It's been a long time since I've found some real downtime to blog - The kids are sleeping and Aaron is in LA on business for the week. So here's a recap.
April/May/June 
Elaina and Nolan had a great birthday! Nolan turned One and Elaina 3. She had a blast making her birthday cake, and Nolan loved eating his cake! Our house was filled with family and friends, and the noise level was high.
Nolan starting walking in early April, but really didn't master it until mid May or so. His eyes filled with excitement one he was able to walk without falling.
July/August/September
We took our first Family of 4 vacation this summer. We spent 12 days taveling the East Coast and Mid West. A family wedding took up to New England - so beautiful, and we had a wonderful time visiting family and enjoyed a great wedding. While traveling we made sure to do something every day for the kids. Our last day on this leg of the trip we spent the day in Boston, and took the kids to the Children's Musem in downtown Boston. Seriously the best Children's Museum we've ever been too!! I wish it was in Seattle! Both kids had so much fun, and so did we!
Our second half of vacation was spent in Chicago visiting family and friends. We had so much fun! The kids loved the Chicago Aquairum and the Zoo! Oh, how I have missed things like that. We staying with Aunite Biskit for a few nights (thanks again) and we stayed in the city for a few nights - at a great hotel. I was so exicted I got to spend time with my girl, Brooke and her family. I have missed her dearly, and hope we can see each other again soon.
While we had a great time, we have to give props to our kids! Lambs and NoNo traveled so well. I thought we'd have some rough nights with them - all goes with travel and small children - but really, they were wonderful. They adapted to every place we stayed (several hotels and homes) without any trouble. Lambs' favorate thing to do was to make a 'princess bed' loaded with pillows and keen-kits (blankies) and thought it was so special. NoNo just slept in each crib like it was home. Truely, they did so great.
Nolan did get sick while we were in Chicago - so sad - he just started thowing up one night in our hotel - just after Aaron and I got back from a date (Sissy was watching the kids) (thanks again, Sissy!) It was so sad to see him jsut not feeling good. That night he was sick a few more times, and the next day we took slow and didn't do much. He was sick on our last day, which was a family BBQ at Aunt Biskit's house.
All in all, we had a wonderful, fun-filled vacation, and I can't wait to see what we do next as a family.
August was a month to note. Our sweet Lambs woke up one morning and told me 'mommy, I'm all done with pull-ups'. That was it - it was awesome. Really, she had only been wearing them at night for the last few months, but I guess that was it. It's the coolest thing - I love that she's such a big girl! Now - if we could just get NoNo started on the potty training now - haha.
September 8th - Aaron turned 34. I successfully pulled off (for the most part - haha) a surprise party for him. It was so fun to be out at a bar, play darts, pool and enjoy some drinks with family and friends.
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