Valentines...

Isaac was so cute this year because his little pre-school class had a great Valentines day party and he was so excited to take his valentines. We had to make 15 of them plus 3 for the teachers. We ordered them from Stampin' Up and they had awesome little robots on them and they folded into the coolest little pouches that we sealed in Starbursts and Skittles with a heart sticker. I helped write his name on them and he continued to sign it his own way. At some point during the process of making these valentines, I received a phone call and got a little behind on my end of the process. He acted a little exasperated and jumped ahead of me and was finished with his part of making them before I was off the phone. I really enjoyed the time spent with my little one making these...

My Child... the Hamster.

I have a Yoga ball that I like to teach on... by sitting and balancing on the ball, I get stronger abs and I work my core muscles. My youngest urchin, has claimed this ball as his own. He gets rather upset with me when I'm sitting on it and will squeal with anger until I let him have it. He will spend hours at a time pushing this ball around the house. My oldest has just recently discovered that it's a lot of fun to bounce this gargantuan ball off of his younger brothers forehead... We've had many long talks and timeouts with this one...
Anyway... what used to be my teaching yoga ball has turned into my "hamsters" running wheel...
What's mine is theirs...

Long time...

So it's been quite a while since I've posted... and a lot has happened since Isaac's birthday party... Isaac went back to school! Yes... my little boy is growing up. I was really nervous for him and after I dropped him off, I came home and cried for an hour.
the night before, we went to "Back to school" night. And we got to pick out a train and come home and decorate it. He chose blue and then he and I retired down into mommy's craft room and we decorated it. This train helps him identify his cubby at school.
He has had the time of his life! He love going to preschool and when it's time for him to go home, I almost have to pick him up and haul him to the car because he doesn't want to leave.

Next, we had peach days!!! I love the celebration of peaches... We got together for our annual parade celebration. And I think that all of us feel that if there aren't any doughnuts at the parade, It really isn't a parade. Every single one of us brought doughnuts to share. it was pretty funny. Isaac still doesn't like the sound of the sirens. And cousin karter was pretty terrified of them. Grammy and aunt Maryanne had a great time with the umbrella hats. It was perfect weather and we all had a super fun time...
There is much more to post but for now, I have to go console a teething child.
Till then...
(P.S. Why didn't someone remind me how rough teething children are? )

Getting bigger...

My little Isaac turned 3 this week... He is growing up so fast! This year we decided to do a Dinosaur theme... We broke out the Cricut and the streamers and turned our house into Dinoville and he was so stoked...
For days he talked about his birthday and how he would instantly get bigger... We would ask him how old he is going to be and instead of telling us "3' He would say "And I will get bigger and stronger like daddy."


He was so cute because he would open his present and go and hug the person who gave it to him. We had dinosaur cake, cupcakes and sugar cookies... The cake was hard to make... I didn't have a good time. But he thought it was pretty cool.
Cute cousin Karter came. and he was just as excited as Isaac was to open his presents...
We made dinosaur eggs by pouring a couple of drops of brown ink inside white balloons. This made the dinosaur eggs look dirty :) We had a lot of fun putting this together.
Happy Birthday Isaac!

Camping... The Easy Way!!!

So we just got back from our last vacation of the year and it went pretty well! We had a great time. We headed up to the cabin in Island park and considering it was a vacation on a budget, it was awesome!!! We have discovered that the only time we can travel with Logan and have him be happy is at night. I hand him back a bottle and after he's done, he falls asleep. If we travel in the day... Boy Howdy!!! He lets us have it the ENTIRE WAY... He has a great set of lungs, that one!






Anyway... We got up there about 11:30 pm which was pretty good timing considering we were traveling with a 3 year old that is just freshly potty trained. The next day we decided we'd better get the boat out and go boating because the weather was supposed to cool down drastically. (Which it did...) Yes, that is me you see in the inter-tube being hauled behind the boat. I didn't have my swimsuit with me (and let's face it, if I did, who would really want to see me in it?) (I mean... seriously!) so I just hopped out there in my clothes! It was awesome. I haven't done something like that for many years. This picture of Logan is right before we went out on the lake. I thought I had left his hat home so we did a do-rag for him... It didn't last long. That's why I had him under my sling the entire time... You can see a picture of him peaking out from under it. He wasn't very happy with me... Eric tried to water ski but it had been too many years and he couldn't quite get out of the water. But he was able to knee board.
The next day the boys got together and went paintballing. Isaac was desperate to go but we kept telling him he was too young. Maybe next year. He did get a chance to shoot Eric's gun and try on his mask, though... It was pure torture to keep him in the cabin while the others were out there playing. He was pretty miserable.
I spent time working with Logan on sitting up. We got pretty good at this. He was a really good baby. He talked and cooed and didn't give us too much attitude for being away from his crib for almost 2 weeks. My in-laws may have wanted to hurt us at 6:30 in the morning when my plumpster thought it was a good time to get up and have a bottle. (They were really good sports about it! They said it didn't bother them at all)
We spent the rest of the time playing games... a lot of Hand and Foot and some Farkle. Noric has officially lost its magic winning power... It happened when we had kids. We didn't win any game... And then we relaxed. Which was so nice! We had great meals cause we each took a night to cook. All in all it was exactly what I needed... To get out and go have a relaxing time with my family.
I feel refreshed and like I can handle anything:)

