My love

Eight years ago today I married my E.

He's the best.

I love him.

This is our first anniversary apart.

In fact it's the longest we've been apart since April of 2002.

It's been too many weeks and I miss E.

Fall 2004

Happy Anniversary Love!!

Happenings

My brothers and their families came over Easter weekend to visit.  It was a blast.  Sawyer and Ollie had 8 cousins playing with them non-stop, we went bowling, ate out, saw a movie, celebrated Easter, went swimming, swimming and more swimming.  Apparently it is STILL SNOWING in Utah!!  My brother Dan and his family kept extending their trip because they couldn't stand the thought of going back to the snow!!

I didn't get very many pictures this weekend.  I'm in a bit of a media crisis right now.  There's some kind of issue with each of our cameras and video camera.  Boo.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited do you think Sawyer is about his Easter candy?

For your general viewing pleasure, blue bunny shaped pancakes for breakfast:

And the Easter bunny was quite thoughtful and got the boys super hero jams.

Just a little more than 2 weeks until quilt market...EEEK!!!!!

Getting ready

The jury it still out.  I'm deciding how Christmas will feel without cold, snow...all of it.  Growing up in Colorado and Utah...then moving to Missouri, I've always had a cold Christmas.  Last year we spent Christmas day in Florida, but we celebrated our own Christmas a few days before.  Actually, jury just came in.  It's not the same.  It is still fun and exciting, people decorate their homes and everything does seem cheerier, but the whole feel is just different.  Boo.

It took me a bit longer to get our Christmas set up this year, but it's finally done.  To see the "pretty" finished pictures and more of the home decor stuff, I just did a post on our blog Fresh Poppy, so check it out :)

Here is some of our family decorating.  Little kids decorate trees so stinking cute.

I've been trying to keep the tradition (from my family) of a new ornament for the kids each year.  This year they chose stars.

Isn't that the best??  Like a million ornaments on one branch, everything on one side of the tree...and they couldn't be prouder :)

This year I also got them their own tree to have in their room.  They chose to decorate it blue, of course :)  Daddy was proud.  I've promised that they can sleep with the tree on for Christmas eve.

Merry Christmas!

Welcome To Suburbia

Halloween was stupendous.

Our street was amazing.

There was a home that had at least 75 things on their lawn that screamed, moved, jumped out.

We actually had trick-or-treaters.

Oliver and Sawyer

Again, that baseball costume was my uniform as a kid. Sniffle.

We hit a pumpkin patch.

Not only for a pumpkin, but a hay ride, saw animals, bounce house, the works. 

S had his hand on E's leg the whole ride.

I kinda thought it was the sweetest thing.

We carved pumpkins.

Sawyer loved taking out their guts.

It was a little too gross for Ollie. 

They sure did love lighting them up.

Ward Carnival...amazing 

 Um they kinda didn't mention there were 3 photos.

Gym carnival complete with a very spooky haunted house.

I was there with girnormous lips baby!

Speaking of BABY this guy is 2 in a couple of months!!!

And of course, E was on-call for the weekend.

How sad is that?

Poor guy.

We did all go trick-or-treating together in the end.

And ate candy together.

That counts.

Photos and Funnies

Here's some pics from Easter Sunday in our Easter outfits.  Unfortunately only the boy's got new clothes...lucky.

FUNNIES

We were eating breakfast and Sawyer stopped to go upstairs to the bathroom.

Halfway up the stairs he yells:

"MOOOOM" in that long drawn-out tone parents use when warning their kids.

"Don't eat my breakfast, okay?"

And no, I've never eaten his breakfast for him.

Sawyer, how old are you?

I'm 2.

How old is Oliver?

He's 2.

Pause.

Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry mom.  I'm sorry...he's 1. 

A couple of weeks ago I was getting Sawyer dressed for bed.

He stops and looks at me big-eyed.

"Mom!!  My bootie got my undies!!"

Think about it, it's funny.

Easter Bananza

Happy Belated Easter! 

We had a great time, 2 egg hunts:

 

Oliver actually got it! 

He understood to pick up one egg and then the next, I was so impressed.

I went a little overboard with the baskets.

a- all the matching candy at Walmart was just too cute.

b-I had to make them matching crochet animals (that I'm constantly forcing them to love).  I made Sawyer an Octopus and Oliver a Wiener Dog.

c-I made them each a car caddy...which were a bigger pain than I realized...but they actually like those.

Growing up we always have Eggs Benedict conference morning....mmmm

I was a little adventurous for Easter dinner, we didn't want to make a huge ham.  I found some yummy recipes on allrecipes...pork chops and potatoes with a great side dish of asparagus.

Of course we had to color some eggs.

 

My favorite picture of all.  

So funny, I was surprised he actually went to "it".

♥♥♥ xoxo ♥♥♥

Happy Valentine's Day!

To all that we wish we were nearer to, we l♥ve you.

maybe tomorrow you'll get to see the photos that didn't make the cut :)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. Don't be sad if you didn't get a card, you know how popular I am. Actually, it was only immediate family...that's how unpopular I really am. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. Sawyer is soaking up every minute of Christmas lights he can and telling any Santa he sees set-up on a roof "gotta be careful".

Nemo and bones

We had a fun Halloween.
Sawyer was a hit dressed as Nemo, with kids and adults alike :) Kids would come over to caress Nemo and were mesmerized by him...Sawyer preferred that they didn't.

I was solo for Halloween! E was gone for 4 days and 3 nights for a school thing! It was my first time alone with the boys when I wasn't with family. It actually wasn't too bad, until night. I totally slept with lights on. And my phone an inch from my face. But I have lots of good friends who kept me company and kept me up way too late...thanks guys ;)

When we were outside, Oliver was a horse. There was a lot to do, a ward carnival type party on Friday with a trunk or treat, Saturday another trunk or treat, YMCA carnival and a Halloween party and more trick or treating. AND we actually had "customers" (as Sawyer's cute friend Max said, ha ha) at our door this year! Last year there were none, we had like 3, wahoo!

Sawyer's on his friend Tay's bike, but this is the boy's new trick. Sawyer rides up to Oliver and says, "Ollie you want a ride?" And O hops on back and starts pushing, they both love it.

Until Sawyer decides to cruise off leaving Oliver to softly land.

Happy HALLOWEEN!

To our mothers

Happy Mother's Day

We love you both so much enjoy your day!