The Hartnett Family

April 20, 2011

Swingset House

Mason playing in the big pile of sand

Wee...sliding down the hill

Mason playing while Daddy builds the playset

The finished project

Corben & Mason's new clubhouse/fort/swingset

Swinging with Daddy

Nonie sitting on the bench watching Mason swing.

Thanks Pop & Nonie for helping us build this playset.

Mason and Corben exploring

Daddy with the kids on the second story!

Mason looking out of the top story!

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The kids are going to love this playset for years to come!

Sprinkle cookies

Corben & Mason putting sprinkles on cookies to share with Pop & Nonie

April 17, 2011

Sprinklers

Mason was leading the two into the wer sprinklers

Getting wet

Love this action shot and their faces!

April 9, 2011

1st garden strawberries..

The kids have another scarecrow...Bunny!

Notice the asparagus inbetween my Texas sweet onions!

Asparagus is about the cutest thing sprouting up!!

Kids eating some of our first strawberries from our garden!

They love picking from our garden and eating while outside..such a treat!

Swim lessons with Lauren

Today Mason's swim teacher was Lauren

This is the first time Mason has put her head up while kicking on the frog and actually kicked her way to the toys they threw in the water!

Mason swimming over to the wall

Mason monkey crawling a long way (without help)

towards the step she gets a little tired and reached for Lauren

Corben kicking strong

Miss Lauren has Corben shoot off like a rocket when he is swimming

Another rocket

Corben swimming back to the steps

Corben floating, anytime Lauren moved her hands Corben reached for her, but he was improving and she only had one finger touching him.

BIG jump into the pool

1st day of Preschool

Let me just first say that I forgot to take the picture in the morning....

so this is when I picked him up.

Honestly his clothes were matching in the morning,

but two pee accidents later and this was how I picked him up.

He was happy, but hungry and thirsty.

His teacher Miss Rachael said he didn't eat much and didn't drink the milk they provided...he wanted his water, next time he will have to ask for his water.

Mason was so excited to pick up brother!

They held hands in the car on the ride home.

(while Corben was eating any snack I could find and he also devoured his dinner that night).

April 6, 2011

Last night While sitting in the bathroom before bath time. Corben was sitting on a stool 'reading' a book.....and he looked up at me and said, "I need a Bible (pause)....a Jesus Bible".

He is such a sweet boy and I wanted to record this date and memory.

Tonight at bible study, a dear friend gave me a list of age appropriate children's Bibles!
So grateful to God for these amazing times in our lives!

April 4, 2011

Mason Kate 18 months

Love this sweet, wild, crazy, giggly little girl.

Mason has 9 teeth, two dimples, chubby belly and the need for speed (all the time).

She is saying many words: heart, star, fish, more, please, thank you, yes, all done, cat, bird, hat, diaper, shoes, socks, bath, eyes, kiss, hi, bye, momma, dadda, brother, papa, kick, ut-oh (etc, too many for me to think of).

She loves to run, sit on your lap, pat your back, play with her dolls, play trains with brother (really anything brother is doing she would love to do). She looks up to him and just adores Corben!