Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great time this last weekend, visiting Steve & Nicole in Iowa! How generous they were opening their home to us, and taking us around town (& out of town to Nauvoo for one day!) Alex and Drew made friends pretty quickly, and had a blast together. Sunday night the four of us adults sat at the dinner table talking for probably 40 minutes, while the boys played endlessly downstairs. It was so fun to hear the laughter and giggles the whole time. They're quite the little adventurists-- they figured that if they pushed the pack'n'play right up to the bed, they could climb up onto the bed, and then jump back into the pack'n'play. Smart boys :)

After a few years of not hanging out with Steve and Nicole, we'd forgotten how much fun we can have together! Nicole and I had a blast talking about anything and everything Twilight, while the guys patiently (sometimes :) waited. Andy fell in love with all of Steve's books, he could have taken home the bookshelf! We all had some good laughs and an all around great time! Thanks guys!


Here we are in front of the Nauvoo Temple. (Alex had fallen asleep in the car)


What a beautiful view! We're standing in front of the statue of Joseph & Hyrum Smith, with the Mississippi River in the background


Alex + Drew... Good Friends already! :)


The Whole Gang-- we had so much fun!

Like Father, Like Son

Drew loves his dad!! He follows him around like a little shadow from the minute Andy gets home from work to the minute Drew goes to bed. Here are some pictures of Drew 'following' in Andy's footsteps! :)


Dad's bubblegum bubbles are so cool!


Loves to walk in Daddy's shoes


Helping dad to mow the lawn, or "vacuuming"-- so he calls it :)

I've been Tagged!

So, I've never done one of these things, but I was tagged by Nicole, so here we go... I'll give it a shot!

two names you go by:
1. Kimra
2. KB (although, And is the only one who ever really calls me this)

two things you are wearing right now:
1. old jeans
2. t-shirt-- it's been a long cleaning day, and I'm grateful for this break!

two of your favorite things to do:
1. Play at the park on a nice day with Andy & Drew
2. Read Novels (although I often have a hard time with self control-- putting the book down to actually get something done, so I try not to get caught up in novels too often :)

two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. A nice hot meal to be magically made for me in the kitchen... not sure what, just anything I don't have to make!
2. My sweet child to fall asleep (he's been in his room for a while now trying to get to that point....)

Favorite pets:
1. Bogart the parrot
2. Dutchy the dalmation (I doubt Andy and I will ever get a pet of our own- neither of us are too big on them, so I'll enjoy the memories of pets from my childhood!)

Two people who will fill this out:
1. Jill?
2. Kristen?

Two things you did last night:
1. Helped set up for, run, and clean up a wedding reception at the church for two fairly recent converts in our ward.
2. Finished Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer for the 2nd time in 5 days.... yeah, I'm a little addicted! I just want more, so I figured I'd read it again, and Andy's out of town currently so I could get away with doing nothing but read all night :o) -- this might explain my #2 answer to the 'favorite things to do' question --

two things you ate today:
1. Rice Crispies
2. Granola Bar.... still waiting for that magical hot meal in the kitchen for lunch :o)

two people you last talked to:
1. Drew
2. My two piano students and their mom

two things you're doing tomorrow:
1. Spending time (yeah!) with my Andy since he's been gone all week, and gets home tonight!
2. Going to Stake Training, then the adult session of Stake Conference

two longest car rides:
1. South Beloit, IL to Tampa, FL (like Nicole said, any drive with a screaming child feels about 3 times it's actual length! We'll never drive from here to FL again without stopping!)
2. Rexburg, ID to Puyallup, WA (it's only really long when you get stranded in a small town in OR because the snow storm has caused the highway to close....)

two favorite holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Memorial Day (starting summer is always great!)

two favorite vacations:
1. Going to Daytona Beach, FL for our honeymoon
2. Hawaii with my family after I graduated HS

two favorite drinks:
1. Water!
2. Any kind of fruit smoothie, if that counts as a drink

I tag Jill B and Kristen P!

Drew's New Bed

Yay! Drew is growing up so quick! He's in his own 'real' bed now. We got a little toddler bed from some friends of ours in the ward, and decided to get Drew started in it as soon as possible. We want him to be used to it before baby comes. We've got it in his room, next to his crib for now, until the time for baby comes closer. He does pretty good in it- naps are sometimes a little tricky. He usually gets up and starts playing around, and I think the majority of the time he ends up falling asleep on the floor :o) Silly Kid.