Wednesday, March 26, 2014

National tooth fairy day

Ethan lost his first front tooth awhile ago. The second one was just hanging there and it was starting to look pretty gnarly! He is not the kind of kid you just grab and rip his tooth out- that would be majorly traumatic and the mistrust may go on for years...seriously. 
Besides, I'm not a tooth puller....it's gross!
 This tooth really needed to come out, so, in desperation, I told him it was national tooth fairy day! Now, you are probably asking, "What is that? I've never Heard of that holiday." It's a very special holiday that I made up to deal with the tooth hanging by a corner problem.  I told him that if His tooth came out THAT day the tooth fairy would bring him something extra special!!!! Wow! That's all it took. He went and grabbed a tissue and had me pull it out (ewwwww...gross!) but, I didn't even have to pull. 
 It sort of just fell out. 
I'm still wondering how it stayed in his mouth at all. 
So, a made up holiday, a yellow matchbox car and $1.00 later he has a great smile to show off.

Early spring break for us

We took a little family vacation down to St. George last week. It was a lot of fun!Here are some pics from our trip to their children's museum. It was awesome!

Birthday...fun!?

Lincoln turned 3 on Sunday. We had a party for him Saturday night and started acting weird about halfway through it...turns  out he was sick : ( he spent the next day laying on the couch with his precious guitar. He has a little obsession with guitars. This is coupled with his immense love for music. Fast, upbeat, borderline "rocker" music. None of this twinkle, twinkle little star business.  And you should know that when one of his favorite songs comes on, he means BUSINESS!

 Now he has a guitar to jam with instead of the tennis racket!!!

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Fun on the bikes

Lincoln wants to do EVERYTHING Ethan does. I enjoy it and Ethan does... Most of the time.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Goodbye February

I hate February! It is the last full brutal, month of an already too long winter.  Christmas is over... January was used up doing things that got put on the back burner until Christmas was over...we have gone sledding, drank hot cocoa with marshmallows, snuggled up and watch movies while it snowed outside.... and put our snow clothes on one too many times by February.  Some people find solace in the fact that February is only 28 days.  Not me.. I hate it!  In fact, I detest this month so much that I refused to get married in February.  We were originally planning on a March wedding, but changed plans and decided that January 31st would be the day.  There was no way I would celebrate my wedding in the worst month of the year. (I hope you aren't offended if you like February...)
A week or so ago, the blessed weatherman promised us a warm day with a high of 58 degrees or so.  I know that weathermen don't acutally "promise" anything, but it sure felt like a promise! When the peak of the day came it was almost 58 degrees, but overcast and gray.  The wind was blowing a little to hard for my taste. I am not embarassed to say that I was mad.  I looked out the window (and thought about shaking my fist, but didn't) and cried :"Where is the sun? Where in the world is the sun?" In my mind, I was sure that a promise of 58 degrees meant a warm spring day.  He never said it was going to be sunny, but I had automatically assumed that was part of the deal. There is a big difference between a 58 degree sunny day and a 58 degree windy, overcast day.
As I thought about this for a minute I thought of something else.  Sometimes in our lives we may be inclined to say: "Where is the Son?  Where in the world is the Son?" Sometimes the Februarys of our lives come (although not as scheduled as the February that is on the calendar).  We may be at the end of our winter and want spring so badly.  We are irritated with the wind and sick of "looking on the bright side" as we might be more capable of doing in December or January.  It occurred to me that storms in our life may appear to cover the sun (Son).  We cannot feel its warmth the way we long to.  We may even look up a the clouds and say "Where is the Son?  Move out of the way clouds, so I can feel and see the Son!"  But, the sun is always there.  We know it is because it is still light outside.  There may not be a blue sky, but it is still light and still relatively warm. Why do we have storms at all?  Why can't everyday be 68 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze from the south?  Storms do a lot of things in our world, but I mention only two.  First, rain cleanses things.  Second, we appreciate the sun so much more when we haven't seen its full brightness for awhile.

Rediscovering the blog

Well... its only been a year since my last post.  Oops.  I have such a hard time with the "blogger"thing.  It's not that I don't have time or that I forget... I just wonder who would care if I posted anything.  My little world lives inside my house, and I forget how important all of the other people are that don't live under my roof.  I am not a huge fan of facebook or other social networking sites.  Don't get me wrong... they definitely have their place and can be great TOOLS for certain things, but the overall idea of it makes me queasy.  It is a wonderful place to say: "Look how cool I am!"  "Look how happy my family is every single second!"  "Look at this perfect meal I made for my invalid neighbor!"  "I really am awesome (but please make sure to leave me a comment about my awesomeness so I don't forget!)"  I know that ALL people don't use social media in this way.  Just enough people that it ruins it for me! I find out about many important things looking through facebook (babies born, people moving in, etc.)  I find myself wanting to post things I am excited or nervous or annoyed about, but I always seem to stop myself.  Does the whole world really need to know about that? (or care for that matter?)
Well... I have things I want to share and I remembered this little thing called a blog that is all mine.  I can say whatever I want and nobody has to look at it if they don't want to. I can also share some things that are going on with my family without feeling like I am bragging or being obnoxious.  That's the idea.  We'll have to see how this goes...