Longest Post Ever

This post is going to be really long, and all over the place so stay with me.

 A couple weeks ago was Peyton's birthday.  He is now 1 year old

 Emily and Heath invited us to his party at the Outer Limits.  The kids had a good time and got to see their cousins.  We don't see them near enough.

Mr. man Peyton is the sweetest kid ever.  He is the first kid I have ever seen who actually started gaging when they fed him his cake.  It was hilarious.

 

 Next up, spring break.  We had big plans for spring break, big plans!  But like most things these days they got smaller and smaller.  We ended up going to Salt Lake City.  We rented a room at the Holiday Inn Express where they have an indoor water park thing. 

The first day we went to the Gateway and went to the planetarium, there.  It was pretty cool and it was free.  They had a lot of hands on things for the kids to do.  As you can see Dillon and Truman both went to the moon.  Separate trips

They did go to Mars together, it being further away and all.

 

The kids and I took some quizzes about the solar system, turns out I suck at questions about the solar system.  Beckette is sitting in my new stroller, because we forgot pack one.  I got a double umbrella one, and I totally dig it. 

Next we went to the Discovery Center.  I wish we had one of these near us.  Elleree was cracking me up every time she opened this tube it would blow her away.

The kids didn't even see everything because they would spend so much time at just one station.  We had to make them move to something else.

All the kids spent hours at this construction site.

Dillon, even at his "mature" age found some things to have fun doing.

After that we headed back to the hotel for endless swimming fun.

Next day was more swimming, going to the movie Rango "I personally was not a fan", and shopping at IKEA "no one else were fans".

 

We headed home the next day.  Stopping at The Golden Spike National Park on the way.  Don't throw rocks at me if I say it was lame!  Now it was the off season so they didn't have the trains out doing the reenactment, so that is might have made it cooler.  But really they don't even have the original ties, or the spike (would someone please explain why Stanford University has that).  Whatever, the history is important, but I feel alot has been lost at this particular national site.

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 Don't laugh!  This green spider, cricket looking thing is Elleree's Frog birthday cake.

I know just when you thought I couldn't get any cooler I produce something like this.

 

Elleree turned three and made out like a bandit.  My mom took work off and they came over for the day.  She finally got the dress up clothes I bought her when she was three months old.  Hey she is my only girl and she is.....

S-p-o-i-l-e-d

Other big things happened on Elleree's birthday too.  Beckette had his first rice cereal and our house was officially sold.  Sigh.

Now this post is finally done.  Yeah it put Beckett to sleep too.

Ta Da

So I am kind of manic when it comes to doing crafts. When I do them I do a ton all at once. Here are some of the things I have been working on.This is my awesome attempt at weaving. They had this thing in the Family Fun Magazine on how to weave a rug using a hula hoop and old t-shirts. Anyway I used a embroidery hoop and made a basket instead of a rug. Yeah it's going in the garbage, but it was a cute idea.
These are little birds mom cut out for a friend and she had some left over. I think they turned out cute.

This is a little wall hanging Easter egg thing. I used rick-rack and button, I think it turned out cute too.

Theses are my cool bobble heads. Okay so I am no good with faces, or decorating eggs apparently! I can copy things, but coming up with my own is not such a good idea.

My mom was so awesome. She let me come down just for a day even though my kids were still sick. I was going crazy and had not been out of the house in like two weeks. She watched the kids while I worked on my projects.

I am very proud of my skirt. It turned out super cute, and I made up the ruffle at the bottom all by myself. The material is fun and out of control. Just the way I like it.

While I was making it I realized our room is the babies room, office, sewing/craft room, and exercise room. Yeah we used to have separate rooms for each of these things. We are good at downsizing!

Good for the soul.

Once again Allison rocks, and my blog background looks great! Thanks Sis.

Dillon just recently had one of those tough learning experiences. He decided that he wanted to participate in the science fair his school puts on. I told him he had to get help from his dad because there was no way I was going to do it. (Mother of the year award again) Anyway, he and Jason picked out a project, and proceeded to procrastinate completing it.

The night before the project was due Dillon, Jason and I were frantically making charts,writing project summaries and gluing things onto his display. It looked great, and for the amount of time spent on the whole project it was awesome!

He was really excited to enter it, because he thought he was definitely going to get a ribbon for his efforts.

Now you have to know Dillon. He is really smart, so most things come very easy to him, and if they don't he gets frustrated, and often times quits. Oh yeah and he hates loosing!

This is him at the fair when he saw he only got an orange ribbon, which everyone got for participating. Notice the awesome green ribbon on the one next to his. He He He He. Yeah he was really upset!

Jason and I had to explain to him that you don't always win everything you do. We also had to point out to him that he really didn't put that much effort into it, and procrastinated quite a bit. I hope that this proves to be something he takes to heart. Who knows? All I know is that sometimes not getting the ribbon is good for the soul.

A little comic relief!

My kids sometimes crack me up.....

Elleree colors these pictures every day.  So the other day she brings me one that looks kind of like this:

I (being the good parent I am) asked her what it was a picture of.  She looks at me with this disgusted look and says " it's just crayon marks mom" and walks away.  Dah what was I thinking!!!!


Truman is sooo good with Beckett.  A couple of days ago Beckett was crying and Truman was trying to make him happy, but having no luck.  Finally Truman comes to me and says "mom I know why Beckett is crying"  I say,  "why"  He says, " because he has those red dots all over his face like you do".  Nice!

Okay so Heath showed me this new app. for my phone and I had to share it.  It will take any person's face and make it really fat.  So I did it to my whole family.  Alli says they are disturbing, I laugh so hard that I almost pee my pants.  You decide.

Jason's is by far my most favorite!!!  Love you Honey.

I really like Truman's cool aid mustache!

Change of plans

These days it seems my life is filled with changes of "the plan". 

We have tried to visit my parents in Mackay three times and either I have been sick,  the kids have been sick, or someone at my parents house is sick.  We changed our plans a couple of weeks ago and visited Jason's parents instead.  Jason's brother Jeff was there with his family, the kids love to play with their cousins and see grandma and grandpa here are a couple of pictures of that weekend.



Jason also celebrated a birthday in February.  Truman, Elleree, Beckett and I decided to take Jason a cake and balloons while he was at work.  The kids really enjoy visiting him, and it made his birthday a little more special.  Here is a picture of his birthday.

Another change of plan was we had to cancel Beckett's blessing.  So we rescheduled it for this last weekend on March 6th.  It was so wonderful to see how many people were willing to come.  Some of the roads were not very good and yet they still roughed it. 

Jason's parents and his sister came over on Saturday to watch the boys play in their last basketball games.  Dillon played awesome he made like 7 baskets.  He was on fire. Truman has yet to master the game.  5 minutes after the game started he was asking us when he could go home.   

It turns out blessing your baby is like having a baby shower.  Beckett got so many gifts!  My Aunt Kit made him the cutest blanket, Crazy lady gave him a monkey onesie (might I add here how smoking hot she looks, she has been working hard) , Roberta made a sweet wall hanging that I love.  Our friends R-Jay and DeAnna came with there two munchkins bearing gift.  Some of my cousins came and so did Heath and Emily, with Peyton.  It was so nice to spend time with everyone.

 This is what Elleree is always doing to poor Beckett.  It is a good thing that he is such a good natured baby!

Elleree decided to help herself to my lipstick that morning.  Kids!



Last change of plan was that right when Jason and I were coming to the realization that our house was not going to sell and we started to make other plans.  We got and offer, so for better or worse our house in Idaho Falls is gone. 

I decided on a new plan.........I am no longer going to make plans!