OH DADDY...

The boys with their new "pets"Tyler with "Brian" and Connor sitting on "Brian O'Brian"

Connor's second birthday is Monday and so after work Wednesday I met Brian in Idaho Falls to go to dinner and do a little shopping. We finally used up my gift certificate to Olive Garden, that I got for my birthday last year (11 months ago) and I LOVED IT. I love my italian food. We decided that since we were right by WalMart we'd stop in. I was thinking we'd get some stuff for Connor for his birthday but taking Brian to the store often makes it more expensive. He found these huge stuffed animals and insited that boys needed them for Easter. They do usually get a stuffed animal for Easter but it's usually about 6-8 inches tall these are at least 3 feet tall. Connor's frog is the same height as him. Well the night we got home I convinced Brian not to give the boys their animals that night but the next night he couldn't wait anymore and now they have "pets" the same size as them. Oh daddy....

Only 6 more work days this tax season and I am SO excited. I can't wait to be able to clean on the days I want or not if Idon't want because I can do it the next day!! I'm looking forward to only going to Rexburg when I want to and taking my kids to the park, if the snow ever melts here. But likely not for at least a month or so, if I'm lucky. COME ON SPRING!!!!!

Crunchy Hair & Time Off

Every Sundy amorning Connor insists that I gel his hair and spike it. He has really fine hair so it works out easily on him. Tyler is more of a challenge, he has my hair-thick and LOTS of it. TOday I decided to do that spike only the front thing and he was STOKED!!! I just laughed because all through church he kept saying..." my hair is crunchy mom, why is my hair crunchy?" By the time we got home he was asking why it wasn't crunchy anymore, but if you rub your hair for 3 hours straight the gel kind of wears out. These are pictures I took right before we left for church. Ignore the background mess.

I love Connor's face in this one, so typical Connor!!

So the company I work for was cutting hours so I volunteered to take this coming week off since I had no appointments anyway and the other employees are all pretty much the bread winners in their families and I am not. That night I realized that means I can actually attend my wards relief society dinner. First activity other than church in MONTHS!!! I told one of my ward friends and am now on the dinner prepertion crew. Yeah me, growing up and haveing responisbilities other than my family. I am excited to spend some time with my friends I haven't seen outside church in months. We already have a couple play dates in the works.

My other plan is to actually get my house CLEAN, not just liveably picked up but cleaning supply scents, vacuum lines, organized clean, but we'll see how long the energy and ambition actually last. Which reminds me of an interesting comment Connor's nursery teachers said today. They told me he was a very tidey kid. WHAT?? Connor, are you sure? The kid who LOVES to take every book off his shelf, dump his buckets of cars ALL over his floor and dump out all his toys all at the same time. How exactly is that TIDEY??? Yeah I just laughted and said, why do you say that? They said he is the best cleaner in the whole nursery. He loves to organize the crayons into straight rows, sort the block into their appropriate bins and so forth.... Why can't that behavior carry home with him, I mean come on, have you seen the kids floor, because I haven't for weeks, well at least not for more than an hour at a time. Well I'll put him to work in the morning and see if we can find that floor again soon. Wish us luck...

FOOD STORAGE, FINALLY!!

So for "family night" we decided to organize our food storage, I didn't get any before pictures, they were too embarassing. But we got some shelves and finally unloaded the boxes and organized all the varieties we had. I found I had a lot more than I thought and so that was good....Until the boys were helping load a shelf and it colapsed, yeah not so good but miraculously(if you've read my former posts) no one was injured. These shelves are just inside out front door but it's the best place. We do get a lot of comments on it frm our friends and a whole lot of questions from Brian's family who are not LDS and don't know about food storage. I was always taught to store what you'd eat, and yes those ARE Girl Scout Cookies. What can I say we like our cookies....

It is no where near a years worth but you have to factor in that we have NEVER had a place for it before and I just started actually working on it a couple months ago. Got to love caselot sales!!

Oh and on a side note, as of right now my mom does not need surgery on her knee. The MRI showed a torn ligament, MCL and ACL but do to her arthritis from her previously dislocating it they said surgery on the ligament was unnecessary and the MCL and ACL surgery would make the arthritis worse. She got a new knee brace that allows her to walk a little and she is starting to be able to move around on her own a little. Connor's nose is healing nicely and so is the bruise on his ear.

Well it's bed time and Connor needs his pajamas on...

