The Many Adventures of Team Goulet

Today I interrupt the regularly scheduled gushing about every move my children make, with an announcement. I started a new blog!   www.fitmiss.org I have been on a journey of health and nutrition for years now.  But his past June I decided to take things to the next level and become a personal trainer.  I am almost finished with my training and I am starting a franchise of a women's bootcamp called "Chix in Training" in January.  This company is awesome, they are all about changing lives, inspiring women, AND focusing on Jesus.  You can learn more about them here.  I fell in love with blogging her, but I knew I would need a venue to share more about fitness so I started over.  It will hopefully be an easy tool to share with clients how I eat, and what I am learning about fitness. Daniel came up with the blog name.  It's supposed to be a play on the word "fitness" and the fact that I only train women. He's so creative. :) So head on over and ...

Nathan had his birthday and I forgot to write a top ten for him. Considering the utter failure I had with finishing Elijah's top ten list, I figured I would do this all in one post. Top things that make Nathan awesome  1. He is really musical, he can find the beat of a song and keep it. Nathan can usually sing a song after only hearing it once. I credit this to Auntie Jo's intensive ear training that she would do when he was younger. :) Every night we sing songs before bed and he normal requests adult songs instead of more children's rhythms. Reign down is still his number one song, followed close behind by a new song we have been singing by Bethel called "In your light." Nathan can also change the words in songs that he knows to make them funny.  2. Nathan is hilarious. He is at this funny stage where he can express himself but doesn't fully understand reason. This equals him saying some funny things. Like tonight when he said "Mom, are you an ang...

What??? Oh I couldn't hear you over all the drumming! Nathan is continuing his love of drums. We still watch you tube drum tutorials regularly so he can learn :) And following suit is little Elijah man. He just can't help but copy big brother. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

This week for family day we had a sudden "emergency" that had us packing up the kids and driving to Chicago. Daniel had to go get a piece of equipment for his work. We didn't want to spend the day apart, that would defeat the purpose of "family day." So we packed up the kiddos and off we went. The boys were ok in the car. This was the first road trip with Nathan not wearing diapers, and he did great. While we were in the big city, we thought we'd at least do one fun thing with the kids and took them to Rainforest Cafe. Rainforest Cafe is your typical theme restaurant: lots to look at, and high prices for just ok food. But the boys liked walking around and looking at everything. Rainforest is also very kid friendly so they encourage you to walk around and look while you wait for your food. During our meal the lights went dim and a fake thunderstorm happened sending all of the fake animals into a tizzy. This in turn sent my children crying for mommy. ...

Two small kiddos, with seperate birthdays within a week of each other equals alot of fun, presents, and cake! Last year right after I had Elijah, I said that I would always try to keep their birthdays seperate. Twelve sleep deprived months later and I have changed my tune. One really big party instead of two sounded like a great plan to me. My parents were in town for the week to help with the celebration and the excessive present giving. They really spoiled our kids with attention and tons of gifts. Nathan still thinks there are gifts hidden in the guest room closet where they stayed. Nathan decided month ago that he wanted a "jet party." NOT an airplane party people, a JET. I love making fun birthday cakes so I made his a special jet shaped cake. Nathan really used self control and only put his finger into the cake 3 times before people arrived. My mom found the idea to make the table into an airport on pinterest. Elijah had his own cake. I was pretty surprised th...

Number 8 reason that Elijah is awesome: he's a snuggler. Neither of my children are terribly cuddly kids, they are much to busy to sit on your lap for too long. But Elijah likes to bury his head into my shoulder when I am holding him. And if I give him any blanket he likes to hug you and the blanket, its pretty much the cutest thing ever.

Number 5 reason Elijah is awesome: He's a great little brother Elijah is a great little brother. He does everything one would expect a little brother to do. He copies what Nathan does. He waits for Nathan to build something before he destroys it. He finds the one toy car that Nathan loves and takes it. He follows Nathan around wherever he goes. When it comes to being a little brother, Elijah's really got his job description down. In all seriousness, watching my boys interact is a great joy for me. And I love that Elijah already wants to be a drummer, because he sees Nathan drumming. He wants to play with cars because he sees Nathan love them. And I can't wait to see their relationship develop over the years.