Nicholas is THREE!!!!

My boy is three years old! He is such a blessing to our family and we are so lucky to have him in our lives. Some things that I love about him.....

He greets me with a cheerful "Good Morning Mommy!" every morning and afternoon(after his nap)
He LOVES his baby brother! Lately his whole reason for being is just to make the baby smile and he will do whatever it takes.
He can recite "Miss Spiders New Car" word for word, without even looking at the book!
He gives the best eskimo kisses
He has an amazing imagination.
On his birthday, everytime someone said "Happy Birthday Nicholas" he wished them a Happy Birthday in return!

He's a sweet, smart, fun and amazing little boy. I Thank God that I was chosen to be his mama.

His cake was homemade. He wanted a race car cake and I am NOT a cake decorator, but Maddie and I had fun decorating this..don't laugh, ok? This is the best I could do! He saw it and immediately started driving the little cars all over the cake.


This is him 3 years ago, sniff sniff......

Our letterboxing adventure

It's time I start updating this blog again, don't you think? I'll start by telling you all about our letterboxing adventure a few weeks ago. I read an old article in Family Fun that reminded me about this great activity that I had been wanting to do once Maddie got old enough. Kayla is old enough but not at all interested in searching for little boxes in the woods.

I did a little research and found www.atlasquest.com, which lists letterboxes and the clues you need to find them. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few in our area, so I picked a few easy ones and printed out the clues. Most letterboxes are found hidden alongside hiking trails and we already enjoy light hikes. Maybe this will motivate us to do more hiking and as the kids get older, go back to doing longer more strenuous hikes, which would be great for my not so girly figure!

We packed up a special bag just for our letterboxing supplies-our stamps, ink pad, pens, books, bug spray and water bottle- and headed out to the state park which happens to be only a 10 minute drive from our house.

Here are some pictures of our first find-





After we found our first box, we made our way through the park to an easy trail where we would find our second letterbox-