We Have TWINS On the Way!

We just wanted to post a little note that we are expecting two new additions to our family this fall. We have been planning to add Baby #3 once Tate had his first birthday, but were a little surprised at our second sonogram to find a tag-along! Over the last week we have slowly adjusted to the idea of having TWO babies and are starting to get excited about the final additions to our family.

South Mountain Creamery

Last friday Nathan and I got to visit the South Mountain Creamery on Alternate Route 40 with his preschool class. It was a great afternoon learning about how the farmers milk cows, run the farm, and make different kinds of milk, cheese, ice cream, butter, cream cheese and so much more from the milk the cows produce!

Nathan loved watching the cows get milked, seeing all the machines on the farm, meeting the baby cows, and getting to eat ice cream. It really is a lot of fun watching a bunch of 3 year olds interact with animals.

I highly recommend a trip to the South Mountain Creamery for anyone who lives close to the Frederick area and who has little ones who love animals. They also sell all kinds of awesome local food and have home delivery for their milk products!

Happy Easter!

We had such a lovely Easter weekend. We started our Easter celebration on friday night with a yummy dinner at Nan's house with my mother's extended family.

Saturday morning my mom and I took the boys to the Easter Egg Hunt at our church. Unfortunately it had been raining all morning, so the egg hunt was moved from outside to inside the church. After the Egg Hunt my cousin Kristy and I took her daughter Courtney, Nathan, and my cousin Melissa's daughter Maddy to Pottery By Me to paint their own pottery for their birthdays. The girls absolutely loved being able to paint the different pottery pieces that they had picked out. Nathan on the other hand was not so thrilled. He had insisted on coming with us, but once there he decided that he really didn't want to paint and spent most of his time annoying the girls by making a big mess of his portion of the table and flicking paint at them with his paint brush. He eventually gave up and started playing with some toys the shop at on hand.

After dropping all the girls off, Nathan and I headed back to Mom and Dad's to dye Easter Eggs with Tate and Aunt Laurie. I think Laurie and I always have more fun dying eggs than the boys do. Nathan dyed about 3 or 4 eggs and decided he was done, but Tate loved it so much he didn't want to stop! Even after we ran out of eggs he refused to get down from the table. He held onto Laurie for dear life everytime someone tried to get him off of her lap. In desperation she finally decided to start re-dying eggs. His favorite part was stirring the egg around in the cup with his spoon.
Easter morning was filled with hunts for Easter baskets left by the Easter Bunny and church activities. Nathan was so excited to help Tate find his basket underneath the kitchen table, but was even more excited to find his own in the refridgerator. After church we went back to Mom and Dad's for more Easter Baskets. Nathan was looking forward to hunting Easter Eggs left by the Easter Bunny for him at Nonny and Pap's, but unforunately the "Easter Bunny" aka Pap had forgotten to hide the Easter Eggs this year. Poor kid. We had a yummy dinner at the Fireside Restaurant in Hagerstown with Nan, Aunt Pam, Aunt Laurie, and Mom's 2 adopted old ladies- Aunt Florence and Elsie. It was a nice day. We celebrated Easter with the Spahr's earlier in the month at a family dinner, and the boys loved all the goodies they received in their Easter Baskets from Meemaw and Poppaw.

Tate's First Haircut

Just before Easter I decided that it was time for time to get his first haircut. His hair was starting to get pretty long around his ears and in the back, but it wasn't until a woman asked me if he was a girl that I decided it was definitely time for his first haircut.

Tate loves going to the salon with me to get Nathan's haircut, he especially loves seeing all the girls who work there, mostly because they talk to him and generally make a big fuss over him. Although when it came time for him to actually get his haircut, he wasn't too sure about it, as you can probably tell from the look on his face in the picture. In the end he did super. He sat in the chair like such a big boy and watched every move Miss Barbara made in the mirror. With his hair cut he looks much less like a baby and a lot more like a toddler.

Tate Loves to Dance!

I have to apologize for the lack of posts lately. Life has been so busy and chaotic in the Spahr household for the last month. Please enjoy the video of our silly Tate.

TJ and I spent 4 days in Charleston, S.C. in March for our 8th Anniversary. It was so nice to get-away while my parents watched the kids for the weekend. We also had the carpet installed in our basement and we've been working very hard to move the toys down there and make it a fun place for the boys to play. Unfortunately we've also spent a good part of the month fighting one flu bug/virus or another. Thank goodness spring is finally here. Both of the boys have been excited to finally get to play outside again on the few rain-free days that we've had.