June!

June was the start of Easton’s soccer.  Oh how he loves soccer.  In fact there’s not much else he talks about.  He loves it.  I keep asking him if he wants to try another sport, and he says, “All I want to do is play soccer forever.”  Okay then, soccer it is.

At Easton’s games, when I am taking pictures, I can’t really see the pictures I am taking because of the sunlight…but once I looked through them at home, I found that Easton does a whole lot of face-making…

The faces of a soccer player…

And my personal favorite…And all of the family enjoys watching from the sidelines…Easton had a great season, and still says he only wants to play soccer.

The boys also started swimming lessons... there's nothing like little kids in goggles.They both had a blast and did really well.  Easton can swim the entire length of the pool.  Easton’s favorite thing was learning to flip underwater and jumping on the diving board.  Ty, even though he slightly resembles a jellyfish, can swim about half the length of the pool.  His favorite thing was “ducking in the deep” (diving for diving sticks).

We had some of our cousins over for a big sleepover. 

And everyday, we were out in the yard weeding, grading, raking…EVERYDAY.  And then at the end of the month, for my birthday, in the timespan of 2 hours (thanks to INCREDIBLE family and neighbors) the yard went fromthisto thisto thisTO THIS!!!!

Amazing! BEST DAY EVER!! Hooray! WooHoo! Hallelujah!

(I am pretty happy)

Side note: That area of dirt will someday be a deck.  And I am looking forward to getting some trees...But for now I will stay grateful for the grass…

A pretty great end to the month if I do say so myself.

May!

What is happening!? I am so behind.  We’re more than half-way through summer and I haven’t blogged a bit of it!  We really haven't been up to anything super exciting, but hopefully I can get all caught up this week, and then somehow stay on top of this little blog…

So here we go…May:

First, we had another appointment for Ty and his stinkin eyes… what am I talking about? His little clogged tear ducts that just. wont. go. away.  We did a simple probe surgery when he was 10 months old… that didn’t work, and then we did this surgery…that didn’t work either.  I sort of was hoping they would somehow go away with a little more time, but that has not been the case.  So we had to go back to the dr. who recommended an extra special specialist who basically said the only thing they can do is put the stints back in and hope it works this time.  Lame.  He did say we might be better off waiting until he’s a little bit older before doing the surgery, because there would be a higher success rate.  So we might wait a bit.  But in the meantime, Ty had his eyes dilated and was pretty thrilled about the sunglasses he got to keep…

Next, Ace got into a really bad car accident and totaled his little truck.  It was real scary, but thankfully, he was alright.  The big bummer was that we had to get him a new truck, pronto…we were hoping to make his old truck last one or two more years to save up a little more money.  Never. Make. Plans...luckily we found a new truck for a pretty good deal, and this one fits our whole family.  So yay for family truck outings!

School ended May 30th, and we had a last day of school celebration with our neighbors:Me and my dumbo camera missed the actual “run through the banner moment” but you get the idea…

And we worked and worked and worked on our yard.  Since we had to buy a new car, we had to save money where we could, so we decided to weed and grade our yard by ourselves.  I should’ve taken a before picture but just imagine every bit of this dirt was completely covered in a thick giant layer of weeds.  So everyday, we weeded and graded, weeded and graded, moved dirt and weeded and graded etc etc… and at the end of the month, this is what we had to show for it…Just a whole lot of dirt. (but no weeds!) 

So that’s May in a nutshell…and tomorrow we’ll move on to June!

March Sum Up

Welp. Here I am again playing catch up!

So here’s another big, huge post about what’s been happening…

Towards the end of February, my brother, Jesse had a major snowboarding accident…he shattered his knee and broke his leg.   They couldn’t do reconstructive surgery right away because of the swelling.  So instead, they drilled a 20 lbs. bar into his thigh and shin bones to stabilize his leg until they could do the surgery (a week later!)… gaaaaggggg it still gives me the willies!There was lots of time spent in the hospital, but the boys kept us entertained…After they did the surgery, we got Jesse home by making a bed in the back of my van for him.

—Bad Mom Moment—  I had to rearrange the kids car seats when I removed the middle seat section to go get Jesse.  And I may or may not have forgotten to lock Ty’s carseat into place…The first turn I made out of my neighborhood, this happened… So of course, I pulled over, took this picture, AND THEN fixed it…nice, tight, and secure.

Scared him silly.

Jesse is in physical therapy now, he has a long way to go, but is doing 100 times better!

The boys have been helping decorate

Ellie’s hair looks like this every night after taking her hair out…

Ty has been practicing his name a lot… sometimes that ‘s’ just gets the best of him.

We got a package with a whole lot of bubble wrap in it…nothing better than that.

Ty loves to watch Easton do his homework, but really, who wants to sit in a chair?Not this boy.

Ty started Itty Bitty Ball.  He was pretty timid and shy, but he always came home completely thrilled and still hasn’t stopped talking about it.  The best part was the sucker after every game.

The last day, they whipped out the parachute.  I mean, who doesn’t love the parachute?!  Ty was all smiles.But he may have just been smiling because they gave him a grocery bag to hold his certificate and treats in… He came running up to me, “Mommy!  They gave me this bag!!!!”  Ty does love a good bag.Ty and his new neighbor friend, Brandon.

Ellie has become a little tornado of destruction everywhere she goes.  But her favorite place is the kitchen.This was all done while I was making dinner…and all of the stuff in this picture doesn’t even go in those drawer…she completely swapped all of this from other cupboards.  Lovely.

And then our friend, Claudia, got our family tickets to Disney On Ice!The kids LOVED it…It’s possible I loved it more.

Now, my dear little Ellie.  She loves to eat.  There isn’t too much that she won’t eat, and eat a LOT of.Food makes her happy.

But she has learned that it takes far too long to use a spoon, or even her hand to get the food to her mouth…This is the most efficient way.

Easton wrote this cute letter at school for St. Patrick’s Day.  I love it.And then, there’s this girl.  Katie.  She is in our carpool.  Easton talks about her a lot.  Easton says “maybe I have a little tiny crush on her”.  But I think it’s a pretty big crush when you dedicate your final animal research book to her AND her family…

Easton got to have a sleepover with his cousin, and so,  to compensate, we took Ty for a ride on the Sheels Ferris Wheel…he’s never been happier.And last, but not least… I know it’s completely unrealistic, and maybe a little revealing… But I just couldn’t help myself!  Come on!  It’s a yellow polka dot bikini! But, it will be the only bikini I will allow…ever.

That’s all for now…anyone who is still reading this, I commend you!

Get excited… the Easter and Conference post is coming tomorrow.