Konnor's 2nd Birthday Party

Konnor will be 2 this Wednesday the 24th. On Saturday we celebrated Konnor's birthday with the whole O'Brien family. We had a lot of fun. Of course it started off with the traditional pizza meal, then off to swimming for at least 2hrs, then presents and cake.

Grams and Calli took other pics of the fun too. Thanks everyone for the great gifts he loves them.

Way long ago

A while back like hum Easter weekend gma (Zane's mom) came to visit and here are slide shows of that great trip.

Gma came on Wednesday night to visit with us. I had to work Thursday morning then we had lunch and headed to the Dallas zoo. We all had a blast! We rented one of the wagons and that was their first wagon ride. We found out that the best way to see half the zoo was to ride the tram, no chasing the boys or trying hard to get them to look. It was great we just sat back and looked at everything. We got to see some things like the waterfall which you can only see on the tram not by walking. Then off to the other side of the zoo with a detour at the Merry go round. Really not much at the other side that day they went straight to the water to play and we missed the other fun stuff by 30 min, oh well they didn't know they missed anything. Pictures show how much fun they had in the water. Luckily I remembered spare clothes this time.

Friday I cant remember what we did, sadly no pictures to remind me. OH wait I worked the morning, we had lunch and then went to see Monsters vs Aliens. We had a relaxing day.

Saturday we went to the Lifetime Easter Party. Again lots of fun, bounce houses, face painting, egg hunt, music, crafts, food, and pictures with the Easter Bunny.

Afterwords we went home and made sugar cookies, and decorated some, went to the park and played and flied some kites too.

On Easter after church we had a egg hunt at our house in costumes, oh yes costumes. Then we headed out to Calli's house for the family gathering and a real Egg Hunt. They even put one in the pool for Colton to get. We then decorated more cookies and hung out. Lots of fun again.

Grandma thanks so much for coming we had a blast having you here with us.

Big boy Konnor

Today just a few minutes ago Konnor requested to go to the potty so I said sure thing. I had just taken Keegan a few seconds before that. At my amazement when I put him up he pushed and farted then pushed again and did a number 2 on the potty. I am so happy for the big boy he told me he needed to go and he did it. Yippy!!! Now we just gotta see if he will keep on with it I guess. Maybe time for underwear hmm, we will see. Yippy I am so excited.

Keegan's School Picture

Our little boy is growing up on us, he just got his first school picture taken. If you have noticed any trend in our usual pictures our boys dont like to look at the camera or anything like that so we are extremely excited about this picture. He looks like such a big kid and a model too. Here is my parent bias now, he is the most adorable and cutest little dude.

First Dentist Visit

We postponed the first visit long enough. Last Friday Zane took Keegan for his very first check up. Apparently he had to hold him down fighting for him to even look in his mouth. We found he had 2 cavities to fix and a chipped tooth. So today Zane took him again to get the work done. By the experience at the previous visit they knew they would need to partially sedate the kid first. So he got his silly juice and watched cartoons till it took affect.

Once he got all loopy they got to work and fixed him all up.

No we gotta get Konnor to the dentist, because I think he has a questionable tooth.

Patio Fun

Check out what I have mom, haha

In or out im not really sure what I want

Zane is such an awesome dad. I love how he is so willing to take the boys and do anything they want him to do. This particular day they were both in awful moods all day for me at work and at first with Zane too. While I was making dinner he got out the bubbles and they had a blast and wanted to hold the bottles themselves. I would never do in the patio because of the mess but the care free man says sure buddy go for it, they only dumped one small container each, not to bad I guess. I took a peak outside and Konnor had the bubble wand in his mouth trying to figure it out but no biggie his container was empty it had already been spilled out. They love basketball too, Konnor is pretty good check out his shot.

Awesome shot man

I told you I could do it

St Patricks

As Ashli being a bit Irish with the maiden name of O'Brien we were lucky to have had gma Brown find these awesome shirts for the boys. Not many people would think of them as Irish because its not so name obvious anymore. But here they are our supper cute pasty white little boys in their fancy new shirts.

Happy 4th Birthday Keegan!!!

We cant believe our little Keegan is 4 now. He is such a big happy boy. His 4 year check up is next friday so we will get his stats then but roughly by guess 40lbs and 41 in. He is doing amazing at his new school, he is learning so much these days. He can now say all his abc and count to 10, and tonight in his bath he was singing twinkle twinkle little star. We know he is an amazing smart kiddo he just has a hard time getting it out in ways we all understand but he is improving so much with the help of his teachers at his special school.
This morining he came out of his room ran through the streamers at the hall and jumped up and down when he saw his present from us, a brand new big kid basketball hoop.

After Ashli got off work and Keegan finished swim lessons we all got home just in time for the family to come over to celebrate. We had papa johns pizza, then hung out and played. Then opened the presents, Keegan got awesome stuff he was so excited.

Gma and Gpa got him a soccer goal for the yard and some learning practice books

Calli, Joel, Colton and Danika got him baseball bases and a basketball

from ggma and ggpa Mikkelsen a train starter set

Here is the awesome cake I made its a baseball mit and cupcakes as baseballs.mmm mmm good

Keegan Our Bus Rider Now

Well our little Keegan has now moved on up with the big boys and is riding the school bus to preschool. Today was his first day! I am so excited! I was bouncing around all morning trying to make it a fun experience for him, since I didnt know if he understood me or not since he had never ridden a bus before. He walked out like such a big kid and when we had him turn for a picture he was like gezz mom whats the big deal. Then turned around climbed right on and let the bus aid put him in his harness on the seat. I am so proud he didnt get sad or anything he just did it like he was thinking yes finally I get to ride the bus. I was waving like the giddy proud momma and he waved back at me with the look of again whats the big deal mom. I guess we will see what he thinks when he gets to do it everyday.


And here is our sad Konnor who missed his Keegan and wondered what that big yellow thing was he just climbed on and why mom was so excited about it. We then asked him where Keegan went and the second picture was his reply, notice hands up in the i dont know position.



Our little Keegan loved the bus as his teacher brought him out after school. This then became very obvious that this was his new prefered mode of travel to and from. The second he saw me and our car he dropped to the ground and said " no no no i on bus i on bus" it was so cute but also so sad. He will get to ride to school ever day but not home since I work. Either Zane will pick him up and bring him to me or I get him and we rush to be on time to work.

JJ Jump

While in Portland we went to a awesome place called JJ Jump . We went with Heather and her kids and two of their neighbor kids. We all had a great time. Keegan is and has always been our jumping master but when he found the enormous swing we found his favorite thing. He did it 4 times, the last time he even pulled the release handle himself instead of being pushed. It was so cute he couldnt reach it so he grabbed the rope and pulled himself close enough to the handle to do it alll by himself. Konnor wanted a little bit of everything, he even did the obstacle course with a little help from mom.