SRING IS FINALLY ALMOST HERE!!

Our pear trees are almost ready to bloom! Its been a cold spring this year so I've been dying to see what everything is going to look like. I took a ton of pictures and these were the best ones:

Easter Outfits

A big THANK YOU to Modena for making the girls skirts!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUSTIN

The big day finally arrived!! He's been into volcano's lately so I made him a Volcano cake with smoking lava(dry ice) which was a HUGE hit. That's all he wanted to do all day was put more ice in and watch it smoke. He got a bubble machine, Toy Story part 2, a glow in the dark bubble gun, the shark from Nemo swim toy (its supposed to actually swim in the water) and a Mr. Incredible's costume.


FYI: DO NOT STORE DRY ICE IN THE FRIDGE! IT WILL SET OFF YOUR CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUSTIN!!

Going through these pictures makes me sad! Our baby is 4 on Sunday!!! Austin is a mixture of Aubree and Addie. He's very active and friendly, but will sit still enough to line up his toys. He has 2 pillows, one spiderman and one Cars and the Cars one always has to be on top. He's doing very well in school and both of his teachers are amazed with his progress. He loves doing flashcards, especially numbers and likes to line them up in order clear to 50! (Had to throw a little bragging moment in! Sorry...) His favorite shows are Dora (when he's playing he'll always say "Vanamos!! Lets go!") Thomas, Spiderman, Toy Story, Letter Factory, and Kung Fu Panda. He also likes to watch NASCAR Racing on ESPN!
We can't believe he's already 4 and is nearing the end of my favorite era (3-4 year olds are my favorite!)
We love You!!

EXHAUSTED!

Yup! He's actually asleep under there! Having OCD is taking its toll!

EASTER

This is what we woke up to Easter morning. YUCK!! I did have one tulip bloom today though.I made my Christmas cinnamon(Sp?Can't figure out spellcheck on our new computer!!) rolls for Easter. Thought I would start a new tradition of having them twice a year instead of just one. Because of the weather we did a Easter egg hunt in the playroom and I set out their baskets on their bed. Towards the afternoon it got a little warmer so we did another hunt outside. Apparently my kids thought it was in the middle of summer by the shorts and bare feet. I had my nephew over to take in on the fun, too. The kids (aka Aubree) also got a bug catcher set (don't take your kids to Costco!) I told her she had to wait for Easter.

ZOO

K, we are back into the internet world and are functioning normally again!
Today was Day 2 of Spring Break. The forecast said 68 and sunny. It turned out to be no sun and breezy. YUCK! But we had already told the kids we were going to the zoo. It actually wasn't that bad and ran into a lot of people that we knew, one of which was my dear friend from California! AHHH, the goodtimes!

OUT OF ORDER

Our computer crashed the other night and we lost everything! So I can't download any pictures for awhile which means no blogging or scrapbooking! We're using David's work laptop until we get a new one. It crashed the night before we're getting some work done to our yard and I'm not cancelling that one so a new computer is just going to have to wait!

Until we meet again....

GREAT BOOK FOR GIRLS

We went to our local bookstore over the weekend (yes here out in the sticks we do have a bookstore!) and bought Aubree a series called Ivy and Bean. Its more on a 2nd grade level so she finished the whole book over the weekend, but she really liked it and wants me to get the next book. Its hard finding books Aubree likes so when we do we jump on it! But its a cute book that I would recommend and oh lets face it, it has a cute cover and I thought it would look cute in her room on a bookshelf.

FINISHED ART PROJECT

The newness (really bad English!) is wearing off so its taken me awhile to get these made. With all of the supplies including picture development it was $54.

BIRTHDAY PRESENT IDEA

Austin's birthday is coming up and I need some idea's on a good gift. I HATE buying the kids toys just so they can be ignored a few days later. So I need some help on a good toy for a 4 year old. (we're trying to steer clear of another hot wheel car for obvious reasons)
Thanks!

OCD?

This is how Austin plays. He doesn't play pretend very much unless he's wearing his Spiderman costume. He literally thinks he turns into Spiderman and tries to climb the walls and even calls me MJ.
Anyway.
He loves to line up his cars. He'll line them up right side up, staggerd, upside down, you name it. Oh and heaven forbid if one of his sisters walks over it and accidentally bumps one out of place..
He'll go nuts!
His preschool teacher told me "Austin is very organized when he plays."

THE GIRLS ROOM

We have finally finished the girls room!! The carpet was installed about 4 weeks ago and we were finally able to get them a bed yesterday.
We had a desk and a hutch from David's grandma. I took the hutch off because I didn't want it covering up all of the trim and painted it white along with the end table. Then I painted an old chair from me and Dave's glory days pink.
I still have some artwork that I want to do and I need to order some pictures, but that can wait. I'll post those pictures later when I'm done.
I sent some material to Modena to make the girls some matching quilts and I'm sooo excited to see those!
The bunk beds are a lifesaver! They finally have their own bed to sleep in (before they were both sleeping in a full size canopy bed with a trundle. When I bought it I thought that it was sooooo cute and hoped Addie would sleep in the trundle. Well she refused and the girls have been sleeping in the same bed for 2 1/2 years. Addie has night terrors and was constantly kicking Aubree and screaming in her face. Sometimes Aubree would come home from school and say, "Addie kicked me in the shoulder last night and it still hurts!" And of course they would stay up all night giggling. Last night it was sooooo quiet!! Aubree sleeps on top, but Addie has the bigger bed (which she needs with all of her moving around!)
All of the stores I shopped at were Direct Source Furniture, DownEast Home (damaged Pottery Barn for those of you who don't live in Utah,Gardner Village and Real Deals.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

ADDIE'S NEW DO

AUBREE'S GAME

Aubree had an awesome game today!! She made 3 baskets and had a couple of steals! They won 23-8! Way to go Aub!
On the way home she asked me when tennis started. Lets take one sport at a time.
She also said on the way home:
"Mom, I don't know whats wrong with me. I"m just good at all the sports I do."
It was just funny the way she said it.