Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Or as Dylan and Cole say "Happy Birthday Giving!"
All day I tried to get them to drop the Birthday...but it just rolls off the tongue.

We had a lovely Thanksgiving with our good friends Nicole, Matthew and their son Jonah. Rob's parents were going to join us too, but Paul came down with a cold (hopefully you didn't get it from the boys!!) and were unable to join us.

The boys were working on their second helping before Rob and I even got to sit down! It was a dinner of the guys' favorite foods. Dylan ate about half the dish of stuffing and cranberry sauce...good thing I put a lot of veggies and good stuff in there!

The guys were so excited to get sweet potato pie that Nicole made. Cole ate his one piece very slowly and methodically, while Dylan cut up and ate 3 servings. Dylan is big on cutting his food with his fork these days and cut his pie piece into about 4 pieces and put those huge pieces in his mouth! It sure was delicious!

Jonah decided to skip most of dinner and went right for the whipped cream! He knows what's good!

The gang!

Happy Birthday Boys!!

We can't believe the boys turned 2 years old yesterday!! Time sure does fly by.

We had a fun birthday party for the guys with 4 of their little friends. Grandma Fiegener did her magic with creating truck birthday cakes for the boys. They were amazed that they were going to get to eat these trucks!

Jonas, Leo and Lina all enjoying snack between playing and before cake.

All the kids were so well behaved while eating their cake. The room was so quiet!

Both Dylan and Cole kept asking for "more cake please." Like if they asked real nice they would get as much cake as they wanted.

Cole and his proud mama.

Dylan wore a party hat almost the whole day...even after the party. He also got a card that transformed into a birthday boy crown, which he insisted on wearing WITH his other party hat. I had to tell him the bad news when he also wanted to wear his fireman hat on top of the other two. We also got little party blowers that the kids had fun playing with. To make Cole's blower work I had to hold my fingers on his lips while he blew and he thought that was SO funny!

Their friend Leo got the boys these fabulous trucks for their birthday. They were the first presents they opened...and the last. They could not be distracted from their new trucks for anything...even with other presents!

Dylan is a happy guy. He just opened a birthday card from his Nana!

Here are the guys exactly 2 years ago! Dylan is on the left and Cole on the right.

Fall fun

We had a fun weekend enjoying the fall weather...mostly all the pretty leaves!

Cole had fun throwing leaves in our front yard...while eating a bagel!


Dylan is hugging the tree in our front yard. He went around the yard and hugged the pumpkin on our front step, the bushes and plants in our front garden saying "hugggggggggg" each time.

We went for a walk in a local forest to enjoy the fall colors.

The guys had a great time finding 'enormous' leaves on the path.

The guys are wearing their new rubber boots that we got at the local farm supply store. They had just about as much fun looking at all the farm supplies as they did getting new red and yellow boots.