Silly boys

Since I'm on such a roll, I figured I'd get one more blog typed up.  Here are a couple of cute videos I wanted to share.

Bowling

Last night we went out as a family bowling.  This was Gregory's second time bowling and Joshua's first time.  We all had a great time.  As always, Tom did not "let" his son win.  Gregory was content with his 2nd place finish and my 3rd place finish was with Joshua's help.

Ritter Chocolate Factory

This past week we visited a local "tourist" attraction--the Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory.  Gregory LOVED it!  It was a very interactive museum and there was FREE chocolate.  We can't wait to have some visitors so we can take them there.  Maybe next summer.  Of course we picked up a "little" chocolate from the store there (as you can tell by the bag Joshua was carrying--it was little). :-)  And some our family and friends were fortunate enough to get some for Christmas!  Afterwards me and the boys went and enjoyed a yummy lunch at a new McDonald's (less than a month old).  They had an awesome play area and if you follow this link you'll see a few pics from the play area.  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Getting ready for Christmas

So the weekend after Thanksgiving we got busy and got everything organized enough to bring in some new boxes.  Christmas decorations!



We've been enjoying the lights, the tree, the nativities, the chocolate advent house, the advent nativity scene that I made at MOPS a week or so ago and the Christmas music!

The boys have been dancing to the new Toby Mac Christmas cd lots and we even made sugar cookies together.  They were so yummy!  I'll share a few dancing clips in a different post sometime.

Thanksgiving 2011

This year for Thanksgiving as with all the others we had much to be thankful for.  It's always unfortunate how sometimes it takes struggles to remind us of how blessed we are.  Nevertheless, I am thankful for the reminder.

I am thankful to have my husband home and with us (not deployed especially).  Also, I have known quite a few people who have lost their spouse this past year.  So it's wonderful to have him here with me.

I am thankful for my family (on both my side and Tom's side).  Even though we are an ocean apart, we are only a phone call or skype video call away thanks to technology!

I am thankful for my boys.  Even though they are more and more work every day that goes by, I love the hugs and kisses I get from them and the smiles the bring me.

I am thankful for our apartment.  Even though it's smaller than where we were in Colorado, this is way better than some of the other places we've seen on base.

I am thankful for the few new friends we've been making here in Germany, thankful for the old friends here in Germany and thankful for the friends we've been able to keep in touch with even though we are so far apart from them.

I am so thankful to have TWO vehicles again!  It's really chilly here in the mornings especially.

We had plenty of food on the table, fun crafts to make, even the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and we topped it off with a fun trip to IKEA at the end of the day.

Click here are a few pictures to see how we enjoyed the holiday... http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Impact 2011 - Belgium Youth Retreat

In my previous post I said we've been busy, busy, busy.  One of the things in our lives that kept us a little extra busy was planning for and participating in Impact 2011.  This was a retreat for youth put on my the International Baptist Churches in Europe.  We attend one of those churches and attended a different one when we lived up in Ramstein.  We've kept in touch with our friend Jan Horak, who is the youth pastor at Faith Baptist in Ramstein so this is how we got roped into helping...just kidding...we were invited to help and loved helping!  Unfortunately, I was just getting over being sick with bronchitis and Tom was just getting sick when we were leaving.  So the whole weekend Tom wasn't feeling real well, so he didn't have as much fun as he could have, had he been well.  So Tom was in charge of the recreation time (games) and I was in charge of the food (for about 100 people).  There were many challenges during the weekend, but we did our best and came out happy to have gotten to enjoy the time away in Belgium in spite of the challenges.

Some of the highlights of the weekend...
-Gregory got to pretend to be a teenager for the weekend :-)
-Joshua got to hang out with mom A LOT in the kitchen
-Joshua also got to help make 7 cakes and 6 pans of bars before we left for Belgium
-Gregory got to help peel 48 apples for some of the applesauce we made at home to take to Belgium
-Got to see an old friend from a retreat about 4 years ago...when we had the same speaker
-Got to make new friends - had wonderful people to help in the kitchen (about 6 adults)
-Got to stay in an OLD Chateau...it was so crazy and beautiful there!
-Like I said Tom was sick, but he enjoyed using a megaphone, especially since he was so hoarse.
-Most importantly 8 youth committed their lives to Jesus Christ!

