It's been a while...

I know, I know... it has been over a year since my last post. I have no reason other than I just did not do it. We have had a fun year sinc the last time you heard from us. Max turned 4. We moved! We bought a larger house with a yard. It is actually kind of funny that the house ended up not even being in an area that we were looking in but it was perfect. Max played soccer in the fall. It was really fun and crazy to watch. Most of the time he and his friend Baylor did thier own thing on the field. We took the boys to St George with my family for a little get away. It was very nice. The boys did great on the drive, I must admit I was worried about it. Chirstmas was great, as usual. Cael turned 2 and is growing up way too fast for my liking. He likes to do everything that his brother does. Taryn has traveled to some pretty amazing places for work. He has gone to Papua New Ginea and South Africa in the last couple of months. Currently we are loving the spring weather. Max is playing t-ball, which is such a hoot. I love it! Taryn is playing baseball. We have not made it to his games yet due to nap time conflicts. Don't mess with Cael and his naps! Max is also gearing up for kindergarten this fall. He will actually be attending the same elementary that Taryn and I went to! I am still teaching and trying to stay sane these last few weeks of school. Here are some pictures!

The boys 

 Cael was not too impressed with Santa

 Max and Santa. This was at the daycare Christmas party after the cutest program!

 Cael blowing out the candle

 Playing in the snow in our new yard!

Max at T-ball. He just had a good his and got to 1st

Weddings by Max

I gave Max my camera to help entertain him while we were at all of the wedding festivities. He loved it! He took over 100 pictures. Most of the pictures were of legs or 10 pictures of the exact same thing, but I loved seeing the wedding through his eyes.



Silly Mommy



Cael and Grandma Nette

Grandpa Craig

Self portrait...Although I am guessing someone helped him

His movie (There were literally about 20 just like this)

Grandma Glo

Uncle Alex, Aunt Natalie and the flower girl

Fabric on the chairs

Stained glass above the doorways

Daddy

Floor and moldings

So if you are in need of a wedding photographer with a unique perspective...Max would love to help!

Uncle Al and Aunt Natalie

 We had the opportunity to be a part of Alex and Natalie's special day last week. It was beautiful. Max and Cael were ring bearers and they looked so cute in thier little tuxes. Cael kept his jacket/vest/tie on long enough to have them be on and then he promplty took them off, screaming the whole time. He did not like them! Max was better about his becuase Taryn and all of the groomsmen were wearing thiers. There were a couple mishaps with the ring bearers 1: Cael refused to walk with Max, so Taryn had to carry Cael and escort his bridesmaid at the same time 2: Max was moving so slow he needed to be helped along by Collin, the best man. The wedding was beautiful and we are so excited to have Natalie officially a part of the family!

Alex and Natalie during the ceremony

Max actually posing for a picture (he posed himself)

Taryn carrying Cael the ring bearer

Max needed a little help to get down the isle...

February

Max actually smiling for a picture! He loves to say cheese whenever we take a picture but that usually leads to him making a weird face. Either that or he is so excited to see the picture he is running to the camera before it is finished =*blur*

Moustache

Partners in crime! I was telling Taryn how amazing these new little markers were that I got for the boys and how washable they were. Taryn decided to put it to the test!

Cael fell asleep during our Valentines Day dinner. We had a pink/red theme. We had strawberries, Pink heart shaped pancakes and pink milk. Max loved making valentines and getting candy.

Cael munching on a sucker he got in his Valentine box at school.

Fighting Daddy! All of the boys love to wrestle. I like it because it wears them all out. When Taryn is out of town the boys go through withdrawls over wrestling.

Taryn spent almost 3 weeks in Perth, Australia for work at the end of January/beg. of February. Tough job right?! It is summer down there and so it was 90 degrees, on the beach, holding koalas and feeding kangaroos. Granted he was there by himself, but...it was Australia. I didn't feel too bad for him.  Since he got home he took me out for a fancy night away from the children! It was great! He even planned all of it from Australia, babysitters and all. Such a sweet hubby. I have just been teaching and spending time with my boys, lovin' life!

Iron Man!

Max loves super heroes. Loves loves loves them. So when we heard that Iron Max was going to be at the Safe Kids Fair over the weekend we decided to go. Max was enthralled and listened to everything that Iron Man said about being safe. It was cute. We also saw lots of animals, police and fire, playgrounds and more. We really only did things while we were waiting for Iron Man. Sad to say but we were there for one reason, but the boys loved it!