Camping in the Tetons!!!

We just got back from an awesome vacation! We left on Monday night and arrived at Colter Bay in the Teton National Forest at about 1:30 in the morning. My family had already been up there and set up camp for us. On Tuesday, we got up and the boys went for a hike while us girls sat at the picnic table making jewelry... Yes, we did play with little itty bitty beads while sitting in the dirt. At first I thought it wouldn't work and that we were crazy but we didn't lose too many beads :) Wednesday, we went into Jackson Hole and then went to the Bar J Wranglers. They are hilarious and Isaac was so cute! When they would say something he would climb in his dad's lap and say "What he say, daddy?" We did a lot of playing and at the end of the day we were all sooo exhausted. The high up there was only about 75 degrees and it got down to about 35 degrees at night... It was awesome! We had to stay very bundled up.

Grammy and grandpa did some awesome thing to make this such a fun vacation. They put together a goody bag for both boys to play with that had fun little airplanes, helicopters, coloring books, and stickers for a sticker book in it... It also had a ton of candy. Isaac acted like he had died and gone to heaven. This pic is of Grammy stringing a fruit loop cereal necklace for Isaac to take hiking. It was his "Emergency Preparedness Necklace." Grammy helped him get started and he strung 3 little loops on it and then he wanted her to do the rest. He wanted the benefits without the work... Grammy caved :)
One of Isaac's favorite thing to do was to play in the dirt and pine needles. He was playing like he was a dump truck and he would move the dirt from one place to the other. This face says it all. It doesn't need much more explanation. Needless to say that the first thing we did when we got home was bathe our boys...

Our cute sister and brother-in-law brought up their hammock. This has become quite the popular thing since Kenny has joined the family. Camping just isn't camping without being able to swing in the hammock. Logan had some great quality time with his daddy on this hammock and Isaac thought that it was the best thing to run and swing into the hammock.
Here is Logan doing what he does best! Eating and being cute. Camping with little ones is quite a bit more difficult than without. For instance: Logan would wake up like he always does at about 6:30 AM and he would want his bottle ASAP!!!! Well it's not as easy as turning on the faucet and having warm water pour out. We would have to wake up grandpa to get his burner out. Then we would have to hook up the propane tank and then go down to get some water from the water place... After that we have to heat up a pot of water with his bottle sitting in the middle of the water..... It was quite the hassle. We just about had to do that with all the feedings. It was a hassle but so much fun...
Thank you mom and dad for making this such a great trip for me and my family! We love you so much!!!!

.... As Good As New...

My son is hilarious! He doesn't like to eat anything new... So, in the past, we have been eating regular dinner and making him chicken nuggets, peanut butter sandwich, or mac and cheese. I'm getting tired of doing that and we don't eat together when we do it. He is to the point where he won't even try the food sitting in front of him. So he can't get down from the table until he has at least 2 or 3 bites.
Last night we had the Bear Creek cream of potato soup and homemade bread. I loved it and so did Eric. But of course Isaac won't try it. He ate his bread, but no soup. So we looked at him and said he couldn't watch Cartoon Transformers until he had his 2 bites. So he stalls.... "I drink my milk first." "I eat my bread first." My favorite was.... "I scratch my bumb first." No kidding! Then he scratches his bumb and looks at me and says: "Ok... As good as new!"
We burst out laughing! We couldn't hold it in... Where did that come from? "As good as new!" I think he's quite the character. Needless to say, Eric had to threaten that he was going downstairs without Isaac. I helped him eat his 2 bites to which he gagged on. He'll learn to eat what we eat... eventually :) (Of course after the bumb has been restored to "as good as new")