No excuses

There are no reasons as to why my blog has been left dormant for far too long yet again. Mostly because little sticky fingers (aka: Owen) has to type while I type and so it would look more like this: to9kimay wkoie went56354 354...You get the point. So I have put it off. However today is a different story. It's about 23 degrees, but it feels like 10. No I am not exaggerating. Go check out weather.com The wind is blowing and it is freezing so we (well mainly I) decided that we were going to make it a stay in the house, wear your cozy's all day and put a post up on the blog kind of day. (Ok so I didn't finish this post and it's no longer freezing, IT"S GLORIOUSLY Warm and sunny so I need to finish so we can get outside and enjoy it!)

For a recap, we had Valentines day. Liam had his class party the day before and I was able to help thanks to my friend Kristen who watched Destruct-O for me!
It was fun to see the kids give each other Valentines and see what the typical day for Liam is like. Here are a few pic that I took.





That night we drove to D.C. to stay with our friends the Jones, who BTW are some of the nicest people I know and went WAY out of their way to help us. They let us stay the night at their house, got US dinner, then drove us to the airport at 4 am. Then took our car home so we didn't have to pay for parking, then dropped it off in short term the day we arrived so we didn't have to haul the luggage and the kids on the metro. (SEE what I mean about them being Nice! One day I will repay them! Thanks again Melissa and Brady.)

Then Valentines day was spent flying from D.C. to Dallas to SLC and it took a total of 9 hours. The kids weren't very happy when we woke them up at 3:30 to go. Owen especially he needs his sleep so he's ready to destroy as soon as he wakes up!
I can't complain though, the kids did fairly well.

We then spent the next week visiting family and friends in UT. It was so good to be back home. Although at this point I am wishing home was in a tropical paradise that is always 80 degrees with a light breeze, not the frozen tundra of my Dad's house where he still has 3 feet of snow on the grass from snow blowing and a Northern exposure. The rest of the valley didn't have much but it fluttered a few of the days we were there.

We didn't do any skiing since A: we no longer have any snow gear after living in N.O. and B: it costs like $60 a person to go for one day and C: Nate and Liam were still getting over Pneumonia and Owen RSV and skiing isn't as fun by yourself. But hopefully next winter we will hit the slopes and let the boys have a go at it!

We did go to all our favorite places to eat. Especially the Mexican restaurants. You wouldn't guess it, but Utah has really good Mexican food and PA's is terrible! So we made sure to get our feel of it in the few days we were there.

It was a really fun trip and I'm so glad we got to go!




We did a late birthday party for Owen since none of the family was able to see the big guy turn one and devour his cake. The cousins got a kick out of it.


Say hello to my little friend. Ok BIG friend. This is my Nephew Graham BAM who is very serious about food as you can tell. He is 5 months old here and weighed the same as Owen does currently. He has the best disposition. And my favorite part about him is all you have to do to make him happy is take of his pants.




My boys warmed up quickly to the family and loved hanging out with Papa and Corinne before they went to bed.

Me, my SIL, and Cousin all had baby boys within a few months of each other. I can't imagine the trouble these boys are going to get into a few years from now.



We were able to catch them all awake and happy at the same time so took some shots of the male posterity we have going on.
























(The Studs: Owen 13 months, Graham 5 months and Ethan 3 months)


We also let Liam pull Owen and Graham in the wagon. I'm not sure who had more fun?



And that is basically our trip to UT in a nut shell.