Lazy Days

I honestly don't have a lot to report. We are having a lot of lazy days (which are great!)!! We have been doing a lot of playing toys, games, reading books, watching shows annnd breaking up fights, kissing lots of ouchies, cleaning up messes, punishing little stinkers...but mostly the playing stuff :) We also had Uncle Brad over for dinner last week. Lily thought it was the greatest night ever! From the time she woke up til Brad arrived, it was all she could talk about! It was so nice to get to see him, since Amanda will never bring him out when she comes :P We are loving the warm weather and spending a lot of time outside riding bikes, drawing on the sidewalks, and picking flowers (the kids personal favorite). We are ready for summer! I am also looking forward to having a fenced in backyard (at my house!!!). Letting the kids play outdoors anytime they want will be awesome! Daddy is really busy with school. He is doing so great! I am always so impressed with him, he does so much and takes such great care of us!!! Here are some pics of the things we have been up to the past week :)

Painting with cars and cotton balls to spice things up a little :)

Playing with shaving cream on cookie sheets.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

We have had such a great month!! We started off in Mitchell with my family! Amanda came in and stayed for 10 days and it was soo much fun!!!! I love, love, love my sisters! I don't think there is anything like having a sister. My sisters are my besties :) And Lily and Sam were so excited to get to see all of their cousins! It was so fun to see them reunite and pick up exactly where they left off. The boys were little stinkers who managed to get into kinds of trouble. Making messes for their mommies to clean up...like when Jason, Sam, and Gavin emptied my parents canned food out of the boxes and threw every can into the playpen, filling it to the top with the sides bowing out. Or when we looked out the front window and see Jason and Sam running down the driveway. I think we need to keep these boys seperated! Lexi joined us on the weekend while she was out of school and Lily could not have been more thrilled! We were sad to see Amanda and the kids go, but we were happy to get back home and see Daddy (as I'm sure Amanda was). This month we also found a house and are in the process of buying it! Way exciting for us! I will be posting pics soon :) It has bee a crazy month, with lots of traveling, so I feel like Lily's lessons have been pushed to the side a little, but we managed to do a little work. With the start of spring this month we decided to do a Lion/Lamb theme. We talked about March coming in like a lion and out like a lamb and what that really means. We also took the chance to learn a little about lions. Some fun facts we learned are their eating and sleeping habbits, where they live and for how long, etc. After we talked about them we made our lion masks. We were going to follow this up with a trip to the zoo, but it was too nasty out (very appropriate given our theme). We plan to make the trip the next nice day and hopefully be able to talk to someone at the zoo about their lions. We also made our lamb masks and are in the process of learning about them! I am so luck to have such an amazing family (and extended family)!!! Can't wait to see the all again! Here are some pics of the fun stuff we have been upto (I forgot to take any while Amanda was in...)

Hide and Seek, Cushion Jumping, Aquarium, etc....

Ok, I can't believe March is here! We have been so busy it seems the time has just flown by! Lily is still doing great staying home, she is reading so much now! We are having lots of fun exploring and learning new things...I am hoping to become a little more organized so it's not quite as challenging to get things done :) Sam is the busiest kid around. His new favorite trick is jumping off of the couch (or on the couch when I'm not looking). The kids love to pile up the couch cushions on one side of the couch and Lily plays Princess and the Pea (or whatever random toy she picks up). She was not happy with me the first day she played this and was not aloud to actually use a pea....Anyway, Sam decided he would jump from the top of the cushion pile down to the couch the cushions are on. Seemed like a great idea, until he landed, bounced and flipped over the arm of the couch to land on head first on the ground. So now the cushion game is ruined for all.....We also went to Newport this past week and visited the aquarium. Way fun! The kids loved it. I think Sam more, but Lily had a great time too! Just to get to spend some extra time with Daddy is great! We kept telling Sam we were going to go see the fish and he would run to the kitchen (where we keep our fish bowl) and come back nodding. It was pretty cute. We have also decided we are sick of living in someone elses house and have begun the search for our own home! We are pretty excited and have narrowed it down to a couple. We have seen some pretty interesting stuff along the way :) We are super excited to see Aunt Amanda in a couple of days! Lily keeps telling me how she will talk to Bailey....Her voice get super high as she says, "Bailey, you are sooo cute!" She talks about Bailey almost daily and loves to look at her pictures or watch videos of her! I think she might be Bailey's number one fan :) We are gonna miss Daddy, but I love seeing my sisters!!! Here are some pictures of the kiddos :) This first one is tonight we were playing hide a go seek, and typically Sam always counts with the counter (I figure it's a good way for him to practice his numbers). This time he said he wanted to hide and this was his spot :) He also hid with his sister when I was counting, I was looking in the kitchen when I heard the bath water come on and Lily start screaming....You'll never guess where I found them ;)

I just really loved this shot of the kids! They are so awesome! I am so proud to be their mommy!

It has been awhile, and I have been harassed, so I guess that means it is time to update my blog...We have been having lots and lots of fun! We had a great time with Valentines Day! Lily, for some reason, was REALLY excited about it! She loves her sleep and I usually have to wake her up around 9:30 when she still isnt up, but not on Valentines Day! She was in my room at 7:20 with a big hug and kiss for me! We had a very busy day. Before 9:30am we had made heart biscuts with pink butter, had a heart scavenger hunt, had a bubble dance party, started our heart tree painting, and played hungry hungry hippos like 20 times! It was really fun! We are loving the weather that we have had the past couple of weeks and have played outside everyday.







Here are our biscuts...














Lily's tree












Sam's tree

















Sam eating candy




















What a face :)

Lily completing one of her scavenger hunt tasks. When she would find a heart around the house, it would have something written on it for her to complete before she found another heart. She really had fun with it!

SNOPOCALYPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE ARE ALIVE!!!! We survived snopocalypse 2011! After seeing Emily's blog of their ice covered everthing, I decided to share our experience with the storm...and some of the things we did during the week to keep us sane :)

If you look closely right here, you will see the massive sheet of ice covering the car!

Here is the area right beside our patio....you can ALMOST not see the ground :P














Here are the kids in their bath covered in bubbles.

The kids painting and coloring hearts to hang up for Valentines Day.
















Sam thought painting was great! This is the first time I let him paint with Lily...He deffinantly thought he was big stuff!

One night after the kids took their bath, we read our books and the kids (Lily) decided they should make their own books to read....So thats what they did!

Sam colored a really great picture with lots of blue and green.

Cute right!?

Lily made a great book about an angel who painted a rainbow when it rained....Very similar to one of the books we read that night ;)

Lily LOVES her sleep, so it is part of our routine to wake he up....one of our favorite parts of the day! She wakes up soooo happy and Sam gets really excited to see his big sister! (and yes...she is still in mommy and daddy's bed!!!)

They love each other sooooo much!!!!

They are such awesome kids! We have a lot of fun together as a family!