A Bitter Sweet Day

So today we got our first REAL now of the year and its beautiful and surprisingly its not that cold out! As much as i hate the snow here the first snow is always pretty.

Rio woke up feeling a little icky im not sure if hes actully sick or if hes because SOMEONE turned up the heat last night and we woke up to a 80 degree house! Rio was in long pants and sleeves so im not sure if he was hot from the heat or if he has a bug. After some breakfast and some motrin he seems a little better but not good enough for me to let him play in the snow :( so we are inside today.

some info i want to share with you

Lots of people ask us why Rio and Milo are still Rear Facing when the law says we can turn him around at 1 year and 20lbs. Well i have done lots and lots of research on car seat safety because as a parent we both want to make the best choice for our children and car accidents being the leading cause of death for children in the US made carseat safety a very serious matter for us! After doing a lot of research we agreed to keep our children rear facing until they reach the 35lbs weight limit of their seats because the risks of a neck injury is 75% less likely when rear facing! here are a few crash test videos to show you the difference

Here is a crash test of a child FORWARD facing (notice how the head is thrown forward)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFPSStXfqE

and here is a child REAR facing (like our boys in our car)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62Ea8Fs4ng

now you tell me which one would you rather be in? which one of those dummies would you like to be your child/grandchild?

and here is a video all about rear facing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2DVfqFhseo

and heres another video on carseat safety this one is about 5pt harnesses (our boys will be harnessed until they are 65lbs) booster seats are for BIG kids not little ones ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azgBhZfcqaQ

if you have read this blog and watched the videos i want to thank you for attention!! so many people ignore this type of stuff and its really important to me and it is a passion of me ... some day id love to become certified in car seat safety and help other families keep their children safe

Rio got a hair cut

Here are some pics to show Rio's new do!

burrrr our last walk to the park this year

boy oh boy it was COLD ... it was surely be the last time at the park this year!

Milos so sneaky!

Because they are so cute

A few changes

if you didnt notice i changed our background today :) it is nice to change it up a bit.
I also added the game hangman to the side!! One other feature that is new is under each post there is a link that looks like an envelope that you can click to email that post to a friend or even yourself! Another cool thing i changed is that anyone can make a comment on a post! (before you had to be a blog member) you just click add comment and write something like "oh your boys are the cutest kids ive ever seen in my life!" (haha) and then i can see your comment and so can everyone else! This will give us some feed back on the blog and let us know your enjoying all of our updates!
I hope everyone likes the new updates! Let us know if there is something not working or something that is too hard for your computer to load.

Some photo edits

i took these photos today and edited them so i wanted to share!

We love the Rain

Birthday Party Pictures!

Thank you to everyone who made it to the party! We enjoyed seeing everyone and were happy to share the boys special day with so many friends and family! Thank you all for the gifts and cards. Because there were so many pictures taken i have made an album on my photo bucket account for everyone to view them from there here is a link:

Click here to see Pictures