To see more pictures, go to our shutterfly website and to see even more pictures, listen to some of the messages and read some of the youth comments go to these websites:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IBC-Youth-Impact-Fall-Retreat/199974680079930
https://www.facebook.com/events/179351518814328/
http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

We've been busy...so let's catch up

As always, we've been busy...busy unpacking, packing and unpacking.  In the past three months we've taken four trips to Ramstein (2 hours away), one trip to Belgium and numerous trips to the grocery store :-) 

We've gone to Ramstein to visit our good friend's Jan, Ginger and kids, celebrated Tom's birthday, visited my other good friend (Jean and her two boys), had another good friend take some pictures of us at a castle for our Christmas pictures (Thanks Anna!), stopped through on our way to Belgium, and most recently for Tom's medical appointments. 

Of course there has been much unpacking of boxes going on in our house and last night we may have unpacked the last boxes (other than some large pictures).

The boys have had lots of fun playing, coloring, pretending and just being boys.  Joshua loves coloring.  Gregory loves legos.  Joshua loves being in the kitchen helping with dishes and making cakes and brownies.  Gregory loves dressing up like a doctor and says he wants to be a doctor like Uncle Bryan when he grows up. 

Here are a few recent pics.

A cheap adventure day

So today we set out on an adventure to find a pumpkin (to cook) and some apples (to eat).  We found both and even more!  We went to where there is a "self serve" wagon to buy fall items and there is also a self serve flower field when they are in season.  So we picked out a pumpkin after wandering around the flowers that are in season.  Here are a few pics from this part of our adventure.

And then we set out to find apples.  We didn't know for sure where we were going, so we drove out to Robinson Barracks (about 1/2 hr away) and didn't find any "state/city" apple trees.  It was a nice drive with all the fall colors.  So we set out to come back home.  We were just outside the gate to go back on base to head home when I looked over at the "park area" outside our base and noticed APPLE trees (and a few pear trees).  We drive by them EVERY day multiple times a day!  So we parked and hopped out and got a few apples, played at a fun "natural" playground and visited with an Oma (grandma) and her enkel (grandson).

On the way home Gregory asked me what does "spiele" mean?  Very cute and even enunciated correctly.  He has been learning so much German.  I think the Oma was talking to Gregory and that's where he picked it up, but then also he was asking "how do I say I want to play outside after Joshua's nap?"

It was so funny to find APPLES right outside our base, now to find some more so we can make some applesauce!  I can't wait!

Gregory starts Preschool

An event as big as this deserves its own post...

Here are the pictures from the big day.

What we've been up to...

We've been in Germany a little over a month and we've been in our apartment a little over two weeks.  We are still at most two weeks away from getting the "rest of our stuff".  I can't hardly wait!  Not sure what I am most excited about...having OUR microwave, or OUR bed, or just a simple pair of scissors.  Sometimes it's the little things that matter so much! 

So what have we been up to?  Well, Tom is the easiest one to start with...he's been working.  Not a lot, but long hours when he is working and we've sure missed him whenever he's not with us during the day.

Joshua is the next easiest, he's been busy playing, getting into trouble and following his big brother around where ever he goes.

Gregory has been enjoying Germany lots, but still missing his best buddies in Colorado.  There aren't too many days that go by when he doesn't mention something about someone in CO or he's flying his airplanes to Colorado or just remembering good times we've had when we were in CO.  Gregory LOVES preschool.  He's been learning about the letter "O" and he has a wonderful teacher that is helping him learn.  We've also attended the same church for two weeks in a row and this has been a big deal for Gregory.  He's enjoyed learning here as well.  There's been new songs, new friends and crafts (his favorite).  Today I loved to hear Gregory telling Joshua, "Goliath, you cannot defeat me!"  And then yesterday Gregory was quizzing Tom about all kinds of bible facts like, is there a story about Moses when he was a baby?

And then there's me.  I have been meeting new people trying to find new friends through MOPS, PWOC (Protestant Women of the Chapel), hanging out at the park, church and any where else I meet women.

This move has been a difficult transition for our family, but we have so much to be thankful for...most importantly, we are together as a family. 

Here are some pics that have been bringing smiles to our faces, hope you enjoy them as well.

