Briana and Troy and Kylin came to visit us and we had so much fun. We went boating on Friday afternoon when they got here,becuase Elijah was dying to try out his new birthday gift his ski's and guess what he got up:). We went boating Saturday afternoon till evening, we ate at brusters (ice cream place) and we even found out about a restraunt here we didn't know we had. Troy was telling us about Pizza Palace which was on TV on the show Dinners, Drive-Ins and Dives. This place is totally a Dive and in a terrible location downtown Knoxville, but the food is fabulous. In fact we went there again last night for dinner taking our neighbors with us. Anyway, Troy and Briana left Sunday morning and then our little family continued our fun weekend.
Sunday we ate out at Palancho's for lunch after church then enjoyed the rest of the day outside and around the house relaxing. Monday we went out on the boat again for 6 hours. Got a bit of sun, but nothing that I was hurting over:) So much fun and we really enjoyed having Briana and Troy and Kylin here. Thank you guys for making such a long trip. I know how it is!!! 
We gave Elijah's gift to him on his actual birthday before heading off to his "dinner".
Elijah is very very eager to attempt skiing this year...our hopes are to head out Wednesday and let him give it a try:)
Caden was shooting water at a target...he unfortunently lost, but Im sure I wasn't much help to him.
Liam...well, as you can see he truely enjoyed his first visit to Chuck E. Cheese :) 
Secondly, about a week ago our neighbor's son decided to take off his training wheels on his bike and Caden saw it and thought he should give it a try. Mind you, he had NEVER ridden on a two wheeled bike. Well, much to our surprise he peddled off without much thought. He soon fell and cried a bit, but that told us...it was time to get the little bike down from the attic and put some training wheels on it. A week went by and this past friday Caden, Liam and I were on our mile walk and Caden says to me "look mom, no training wheels". Sure enough for a good while he was balancing it and not using the training wheels. So I told him "when he turns 4 (which is next month) we would remove the training wheels. He says "mom, I can do it now, I want them off now". So when nick got home from work he removed the training wheels and off Caden rode with Nick running behind him. He is such a little dare devil and will pretty much try anything and accomplish it within a few given hours. Way to go Caden!!! You are such a big boy riding your bicycle at age 3! His training wheels are just up all the way off the ground in this picture.
Thirdly, here are a few random pictures that I wanted to post:)
Liam 6 weeks old