Sandbox

My boys love to be in their sandbox. Our cute little neighbor boy is my 4 year olds best best friend. He will do anything to play with him. I had fun taking pictures of them.

The Beast

Since I was a third grader my family has had a 1993 Pontic Bonneville and when I was old enough to drive it was the car I drove. 11 years later we were still driving it and it still ran well but it was time to upgrade cars so we sold it. I was kind of sad because it was a great car but we have been looking into getting a new car for a long time now.

Could it almost be SPRING?!?!

It is FINALLY getting a little warmer around here and we have been spending some time in our yard. Our snow hasn't started really melting off until a couple of weeks ago and now most of my yard is showing. I'm starting to get really excited about planting my flowerbeds and garden. Mostly my flower beds right now. I really like working in my yard. I wonder how that's going to work this year with my back all out of wack? Very carefully I'm sure! In the mean time I've been trying to catch up on my scrap booking (I take way too many pictures, it takes way too long!) and some major spring cleaning.

I got him a kite at the dollar store and he LOVES it! I'm sure it's not going to last for very long but we already got a dollar's worth out of it.

We cleared the snow out of the sandbox a couple of weeks ago so we would be able to start playing in it sooner. My boys love to be dirty!

Bowling

My husband has been so busy with school and work the last couple of months that we get to spend very little time with him. Friday when he was coming home from work he called and said he wanted to take the boys somewhere fun so we took them bowling. We went with my mom's family after Christmas and the boys loved it. My favorite part of the whole expirence was every time Blake went he would throw his hands up in the air and shot "I did it!" and dance around. Ty holds in his emotions a lot more then Blake does. He enjoyed it but he doesn't show it much while you are in the moment. I'm not sure if I will survive the rest of the semester without my husband. I feel like I'm going insane. At least the snow is FINALLY melting and we spend a hour a couple of days ago outside on the little patch of grass we have. Here are some fun pictures of our family outing:

He liked his shoes. He was mad when we gave them back. He wanted to take them home with him.

He would tilt his head to the side and watch the ball roll down. I thought it was just too cute.

Don't worry- both boys finally got a hair cut. They look so much better! He had to put the ball on the ramp himself. I was worried he was going to drop the thing on his toe but we all survived.

My boys love spending time with there dad. I'm glad in his few minutes home here and there when they are awake he loves to play and wrestle with them.

Long, long winter

It's not like me to not post much but it's been for a few reasons- we arn't doing much around here and we keep getting sick. We got a heck of a cold (which I'm now wondering if it was RSV but who knows now) at the end of January. A lot of people are still asking me how my health has been and for awhile I could never tell if I were better and just feeling effects of all the other colds and flu's we have had or what but today I really feel like garbage. I just feel SOOO worn out. I wish I knew what was wrong. I hope it's just mono and it's just taking it's sweet time clearing itself out. I am having a lot more good days then bad days though and my heart doesn't freak out as much so that's good.

On a lighter note here are a few things we have been up too.

My cute friend Camey came over to my house the other day with her kids. I thought it was funny Ty wouldn't sit by me he would only sit by Camey. Sorry Camey I know the quality of this photo is bad I'll e-mail you a better copy. She always looks so cute in pictures. I look kind of sick but oh well.
I don't know if you can tell but look at Blake's face. Totally cracks me up. He looks like a two year old gangster.

I've been sewing trying to keep my sanity. I made this for my mom for her birthday.

I just love this of my baby. It's a good thing he is this cute because he is a little fart when he wants to be. But I love him all the same.

My mom's birthday- Ty had to make her cupcakes and help her blow out the candles. I'm glad they live close enough to visit a lot! My mom's shirt was an attempt to look like a cowgirl!

Yeehaw mom!

Kickin' Your trash

The other day Bryan was home with the kids while I was at a church meeting and Tyson went into my pantry where my garbage can is and started to kick it. Wondering what the noise was Bryan got up to see what he was doing. When Ty saw him he started kicking it even harder. Thinking he was throwing a fit or something Bryan sternly asked him what he was doing. He turned to him and said "dad I kickin' your trash!"

Interesting how kids interpret things you say.

Fishy, Nemo and Sharkbate

Ty has been asking for some fish for a long time and because his birthday and Christmas is so close together he thinks that he will keep getting presents though the whole month of January. We didn't have a problem getting him a couple of gold fish but I didn't want to just buy it for him when he is expecting gifts all the time now. So we deiced to have him earn his fish and fish tank. He spent a good week earning stickers for a chart we had by helping clean up toys, helping with dishes and eating his dinner really good etc. He got some stickers taken away when he was naughty but for the most part he was so good all week to earn the stickers. He had to get 30 of them and he was so proud when he got to pick out his fish. He named his two Nemo and Sharkbate and Blake named his fishy (cleaver eh?). Poor Sharkbate was pinned against the side of the tank when we bought him by the chick helping us and he died last Friday. I think she kind of squished him. Ty didn't seem to care too much because we prepped him for it. But we have the two left and Ty loves them.

The fish tank in his room.