Seven Years in the Making!!

The papers are signed and we get the keys to our new home on Friday evening! What a long strange trip this has been. I know I just stole that quote from someone, but it was what popped into my head when thinking of our house-hunting adventures. We are so excited for this house. It's been 7 years since we've been married and we've been apartment living for the entire time and dreaming of one day becoming homeowners. It's finally here and we feel so blessed that we were able to have the years to save money so that our mortgage can be less than any rent we've ever had (except for student housing at CU). Boston is especially excited about our yard and Kayden likes to dream about how to paint his room and even picks our paint colors when we are at the store. More adventures to come in this new realm, I am sure, but for now we're just dreaming of all the possibilities!!

A whole new BLOG world

A bit overwhelmed (and of course mesmerized) by my son's production of drawings and the gigantic pile that keeps accumulating, I've decided to give my 5 year old his own blog. He's still learning to read and thus can't type, so I am his typist and he is the artist. Enjoy . . . http://kiddrawer.blogspot.com/

Blessed Sarcasm

Yes, we are truly blessed for all that happens in our lives and love to share it, hopefully with a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor. This blog (Seriously, So Blessed) takes the whole notion of sarcasm to a new level, skewing the whole genre of "Mormon Mommy Blogging" much to laughter of yours truly! You know you know someone out there who sounds just like this. WhuaHahaha.

p.s. in case you are still wondering if this thing is even real, here is an article about it in the Deseret News

Lazy Days of Summer

Summer has been good to us here. We have enjoyed nice weather for numerous days in a row and continue to dream that it'll stay like this through Oct as it did in our previous residence. However, I have a feeling we'll all fall in love with Fall as soon as it arrives as well. Not thinking the same about winter, but one step at a time.Boston enjoying Liberty Park.

McCoy catching some zzzs at Rockport State Park. (Chad fishing with the older one's in the background)

Kayden blocking the sun poolside at our complex.

Swimming Pastimes

Water is on the brain! We have spent almost every day the past month or so in the water. We've taken full advantage of the pool here in our complex and have also been in swim lessons the past week and a half. Both of them swim well and even Boston looks like a little dolphin as he sticks his head under and moves his arms and legs to get to me. Kayden does strokes and would spend all day in the pool if he could. I haven't attempted to take my 5 month old in. I'm waiting until at least 6 months old, as I still feel like he's so fragile to go in a public pool. The early hospital episode probably gave me a complex, but he manages well as long as someone is paying attention to him. Being outside is good for all of us and we have a lot of fun splashing and laughing together and making wonderful memories.

Are you good now?

Yesterday, it was nearing naptime and our realtor calls. House hunting is a sore subject for me right now as we wait for a LONG "short sale" process and are also starting to look elsewhere. Thus, talking to our realtor puts me a bit on edge. I've asked the boys to pick a book and get ready for nap, but of course, they decide to rip all the covers off the beds, throw random toys around the room - all in fun to their 2 and 5 year old minds. When I entered the room after the call, needless to say, I was not a happy camper. In a not so nice voice, I had them clean everything up and soon they were ready for naptime. Boston gets really distraught when people yell at him and just starts balling. After getting things in the room in order, I shut the door and left Boston to cry in bed while I went to cool down. I went back in and was calmly ready to read his book and sing a song so he could drift off to sleep like he does so well and he says to me, "Are you good now?" Then it clicks, they weren't being bad - they were just being silly kids. THEY could care less if their room was in order. It was ME who had the issue and the question really sunk in. I smiled and answered him with a kiss, a 'sorry', an 'I love you' and a simple, "Yes, I'm good now." Thank goodness for my children in my life to bring me back to what really matters!

My Boston

Reunion and Dino Week

Last week we went to the Kent Hutchings Family Reunion in Flagstaff, AZ. We camped, road a chair lift at a ski resort, went to the Grand Canyon, had a night of skits and games, played and chatted every minute. The boys say the highlight of the trip was the fire and the playground they had in the campground.

Chad with McCoy and Boston on the chair lift.

The sunset at the Grand Canyon. (We have better pics on our 35mm camera!)

This past week has been dinosaur week in our house. My sister and I came up with a theme schedule for every week this summer and plan ideas for that theme and a field trip. This week is the one that Kayden has been anticipating - dinosaurs. We've created dinosaur tails (see picture), dino dioramas, played and watched all things dinos and yesterday took our field trip to Dinosaur Park in Ogden. In between our dinosaurs, we have been to the pool every day and the boys have quickly turned into fish again. Woohoo for SUMMER!!!!

Boston-saurus, Kayden-saurus, McCoy-saurus