Brody's last Baseball game

Brody had his last baseball game a few weeks ago. Grandpa Dave, Sabrina and Lily were there to support him. Unfortunately things got a bit busy and I wasn't able to get pics of everyone.

The game went really well. At the end Brody was asked to play in the All Star game the following week.

The All Star game was the best ever! So close in score, but in the end Brody's team won. Mr. Schnurstein (Catrina's Husband), Mom and Dad were both there to see how well Brody did.

Brody we are so proud of how well you played this season and look forward to watching your skills grow in the coming years.

Cohen was showing off his one handed eating skills while the teams warmed up

Not sure what Cohen was pointing at, but he definately had Grandpa's attention

Peek A Boo

Here Coco is sporting a nice new outfit Grandma Sondra got him while she was on vacation down south. He looks so adorable. The only bad thing is the white shorts aren't typically so white after a day of him scadoodling around the house.

Coco has also figured out how doors work. The only problem is he learned while in the room by himself and I couldn't get the door open without pushing him out of the way to get in.

Vacation Part 5 "Random Pics"

The first few pics were ones that I had taken and then played around with. These kids are so photogenic.

The next generation

Cohen started working on standing up. He doesn't quite get it but is getting better everyday

The many faces of Coco...

I don't think he was as much into taking pictures as I was at that moment.

My boys :)

This was the first we were able to pin Brody down long enough to get some pictures. He was a busy boy.

My Mom and Mama (Grandma)

Mama's homemade coi fish pond

The bluest eyes you have ever seen.

Vacation Part 4 "The Dogs"

This is Cody Papa's dog. He was such a sweet boy especially around the babies. Cohen loved sitting at the slider and playing through the glass. This morning while he was sitting there he said, "Dog." It was so cool to hear him say another word other than Mama and Dada.

What a face! How could you not fall in love with Mama's dog Princess the minute you laid eyes on her?

My cute little sausage roll.

Vacation Part 3

Cohen and Noah had a great time playing with Ally's Dora The Explorer tunnel. Although Cohen couldn't crawl through he did manage to Scadoodle through it just fine.

They are holding hands...how cute?

Cohen was trying to find Noah

Vacation Part 2

Brody's 1st visit to Waffle House! We had a great experience from the minute we walked in the door. For those of you who have been you know there is very limited seating. We of course had to wait, but enjoyed some coffee in the mean time. We then got our table and had the sweetest server ever. She must have called us all baby and sweety a million times. The best part of course was the food. Not one of us walked away hungry. Cohen did decide to spread butter from his eggs all over his head which resulted in his hair actually laying flat for the first time!

During our stroll through downtown Charleston we came across a cute general store type shop that specialed in moon pies. Yummm! Against his will I made Clayton pose for a picture with his. :)

Cohen's favorite food from our trip were Cheez Its. They seemed to be the only thing to make him happy on the long drives we had.

1st Road Trip

First and foremost I want to apologize, but there may be multiple posts from our vacation. It is a pain to try and get it all into one.

Here is a rundown of our trip which started 6/4 and ended 6/11:

Thursday - left at 8:00 pm for Charleston, SC. I started our drive. Clayton and I proceeded to switch back and forth for the next 16 hours. I of course got stuck with the worst part of the drive. The West Virginia / Virginia mountains in the dark while it was pouring down rain. Not fun at all!Friday - arrived in Charleston around 1:00 pm. My Aunt, Uncle, Cousin and Mom were there to welcome us. We had a wonderful homemade dinner of shrimp and grits courtesy of my awesome Uncle. After dinner we put the kids down and Clayton and I headed out to explore Downtown Charleston. I was able to show him all the little landmarks that I remembered from my childhood. Although I remembered alot of things there was so much more there. What a beautiful little area. There were so many restaurants / bars / art galleries. They had cobblestone allys between the buildings. I definately suggest Charleston for a quiet long weekend get away.

Saturday - My other Cousin Jason and Grandparents came in for my Cousin's graduation from high school. Wow what an experience that was. It was held in a colesium. There were over 500 graduating seniors. Thank goodness for us my cousin was 7th to walk the stage. After the graduation we all met up for dinner and a marvelous local seafood restauarant where I proceeded to eat my face off!

Sunday - we left around 9:00 to start the 2nd leg of our journey to Augusta GA. Of course we had to stop for breakfast at Waffle House. After breakfast we got on the road. Luckily this part of the trip was short. Only about 2 1/2 hours with all of our stops.

Sunday - Tuesday - we spent this time at my Grandparents house. Just relaxing, enjoying family and eating a ton of food. We got to see my Aunts and Uncles (Jeremy, Kathy, Lori and Tommy), Cousins (Christy, Justin, James and Eric) as well as the newest generation of the family (Noah, Ally & Olyivia). Every day was spent in and out of the kitchen cooking that evenings meal and eating leftovers from the day before. I really like sitting out on the back deck taking in the beauty of my Grandmother's back yard and gardening skills. She would tell me what everything was and the story behind many of her flowers. Oh and of course sipping sweet tea to entire time.

Tuesday - unfortunately for us we got a call from my in-laws on Monday that my FIL had a stroke on Saturday. He is doing ok, but we decided to leave a day early and stop to see them on our way home. I am surely glad we did. He was so suprised when we walked it that it made the trip well worth it. This part of our trip went from 9:00 pm on Tuesday to 8:00 am on Wednesday when we finally arrived in Columbus OH.

Wednesday - I actually left the kids and Clayton with my inlaws and went exploring their shopping area in town. How fun! They have everything there. I hit up Trader Joe's and The Container Store (best store ever!!!)

Thursday - we left around 9:30 to start our trip home. Long and rainy but at least we made it safe and sound.

I would have to say our vacation as a whole was a success. I admit we had some struggles with the baby at times, but when looked at with the correct perspective we realized it could have been a whole lot worse. He kept to a schedule the majority of the time and didn't really hate the car ride until the last 2 hours of our trip home. Everyone was so excited to see the kids and we miss them all already.

They look happy...can you tell we were just starting our journey?