Walking Shus

A couple weeks ago our family participated in the Great Strides Walk in Huntington Beach to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. If you don't know about this degenerative disease you should check out the Cystic Fibrosis website. It is a very devastating disease and one I'm so grateful neither of my children have. Kyle and I really want to raise Katelyn and Brayden with a mindset for philanthropy so we decided that we would be apart of organizations and events that will teach them how to give back to others. They may be young now, but it's never to early to start teaching them to love on others the way their Jesus loves them! I was so proud of Katelyn. She made the choice to walk almost the entire time rather than riding in the stroller. It was a 5 mile walk, and I'm pretty sure she walked over 1/2 of it! Our team raised a little over $1000 for the organization. Thanks to everyone who joined our team, we had such a wonderful time!

My first Giveaway!

I've been so excited to share this giveaway with you for the last several weeks.

Mommies get Excited! I've got the perfect gift for you. I've teamed up with my friend Emmy at Confessions of a Paper Freak to do a giveaway of one of my adorable Infant Car Seat Canopies. I met Emmy at a boutique last fall and fell in LOVE with her paper products. My love for her products spread to my friends and I'm sure you will all love them too!

Back to the giveaway. Want to know which canopy is up for grabs?

This one...

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Good luck!

A visit from Danny

My cousin Danny is on break for college for the summer and he is driving cross country visiting friends and family along the way. He was in the Air Force for 4 years, including 1 trip to Afghanistan and is now attending a university for aeronautical engineering. It was so much fun having him here visiting and it gave me a break from entertaining 2 kids all day. Katelyn loved having him around and ran around yelling, "Danny," which she pronounced Dhanneee, like a British person. Too cute!!

Katelyn's turning 2

Last weekend we had Katelyn's pictures taken for her birthday invitation. Our friend Matt Gruber dabbles in photography and he volunteered to take Katelyn's pictures and design her birthday invitation. For which I am completely grateful. Here's a short video of the pictures he took. Thanks again Matt!!

Fun in the sun...

The weather in Southern California has been amazing the last couple of weeks. I've been fully taking advantage of it with the kids. 

We went on play dates at Irvine Spectrum...

and we stayed home and had play dates here at the house...

Treats

Last Saturday we had Katelyn's 2nd birthday pictures taken for her invitation. (Pictures to come soon). After her pictures we went to dinner with our good friends the Grubers, then headed to Tutti Frutti for some dessert. Katelyn did such a good job we treated her to her own little ice cream treat. She loved it!

Random Happenings

It gets pretty crazy around our house some days. I had to share some of these random happenings with all of you.

What kind of random things happen in your house?

I was pumping milk one morning and this is what I discovered when I was done. Poor guy.

Katelyn loves to take pictures with here baby brother. She asks me daily!

This is a picture of our morning routine. The kids will watch a 15 minute episode of Chuggington when they wake up while Katelyn drinks her milk. Some of her first words in the morning are "Chugntin" and "Nemo"

Cuddling in Mommy and Daddy's bed before bedtime

This is what happens when Daddy doesn't shut the bedroom door when he takes a shower. Katelyn put these on all by herself. Don't worry they're clean!

I love my munchkins!!!