Update....I know, I know, it's about time!

Due to the fact that it has been FOREVER since I posted I decided to make a slide show with some pictures of what we have done this summer....To start out we went to my sister's house in California for my nephew's graduation party. While there we went to the beach which is always fun. They were doing a volleyball tournament down the beach so the goodyear blimp was flying around...my family (being from Utah) thought it was pretty cool to be that close to the blimp. To us, that is something you see on TV. On the way home we stopped in Las Vegas. I had never been to Fremont street in all the times I have been to Vegas, it is pretty awesome I recommend you go check it out.
Of course we have all the usuals...t-ball, softball, 4th of July breakfast, and of course lots and lots of water and watermelon. We were also able to squeeze in a Lagoon trip. Tyler and Brandon both had tons of fun there.
I hope this makes up for my lack of "postage". I hope you enjoy the slideshow.

I'm Such a Slacker!

So I guess I should post at least once this month. Since I found Facebook I have been a serious slacker on the blog. I am going to try to remember what has happened since my last post...let's see....
We struggled to find food for Tyler since he was allergy tested. His favorites in the last month have included, Spaghetti, Mac&Cheese, Hot ham & cheese sandwiches, cinnamon sugar toast, and lots and lots of fruit. Since then we have found some other things that he likes to eat as well.
Bowling ended and softball started...well it is supposed to anyway. With the crazy spring weather AKA snow!! there hasn't been much in the way of softball going on. This year has been crazy as far as the weather goes. Of course it doesn't keep the kiddos from wanting to play outside on the swing set, I think the little neighbor boy, Chet, has wanted to come over and play at least a couple times a week. It is has been fun for Brandon to have a friend come play.
Tyler is running all over the place. Also growing like a weed. I have been more than a slacker on blogging, I have also slacked on getting his pictures taken. I will also blame that on the snow as well where I wanted them to be outside.
Mother's day came and went. I spent some time with both Andy and I's mothers (as Andy was out of town) Brandon gave me a hanging plant, which I put outside before I should have so it is no longer with us...also the weathers fault :)
Andy was in Atlanta around mothers day so he totally hooked me and the boys up with some Braves stuff. Which was good because shortly there after he was offered the long awaited dedicated route to Denver and back. He has been doing that for a week and we have seen him more in that week then we did some months without the dedicated route. Brandon loves that! Yes Tyler and I do too, but more Brandon...he sure does miss his daddy. The set schedule of it all is better for all of us as well, we know exactly what days he will be here and that works well for Brandon the Planner.
About a week ago Brandon was playing with Tyler's Epi pen while I was doing my hair for church and he came up to me with blood coming out of both hands...you guessed it...he had shot himself with it. It went completely through one of his fingers into another one. For those of you who don't know what an Epi pen does, it is a vein restricter so his finger lost circulation for a slight moment, causing it to turn white. We also spent the day on the phone with poison control and a heating pad on his finger. No worries all is well. He learned his lesson the hard way, I did have him worried at one point...I told him we were going to have to chop his finger off. Don't worry I only let him believe it for about 5 minutes.
Last but not least....my sweet little Brandon is one week away from ending his first year of school! I can't believe that he will be in 2ND grade in 3 months! He has had the best time in school and loves it and his teacher...she will be hard to beat! He has blown me away with all the stuff he has learned. I am so proud of him.

Tyler....I love you!

So I went and got Tyler allergy tested today. Turns out we were right about the peanut allergy...almost too right. He tested over 2 times higher on peanuts than anything else! So bad that they prescribed him an epi-pin, that means he could possibly die if we don't have that on hand and he ingests a peanut of any kind. We also found out that he has an allergy to corn and eggs. I was hoping they would just tell me to avoid just that, but they said to avoid any form of the two I.E. corn syrup (found in EVERYTHING), corn starch, corn flower, and anything containing eggs of any sort. They want me to be very strict about it for the next month then bring him back in and see if his congestion has gone away at all. If not, maybe we won't have to be sooooo picky about the corn and eggs. He has been good enough so far, other than the fact he sounds like he has a hair ball in his throat constantly. I guess this means I get to become a "Betty Crocker" whether I want to or not. Since every single thing that is processed contains some form of corn in it. Did you know baking powder falls under the corn allergy as well. That might explain why he can do better with some cookies compared to others. Poor kid! I hope we can get him figured out so he doesn't sound like Buckles (my pug puppy) much longer.
If by chance this doesn't solve the "hair ball" issue, they are going to look at removing his adenoids, I hope they decide to take out his tonsils at the same time...might as well while they are in there, don't want those to flare up later in life and have to do it all again.
Wish us both luck for the next month....Him so this makes him better and Me so I know what the kid can and cannot eat! And that I can find recipes that he will eat, he is a very picky eater! Staci...I can hear you laughing from here =)

Finally we have a swingset!

Today we put up the swingset I bought for the boys. My mom and dad picked it up from Salt Lake for me and brought it up. I invited some people over to help us put it together....as it turns out it only took my dad and grandpa to put it together. I still made dinner for everyone anyway. So as Andy's brother put it....we had a "swingset warming" party. It was fun, we had 5 kids playing on it and it stayed standing. That is a good sign! Brandon likes it so much, he is outside in his jammies playing on it all by himself.



Don't those smiles say it all!

Moki Camping Trip

We went down to Southeastern Utah to go camping the weekend after Easter. We went with my cousins and aunt from Monticello. This is the first year I have joined them for their annual camping trip, it was way fun. My aunt let me and the boys stay in the trailer with her...Thanks Denise! We were able to ride the 4-wheelers, play in the sand, and just hang out. We took a wheeler trip down to a huge sand hill, the kids loved slidding down not only on their bums but their stomachs and their feet, getting sand in all their pockets and other places I can not mention. =) I have compiled pictures of our trip in the slideshow there is quite a few so take the time to watch the whole thing. I hope you enjoy! Thanks again Hoggards for the invite, we loved every minute of it.

Easter 2010

My mom went all out for Easter this year, lots and lots of eggs for kids to hunt and lots of eggs to dye. That is okay though, she likes doing it and spoiling my kids. Tyler thought it was fun to try to put the eggs we were dying in his mouth, I think everyone put the egg in their mouth when they were young, or drank the dye. Good thing it isn't toxic!

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!

Today Brandon's school celebrated Dr. Suess' birthday. In celebration they had crazy hair day. We decided to put gel in his hair and spiked it all the way around, when we were doing it we couldn't stop laughing. I was going to shave his head this past weekend and I didn't so we could do something crazy with his hair, I'm glad I didn't...it was way fun!