minnesota!! Hope they're enjoying the cold and snow! :-)  A great opportunity for their family, but we sure will miss them.

And ode to best buds:

 Oh man.  I even went back to my archives.  Look at how our boys have grown!

Their first Halloween, we were visiting Texas and they got to meet:

Looks to me like they knew they were going to be  great friends!

Almost a year later when we travelled to Texas for Mike's heart surgery:

Saying goodbye!!  We'll miss you guys!

Easter

I guess I'll start with Easter and work my way backwards.  Had a great day! Matthew got his Easter basket first thing, went out to the yard to find eggs, drew on his face with marker (that wasn't planned....just something the toddler chose to do all on his own), colored Easter eggs.  And that was just the morning!  For lunch we went to a friends house for a cookout.  We had so much fun! It is so great to be finding friends around here to hang out with.  Matthew thoroughly enjoyed the big egg hunt they had in their yard.  The kids all played outside, and oh yes, Matthew and one other little one, decided to climb up into the sand table.  These two were covered in sand, head to toe.  My solution was to put his bathing suit on him as soon as we got home and just let him go at it with the little kiddie pool in the backyard.

Our day in pics:


His little basket awaits.  It was a tiny little basket, just didn't feel the need to go overboard. It was just perfect for him. (bonus: this coupon queen paid very little for everything, down to the free grass in the bottom of it!)

 Checking it out.  I'm not sure if he was more excited by the Thomas bubbles or the candy!

We look lovely when we first wake up, don't we??? haha

It sure would be nice to figure out how to get the picture to be the right way. Blogger surely ticks me off sometimes.  Anyway, here he is with all the eggs he found in the yard.

His artwork.  It was all over his arms and legs too.  He loves Mickey!

Figured while he was a mess with marker, I'd make Daddy color eggs with him.

This is a positively handsome picture of my little man.  Too bad blogger keeps putting it sideways. 
Hey, I'd take more time to figure it out, but blogging has become frustrating lately! Perhaps I need to switch to wordpress....

Me and my boy. Sigh.  I love him.

The stars have re-aligned

That's right.  The universe was conspiring against me.  The boy dropped my laptop on the floor.  Broken. :-(  Mike did some work on it and discovered I needed a new hard drive.  I tried blogging from my phone (annoying), Mike's iPad (couldn't get it to work), and our desktop computer also wouldn't let me post anything to my blog. 

SO- I tried.  I really did try, but it was a forced blog-cation. 

But I'm BACK baby! Oy is my head spinning with updates--I'll try to gather some thoughts and post something about something.  Very specific, no?  I'm sure it'll involve my cute kid. :-)