Germany Part II

After leaving MO we headed to Atlanta, GA for our first leg of the trip.  There we spent a night and then left Georgia for Germany.  The flight from MO to GA was uneventful as was the flight from GA to Germany.  We were so thankful the boys behaved and weren't too frustrated by being confined to their seats.

Of course there were little "issues" once we got here in Germany, but overall God has for sure been with us and helping us as we are adjusting.  It's very different here in Stuttgart than when we were in Ramstein.  Of course having TWO boys is one of the biggest differences.

We got our van pretty quickly after getting our licenses, so that's been nice.  We've taken a road trip up to Ramstein already and got to hang out with some wonderful friends (Jan, Ginger and kiddos).  It was nice to get to spend a couple of days with them.  Such dear friends and wonderful to catch up with them.

We are in our apartment.  It's way smaller than our house back in COS, but it's bigger than our last place at Ramstein.  We are anxious to get the rest of our stuff so we can really make this feel like home.

The weather here has been great (warm and cooler days), so we've spent LOTS of time at the various parks all around.  Gregory has found kids to play with most everywhere we've gone, although, he does realize they aren't his "friends".  So that has been hard for him with being as social as he is.  He misses his wonderful friends from Colorado for sure.   

Another big thing for us since getting to Germany is Gregory has started preschool two days a week.  He has gone two times so far and is loving every minute of it.  The main reason for him going isn't for him to learn tons, but to learn to listen in a structured classroom setting AND to learn some while he's there.  Kindergarten will be here before we all know it (a year from now!). 

So there we have it, I'm closer to caught up!  Next up will be to get some pics of our new place online, but for that we'll wait until all of our stuff is here..in a few weeks.

MO Visit

After our goodbyes in Colorado we got to spend some time with Tom's family in Missouri.  It was a great time!  We spent lots of time with Tom's mom, Betty.  Me and the boys enjoyed spending more time with her this time than any other visit, so that made it especially nice. 

We got to spend time with Tom's sister and her family as well.  So the cousins enjoyed more time together since we had seen them earlier in he summer.  We were so thankful that we got to see all of our family before we left for Germany.

While with Betty, we took some time to get some pictures of the boys with their Grandma Betty.  Joshua and Gregory both had no problem warming up to their grandma that they've only gotten to see a few times.  As always, Gregory had lots of questions for grandma and Joshua was just thrilled to show off and eat crackers.

In preparation of leaving the USA

As my faithful readers know (you are out there right?) we were preparing to move to Germany this summer.  (Since I'm writing this from Germany--we made it, but here's a little blogging about what happened before we got here.) 

Soon after our trip to ND it was time for us to leave Colorado, so we had a wonderful get together at It'z with so many of our friends we spend so much time with while in CO.  It was one last time to hang out and have a good time together...especially for Gregory to have wonderful last memories of being with his friends.  We had yummy food and played lots of games and took many pictures.  Our goodbyes were not fun, they never are.  We hope to keep in touch with those close to us, but we also know they are busy and we are busy too...so we'll do our best (at least with Christmas letters/cards).

As always, pictures at our shutterfly site.

ND Journey (from last month)

One of our most recent adventures / vacations was to North Dakota (this was all before leaving CO for Germany). And boy was it an adventure. 22 hours one way straight through with a few stops (bathroom, gas and meals!). We didn't plan on doing this trip straight through, but that's how it ended up due to our lack of planning and being a little too optimistic. I couldn't believe that there would be no vacancy in towns like Dickinson and Bismarck...there wasn't. So we pressed through and made it to my parents by 730 am on Friday (after having left at 10 am on Thursday from Colorado Springs). 


Our time in ND was so awesome. We got to see and visit with so many relatives. My sister planned an awesome family reunion for my dad's side of the family and then my sister-in-law and my sister planned an amazing 40th Anniversary celebration for my parents the same weekend. And on top of that it was my brother's 20th High School reunion so a lot of our friends from our youth group were in town as well. Talk about jamming it all in! 


This all seems so long ago as I type this sitting in our hotel room in Germany...I cherish each and every memory as I look through the HUNDREDS of pictures. I don’t think I want to start listing all of the special memories or I might never finish this post.  This was Joshua’s first time being in ND, Gregory’s first time being with all of the Vilhauer cousins, Tom’s first time riding in my parents Model A, my first time enjoying as many raspberries from my parents garden as I wanted — of course the high light was still being with all of my siblings (and their spouses and kiddos and my parents and so many others).

