May

Here's the run down of what we did in May...

NICU "Reunion"

Livi was one of the honored guests at the hospital's NICU Reunion where all the kids that have gone through their doors over the years are invited to a huge carnival and picnic in the park. Just another way we recognize how blessed we are to have or little Miss and to see how far she has come since those first days. We were able to see a few of our favorite nurses and all of them remembered Livi. They were all thrilled to see that she has continued to do so well.

Park Slide!

For the longest time Mo has wanted what he calls a "Park Slide" and each time we drive by the Lifetime store on State Street he would notice them out on display. Since we bought our house we have had the back corner of our yard empty and pretty much just a place for weeds to grow. We finally decided we needed something back there and Mo was more than excited his Park Slide filled the void.

3 trailer loads of dirt removed, 12 railroads ties, 1 broken sprinkler, 2 cubic yards of bark, numerous trips to Home Depot, one set of wrong instructions, several helping hands and an undisclosed number or swear words later we had the happiest kids on the block! It will for sure be a great place for them to play for years to come so it was worth all the trouble.

Hogle Zoo

This past year Mo and his cousins have gone to pre-school at his Gimi's house and for their last field trip we all went to the Zoo for "Z day" to finish up learning the alphabet.

Stay tuned for a new post coming soon including Livi's first birthday.

April

Triathlon

One of the more exciting things in April was when Jason competed in his first triathlon of the season, the "Telos Timp Triathlon" - a 5K run, 10 mile bike and 350 meter swim. It was so much fun to watch him compete and cheer him on.

Run.

Bike.

Swim.

Done!

It was the same race as back in November and he was thrilled to knock 5 minutes off that first time and was even fast enough to take 3rd in his age division and 23rd overall!

Easter

Baskets from the Easter Bunny, family picture, cute Livi in her Easter dress and an Easter egg hunt with the cousins-you know, the usuall.

Golf

Scroll through the the entire history of our blog and a couple of main themes may stick out, one of them being Mo and golf. Seriously the kid loves it! He will go in our back yard and for an hour or more just hit plastic balls back and forth to his hearts content.

These are from Jason and Mo's first trip of the year to Cascade. He got his very own set of clubs and played the entire 9 holes!

Getting Bigger

Hard to think our Miss Livi is almost 1! She is such a character and brings so much joy to our little home. As of now she's has her two bottom teeth in, has got crawling down pat and is working on pulling herself up on things and if she's brave enough lettig go to see uf she can stand-not bad for 6 weeks premature. She loves music and will start dancing and jumping anytime she hears it.

She and Mo have the cutest little dynamic. He can always make her laugh and loves to read her books. The funniest part is how she treats him. Whether it's smacking his face, pulling his ears or grabbing a hand full of cheek (as you can see) he just laughs and plays along.