Happy St. Pats- Minus one Parade...

We came, we had a lovely tailgate lunch, we saw friends, we had cookies, we froze… we missed the parade! That’s right- we actually met our friends, found a great parade watching spot, and broke down in tears before the parade even began! As Keira said- “That’s okay! We will see it next year!” Who decides to start a parade at 1:00 anyway??? Oh well! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!

Burrrrrrrrr...... Hello, spring??? Hello??? Where are you????

Kuhlmans Lately

What did Valentine’s Day mean to us? As you can see it meant SUGAR, some cute cards, more SUGAR, and SUGAR!

Chocolate chip heart-shaped pancakes of course!! (sugar)

Uh-oh! The look of too much sugar!!!

Keira did enjoy the valentines from her friends at school. She would take each one out of the bag and see who it was from then comment on each- "OH! Maddie gave me the Dora one! And John gave me the Batman one with tatoos!" She LOVED the tatoos!!

The train expo that made us famous! The kids were in the newspaper- HUGE picture of the kids checking out the trains! They had a great time!

We spent the past weekend in our old stomping ground in Texas! What a fabulous trip! The kids did so well on the airplane and through the entire trip! They were so excited to ride on the airplane, the buses, and even the rental car. We were able to spend time with so many of our old friends and see two of our dearest friends FINALLY get married!

Here we are at the zoo

Keira and Chloe are two months apart in age. They were only a few months old when we moved away. They had such a great time together playing and even had a slumber party sharing a bedroom one night! It was like they had known each other forever!
Here is Chloe with her mom and our great friend Heather.

Such cute girls showing off their shades!

The kids actually stop moving for 2 seconds for a photo op!

This is seriously the only photo I was able to take of Misti and Thorin's wedding... so sad! I spent most of the time chasing the kids and talking to so many of my old teacher friends- miss you all!!

I lied- this is the 2nd picture taken at the wedding- by Keira!

WONDERful Morning!

Thank you Wonderscope for providing a much needed play place today! The last time we came here Quinn was in his car seat carrier and Keira could not walk yet. WOW- look at us now! The kids had an amazing time exploring this kidapalooza of fun! Each time we walked into a new room to explore Quinn would shout "WOW!!!!!!" and then run as fast as he could boucing from one activity to the next! I think they both agreed that the water room was the best! Hooray for places like these saving sanity for moms everywhere in the winter!

Merry Candy Coated Snow-mas!

It has been a week of filled with family, friends, cookies, presents, and snow! You have to love those weeks that you have no idea what day it is and your biggest concern is what are we eating/drinking next!? The kids had a wonderful holiday! Keira was so excited that Santa, or “Tanta” as Quinn calls him, was coming to OUR house! We made special peanut butter cookies filled with chocolate for him and sprinkled reindeer food out over the driveway. Did you know reindeer absolutely love cheerios? Mix in some glitter so they can see it and you are ready! We had quite the build up to the actual arrival of Santa as we visited both sets of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and many friends the week before and then raced back to our house with the winter storm on our tail as we made it back just in time to get snowed in and enjoy a white Christmas!

Dad and Q enjoy their gifts!


Uncle Josh helps Quinn build a challenging puzzle!

Grandpa D's favorite thing to give the kids are mini boxes of sugar coated, yummy cereal- Quinn's gotta have his POPS!! He treasures carrying around the box and finishing every single one- except for the ones he shares with Abbey dog!

I think this was our 85th attmpt to capture that famous kids in front of the Christmas tree together picture...

Challenging!

The best we could get-

Quinn loved his new train table from "tanta" and was double fisted with trains all day- even at nap! Similar to our visits to the toystore- just TRY and pry a train out of his hand- you shall experience the true wrath of Quinn!

All Keira wanted for Christmas--- a BLENDER!!!! She immediately started making everyone shakes!

She also loved her new doll bed and diaper changing station!

Keira received the best little cookbook ever (see picture below). The same cookbook that Nana, Uncle Brock, and Daddy used to learn how to cook- so sweet! We made yellow cake cupcakes from the book together and I can't wait to share the joy of cooking with my little chef!

NAP TIME! WHAT A WEEK!!!

Daddy loves loves loves the snow and I'm glad we got to enjoy some winter fun sledding!

Did I tell you? Daddy LOVES the snow!!!!!

Making Merry

We had a wonderful time picking out our tree- though we didn't make it to a tree farm this year (promise, will do that next year), we did make it three blocks to the ACE Hardware store to get our real tree. And yes, I'm cussing the needles falling off and vowing to go to a tree farm and cut it ourselves next year! Really!

Keira loved wearing the tree skirt around as we sang "Oh Keira Tree, Oh Keira Tree" to her!


Quinn picked out these special window stickers during our trip to ACE- they look just like jello jigglers and, according to him, taste just like them too! Notice the bite marks!? YUMMY!

Keira loved looking at each and every ornament, taking stock of every ornament with her picture on it, every snowman, every Santa. The best line of the day was Keira exclaiming "SANTA! TIME TO GET YOUR HO ON!!"

Our gingerbread house! Keira was very precise and careful! She also ate MUCH of the "glue" and house decor!

It seems our new family tradition is to go see the old fashioned Christmas parade downtown. Many, many.....yawn..... many horses, much poop, but the kids LOVED it!

Watching with her BFF Hannah and Quinn!

Running around in our Christmas Jammies! Quinn was too fast for pictures! My attempt to get that so cute picture of them in front of the Christmas tree in their jammies- FAIL!