The Birthday Party was back in December but I finally got the photos on my computer and up on the site. Grammy and Papa came to visit and we all had a great time. We had the boys party at Flips for Kids Gymnastics. Nolan had some great friends come and got lots of presents. Some of Caleb's friends came too from his old daycare and they all had fun.

Nolan wanted lots of space to open his presents, but everyone wanted to see what they got.


It was fun for us to actually be able to talk and chat with parents at the party since the gym
staff supervised the children.


We got to get out on the floor and play too. Caleb got to show what a monkey he really is.


The giant trampolines were popular and Cole and his best buddy Nolan checked out all of the toys.


Everyone had great manners for juice and cake time, which we give them right before we send them back to their parents!


Lightning McQueen stole the show and was a definate central theme to this party.


With childcare provided by Grammy and Papa we got to go on a date too at Loren's company dinner.

The big airplane ride was the funnest for the boys. They both had their little backpacks with toys they'd chosen and they looked so cute. It was a pretty easy ride. Caleb read up on the safety precautions we should take in case of an accident.

Here are some more of the photos from Riverfront Park in Spokane on our big day in the city.

As promised for weeks we took the boys to Chuck E Cheeses and celebrated the madness of a building full of children, toys and sugar. It's exhausting. Luckily they guard the gate good looking for the magic stamps on you and your kids, because the do get lost easily in there.

Bozeman got some snow while we were there and we got to play and build snowmen.

Caleb looked very cute in his snowsuit. I took a lot of photos and footage of him.

Mom and Dad got to get away on a couple of snowboarding dates. The snow was decent and we got to spend some time in the trees.

We even got away for a date on NewYears and saw some music.

We went up to the tube hill on Mt. Spokane and had a great time for a few hours getting pulled up the hill and sliding back down. Caleb getting ready for a ride in down the tube hill.
It was great to get pulled up the hill instead of walking in snowboots.
While we were waiting in line the boys climbed around in the snow.

After a great vacation visiting family and friends, we're somewhat settled and I can finally get some of these photos up. We went to Spokane to stay with Grandpa Rich and we went to the Mobius childrens museum. It had great educational, interactive exhibits including a model home and store in the South Pacific, traffic and fire safety with ridable little cars, art, sand, aquifer/water, space, insects, theater and so much more.



Both of the boys have been really into insects lately. Although they aren't really insects, Nolan has also bee really into spiders. He can tell me most of the differences between arachnids and insects and we put up a spider web frame outside and are waiting for a spider to make a home there.


In Spokane we also went on the Gondola over the river (very short ride), the carousel and Riverfront park with the giant Radio Flyer slide. I'll get some more pictures of this up but these are from our new digital camcorder. I haven't loaded up the camera photos yet.


We went up to the mountain and to the inner tube hill at Mt. Spokane. They pulled us up the hill with a motorized pulley so it was worth paying for especially since the boys don't walk very good in there boots. (neither does mom!)


The boys had a great time on the four wheelers with Grandpa. Nolan especially liked the evening rides through the scary woods!


Nolan did an amazing job snowboarding. Mom and dad got to go alone a couple of days too, but we took Nolan up to Bridger Bowl in Bozeman Montana one morning and he was a real trooper. He'll do anything for hot cocoa!