Happy Birthday, Turner!!

Turner will be 2 this Thursday and we celebrated last night with a little party for him. 

Good fun, AMAZING cake and cupcakes and fireworks!

Yummy!

 The frosting was amazing!

 Turner got all kinds of great presents!

 

The Hofers

 Turner's new four-wheeler

Fireworks!

 Cheese!

 Such a cute birthday boy!

 Every time the loud fireworks would go off, Turner would cover his head. It was pretty cute!

 Little buddies

This was Turner making a break for it after some more loud fireworks!

35 Weeks

 

Today marks 35 weeks ... can you believe it?! 

I think I say this every time I post a belly shot, but I cannot believe how fast this has gone by. Only 5 more weeks until we finally meet baby b!

We Have a Deck!!!

 

Dustin and I have wanted a deck on the front of the house for quite some time and we finally made it happen. We have a rather large patio in the back that we utilize and we'll continue to do so. This deck was something we wanted simply because getting in and out of our front door wasn't the easiest thing in the world. We had a cement slab for a front step and to get the door open you had to step back down on the sidewalk, and so on and so forth. This deck makes this much easier, and safer!

Dad met me at Lowe's to get all the materials and last Friday night Dustin and some of his friends got to work. He finished up on Saturday with a friend of ours. They did an excellent job!! And thank you, guys, for all your help! We still need to get the sealant on there, which hopefully happens sometime this weekend. (Don't you just love how I manage to find all these fun projects when I'm pregnant and not much help?!)

 

Sunday brought us back to Lowe's so I could get a new hosta, some flowers and more wood chips for the landscaping. There's a bit of landscaping that I want to do in front of the deck but I think I may have used up all my honey-do projects for the year. Might have to wait until next year for that one.  :-)

Baby B's Bedroom

The room has been cleared out and painted (the walls are Clarified Butter and the ceiling, trim and doors are Del Coronado Tequila - or as Dustin would tell you, yellow and white)!! 

We got the crib re-assembled and moved the rocker and dresser in as well. 

We're getting there ...

Old Timer's Day!

06.11.11

 Let's get this parade started!

 Here comes the parade!

 Mayor (Grandma) Mary and some of the city council members

Preston's first big boy slide. He loved it and would have stayed there all day if I would have let him.

Wildfire!

The kids from Wildfire performed at the park that afternoon. It was so much fun to watch them cheer, tumble and dance and they all did a great job!!

Allie and Logan performing their cheer routine. Too cute!

Weekend in Winner

We hit the road Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with Dustin's family.

 Shortly after we got on the Interstate, Preston was asleep. 

This lasted about 40 minutes and then he decided that was enough of a nap.

We made a stop at Cabela's on the way to Winner so Dustin could cash in on some gift cards. Preston got a kick out of the fish and all the big animals. He really liked this ATV-thing!

 Grandma and Grandpa Beringer bought Preston a t-ball set the last time they were home, but it never made it up to Brookings. Much to Preston's delight, it was waiting for him in Winner!

 Grandma wanted a turn too!

Preston might have a future in baseball (or at least his Dad hopes so!). He had a pretty darn good hit on his first try!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Saturday afternoon we had a birthday party for Dustin's Grandma Donna (Cindy's mom), who recently turned 80. We had most of the family there to celebrate and the Legion was filled with tons of her friends that afternoon.

 The guestbook table with the invitation that I made for the party.

 Cake and cupcakes courtesy of Aunt Jackie (delicious!)

 Silly boy

 Donna with her kids: Cindy (Jeff), Jackie (Larry), Jim (Tammy) and Bruce's wife, Liz. Bruce wasn't able to make it ... I'm really looking forward to being able to meet him someday!  :-)

 Donna with the grandchildren (some of them anyway) and a couple great-grandchildren

Dustin, Preston and myself, Bayley and Tyler (Jim and Tammy) and Bryan's wife Jessica with their son, Cyrus

 I lost count of how many pictures were taken of all of us, trying to get Preston to cooperate.

 Preston and Cyrus

 Preston was having some serious conversations with his grandfathers, but it turned to the lighter side when they decided to be race car drivers.

 Grandma is so funny!

Love those cupcakes!!

We had such a great weekend, as we always do when spending time with family, and look forward to seeing everyone again soon!!

30 Weeks!

Today marks 30 weeks and everything is going very well! I've been feeling pretty good and baby b is doing excellent. Kicking like crazy ... I had a friend joke that Preston was going to be the calm child. All I thought was "oh dear". If that ends up being true, we will certainly have our hands full!

The bedding arrived last weekend and I found a few paint samples. Now I just need to choose the colors and find some free time to paint!

Preston gives baby b kisses all the time now and seems to understand, somewhat, that we're having a baby. His baby is in his tummy and daddy has a baby in his tummy too. :-) If you ask him whether he's going to have a baby brother or a baby sister, he usually answers with whatever you said last. But more often than not, he's insistent that he's going to have a sister. We shall see ... just 10 more weeks until we find out!

Marathon Weekend

The Brookings Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay was held a couple weekends ago and this year the Children's Museum was involved. Registration was held, and the Scotty Roberts 5K began, at the Children's Museum this year. After the 5K, the museum had a fun run for kids. The run took us around the museum, in to the Prairie play yard, passed mama and baby T-Rex and then finished in front of the museum. After the run, the kids were treated to ice cream cones! Preston was so excited for the run (but mostly the ice cream). We all had a blast. He did great, only slowing down when he went passed the dinosaurs. No surprise there!

The next morning I was at my usual post, directing runners at the split. It was a chilly morning but the rain held off until the last runner was in and the course was cleared.

My sister ran a 3-mile leg on a relay team (and did a great job!) and my uncle Don ran the marathon ... in just over four hours!

Allie and Preston helped Grandpa plant a tree this afternoon. Preston didn't even seem to mind that his hands got a little dirty!

After they were done, Grandpa took them for a ride in the golf cart. 

As we were getting ready to leave we told Preston to give Grandpa a hug and kiss and to thank him for the ride. Preston did just that, but then looked at him and said "one more ride?". Needless to say, we didn't leave right then. We had to wait for one more ride!

Happy Easter!

 The Easter Bunny was at Mom & Dad's house last night ...

 Left a little something behind ...

 And left some tracks on his way out.

 It's near impossible to get them all to sit and smile at the same time, so this is what you get. Good thing they're all so darn cute.

 Preston wasn't very interested in smiling and showing off his handsome little outfit.

 Preston got a choo-choo train flashlight thing from Grandma & Grandpa and Dad couldn't get it open fast enough for him. The whole time Dustin was trying to open it, Preston was jumping up and down shouting, "Choo-Choo Train, Choo-Choo Train!"

 Finally got it open ... he hasn't stopped playing with it since. :-)

 Blowing bubbles outside

 Get the bubbles!!

 Preston & Turner ... just hanging out again

 And a nice Easter roar to finish out the day, 'cause why not?