spring break 2013

for spring break, casey and i, yet again, decided to take a long car ride with our new(ish) baby across a few more states to visit some family.
(at 3 1/2 months old he has passed the state lines of arizona, utah, wyoming, nebraska, iowa, illinois, and indiana!)

i'd say our time together revolved around the feeding, sleeping, and caring of babies.

and i genuinely loved it.

there were no expectations.

we really just hung around the house, laughing at the children, putting them down for naps, cleaning up messes, feeding them and ourselves, and sleeping.
we loved every single minute of our time there.

i spy pillow hiders...

food and family: inevitable

st. patrick's day full of green food!
firstly, green chili.
btw- this little missy is one social eater. she very happily sat in her chair for over an hour each meal time (i swear!) slowly eating her food. cracked me up!

secondly, chicken caesar salad with noodles dyed to be green! (and definitely a new favorite thing: dying noodles! makes it so fun)

more greenness all around



mister maxson has suddenly loved grabbing onto all things in front of him, so fun to watch him learn!
and of course cousin loving! jaden was the sweetest to maxson: sharing his very special blanket with him and always trying to give him kisses and be all over him, made us all laugh.
these boys will be bffaeaeae in years to come

there's a picture in this post of maxson and brielle and my how they both have changed!
now 3 1/2 months and 10 1/2 months.

cuties


and lastly, cutler cousins!
jaden did awesome for all these pictures, he was a rockstar cheesing for us.
brielle was a wiggle worm, so funny.
maxson didn't mind at first but after about 30-45 seconds had had enough.




my how we loved our time in indiana.
casey has so much fun with his brother, cody, and i have so much fun with my SIL, camille.
and the 4 of us have a ball together having so many things in common.

i'd say that (our first in 4 years!) spring break 2013 was quite the success and mighty well worth the 11 hour drive there and back!
maxson did not agree with the last half of the driving back part of that sentence...ooy.


soon to come: spring break 2013 from the view of a 3 year old who realizes he can ask for your phone and take close to 100 pictures in a matter of minutes!
i'm lucky it's so easy/fast to delete mass amounts of iphone pictures at once.
i will spare you the duplicates (aka 20 pictures) of the 5 different close-up fabric materials he so artistically took :)
but i will share the funny ones!