As I said already, there are hundreds of pictures, and there is no way I can pick just one...but if you want to wade through them, here’s the link http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Beth & Rob's visit

Once again I am behind in my blogging, but this time I feel it is justified with being so busy :-) So at the end of June we got to have Tom's sister, Beth and her family visit us for the first time in CO.  Not only was this the first time for their visit it was also the first time any of Tom's family has been able to visit him since he had left home.  I realize there are circumstances that prevent the others from traveling, so for those of you who haven't made it to see us, I do understand, but I also want Beth to hear how special this visit was to us.  (So Betty & Lorrie, please don't be offended by this.) 

While Beth and Rob and the kids were visiting we celebrated Beth's birthday, Mark's birthday, played with lots of water (balloons, squirt guns, slip n' slide, etc.), went to Focus on the Family and played, went to Garden of the God's, visited Petersen AFB (saw where Tom works and the amazing aircraft on base), and tried to go to a baseball game (but it was stormed too stormy out for us).  The kids all had tons of fun playing with lots of toys and enjoyed each other for the most part :-)

As always, there were lots of pictures taken!  You can see more here...  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Incredible Day - Oh Happy Day

Even though we have been having a great and eventful weekend with family...I have to interrupt my posts and go out of chronological order for a moment.  Please forgive me, but this is a biggie!

Tonight Gregory asked Jesus into his heart!  We have talked about this various times and had conversations with him about this too, but tonight he seemed to get it more than in the past...so we are considering this "the day" Gregory asked Jesus into his heart and asked Jesus to forgive him of his sins.  When we told him that God and the angels were having a big celebration since he asked Jesus into his heart, he said, really?  They are?  And I told him, yes, they are.  So proud of Gregory and his decision.  Now we have the even bigger job of helping him to understand this each and every day.  We were talking afterwards about what it means to be a "follower of Jesus" and how now you need to tell others about Jesus and how he loves them too and Gregory replied by saying yeah and I can tell my friends that I asked Jesus into my heart!  Gregory's friends...you know who you are and he loves you all so much.  As I am typing this I am sad to think about leaving Colorado and the memories we have made here, but am so thrilled to say that in Colorado, Gregory asked Jesus into his heart.  I could write so much more about this, but I will leave it at this...thanks to everyone who has helped teach Gregory about Jesus and how much He loves him.

Summertime fun

It sure is summer around here...finding stuff to do with water is always a great idea :-)  We've found some other things to do too.  We celebrated Father's Day a week ago, have played t-ball in the backyard, chased some beautiful butterflies in our backyard, read lots of books, went to our very own dinosaur museum in Woodland Park and more!

Today Tom is doing day one of driving our van down to TX to ship it to Germany.  So today I took the boys on a little journey into the mountains where Woodland Park is.  We explored at the dinosaur museum there.  Gregory has been loving dinosaurs since we saw them when we were in Arizona at the Natural History Museum.  So today we enjoyed them again.


Next week we are looking forward to spending time with more family!  Tom's sister, Beth and Rob and kids will be arriving on Wed night!  Can't wait!

Oh and of course there's new pictures here...  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Gregory - the explorer

Most of you will not notice this "little" change to the design of my blog, so I want to take this time to bring it to your attention...Gregory's title has changed from "entertainer" to "explorer".  Gregory LOVES to explore...not sure if this is the right word to use to explain the changes going on in his little head, so I will use more to explain it.  :-)

This week we were talking about science "stuff", so when I said we were going to the library Gregory asked if we could get some science books and movies.  Of course I found some good ones and when we got back from our doctor appointment on Thursday it was too late for Gregory to take a nap, so while Joshua was napping we had fun.  My sister would be so happy about this kind of fun!  Developing Gregory's love of science.  We did some simple experiments and talked about science.  Gregory said, "I love science!"  Another thing my sister would be thrilled to know :-)  My sister is an aerospace engineer and any time she hears of someone leaning towards her love of science it makes her happy.

