June 15th!

So last Thursday I had a doctors appointment. It went well, they always make you wait so long and it was so hot in that little room... maybe that's me just being pregnant. The doctor measured me, we heard the heart beat, and he asked if I had any concerns... Then he said "So when do you want to have this baby?" I asked him when I could have it... He said "Let's see, you are due June 20th (I like to say June 18th because that is what the ultrasound said, even though it's not a big difference) He pulled out his little palm pilot and said that June was busy and named a couple of dates that he would be out of town, one of which was the weekend I was due. Then he said "If you were my sister I'd say lets have this baby on the 15th." I said I'd have to talk to Brady but that is sounded great to me.
It ended up working great with Brady's work schedule... So now we know... If this little boy dosen't come any sooner his birthday will be June 15th. I'm excited to know the day when it will happen but I'm also nervous because I haven't been induced before... but I suppose that it takes all the guess work out of do we go to the hospital? So now I have officaly 7 weeks left... In a way that still seems like a lot but when you think that it has aready been almost 33 weeks it seems like it could be here tomarrow. 9 months is just too long to be pregnent... I'm excited to have it almost over!

ThE bIG 26

So I'm another year older... I can hardly believe that time can go by so fast.
I don't usually have too many picture of me posted, for many of my stupid reasons, but mostly because I'm the one behind the camera. But since today was my birthday I made someone else do the picture taking.
Sunday birthdays are a little boring... not much to go and do, but we still enjoyed ourselves... I got a cake for DQ yesterday (I love Ice Cream Cake) and the boys sang to me before we dug in. Brady made me breakfast and dinner, he kept the house clean, folded laundry and changed all the diapers for me today... I wish I could have a birthday everyday!

Yesterday, Brady actually had a babysitter all line up so that we could go out to lunch, do some shopping and just spend some time together (to be honest I was rather surprised, he has been so busy with the end of semester and grading papers).
It was a really sweet idea... unfortunately Wyatt got sick. I was up all night with him Friday night and took him to Insta Care the next morning (the day of my birthday date) to find that he had bronchitis.
As much as we wanted to go out we didn't want to pass this on to anyone else. So we stayed with our sweet little boy... Brady watched the boys for a while so I could go out and shop, which was sweet and by the end of the afternoon Wyatt's antibiotic must have been kicking in because he had stopped clinging to us so we daringly went out for a quick dinner. The boys were very well behaved and it made for a nice evening.
We do have a rain check for babysitting for next Saturday, so I will be dragging out the birthday card as long as possible.

This is what we have been doing.

They are not really in order but these are just some of the things my family has been up to!

Easter egg hunting at Oma's house

The Easter Egg Hunt in Hooper


We played game in Oma's basement... lots of fun... way too much candy!

We went for a walk and fed the duck... a couple of the geese were bigger than Wyatt and not afraid to walk right up to you... it made me nervous, one big goose even grabbed Brady's pants when he tried to shew it away from Wyatt.


We had a play date with some of my cousins while they were in town... We can hardly believe we have this many kids! We had lots of fun chatting and the kids had a good time playing... We took the picture at the end when every one was ready for a nap so not everyone is that happy about having their picture taken.

For Preschool Carson went to the fire station and he brought home some tattoos... they lasted for ever and Wyatt showed everyone he could his tattoo.

The boys got sun glasses

Wyatt enjoying the park.

On the first nice day we could we went out and played with the boys at the park... They really enjoyed the baseball stuff Oma and Papa gave Carson.

On another day that we though would be nice we tried to have a picnic up the canyon, but ate it in the van because it was a little chillier than we thought it would be.

Brady and Carson just looked too cute one Sunday not to take a picture!

Wyatt got a pretty good bonk on the head when he ran into the corner... it was pretty sad.

Both the boys love to have blankets tied round their necks and they run up and down the hall being super heroes... This is one time Wyatt was playing my himself while Carson was at preschool... He is such a cheese.

One of those days...

It was one of those days...
Right now it is finally quite... there are toys every where... pieces of crackers sprinkled about... and dishes sitting in the sink... but here I sit in the quiet now, alone... I don't even answer the phone when it rings because it would ruin this wonderful silence.

I should be... well I should be doing a lot of things but today I'm choosing not to do them. What a wonderful thing it is to be The Mom... not just because I have two very spring fevered boys, whom I love to death, but for some reason can't leave each other alone today... but because I get to do what I want... isn't that why we wanted to grow up so fast in the first place, to be able to do what we want to do. It seems now though that moments like that are more rare then I once thought they would be. I want to do what I want to do...

but then again, I want a clean house so I clean it, I want a happy family so I smile and nod and give direction, I want my boys to be respectful and kind so I try to be patient as I help them work through their problems... I want a happy husband so I cook dinner and spend time with him doing and talking about the things he cares about...

I guess I do get to do what I want to do... it's just not as easy as I thought it would be when I dreamed it up as a little girl...