Raising the Raines Rascals

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A little of this...A little of that...

Dressed for Revival:

We had revival meeting last week at church and one night before we headed out the door I took a few pics of the boys dressed for church. I thought they looked so handsome!

This one looks like Landen is kissing Ethan on the head ;)

They are silly!

Silly Boy in Shades:

We came in from playing outside one day and Landen was filthy so I put him in the bath. He had been wearing his brother's sunglasses outside and didn't want to take them off...

A Day at the Park:

On Thursday, we spent a little while at the community park. Josh's grandmother was over for the afternoon and the boy's had appointments for haircuts, so we just made an entire afternoon out of it and went for lunch at the boy's favorite place (McDonald's...of course) and then headed to the park to play.

The swings were Landen's favorite!

...sliding!

It looks like Ethan is choking him (but notice L is still smiling)!

He looks SO grown up in this picture!

Father's Day 2012:

For Father's Day this year, we got Josh a new gas grill. His old one was beginning to fall apart seeing as how it was 10 years old. We let him pick it out (since he is choosy and we wanted to be sure that he liked it), so there wasn't much of a surprise element there. Since Ethan is at the age where he really enjoys surprising someone or wrapping up a gift for them, we made Josh breakfast in bed and put the father's day card from the boys and the "#1 Dad" paper airplane that Ethan had made for him on the tray with his breakfast. Josh loved it and Ethan not only enjoyed surprising his dad, he also enjoys helping me cook. So it was a win/win!

Think maybe he was a bit excited?!?

I guess a bird flew by, ha!

It's so hard to get Landen to pose!

My two sweet boys & the best dad I know!

Ethan on Father's Day 2012 (7 years & 7 months old)

Landen wearing Mommy's flip-flops:

Landen decided to put my shoes on the other day and when he walked in the room wearing them, I cracked up! He is such a little ham!!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

SUMMA' TIME

So, I would apologize for not keeping up with blogging like I should but I we've been too busy having tons of fun and I just can't say I'm sorry for that! So, we'll just hit the highlights of the last couple of months...

This silly boy has us laughing ALL of the time! The more you laugh the sillier he will act. He calls his brother "Jar" now. It just started around a month ago, out of the blue. At first, I thought maybe he was calling him "Josh" because he was confused by hearing us call his daddy that....but no he is saying "Jar" for sure. When he can't find Ethan he will got through the house yelling "Jar...Jar....weah aaah youuuu????" It's too cute!

In this video, Landen and I were playing doctor and he would get SO tickled when I pretended to give him a shot. I could watch it a million times just to hear that cute little cackle.

He packed his Max & Ruby bag full of toys and was ready to go!

Saying "Cheeeese"

On May 18th, we had to say goodbye to Ethan's wonderful first grade teacher. We were so blessed to have her this year. I cannot BELIEVE that we are heading into second grade (I swear I just did the 1st day of Kg post a few months ago!) but we'll not talk about that for now. Right now we're enjoying SUMMA' TIME!!