Rain

On days when it rains really good in Utah, this happens few and far between. I really, really love the smell of rain. It reminds me of the good old high school days in Oregon City. It actually reminds me of the northwest in general. I miss the rain sometimes. We had a good rainy day yesterday and today we woke up to rain and a little snow. So strange this Utah spring.

Mostly Finished for real!

The mattresses are on and Lincoln finished a little rail for the Sam's part of the bed. His mattress was a bit bigger then we thought and were worried about him just rolling right out of bed.

Sam took his first nap in his new bed and actually...truthfully I think he might really be napping on the floor behind the door. Its hard when your almost two and you are no longer trapped inside a crib for naps and night time. Good luck Sam I know you can do it. Your mattress is really comfortable. I might take a nap on it!

BunkBeds!!

Some of you may know that we have been planning on building a bunk bed and it had been in the process of being built for some time. Lincoln I must add measure a twin mattress and put his own design together to build this. Much cheaper then buying one. Well after a month of bad weekend weather we finally got some real spring weather and Lincoln my awesome, sweet, hardworking husband spent the whole day yesterday getting the rest of it sanded and put together.
Madee was so excited to be able to sleep on it last night. I was excited it was done so the kids can get used to sleeping on it. I think it looks awesome! What do you think? Pictures of mattress's on it to come.

Easter Fun

Went out to my sister Kaytie's and did an Easter Egg hunt with the kids. The littlest got to get a few eggs first before the older kids took them all. It was really fun! Sam just wanted the candy in the eggs.
There was so pretty tricky places to hide eggs. Madee had a lot of fun with her cousins.
After all the eggs were collected. Yes everyone but Garhett in this picture.

Mom this last one is for you! Or was it the Easter Bunny! We do remember finding a bunny just like this one on our kitchen table when we were kids. They were fun to make and the kids made the Bunny ears, aren't they great!

Hair Cut

Lincoln buzzed Sam's Hair it was getting very long! He looks cute with spiky hair though.

Egg Hunting

Sadly no pictures. I can't decide if its because I am eight month pregnant or just extra lazy lately that I am not taking pictures of the things we are doing. Yesterday Lincoln and I took the kiddo's to a Stake Easter Egg hunt. It was at Exchange park in Provo. It was really fun. They had three groups of kids to go get the eggs. The first was Sam's group which was 18month to almost three. They picked up Easter eggs and had a great time doing it. Madee's was the next group of 3 yr old to 8 yr old. They got to find Candy and in her very own words I picked up my candy and it was all pink. I didn't even mean for it to all be pink. She is cute. The third group of kids was the oldest ones 9 - 12 yr old. The kids also got to play with a Hugh parachute and there was a 5k and fun run which our family did not participate in. Maybe if I wasn't into my 8th month of pregnancy I would have ran that puppy! I should have done it anyway! Well Happy almost Easter everyone.

Game night

Sam loves the seven dwarfs. Grumpy and Sneezy are his favorites. When ever we watch the movie and sneezy gets ready to sneeze Sam is just a second ahead of him making the sneezing noise. Such a cute silly boy.
We are working on sharing with Sam now too. He does not want to share the DS with anyone. He is getting a little better. He is always saying Mine. Just an update on the whole bottle thing. He is doing way better. We have gone two nights straight without waking up and no crying last night when he went to bed without a bottle. Tantrums are less and life is a little easier without worry about stinky bottles.
Saturday night we were so bored and had nothing to do so we decided to be creative and teach the kids some new games. Game night. We played a few games I remember doing in family home evening as a kid a little revised for Sam. One was you take a news paper and have to say (two temples) but we used colors. If you don't say yours and someone else color fast enough they you get a little wack with the news paper stick. We did magic tricks and an animal game.
Sam and Madee really liked bowling with cups and Lincoln even helped them make a little phone with two cups and string. It really works I did not know this. Apparently it works better with cans and a string. We made do. It was tone of fun for all of us. Yeah for Game night.