Summer Fun

Noah and Gwen playing out in our little pool in the back yard. They have so much fun playing outside the summer just doesn't last long enough!

The 4th of July!

This 4th of July Mikes mom and sister Amy came to spend it with us. Amy took us to a small lake over by the sand dunes. The kids loved it! With there little floaties they swam around like little fish.







We bought some fireworks to light off in front of the house the kids loved them Noah had a hard time staying back he wanted to help Mike light them he fully thinks he is big enough to handle fire. Gwen was mystified by the pretty lights.

Here is Gwen with her totally rebellious hair...


The Fam Watching the firecrakers


Kids with the sparklers


Well at least the kids were impressed...

Happy Halloween

My little super hero... Noah has been telling us that he was spiderman long before Halloween. Now he has the outfit for all of his crime fighting days. This costume will be used year round.



Gwen did not love her Halloween Costume. I still think she is the cutest little cookie monster.


Mike and I on a good day! J/K Don't you just love Halloween!


Our cute little girl fell asleep on our way back home from Utah. Looks like she has been into her halloween Candy!

Noahs Trip to the Hospital

So we had a bit of a scare today! This morning after I had put Gwen down for her morning nap and Noah was watching "Cars" on TV. I ran to the bathroom for a few moments and when I came out Noah had red dye dripping out of his mouth, and all over his hands. I asked him what he had been eating. And he said " I ate candy, yucky candy". This worried me because we don't have any red candy in the house. So I asked him to show me what candy he was talking about. Noah took me into the kitchen and climbed up onto the stool and on to the counter where he opened up our medicine cabinet...my heart just stopped at this point as he pulled out the extra strength Tylenol. I asked Noah how much "candy" he had, had and he said "a lot" I freaked out at this point and like any good parent called poison control they told me that since I didn't know how much Tylenol he had actually taken we would have to wait four hours then take him to the hospital to get his blood drawn to see if he had taken to much. This happened at 10:00am. Mike came home and we took Noah to the AF Hospital at 2:00pm.

We went to the emergency and waited in the waiting room for an hour.... a very long hour.

finally we got to go back to see the doctor they kept Noah on a short leash!

They had to give Noah an IV to draw blood and give him some medicine to clean out his system. This was horrible. Mike and I had to hold Noah down he cried and cried. They bandaged him up trying to hid the IV that was still in him so he would stop crying. But he was reminded of it every time he would try to bend his arm. It would sting again and he would cry. They told us it would take twenty minutes to know if he was positive or negative. If he was negative we could take out the IV and go home if it was positive he could face possible liver failure so we were pretty concerned. The twenty minuets ended up being two hours. A very long two hours of worrying, holding Noah's arm strait so he wouldn't bend it and trying to keep him entertained. Finally the Doctor came and told us the good news Noah was fine. So we got to pack up and go home....Yeah!

I feel so lucky that Noah was OK. This whole experience made me realize how in an instant you can turn around and when you look back your whole life has changed. I thank my Father in Heaven every night that I get to tuck my children in to bed and kiss them good night safe and sound. Every day with them is a blessing!

Our intro to blogging

I am starting my blog today....yeah! I have been wanting to do this forever and I am finally getting around to it. Maybe it is because I am leaving the state and everything I have ever known and loved is here, with the exception of my mission I love you too South Africa! Of course I am taking whats most important with me my kids and husband so I can't complain to much. My hope is that this will keep me in touch with everyone. I'll only be three hours away in Idaho Falls but still this will make it easy to keep everyone up to date on what we are all up to. I am going to miss family, the ward, my house, my neighbors, my book club, game nights, volleyball, play groups, shopping with my mom, I feel like I am starting all over again...the new kid in school. I have to try to be cool and maybe I will find a group of friends who will open up their circle and let me in. So Yeah, I am a lot nervous and a little bit excited. But this is what Mike wants to do and I will follow the love of my life anywhere he wants to go. So lets start this journey....we leave on September 28th we will be living in a three bedroom apartment on the third floor. Yikes I wonder who will be caring our couches up all those stairs, NOT ME! We will be there until our house sells. Then I get to buy another house I am so looking forward to that. But on to more important subjects....Noah now believes he is spiderman and diligently refers to him self as such. Yesterday he came up to me and said, "Mom spiderman is Poppy!" Yikes, I'd hate to have to change his Diaper was my reply. Sadly Mike was not home so it was up to me to get spiderman back out into the world of fighting crime. I have also made the mistake of calling him Noah and he immediately corrected me by yelling "I SPIDERMAN" He was obviously upset that I his own mother did not know this. Noah I mean spiderman jumps off every bit of furniture I have he does some pretty cool commando rolls, twists or flips to complete the landing. He also climbs everything!!! I find him up on my counter tops in my highest cupboards. The one where I put the things I don't want him to get into. Nothing is safe from his little grasp. The way he climbs I am really starting to believe that he is spiderman, he has made a believer out of me. So you can only guess what he will be for Halloween this year as if I could talk him into anything else. Noah's best friend right now is Emerson. He will be so sad to leave his friend I hope that he will make some new friends in Idaho he love to play with other kids. Emerson came over the other day Emerson loves Power Rangers and Is the Red Ranger or so I am told. Those two were fighting crime all day and they even refer to each other as Red Ranger and Spiderman. Life is good as a child...The world is anything you want it to be. Gwen is such a little smarty pants...she blows me away with how much she can talk. She loves to watch the Backyardigans and she even sings along to all the songs. She will also try to do the dance moves. She is going to be my little dancer. Gwen is so cuddly. She is always cuddling up to me and I have to admit I just can't get enough hugs and kisses from my little princess either. She seems to be growing up so fast. I would just love to keep her a baby forever if I could. Gwen is such a good eater she will eat anything and demands food all day long. Noah however I have to beg him to eat and still I get no where with that kid. It's funny that my girl would be the eater takes after her mom I guess. I can't resist good food either. Well that is more than enough of us for now! So I am signing off!