Ben's 1st Birthday!!

Sam and Emily are playing the drum that Ben got for his b-day. They are so cute!!

Ben loved his balloons

Ben got a monster truck from the Klinghamers. It's really cool.

Sam got a cool hyper-color football from Nana

Ben is trying to figure out if he wants to eat the strawberry shortcake or not. He just played with it and ate some of the cool whip.

The Boys!!

Ben loves to eat the purple sand :)

Sam's morning creation during Ben's naptime

Sam's new football. He bought with money he saved. He is quite the athete. He can dribble a basketball, kick a soccer ball, throw a football, and frisbee...we haven't tried baseball yet, but he wants to.

Cute Ben

Ben loves to read books!!!

Sam plays in his sand with Ben.

Happy Birthday, Sam!

This is another B-Day pic of Sam. I thought it was a great picture. Wendi took it, and I just had to put it on our blog, too.

Update March 31, 2009

Big Daddy played at the park with Sam, during his last visit. (notice the classic Big Daddy grimace on his face...it is priceless...)

GREAT pic of Aunt Aaralyn and Ben!!

Big Daddy hanging with the boys.

Ben is into EVERYTHING these days. He crawls, pulls up, walks holding on to furniture...won't be long before he is walking.

Sam had a Birthday Party. The theme was "Cars". He still doesn't like icing, so I baked individual cupcakes and left the icing off of his :)

Action photo of Aunt Aaralyn and Ben. We love having Aunt Aaralyn come over more frequently, now that we live closer.

Ben is a mess after gumming a teething biscuit

Emily and Sam are so cute!!! They have a blast playing together!! Thanks for visiting Emmy!!

Sam and Ben are sporting their new p.j.s that Nana bought them. Ben was not being very cooperative and so Sam had to wrangle him.

Ben LOVES his bath-time.

Sam got a new guitar from Nana. He had been wanting one for a long time. He plays it and jams out with the best of them. His favorite song on it is "love shack" :) It is really cool. It even has a whammy bar!

The boys. (not sure what Sam's cheesy smile was all about?)

Sam finally got some sand for his sand box.

Ben is showing off, how he can unload the dishes.

Snow in March!! Sam made "a yot of snow ansels"