January Bunco

Bunco is back in business! The bunco group took December off due to the craziness of the holidays and last night started the new year. Katie kicked it off with a spa themed bunco. We were in our comfy robes and slippers and enjoyed the yummy Sangrias she served up. In fact, i may have enjoyed them too much:).

Here's Katie...our hostess with the mostess!!

Some of the girls in the group. We had 14 players last night and I won $40!!!Me and Laura with our first Sangria's...Me and Alisha after many Sangrias!!

Playgroup Family Night

Tina hosted tuesday playgroup family night at her house last night. We had a fantastic time and enjoyed the Chili she made for the group. Cole had fun playing with his friends and Chad enjoyed hanging out with the husbands. It's amazing that Cole was 8 months old when we joined Tuesday playgroup and now all of our babies are not babies anymore and there are now 15 kids in the group with all the new siblings! Looking forward to February's trip to the zoo and the private tour!

Carson and the army crawl

So yesterday was a big day in our house. Cole learned to ride and Carson started the army crawl. It's all downhill from here. Just kidding! It is so exciting to see my boys grow up and move to the next stage in life. I am so fortunate to be able to be at home and witness all of their firsts. Daddy works hard for us to have me at home, so I try and run to get the camera to capture these precious moments.

Bike Riding

Cole can ride a big boy bike! Chad got Cole a big boy bike for Christmas. His train table and scooter far outshined his bike so he wanted nothing to do with it. Yesterday morning i got the bike out and he hasn't gotten off since. It took him all of about 2 minutes to figure out how it worked. The video below is of our first bike ride to the mail box. Now, i am running down the street pulling Carson in the wagon to catch up to him. I think i had about 6 near heart attacks yesterday. I will be skinny in no time at this rate.

Superstition Farm Tour

The boys and I went with my MOMS Club on a tour of a local farm. We had so much fun and learned quite a bit. Did you know that the brown cows milk is used for ice cream and butter and the black and white cows are just for milk? Did you also know that all the cows on the dairy farm have magnets in their tummys? Want to know why...if they happen to swallow a screw it will stick to the magnet in their stomach and the acids will dissolve it which will prevent the screw from passing through their digestive tract which would kill them. Who-da thunk?

We took a hayride around the farm to see all the cows and how they make the feed After the hayride we got to feed the goats!! Carson had fun watching his brother.If you live in Arizona and you want to support Arizona farmers and buy the freshest milk Bashas Brand, Safeway, Lucern, Frys and Shamrock's milk are straight from the farms and the freshest you can get. I also learned that you have 7 days after the sell by date that's printed on the gallon.

NFC Championship Game

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!! Chad and I went to the Cardinals game yesterday and had a B-L-A-S-T! My Dad and his wife flew in from Philly to go to the game with us.

The game started at 1pm and we left at 8:45am to head down to the stadium to tailgate. We arrived at 9:30am and it was already packed. We grilled Carne Asada, watched the pre-game and tossed the football around. We knew it was going to be busy so we packed it up at noon to head into the stadium. It was croweded getting through security, then you had to wait again just to get in. Once in, we got our NFC Championship Towl and were ready to cheer for the Cardinals. Jordin Sparks kicked it off by singing the national anthem and did an amazing job and Collective Soul performed at half-time. The game was amazing and we never sat down. We protected the nest!! Next up, superbowl victory!!

Happy Birthday Chad/Daddy!

Friday was Chad's 35th birthday. We met Chad for lunch at a park near his work and had a picnic with the boys. The boys had fun seeing him and Cole was sad when he had to go back to work. After nap time Cole and I had fun figer painting Dad's birthday decorations for our pizza party that evening with his parents. Happy Birthday Chad!

Cole working on his birthday decorations for Daddy!

Our finished masterpieceOne of Chad's presents was a Suns Jersery from his parents.Cole was ready to eat cake. He had been eyeing it all day!!!

Finger licking good!

enough said....

Metro Light Rail

The Perham Family along with Grandma Linda and the Young Family rode Phoenix's new transit system... the Metro Light Rail. The light rail opened about a week ago and runs from Mesa to Phoneix in one direction only E/W. We boarded the rail at the first station in Mesa and took it to down town Phoenix for Lunch. It was an hour each way and the kids had so much fun. Here are some pictures of our adventure:

The Perham and Young Family

Cole anxiously awaiting to board the "train"

Wow Dad, this is so flippin cool!!Mommy I am tired!Cole starting to loose it. He did great until about the last 10 minutes. It was time to exit the rail and go home for some much needed naps. Can't wait till the rail can take us to the Cardinals game. That will be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 months

It has taken me more than 8 months to paint over Cole's name and paint Carson's name on his wall. He is offically #2. I would of never waited 8 months to do Cole's room. Cole's nursery was completed probably right after we found out he was a boy and his new big boy room around 15 months. Poor Carson. I do feel like a bad mommy and won't let this happen again.
I had painted the airplane to match the quilt that is in the room well over 2 years ago so the hard part was done. All I had to do was paint over Cole's name and add Carson's.Cole playing in Carson's room with some of his toys! Carson just loves his big brother to pieces and thinks he is super funny. Cole can get carson laughing like no tomorrow. I can't wait until they are able to play together.My baby at 8 months. Where the time has gone is beyond me. Who knew that both of my boys could be so amazing. They are such bright, cheerful and lovable boys. Carson is always so happy and can't wait to be big.

Craft Day

What a fun day I had today. I met with my craft friends and we made photo boards. I have been wanting to make one for Cole's room and finally did. I picked out fabric and ribbon that matched his window treatment for his race car room. Here is a pic -

While at the fabric store buying the fabric for Cole's photo board, i bought some extra cuddly fabric and made Carson a little blankie! He loves it. Carson loves to snuggle with blankies while he sucks his thumb. Once his thumb goes in, that's when you know he is sleepy.

Goodbye Grandma and Grandpa

Our house is now empty and the boys sure do miss everyone. Everytime Cole hears a males voice he looks at me and says "Grand pa pa" hoping that maybe Grandpa is coming back. We miss them already and can't wait to see them soon!!

Go Cardinals!!!

Chad and I have had Cardinal football season tickets for the last 3 years and my husband is the biggest Cardinals fan. Yesterday we went to the first home playoff game in over 61 years. We had so much fun watching the game and stood and cheered for our team the entire game. It paid off as the Cardinals won! We are hoping for a victory next weekend.

Kicks for kids

Cole had his first soccer class yesterday - kicks for kids offered through Chandler Parks and Rec. Basically, it's a bunch of 2 year olds running around like chickens! Cole was more interested in the hot air balloons taking off and waving bye bye to them. The class is 6 weeks and we are looking forward to watching Cole play.

They started practice off with stretching. Cole wanted no part of the jumping jacks!

Next up was teching the kids how to dribble (notice the hot air balloons in the background)

Let's forget the dribbling and shoot some goals!!

Go Team!!

Whirwind week!

Here are some pictures from all the festivites this past week. We had Christmas with my Mom, Christmas with my Dad and celebrated Cami's birthday. My brother and his family have left town but my Dad and Cindy are here till Tuesday. We are enjoying their visit and the boys like getting to see Grandpa Chuck and Grandma Cindy. We will be sad when they leave.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! The Perham Gang is heading to Peter Piper Pizza today for Cami's 7th birthday! We have been busy the past couple of days with family in town. We celebrated Christmas on Tuesday night with my Mom, Christmas/New Years Wednesday with my Dad and now a birthday party. Cole has had fun playing non-stop with his cousins. Pictures to come soon.

CHEERS TO A NEW YEAR!!