Year: 2013

This last week, the boys’ Great-Grandma Evelyn Pendleton passed away.  We’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with the boys to understand who Grandma Evelyn and Grandpa Dick are.  The younger ones don’t fully comprehend her passing away, but Ricky cried when we told him. Maybe it isn’t that they don’t comprehend, […]

Billy also got some love from his California aunts.  He was a spoiled birthday boy! Billy’s “most favorite color” is red.  I believe he says it that way because he doesn’t want the other colors to think they aren’t his favorite…red just happens to be his MOST favorite. Billy calls himself a carnivore.  It is […]

Billy wanted to turn 6.  He was anticipating it like a 15 year old waiting for their birthday to get their license.  I don’t know what was so magical to him about turning 6, but he was excited. He had a fairly low-key birthday.  He got to take treats to school.  He wanted chocolate cupcakes […]

Having the last two little boys just 15 months apart felt like it was going to kill me at times. There are lots of fun moments when they are just so cute together and since I always wanted twins, it kind of feels like that. But … There are the other moments.  The screaming and […]

The boys love having the family over.  And I mean they love it.  They ask when is the next time we can have people over and they count down the days and get all excited asking who is coming and who isn’t … so we do family dinners fairly regularly. We try to do one […]