Snow Storm, Peoria, Dinosaurs, and Super-heros

March 01, 2024

Grandpa is a very popular guy with these kiddos.

This guy just loves to climb on anything these days as he's tall enough to get on the couch himself.

This kept Branko busy, but boy was it a mess.

My sister, Kristen, signed Branko and Benett up for hockey. They made it on the ice briefly, but lots of tears were at on their first day. They sure look cute in their gear!

Painting at Grandmas

A little night out with some co-workers

We went to Dinosaur Land (I can't remember the exact name) a the state fair. Before we went, we stopped at Blue's Egg for some breakfast and Branko wanted a picture in front of the statue of liberty. She got a bit cut off as this was near people trying to enjoy their breakfast.

At the dinoland, there were crafts, the boys had to try and crack open the block and find fossils.

Branko kept going back and forth if he wanted to sit on the dinosaur, we waited in line and he just chose to take a picture in front of it instead.

There were sandboxes, dinosaur exhibit, small jeeps, and bouncy houses. Branko waited patiently in line for the bouncy house (which I was surprised he did so well in line as he is a runner) and went in the jumpy house for maybe 10 seconds. The person counting how many kids and running a timer started yelling at some of kids, which scared Branko because he thought he was in trouble, and it put him in a spicy mood the rest of the time we were there. Soo our time there was limited and it started to get super busy.

Conrads first cake pop!

Captain Turbot (from Paw Patrol)

Conrad is taking after his cousin and sure loves playing hockey!

Branko dressed himself.

Got all the hockey gear on! Preferred to watch from the sidelines.

We had a pretty big snow storm one Friday that lasted all the way into Saturday. We got to build snow mans, go sledding down a hill, and pull Conrad in the sled. Building a snow man is not easy!

Lots of blue tie die.

We went to a nearby park to go sledding. At one point, I took both boys down with me and there was a small little ramp that we ran into and Conrads boot flew off so high in the air, it was so funny. He doesn't have boots that fit and I don't really want to buy a pair that he is just going to wear a few times. This was the perfect hill as it wasn't too exhausting walking back up.

The boys have been getting a lot of use of riding Sandy the horse at Meijer.

Another Wednesday at the coffee shop.

He fell asleep and I decided I was just going to sit in our coats and enjoy the snuggles.

Here are some almost final pics of our bathroom. We just need the glass shower doors installed. Apparently the guy who did the rest of it didn't quote us for it, even though I told him that I wanted that done and he even saw the doors when he quoted us. So irritating! Luckily, it's not like the boys take a shower at this point, but still so annoying.

We also installed new doors for the bathroom/bedrooms. It looks so much better with the new doors! I should really take some pics.

The boys and I met up with some friends and enjoyed some inflatable bounce houses. This was my first event taking both boys by myself since Conrad has been mobile and not just strapped to me or in a stroller. It was the perfect size place to allow me to keep an eye on both boys. Luckily, Conrad went with the flow and was cool with doing what Branko wanted to do.

More cake pops before our trip to Peoria to visit Lindsey, Joe, Charlie, and Madelyn.

Believe it or not, but Madelyn is older than Conrad.

Give your brother or sister a hug!

Both boys slept like garbage that night, but they did sleep the whole ride home.

Green monster!

This guy sure loves dancing to Danny Go!

Nothing like Grandmas spaghetti sauce

Our neighbors have been getting some work done at their house and one of the workers let Branko borrow his little shovel. He sure loved it!

Uh oh, wrong way!

I think he's stirring the gravy for some biscuits and gravy we had one morning.

We got a frameo from PAtricks mom for christmas and Branko LOVES when the Halloween pictures come up from the big skeletons from Jellystone that we saw when we were trick or treating.

I saw this on instagram and it kept him busy for quite some time.

We had some friends over for the niners game for the NFC championship. Lots of time was spent on our train table,

Note the KC Chiefs Mahomes shirt in the background. Funny story, Pat ordered Branko a new niners sweatshirt, since the one he's wearing is getting too small, and the KC shirt was what was sent to us... Wrong team and he ordered a sweatshirt.