so we have been pretty busy this past spring... weddings, we put a hardwood floor in the living room and for all of you that know me and my feelings about the rug that was there, know i am a VERY HAPPY CAMPER!!! it looks great. with all the stinkin rain we have been getting we have not been doing much in the way of outdoor activities, but hopefully the sun will start to come out and fun can be had. in the meantime, here are some updated pics of the boys and some of the stuff we have been up to. hope all is well with everyone so mark coached some tball this spring. he and our friend neil were the coaches...the kids were so much fun. the beginning of the season was like watching the bad news bears, but by the end they had a pretty good little team. mark and i spent a few weekends at weddings, here are some of the pictures from them....

mark and his friend, brendan

one of the happy couples, ben and tara.

neil, tony and bri.

me, jezak and mark.

max graduated from pre-school at noahs arc. this is his friend owen.

this is his teacher, mrs. nicole. he loves her. he told her he wanted to be big so he could be her boyfriend. so cute!!!

jacoby turned 1 in june. he was not a huge fan of the cake but had fun anyway

jacoby and bri.

the 3 boys....actually sitting still for a minute.

life is moving along

things here are good and crazy as usual. summer is approaching and can not arrive soon enough for us. we have been laying as low as possible lately...spending days all together-having fun. max will be starting school in the fall and kane will be bounced around a bit but all will be good. here are some recent shots of the little maniacs. kane is following in his brother's footsteps... smiling and laughing alot. he is a bit slower going in the physically active department but we are not complaining. they are definitely their own little people. enjoy!!!

hanging out in mom and dad's bed on a sunday morning...

who kid is this???and who's kid is this???? max decided he was going to be like pop!little cutie is getting so big....we had a family fun night at max's school and had a blast! this is max's teacher, a very good sport as you can see and his friends lauren and meadow.and this is max with his pal, markusthe little stinker again!!!

it's been a while.... sorry!!!

ok so i cannot possibly catch up since the last entry, so i will start fresh, here is the lastest family photo it was taken at xmas...here is kane about a week ago, he is doing great. he is the opposite of his brother. very quiet and easy going. you don't even know if he is in the house half the time. he sleeps like a log and eats like a champ, he is a tank, if you couldn't tell from the cheeks.... he will be beating up his brother and cousins soon.. max is doing awesome with him. he loves him dearly and is so helpful with him.

this is a pic of max at his school xmas play. he was an angel, (of all things) he did a fantastic job. he did not budge the entire time, i wasn't sure if it was my kid or not. he sang and smiled and even got the hiccups-he was so nervous.

here are some group shots of all the cousins, this next one is only 1 of about 20, definitely a difficult task trying to get 6 kids to sit and smile at the same time. we might have to cut and paste them all together to get a solid shot or wait about a year.... these guys are all on marks side, jeffrey is holding kane,then evan is trying to keep grace still and gage is sort of with max. they are doing well and getting big. grace and gage just had their 1st birthday- we hear it was a good time, mark was sick so we stayed away, still sad we missed it.

these are the boys on my side with their pop-pop. jacoby is trying to steal kane's bink- a common occurrence. he is quite fascinated w/ kane, not quite sure what he is all about.

here is jacoby again with me. i like to call him chubby. isn't he the cutest????? he is doing great. he is crawling like a maniac and has started pulling himself up on things, he is 7 1/2 months right now. he gets in LOTS of trouble at home in his walker.. hee, hee!!!

that is all for now,. i will try to be better at this in the future. hope everyone had a nice holiday season and we wish you all a happy and healthy new year!!!

a very busy fall season

so we have been pretty busy since the arrival of mr. kane which is why there have not been any new posts in QUITE A WHILE. sorry about that but i will attempt to catch up on them and then stay current -so here goes...

of course around here fall is a great time for harvest festivals. so we went to a few in the area and here are some moments.....

halloween was also quite the adventure this year, lots of running around and candy involved...we had a batman, a bat, an elf, dorothy and the cowardly lion. we also had a couple of wrestlers but i didn't get any pictures of them but they looked awesome (nice costumes evan and jeffrey).

there was batman aka max. pretty good super hero pose don't ya think???max and his sidekick, batbaby kane.our nephew jacoby, the cutest damn elf you will ever see, eat your heart out herbie.the twins, gage and grace or as you can see the cowardly lion and dorothy.and of course with halloween comes pumpkins.... max painted about half a dozen of them but these 3 were the masterpieces and as you can see he made himself into quite a work of art as well.

here are some newer pics of kane. he is currently 9 weeks old and has started laughing. he is sleeping about 6-7 hours through the night and is getting big, about 12 lbs now. he is bigger than his brother was at this age, so this one may take after mark. we'll see...i figure he can have some shots solo since they are hard to come by. (max jumps in whenever he hears the camara turn on)as i was looking through the pictures i had recently taken this next one looked very familiar and then i figured out why it looked so familiar.....
kaneand max

The arrival of Kane

mr. kane lucas aguiar has made his debut. he decided to drop in on friday sept 12, 2008 at 9:26pm. he was 7.5 lbs and 20 3/4 " long. healthy with all his bits and pieces in place. we are all doing well, adjusting to life with a new little guy. he is doing well- eating and sleeping good, actually sleeps more than anything which is something we do not exactly remember max doing. max is doing well, VERY EXCITED but well. here are a couple of pics from the hospital and the last week.....

max leaving the hospital to go spend the night at nana and papa's house.
(sorry hit the pic twice and can't figure out how to get rid of it)