Congrats Julia!

My Goddaughter & niece received her 1st Holy Communion last weekend! We were so happy to be there and celebrate with her!

Receiving Jesus' body, blood, soul, and divinity!!! She looked beautiful in her dress and veil...a bride of Christ!

Congratulations Julia!

Keerun's Wedding

Yesterday was a beautiful day spent helping the bride on her wedding day!

Everything was just gorgeous...especially the bride!

A few of us were blessed to see the big reveal...so fun!

(I didn't take any photos during the Mass.) We stopped at Carmela's after Mass for a drink. The college girlfriends plus Keerun's sweet sister!

Anne, Keerun and I had such a great day together! We had some good laughs and it was just lovely to see first hand how happy Keerun is!

Indian sand art to greet guests at the reception. 

The boys haven't been to a wedding reception other than when they were babies so they had tons of fun learning about it and eating and wishing for cake. 

Hopefully our last photo as a family of four. I'm due a week from tomorrow. 

Cheers and all our best Mr. & Mrs. Huppert! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!

April Fools Day

Today we did a few art projects while Augustine was at school. I forget how much Lewis likes art because I'm so used to Augustine who couldn't care less about it. 

He loved gluing feathers onto this plate. No particular reason we did this...just an interesting texture and he loves glue. In the background you can see he also made a turtle and a peacock. He also cut up a plate, again for no particular reason other than he loves to cut paper. 

We made a HyVee but it wasn't much of a game...just a mess. They weren't into it. 

Grandma Kathleen stopped by with a surprise for the boys! Look at that face! The kid loves those rescue pups. Lewis still wears a 2T in swim suits or else the pants are too big. Augustine is graduating to a size 6 and I just can't believe it. 

And last but not least we played a little trick on Daddy. We covered this with foil and put it on the stove. :) Thanks Angelyn for the harmless joke idea! Even my joke-hating eldest son thought it was quite funny. Logan decided to take it to the neighbor's house who is our landlord and offer them some along with the rent check. Said landlord made a big deal over the joke (because he's fun like that) and proceeded to take a bite of one and chew it up. Apparently, Augustine was giggling and Lewis couldn't believe his eyes!

History, According to Augustine

Augustine asked why we celebrate the Fourth of July. I'm pretty sure this came to mind because he was thinking about the (new to him) bike he started riding the other day, which reminded him of the Fourth of July parade. 

So, Logan explained the holiday to him over dinner last night. When he mentioned it is America's birthday, Augustine thought hard about it. Then he asked how America started, so I asked him if he knew who sailed the ocean and found America. (We didn't go into the complicated part about how there were already people here.) He didn't skip a beat in answering my question and said, "Jim Wilson!"   

Um...no. 

A Few Things

Augustine drew up some blueprints of a house he decided to build out of boxes. He confidently found five big boxes at the grocery store and brought them home for the project. Some of the detail on his blueprints are the best I've seen him draw so far...the Windows, dining room table, and door. 

Lewis thinks it's funny to put any pair of shoes on except his own when I ask him to put on shoes. 

I don't usually let him sit like this on the back of the couch, but he was very serious about studying whatever truck was outside that morning. 

They love taking the car in for repair because they get to play trains. It's a dirty, discussing table with only 4 train cars. I take a full bottle of sanitizer. 

Fr. Kishore from India is at our parish for a year and he is the sweetest priest. Everyone loves him. He often walks the 'hood and stops to chat or play with the kids.

No cavities! But he was upset because his train conductor badge he picked from the (super crappy quality) prize shelf broke when we got in the car. Shocking. 

No cavities! He was just irritated that I wanted a photo. His "wowie wormie" (big worm) is his new favorite. 

Happy Easter!

After doing absolutely nothing for Lent with the boys this year (way too pregnant to care about activities, sorry) I did a little bit for Easter.

We had breakfast together Easter morning. Each boy had some little treats in their basket. 

Banana bread is a favorite in our house so I made that, and the boys dyed hard boiled eggs on Holy Saturday, which we all actually eat, so they went fast. 

Augustine slept in on Easter morning, so Lewis and I made resurrection rolls while Daddy told the Easter story. 

We uncovered our religious art and crucifix. It's tradition to cover art, statues, crucifixes, etc during Holy Week to keep our focus on the Lord's Passion. You will see this done in Catholic Churches. The Stations of the Cross are not covered because, obviously, they help us focus on the Passion. 

We then went to Mass, ate lunch and took naps. The rest of the day was spent celebrating with my family. Grandma Kathleen was going to join us too, but wasn't feeling well...we missed her! Lewis helped prepare the twice baked potatoes. My mom made a delicious dinner. 

Cousin Kolya played fire fighters and he was awesome at it! The kids were so happy playing with him...as usual. It was a lot of action so this was my best photo. 

We also played Easter Jeopardy and the kids were super into it! They knew the Easter story well, so they got almost all of the questions answered correctly. Forgot to get a photo. :(

On Easter Monday we made stain glass window crosses at home. Augustine made his all blue. He made two of them. 

Lewis decided the tissue paper needed more cutting, so he made a huge mess shredding it, and then made a stain glass window. 

Happy Easter!

Together, a lot

My photos have been Lewis-heavy lately, but he's still home with me all. the. time. and he's at that funny age where he just doesn't stop. 

He made me a LOT of "luddul pizzas" when we made fresh playdoh. They are on a pan to be put in the oven. He informed me they cook for five. 

I did this fine motor activity with Augustine when he was three and got the same reaction. They both filled the skewer with Cheerios one time and then couldn't have cared less to do it again. 

Again with the scarf stuffed in his shirt because he has a "baby in me tummy". This time "me baby pop out, need milky" so he sat down to nurse his "baby".