Tuesdays Unwrapped

Emily's blog carnival is going on today!

I am so thankful for spending days with my boys doing fun things! We have been very busy with painting, making bird feeders, watching the birds, going to soccer games, playing in the pool, and lots of other wonderful things!
Here are some pictures of us creating together:

Three on Thursday

1. I got to hear the baby's heartbeat again yesterday. Every time I hear it, I laugh. The first time Hubs heard Gator's heartbeat, he said that it sounded like a merchant ship on sonar. (He used to be a submariner.)

2. Here are a couple more blurry background shots. I have such cute kids!


3. We're fixin' to make some cookies. Yumm-O!

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday - Part 2

16 weeks

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday- Part 1

I've been practicing/experimenting with my camera to learn how to get blurry backgrounds in the shots of my boys. Thanks to MckMama, I now know how to do it!

Here are the results of my first blurry background photo shoot:

Tuesdays Unwrapped

Emily at Chatting at the Sky hosts a fun blog carnival every Tuesday called Tuesdays Unwrapped. The idea is to slow down and unwrap the gifts of each day long enough to truly appreciate them. Here goes!


Good to the last drop - Bull is licking up the juice that spilled from his fruit cup.


Boys in the mud - need I say more? They played out there for more than an hour. Then we changed into suit-suits (Bull's word for them) and went back for more fun!


My boys creating beautiful works of art. We did this during the early afternoon yesterday because it was 110 degrees with the heat index!

Happy Father's Day!

Hubs with Gator (10/2002)


Introducing Gator to Bull (10/2005)


I interviewed the boys in order to make Hubs' card. These are the things that they like to do with Daddy:

- play basketball on the 10 foot basket and play on the playground

- play basketball on the 6 foot basket (in our backyard)

- play the U.S.A. game on the computer (a geography jigsaw puzzle)

- back the van out of the garage

- snuggle

- get in the tent (pulling a blanket over their heads)

- throw rocks

- whoo-doggie snacks (ice cream bars)


Hubs, I knew you would be a great father! Your ability to approach parenthood with humor has taught me a great deal. You are present for our children, and make us the priority. You provide for our needs and most of our wants. You even step in as a father figure for other kids whose dads are absent or deployed. Thank you for leading our children to the Heavenly Father with your attitude and actions - they're following you.



Also, Happy Father's Day to my father-in-law, and our grandfathers.


To my Daddy, I love you! Thank you for providing me with a wonderful example of my Heavenly Father. Happy Father's Day!

I'm back (kinda')...

This is how I have spent the majority of the last 5 weeks.



That's because I have hyperemesis gravidarum. That's right...I'm pregnant! I am now at 14 weeks and due at the beginning of December. The baby is the size of a softball now. I have survived because of Zofran and Phenergan, and an incredibly patient husband. I have lost 16 pounds over the last few weeks. I've finally started to gain some of it back, though not quickly (I hope). I had this with Bull, though much worse. This time we saw it coming and got some meds before it got really bad. Hubs has been a trooper and has really kept us going. Yay for great husbands!


Therefore, my house is still a wreck, and very dirty. So, no pictures of the new place yet!
However, lots of other things have occurred.

We went to a Strong Bonds event and laughed a great deal. It was so much fun!


We also got to visit Spring Canyon for a long weekend to attend the Council meeting. We went to a local farm and fed baby goats! Gator loved it. Bull wanted nothing to do with it!



Gator graduated from Kindergarten. Not a great picture, but it's what I've got. This is his sweet teacher, Mrs. D. She retired this year, so the graduation was bitter sweet for her.



We went to this hotel this past week for Chaplain Annual Sustainment Training. It was a lot of fun! I was actually feeling well enough to play in the pool with the boys.


Gator started indoor soccer yesterday. Bull is growing so quickly and says the funniest things. I think we are going to re-start potty training him this weekend. Last summer was not a happy time, so we dropped the potty training. This time we'll call it Potty Training 301. When the baby comes, he WILL be trained!



So, I think that this catches us up. We've got lots of fun stuff planned for this summer. I look forward to getting started. I think I will be posting on a more regular basis now that I'm out of the first trimester, but I reserve the right to not post if I don't feel good!