Then: Mother's Day 2013

I was so fortunate to be able to spend my first Mother's Day as the mother of two with several of my very favorite moms! My parents happened to be in town for a visit, so we had my mom, Marc's mom, both of Marc's grandmothers, and the mother to my awesome nephews there to celebrate. Instead of spending the day chasing down all of these moms around town, Marc and I decided to have them all over for a cookout. It was a beautiful day, and a good time was had by all. One special mom who couldn't be there in person was my Grandma Colwander, but we were fortunate (and still are) to have her in our lives at the time since she began hospice services two months prior. Lots to celebrate last year, that's for sure!

The 4 of us

Gorgeous Grandmas!

Michigan visitors

Trying to get a pic of these two...

then getting photobombed by these two...

THEN getting photobombed by THESE two!

Grandma Carol explores the new swingset with Jack

Then & Now: Eggs

Then: Since Jack and Sam are both August babies, they were both too young to go on an egg hunt on their first Easter. But unlike Jack, Sam was able to tag along (in the Ergo, of course) on a couple egg hunts. Their nanny, Alyssa, took them to the same nature center egg hunt where Jack had found the special egg the previous year, and I brought the boys to the park for the quickest egg hunt of all time. Jack was in the first group to go, and since it was a chilly day and it was just me and the boys, we took off immediately once he had finished. Sadly, I don't have any photos of the egg hunts this year, but I did take some pics of our Easter egg decorating, at least!

Sam checks out some Easter stickers.

 

We had a surprise visitor while decorating!

Jack paints an egg.

Still painting...

Checking out the final product.

Ta-Da!

Now: I brought Jack and Sam to the park on a beautiful sunny day to meet their cousins for the annual egg hunt. It was a bit of a longer event because there was a kid in our family in each age group. Thankfully the weather cooperated, so it was a great day to hang out in the park. We also had a lot of fun decorating eggs this year. Each year the kids are more and more into it, and it's fun to look back and see how their decorating styles (and mine!) have changed.

Sam scopes out the best eggs.

Jack and Kasey watch a helicopter fly over.

And he's off! 1st egg hunt complete.

Jack and Kasey are in this chaos, somewhere!

My boys

The kids decorated their eggs in the morning after dying them with Mommy and Daddy the night before.

Jack spent a ton of time working on this one, only to have it crack at the end. He took it all in stride, though!

This year's batch.