The boys have been such fish this summer!  They are loving the water...sprinklers, big pools, little pools!  I love it!

Hayden can touch the bottom in the big pool this year and has been dabbling in going under water by himself!

Biz has NO FEAR.  Child launches himself off the side!

Last Friday, the boys and I met up with Jodi, Joshua, Jaycee, Gma Stuck, Jami, Audrey, Kyla and Riley at the zoo!  We made the most of our trip staying for just about 5 hours!!  The weather was REALLY nice, a lot of the animals were out and about, and the kiddos had a great time!  Highlights: new tiger exhibit...holy wow. and me, Jodi, Joshua and Audrey riding the rollercoaster!  Fun times!

All the kiddos!  I really wasn't trying to get their attention for this shot as Gma and Jodi were taking pics of them all, but I find it highly amusing that Hayden knows I have my camera out and looks at me smiling :)  Good photographer's kid!

Audrey!

Gma Stuck and Riley!

Jodi and Jaycee...Jaycee was oohing at the elephants :)

My babes scoping the zebras and some freaky birds!

Not a zoom lens, not cropped...I was literally 3 feet from this tiger separated by heavy duty glass.  amazing!

Last week, the boys and I headed out to Gavin's 4th birthday party at a local spraypark.  Unfortunately, it was about 70 degrees, breezy and overcast!!!  Do you think that stopped the kids from running through the sprayers and fountains??  Not one bit.  Happy Birthday, Gav!  Thanks for including Hay and Brody in your celebration!

Hayden and Cole filled their cups, threw the water on a sign, giggled uncontrollably and repeated.  They had fun!!

Birthday boy, Gavin!

Cold weather, shmold weather.

Libby and Hayden went CRAZY at the end running through the water together!

Precious :)

For Father's Day this year, we spent the afternoon cooking out and swimming over at Jodi and Jim's house!  The kids had a blast in the pool even though it was only like 75 degrees outside!  They were a little chilled, but had fun nonetheless!  Ky even sucked it up and got in with them :)

Happy happy happy Father's Day, Kylan.  You are an incredible and amazing father.  Can't say enough how much the boys and I appreciate and love you!  XO

Sooo excited that my baby bro came up to visit!  He and Warren (who I've known since he was 11 so is basically like a little bro to me, too) made the trip up last weekend!  We had a great time...saw The Black Keys in concert at White River State Park, walked around Rock The District in downtown Carmel and hung out in the beautiful weather playing out front, fire in the firepit in the evening, watching Dex at night :)  We packed a lot in to just a few days!

Hanging outside!

Mikey and Hay played frisbee for a long time...Mikey was showing him cool tricks :)

Meanwhile, Biz was being hung upside down by Wow-Wow-Woden.

Fraaaaank

At The Black Keys concert!! I know this picture is AWFUL, but it's the only one of the 4 of us!

Me and my honey at the concert :)

Soaking it all in...

Rock the District on Main Street in Carmel!  My two little rockers.

Me and my baby bro-ski.

Ice cream...yum.

Mooore ice cream...haha!

Apparantly my children are ninjas.

Two of my fave guys in the whole world :)

Pa-pa, pa-pa, paparazzi.

What happens when you are thinking about getting another tattoo and your big sister peer pressures you in to doing it.

Haha :)

Hey there, handsome gents!

They'll be good dads some day :)

Woah.  So, life has taken over and this blog seems to get pushed further and further down the list of priorities.  It's all good things happening...business is booming, we're taking trips and having family visit, enjoying the gorgeous weather...you get the idea.  It's not for lack of pictures that I haven't been updating...ohhh no.  Plenty of that going around here! 

So let me start catching up a bit by posting about the trip Me, Hay and Biz took to Birmingham to visit my sis, bro-in-law, nephew and baby Babl to be.  I drove down by myself with the kiddos!  Props to mama!  We had a GREAT time...lots of playground action, McWane Science Center, B'ham Botanical Gardens, meeting up with our Prentice friends from the 'Noog and Gma RoRo drove over for a few days! Good times.

Lots-o-photos...

Hay and Jo playing with the water table on a HOT and humid afternoon

Sweet Jo

We spent about 30 minutes one morning watching a construction site that was action packed with tractors and workers!

Bo-Booooo!

Eating dinner at a yummy restaurant...Hay ordered mac-n-cheese...didn't know it was going to be MASSIVE.

Jen and Ry...aka Aunt J and Uncle Keeks

McWane Science Center!

Boys being musclemen.

Aunt J and Hay making a cloud!

Hayden really really really really loved the entire center...it really was a great age for him to enjoy everything!!

Blowing bubs!

Hay piloting a model airplane with Uncle Keeks and Jo

Biz LOOOVED the wind tunnel...staying in it until it reached about 80mph!!!

Jonah, on the other hand, was not a fan.

Digging for dinos!

Setting up lasers and mirrors :)

Hayden petting a shark in the touch pool!

***Side Note:  We also built an arch out of blocks (not sure where the pic went off to!!), but funny thing is, with 6 college degrees between us 3 adults (me, Jen and Ry) we built it incorrectly the first time!  LOL!  Good thing we're not structural engineers or architects :)

At Railroad Park where we met up with Stacey, Katie Beth and Ben for some play time!

Hayden and Ben were insta-buddies :)

Cutie boys :)

Little KB

B'ham Botanical Gardens!!  What a fab place!  Bummer was that Jonah was having an eye issue (he's fine) and went home with Ry and Biz was a tad under the weather.  We still had fun!

Feeding the koi fish and the turtles!

I took advantage of my under the weather child who wasn't super active and made him pose for some shots ;)

Me and my babies!

We sat with our feet in this pond for about a half hour to cool off!  Hay liked tossing rocks in.

Sooooooo, that's the B'ham trip!

Yesterday evening, we stopped by Gma and Papa Stuck's house to eat pizza and hang out.  Gma had picked up this super rad pedal go-cart at a garage sale and the boys had a BLAST zooming down the driveway hill on it!!

Loooove Hay's face in this one...awesome.

Biz loved rocketing down the hill!

Such a fabulous day yesterday!  The weather was gorgeous which is always a bonus!  I got to sleep in, was brought Starbucks by my lovely husband, hung out with my kiddos, escaped during naptime for some shopping and a nice beverage with my best gal pal (thanks, Tiff!) and then capped off the evening with pizza and some snuggles :)

Happy Mother's Day!!!

I know, I know...it's been almost 3 weeks since my last blog post.  I'm sorry :(  April got away from me so quickly and May is following in that same pattern!  Most of the busy-ness came in the form of my photography business which I'm happy to say is going very very well!  Some exciting things happened in April...new clients that were awesome, I was featured in the local paper (http://issuu.com/currentpublishing/docs/ciw_042611/1 - page 16!), and had a display at the Stutz Annual Open House in the studio!  It really was quite surreal and an amazing experience!  Hopefully I'll be able to share some photos from the open house soon :)

Anyways, on to these handsome young men I get to spend my days with!  The weather was finally warm and not raining yesterday AND Ky returned home from a business trip, so we had some nice family outdoor time after dinner.  The boys had a blast with this cheap-o spinner toy that they got during an Easter egg hunt at aunt Jodi's.

Kid winks at me all the time ;)

Watch 'em fly!

Happy Daddylicious is home :)

I'll *try* to be a little more regular with my posting for my faithful followers!!