FINALLY!!!

I have been busy...Craig has been gone...I got a job (one that pays actual money!!) in addition to all the other stuff I keep myself busy with. So, I have not been taking a lot of pictures. I vow to get better at juggling it all because it's not cool to go more than a month without posting. So, here's a brief recap of January.

Kelan rocking out on the back deck before his haircut...

Kelan after his haircut, eating yogurt and brown rice, breakfast of champions...

Jak lost his first tooth...

The boys were cooped up for a 5-day weekend due to "snow", so to use some of that pent up energy, I had them do my Insanity workouts with me. Kai was AWESOME and finished them with me. Not a small feat. :)

Not sure what Kelan is doing here, but this is the "snow" that the boys missed THREE days of school for. I mean, come on...we couldn't even make a snowman!

Mr. Chill.

The boys pretending to be cats.

Jak is an awesome artist...

...and a well dressed man...

More to come, and soon...I promise. xoxo

Twas the night before Christmas.... Jak writing a letter to Santa.

WOOHOO!!! Christmas Morning!!!

Kelan...silly...

Daddy rockin out on the Paper Jamz drum kit. In a moment you'll see why this toy will receive very little attention...

OH MY GOSH! A NEW SKATEBOARD?!?

You can try if you want, but you might never be as fly as Jak.

Papa and Gramma knocked it out of the ballpark...Udraw for the Wii. :)

Because we don't have enough matchbox cars in our house...

IRONMAN!!!

(I'm trying to match the enthusiasm of the morning by using all caps...)

A BATCAVE!!! Once again, Papa and Gramma... home run...

Kai taking his new bike out for a spin...pretty sweet...All in all a pretty awesome Christmas morning for the Slagowski boys...and then we asked them to take the wrapping paper onto the back porch....

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Yep. A drum kit.

We'll call him "Animal".

Luckily, they all have a certain amount of natural rhythm... so it's not really all THAT bad.

Jak loves his mommy :)

Here we are making monkey bread. Jak did an awesome job cutting up the biscuits.

Tada!!

Ok, enough of that...let's head to the beach!!

Go Kelan Go!!

I don't know. Running just seemed like the thing to do.

Nothing like the beach with the family on Christmas...

:)

Kai.

He's such a little gremlin.

Driving in circles in the sand with his Ironman motorcycle.

More Kai.

Kai chasing Kelan.

Undoubtedly pondering chasing the seagulls...

More running.

Happy Jackson.

Sand angels.

Silly...

Kai chillin in a beach chair.

Kelan looks so sweet and innocent, doesn't he?

Every time we head to the boardwalk, we are woefully reminded that Britt's Donuts is closed for the season... Boo.

We love and miss all of our family and friends that we couldn't be with this holiday season. We are with you in spirit, and perhaps often on the phone, but nothing beats the real deal and we hope to spend some good quality family time with all of you as soon as humanly possible. Merry Christmas to you all!!!

Kelan rocks. Here playing the Wii guitar to Spongebob's "We are the Champions"... left-handed even...

Snowflake party!! I honed my snowflake cutting skills as the boys honed their ability to put glitter in places it could not be removed from for weeks...

Jak being utterly artistic with glitter...

Making such beautiful snowflakes to hang in the window.

Such concentration.

Did I mention the glitter mess? Still finding glitter on the table, in my hair, on our clothes. But hey, it's good to be sparkly.