#3 is #1

Our blonde haired, blue eyed youngest son turned the big number one a week or so ago!  A lot has happened in the past year, and he's already living in his third home (not that he'll remember the others), but it would already be hard to imagine life without him.  He's the happy one, the easy one, the kid that will always bring a smile to your face.  He's just about ready to run now... walking great, and jumping up and bolting to wherever he feels he needs to be.  He loves his brothers, choosing to find and harass them wherever they may be.  He's a goofball with dimples, but really he's just our Nolan... Happy Birthday to the youngest son!

What? I'm only one year old.  How else would I eat cake?

Put on your party hat! It's a birthday bash!

This is what we're talking about... always the smiling one.

Got a book... but lost his clothes somewhere... maybe they got covered in cake.

A birthday celebration for the whole family!

And he was kind enough to share his cake with Dad... very kind indeed.

First Time Homeowners

So after a few months in the difficult house buying process, we finally got our first home! No more rent payments, finally.  Got a garage and a yard, finally.  All is good.  But... it's going to take a little bit of work to get it to where we want it to be, so we started off by tearing everything up.  Well, not everything, but a lot of stuff.  Thankfully, we have three (somewhat) helpful boys to give us a hand.  We got a lot of work done in the first few weeks, and then had to move in last week.  Now we're in continuous remodel!  Should be fun...

Climbing the ladder to success... or to fall off and hurt himself.

Adam helped keep Nolan out of the paint... most of the time.

Got the new fridge.

Did some new bedroom painting

And Nolan ripped out the old floor, all by himself... and then ate some of it.

We'll post more photos as we get stuff done, but for right now, it's still kind of a mess.  We've got room if anyone wants to come visit!

Just the Park

A lot has been going on in the past month, so it took me a while to make this post, but I'm trying to catch up now.  Before we bought the house and started the rush to get things ready to move in, we had tons of time just to hang out at the park.  Now that we're moved in and can slow down a bit, maybe we'll have more time to do that again.  But anyway, here are just some photos of the boys hanging out:

 The big first grader.

The rotten one...

The youngest one...

 The noisy one...

The happy one...

Ready to go down the slide!

Here, little brother, let me give you some help with that...

Whoa! That had to hurt... we better get out of here...

He's alive! And just a little crazy...

Once we get some "after" photos of the house done (that is, after we get some of the house done) maybe we'll get some of them posted.  For now, more work to do...