A Needed Update (and a lotta pictures)

Sorry, it's been a while....and a lot has gone on.  Let's see, where to begin?  Kris was gone for 2 1/2 weeks-and I am not going to lie, it was hard, really hard. But the boys and I can do really hard things, and we did.  We survived, and we missed him so much. 

We survived things like....teething. Inserting extra pitiful picture now-

I don't remember a lot about Abram teething-except that the top two were the WORST.  As is with the Reese miester.  So I tried what worked with Abram, tylenol +

So we are one down, one to go.  Kris was out of town for the teething experience, I am wondering if he planned it that way.....hmmmm.
Kris came home, then I got to go

with 3 ladies I didn't know very well.  We talked very easily and I enjoyed making friends with them.  In many ways, it was exactly what I needed.

We also went to Ohio to see my family.  Myself, the boys, my Mom, my Sis, and my cute Nephew went for a long weekend.  My Grandma isn't doing too well, and because of circumstances with the kiddos we didn't get to see her :(.  It was nice to see family, unfortunately we didn't get a lot of pictures.  Now that we all have kids, it's harder to take pictures.  In fact, now that I think of it, we were very close to being outnumbered.  But the boys had SO much fun.

Abram got a VIP tour of the local fire station being that 2 of my cousins are fire fighters/EMTs.  However, because of the cold, the doors were all closed which caused the trucks to seem really big and the station to seem really small.  Abram was a wee bit traumatized.  Then the lights were turned on, Abram said, "That's not too scary." And then the horn was honked (Shawn) and Abram lost it.  It stinks because I think had the doors been open he would have done fine.  And my cousins had opened all of the trucks and ambulances for Abram and Kate to look through.  There were fire suits laid out to play with, etc.  The nervous breakdown was interrupted by a call, so the ambulance had to leave.  I was worried of the consequences of this, however, Abram just yelled, "Oh no! Somebody's in trouble! They are going to save them!" and that was that.  In the car he said, "That was a little bit scary, but when I get bigger and I am a firefighter than I can drive the truck and it won't be scary."  

Today we went here.

It's pretty famous, it was on the Simpsons ya know.

You don't realize how big it really is,

until you are inside.

The black speck next to the tree beside the road is a person!

Then we found a pretty sweet park (prepare for pictures of cute kids overload).

I wish I would have got on video him yelling "Thiiiiiiiis iiiiiiis awwwwwesome!!!!

The best part? We beat the rain.