St. Patricks Day

I love the holiday's! Even the little ones! We have been lucky enough to have the Leprechauns visit us every year and leave a small bit of their stash for the boys. The leprechauns are not smart enough to know when the come they leave a trail of clovers all over the house that the boys can find in the morning to search for their stash that was left. This year the leprechauns did not leave the trail very well and the boys thought they forgot. Well they didn't! When the boys thought they had forgotten they made this little home for the leprechauns, just in case they might stop by that night. The little home was made with a green bed, green snacks, and a green something to play with! Jaxon even wrote a note for them to let them know it was harmless and he wouldn't take a picture of them or anything if they would just stay one night so they could see them!

Spring Break!

Wow the time flies! After a crazy year we needed to get away! So we took off to the ever so warm St. George! It was a perfect weekend! We wanted to get away the last weekend we could before soccer and baseball start up. I love the outdoors so Gregg made me happy and we took off to Zions! The boys have not been there and I love it there. It is so beautiful and humbling to realize just how insignificant our lives are and how big the world is! The cliffs are just amazing. We were telling the boys about Angels Landing and they couldn't wait to hike it! NOT SO FAST! I had horrible visions of taking Zeke up there and him running away and plummeting down! YIKES. So I said when they were older. I have never been to Zions when there was so much water. We hiked Emerald pools (and forgot the camera!) and it was beautiful. But Gregg actually took my advice and we went the way I thought would be best with Zeke and the jogger....um no! So needless to say I had to carry Zeke the rest of the way while Gregg hiked the opposite way to pick the jogger back up. He missed the beautiful falls and pools. It was actually hot there (upper 70's or 80's) and the boys enjoyed getting wet on the falls and pools! Jaxon wouldn't listen to me when I said not to take off his shoes and socks and get in the upper pools. Needless to say 8 year olds know so much more than moms! He did and after the first step he slipped and fell on his butt! He was drenched! Weeping Rock was really flowing too! Again the boys got drenched. But we all had a blast! So beautiful!

Like Father Like Son

I have the strangest boys ever! How many boys out there love cold cereal? Mine don't. Let me tell you, I have tried all kinds. One is too crunchy, one is too soggy, one is just too gross. So finally I just picked one that I liked when I was a kid 'Life Cereal'. I really like it now too. But I am eating 'Kashi Go Lean Crunch' on cereal mornings, just because! Anyway, so every week when it is cereal morning (basically the mornings we are in a rush and I can't make the chocolate chip pancakes or waffles) I cringe thinking how am I going to so delicately offer the oh so yummy cold cereal I know they love so much. Well this morning I offered Kaden the Life cereal, he said, "I don't like it". I said, "How do you know, you have never tried it?" Kaden said, "I don't like strawberries." The child has never tried strawberries or any fruit for that matter. Don't ask me, he is the weirdest kid around (next to Jaxon). I love fruit and try to offer my kids fruit all the time. Kaden is so stubborn he will not eat anything if you tell him it is fruit. Vegetables on the other hand he will try? I know, I know so weird. So anyway, I proceeded to tell him, "there are no strawberries in the cereal." He says, "why are there strawberries on the packages then?" I said, "I don't know to make it look pretty?" Needless to say, he tried it and really likes it now.
Fast forward two days later, again it is a busy morning and I tell Gregg we can have cereal, I made the boys pancakes. Gregg proceeds to say, "I don't like that cereal." "What?" I say. He says, "I hate berries!" Once again, there are berries on the package......not in the cereal!
Do boys ever grow up?

Aflac

Jaxon once again and the one liners......

So over dinner the other night we were discussing Gregg's poor sister. Man that has to suck. His little sister was walking down her wood stairs with her 15 month old 'Eddie' in her hands, when she missed the bottom step. She then proceeded to cradle Eddie in her arms and brace for the fall. She saved little Eddie from any injuries but not herself. The poor think broke both of her bones in her lower leg. She was rushed to the hospital where they immediately proceeded to tell her she would need roughly 8 pins. She had 7 pins put in and a metal plate. We felt so bad for her. I was asking Gregg what she was going to do, since I was sure she was not going to be able to go to work for a while. When Jaxon piped up and said (in a totally serious face and demeanor) "Wow I sure hope she has Aflac!"

Happy Valentines Day!

I love Valentines day. I don't know why but I think I just really love all of the holidays! Even though it is mostly a 'girly' holiday we had fun just the same.

We of course started out with the school valentine's parties. Jaxon made the cute little mailbox at school, where all of the kids had the same one that they were able to embellish with their own likes. Jaxon decorated his with an electric guitar that just screams love! :)

Kaden got the opportunity to have the coveted 'hand me down' from papa valentine box this year. Last year Jaxon asked his Papa to make him a valentine box shaped like a his dad's electric guitar! I think it turned out pretty cool and the fact we could use it again made it even cooler!

For the parties this year, I helped out with the snack and stories! My friend came up with the cute snack. We had a 'valentine float'. This was cherry 7-up with of course vanilla ice cream and a red vine licorice to use as the straw! How cute is that?
I made some valentines myself for my own valentines in my life....
Jaxon helped me to get these out...He had a lot of fun being sneaky and not getting caught! He did good and only got caught once out of the seven stops we made (and that only being caught with the help of the ever wonderful nose of Patty the dog!).

Kaden and Zeke were sick.....that really stinks because Kaden had to miss out on his last basketball game and his outing with Dad for the Ute basketball game. He willingly gave his tickets to Nana and Papa who enjoyed their Valentines day!
And as a parent I know everyone knows illness falls full circle....Now Gregg and I are falling ill. And as I type I feel awful and am going to bed!

I do hope everyone had a good Valentines Day!

What are the odds???

I have been horrible this past little while blogging....

Please forgive, it has been a very busy couple of weeks!

What are the odds of having two boys on the same day 13 years apart? Well I think it is safe to say it is a pretty slim odd. However, in my life I seem to get a lot of the really odd percentages rolling over my way.
Tyson my birth-son turned 15 this year and he celebrates his birthday the same day as Zeke our youngest who turned 2!
They celebrated their birthday's on the 9th. We have been going to Tyson's basketball games each week where he plays for his Junior High. It has been really fun to watch him play.

For Zeke's birthday we were having the family over for dinner anyway and decided to give him a little cupcake to blow out candles to. He really blew them out but was a little shy at the 10 adults and 13 cousins watching him. He woke up on Monday with a fever (which totally sucks to be sick on your own birthday) but we were determined not to let it spoil our fun. So we kept him full of Ibuprofen all day so we could go swimming at the SJRec Center.
He is such a skinny little fart! He loved the pool until we came by the dreaded underwater lights! You would have thought it was a monster coming to swallow him up! So after we finished the drift pool Zeke and I got out. It took about another 45 minutes to warm him up to the idea of going in again. But he did an he loved it.
This year he got the cutest little rocking horse, which he found before we could actually give him as a real gift, but he loves it just the same. He thinks he is quite clever that he can rock on the horse with his feet resting on the front (if that makes sense!).

Happy birthday my little monkey!

Motivation

Since it is February and I know it is hard to keep up the motivation and keep exercising. Watch the clip below and get a giggle and then go do some speed walking (and try not to laugh while you are doing it!).

Have a Happy Friday!