Boys' Night

While I was gone shopping the boys had a fun filled night and Saturday. They did everything on James' list to do:

Play with Big-T and dinosaurs
Dive with Matt
Captain & Ship

Then they headed to Sam's Club to buy me some flowers and Best Buy to get Backyardigans Mighty Knights. After a yummy Chicken Dinos dinner they watched the movie and then headed to bed.

Our blinds had finally arrived so Taylor stayed up until 1am installing them! Isn't he wonderful?

Saturday morning the boys slept until 8:00!! Then they headed to the zoo all morning came home and played and ate some more. I made it home just as James was heading to bed. The boys night was a big success!!

Utah at the Uries

This is our last post of the visit to Utah. I figure we were there for ten days, we can get some good blogging out of it. =] Spending time at Grandma and Grandpa Urie's always means playing with Legos. And if Uncle Scott is there it is twice as fun! The boys built lots of towers and cars and dinosaur houses. The best part is always knocking everything down when you're done, or even before you are done! And I just had to add one more picture of the snow! It is gonna be in the 80s here today!! Summer is just beginning...

More Utah fun

While at the Harvey's house the boys had a blast playing with Uncle Cameron. Matthias took to him immediately and would want him over anyone else. Which was pretty funny considering his absolute distress to anyone so much as looking at him the day before. For some reason he loved Cam! Here is a video of him playing with Cameron and Lesley.



Also, the boys had a blast playing around in these two stools with Grandpa Harvey. They thought it was great fun and really liked having one for each boy just the right size. And they enjoyed some fun time with Grandpa in the snow!




Today James asked me when we are going to Utah again...since it's spring break next week a lot of the families in the ward are heading up that way! We are pretty jealous, but it has been so beautiful here lately and we have about 1,314 birds living nearby that like to serenade us all day long. I swear some of them are nocturnal. Either that or I am dreaming about chirping birds at 2am. We'll be back to Utah when our weather turns nasty!

Geniuses

James did his first addition problem today. We were counting sheep and I said "I have two over here and there is one over there. How many does that make?" "Three." Brilliant, I say, brilliant. This kid is destined for amazing things!

Matthias can currently speak the following words...dad, mom, dog, shoes, Jesus, and teeth. He also gives attempts to James, but is not consistent enough yet for me to pick out what sound means James all the time. With these added to the dozen or so words he signs we are able to have some great conversation folks.

Musical anyone?

For my blog post today I ask you to visit my friend Jill's post from yesterday. Nothing I say could be more funny.

Click here.

What time is it really?

I have spent the last week in anticipation of sleeping in until 8:00 on Sunday morning (since Matthias wakes up at 7am generally and that would translate to 8am DST). So we changed our clocks and went happily to bed only to be woken up at 6am!!

Which translates to 5am.

What? Matthias it isn't Fall Back, it's Leap Forward.

But then it turns out for some strange reason our cell phones didn't change themselves so it is in fact still 6am, or now 7am. And Matthias wakes up right on time even with Daylight Savings. And why do we do this you ask?? An excerpt from the grand Wikipedia...

"The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett invented DST in 1905 during one of his pre-breakfast horseback rides, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through the best part of a summer day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months..."

I better get outside and start enjoying the best part of the day.

More about DST.

Be Prepared

Today was a day of preparation at our home. Taylor spent 11 hours in the yard working on the garden. He took out the sod, hauled dirt, and built a step garden (similar to this, but with three sections and for only $60 with wood and dirt). The boys and I even took five loads of dirt from the front yard to the back. I will get a picture of the garden in the morning and also next week after I transfer our young plants.

Kroger has an awesome deal on strawberries ($0.99 per pound), so we have been collecting them (you can only buy 4 at a time). I made three more batches of freezer jam today and we still have 5 lbs left!! Guess we'll just freeze 'em for smoothies. Yum.

The boys had a ton of fun out in the yard ALL day. James is sunburned on his nose and right side of his face only. Me and Matthias of course avoided any burning of the skin. Taylor has pretty bad burns on his arms and neck, but his face isn't too bad.

Can't wait to eat all our fresh vegetables and yummy jam!

(As a side note, I just found out that President Spencer W. Kimball was born in 1899. Who knew I was old enough to actually know (remember) someone born in the 1800s? Shocking.)