It's Official

Brian is officially in the National Guard as of about 6 hours ago. We are now a military family. Well I have always been in one (My dad was in the Air Force for 21 years) but it is new to the other members of my family. Brian has been wanting to join for our entire marriage but it's taken me longer to get on board. He will be starting his once a month drills in July and going to boot camp in October. Yeah for more time as a single mom!!!

I have been crazy busy getting my sister's baby shower ready for tomorrow. I think it'll be fun and hopefully it will run smoothly. Her other children are practically giddy about it. They are so ready for their new little sister to get here, too bad it's not for another 7 weeks.

Tyler is currently at a father and sons camp out with my dad, brother-in-law, and nephew. He has never actual camped before and was SO excited to go. He was really hoping to go with his dad but that didn't work out with the signing up for the national guard and all.

Next week Brian will be gone all week at a training to become a trainer at the jail. Yeah for even more time as a single mom. But luckily playgroup will distract us for a few hours and getting Connor his 2 year shots ( two and a half months late) and maybe a trip to Lagoon and the Train Museum in Utah but we're not sure on that part quite yet. If we do anything fun we'll put some pictures on here, but for now, there aren't any new cute ones to share, just lots of info.

Our new friend

We just got home from Brian's big family dinner at his uncle's house tonight and were getting the boys ready for bed. Tyler walked in to the kitchen and came back out really fast. He said "mom there is something in the kitchen I don't like." I go in thinking it was a spider or a mouse but no no no, it was not at all what I expected. I look at my empty flip flop and see a new pet. . .

Our new friend Lizard the Salamander. He was well loved by Connor especially. When we put him in the sink he was so excited he could barely talk. He was bouncing up and down and kept yelling to tell us everything it was doing. We realeased it over near our woodshed and the boys were sad to see it go, but were excited for it to go home.

The actual stitches

Pardon the dirty face but this is what Tyler looks like now. If you look closely on his forehead you can see the stitches. I took a bunch of pictures tring to get a good shot of the stitches, this is the best I got. Still learning to use the new camera.

First Stitches

They are a little blurry we took them with Brian's phone on our way to the doctor.

Tyler was outside playing after dinner and was chasing after Connor and tripped and hit his head on a cinder block. After some cleaning (the blood was dripping down his face onto his brand new shirt and not so new jeans) we looked at the cut and discussed what to do for a few minutes. I tried to call my friend who is married to an ER doctor but got no answer. We talked some more looked at it some more and I called my mom. She said if it were her she'd probably take him in but since Brian's family doesn't go to the doctor much we may want to super glue and buttterfly bandage it. We talked some more and decided that to avoid a nasty scar we should probably take him in. On our way the the hospital (since it was 8:00 and neither Urgent Care is open that late on a Sunday) we thought we'd stop by my friend's house. They happened to be just walking in the door, well the husband and the son that is Tyler's age. I asked him if he'd look and see what he thought. He said to reduce scarring and speed healing, he'd stitch it. He said he had the stuff there so he could just do it for us right there. We went into the house and he started with a numbing cream and then did some numbing shots and laid Tyler on the dining room table and did 3 stitches. I did not watch. Tyler did really well and held really still even after the shot wore off and he needed one more stitches. He cried a little but within a few seconds of being done he was fine. My friend's two sons gave Tyler a candy and a suction cup ball and he has been happy and content ever since. That was the end of a very long mother's day.

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.