Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to me!!  And all the rest of you mom's out there!  Of course- I only got to hear the message from myself.  Ty came in to wake me up and informed me that it was "Happy Boy's Day."  When I asked him about it, he told me that he was upset when Grandpa JB told him it was Mother's Day.  He thought that HE deserved a special day.  Ah well- maybe I should have built him up for it.  Happy Boys Day to the rest of you.

Happy Anniversary!

I bet you all forgot that Shaun and I had an Anniversary this month!  We have officially been married for seven years and we're still doing pretty good.  

I asked Shaun what he was the most thankful for the last seven years and I was abruptly told "All the nagging."  Ahhh... What a sweetheart.  Somewhere deep down I'm sure he's glad we're still married.  Deep, deep down.  

To celebrate this year, we dropped the kids off at my mom's (thanks grandma Janet!!) and headed up to Midway, Utah where we spent some time at the Johnson Mill Bed and Breakfast.  We LOVED it!  Midway/Heber areas have really grown since I was last there and I was impressed!  The Bed and Breakfast was really nice too- if any of you are looking for a fun place to stay- we totally recommend it.  The place itself was at one time a mill and has been totally redone.  It was beautiful.  

Too big.

Ryan is now ten months old and when I took him to the doctor for his checkup, he weighed in at 18 pounds and he is pretty dang tall for a kid his age.  In fact- it was time to switch car seats- he just got too long for the baby carrier car seat.  Ty helped me install the new seat in the Jeep and we got to try it out for a long drive to Logan.  Ty and Ryan sat in the backseat giggling almost the whole time.  I swear Ty is the only one that can get Ryan to laugh like he does.  

Strange fetish...

Ty loves the Utes.  His grandpa JB started indoctrinating him before he could even talk.  And now- he is a staunch supporter of the University of Utah... and don't try and tell him anything else.  Lately though- he's taken it to a new level.  It is starting to warm up around here (finally), but Ty still won't leave his little Ute snow hat at home.  He still wears it to the grocery store and around the house.  The other night when I went in to check on him in bed... he still had the hat on.  When Shaun asked him about it- Ty told his dad that he kept it on because his head was cold.  I checked for drafts people... it's NOT cold in there.  He's just silly.

Two in the tub...

As scary as it may sound to some of you... we have finally upgraded Ryan to the BIG tub.  And what's more... he's now subjected to his big brother's splashes and anticdotes for that half hour of every evening.  

Okay- in actuality they both do really well in there together.  They love to splash each other and all that you can hear in there is giggles.  A word to the wise though- if you are bathing them- prepare to be just as wet as they are.  

Happy Easter!

Easter was a little different this year- it was the first time that we didn't go anywhere for the holiday.  It was really strange actually having to host dinner (even though it was just the four of us) and make sure that the Easter Bunny didn't forget anything.  In all though I think we did pretty good.  Ty and Ryan woke up and really didn't have a clue.  When Ty finally figured out that he was supposed to look for his Easter basket- it was almost time for church.  But Ty and Ryan did get a chance to put on their very cool new sunglasses.  

After church we went out back to see if we could find the Easter eggs hidden around the backyard.  Ty thought it was a lot of fun... though he had to have a couple of hints since the Easter Bunny thought he was being clever and hid the eggs a little too well.  Ryan was just happy to be outside... though the grass still freaks him out a little bit.  

We tried to make dinner a more formal affair.  By formal, I mean a table cloth and placemats.  But I really worked hard on dinner.  I had to call my grandma to get explicit directions on how to make some of her signature dishes.  And her instructions must have been good because the funeral potatoes, fruit salad and yams with apples turned out really good!  I think all of us had second helpings of everything... even Ryan!  

It was also an interesting holiday because for once- I wasn't excited to really talk about why we have the holiday.  I know that we celebrate it because Christ was resurrected... but I really didn't want to tell Ty the entire story.  The mother hen in me wanted to gloss over some of the more gruesome parts of the story.  But when we finally sat down to talk about it, Ty did really well and we focused on the resurrection as much as we could.  I know it sound stupid, but this part of being a parent never really crossed my mind as I sat dreaming about my baby (long before Iwas ever pregnant).  Anyway- it was a good Easter and I'm glad we had a chance to try it out on our own!

Spring Break

Spring Break was a few weeks ago and we headed down to St. George, Utah to get away from all the snow that still surrounded our house.  I was actually getting pretty close to taking a hairdryer to the snow drifts that were piled around the front yard.  Thankfully though- we got to escape to a place of swimming pools and flipflops for a few days.  We went down to Salt Lake and picked up my parents- who were good sports and agreed to go along with us.  

St. George is actually a place from my childhood.  My grandparents had a condo down there for as long as I can remember and my family would often escape down there.  Shaun isn't such a fan because of the heat- but he's pretty good to go along with things that the rest of us want to do.  

The first day we were there it was actually pretty windy so- Ty got to learn how to fly a kite out in the commons area.  I'm not sure that the kite was exactly flight-worthy because it never stayed in the air longer than a few seconds.  To be fair- it was a dinosaur.  Whatever happened to the plain old diamond shaped kites?  I remember our green one flying pretty well...  

Anyway, we hiked in Snow Canyon and swam at the pool... and had dinner at the Pizza Factory- a St. George tradition with anyone that goes down there.   We had a lot of fun and grudgingly went back to Montpelier when the week was over.  

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