3.01.2009

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day we we were up in Idaho spending the weekend with our friends Miranda and Jeff and their 2 boys. Miranda and I decided to make some heart shaped pancakes for the men in our life...both big and small. Making pancakes in a heart isn't as easy as one would think. It took me a few tries to get them, most of mine ended up looking like butterflies, but it is the thought that counts right. It was fun to be up there and let our little munchkins play together. We spent 2 nights there, Miranda and I scrapbooked...that is always fun, and the boys all went to "the spaceship place" to play. It is always fun when we can get together with our friends and hang out for a few. Thanks for the bed you two!

Miranda making the perfect pancake mix.

Miranda's perfect heart pancakes.


Mine....not so perfect!

They got a little better....right?

My cute boy enjoying his heart pancakes!

One Last Hurrah

So over the 19th-23rd of February I decided to take a trip south to Monticello and Green River to see my cousins. I decided I better get down there before I head back to work, which I am sad to report is this coming Wednesday (March 4th). It was really fun. I headed down to Salt Lake for the night on the 18th and the next morning I went to Monticello, where I was able to see my cousin Jeremy and Staci and their 3 kids. We played at the office, Brandon now owns his own scooter because he has so much fun on Breckyn's. We also made some decorations for Tyler's room, Brandon's room, and our room. Of course we couldn't leave without getting some "gecko shirts". Thanks for all of the fun stuff you guys made for us while we were there.
We also were able to take a trip down to a part of canyonlands called "Hamburger Rock". It was really nice to get away from the cold weather into the sun even if it was for only a few hours. I was supprised how different the temp was just about 45 min away. How nice would that be to have that so close. Just to get away for the day and remember how nice SPRING feels.
I hung out in Monticello until the 22nd when I headed to Green River to see the cousins that live there. Thanks Bryan and Bridget for letting me and my boys stay at your house. Bryan did a really good job redoing it. Thanks for the dinner that you provided as well, Loni. We were going to head to lunch before I headed home on Monday but the power went out right when we were getting ready to go. That is the thing with a small town, the power goes out-the town shuts down. I wish we could have done lunch, maybe next time guys.
It was definetly nice to get down to see everyone before I will be "strapped to my house", I will be working all Saturdays, kind of makes it hard to go out of town. Oh well, that is a small price to pay to work PT and still save $$ on daycare.

Wall Decorations

Here are some pictures of the wall decorations that my cousins Jeremy and Staci made for us while I was down there. Thanks a lot guys...they really make Tyler's room complete. They are really cute! I hope I did you proud with the way I set them up.


The picture doesn't really do these justice...the lighting is horrible. The sun coming in from the window is adding a nice glare.

These wall decorations add sooooo much to this once plain room.

Staci and I found this quote on the internet and just had to make it. Tyler has the cutest smile. It just makes you melt.

They made this one for Brandon's room. To complete the McQueen motif. Thanks again you guys. Love you!

Canyonlands and the falls


The kids climbing on "Hamburger Rock"


Stike a pose

Staci and Tyler basking in the sunlight

Playing in the water....I mean mud

Playing continued....

New Bed

For part of Brandon's birthday we decided to get him a new bed. We found one on sale at Shopko (plus I used my mother for her age to get even more of a discount). It was one of the beds with drawers underneath it...we got the footboard and headboard basically for free so we couldn't pass it up. Well, Brandon's room is not the biggest so we turned the footboard into just a storage thingy.

Brandon helped Andy put his bed together, that was interesting to say the least. It took a little bit longer but Brandon enjoyed building with his daddy.

They both got their tool sets out and away they went.

We found this cool lamp at Shopko too, it was on the clearance rack for $6 bucks! You got to love the clearance rack!


This is supposed to be the footboard, but as I mentioned before there is not enough room in his little space to have it attached to his bed. We found these baskets online at IKEA and then my friend Miranda picked them up for us.

Brandon in his new bed. He loves it. We had to put items in his drawers the first thing, right after Andy put it together while I was putting the sheets on.

The Fun Park

On Brandon's birthday we decided to take him, Aspen, and Lance (our neighbor) to the local indoor kid magnet called The Fun Park. It has an arcade, softplay, rollerskating and bowling. I bet you can't guess what he wanted to do...if any of you know Brandon you know without even thinking what he wanted to do....Bowling. We of course did softplay first, ordered some pizza and I think we as adults had more fun playing the arcade games, we ended up with over 950 tickets for the kids to split by the time we were done.
We went there because my mom had promised him that she would take him and he reminded her of that for the last 2 and 1/2 months until the day was finally here. Thanks mom for taking us...he had a blast!

A picture of all of the kids in the playland that is there. I wish it would have turned out better. Maybe I will lighten it up and see if it looks any better. It looks really good on my camera. Of course we had to get Tyler invoved.

Papa Bowling


Daddy bowling

Brandon bowling

Aspen was really good at playing with the boys. After I took the picture in the plastic bubble she took Tyler down the big yellow slide. I thought he might start crying...it is pretty tall...but he didn't. Thanks Aspen for hanging out with us yesterday.

My Baby Boy is 5! :(

My how the time flies...I never could imagine 5 years ago (yesterday) that my little 7 lb 11oz baby boy could now be a 47 lb ball of pure 5 year old energy. Andy keeps telling him to stop growing but he doesn't listen very well. I hope you had a great birthday buddy, your mommy and daddy love you.
This year for Brandon's birthday we decided to go to Golden Coral in Layton. Kind of a middle point for everyone. It was a lot of fun. There were 15 of us all at the same table. Brandon enjoyed having everyone there. They came and sang to him, but he wasn't quite sure what to think of their little jingle and as he was getting off of the chair he slipped and fell into his cake....making his shirt a very pretty tye-dyed. Thanks to everyone who came and gave him his presents.

The Birthday Cake


The Birthday Boy. Notice the lovely tiedye shirt.

Just 2 of his presents....Horton and a bowling ball piggy bank.

He also got some books.