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The quiet moments are moments I'll treasure forever.

Port Village

The Best things in life are free. On one of our days out we decided to make our way down to the port in San Diego. It was awesome seeing all of the big ships, boats and even a submarine. The kids liked walking up and down the walk along the ocean. Cost: $0

Colson with his cousin Annie and aunt Jessica

Will being quite the trooper with Hudson on his shoulders.

There's a huge battle ship that was pretty darn cool. THe picture doesn't do it justice.

Colson was mad and didn't want us to take a picture.

Port Village after our little walk. There were tons of cute little shops, and Colson loved chasing the birds. Surprisingly he didn't get too wet from this fountain.

Hoppy Easter!

For Easter this year, my sister invited us out to San Diego to spend time with them. We jumped at the chance since Easter was during Shane's spring break, and my sister throws a fabulous Easter Egg hunt and breakfast every year. We had a blast.

When I saw Shane had taken this picture of Colson I flipped out. He just seems more and more like a big boy and less of a baby. His smile just warms my heart! I love my #1!

There were over 400 eggs hid all around Jessica's back and front yards. The Kids had such fun!

Here's my crazy, lovely sister. She's the greatest!

The three legged race! Colson and Shane did really good.

This is one of my other favorite pictures. Colson has a look of pure joy on his face. I love that he's in mid air! He amazed me with his speed and high jumps as he did the sack races. He had such a stink in good time!

Thanks Jess!

Before We Leave.......

So we're leaving for San Diego in a day and I decided that I wanted to get totally caught up on all of our blogging before we leave, because I'm sure I will have tons to blog about when we get back, and I hate having to wait to blog about stuff that just happened because I haven't blogged about previous pictures. So I decided to just do it all in one shot!

As a parent the luxury of going to the restroom by yourself disappears. It's funny because now when Colson comes into the bathroom and you ask him to leave and give you a minute, he shuts the door and locks it, but with him still in the bathroom with you. An when you lock him out, he goes and gets the pool keys and jimmys the lock.

Nice airial view of the boys. Yes, Colson's everyday outfit tends to be a shirt and underwear.

Our sweet #2 fast asleep. I am a sucker for when he plays so hard and we find him fast asleep where he was once playing. I can't say it enough , I LOVE THIS LITTLE BOY!

We love bath time. Now that we're at the park almost everyday baths are becoming an every night thing. COlson just gets so dang dirty. I scrub him, but some of that dirt I swear has linked with his DNA and won't come off!

Bubble hats! I showed him how to put bubbles on his head once, and that's the first thing he does when he jumps into the tub!

100% Underwear

It's true, our #1 is potty trained. We've been working on it strictly for the past 2 months and now it's paid off. He's been pee trained for a while but we didn't quite have the #2 down so I didn't want to blog about it until I was pretty sure we had it all under control. Long story short, now Colson knows I mean business when I say he needs to poop in the potty. Potty training has been the single hardest thing I've ever had to do being a mom. I can handle any of the other stuff, but potty training proved to be my full on battle. I even told Shane that I had kind of forgot that I was going to have to potty train our kids. I'm hoping that with each kid it will get a little better as I gain more experience. I guess my advice to other moms out there is first; Just be patient. Second; don't push it and wait however long you need. and Third; buy lots of underwear, you go through soooooo much in the beginning!

Colson couldn't be happier, just look at that smile! He even goes number 1 standing up in the big potty! We're so proud!