Waterfront Park

We went to Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville on this past gorgeous Saturday. Our friend Michelle, and her daughter Eva joined us, and we had so much fun! Waterfront Park is a beautiful park that runs along the Ohio River (very much like Sawyer Point to all our Cincy readers) and has all kinds of playgrounds for kiddos...even a splash park in the summer! We will definitely be heading back there many more times!

Josh's nose is healing well, and he is starting to feel better. The babies are doing great too! We are heading to Cincinnati for the Easter holiday, and many of our friends and family will finally get to meet Caellum for the first time! We are looking forward to spending some time with our friends and families! Hope everyone else has a great holiday this weekend!

Can you tell Ty isn't happy about being held? He wants down to play!!

Eva and Ty

Ty in action!

And there's Caellum!

Nose job

Josh made it through surgery ok! Thanks to all those who said some prayers for him. He is in a lot of pain right now, but hopefully his nose will heal up quickly and he'll be back to his old self again! We have to say a huge thanks to Mamaw and Papaw Kinsel, who came down to help us with the boys! We love you and appreciate all you do for us!

Trying on Papaw's shoes!

Papaw and Ty having fun in the tent!

Our little bundle of destruction got hold of mommy's sunglasses!

Bath time fun!

Mommies will do anything to get their kids to laugh, right? Ty and I were having some bath time fun tonight! :-)

And he did that to his hair all by himself...no lie!

Doctor Visits and Mickey Mouse too!

We can't believe how different our lives are now than when we started this blog back in April of 2008. It's been almost two years...I was 4 months pregnant with Ty when we started this thing, and now look at us! We have an 18 month-old and a 2 month-old! Two amazing boys that we love with all our hearts! We would never have imagined how two gorgeous boys could make our lives so much better! We had no idea the blessings the Good Lord had in store for us back then! We love our little guys so much, and are so thankful for them!

We had doctors visits for both boys today...what fun! The are both healthy and strong, and doing awesome! Praise God! Ty is only 21 pounds, and in the 2nd percentile for weight. His doctor is a little concerned because he has fallen off his growth chart just a bit, so we have to try to add some extra calories to his meals to get some weight on him. He eats pretty good already(knock on wood), but with all that energy he has, he runs it all off! We have to take him back in a couple months for a weight check just to make sure he isn't losing any weight, and is still following his growth chart.

Caellum is doing great too! He is still our little chunk, weighing in at 11 lbs 4 oz today. He is in the 63rd percentile for weight (as opposed to Ty's 2%). Please pray for him as we are having a few issues with his poo (I'll spare you the details), and they will be doing some tests on it. We're sure he's fine as he is gaining weight, and is pretty content most of the time, but we want to make sure there is nothing else going on. Our littlest kiddo also had to get his first round of shots today :-( poor guy! Those are never fun, but he took it like a champ!

We took the boys to Playhouse Disney Live in Louisville this past weekend (Ty loves Mickey Mouse), and it was a blast! Ty had fun, and we loved watching his reactions to the show. We didn't get very many good pics, but I'll post the ones we have.

Josh's surgery on his nose will be on Monday, March 22. Please pray for him! Oh, and pray for me as well! Josh will be going to the field, and things are always a bit more stressful when he's gone! Thanks for all your prayers and support!

View of the stage from our seats

Donald, Mickey, Goofy, and Minnie!

Ty, sitting on Daddy's lap, getting ready for the show to start!

Caellum, sitting on mommy's lap, getting ready for the show to start!

Our little fireman!

Blog Neglect

Hey, at least it's the blog we're neglecting, and not our two beautiful boys...right?!

Since Caellum has been born, the blog has definitely taken a backseat. It has to for now. There are just too many things going on during our day now, and not enough time to get everything done! We are hoping that as Caellum gets older, we will have more time to devote to the blog, but we doubt it! So to all our faithful blog readers...we apologize for the blog neglect, and will do our best to update more often...if we find the time! :-)

We have had a lot going on these past few weeks. Josh has been doing a lot of training with his platoon for their upcoming deployment, and he has had to spend some time out in the field (many of these are overnight stays...yuck!). About two or three weeks ago he broke his nose during his combatitives training (the Army's version of full-contact fighting). He will be getting surgery to repair it, so please pray for him that the surgery goes well and he has a quick and painless recovery.

I am doing well. Just keeping busy with a newborn and a very energetic 18 month-old! Every day is a new adventure with these two little guys!

Here is our new favorite picture of our little men! They are both growing so fast...it's amazing! I can't believe Caellum is almost 2 months old! Where does the time go? It went fast with one kiddo, but is going incredibly fast with two kiddos! Can you tell how ornery Ty is just by looking at this pic? He is a busy, little dude, that's for sure!

Here is a picture of Caellum, and his buddy Noah. Noah is two weeks younger than Caellum, and we are good friends and neighbors with his mommy and daddy. Isn't this picture so sweet?

This is a video of Caellum (Ty's in it too...throwing a tantrum in the background because he wants to play with our camera and I won't let him have it) for our friends and family that haven't met him yet, and for the grandparents that love and miss him so much!

So, there is a short update for our neglected blog. Hopefully it won't be another month before we update it again!

Oh, and please pray for our Mertz side of the family. We lost grandma Dot (Lisa's grandmother) on Feb. 26. Thanks for your prayers!

We also want to say Happy Birthday to Aunt Shell! We hope you have a great birthday!

Birthday girl holding newborn Caellum!