Random March Happenings

We've been busy this month, as usual! Other than the one big snow storm (see previous post) the weather has been wonderful and we've kept busy with all kinds of activities. Enjoy the month in review...


Hot Tubbing with Daddy


Foam Factory at Mr. Biggs

Drums at the Denver Zoo

Our friend Autumn joined us at the zoo

We went roller skating with our neighbors - it was a blast!

Silly kids!!

Mozart in Training - Brogan really loves to play the "pano"!

All dressed up for church - Grandma Sue gave Maddie her dress and the matching one for her doll
Naptime with Daddy - so sweet!

Maddie and B have such a good time playing together now!

Our friends Rachel and Lauren came to play and watch movies

Madeline is 4!

In addition to the Disney celebration, we enjoyed some ice cream pie here in CO with the local family. Selfishly, it was nice to keep it simple and not do the big "party"!!

Great Grandpa Lee and Gigi with the birthday girl


Maddie and her cousins - Amy, Emily, and Joel


Blowing out candles


Maddie likes to read the funny pages - she was doing this the morning of her party!

What did you say?

Mr. B (almost 18 months) has quite the budding vocabulary. No surprise considering his big sister and her non-stop chatting! Here are a few of the fun things he says:

"waff" - waffle

"ee a go" - here you go

"ank oo" - thank you

"man e nin" - Madeline

"guck" - truck

"gack" - snack

"wadoo" - water

"muck" - milk

And of course, too many more too count, a few of which are mama, dada, ball, bowl, night-night, cat, dog, and lots of animal sounds.

It is so fun to watch his personality continue to develop. He is very much a mamas boy right now (much to my chagrin!) and he screams whenever I even leave the room, but we are assuming this is a passing phase and hope it ends quickly! Other than that, he is so easy going and loves to play with trains, cars, and anything else that "goes" - typical boy, right???

Trip to California

We returned a few days ago from a fabulous week in California! We visited family, spent 3 days at Disneyland Resort (see photos in next post), enjoyed a couple of beach days, and celebrated Madeline's 4th birthday. Jon's parents drove over from their winter place in AZ and joined us for one day at Disneyland and then we went with my parents on another day. The day in between was spent at CA Adventure (the other Disney theme park) with just the adult Meyers - Maddie and Brogan went to the beach with my mom and dad. After all the birthday madness, my grandparents came to visit (from AZ) and spend time with the kids. We went to Irvine Regional Park to ride the train, feed the ducks, ride ponies, and visit the little zoo there. It was a blast!


Maddie, Brogan (quite grumpy at the time!), Great Grandpa and Grandma Tait


Brogan's first pony ride - his trusty steed was named Rocky

Train ride with Grandma and Grandpa

Maddie and Daddy at Newport Beach

Brogan at Newport Beach

The birthday girl!

Madeline's Disneyland Birthday

Disneyland was a wonderful as I remember - we had perfect weather and it truly was magical to experience "the happiest place on earth" through the eyes of a little girl. We took hundreds of photos but below are just a few of our time at the park.

Tinkerbell and the Birthday Girl

Upon arrival with Grandpa Lynn and Grandma Sue

Meeting Minnie Mouse - Maddie's favorite character!

With Nana and Grandpa Bill in front of "It's a Small World"

Our family at the signature Disney locale - Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Where Did January Go????

The last month flew by! Not sure what "major" activities we did, but from the looks of the photos, we did a lot of building and constructing. The kids both love to work with their hands when it comes to play time and it's lots of fun for me and Jon, too!

One of Maddie and Daddy's famous pillow forts


Brogan had so much fun playing in this bin!

Shaving cream mountains

Our little engineer. I hate to label the kid at such a young age, but he seriously gets it done with the tinker toys and other blocks!!

Our church skate night - Maddie's first time on wheels and she loved it!

Zoo outing on one of the many warm January days - here's Maddie with Josh and Ethan

B and Maddie wearing their "capes"

Just about the only snow day last month - we made the most of it!

A floor to ceiling block tower. Clearly Daddy's project as I can't get more than 2 blocks to stack up at a time...


Maddie built this domino tower all by herself!

Ping Pong Madness - installment #2

So sorry for the delay in posting - the last month has been a blur! Here's a video clip of Brogan with the ping pong paddle and ball. He went through a phase of being completely obsessed with carrying the paddle at all times (he even went to bed with it one night!) and actually got pretty good and making contact with the ball.