What we've been up to...

Well lately we've been up to a lot of cleaning, laundry, and dish doing. This was actually enjoyable, well appreciated at least, maybe not enjoyable. It's the first time in months thatmy kitchen, bathroom, living room and well all the rooms have been clean at the same time in MONTHS. Dang tax season makes it hard to keep up on well anything let alone everything. Last week we were outside at least for a few hours every day, this week, not so much. Refer to picture 1, the view out our front door, well not directly but you get the idea. Does it ever stop snowing here, I am SO ready for summer, well at least warm snow free days for an extended period of time. We've been having friends over to play more and now we can either play in the bedrooms or watch movies, not the most exciting tasks but better than nothing I guess. My boys LOVE to be outside and track in all the sand they possibly can. Pretty sure I empty about a cup of sand from every load of laundry their clothes are in.

Picture 2 is to show you Connor's new hair cut, I'd show you Tyler's but the computer won't load the pictures from my phone for some reason. I took Tyler in to have it done by someone else in hopes it would make it easier to spike, but alas, it didn't work as I'd hoped. I did find a nast paste type thing that will keep it spikey for almost all 3 hours of church. Oh well that's all he cares about. Connor's on the other hand I did myself last night and grabbed out the wrong length for the clippers and didn't notice til it was too late, oh well, now he and Brian have the same hiarcut, practically buzzed evenly all over, not my favorite but hair grows and Connor thinks it's cool to match Dad in anyway possible.

I did get the camera for my birthday and then found out it takes a different memory card than my old one and so can only take like 5 pictures so we're working on getting a memory card but since everything costs twice as much here as the towns we haunt every few weeks we are waiting til we head west for a valid reason such as my mom's knee surgery next week or receiving my 10 year award at the H&R Block banquet in 10 days. (How sad is it that I just turned 26 and have worked at the same place for 10 years. Odd I think, but hey an award is an award right :))

Brian has been gaming like crazy and loving his new flat screen. I have not gained the affinity for it he has and likely never will, not a big fan of the games he has anyway. I do appreciate that we now fight over the TV far less frequently but since his games kind of make him zone out, I do end up changing more diapers, breaking up more brotherly fights, and filling more sippy cups than I used to. Oh well I guess that what moms are for right.?

So we are still alive and SO glad tax season is over. The 15th was hectic to say the least. We stayed busy pretty much all day and to top it off, my boss was in a car accident that nearly shut down the road (it was down to 1 lane) for well over an hour, just as the high school was getting out. Oh and the lovely "tea parties" that were happening in Rexburg had shut half of the street down for hours before that oh so fun. With the car accident I got to stay late and help make sure every return was sent out that night. Yeah me. We finally made it home and we are enjoying not having to do anything right now. We did go to Idaho Falls yesterday so I could pick out my new camera, that will be here just in time for my birthday. Oh and since my sister-in-law's boyfriend works at Best Buy we go a really good deal on it, and so Brian decided that he needed a Hi-def flat screen for his PS3 and since Nick could get a discount we got the screen for him for his birthday, spending pretty much my entore monthly budget for groceries and gas in one store, go us. I am excited to get my new camera and have something more exciting to put on here but for now we are alive and celebrating the end of yet another tax season!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNOR!!

Tyler decided that Connor HAD to have a WALL-E party. After over a month of searching, I found Wall-E decorations on-line. Gotta love GOOGLE. . . The cake I ordered from the Broulim's (grocery store) in Rexburg, the brown blobs are supposed to look like the garbage Wall-E compacts, not blobs of well..... you be the judge... (oh and where it looks like the frosting is missing they were supposed to be tracks from WALL-E) Connor and his wheel barrow(sp?)
Connor had to crawl to the bottom of this huge bag to get all his presents...

A view of the many presents, after he'd opened a few...

He was super excited about all of his presents, it was really fun to watch.

(ignore the stupid look on my face, I was coaching a very sick 2 year old who was DONE!!)

Ok so this post is a few days late but we had his party a couple days after his birthday and I had to work so those are my excuses.

Monday (3/30) was his real birthday but since pretty much all his family was working we decided not to have his party that night. Which worked out well because he had a cousin born the same day (an hour earlier) and they did her party that night. We went to her party and everyone thought it was cool they had the same birthday since her grandpa and Brian's dad are twin brothers so they tell us all the time how cool it is that the twins had "twin grandkids."

On a sad note, when I was looking at the pictures on my camera from the party, my camera screen went weird and since it's at least 4 years old, I don't think it can be resurected. But my birthday is in about 3 weeks I think I actually know what to ask for for my birthday, for the first time in YEARS! Hopefully I get one so my posts don't get too boring.

My whole family is looking forward to the end of tax season so we can all have a break and relax for a few days and live like normal people. NO more suitcase wardrobes at least for a while I hope.