Christmas in March

A game the boys like to play is that they are Santa Claus and they fill a bag or pillowcase with their toys and give them out to all of us as Santa would. Here Cregan and Collin in their rendition of Santa's ho ho ho's.

Hellogoodbye

I love the Beatles song that goes something like hello goodbye, I don't know the title ofcourse but that is the song that comes to mind when I think of this weekend.
Josh flew in on Saturday for a brief visit. He left today and those 4 days went faster than I could have realized possible. On Saturday Clay, Cregan and Collin made a poster for Josh and we went to the airport and waited, and waited and waited... he's flight was delayed.






Finally Josh arrived, and after a tearful reunion we went to Josh's mom and dad's for our annual Easter party.






We all had a blast at our Easter party, Josh's sisters were there with thier kids and husbands and Josh's sister-in-law was there (Ryan had to work) and their kids. Josh's friend Hunter and Brianna were there as well. We ate, dyed eggs, went easter egg hunting, played games and watched a movie. It was a full day.



The next day was Sunday and church. This Sunday was extraspecial, not only was Josh home! But Kayla had baby Kiley blessed so we had Josh's entire family there! We was a wonderful Easter! We all went to Kayla's for lunch and got to visit with Josh's extened family too.

On Monday, we went to the Play Place at Polaris and then came home and played with the kids, in the evening, we had FHE and family over for dinner and desert.

Today, we got our pictures taken!!! It is only our 3rd time ever getting professional pictures as a family and I was excited! I was a little disappointed with the pictures because of my double chin and squinting eyes but it was worth going anyway...

After our pictures we came home and Josh packed, around 1:oo, we (Josh, the kids and I) went to the airport with Bob (Josh's dad), Kayla, Jon and the girls. We ate lunch and hung out, it was very nice to spend those last couple of hours laughing and enjoying ourselves. He left around 3 PM, and I am SOO sad, but I'm more sad for the kids, they will miss there daddy so much and don't understand how long he'll be gone or the reason why...

Video from COSI

Blizzard of 2008

I have a little bit of cabin fever after this weekend!! I was glad to see the sun shining and the streets plowed. But this weekend was, looking back on it, awesome! All that snow, just beautiful! And all those calories burned, shoveling!

Sleeping on the job

I had to go to the store and my friend Sophie was watching the kids for me. When I came back, this is how Collin was... The window is looking out to the front yard and to the van, he started looking out for me when I left and fell asleep waiting for me to come back. Notice the slobber... what a q-t!!

These shoes are made for walking...

The other day, Collin, who should have been taking a nap comes down the hallway in this... It was hilarious!!