Merek's 1st Birthday

Merek and his cake with his favorite gorilla toy on it.

Merek's first taste of sweets; yummy!

He stuffed himself full lol!

Merek and his sister Lexi, she was showing him the ropes on opening presents.

Merek not too sure hes suppose to tear this up lol!

Merek liking his new slippers from Grandpa Bruce, Grandma Gloria and Uncle Steve.

Merek with his sisters opening presents

Merek with his shoes from Grandma Rosemarie

Merek with his new slide from Grandma Michele and Grandpa Steve

Merek says, "Ohhh!"

Merek when he first started opening his gifts



Lexi and Merek

                                                                                 

Merek loving his slide, something he can climb and have a ton of fun on!

Snap Shots of Life

The girls before they boarded for their California trip, Nat with the kiddos, Nic and Merek when we were waiting in the airport forever when we went to pick the girls up.

The kids and good times

Nic cleaning routes on a boulder, Mia and her friend and our student Joshua bouldering, Joshua learning the ropes and repelling, Nat by the overhang on the boulder.

Rest time is not often but this day was peaceful, some mommy and baby boy time to just relax for a moment.

Preparing for Easter....the kids coloring eggs, Merek's first Easter and him in wonderment of the eggs, and the surprise of Easter candies awaiting  girls.

Nic climbing and training in our gym

Natalie and Nic have been running up the miles and 5ks, excited for summer climbing, backpacking, and trail running. Merek loves riding in the jogger stroller when we go and the girls are doing awesome at cross country running as well. Besides going with us, they are on the running team at school.

Merek's adventures at the library

Fun and Laughter On Family and Friend Days

With Spring Break here we have been hanging out around town enjoying the days together as a family and with the girls' friends. We celebrated Madi's bday early and had a wonderful time. We also had Mia's BFF over for a few days and had a great time! So far Spring Break has been a lot of fun!

Nic and Natalie

 

Mia, her bff Adrian, Merek, and Lexi

Lexi hanging out with us

Madis friend Annika and Madi in their fort

Merek seeing whats going on

Madis friends at her bday party, this was after cake and presents

Merek and Natalie

Natalie and Merek, Nat was stoked to finally get Merek to sit still long enough for a picture!

And that didn't last long lol: Natalie and Merek

Natalie and Merek hanging out

Its been a great start to break. There is no snow on the ground so the kids are ready to ride bikes again and we are all chomping at the bit to go climbing outside soon. For now, we are all enjoying the time together and looking forward to new adventures soon to come! 

Learning Balance

With the weather being almost 50 degrees and rainy today making the ice to climb melt but still too chilly and wet to make climbing outside any fun and a day off from teaching class we stayed in and played. Merek loves his train push toy so we had a good time scooting that all around the house. The train definitely is helping him find his balance, his center of gravity, and control while walking since he is still learning those skills.  He is not taking steps on his own just yet and he gets stiff in the knees meaning he gets excited and wont bend his legs lol but he relaxes and is comfortable when he is pushing around his train so today that's what we did! :)

Nic started him out with his car to push, this toy was the girls favorite toy when they were learning how to walk.

 

The car is a bit too fast when it rolls however

So Merek got his train and watched Nic do it

Whoa there!

Ok, I got this!

Here we go!

Oops!

Merek figured out he can move faster while on his knees pushing it lol

Merek looking back after he ran into the tv stand lol

ok lets try this again

Merek so happy and having a great time!

After an hour of walking around Merek was done and enjoyed playing with his activities on the train as well as pulling himself up from sitting down to standing before being done with that to explore the house and get into everything else:)

heres where the letter blocks come out...

Nic & Merek

Natalie and Merek

Natalie and Merek

  

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