Happy Easter!!

What a FUN Easter this year!! :) We celebrated at home with our daycare friends during the week and then headed to Ida Grove to celebrate with family!

Dying Eggs...

Nina Wilson's House...

The Easter Egg Hunt was inside... since it was cold and wet outside! 

Nina & Papa Hamann's House...

We had dinner, an egg hunt and gift opening at Nina and Papa Hamann's! The Edsen's were there too!! The kids had a blast during the hunt!! :)

We hope you all had a HAPPY EASTER too! :)

Tucker (Lover)

We have had a really tough couple of weeks at our house! I am sad to report that we have had to re-home Tucker. :( He has always been a little hyper... which we coul deal with, but now he has started growling at the boys and trying to nip them when they are anywhere near his food... and we just can't have that! It breaks our hearts to do this... we have never had to find a new home for one of our furry friends, but we all know that this is the best thing for our family and for Tucker. Luckily we found a nice couple in West Des Moines that have no children and can focus just on Tucker! Our trainer is going to continue to work with Tucker and thinks the environment change will calm him down and eliminate the behavior issues. - - we hope she is right! Lucky for us, they give us updates now and then on how Tucker is doing! :) That helps a TON!

It has been the hardest on Mommy and Parker... but we have decided that down the road we will try to get another cock-a-poo again!

Parker is such a dog lover... and since Tucker has been gone he has written many stories and drawn many pictures about his puppy! :( Time is helping, but is sure is sad without Tucker here. Parker has already came up with names for another puppy someday!

Here are a few pictures of our cute little Tucker.

 

Here is our last picture of Tucker and Parker... this was the day we took him to his new owners. Before we dropped him off, we played with Tucker at the park and gave him lots of kisses! We sure miss our puppy! :(

Happy Birthday DREW!!!

We celebrated Drew's 1st birthday at the Ridge Pointe Pavillion Park in Waukee with family and GREAT friends!! It was such a GREAT party... we had lunch (bbq beef, chicken strips, fruit, veggies and dip) and then cake and ice cream. My friend Kim told me about a lady who makes AMAZING cakes... so I ordered the cake from her... and was so pleased!! It not only was ADORABLE, but delicious too! :) She even made a little basketball smash cake!! So cute!! :)

While we waited for everyone to arrive... the kids had fun outside playing on the equipment at the park! :) (Jessica & Kyle and Parker & Owen)

Here's the BIRTHDAY BOY!!! Our cousin Candi Ladwig @ http://thevinylstudio.com/ made Drew's cute little shirt! :) THANK YOU Candi!! :)

A Family picture...

More of the BIRTHDAY BOY...

Getting LOTS OF LOVE...
Reese & Drew

Hallie & Drew

Mere & Drew

 

Getting a little tuckered out...

Singing Happy Birthday...

Not real sure about the cake...

and then...

He dug right in.... and BOY was it GOOD!! :) Drew LOVED cake... more than Parker or Owen! This boy is a CAKE LOVIN' MACHINE!!! Seriously!!! He ate his ENTIRE smash cake and then most of my piece too! He couldn't get enough! He kind of gets a little crazy when he sees cake!! ha! LOVE HIM!!!

The Pinata...

Opening Presents...

His NEW chair from Nina & Papa Hamann :)

Time to GO!!

Our little monkey was WORE OUT! :) He had such a GREAT time at his party, but his crib was calling his name... and within about 2 minutes of sitting in his carseat he was out!

THANK YOU everyone for helping us celebrate Drew's 1st Birthday!! He is such an amazing little boy and we are so THANKFUL to have him in our family! God has blessed us in so many ways, but today... our favorite blessing was celebrating the life of our little baby boy! We LOVE you so much Drew Isaac Hamann! HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY!!

Our Little 1-Year Old!

For Drew's actual birthday... we took him to Build-A-Bear to make a new friend to cuddle with! :) His big brothers helped him pick out a cute little puppy and they named him "Drewby Doo"!! Afterwards we went to Buffalo Wild Wings... another idea of his big brothers! It was Wednesday night, so it was kids night at BWW and they always have some type of FUN entertainment for the kids. Tonight was a clown that made balloon animals! Drew and Parker both got puppies and Owen got an adorable frog! :) It was a fun night celebrating Drew's first year... it went by WAY TOO FAST! The REAL party is Sunday, April 17th! 

1 year ago today...

Today...

At Build-A-Bear...








At Buffalo Wild Wings...