Happy, happy birthday Aunt Mary Anne!!

We hope you have a wonderful 40th birthday!!

Love and kisses from all of us!

Sorry for such a long delay, we've been busy and I was thinking there wasn't much to post about but now that I am putting pictures together I can see there has been a lot going on.









We started with Hayley dog's 7th birthday on the 12th, she chose cinnamon muffins for her birthday treat this year. The boys picked chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting but after we explained that those would not be good for Hayley they reconsidered. Hayley didn't enjoy our singing to her but she did appreciate we didn't make her wear a hat this year and that she got to eat two warm muffins. Happy birthday sweety girl.

We ventured to East Grand Rapids to see cousin Ian swim in a meet. Grandma Cindy said they were going to go and bring Nana to see Ian swim so we decided to try and surprise them. The surprise ended up being on us because Uncle Brian convinced Grandma and Papa not to bring Nana since it was snowing too much! We still had fun watching Ian's team win the meet and had a fun early dinner with Brian, Jill and their boys.

Grandma and Papa decided to come surprise the boys this weekend and they came to see us and brought Jeff an early birthday dinner because they will be away on his birthday. Grandma and Papa stayed in the Days Inn so the boys could go swimming and they loved that! Great way to spend a cold, snowy weekend.

Red Wings they are Not!

We finally got the boys on skates today. Hockey players they are not! They thought it would be easy to just walk out there and skate away. Jonathan said he was going to skate in figure eights. In reality, they spent most of the time holding onto the wall for dear life or on their butts on the ice. By the end of the time we were there they were starting to get the hang of it a bit and made it back and forth across the rink a couple times. We'll keep practicing when the weather allows and maybe we will try an indoor rink some day too.