I am sure there will be more experiments to come with my boys and I am looking forward to the fun we can have with them too!  Can't wait to make a volcano and see it erupt :-)

The more I keep Gregory busy the happier he is and the better I feel about the time I am spending with him, I am glad the dishes wait and the laundry waits for me.  I know that time will not stand still for me either, so I need to make the most of the moments I have with my boys.  Before I know it they will off running around with their friends, not hanging out with me in the kitchen cooking or experimenting :-)

As always, more pics at our shutterfly website...  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Our trip to Arizona

This past week we finally made it back down to Arizona.  It was a hot time to be there, but we knew we had to get down there now knowing we couldn't put it off any longer with our upcoming move to Germany.  We went down mainly to visit Tom's sister and her family and we get the bonus of seeing my aunt and uncle and three cousins when we head down there too.

Our trip started out a little crazy with spending THREE hours on the runway in Denver before our two hour flight to Phoenix.  It gave us a little taste of what it will be like on our LONG flight over to Germany in a couple of months...we need to find some more toys to bring with us I think :-)

While in Arizona, we got the privilege of hanging out with our three great nieces and nephew...at their favorite place...the mall!  Gregory got to go in a Lego store and a Disney store for the first time, so he was loving it too.

We went to the Arizona Natural History Museum as well and looked at dinosaur bones mostly and then enjoyed Night at the Museum 1 & 2.  It was a fun time and it was great that Tom (our brother-in-law) was able to take some time off while we were there and it was nice that Lorrie (Tom's sister) was done with work since she works in a school.   

Gregory and Tom got to watch our nephew Ian practice his karate and Gregory also enjoyed playing with Ian and his legos. 

Joshua loved the attention from Casey and Samantha!  Too bad the cats didn't love Joshua's attention :-)

We also spent some time swimming in the pool at our hotel, but most of our time was spent inside in the air conditioning since it was so hot and windy.

It had been 3 years since we had last been there so the kids had all changed so much.  It was fun to hear about what's going on in their lives and to share with them what's going on in ours.  We wish we had more time to spend with them, but we take what we can get.  Due to safety concerns I don't have any "public" pictures of us with them at my sister-in-law's request...but I do have a few pictures which I can share from our adventure at our photo website here... http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com

Like I said earlier we got to see some "extra" family while we were down in Phoenix...my aunt and uncle and cousins.  These are the ones that I got to spend weekends with when growing up (when they lived in Minneapolis & Nashville) before I was married and before their kids had grown up much.  We enjoyed dinner together and hanging out.  Gregory will remember aunt Laurie reading lots of books to him and Joshua will be able to look back at the pictures to remember uncle Lyle being silly with him.  Blake, Brady and Brennan were around too, so it was nice to catch up with these guys as well. 

As always it's nice to get away, but it's also nice to get home too.

Changes coming - heading back to Germany!

So most everyone who knows us by now knows that we have a move coming up in our future.  In August we get the pleasure of moving back to Germany!  We are pretty excited about this change and excited for where we'll get to go, what we'll get to experience and what God will be doing in and through us while there this time around.  We know this time will be significantly different having two boys (where we left with one little guy back in Jan 2008).  Gregory will start school there; Tom will be working with AFRICOM (Africa Command); Roxanne won't be working at all (I got to work for nearly 3 years when we were in Germany last time); and Joshua, well he'll be experiencing it all for the first time!  We know there will be tough times (being so far from family will be the biggie), but we also know we will have fun adventures too!  So the next couple of months will continue to be busy with appointments, traveling to see family before we leave and sorting through our accumulated belongings :-)

Please be praying for us during this transition and we'll keep in touch.

Gregory's 4th Birthday

It's now been a couple of weeks since we started celebrating Gregory's 4th birthday.  We started on his actual birthday, this was the first time Tom wasn't in town for the actual day.  So me and the boys celebrated all week with birthday meals and birthday fun!  He got presents on his birthday and the day of his birthday party, so he was definitely blessed!  Since his birthday was on a Wednesday we took a special treat to share with his friends at church.  Earlier in the day we went to Chuck E. Cheese.  Both Gregory and Joshua had a fun time.  Tom got home from San Antonio on Friday night and Saturday afternoon we had the birthday party.  Here are some of the highlights from the party.
-the homemade pinata that I made of and was VERY proud of :-)
-having a few special teenagers come for the party...one of Gregory's favorite babysitters, the other one couldn't come.
-having friends from MOPS and from our "regular" church.
-having YUMMY homemade ice cream that I made earlier in the day.
-Gregory got to have some of his best buddies come for his birthday party.
-He also got some wonderful new toys!  More Toy Story characters, a Toy Story play tent, Toy Story Yahtzee Jr., Sequence, a Buzz Lightyear wrist toy, a Star Wars Nerf gun, a Star Wars Light Saber, Cars race cars, a new game for his Smart Cycle, the Color Wonder Sound Studio, a Woody guitar, a Toy Story Hot Wheels track, a subscription to National Geographic for Little Kids, a chef hat and apron, an Etch-A-Sketch, sunglasses, a Cars marker kit, a Cars backpack filled with lots of fun stuff.

