What's up with the Whetzels...

A bit to catch you up on.....nothing major, but life just keeps going on! I can't believe that Josh will be 1 year old in 10 weeks! Enjoy some pictures and commentary!

These deer were seen at the bottom of our hill- just standing out there in the road. About 5 of them bounded across the road in front of Mike the other evening.... tis spring!

My boys in various greens for St. Patrick's Day!

And we're on the move.... not crawling yet, but that doesn't stop him from moving around... rolling, rolling here we go!!!


Nate having fun putting the clothes basket on top of Josh and then climbing on it.... Nate, don't trap your brother.....

Can a baby be insanely happy? I think I just found one.....

Loving the riding toy!

Like I said- insanely happy, and REALLY loving the riding toy....

He rolls under all sorts of things....


And is so happy about it.....

He likes standing.. here he's peeking inside a house that Nate and Papa built....

Like I said before- likes getting into precarious positions....and

sometimes he needs help to get out of them....


Nate wanted to snuggle on the couch with his brother, and Josh loved the idea...for a bit...

Nate is happy to be an older brother.... most of the time :)

Nate enjoying Sunday morning waffles...and Josh lovin' sitting at the little table for the first time!

This is the ear protection that we bought for Nate for his surprise trip to the Monster Truck show! I'll have to get picture off Mike's phone to post on here.... and Josh happy to try them on...

I needed to occupy him in the kitchen so that I could get dinner going... he loved pulling out the tupperware!

Baby going for a ride!


Nate wanting to jump into the picture.....

Easter egg hunt at the #1 Cycle Center... (Harley Davidson)- good turn out, and a fun time... need more eggs in the youngest category though.... kids cry if they don't get any....



Grandad helping to count the eggs that Nate found...

Easter baskets

Nate opening his Easter basket

Fun shirts from Grandma and Grandad

Nate (sporting a new hair cut and wearing his Star Wars apron) helping Grandma in the kitchen at Easter making the bunny cake.

"Helping" grandma...


And the finished product! Kind of looks like its bleeding from the mouth.. the jelly beans ran in the icing in the frig! Nate did a good job helping Grandma! (Notice the rice crispie basket ontop of the bunny... its a "fire engine bunny" so says Nate...)

Hope everyone had a happy Easter!

'Til next time!

Brothers

Look alike much?

Nate 6 months old

Josh 7 months old

Wait... I'm writing on here again?

Back by popular demand (well, Mike can't check facebook at work, so he requested that I update the blog so he can look at pics of his kids...)! So a year and a half later, and another addition to our family, enjoy an update!!

Got my toes!

Learning how to do laundry....er... sit in laundry....
Nate did this all by himself! Pretty cool eh?



Josh laughing at his brother....





Is that a chirping bird? Nope, that's Josh just expanding his voice :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We had a great time. On Friday, Nate's class all had a Halloween party and dressed up and had a parade during the day. Nate went as a skeleton!

Nate and some of his friends at school....

Nate and Johnny!

(Nate with his mask on and Johnny the dinosaur!)

Now I know that gingerbread houses are for Christmas...but Walmart had this "chocolate" house kit to build, so Nate and I did this on Saturday morning... I let him loose with the icing bad..... lets just say that black icing is a BAD idea :)

Just thought this face was funny!

Nate's costume round 2- we were invited to a Halloween birthday party and subsequent trick or treating over in Bellefonte- we had a fabulous time! Nate has been expressing an interest in Scooby Doo lately (ever since our trip to the beach- thank goodness for portable DVD players!) so I thought I'd try to find a Scooby costume.... so using points I had for Amazon.com, I got this costume for $1.43!! I couldnt' resist...and I didn't want him to get something on it at school, and hence why we went him in the skeleton for school (I picked that up at the consignment sale....).

The 4 youngsters that went trick or treating- the twins are superman and fairy princess! :)

Fun Halloween night shot.... Bellefonte- Curtain street- was super fun to trick or treat on! :) The kids lasted for quite a while- Nate wanted to be carried pretty quickly though..... by the end the kids were having a blast jumping in the piles of leaves....the whole candy thing was getting old :)

We've been doing some Christmas/birthday shopping already- with 75% of our family with Nov/Dec/Jan birthdays as well as Christmas, we're trying to be smart about it.... anyway, the last order came in a BIG box....so big Nate could fit in it!

Where's Nate????

Before the snow...

Forgot to post some pictures from the Way Fruit Farm festival from last weekend.... Hey Mom, this pumpkin is bigger than I am!!

Tractor ride!

Brrrr.... it was COLD!

Sweet Nov Rain....er... Oct snow?

State College officially broke a record for the earliest recorded snow fall. The record has stood since Oct 18th 1901. Well, on Oct 16th, we woke up to 5 inches of snow on the ground!





Tree branches were down everywhere.... it was so weird to see the snow covering green leaves! The leaves hadn't even fully changed around us yet!






Snow family!





Nate's dinosaur hat!