Part Three

Day 6 & 7

Play dates with friends were the best part of each of these days. Thursday the boys had an unplanned play date with Oakley & Nash when their mom stopped by quickly to pick something up. After some begging from my kids Krista gave in and the kids got to come in and play, they loved it! Friday the boys had a short but sweet play date with the girls running wild outside. The weather was cold and windy but they didn't seem to mind, we kept them busy with an Easter egg hunt. The rest of the days were spent doing very little, playing with toys, watching movies, and as little cleaning as possible.

Day 8

This day started out early with a much needed hair appointment at 8:00am and then off to town to look around for some miscellaneous birthday things and ingredients for Easter dinner.

The big boys had a birthday party so they were headed out to go bowling. Neither of them have ever been so I'm sure it was very entertaining to watch. We didn't want Ryan feeling left out so he invited Ashlynn over for their own play date while the boys were gone. So far it's going well, a little dancing, playing with cars, now onto snacks and watching Max & Ruby with only a few minor arguments in between.

the kiddos dancing

guess I didn't see the giant foot when I was taking the picture

Ash loving on my boy

Part Two

Being on spring break and having no schedule is making me want summer to be here all the more. Plus I need more time, I haven't gotten hardly anything done off my list!

Day 4

• we headed over to Emmett for the day
• i had an hour long massage
• my dad left the boys all a "job" to do. when they were finished they each got 5 dollars to spend, so we headed to town to spend that money plus a little more. they all were happy with their new toys.
• after a request from Luke my mom was busy sewing some new capes for the bionicles
• we had fun hanging out with grammy, she rocks!
• we then headed down the road for a fun play date with friends, for me and the kids. Angie and Amber I've been friends with forever and now our kids are friends. we had fun and laughed a lot, it was good!

grammy and the boys

boys like to accessorize too

Day 5

• we met Grammy and helped her do a little shopping at Kohl's and Target.
• while looking at the Easter candy Ryan helped himself to part of a foil wrapped bunny. Luke busted him and poor Ryan had a look of pure panic on his face. we still don't know the whole story but I think it was a bunny that already had a broken ear and he just opened it up some more and nibbled on it, Luke says it wasn't though...so who knows. we do know that Ryan learned his lesson.
• we came home and were lazy
• we finally got to see the girls after they had been gone on a little vacation. the boys were so excited, me too!
• i was taking a bath when Cody came in and calmly said, "mom, I have a piece of bionicle stuck up my nose." to which I replied, "WHAT?". I looked up his nose and couldn't see anything at first and Cody went into problem solving mode and was saying, "mom, do you want me to sneeze? because I can sneeze, mom, I'm going to try and sneeze it out, okay?" I told him not to do anything and after getting my tweezers I was able to reach it and pull it out. Whew, I was thankful that it turned out the way it did. When it was all said and done Cody said, "Oh, good I'm glad I'm not dead." I asked him if he really thought that he was going to die and he said, "Yeah kind of." That was a first for me, up until then I hadn't had a kid stick anything up their nose, (besides their own fingers).

Seriously Cody, what were you doing?

Cody learned his own lesson that day.

Part One

Spring break has begun. No big plans or special trips planned for us this year just a whole lot of hanging out at the house. The weather wasn't looking to promising for the week but we did luck out with some really beautiful days over the weekend.

Day One

• the boys spent all morning playing with their bucket of bionicles. they had lost them for 2 1/2 weeks because of all the fighting over pieces and because nobody was cleaning them up. good thing they enjoyed them today because by Sunday they were gone again!
• i finally started a project that I had been procrastinating on forever. i've had stacks of pictures just waiting to be put into photo albums, so I started sorting them and putting them in order. now I just need to go back and print out some more pictures because poor Ryan's photo album stops when he was 9 months old.
• we enjoyed being out in the sunshine doing some yard work. it's exciting to see my plants starting to sprout and grow.
• we took a walk to the school playground. the boys ran around playing while heath and i played basketball.

Day Two

• on the way to church heath was telling the boys about a stray dog he took in once when he was young. luke then said with a surprised voice, "they have dogs in mississippi?"
• we ate a big lunch with dessert.
• i took a nap.
• we dyed Easter eggs. the kids had been waiting all day for this.
• we watched the new Life series and ate popcorn.
• the boys had another sleepover in our room on the floor but didn't sleep so great this time.
• heath and i stayed up and watched a movie.