We have lots of pictures from another fun birthday!  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Here is one of the birthday boy!

Christ is still Risen!

This past weekend we celebrated Easter.  It was so much fun to hear Gregory talk about what he was so excited about.  He kept repeating it over and over and over again.  "I am so excited about Easter 'cause we get to celebrate God and Jesus".  He doesn't quite get the trinity concept yet :-)  We try to focus on what Easter is all about and enjoy some of the other fun things too.  I wanted to do the Resurrection eggs with him and to make Resurrection cookies, but that didn't happen this year.  Maybe next year. 

We had an Easter party at a friend's house on Friday and got to enjoy all the fun activities of Easter...dyeing eggs, decorating cupcakes (and eating them too!), watching a movie about the real meaning of Easter (a movie about Jesus as Gregory puts it), and an egg hunt outside too.

Then we went to church on Saturday night as a family since Tom and I both had other commitments (at church) on Sunday.  We heard an interesting sermon from our wonderful pastor--it was from a different perpective--Paul (Saul) with the Easter story woven into it.  If you want to hear it, check out our church's website.  http://www.radiantchurch.org/ 

On Easter Sunday we woke up to SNOW!  Crazy Colorado as we call it.  We only got about a half inch and it had melted by the time church was done.  Tom was doing the sound for our Jr High service and I was helping with greeting at church.

After church we enjoyed a wonderful meal with our friends, Jake & Kathryn, their twin boys (age 3), their 3 month old baby girl and many of their family.  Jake and Kathryn are friends we have much in common with (Jake helps with youth at our church, Jake is military, Kathryn is a wonderful friend of mine).  We have shared a few holidays and birthdays with these dear friends.  We had an egg hunt after eating lunch together.  The four boys had a great time finding lots of eggs...and Joshua even snuck some dessert when no one was looking :-)

We are so thankful that our Lord and Savior did not stay dead and in the tomb, but that He rose from the dead and is seated in heaven.  Yes, we had fun with Easter silliness, but we are forever grateful for the "real" meaning of Easter.  Thank you Jesus for what you did on the cross for all of our sins.

As always, there are new pictures :-)  http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/ Stay tuned for more blog updates as this week we celebrate Gregory's 4th birthday!

Tourists in Denver

Today we went enjoyed a "family day" and went up to Denver to the Aquarium for the first time and the Children's Museum for the second time.  It was a wonderful time for all of us.  The only thing that would have made it better would have been to go see the Cubs and the Rockies play, but it is way too cold for baseball today!  We'll hold out for watching the Triple A Cubs team next month when they play the Sky Sox just down the street from our house :-)

As always there are new pictures (and a few videos on facebook) to go along with this fun day.  Enjoy!

Joshua's First Haircut

This past weekend we finally got Joshua's haircut for the first time.  There are no more curls in the back :-( He still hasn't lost that baby look even with a fresh haircut...those chubby cheeks are still there too :-) We got his hair cut at the same place Gregory got his first haircut and in the same fire engine, too.

Celebrations

This is a month of celebrations for our family...it's the only month with multiple things to celebrate, that's why I say that.  So far we've celebrated my 36th birthday and our 9th anniversary of meeting each other (Tom & I).  For my birthday we enjoyed HuHot Mongolian Grill for dinner and for our anniversary Tom and I went to the Melting Pot.  Both of these were the first time we went and enjoyed them and hope to go back again some day! 

Our next celebration will be Gregory's 4th Birthday!  That will be on April 30th, so after that I will post about it.

Welcome Spring

We are enjoying some spring weather and the boys are both loving being outdoors.  Here are some of the cute pictures we took the other day...there are more at our shutterfly website.