Three of a kind: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Vacation Part 3

Part 3--Memorial Day Parade

When my Step Mom Joann told me that there was a Memorial Day Parade downtown that would last six min. I just laughed. I thought what the heck, I'll bring the boys. I thought Ethan would enjoy it....and he did! The Parade lasted maybe three minutes, lol. It was nice that the small town even celebrated with a parade because in Seminole I don't know of a parade!?!

When we went down town the parade was about to start so we just parked on the road and jumped out of the car. The police car was the start of it!

Tractor Float

Boy Scouts

School bus??

Girl Scouts

Fire Fighters

Marching

Fire Truck and Ambulance

Fire Truck

Ethan and I

That was the End of the parade!

************More Parts to come**********

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Vacation Part 2

Part 2--Justine's Graduation

Beware for all of you who are located anywhere else than Iron River. This graduation was like none other that I've been to. Please keep in mind that this is an EXTREMELY small town. The graduating class of 2010 had less than 70 graduates. I will explain to you their process as you view the pics:)

The graduation was held at their football field. This is not attached to their school at all that is why you see a park and cars wherever!

What a beautiful baby if I do say so myself!

This is one reason why I pre-warned you. Only in IR does the guest speaker show up on a 4 wheeler. I guess this is a guy that works at the school who's son died riding a 4 wheeler last year:(

Aidan clapping with Aunty Lisa

Ethan was trying to find Aunty Justine

Look at that face, as if he was doing nothing wrong

Playing with sticks while the graduation was going on

The proud graduate getting excited that she's next

All smiles:)

YEAH!

As some of you are thinking....Why is she wearing flip-flops? They don't have a dress code so please don't think she's rebellious,lol!

And this is what the boys did. Play around:)

Ethan picked bark off the tree. We didn't sit in the bleachers cause we knew the boys attention span was slim to none. Did I mention it was hot out so the shade was perfect?

Aunty Justine meets Aidan

Justine and Alex. Believe it or not Justine is older and the Aunty of Alex:)

Incredibly too hard to get a pic of all 3 sisters looking when there were 3 cameras,LOL

The boys with their Aunty

Cousin Josh with Justine

********Still more pics to come***********

Friday, May 28, 2010

2 VS 1 on a vacation...... I was defeated!

Part I

The boys and I took a trip to go see my youngest sister (Justine) graduate. I had been very skeptical rather or not I could take the trip on, with two kids two and under. I decided it'd be best to get a non-stop flight into Milwaukee and then take a 2 1/2 hour drive to Stevens Point where my oldest sister (Lisa) lives. I couldn't imagine having a layover with these two but knew that I could handle the screams in a car. To my surprise they both were PERFECT (well as could be expected)! Ethan was in ahhhhh that he was sitting in a real plane. He even looked up at me with eyes that said, "hurry up and buckle me up." Aidan fell asleep before we took off. Thanks to Roger's cousin Kristen I had a portable DVD player to entertain Ethan. After the first hour and a half went by I finally had to put a movie in. I had packed the back pack (thanks to my Bestie Melissa--great idea by the way) full of goodies and they barely touched them. The car ride wasn't too bad. They became antsy and that's when the whining began......

We got to my sister Lisa's house and Ethan was over joyed with meeting her two dogs, Rufus and Emmy. He had turned into the two year old who could careless about the family and only focused on what he could do with the dogs. He would point to their body parts and name them and game/command he never does with me. I was excited just to hear him say the words and acknowledge he did indeed know them. Ethan also turned into a whining child. Ethan and Aidan had made a plan to whine every time I literally moved or so it seemed. I was unable to use the bathroom, shower, wash bottles, eat food, etc. without them whining. My family helped as much as the kids would let them. It was easier to distract Aidan then Ethan. It turned me into a high strung stress ball:( You ALWAYS want your kids on their best behavior, they must have know this because they were on the worse behavior I had ever seen! These two adorable boys became devil children:(

Ethan with his new best friend Rufus

My niece Alex with cranky pants Aidan

He's starting to get use to her or is it the fact he wanted to eat her necklace???

Aidan with Aunty Lisa

Since everyone but my BIL Hochey had to work or go to school we decided to put the boys in the stroller and walk down to my nephew Cam's outdoor school event.