Day Three

• lots of tv and video games
• the bionicles were given back, we will see how long they last this time.
• i gave the boys a much needed haircut. after a bath to wash the hair off Luke looked at himself in the mirror and screamed, "I look like an elf!"
• just taking it easy.

Ryan with his little smirk decorating his eggs

Cody and Luke working hard

the finished products

Ryan sampling one of the eggs

before and after haircuts

one more boy

That is what I had this week....one more boy.

Tucker was on spring break this week so he chose to spend most of it hanging out with us, which we were happy about.

We weren't doing anything special, our spring break hadn't started yet so it was just normal life around here but Tucker joined right in with whatever we were doing.

Not only did he help me with running errands, babysitting and grocery shopping he also did a lot of entertaining around here, both of the boys and of Heath! With Tucker around, the noise level at the house is at least doubled (maybe even tripled), I even started getting headaches. During the day Tuck would play with the boys; sometimes they would just sit down and play video games and other times they would wrestle, attack each other with pillows and couch cushions, wrestle, play hide & seek in the house, wrestle, run around wild, and then wrestle a little more. At night Heath and Tucker would stay up LATE and play video games, not only did they have a lot of fun but Heath loved that Tucker would get him ranked up higher in the war games which is just what we needed, an incentive to play more games around here.

what I would see everyday

wrestling

and more wrestling

it goes on and on...

Tucker is such a great cousin to the boys, we just love him to pieces!

Thanks for coming and hangin out with us Tuck.

Spring break has begun, yippee!

My List

Why when the weather starts to get nice do all the new tv shows start up?

The DVR is one of my all time favorite inventions ever, what did I do before?

With so many shows to watch and not enough time this is what makes it all possible.

Just for the record I don't sit around all day watching tv, even though some days it might be nice!

This is what my play list looks like.

• Oprah (just because it's Oprah and she won't be on much longer)
• The Real Housewives of Orange County (oh the drama with women, need I say more)
• Ruby (she is just a sweetheart and I love her southern accent and hope she reaches her goal)
• Parenthood (I haven't watched any of them yet but wanted to check it out to see what all the talk was about)
• The Biggest Loser (I started to lose interest with the break while the Olympics were on but am still watching)
• Life (another series like Planet Earth which we loved watching as a family)
• Ugly Betty (I guess there are only 4 episodes left and then they are ending the show but I've really liked it from the beginning)
• The Pacific (a mini-series about three marines in WWII)
• The Marriage Ref (the host makes me laugh, does he not look like he is smiling all the time)
• Pawn Stars (you can actually learn a lot of useless information on this show and Chumley makes me laugh)
• 16 and Pregnant (a must see show for anyone with teenagers, I couldn't even imagine being a parent at this age)
• Who do you think you are? (I find it so fascinating. My grandparents had a lot of information in a book about where they came from, I need to take another look at it.)
• Undercover Boss (I think every boss should give this a try)
• Dancing with the Stars (I have to see how Kate Gosselin does)
• Kirstie Alley's Big Life (I find her quirky and a little annoying so I wanted to check out the show and see how she lives)

What's on your list?

so sad...

notice anything wrong?

This morning I accidentally bumped into my dresser...

I have a Willow Tree statue representing each of my boys.

I see them everyday on my dresser.

I love them.

But today, Cody and I lost our heads.

so sad.

they came

March 17th is a lot like the night before Christmas around here.

the traps were all set on the stairs with care...

in hopes that a leprechaun soon would be there...

Ryan's rainbow, Luke's trap and rainbow and Cody's trap

The boys were so excited to say the least, they love St. Patrick's Day!

Luke was awake at 11:30 PM trying to wake up Cody, I put them back to bed.

Cody was awake at 5:10AM asking if it was time to get up, I told him to go back to bed.

Luke was awake at 5:11AM asking if it was time to get up, I told him to go back to bed.

Luke instead went in Ryan's room to wake him up and the three of them ran down the stairs to see if they finally had done it, was it their lucky year, did they really catch a leprechaun?

No, but SO close...

This leprechauns hat was caught in Luke's trap!

The leprechauns did make a mess in the boy's room though

and they did set up all the green soldiers

and they decorated the table for breakfast

and they did leave the boy's a note.

The boy's found out that the Leprechaun's names were Liam and Patty

that they loved the rainbows, shiny glitter and green on the traps

that they bring treats for the brown dog so she doesn't bark.

and that they will come back again next year!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!