The Nolan Family

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day! - 2013

Last week we celebrated Valentine's Day! It was a very low key day including a few gifts, gymnastics, the park, and a spaghetti dinner! Cora has been very excited about Valentine's Day, especially to make Valentines for her brother, friends and cousins. For weeks she has been whispering in my ear "Happy Valentine's Day Mom." And the more she said it, the more she melted my heart! Here are some pictures from our special day:)

Checking out the Valentines they made for each other

Opening her gift...she got Brave!

Very excited about her heart candy!

Checking out their gifts!

Simply impossible to get a picture of the both of them looking lately!

This past weekend Cora went to her good friend Talia's birthday party!

Just love this sweet face!

She finished her gymnastics session (post Valentine's Day!)!

Random picture of Josh and his pretty cousin:)

Cora ready to go to school for her Valentine's Party!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Great Wolf Lodge!

Great news in the Nolan household...we are all well! After two weeks of sickness traveling through the house, we are finally all well! It was a long, long two weeks...is it Spring yet?! Last week I was on vacation so Kelly and I decided to go to Great Wolf Lodge for an overnight stay. It was nice to get away for a night. Nana kept Josh which helped out a ton! The girls were so excited to get there and ready to get started. Kelly and I discovered that we could take the kids on the bigger rides a couple hours after getting there....and then it became fun!! We were surprised that the girls even liked the bigger rides...especially Ellie! It was a fun and interesting trip to say the least! I didn't get too many pictures, simply because it was very wet there:) But overall we had a great time!!! Now we are ready for Water Country USA this summer!!!

A little waterslide!

Loving the water! What a happy girl!

What sweet cousins!

The girls are ready to go!!

Posing in the lobby...what else?!

Kelly and I look tired, very tired:)

A lot of water, very loud, but very fun:)

Beautiful weather and a well household!

Hanging out with his cousins!

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Old Friends and Snow!

Last week we finally had our first snow in Richmond. It was not very much, but we were all excited for it, especially Cora! We waited all day for it to start snowing...and it finally arrived that evening. Josh had so much fun playing with his older sister in the snow. I had to work the day after, but Sam got to stay home and enjoy it with the kids. From what I hear, they all had a blast!
The next day, we had a small dinner party with some of my old friends from high school. Court Lawler is one of my oldest friends, probably the oldest! I got to meet his wife Nadia, and his kids Ashton and Scarlett. The kids had an awesome time together!! We also had Brad Tunstall over with his wife and son. I have become good friends with his wife Meg, and their son John Thomas is close to Josh's age! We had a great time...ate lots of pizza and drank lots of wine!

Waiting all day for snow!

Ready to go out right when it started! About 6PM!

Taking Lena out too!

Blurry picture but so excited!

Snow Day!

They pulled each other in the sled..Cora is a little too big for this baby sled!

Making a snowman!

John Thomas enjoying a cupcake!

Proud of their snowman...with no head!?

Court's daughter, Scarlett

Cora and Ashton!

Daddy and Josh!

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

UR and My Birthday!

Last week Kelly and I took the kids to the University of Richmond to walk around the lake. It was a beautiful day so we packed our lunch and headed there after Gymnastics. It was so nice to be outside. We ended the afternoon at Sweet Frog. It was so nice to hang out with Kelly and my nieces. I absolutely love having our kids around the same age. They are all so close and are truly best friends.
On Saturday we celebrated my 31st Birthday and Nana and Pop's! We had dinner, cake, and present opening. The kids had fun playing, the men watched football, and the women chatted. Couldn't ask for a more perfect birthday with the people I love most!

Best of friends...

Feeding the ducks!

Josh LOVED feeding the ducks!

Here he goes!

Josh and Ellie are two peas in a pod!

Love this picture of us:)

The group at Nana and Pops!

Blowing out candles with my loves!

Ready for 2013!

We hope everyone had a wonderful New Year...2013 is here! As usual, we had a low key new year. We went over to Aunt Susie and Uncle Gerald's for a few hours and were sleeping by midnight! Here are some random pictures from 2013 so far!