Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Life Lately

Phil had to work one Saturday morning and I was SERIOUSLY craving donuts, so I took the boys in town to Krispy Kreme.  Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh those donuts were amaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzing!!!!  




How mean is this April Fools joke??  I didn't do it... just saw it on Instagram and thought it was funny!


Our last fire for the season.  :(  We used up all of the wood, Dad!





D put himself down for nap time the other day at 12:30.  Sleepy baby.  I love how he sleeps like this all curled up and snuggling his blankie.


Watching for Daddy to come home from work... And they're not the only ones!  I'm watching intently, too!  Lol!


Super fun birthday party at our friends' house the other night.  So many kids!  They have an amazing backyard with a zipline, trampoline, sandpit with diggers, swings, etc.  My boys were in heaven.



Someone missed Mommy while I was gone at the party!  He's a Mama's boy for sure.


Emmett is our early riser... Here he snuggled himself up with a book while I finished my workout.


Girls' night out with my good friend, Kelly, who lives across the street.  :)  We always have fun!


Field trip to the news station to meet the weatherman.  He's the neighbor of one of the families in our CC group.  He did a neat demonstration with the kids and talked about clouds, precipitation, storms, etc.  But I think the kids loved the green screen the most.  :)


Watching and waiting for a raindrop to fall...





In Alaska wayyyyyy back before we had kiddos a group of us would meet up every Saturday morning at 10:00 (because that was EARLY for a Saturday... can you even IMAGINE a time when 10:00 was EARLY?!?  Not me!!) at a restaurant for "Breakfast Club" aka "Hangover Cure".  Lol!  It was such a fun time.  Phil was telling some people in the squadron about it the other day and one of the younger pilots decided to start a breakfast club in our squadron.  This past Saturday they met up at a place right by our house, so we walked up there with the boys and had brunch.  It was Phil and me and the kids and then a bunch of young pilots, but I don't think they minded.  At least they didn't seem like they minded.  The boys were really good.  I even brought Kindles for reinforcement.



On the menu next to orange juice it said "you supply the champagne," so one of the young guys ran to the liquor store and got a bunch of bottles of champs so we could have mimosas.  It was great!!


Bernie is a Mama's Boy, but he sure does LOVE his Jackson.  :)



On Sunday we brought out the Easter outfits again for a piano recital.


Then later on Sunday evening we rode up to a little restaurant/bar on the lagoon across from our house and let the boys play on the cool playground they have there while we enjoyed a few drinks and chats with our friends from across the street.  Davis is growing up and getting really good at playing on his own and with his brothers and it was SO amazing to be able to sit and have a conversation with other adults while our kids played!!!  We had little interruptions here and there, but we are finally getting out of the baby stage and getting to enjoy a little more grown-up time!  It's great!!


Remember how cute Reid and Avery were from last summer?  They have grown apart and don't play together very much anymore, but they did play together for a little bit this night.


Happy Mommy and Daddy!


We are so blessed to have such great friends living right near us!  Kelly is such a fun, sweet friend (and Mike is great, too!) and how CUTE is their little boy?!?


Pretty sunset...


My boys LOVE their Daddy so very much.  He is such an amazing father.



And finally... today was our last day of CC for the year!!!  Bring on summer!! :)


Saturday, April 2, 2016

Easter 2016

Just some pics from Easter... It was wonderful to celebrate our Savior's resurrection with the ones we love!!

Best buds...



Easter morning...







Watching TV with a fistful of jelly beans...


I wanted to dress the boys up a little for Easter this year.  No pretty Easter dresses to shop for?  No problem!  Just shop for bow ties!  Lol.


I am one blessed Mama... These little boys are my life.  I love them so very much. 


These two... I tell you what.  They are a mess!  :)  Even the girl next to them is giving them side-eye!  Lol!  Right after this Reid's bow tie came off, and when the kids left the church Phil went to his classroom to go put it back on.  But Reid didn't have it.  He said, "I left it on the bench!  But you can go get it."


The tucked-in shirts didn't last very long.  :)


Easter egg hunt time! Of course my two oldest are using Target bags to hunt eggs instead of the nice baskets with the Pottery Barn liners that I bought years ago.  Standard.  Lol.





So much fun!!  And then we came home to Easter cards from Nana and Papa Swoop!  With money!!!  They were so excited!  Each boy yelled, "What?!? Money?!?" except for Davis who was just excited about the bunny on the front of the card.  :)






We also came home to everyone getting a fever one right after the other.  :(  I guess they caught what my sister's kids had after all.  I'm just so thankful the illness has only lasted a day or two and we didn't have to take anyone to the doctor.  And Reid has been taking naps again.  Hooray!  :)  I loved him here with his Minecraft sword safely beside him.