April 2014

He learned to sit on the heaters from Patch.

Jared and Joan insisted this plant was dead.  I kept watering it then forgot about it.  Then on April 1 I took this picture and sent it to Jared.  He thought it was an April Fools joke and that I had somehow created and attached leaves.

This is why we tell the kids not to throw pillows and blankets on the floor.  They get hairy from the dogs.

Jason and Janae (Janaeson is what we call them) bought a Groupon for this rock climbing place, then Erica and Brad were here for Brad’s dermatology rotation for medical school, and the Groupon was still available.  Prepare for lots of butt pictures.

My favorite:

For Easter the kids got a bubble machine.

They’re so cute with their bunny ears!

It took us a VERY long time last fall to pull all of our tulip and lily bulbs, pull them apart, and re-plant the best of the best.  We’re VERY proud of the results and won the yard of the month award in our neighborhood!

Exercise!

And that’s April.  Next month, another trip to Disneyland!!

March 2014

As always, I have to backtrack to pictures we’ve found on our phones from previous months, so first we go back to December, January, and February.

We FaceTime Jared a lot during the day, usually for lunch.  Here Eli is building Jared a tower.

 

I really hope everyone else takes a many pictures of their kids sleeping as I do.

December Disneyland trip:

See all those people?  Don’t go to Disneyland between Christmas and New Years.Jared is the second highest score there.

Hidden Mickeys!

Jared being hilarious on Space Mountain.  I’d like to crop this and make this his Facebook profile picture.

Our final night in San Diego.  We went to bed nice and early so we could get up early for our drive home, but then Halle woke us up at 10pm throwing up.  Not great in a hotel that doesn’t have any sort of house keeping during the night.  The front desk person was nice enough to bring us extra towels though.  We left an apologetic note with a nice tip for the maid.

Home Depot Kids Workshop

Now that Jared is the one working he tries to take the kids on a date each month.  In January he took Eli to a Utah basketball game.

We got Maui Chill after the daddy daughter dance at Halle’s school.  I took Eli on a date to Seven Peaks then we all met for a treat after.

From our February Disneyland trip with my mom.

Eli has asthma.  It’s not bad in that he doesn’t get full blown asthma attacks while playing.  However, he does cough while sleeping (a very good indication of asthma) and when he gets a cold he has a hard time breathing and has had to go to the ER three times.  All if his ER trips were in August/September, so I thought maybe there was an allergy trigger as well.  We took him to get tested.  He doesn’t have any typical grass, mold, pollen, dog, cat type allergies, which is good to know.  He’s just plain asthmatic.  With one puff morning and night of Flovent the coughing has subsided and we haven’t been to the ER in a year, or needed Albuterol during illness for about 6 months now.  Phew.

Now on to March.

Nascar race for a boys’ trip.

Meawhile Eli and I made wheat.  Joy.

The kids take turn sleeping in my bed when Jared is gone.

True story.

Another basketball game.

Now a montage of sleeping pictures:

St. Patrick's Day and Crazy Hair Day

(Kale Pasta dough, and water from boiling the kale to make the bread dough.)

Story time with random boy at the library.

We call him Mr. Safety.  The people in our culdesac like to race into their driveway it seems, so we put him in the middle of the road so they have to slow down to go around him.

Finally warm enough for Patch to bask in the sun.

Found Eli on the counter playing my iPad one morning.

Looking back it appears March was a very sleepy month.