Quiet Moments

If things get a little too quiet around our house, I typically don't worry. It usually means Adam is drawing or playing with his "mountain alligator" or that Tessa is reading books to herself. Yesterday afternoon got a bit quiet, so I went looking to see what activities they had found. Adam was with his toys and Tess was practicing her ABC's with her "computer". I loved how she was just chilling out on her little bed.

Happy Birthday Bampa!

The kids sure love their Bampa! Happy Birthday Bampa!

Game Day

Although the outcome wasn't what we were hoping for, we still had fun watching our Cougars play their final game of the season. We love our Jimmer and our Cougars!

Adam has LOVED watching the games with us! He gets so excited that we have to tell him to calm down several times.

(she has a yummy basketball cookie all over her face!)

Tessa was not impressed with our cheering tonight and kept telling her Daddy to "shush!".

Thanks for a great season Cougars! Now the countdown for football begins!

Diva!

This little princess always has to have her sunglasses handy! She is such a little Diva!

St Patrick's Day (week)

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day and tried to do some different activities throughout the week. I hurt my back and Tuesday and wasn't very mobile for most of the week, so we didn't get to do as much as I had hoped. But, we made the most of it and did what we could.

The kids had fun painting shamrocks and rainbows

Tessa's rainbow and clouds

Adam's rainbow and clouds

For family home evening we talked about our blessings and wrote them down on shamrocks

St. Patrick's Eve we watched BYU basketball while eating our Spinach and Artichoke Pizza. We are loving our Jimmer!!

Adam was so into the game! He was running around the house and screaming like a girl!

The boys were so happy to have a victory!!! Sweet 16 here we come!

I made rainbow cupcakes for a party. I love them:)

Adam and Tessa have been so anxious to meet Lunch and Dinner (our friends new pigs). Saturday was so cold, but that didn't stop the kids from feeding the pigs lots of bread.

Our sleeping beauty...she had a pre-party nap

Don't Eat The Prophet!!

One of the kids favorite games (especially if candy is involved) is "Don't eat Pete!". For Family Home Evening the last couple of weeks, we have been talking about prophets to reiterate what Adam is learning during sharing time in Primary. For an activity last week we made a fun game with pictures of all the prophets and played "Don't Eat The Prophet!" They loved it!

Adventures!

Eric's week got even more exciting! On Wednesday we were asked to go meet with the Stake President who extended a call to Eric to serve as our ward Executive Secretary! I am so grateful for this opportunity he will have to serve our ward and our Heavenly Father. He will be working with some amazing men and I am grateful that Heavenly Father felt Eric would be a good fit for this calling. Our Bishop told us today that he had a very sweet and powerful experience with the Spirit when praying about Eric for this calling. He said there was no doubt in his mind that this is where Eric is supposed to be serving and that it made him excited when he thinks of the confirmation he received!

I am so proud of Eric and that he is worthy to serve! I am excited to see the opportunities and blessings this new adventure brings to our family!

Surprise!!!!

I've been working on it for weeks! We pulled it off and had a great time! Last night I threw a surprise birthday party for Eric. He was very surprised!

I asked Eric's brother to keep him away from our house for the afternoon. Ryan was awesome and I couldn't have done it without him! Thanks Ryan!

Everyone was waiting for Eric when he got home. He said he didn't suspect anything until he saw my balloon wreath on the door....that tipped him off.

Eric's Mom and I have been gathering things for weeks for this party. I wanted to display as many pictures and things that are meaningful to Eric as I could. I think we came up with a pretty good spread. A huge thank you to my awesome Mom-in-law for finding great pictures and memorabilia for me!

Some of Eric's favorite things....BYU football, The Godfather, Les Miserable, traveling, Pink Floyd, languages, Psych, and Heart of Darkness

I tried to display as much as I could. He has done a lot in his 30 years of life!

We had tons of yummy food! Tessa liked the frosting!

I was so afraid no one was going to come-so thank you to all who came! It wouldn't have been any fun without you! We have wonderful family and friends!!

He blew out all 30 candles!

Happy Birthday Eric!

I had many requests for this....it's my new favorite thing!!

I will post instructions on my food blog this week.

The Big 30!

Eric turned 30 yesterday! We tried to make his big birthday special. I spent the morning baking cinnamon rolls to take to work for him to have for brunch with his co-workers. Adam and Tess drew him some birthday pictures and we delivered everything with some birthday balloons to him at work.

We went to dinner at his favorite place....Tucanos! We left very, very full! But it was worth it!

Every year Eric asks for my praline and caramel cheesecake for his birthday. Since I knew we would be having a big dinner, I made him a mini version. So yummy!

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Husband and Daddy! We love you so much!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today we wrapped up our Dr. Seuss activities. We still have a few more books to read tomorrow, but since I work all weekend, we finished our activities today.

We read about eight Dr. Seuss books today...I don't think my tongue will ever be the same! Talk about tongue twisters!!

After we read "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish", we made our own fish bowls. Tessa ate her fish as fast as she could glue them on. That totally grossed Adam out!

After reading "Bartholomew and the Oobleck", we made some Oobleck of our own! What a hit!! They played with it for an hour.

They probably would have played longer, but when I turned my back to fold a sheet....my kitchen floor was suddenly covered in Oobleck. Luckily it was only cornstarch and water. Adam was covered in Oobleck as well, so we cleaned up and took a lunch break.

After lunch we read about Horton. We made elephant ears and had some quiet time while we watched "Horton Hears A Who". They laughed and laughed through the whole thing!

Our two monkeys acting like elephants!

We have had a fun Dr. Seuss week! This will be something we look forward to every year!