POPSICLES!

I couldn't decide which pictures I liked the best during this popsicle eating frenzy so please excuse the 256 photos of the popsicle photo session. :0)


I asked Ashlyn and Jaedyn to give a thumbs up and Ashlyn was having trouble...apparently this stressed Jaedyn out.

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Such a good sharer....

So glad that my kids don't mind my camera lens in their face everyday!!




These guys are constantly cracking each other up...so cute.






And a random picture from the WAP...

The Glow Stick Frenzy

One of our favorite activities...going into the bathroom with our glow sticks in the pitch black and waving our glow sticks around like crazy. Come on....you know you want to try it. Just be prepared...after waving these suckers around with the door shut you'll burn about 500 calories in 10 minutes! :)

Hello...my name is air traffic controller Rob. The runway is clear for takeoff.


don't miss Jaedyn's face in the above picture...he of course turned the light sticks into drum sticks....take a look at the short clip below (this was just after he got home from STOMP)

Mother's Day Tea

I had a very relaxing morning with these wonderful moms on Mother's Day. Allison invited me over to her grandmother's house for a special mother's day brunch and tea party. It was delicious, relaxing and wonderful all at the same time. Allison's mom made different kinds of finger sandwiches, quiche, scones with homemade whipped cream and jam, different kinds of teas and some other treats. Thank you again my friend for making me feel loved. :)

Happy Easter...a little late!

This year we decided to put a nay on the RB Community Park Easter fight for your life to get an egg hunt and instead stayed within our condo community and had a nice, calm egg hunt with some of the neighborhood kids. We did an interesting version of the limbo, tried to balance a ball on a wooden paddle, had a potato sac race and the morning ended with the egg hunt.











On Easter day we went to Church and then Rob took Jaedyn to see STOMP which he absolutely loved. Allison had Easter brunch over at her house with her family so Ashlyn and I joined in with the Gharsts (again...thank you!!!!) for some yummy food. As you can see from the picture below Ashlyn adores her little friend Lilly and had a super fun day hanging with her little buddy.

Buddy Rich, Neal Peart or Jaedyn Crockett?

I realized recently that it had been a super duper long time since I recorded our little drummer. Here's a short clip from some drumming in April. Self taught, seriously gifted and inspired by Shane Hartgrave, Buddy Rich, Neal Peart and Animal. :)

The last toss...

I know that I'm a little biased because she's mine, but don't you just want to smother this cute little face with kisses? :)

A new skill that dad busted out that A and J found quite entertaining....head butting.

A few tosses in the air...one of A's favorite activities...




And quite possibly the last toss for Jaedyn...all 38 lbs of him....Rob looks like he's going to burst.

The parking lot will do...

Mr. Jaedyn and I spend a large amount of time in our parking lot. Our schedule while Ashlyn naps consists of 1. playing the drums in the garage 2. doing a couple of laps on his bike 3. playing bop the ball 4. playing hockey. It works out well because when we are inside I constantly am telling Jaedyn to be quiet which gets annoying for me and I'm sure doubly annoying for him. And it gives us a little one on one time which is nice. I'm so glad that I grabbed my camera on this day as these are some of my favorite pictures of Jaedyn. They really capture his personality and that cute little smile!





We gave Jaedyn this bike at Christmas time and he was super duper nervous about it. He wouldn't ride it at all and I had to pretty much force him to ride it. We started with very short rides near the garage (and I mean short!) where he demanded that I held on to him for the entire time. Now Jaedyn is riding all by himself pretty confidently and is really beginning to like his bike as you can see by the picture!



Taking a moment to think about what "song he's going to play next"....