Love these little faces

I just love these little faces!  My boys are so lucky to have cousins that they love so much, so close by....they always have so much fun together! 

We had a great time at the family museum today! :)

Hello from Bankerland!

Hi All!!  I wanted to give you a quick update on our happenings here in Bankerland! :)

The boys had a fun Valentine's Day....it's been a week now, and I think they're finally coming down from their sugar highs. :)  Chris and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, we have always made it a point to show each other all throughout the year how much we love one another and how important we are to each other, so Valentine's Day always seemed kind of silly.  Now that we have kids though, we try to do a little something for them, just to make it fun. :)  This year they each got a little dancing animal and a heart pillow and we had heart shaped toast for breakfast. :)

 Now, I mentioned the sugar high....this is just one example of that.  This is what happens when I leave Daddy and the boys to decorate the Valentine's Day cupcakes....needless to say, they had fun!! :)

The boys are so lucky to have such a thoughtful Godmother.  She knows how many presents the boys get at Christmas time, so she usually waits a couple of months to send their gifts and makes February a little more fun for them. ;)  Thanks Aunt Katy, we love our movies!! :)

So, while we were at Disney in December someone who will remain nameless ;) dropped my good camera and broke it.  I was a little upset, until I realized that this was my opportunity to get a new, nicer camera! :)  So, after saving up for a couple of months and getting some birthday money to put towards it, I got my new camera last week!  Sooooo excited about it!  I'm still trying to figure everything out, but I'm getting the hang of it, and I'm loving the quality of pictures I've been able to get with it. 

This is a picture of our beautiful Capper, that I took with my new camera, I just love how it came out! :)

This one just had to be included, I walked into the playroom the other morning to find Kayden laid out on his Spiderman couch, in his Spiderman jammies, and his Spiderman socks.....just too cute not to share! :)

The boys are doing great!  Carver is still loving Kindergarten and has even received 2 awards in the past couple of months, one for being a "Smart Mathematician" and one for "Good Sportsmanship."  He is also really doing well with his reading, and we are so proud of how hard he is working at it. :)  Kayden is loving preschool, but can't wait until next year when he will get to go to preschool everyday....he is getting so big, I can't believe he's going to be 4 soon! :)

Chris is still working hard on his PhD and work is keeping him busy too.  I don't see quite as much of his lately with all of this work, oh and with his new toy!  I got him the Playstation 3 that he has had his eye on for quite some time, so he retreats to the man cave often to play with that. :)

I have had new adventures recently as well.  With both of the boys in school 2 mornings a week, I thought that this was the perfect opportunity for me to get back into the classroom.  So, I've started subbing a day or two a week, and I'm LOVING it!  I didn't realize how much I missed being in the classroom.  It's nice being able to go in and teach, but not feel like I'm missing out on much time with my boys, and pretty much being able to set my own schedule as to when I choose to sub and when I don't. 

Hope you all are doing welll!!  I can't believe we're going to have Carver's 6th birthday to celebrate soon....can't wait to share the celebration with you.  :)