Jesse's Birthday Party

Jesse's 6th birthday isn't for another week, but we had his friend party today. I wanted to make sure he got a party before this baby shows up and the weatherman said it was supposed to be a nice day and it was! He had lots of friends over for a transformers/water party. He had lots of fun and got a lot of new fun toys.
We started out with pizza and rootbeer. What 6 year old doesn't love that!Lots of fun new presents!
Then we started with the water balloons...those didn't last long. We did invite two girls to his party but one had to go out of town. It wasn't quite fair when the boys yelled "boys against girls!" But she was a trooper! It wasn't quite warm enough when the clouds moved in to slip-n-slide but they tried anyway!
Then they spent the rest of the time just playing and having fun! They decided the trampoline was a great place to play duck, duck goose.
Jesse had lots of fun and was so excited to have his friends over. He was so cute. Before school he got out all his party stuff and laid it out on the table and organized it all. It about killed him to wait to put up the slip-n-slide and streamers until dad got the lawn mowed. He wasn't about to wait for me to wash off the sidewalk....he did that himself!

Vocabulary lesson...

Here is a new term for you all (according to Tyler).....
Cadillac: A herd of cows

As we were driving Tyler started asking me about cars.
Tyler:Mom what kind of car did Crystal drive? The one that she wrecked?
Me: It was a Buick
Tyler: What color was it?
Me: I can't remember, either blue or gray.
Tyler: What's a Buick?
Me: It's a kind of car.
Tyler: Is that what Grandma Bev drives?
Me: No, Grandma Bev drives a Cadillac.
Tyler: A Cadillac.....but that's a herd of cows!
Me: A herd of cows? No it's a type of car.
Tyler: Well then Ms. Beatty lied to me.
Me: I doubt Ms. Beatty lied to you, what did she say?
Tyler: That cattle is a herd of cows.
Me: Yes, I guess that's true, but cattle and a cadillac are two different words.

It was quite the conversation trying to figure out what he was talking about!

Boys new room

The boys are finally moved totally into their room upstairs. They're excited for the moment. Josh and I were finally able to be home at the same exact time and we took their beds apart and moved them up and put them back together again. What are they most excited about? They have windows! LOL, that's a new thing for them, sad I know!

I love this bookshelf thingy that Josh brought home when he went up north for training. I am determined that its going stay nice and organized. I told the boys it's full so when they get something new they'll have to get rid of something else (wow I sound like my mom!) So now all we need is a nice big rug....oh and a door knob. I guess those weren't made to last over 50 years.

How to catch a butterfly

Yesterday I was watching Jesse play out front. A butterfly caught his eye and he spent the next 30 minutes trying to catch it. He made me be very quiet and still. He looked so dang cute. He actually got really close to catching it this time. I thought he looked so dang cute. So inbetween catching attempts I grabbed the camera.

He made sure that as long as I was taking pictures that I got one of the butterfly too.

Swollen feet

I've been so happy because up until now my feet haven't been swelling at all. Well, that's all over! I've noticed it a little bit over the last week-ish that my feet will swell a little bit. Today at the race, after my feet had been hanging off the tailgate, the straps to my sandals got a little tighter and a little tighter. I finally heaved a big sigh and hopped down and resorted to leaning against the truck for the rest of the race. I did try crossing my legs instead of hanging them off but my feet went numb within minutes! :)



Here's a first that we saw today at the races. Jesse passed this kid and took 4th! Yea! He's doing really good at standing up and being a little more aggressive pedalling. I was excited for him! It was the only picture I got before my camera died.

Science Fair

The boys had their science fair today. They had a lot of fun doing their projects.

