small world

this was cullans last day at his preschool. he really loved it there. he had some great friends and really enjoyed his teachers Mrs. Marston and Mrs. Kutz. He wanted me to take his picture with them, even though he does not look overly excited about it. I hope he has such fun teachers this next year.

ladies night

before i left, i got to go out to dinner with some great friends to relax and have a little fun. we went to Tony's. i have some wonderful and hilarious memories here with some of my friends and so we decided this was the place to go for our little farewell dinner. it was so much fun. i really appreciated these ladies coming out to have dinner and say goodbye. i will miss all the laughter and fun times i have had with these women, but I am sure to keep in touch!
(women in attendance: niki j, heidi c, jenelle s, stacy p, jen b, amy b, annie w, lindsey e, susie j)

last day at mom school

kael had his last day of mom school last Tuesday. it was fun and sad at the same time. he has really enjoyed mom school this year and the friends that he has made. he still talks about them since we have moved and asks when they will be coming over to play. i just wanted to post a few pictures from the day.

the kids played a life size version of candy land. it was really fun and then they got to color some pictures. kael wanted to bring cupcakes for the last day, so we did. Briea got to eat a turkey sandwich instead. oh well, she is still super cute doing it.

so long!

we are unplugging tonight...but don't forget to check back in a little while. hopefully our internet will be up and working at the new place sooner than later!! wish us luck. I am hoping the move goes well!

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just sharing some cuteness.

young love

(bug getting caught giving kisses)

well at this age it is rare to get the kiddos to sit still for long, so my friend Erica and I often find ourselves hanging out at church chasing these to little cuties. poor Jackson has been roughed up on more than one occasion by my little briea bug. i feel horrible about it but she literally loves him to death. she can be so rough with him when he does not want a hug or something like that. today she was trying to kiss him and pinched his cheek. the poor guy had two little red marks. i know that briea will miss Jackson when we move, but i am sure he might just take a big sigh of relief!!! ;0)

surprise charity!!

the other day we attended a surprise birthday party for a friend of mine Charity. her family decided to have a surprise party for her. it was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time!

here is charity getting ready to cut the cake!

after everyone ate the kids just played at the park while the parents got a chance to hang out and chat. it was a nice afternoon. we will miss all of our friends here and having the opportunity to do fun things like this with them.briea trying to get daddy.cutie cullan on the slide.spider man kael, running wild at the park.
ps. my boys are obsessed with spider man right now!!

Triumph!!

haircuts or "shortcuts" as the boys call them are usually a MISERABLE thing. i don't know why but they are terrified of it. we have tried all sorts of things to get them to not be scared. however, today we tried again, something i might add that we have tried before, but today something clicked!
cullan really needed a haircut and so we were bracing ourselves for the worst. cullan was starting to go into melt down mode and garran said, "why don't you cut it". for some reason this time the suggestion worked. Cullan was laughing and saying how cool it was to cut his own hair. daddy had to help with some touch up work, but i will take a so/so haircut with no screaming any day!!

Garden Buddies

the boys have recently taken an interest in being outside and enjoying the weather. these pictures are from a while back and I have just not gotten around to blogging about them. One day we were out at Garran's parents house and Garran's mom was working in her flower bed. The boys were very anxious to help.here they are getting started. they were sort of tilling the dirt i believe to get it ready to plant some seeds.grandma showing them how to get things ready and i am pretty sure Kael was just playing in the dirt at this point.time to plant. i am not sure what they were planting, but the boys were having some fun. i am pretty sure that we are going to have to do some gardening once we get settled at our new place!these were just some pretty tulips that were already in the garden. it is so nice to see flowers and to have some warm weather finally!!

cullan

Great!

i don't know where he comes up with this sutff, but it is a great way to start my friday morning!

i love my funny boy!

Naughty...

and obviously happy about it!!

Happy Birthday!

happy birthday george!! hope you have a great day.

smile

how could this picture not make you smile!

Blue

today at mom school we learned about the color blue. so here is Kael's picture of a blue sky and blue raindrops falling on umbrellas. he is such a talented kid ;0)

is this for real?

i am  having one of those days. i don't know if it is just from being exhausted or what, but things just seem surreal today. i look around my house at all these boxes and think, really? are we really moving far away in just 10 days. i guess it is not super far away, but it is three hours from everything we know right now. all our friends, all our kids friends, cullan's school-that he loves. i usually get excited about moves and changes. those sort of things keep life interesting  i think. however i have to admit that now, having kids, and having friends who you have known since we were all single, and they have kids. there is this desire to plant some roots and let your kids grow up with these kids. i am sure we will love living in our new home, but today i am feeling sad about leaving our home now.

their latest guess

so our problems with briea continue. this is so frustrating. i mean watching your child be miserable and uncomfortable is horrible. so now this is what we are trying....let me just say it is not fun. 

our pediatrician here said that since we have done allergy testing and we are pretty sure she is lactose intolerant that the next step is to test her for fructose intolerance. GREAT! he wanted to get us into a specialist before we left but they did not have any openings. so now we have to wait till we move, wait to get into a new pediatrician and plead with him to refer her to a specialist because that is what she really needs to do. ARG!!

so can i just say that i had not idea how limited a fructose free diet is. i mean you think of it being in soda, candy stuff like that but not apples, grapes, and about a million other things. if your interested just google fructose intolerance. it is very eye opening. so for now this is what we are trying until we can get to a specialist who can test her to make sure that is what it is or find out what is going on with my sweet little girl. say a little prayer that her pain and discomfort will go away soon.

garage sales and beautiful day

today started off kind of chilly but ended up being rather nice. a friend of mine had told me about a big neighborhood garage sale. I found a couple really good deals and then just some fun stuff.
first off..i saw this and knew that Cullan would just love it. He is not really into power rangers, but he loves super hero's, and this had a cape. i was right. he has had it one almost all day.
Garran and I had been talking about getting the boys bikes, especially with our new place having so much room to ride them. so today i found these.Kael with his new wheels.Cullan showing me that he knows exactly what he is doing. He is really good already.
I was very excited. I found these bikes for just $5.00 a piece. I LOVE find a good bargain. The kids were so excited, that we spent a good portion of the afternoon out side. even Briea was having a good time running around.
ps. Britt, if you are reading this, Briea loves those hello kitty shoes you sent. They are a little to big but insists on wearing them. It is so funny.

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some of Kael's work from mom school.
the letter T.
2010

my kiddos

this is the closest we got to an Easter picture this year. don't they look excited?