Gunnar's First Birthday - Part 2

On the eve of Gunnar's second birthday, I realized that I never showed the party from his first birthday!  I was so proud of it.  We worked so hard to make my vision come true.  The theme was " Time Flies" so it was all about airplanes.  Almost all of my projects came out the way I wanted and we had a great group of people to share the day with.  I hope Gunnar looks back on these some day and sees how much he is loved.

Cheers!

Here comes the photobooth!!

Half way!

I totally haven't had any pop for almost 7 months!  SEVEN MONTHS!  That's longer than Lent. I'm really proud of myself.  I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to honor my New Years resolution and make it a whole year.  But, then what?  I don't think I want to give up pop for the rest of my life.  But it would be nice to only have pop, maybe, once or twice a month?  Idk.  I really didn't think that far ahead.  Just really pumped I made it this far.  

Yesterday I decided to go cold turkey on another one of my "vices".  I'm giving up my gossip magazines.  I buy them too much and they are expensive for a weekly thing.  I'm going to stick to the 4 monthly magazines I can't live without.  I hope this forces me to go back to reading books when I travel or have free time.  I hear there's a new Harry Potter book coming out at the end of the month...

Cheers!

Father's Day 2016

I think Kevin had a good Father's Day.  It was kinda hot so we tried to do fun things outside. I got him a hammock so he had to set that up immediately and we went for ice cream at the The Parlour.  They are known for giant sized servings of everything.  It was a fun day.

At The Parlour, Little Man got his very own sundae!

I think Kevin likes his present...

Father's Day pic.  This is the new spot.  (Until I plant some flowering tress by the house :)

Mother's Day 2016

Despite Schueler's restaurant trying to ruin my day, I had a great Mother's Day weekend with my boys.  Kevin took Gunnar out and gave me some time to unpack and organize, which I really wanted to do.  My gift from Kevin was new gardening supplies.  We have a pretty decent size piece of property that we own now so I want to make it shine.  I've planted a lot so far and am really proud of it.

I've also been waiting for the day of school project gifts and that day arrived on the Friday.  Waiting for me on the kitchen counter when I got home were three gifts from Gunnar!  A marigold planted in a Styrofoam cup he decorated with stickers, a picture frame with a poem and a picture from school, and a "mom's first aid" kit in a Chinese food container.  

My heart totally exploded.

Cheers!

Mother's Day pic 2016

"Art project!"

April RAoK

Still not doing so well with the RAoK.  I just freeze when I want to do something.  Am I going to offend someone?  Interfere with some plan they have?  I don't know.  Being kind shouldn't be this hard...

1.  Gave my Aldi cart to another customer.  Didn't take the quarter back.

2.  Tried to be nicer driving.  Let people get in front of me at driveways. 

3.  Leaving tips for good customer service...even when they really didn't do anything.  (carry out)

Cheers

March RAoK

For March, I had a really big random act of kindness and some small ones.  The really big one was I paid for a WWII veteran's prescriptions when I was at CVS.  I was disappointed that his daughter was not going to pay for them.  So I did.  No veteran should have to cover medicine, ever, in my opinion.

The second was small.  I picked up a guys coat that fell off his chair at a restaurant.  He was at the bar and completely oblivious to it laying on the floor.  I've also been trying to be nicer while driving.  You know, letting people in front of me at driveways or changing lanes.  

Baby steps.

Cheers.

Happy Easter!

We had some drama getting up to Easter, but I'm so happy its here!  Gunnar had an Easter egg hunt at school and then we tried to see the Easter Bunny.  That didn't go too well so we didn't get a pic.

On Saturday morning, we went to participate in the Jackson College Easter egg hunt.  It wasn't really a "hunt", more of a "pick-up".  The kids and parents in Gunnar's age group did really well.  Most of the parents we just following their kids around and holding baskets for them.  Gunnar really liked picking the eggs up, opening them, and dropping them to the ground.  He was putting eggs in other people's baskets and tried to take some one's (he didn't have a baskets, just a paper bag they gave us). We had fun and it was free.  We then tried to see the Easter Bunny again.  This time went much better.  I think Gunnar was having so much fun running around outside and the mall that he forgot to be scared by the giant bunny.

On Easter Sunday, we had brunch with my mom where Gunnar had another Easter egg hunt.  But, unfortunately, he was too late to get the goodies in the eggs.  They went to a very resourceful squirrel.  He did get a bunch of chocolate cake so I think it worked itself out.

Happy Easter!!

The Kendi Haus

Easter egg hunt at school

   

Here's a video of Gunnar's first big Easter egg hunt.  It was so fun with all the kids and parents.

New Easter tradition?

New toy from the Easter Bunny!

Easter Sunday egg hunt at Busia's

He loves cake!