Cael having fun!

Cael Pictures

We had Cael's one-year pictures taken last week by Nicole Ekberg. She is still editing but she posted a couple of them on her site, http://www.photobynicole.blogspot.com/ .I am biased but I think that they are pretty good. Cael was such a trooper too, it was so cold when we took the pictures! I am so excited to see all of them!

Family Pictures

Back in September (I know that this is a bit over due) we had family pictures taken. I think that they turned out pretty darn cute. They were taken by the talented Nicole by photobynicole.blogspot.com check her out. She is awesome. She did a great job working with the boys. We were at Wheeler Farm and we went places I didn't know existed there. Thanks again Nicole!

Boys in an old truck. I love it. It reminds me of my Grandpa Burnett's old truck

Max. He did not hold still for one picture but all of the pictures of him totally captured his personality

The Family

Cute Cael. He has changed so much since these pictures. I can't believe that he will be one on January 2!

Max and Cael

Well I thought that it was about time to update the blog. I am so on top of things right?Anyway, Things have been good here with us. Cael is growing like a weed. He can walk/run anywhere that he wants to go. He know how to go up stairs and I am trying to teach him how to go down. He waves and can say a few words. Lately Cael has decided that he likes the camera and likes to have his picture taken. So we now have a ton of cheesey smiles from him. He loves it.

 Here he is with the Christmas tree. He totally likes the lights and gets so excited when we turn it on.

 Here we are building gingerbread houses at Great Grandma Burnetts. It is a super fun tradition. Max really liked eating all of the candy and likes to look at the house that he and Daddy built.

Max is actually smiling in this picture. Max usually hates getting his picture taken but now that Cael likes it, he is not so opposed to it. Check out the cheesey Cael smile. They play together pretty well. Max shares pretty good and Cael just wants to get in on all of the action with whatever Max is doing. They get so excited to see each other in the morning. Max is getting so big. He is so smart and is learning so much at his day care with Miss Sarah and the gang.  We are still working on potty training. This kid is stubborn. Taryn has been traveling and school is going well for me. So until something exciting happens or the next post.

Max Golf

Looking at the waterfall at Mulligans

Yes I let him throw rocks in the water

We took Max mini golfing this summer and he really liked it...for about 2 holes. Then he got board but he entertained himself by throwing rocks into the ponds and climbing the large rocks that separated the different levels of the course. He totally loved it and keeps asking when we are going to go again.

Summer Fun

Max and Taryn mini-golfing

Max sitting in the SWAT truck

They both actually really liked the Dino Museum

Cael getting ready to swim at Cherry Hill. Cael is quite the little water baby, he never wants to get out of the water!

No he did not eat this, but he really liked the taste.

So long time no blog. Yeah, I know it has been awhile but he have been busy. We had so much fun with the boys this summer. We went to the zoo, Cherry Hill, mini golfing, and boating just to name a few. Max even rode on the tube while we were boating and loved it! He also realy liked "rescuing" the people from the water.  The boys are getting so big! Max talks up a storm and says the funniest things, he is also working on potty training. Cael is cruising everywhere, crawling, eating and babbling up a storm. Max and Cael like to play together (most of the time) and it is so cute when they do. They laugh and hold hands and I totally melt. But they are brothers and we have already had fights over toys and stuff like that. Best friends and worst enemies.

Summer!

Here in the Herrera household we are loving summer! Time at Daddy's baseball games, going to the zoo and the aquarium, Wheeler Farm, Dino Park and lots of outside time. I have had to go to a couple classes for school this summer and one of them was woodshop. It was awesome! I made some great stuff and now know how to properly mantain and use the tools and machinery in  the school shop. Taryn has had to go on some trips for work and the latest one was to China. Usually his work is very good at giving plenty of notice but this time he got less than 24 hours. He was the only one with a valid China work visa, lucky him! With no school I am trying to keep up on housework and get some overdue projects done (organizing stuff and a bunch of sewing and quilting projects). The boys get along so great! Max is so cute with Cael  and Cael adores his big brother. Max is talking up a storm and it is so fun to converse with him and amazing to hear how much he knows and understands things. Cael can sit up by himself, he likes to feed himself. I don't let him feed himself too often just because I don't want to clean it up, but I do let him help me. It seems to go so much better that way. Cael has also cut his bottom left tooth and the one on the right is on its way! So life is good here, just the way we like it!