A weekends dose of Vitamin D

The weather has been gorgeous the past couple of weekends.

Hands down the best time of year in NOLA.

We have spent the majority of of our time outside.

Nothing like a healthy dose of vitamin D.

It does the body and soul good...

The boys received lots of cool new toys for their birthday.

I hold them back and over time give them one at a time.

That way we always have something new and fun to entertain them.

Newest toy?

The stomp rocket.

Fun for kids and dads alike!

This toy held Griff's attention for a good and LONG time.

Prepare for blast off!

That rocket sure can fly.
Didn't take long to figure out that it goes REALLY high
if you jump on it with 2 feet.

So sweet.
Big bro helping little bro out.

Thanks Emma for such a cool gift!

My pal Al watching his brothers play outside.

Yesterday Satch had school so we headed to the North Shore

 to meet MiMi and Pop for a crawfish boil/ 50th birthday party.

This right here...

So worth the drive!

I knew there would be a bouncy thing.

What I didn't know that it was a water slide.

Didn't have swim suits for the boys, but I did have extra clothes in the diaper bag.

Good enough!

This baby had a ball!

This guy right here also had the time of his life.

The difference that a year makes.
Here he is flying down the big slide in a swimming pool
and loving ever second of it!

MiMi and the boys

Too delicious not to put a second pic up!

Young and not a worry in the world.

My city boys sure enjoyed a little time in the woods.

I love this picture.
Baby Bear entertaining himself with a train
while I finished up some birthday gifts.

Today after church we headed out to another birthday party.

We all had lots of fun!

I love the effort that the birthday boys momma puts into her kids parties.

She is one of my favorite momma party planners.

The decorations are always really cute and made with lots of love.

Everyone ready to sing "happy birthday" to the very special birthday boy.

Baby bear was a hot, sweaty, brownie eating boy!
Their back yard is huge and my baby spent the entire party
cutting the grass with the toy lawnmower.
He was in Baby Bear heaven!

We rounded out the weekend tailgating in the driveway.
I'm not exactly sure why, but they liked it.
The neighbors... not so sure! :)

Just for fun one more dash through the sprinkler.

A walk in the park

I picked up the boys this afternoon and the weather was way too pretty to head home.

We made a little pit stop to our local park.

(ahem Satch... I may have an alterior motive here)

*Doesn't this park look like a LOVELY place for a birthday party?!?*

Anyway, the boys had a ball and ran off a lot little energy.

As usual they were a hot mess by the time we got back to the car.

Once home it was straight to the shower before dinner.

This was not the simple job of just washing the hands.

They were both in need of a full body scrub!

Oh how I love that spring is just around the corner!

Here we are on the swing.

They loved swinging with me because we went high in the sky.

I guess the smiles make it pretty obvious...

My big boy was in heaven.

"Higher Mama, HIGHER, HIGHER!"

The boys made some friends along the way.

Griff wanted to show his friends how much fun it was to swing with his Momma.

Gotta love when your kid still thinks that you are the coolest!  

Baby Bear  loves swinging high in the sky too!

Glad I captured these moments.

I will keep them in my brain forever.

They also really enjoyed chasing each other through the tunnels.

Here he comes!

Sliding down the slide together.

The boy with the $1,000,000 smile.

Oh how I adore both of these little people...

Hello???

Where have we been?

The answer is quite easy...
We are outside and enjoying every bit of this beautiful weather.

Swinging,
playing in the dirt,
running through the sprinkler.

Just being boys!

The most wonderful time of the year...

Spring is in the air.... Can you feel it?  I just love this time of year for so many reasons.  Everything is beginning to burst with color after the muted tones of the winter are fading away.  Yesterday we soaked up this awesomeness at a birthday party and today we whipped our yard back into shape.  I will say with 100%  confidence that if you came over and sat under our arbor you would not be getting up any time soon.  Unless of course it was to fix yourself something refreshing with an umbrella in it.  ;)  Thanks to Satch for putting so much love into our home and yard.  Gotta love a man who takes pride in everything that he does.      

My beautiful angel

Roman was thrilled spend the day outside.

G loves that brother.
The best kind of kiss, an unsolicited one.

Why? Because he CLEARLY does not get enough to eat.  ;)

My big boy acting all "3" and stuff!

Make a wish...

Cake time!

3 in the blink of an eye.

Nothing like a boy and a puddle.

All of the kiddos had spring fever too!

Climbing that "mountain."

Thanks to my boys for such a great weekend!  Looking forward to a spring-time filled with sunshine, fun, and outdoor festivals!