better late then never

Ok so now that it has been over a month since the boys birthday I decided to blog about it. The boys LOVE Mario. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted another mario party next year. We just had a really small party for them this year but it was fun.

I made a mario cake for them !






They actually understood blowing out the candles and didnt cover their ears when they got sung to.



Here is just cute gavin.



the boys getting their nose buttered they are learning to love this tradition!!

Things we have NEVER seen!!!

Well we are happy to announce that we went in for our 20 week ultrasound and the baby is going to a healthy little GIRL!!!!!! We are so excited to meet our new little baby. The boys are excited for their little sister. I am going to post a few pictures of her.



Here is the Gender! Its a girl



Face! she is so cute already



Now she was a stubborn little girl. the whole time she had her legs crossed and her face covered by her crossed arms. she really didnt want us to see her. above are her legs crossed and below is her arms covering her face, she is playing peek a boo :)




Sorry I have been a slacker at the blog lately. I will try and be better. I am going to post the boys birthday pictures soon since it was like 3 weeks ago :)

July 8, 2010

Yep that is the due date for baby number 4. We are so excited to have this addition to our family. Its perfect timing for us, it will be in the summer right before clints starts his last semester at UVU that fall. we had an ultrasound to makes sure that it was just one. It is always comforting to see the heart beat . I have been pretty sick this pregnancy so far and I am hoping that will go away in the next couple of weeks.

p.s. mice post down below.

Mice

These are the mice that someone so kindly left on our door step back in November. For those of you who don't know the story I will tell it.

I was at my sisters baby shower. on the way home Clint called to tell me about his interesting night. He had had a few people knock on our door to give us things, for some reason we were more popular that night then normal. We live in a very colorful neighbor hood. everyone has very INTERESTING personalities. We got a loaf of bread that night from the lady across the street, she is a little different and she will often come back with a story or something about how she got that loaf of bread or a miracle she had. so Clint wasn't too surprised when about 20 Mins later a knock came to the door again, but this time no one was there. it was at about 7:30, clint looked down and there was a box with some rat and mice food in it. clint brought it in to find that it also had a cage inside with a little white mouse. the boys were so excited, it wasnt until about an hour later when the boys came running really excited that there were actually 2 mice. OH BOY!! That night we laid the boys down, Tyson cried and cried he wanted to be with his mice. (Thanks whoever gave us the mice) I had to explain to him we couldn't keep the mice and that we needed to share them with other kids. That next morning Our house smelled so bad. We took them to Petco that day and they said they could adopted them out for us. I had to fill out paperwork like we were the owners but I was laughing the whole time. it was asking me where i got the mice and I put doorstep. then it asked why we didnt want them anymore and I said we never wanted them in the first place. Petco said they had heard about animals being left on peoples door steps but this is the first time they had heard of mice.

Grandma's visit

My mom came to visit for a while and we had a blast, it is so much easier to do fun things when you have an extra pair of hands to help out. we also got a lot done around the house and even stripped and re-stained our kitchen table. here is just a bunch of pictures for her stay.

We went on the heber valley railroad for the first time. It was so beautiful up there. Tyson was really scared at first and wanted to get off but once it started moving he was good, it was really cold so we kept switching between the inside car and the outside car.

This is our group shot in front of a train

and here was our family shot.
They boys now make the (trying hard) smile whenever I ask them to smile for a picture.

This is us in the inside car. it was nice and toasty in there.

Gavin loved the whole thing he is just too funny
some shots from the trip both train ride and the car ride through the canyon




Ok we also went to the zoo it was on salt lakes UEA which we didnt know so it was crazy. but what we also didnt know is you got a discount that day so it was a lot cheaper for all of us.

Ok to start this off I have to show you the "maps" wow these were much more exciting that any zoo animal. the whole time both boys had a map and at every animal they would sit with one of us and owen would say " ok we are (here) and we want to go (here), so we need to go this way." They were so excited to be in control.

here are the boys on the carousel, Tyson wasn't to thrilled with it but he isn't much of an adventure seeker, but owen loved it.

the zoo has tons of babies right now. this is zuri the elephant. The boys loved her.






We are just too cool for the zoo

we also went to the park. the boys always enjoy that, these are just a few pictures of that.

Photography and fire fighters

I'm homeschooling the boys this year for their 3 year old preschool. My sister teaches preschool and gave me lots of her material she also let me know that orem city was doing a fire safety day at the fire station so we went. we learned a lot and also got hats, whistles ,Cotton candy and popcorn it was a lot fun, my phone was being weird and not letting me take pictures so I didn't get all the ones I wanted but here are some of the ones I got.

This fire got much much much bigger and then the firefighters came out in all there gear and put it out. it was so hot I was up on the hill and I could fill my leg hairs burning off.

Each boy got a few turns shooting the fire hose. the fire fighters were all really nice. this is Ty.
Heres owen he was a little more shy about it.
we were there to see the helicopter land. the boys loved that but it was really loud and windy the closer it got so they got a little scared, they were able to look in side and everything.

Here is them in front of the fire truck they were amazed with all the buttons on the fire truck and how big its wheels were.




Oh this is the little car we found at the DI it is tiny much smaller then the normal size red ones it is funny to watch them ride in it. It will be perfect for gav when he gets a little older.

this is a picture clint took for his class. he took it between provo and heber there will be more about that trip in the next post. Im almost all caught up just one more post to go.