Yet more injuries.....

So Wednesday I was at work when I got a phone call from my mom. She had fallen and injured her knee and couldn't get out of the car when she got home. I ran out of work, and went to my mom's house. I got my mom moved out of the drivers seat and took her to the doctor. Right now we know that the x-ray didn't show anything too severe and so they want an MRI tomorrow. So I was home with my mom this morning and my kids had made a HUGE "tent" out of the box my mom's tredmill had come in. Well Connor was trying to go around it and hit his ear on the corner of the table. Insta bruise. Then I had to go to work so I took my kids to my sister and after work we were getting into my mom's house and I had the diaper bag, my purse, a bag of dinner, and Connor in my arms. This would have been fine if it had not been for the gale force winds blowing. I was tryingto keep the screen door from blowing off, which it has before so.... I tried to put Connor down and he didn't let go, but I thought he had. Well I turned around quickly to close the door before the wind took it and Connor fell flat on his face, on the cement. Insta nose bleed!! Yeah and a mouth full of blood. I'm hoping he sleeps well tonight.

To add to it all, when I took him to the doctor earlier this week they said he had a sinus infection, starting an ear infection, and if we didn't treat him soon, he'd have bronchitis that would turn to pnemonia really easily. Yeah loads of fun. Tyler's eye is healing nicely and you almost can't even tell he'd hurt it.

No gruesome pictures this time, but hey my kids are super accident prone, as you've noticed, so I'm sure there will be more to come....

Yet another injury...

Tyler was at my mom's house a few nights ago while I was at a work meeting. He was chasing Connor and tripped and hit the leg of a wooden chair. This is almost 48 hours later. That night when I got home from the meeting

Not a very good shot of him while he was sleeping

We are headed to Evanston and Salt Lake for a few days and Tyler is so excited because our hotel has a pool. He is also very excited to see his friend, who happens to be a girl. :) He blushes whenever we talk about her. Brian is excited because he gets to go to Cabelas. I get to go shopping somewhere other than the mall in Idaho Falls!!!!!

My sister inlaw was pointing out that all Tyler's injuries happen to the left side of his head. Odd I think but true, refer to the last post and the family picture at the top of the blog....Yes if he keeps all the sight in that eye it will be a miracle. Is it possible he is so left brained it actually weighs more? I doubt it but maybe it would explain a lot. I'm getting to the point that I'm thinking padded room with only round toys. We are lucky that so far he has not needed stitches. Both my nieces that are his age have had them in the last month or so.... Hey maybe it's just the age and he'll grow out of it, wishful thinking but hey maybe.

Well if the packing's going to get done for the trip tomorrow I'd better rotate some laundry.

Tyler meets the door frame. Door Frame wins

Monday morning Tyler was walking out of our bedroom in the morning. ( There are no windows in our bedroom and we live in a basement so it's really dark in our house at 7:30 am) It looks kind of nasty but when it happened he fussed a little but I wasn't really awake so he just went of and played a couple hours later we notice it wasn't just a bump but an actual wound. Yeah he saw it and he said that it looked like Nikki's head. (My neice had taken a bad fall the week before and had to have stitches to close her eye brow gash that went to the bone.) He did say that his was not as big and no one had to sew on his head so it was pretty little and "not so bad." He has since picked the scab twice so now has a super cool Batman Band-Aide on it. We took him out to dinner with us tonight and we were asked at LEAST 5 times what happened to his head, but had never been asked by anyone while there was no bandaide on it. HMM I think it was the shaggy hair covering it, which we cut tonight so we'll see how that goes.

Yeah all 3 boys got hair cuts tonight and I itch all over from it. I HATE cutting hair if anyone wondered.

Cake anyone?

Tractor cake, 2 4-year olds who love tractors...

The result.......

Lots of "plowing" More Plowing

Tyler and his Cousin Gabe and what's left of Gabe's cake

Luckily we ate before the plowing began

So we were at Brian's cousin Shawn's house for his son's Gabe's 4th birthday party. Tyler was sitting by the cake and decided to plow it. Well when gabe found out, then they both had to plow and they were having so much fun and we thought it was so funny no one would tell them to stop. The cake was totally frosing free before we left. When the tractors got too full of frosting they would lick them off and keep plowing the cake. Yeah we did not eat any cake after that.

Oh and these are pictures from my phone too so sorry if they're not the best.