The Big Day!

The Big Day - Blake is 1!  We celebrated with dinner out with Uncle Kyle and Traci, then cake and presents are our place.  I think he had fun digging into his turtle cake.  Boy was he dirty!!

Hard to imagine this picture was taken only a year ago!

Blake is One!!!

My baby Blake is turning one!!!  

Our first celebration was with the Newman side out at Papa Knute's pond.  There was food, fishing, presents and best of all - Mickey Mouse cupcakes.

Yankees vs Royals

Andrew and his dad are both big NY Yankees fans, so when they came to Kansas City, we took a road trip!  It was a great day for a game and we had a lot of fun.

Boys playing in the fountain at our stop for lunch.

Tyler got to hit and run the bases in the new kids area at the Royals stadium.

Tyler, Grandpa John and Grandma Julie

Summer Fun!

Just a few pictures of some of our summer fun with the boys!

Blake found the cupboards and drawers this summer.

The Perkins gave Blake a water table - perfect for deck play!

Tyler did a little league baseball clinic and of course enjoyed batting the most.

Blake had to sit and watch.

Looks like watching was not that fun!

Tyler after a fun morning at the Farmer's Market.

Blake after the Farmer's Market - worn out apparently!

First Year of Preschool

Tyler had a great 1st year of preschool!  For his last few days, we got to go to his field day and picnic lunch and their final class presentation.  He had wonderful teachers and learned so much!

Tyler, his best friend Tre, and teacher Ms. Cassie

Last day of school Picture!  We asked him again what he wanted to be when he grows up - a Pilot!

Gotta have one with his brother!

Field day games!

They had sidewalk chalk to play with during some downtime between games.  A parent had a great idea to trace his kid - soon they ALL wanted a chalk body!

The big parachute!

Not sure how he got this way.....

Easter #3 - annual neighborhood hunt!

Another fun tradition - Easter egg hunt in the front yard with the neighbors! 

Easter #2 - home!

Easter festivities continued - of course we have to dye eggs - even Blake got to help!  The boys then got to open our traditional Easter gift - PJ's!  On Easter the Easter Bunny visited and left lots of eggs and candy.