weekend in snapshots

we had another restful weekend. The weather was just beautiful! High seventy degrees at the beach :) just perfect. We met up with some college friends. Gwyn and her boy Becko and Katie. Gwyn took a family photo for us :) I love how blue the water looks in the background. I can pretend we were in Hawaii ;) This was a new beach for us, it was nice because there weren't huge waves so the boys could play near the water a little better. Below are some pics from our weekend.

New Brighton State Beach

Gwyn and Becko (and maggie)

feeling the waves on bare toes.

Sitting on the grass after mass (matching outfits from Grandma and Grandpa for Easter.) I just love them! Perfect for the warm weather we've been having and I love polos on little boys.

Lucas laughing after church. It is first communion time-and I was teary eyed, there was a little boy in a tux-and I thought oh boy that'll be our boys in a few years- and so of course, the water-works started.

poolside

we finally fit a bigger pool in our bigger car :) they were all out of the really big ones, so it is still kinda small, but way bigger than our other one. i was beyond excited! Caleb was too. He was sooo excited he stripped off his clothes...down to his bare bum, and sprawled out in the pool and kept telling us he was 'swimming in my pool' and he was blowing bubbles and going face down in the water to get his hair wet. I asked dave, "is this our child" our cautious child who usually dips a toe in our baby pool before saying 'all done'? And he never strips! I thought it was hilarious. Now, everyday he wants to fill up his pool with the hose. Can't wait for warm summer days with both boys splashing in the water :)

the only way caleb's been convinced to go on our walk is to go on his bike. so for friday walking and coffee at Starbucks with MOMS club he rode his bike, for almost an hour. it was nice because that afternoon he slept for almost 3 hours. I had to wake him up so he'd go to bed that night!

this is a total random, boys playing on the floor while I wipe up crumbs from lunch :) they were acting silly together and lucas was just loving caleb's guitar. (notice elmo perched there? joining in the fun)

some more pool time. i had to put this in because i just love those chunky thighs!

brothers poolside.

now for my weekend ramblings :)

saturday night dave and i had a 'date night' in. this consisted of a yummy dinner, boys in bed, and some Muscato wine and cheesecake while we watched We Bought A Zoo. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Just make sure you have some tissue handy! I cried through the entire movie, thankfully I don't think Dave noticed :) It was a sweet, sweet movie. So my point is that we had plans to De-swaddle lucas. They got pushed to tonight. So here goes our first night without swaddling him. (technically he spent a week unswaddled Christmas time in sc, but i don't count that since the aunties were basically putting him to sleep the entire time!). So wish us luck. I'm breathing into a brown bag freaking out that my perfect sleeping angel won't ever sleep good again! And what am i going to do with myself? And oh.my.goodness. can wombie make a special order for us for size 25-30 lbs? and if so, then maybe we can swaddle till lucas is a year and he'll be done nursing then. and then we'll tackle bedtime and nap time issues then? because. i hate change! and he sleeps so good swaddled, i can't imagine he'll sleep good not swaddled...but maybe i should give him the chance? my sweet hubby, said 'kimmy, he's growing up. it is going to be okay' all you have to do is feed him at his usual 9, 1, 5o'clock times and i'll take care of the rest. boy, do i love this guy. he calms me down so much! and he does so much! he's pretty amazing. but-i'm still going to go breathe into a brown bag.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend :)