five.

Cole turned 5 today. five. FIVE!!! I know it's just five, but you would have thought my baby was leaving for college!!!. . .Five is a milestone--there are no more babies in our house, we're moving on! everyone is getting to be self-sufficient {kind of}, it' just a new, but different stage of life. Enough of this. . .

Back to my FIVE year old! He had such a super day. . .of course, he had a little celebration at school and then had a "Mario Party" with his friends in the afternoon. The boys at this age don't really care what they do at the party, they just love to be together.

Cole's birthday dinner pick was Qdoba, yUM! He loves their queso chicken burrito :).

5 things we LOVE about you, Cole:
1. your tenderness both inside and out!
2. your passion for cooking :)
3. your ability to "play with the big dogs" {the big brothers}
4. your dark brown eyes & glasses!
5. How much you love your "lanky" and obsession of "melling" it!

you never know. . .

what could happen in the future:

baby einstein

On Sunday, the kids got out all of our old Baby Einstein videos. . . It used to be that when Luke was a baby, we would sit and watch these videos with him. . .as we added more kids to our family, the videos became my 5:30 pm baby-sitter {the dreaded "witching hour"} so that I could get dinner on the table by the time Terry came home. There is just something about them. . .the music, the toys and of course the soothing voice of Julie Clark!
All of this to say that on Sunday, each of the boys picked out their favorite baby einstein video and watched them together. Amazing how it brought back a rush of feelings, i love the sweet memories!

basketball for grant

grant had his first basketball game this weekend. . .always so fun to watch kids play a sport for the first time. . .we love the free humor!! with that being said, he played a SUPER game and we can't wait for next week!

finally

it seems like they boys have been waiting since november for enough snow to play in. even though it wasn't packable snow. . .they were content to play outside for a few hours--before the arctic freeze set in.

mommy cards

I just added a new collection of "mommy cards" {aka business cards, contact cards, play date cards, daddy cards, tween cards, grandma cards and the list goes on} to my site: MoritzFineDesigns. Check 'em out!

kwik kleen

My laundry room has never been decorated. . .do you decorate a laundry room? Six years in our house and I have never quite figured out what color to paint it. Turns out that our new neighbors are gutting their kitchen and they are giving us their kitchen cabinets that match ours to use in the laundry room. . .this was motivation to FINALLY get it painted for a bit of a make-over. Part of the make over is having one wall of pictures. . today we headed to the Kwik Kleen Coin-Op for a few photos. My super great college friend Traci {Traci Falder Photography} was in town and snapped a few silly shots--just perfect for the make-over!!

the goo

We call him "the goo." All I wanted was one sweet picture. It took about 12 shots to get one good one. I think his name suits the personality.