Shamrocks & Shenenigans 5K Race

This past Sunday, Justin, mommy and daddy participated in the 5K race benefiting UM Mott's Children's hospital. We decked ourselves out in active wear and Irish novelties and made our way through the route. Justin was a little uncooperative so mommy had to disqualify herself a little more than half way through the race to tend to Justin's needs, but daddy continued on and finished for the fam. We caught up with daddy at the very end and about a half a block from the finish daddy grabbed Justin and ran through the finish line with him....(and the crowd went wild arggggggg!) Well, not so much, but we were really proud of daddy! We've decided to try training seriously to participate in another 5k in May; we'll see how that goes. After the race we enjoyed the festivities and the photos speak for themselves. OH! And Justin is going to be in the Ann Arbor News..we'll post that photo as soon as we recieve it! I knew he was going to be famous..now the Ann Arbor News, in the future ESPN!

After the race, hanging with the Leprechaun & Mr. Guiness

Strapping buddy in for the race!

Making our way to the starting line!

Family Pic

Kiss me, I'm Irish!

Mommy and Daddy at Conor O'Neill's

Taking a minute to pose with mama!

Good times with my buddy James!

This past weekend Justin had his friend James over to play. James came all the way from Grand Rapids so Justin was very excited to see his friend, since they don't get to see each other too often. James is several months younger than Justin so we were so happy and impressed how sweet Justin was with him...sharing his toys and giving hugs when James was sad...We love watching Justin interact with other kids; it's the cutest thing ever...

Grammy & Grandma make a visit.

Grammy & Grandpa Hawes were going through Justin withdrawl so they decided to come for a visit. They stayed in a hotel so it was the perfect opportunity for little guy to go for a swim. As you can see, Justin completely enjoyed himself especially with a few pointers and some help from daddy....






After some swimming we all went out to dinner at Weber's to enjoy a nice meal. Justin was quite handsome, sporting his new baseball tie (opening day is right around the corner). He was the cutest thing ever; not to mention one cool dude with his leather jacket and baseball shades (what a spitting image of his daddy)! He was very behaved at dinner too; mama was so proud of him. :)





We just realized we didn't take any photos with grammy and grandpa LOL Opps! Well, we'll have to fix that next time!

19 month bath photos

YIKES! We're really late putting these up! Enjoy the cuteness!


My little handsome guy.

I love this face! Doh!

He hearts his Redwings cup.

Up close and personal!

Mr. Fix-It & the Apprentice...

Last weekend we had a had some issues with the toilet overflowing for no apparent reason. My husband, the manly man, Mr Fix-It came to the rescue and was able to make the repair. I will be the first to admit I would have just went and bought a new toilet. Oh, no, not this man...and where I wasn't sure he was going to be able to do it, he completely proved me wrong...go ahead and quote me...it doesn't happen often...Steven, you were right ;)

Justin was right there the whole time with his little tools trying to help daddy along the way. It was really cute. Infact, he's been wanting to do everything daddy does lately.

Snow Day, Fun Day

Once again, time has slipped away, and life had been very busy so we are behind on our blogging. But in our defense, that is what time is with an almost 2 year old, mad chaos! Might we add, mad chaos we wouldn't trade for the world! :)

We've been dumped on with snow the past couple of weeks so the other day we bundled bumpy up and played outside and hit the playground. Daddy helped him make his first snowball, which they decided would be a good idea to throw at mommy...the poor helpless, defenseless cameraman....Tisk, tisk...He truly is his father! Like father, like son....