Good News!

 Ella watching me while I cook.

Pretty soon I realized it was WAY too quiet.

So I went looking...

and found Aidan like this.

On another note: I forgot to share Aidan's blood test results! Dr C called last week and told me that Aidan's neutraphil level is up to 3.5 K/uL. To put it in perspective....when Aidan was 4 months old his neutraphil level was 0.4. Normal is 1.5 -8.5 K/uL(or 10.0) depending on how old they are. When he was a year old his level was 0.9, and last February it was 1.1 K/uL, so it really has jumped in the last 6 months! Dr. C was so excited he mailed me a copy of the result sheet. This means Aidan is now "normal" and we don't have to worry about it any longer (i.e...no more blood tests). Yay! :-) 

Motorcycles

Cary wants one. Well, really he already has two, but he wants another.

Chad just got a new motorcycle

He came by to show it off

Ok, really he had to come and get his phone that he left here the night before

Later we all went to Josh and Kiera's to hang out and visit

Liberty Park

Today is the first day this week that the kids and I aren't doing anything so I'm going to sit on my tush and do nothing ALL day I'm going to do laundry and some cleaning.

Yesterday morning was our weekly meet up, the others couldn't make it so it was just us and Dan and Ethan

Originally we wanted to go to Liberty Park so the kids could get wet, but it was still cold enough that morning that that wasn't going to happen.

Okay, maybe so. Aidan decided he wanted to get his shoes clean.

 I don't normally like to go to this park because its VERY crowded, but now that the kids are back in school it's a lot better.

My baby girl. I wish I could get good pictures of her smiling, but I haven't gotten her used to the camera yet. ;-) Every time I pull the camera out she gets concerned and stops smiling.

I'm wanting to go to the State Fair Holstein show on Monday and take pictures for dad. Anyone want to come and chase around babysit a cute boy? ;-)

Visit

Chris and Amanda are in town.

They stopped by to see the kids

....err I mean us. :-)

Chad came too, he had a rough day.

Amanda finally got Chris to hold the baby

Lots of snuggle times

I think people are scared to come over to our place now cause they know they'll end up in a photo and I'll blog about it. Ha ha.

Maybe that's kind of true. :-)

Laborious Weekend

Well, how was everyone's holiday weekend?

Other than the hellish trip there and the hellish trip back, our weekend was very nice and relaxing.

A lot of our family was at the MIA conference. We would have loved to have gone to that, but it just didn't work out this year.

We did go to Snake Valley Days but I forgot my camera. I was so bummed!

So after that I proceeded to forget to take pictures for most of the weekend.

Anyway...I did get pictures of a walk I went on with the kids and Jenna.

Cary came by on the motorcycle and Aidan decided that he likes motorcycles this time. (Usually he's terrified of them, and quite frankly I think I like that better.) :-)

Walking with Uncle Ken.

Poor Aidan and Ella, our trip out to E-Dale took so long because of traffic being so bad, so when we let him out of the car at Nephi to run around, he cried and tried to run the other direction when we told him it was time to go and that he had to get back in the vehicle. I had to explain that the only way we could see Uncle Ken was to go for another ride in the van, THAT got him all excited.  Ella cried when she got put back in her seat too. They are usually really good travelers.

The shop. Aidan's paradise.

A picture of mom's of mom's vegetable garden. I wish I would have gotten a picture of someone standing next to these squash (?, I know, some horticulture major I am!) plants. These plants were freakishly HUGE.

Like so big, that quite frankly, I'd be scared to walk around in there and have to find the produce. What are you feeding those plants mom???? :-)

P.S. I'm incredibly tired and should have gone to bed hours ago, so hopefully this post makes sense somewhere to someone.

Sugar High

Sunday night Dan, Melanie, the boys, and Jesse all came over to our place for dessert.

We had cheesecake that we brought home leftover from our BBQ

Dan and Melanie brought the fixin's for banana splits. Yum.

Jesse brought Pecan pie and Caramel Apple pie. Oh, the pecan pie was SO good I think I had like 3 pieces

I could really use a piece right now

Or ice cream, either will do

I need something!

We went to the park today to meet up with Melanie and Sydnie (and kids, obviously) Aidan fell asleep on the way home and woke up when we got here and now won't take a nap.

Is it all starting to make sense now? :-)

Congratulations!

Congratulations Nicholas and Tiffany!

We're so happy and excited for you guys. Let us know when you've picked a date. :-)