Riley's Birthday

At the end of March, Riley had his 7th birthday. I can't believe how fast my kids are growing. Riley is such a sweet boy. He is a good helper around the house. I love his smile and laugh! He loves to build with K'nex and Legos, so I made him a Lego cake.

A swingin' good time

A couple months ago, Garrett learned how to get on the swing himself. He would get on and walk backwards and then pick his feet up and go. He didn't go very high, but that is how he likes it. Swinging is one of his favorite things now. It is so cute to watch him swing. One day he went out to swing and he looked so cute swinging. I took a ton of pictures of him. Here are just a few. :)

I think I got it figured out

Ok, I think I am back in business now. I was trying to figure out how to do the backgrounds and everything. It took me a while till I was able to sit and figure it out. I had a few spare minutes today so I went back over the instructions and figured it out. I'm sure you wanted to know all that. Now that I am done playing with the template and have something that I think is cute, I can go back to writing about what has been going on.

Blog Under Construction

I am learning how to change the background on my blog. I think it is a cute background, but it is hard to read some of it. I am still playing around with it and trying to find something that will work. Please check back in another day or two and hopefully I will have it figured out. Thanks!

March

In March we went up to Eagar for a few days over spring break to see my brother and sister-in-law and their 2 foster girls. We left on Thursday afternoon and stayed until Saturday. It was a quick trip but we did a lot of things while we were there. The kids had a lot of fun playing with the 2 girls. The weather was nice for the most part. A little windy though.

On Friday morning we went to the park. We always go to the park when we go to Eagar because it is such a fun park! In the afternoon we went to the tubing hill. There was quite a bit of snow. The kids had a blast playing in the snow! I believe that the last time we took the kids to the snow was when Riley was about 18 months, and now he is 7 (well, he was 6 when we went there).




I'm sure you have seen a similar picture like this in earlier posts. :) I just had to include a picture for this time.






Garrett loved eating the snow!!

On Saturday the kids decorated Easter eggs (sorry, no pictures of that), and later we went for a drive. We were going to go to a lookout place and have a picnic, but the road was closed so we just parked along the side of the road and had the picnic there. When we were done we walked around a little bit and the kids found a few patches of snow and had a snow fight. Then we left to go home.




My sister was in Payson over the same weekend that we were in Eagar. She called me as we were heading toward Show Low and told us about the mountain sliding down along the Beeline and that it was closed. I was SO GLAD that she had called and told us because we were thinking of going home that way instead of going through Globe. If we would've gone that way then we would've been detoured along the Roosevelt Lake road, and would've come out close to Globe. It would've been a VERY LONG trip. I couldn't believe that there wasn't a sign in Show Low at the turn off toward Payson telling us that the road was closed. My sister and her family ended up having to go home a different way (they live in Tucson). We passed each other in Globe.

February

I don't remember much of what happened in February, probably not anything exciting. At the end of February I had my 35th birthday. That was a hard age to hit. This kids got out of school early so I decided that I wanted to go hiking. We went to Usery Pass. We found a good trail to hike on for all the kids. Garrett even walked most of the way. It was a nice day and the wild flowers were starting to bloom. It was so pretty!

More catching up

Okay, I realized that I really haven't posted anything for a few months. I have been so bad! Just recently some people have invited me to view their blog, and I have also found out that you can do a blog search through Google so I have been snooping around and finding people's blog that I know. After seeing all these blogs and how cute they are, and how often they post I started feeling guilty and decided that I should sit down and add something. I guess right now is a good time to do it because my kids are napping.

All my kids got hit with the stomach flu and they are hopefully getting over it. Carson got sick Monday afternoon and then Keslie got it Monday night. When I sent Riley to school on Tuesday I asked if he was feeling okay and he said yes. That afternoon when I went to pick him up a teacher walked him out and told me that he didn't think that he could make it to the car. I quickly found a bag in the car, and a few seconds later he threw up. He said that he had started feeling sick earlier in the day. I don't understand why he didn't call me. I told him I would come get him if he didn't feel good. When I got home and got Garrett up from his nap I noticed that he had thrown up. So far today they are all doing good. Garrett has slept most of the day. I have also done a ton of loads of laundry - washing and re-washing clothes and sheets. You don't even want to see my kitchen floor right now because it is such a mess. I haven't had time to sweep it yet. I also haven't been feeling good, but when my kids get the stomach flu I start to feel bad (I think it is a psychological thing). I also have been trying to disinfect everything. I hope we are over the worst of it!

Anyways.... where should I start now? I guess I will start with January.

Here is a picture of the kids taken at the beginning of January.



In January Stefan and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. I can't believe that we have been married for 10 years!!! We celebrated by going to Pinetop for a few days. We hadn't been away from the kids for so long. We went to a place called the Whispering Pines Resort. They have cabins there. It was a nice place to stay.




While we were up there we went to my grandparent's place in Greer to see how much snow was there. I got brave and walked on their pond. Yes, there is water under there!




The snow was so dry that you couldn't even form a snowball, but it was great for making a snow angel. I think this is my first snow angel that I have ever made. I think I did a pretty good job for my first snow angel, even if I do say so myself.



We brought some snow home for the kids.