Family Day

The boys have been so patient with their busy hectic parents lately, so we rewarded them with a day of games pizza and prizes.

They definitely had good luck on their sides that afternoon. Eli mastered one particular game, hitting the JACKPOT so many times we lost count. The machine just kept spilling tickets upon tickets, attracting much attention from the other people there that day. When all was said and done, the boys had collected over 2,500 tickets to turn in for prizes! Who does that? I think the most we've ever walked away with before was a couple hundred. 2,000 of those tickets were earned by Eli. We joked that we needed to head to Vegas ASAP. After turning in their tickets for some really cool prizes off the back BIG PRIZE wall, we filled our tummies with pizza and then went to have yummy frozen yogurt for desert. The boys were very happy with our family day, reminding us many times that it was the best day ever.

They sure are sweet.

Ive always bragged about how much our boys love to sleep in, loving sleep myself. Its not abnormal for our family to still be sleeping at 10am. But the last month or so Eli has been our early bird. I'm hoping that its just his bodies way of turning on the "school hour" clock or what every you'd like to label it. I sure hope that he starts sleeping in again though, at least when summertime is here. He wakes up at 7am or so lately (I know, can you believe him, for shame), and we all pay for it dearly. Ive tried to convince him to stay quietly in his bed and read, or play his didj while the rest of the family gets some more sleep. He's getting better about it, not going in Zachs room immediately upon awakening...instead gives Zach a few more minutes before bouncing on him and making him cranky. The other morning I woke Eli for school and he sat up very cranky and says "Mommy, this is exactly what I do to you on the weekends and you yell at me...just waking you up all the time when you are tired. This is your warning, you wait until the weekend again!" HA HA! So we had a very stern talk about weekend lazy days vs school mornings. So as I got on the computer today to update my blog, I turned on the camera to download the newest pictures and found this on there. I think this must be one of our recent mornings when Mommy got her turn to stay in bed while Daddy got up with the "early bird" who had a visitor that morning. Eli in bed playing his Didj while little brother cuddles and watches him play. These are the sweet moments I love.

Happy St Patricks Day!

Every year this holiday makes me miss the wonderful trip I took to Ireland with my fantastic husband and his oldest brother Neil. Something about the chipper Irish music and the color green gets me homesick for Ireland. Someday we'll take the boys there, to experience all that is beautiful in the land of the Irish.


Dance as if no one were watching,Sing as if no one were listening,And live every day as if it were your last. Happy St Patricks Day!

snow days

Snow angels

Zach content just eating snow.

I think Eli may have lost this snowball fight with Daddy?

He gave it good effort though...

sliding on the snow.

my handsome boys.

Homemade Pasta night

Does this really even need any story attached to the pictures? Homemade pasta, fun for the boys, yummy for our tummies....enough said. YUM!

Like I said, yummy!

The Painted Plate

The boys had been asking for months to go to the Painted Plate in Sherwood to paint some pottery. Zach has even gone as far as requesting a pottery birthday party this year. So in an attempt to see if they really would enjoy this for a party, we took advantage of a very wet day when there was no school and headed to Sherwood. Grandma Rena joined us for a fun afternoon of painting, and followed by McDonald's lunch.

They both picked out ice cream bowls to paint. I think this was a secret mission to get me to buy ice cream.

I was really impressed with how much time they took on their bowls, painting them to perfection. So we headed to the store to purchase all the necessities for sundaes!

Glasses

Well, there it is...Eli is now wearing glasses too. His are only for reading up closely, vs Zach needing them all the time. I am learning so much about eye care through my childrens appointments, how much can be corrected and prevented. Hopefully all of this preventative care we are keeping up on will allow my children to have good eye sight for years to come, unlike their blind parents. Well I should say blind Daddy, Mommy had lazik surgery and see's perfectly. Hopefully Eli will only need them for a year or so to strengthen up some eye muscles, but for the time being he's enjoying them. Zachs eyes continue to strengthen as well, we hope that in the next couple of years he will only need them for reading and not all day long.

I will have to take a picture of the boys and Jake together, they look like triplets.