Date night

This weekend George and I had the opportunity to spend the night at the Amway Grand Plaza for the Military Ball. We had an OUTSTANDING room, and a fantastic night!

March

March was a month of finishing up birthday celebrations and playing with LOTS of new toys! At all of the parties, George wanted NOTHING to do with the candles.

Ok..by party #2 he was even a bit bored with the whole idea. George definately does not hide his emotions!

Lilly devouring her prize from the Chuck E Cheese party with family. I think she had about 2 licks and it has sat in the pantry ever since...not a big candy eater...but had to have the sucker!

Thanks to Mrs. Lisa at daycare, Lilly has been sporting some beautiful hair while she is working on growing her bangs out!

Happy Birthday...and SNOW

Lilly turned 4 last month and has 2 more parties coming up (shared with her brother since thier birthdays are only about 3 weeks apart). She is very excited about this extended birthday celebration!


In February they also got to spend some time with grandma and grandpa and the SNOW!

A Big Month

February has been an eventful month, but thankfully things are slowing down now for us.
Last weekend we moved George's crib into a "big boy" bed. He gets in and out of it all day when he is playing, but still stays in bed and cries in the morning. Every morning I have to remind him that he can get out by himself now.....hmmmm I think he might be playing me for the extra hugs and kisses!

He wasn't super happy with us crawling into bed his first night because he wanted to continue playing. So far he has yet to get out of bed in the middle of the night...however I remember with his sister those awful nights of walking her back to bed every 20 minutes so I'm sure those nights are yet to come!

I am realizing how red his hair looks though after looking at these photos!

Things must really be slowing down now around the Rollins household. Don't they look so bored!

Being silly on the couch...just wait Dr. Jekyl will turn into Mr. Hyde very soon. George is one of the moodiest kids I know...from this to screaming tears in a matter of seconds. I'm not so sure that the girl of the family will be the dramatic one for us.

How to make an airplane fly

Bubby's rendition of how to fly an airplane (...lots of our ornaments are planes so you can imagine the fun we had watching this!)

1. You always must make the "pshew" sound and fly the airplane updside down.

2. Then even out your plane at the bottom of the turn.

3. Finally he should take a corner sideways (just a little "pshew" sound this time).

Ahh the joys of attempting to take Christmas photos again this year...they each seem to be saying hmmm...how can I get out of this?!?!

You kidding me you're taking more pictures mom..how's this?

And last, but not least the ....mom if you take yet another picture I'm going to scream!

Halloween Fun

Our first Halloween in our new house was a great one! Lilly was Princess Aurora, and George was a St. Bernard

Ready to get some candy! Holding the gourds they picked out earlier this month, and the "toys of the day". Lilly has her buffalo and George has...the hairbrush...the pink one of course!

And yes, the brush even had to go trick-or-treating with us. Not quite sure what the fascination was that day with the hairbrush, but for some reason he would NOT put it down!

They made it about an hour, which was around our block, and then we were pretty cold.

George wasn't too big of a fan of the pumpkin carving although he LOVED dropping the scooper in the pumpkin and asking us where it went.

The finished projects. Lilly asked not to make too scary of faces this year.

This was the first year that Lilly really got into helping to take the guts out.

Vacation

We had a GREAT time on vacation this weekend! We spent the first two days at Avalanche Bay in Boyne Mountain and then two days in Frankenmuth. Sorry for the order of the photos, I still can't figure this thing out!
Yesterday Lilly and daddy got to learn the story of pretzels and make some of their own. They tasted GREAT!

At first Lilly didn't like the waterpark, but later on that night she warmed up and even rode on the water slides with daddy!

This is as close as Bubs would come to the water. Most likely due to the loud horn and large spray of water right when we got to the waterpark...mom's bright idea to take him down the water slide probably didn't help matters either.
The hit of the Frankenmuth hotel was the play area. All weekend we heard "I see you"!

On our way home we stopped at Uncle John's Cider Mill to get our pumpkins, donuts and cider for the year. 72 degrees didn't feel like pumpkin weather though!

Riding with Kermit..the hit of the arcade. Even better when there aren't any coins in and it is sitting still. The fear in his eyes is that it might start moving again! However, when it is off he didn't want to leave!