Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
This is a classic Utah post, sandwiched by two thin slices of Missouri.
I volunteer quite a bit with Atlas's elementary. The State Historical Society gave a grant to fifth graders to make a clay mural to be installed. I had lots of fun doing grunt work for it.
Building Legos and drinking Icee's is this kids main thing.
Spring Break came and we headed to Utah, because what else are we going to do, go on a real vacation? No lounging here. Atlas helped Grandpa till the garden.
It was also just a few days after his 6th birthday so we had a party. For his cake he wanted Pikachu with a lollipop in his mouth. Don't ask me.
Cosby slept through a lot of it.
It was just a classic good time: streamers, balloons, piñata. Atlas has wanted this for a very long time.
My Dad: King of the Castle, scaring all the children away.
This is the first of two nieces (the little one) that I was introduced to for the first time on this trip.
We visited my mom and even got a couple smiles out of her!
Nate's Family
We roasted marshmallows.
Look at these two bad astronauts. They thought they were pretty tough in this Power Wheels.
Nick is in love with our friends, the Wheeler's, kids, and they love him back.
Their two girls play great with our two boys. Cosby came downstairs in a dress-up and said "Look, super hero!"
Dungeon Master Jason even led us on our first D&D experience!!!!! Bucket list, check.
A few days, it was warm enough to swim.
And eat pizza.
This is our second new niece we were introduced to.
Now we are back home and eating a lot of ice cream.
Making art.
I volunteer quite a bit with Atlas's elementary. The State Historical Society gave a grant to fifth graders to make a clay mural to be installed. I had lots of fun doing grunt work for it.
Building Legos and drinking Icee's is this kids main thing.
Spring Break came and we headed to Utah, because what else are we going to do, go on a real vacation? No lounging here. Atlas helped Grandpa till the garden.
It was also just a few days after his 6th birthday so we had a party. For his cake he wanted Pikachu with a lollipop in his mouth. Don't ask me.
Cosby slept through a lot of it.
It was just a classic good time: streamers, balloons, piñata. Atlas has wanted this for a very long time.
My Dad: King of the Castle, scaring all the children away.
This is the first of two nieces (the little one) that I was introduced to for the first time on this trip.
We visited my mom and even got a couple smiles out of her!
Nate's Family
We roasted marshmallows.
Look at these two bad astronauts. They thought they were pretty tough in this Power Wheels.
Nick is in love with our friends, the Wheeler's, kids, and they love him back.
Their two girls play great with our two boys. Cosby came downstairs in a dress-up and said "Look, super hero!"
Dungeon Master Jason even led us on our first D&D experience!!!!! Bucket list, check.
A few days, it was warm enough to swim.
And eat pizza.
This is our second new niece we were introduced to.
Now we are back home and eating a lot of ice cream.
Making art.
And getting lots of rain.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
A friend of mine reminded me that I have a blog. Unfortunately I don't really have any family news to write about. It has been bitterly cold. We all have dry itchy skin and are bored. At least the boys are best friends and don't fight too often while we are all cooped up. There's an occasion toy scuffle, but mostly these two are happy as clams when they are with each other.
We will be in Utah for Nick's spring break in March, so hopefully I'll have some nice photos to upload afterwards. Until then we will just be going to school, cleaning stuff, reading books, making art, brushing our teeth and all the other normal stuff.
We will be in Utah for Nick's spring break in March, so hopefully I'll have some nice photos to upload afterwards. Until then we will just be going to school, cleaning stuff, reading books, making art, brushing our teeth and all the other normal stuff.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
We stayed home for the holidays this year. I was really looking forward to not traveling- no screaming kids on airplanes, no catching the flu and cloistering ourselves in one of our parent's houses, no crazy schedules, no extra holiday travel expenses or shipping Christmas toys. But it actually ended up being a lot more quiet, and more boring then I had imagined. The boys had fun and don't have a whole lot to compare it to, but Nick and I did miss the holiday craziness a bit. Mostly the break just felt super long without all that stuff to do.
On Christmas Eve Nick hauled our mattress in on to the floor in the boys room, we plugged in Christmas lights and had ourselves a family sleepover.
It's didn't look much like Christmas but it was chilly!
On New Years we had Chinese take-out by candlelight.
The boys were really into it, especially "cheers"ing with fancy glasses.
On Christmas Eve Nick hauled our mattress in on to the floor in the boys room, we plugged in Christmas lights and had ourselves a family sleepover.
It's didn't look much like Christmas but it was chilly!
On New Years we had Chinese take-out by candlelight.
The boys were really into it, especially "cheers"ing with fancy glasses.
Nick turned 31, but Atlas and I could only find 28 candles, so I don't know if it's legit.
Cosby got super sick for a few days and Atlas took it upon himself to take care of his brother, mostly by surrounding him in mountains of toys no matter where he was.
We spent the rest of the break doing what we all do best: Nick read some obscure foreign comics, Atlas played video games,
Cosby was messy and destroyed the Earth. I probably did a combination of all those things.
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