Ty has wanted to do his on monocots and dicots since our family reunion last summer when Grandma Whitney explained what they were and how to tell the difference (I had to look it up!). He grew some corn seeds and some bean seeds in gelatin to watch what they do and then went out and found examples in the yard, which at this point are few and far behind but we're thankful for some daffodils, tulips and some early blooming weeds :)

Jesse launched balloon rockets on fishing string and straws. He had a lot of fun and guessed right that the biggest balloon would go the farthest. When I asked him why he thought that and he said "because mom it's going to blast through the air!" He got third place and was excited about that after awhile (he was hoping to win!) One of the judges is a doctor in the ER I work with and he came over and told me he'd talked to him earlier and was cute and really shy. I wasn't suprised!

Being a single mom

I've decided that single moms are amazing people! I'm so ready for Josh to come home tonight or in the morning! I can't believe we did this every week for 4 months while he was in the academy. I'm not sure how we all survived (except that I suspect that not being pregnant really helped). Anyway, single moms are my new heros. I guess I better get off the computer, I have quite the list of cleaning to get done today :)

BMX and the snow

So I know that I live in Cedar and that the Spring weather is nuts but really, I'm done with snow for the year! It snowed all morning and I just couldn't quite get warm all day long. I'm ready for it to be warm!

I took the boys down to the BMX track in Virgin this afternoon to practice since there is a race on Saturday. They are getting better, a little more aggressive, so that's good! They are still more cautious than the other kids their age. I'm not sure if that's because they're smarter and know better than to be crazy or what :). It was of course windy and cold, because I have yet to be there when it's not. Here are some pictures of them riding.

Tyler:

Jesse:

The Blogger Gods

So I guess the blogging gods have decided I'm safe enough for now. Mid-last post they decided I was a dangerous spammer and locked my account. I did read up on this little matter and it said that nonsensical text and lots of links make the "robots" think your spamming. Now I know that most of what I say probably makes no sense at all, but really, I'm not dangerous I promise. I'm just glad it saved my last post so I didn't have to start all over. Today (5 days later) they finally decided I'm safe enough I guess.

Of course I also had lots of funny or witty things to say in the last five days (ha ha) but they're all gone now. Jesse said something cute and a few other things that have now left my brain. But I'm sure I'll come up with something.

My mom is here visiting me for a few days this week while Josh is off learning how to be a good little swat sniper. She is awesome. We cleaned out the room that will be the boys room, did some touch up painting and on a whim painted one wall artichoke green. Jesse is ecstatic about this and picked the color out all by himself (out of the two options I gave him). Green is his favorite. Anyway it looks really good. Today we cleaned out the boys room and hauled most of their stuff upstairs to their new room. Now Josh just needs to move the furniture. We also hauled abot 90 pounds of garbage out of there (you probably think I'm exaggerating) and took a bunch of stuff to DI.

Thanks mom!! I would have never gotten this much done on my own for sure. I would have definitly fizzled out early yesterday and given up! And the boys just think that having Grandma is the best. She even came and picked them up from school the last two days. Sometimes life just can't get much better for two boys, I guess.

The Zoo and Easter weekend

K-well here we go. I thought I'd post some pictures from our little trip to Salt Lake. We went to the Zoo and went swimming. We decided that Cedar City is definitely a big enough town for us but we did have a lot of fun.

The boys saved their pennies so they could buy something while at the zoo. They both did pretty good saving and they both bought stuffed animals. Here's Ty with his Panda and Jesse got a monkey. That's was what each of them wanted to see :)
Josh put this hat on Jesse. We thought he looked cute!
This is the view we most often saw of Jesse. He only needed a quick peek at each animal before he headed off to see the next one. I was usually caught somewhere in the middle of trying to keep up with him and keep track of the other two boys in my life. I told him if he got lost it would be ok, the police would come get him and find a nice new family for him to live with. He wasn't amused.
This was everyone's favorite part I think. This cute little monkey put on quite the show. Her mom was over sleeping and oblivious to it all. They thought it was hilarious when she carried a big ball up the branch and tried to drop it on her.

We had lots of fun and even made it home in time for Grandma's easter egg hunt, which was a happy thought for everyone :)

And who says you have to color eggs before Easter anyway?

Somewhere to start

Well, I guess I'll join everyone else and try this out!