Home Sweet Home

Ok so I have major catching up to do and not the time to do it, but wanted all to know we have made it to Boise where we hope to call "home" for a long time. In fact we planted some serious roots, and bought this beauty of a dream house.
Once I actually get furniture to decorate it with, I will post pictures of the inside. Until then...

ok just ONE sneak peak of the kitchen:

This is not our furniture it was the staging furniture, but you get the idea. DREAMY!!!

The other angle:

A nickel for your thoughts

Remember a few posts back when I said how Owen was our "trouble child?" Well here is MORE proof!

That would be a foreign body aka a penny to Owen and what the Dr. thinks is a Nickel.

I was driving to my church for a night of enlightenment on dutch oven cooking when I got a phone call from Nate asking me what our pediatricans number was. THAT IS NEVER A GOOD WAY TO START A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR WIFE. Especially when said husband is a doctor himself.

He told me Owen had possibly swallowed a coin while playing with Liam's piggy bank.

I turned around, so I could help with one of the kids and Owen decided he wanted me to take him to the hospital after the ped. office said we needed to get his chest x-rayed to make sure the coin was in the stomach and not stuck along the way.

After a 2.5 wait, one X-ray later, you can see that he really did swallow a coin, and now it's the wait and see game, but was told that kids can pass quarters even.

My favorite part of the story was when Liam asked me when he was getting his coin back and I told him that Owen was going to poop it out and he might not want it back. He started to cry, so I made him a deal. He could have one of my coins as a replacement.

Anyone want a sweet but active, mischievous little 3 year old for a few days???

He knows now that coins are to be in his hands and pockets only!

Here is the phone video we took while in the ER to let Liam know that he was ok, and said quarter was ok...

Mother's day

Sometimes it's great to be a mom at 18!

Anyone up for a game of hide-n-seek???

Easter 2011 in Hershey

Hershey LOVES any reason to give chocolate away...So Easter is a big time event in this little town with hundreds of free egg hunts most sponsored by the Hershey company. It is SO not good for my hips, but the kids love it!

We dyed some hard boiled eggs with our friend V

Being oh so careful not to spill the dye!

Now those are some good looking eggs.

I totally didn't get pictures of the boys in their Easter clothes this year, nor them searching for their baskets. The Easter bunny got really tricky and hid Liam's in the oven. He thought that was really silly! Then asked Nate and I why we don't ever see the real Easter Bunny, just adults dressed up in bunny costumes? I don't know how I answered that one. Suggestions?

The BIG 6

Which means another Birthday party to plan. Didn't I just do this?

Liam wanted to have a Scooby Doo party for his birthday, so out invitations went (This time store bought, sorry bud too tired with baby #3 sucking the life from me.)

Since this would be the last birthday party he would have in PA I let him invite a few more friends than normal.

I got an empty cake box and had written out a clue about how the birthday cake had been taken by the phantom cake robber, and they had to figure out who'd done it!

Unfortunately Nate was a little big to fit in Liam's Scooby costume, so we found him a mask and he chased the kids around, once they figured it out.

Liam spoiled by his friends!

The cake. (Also store bought and decorated. Just didn't have it in me.)

My handsome little 6 year old, complete with Orange mustache!

THIS IS A 5LB REAL HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE BAR LIAM GOT FROM CHRISTIAN! THE BOYS COULDN'T BELIEVE IT! Neither could I. I still have it all wrapped up. I'm worried once we start eating, we won't stop!

Another visit from N&B

Nate's parents who have been so great about making the LOOONG trek out to see us on the East Coast these last 4 years, agreed to come watch the boys while Nate was in San Antonio for a board review course, and I could meet him there to look for a house to live in.
Little did we know that Texas would no longer be the place Nate would take a job (We are now headed to Boise, ID).
I figured it wasn't really economical for me to fly out there while he had classes all day and make N and B be the parents for a couple days, so I stayed and we made a vacation out of it.

Marie and Dan arrived to Hershey on Marie's birthday, so we made sure to make it a party! I made her an awesome chocolate chocolate cake and the boys made her birthday cards.

We pulled Liam out of school for two days so we could drive down to DC and take a tour of the White House and Capital thanks to Marie's connections with the UT state Legislature, see the monuments, memorials, the zoo and get our feel of public transit!

It was a BLAST! Except for the part when Owen decided to fall asleep just before our Capital tour where strollers weren't allowed, so I got to carry all 35 lbs of him pregnant for about 30 minutes, and then the rest of the time we took turns holding him. It was probably best he slept, not sure it was up his alley to do a 3 hour tour of a building, but the rest of us enjoyed it!

The places we've lived (or will live in...)

Good thing he has Superman like strength!

Liam was actually really excited to go to DC. His class learned all about a few of the past presidents in February, and they talked about the monuments. He was really excited to see Mr. Abe!

But the kids favorite thing we did was the zoo!

Our Family's favorite animal.

So they have built this awesome outdoor living space for the elephants since we went last, and we got to see this younger elephant out at play, until everyone realized this elephant had 5 legs. The kids were screaming, mother's were rushing their children past the exhibit, and explaining as best they could what "that was." it was totally hilarious, and TMI at the same time.

This must be his good angle?

And this angle.

Cool birds!

Owen excited they had a Harry Potter Snake. (Behind glass that is.)

And another personal favorite of his, the blue frogs! (deadly poisionus, mom was happy they were behind glass.)

The boys trying to find their frog princesses!

As for the rest of our trip, camera's were not allowed, or it was POURING rain.

I am SO glad that Dan and Marie came out to help me. It would have been a long week by myself pregnant, tired and nauseated!

I really have some great in-laws!

Liam's class pictures

They did some spring pictures at Liam's school and he HAD to wear his BYU shirt. Which is a tad to tight and he thinks is the coolest thing ever. Unfortunately he doesn't understand why when he does the BYU ra ra ra GOOOO Cougars and none of his classmates join in, that they have NO clue who BYU is and my guess is they think he's a Yale fan. However, it looks like I'm not the only mother who didn't get to choose what their son wore for picture day!

In his last school picture he did this totally GQ look where he was smirking and looked a little tired, so I told him this time to SMILE and keep your eyes open. LOL! Next I'll just leave it up to him and the photographer who puts them in the most awkward poses!

Three's First ultrasound

Here the little guy (or girl) is about 8 weeks old and letting me know it with the constant nausea!

And a shot of that little heart beat. Be stilled my beating heart! 

Owen vs the blue marker

Owen has been what you would like to call our trouble child. He likes to make messes, get dirty and do the opposite of whatever you tell me to do or not to do.

Here is said example:

Lets not forget what he was wearing.

I have to say I am impressed with the washable markers. It ALL came out. Owen looked a little smurf-ish the rest of the day, but other than that, not the worst thing he's done to date.

THREE

This is how we told the grandparent's #3 was on it's way!!!

Cupid

This year I got the boys little mailboxes and had them decorate them so that "cupid" could bring them a love note, treat, sticker or toy for 14 days.
The boys had fun decorating, and Cupid forgot twice and had to tell them it was me that was cupid, but they still had a good time!

And YES I put him up to this...