38th Week in Pictures

38 weeks pregnant today! Still having lots of pressure down low, but no contractions so far!  Hopefully she'll decide to make her appearance sometime soon! It's getting too hot for me to be this pregnant, lol!

Kelly's mom was transporting five puppies between shelters on Saturday, so she called us over to let the kids play with the puppies for a while.  They had a blast! I think the puppies had a good time too;  they slept all the way to the next shelter!

Saturday night, Marcus took Hunter to a Boise Hawks baseball game.  It was Hunter's first time going to a baseball game and he had a blast!

The bat "boy" was a dog!!

Whoa! That's some intense looking nachos! I guess ball park food has changed since the last time I went to the stadium!

Panorama view of the stadium

The Hawks ended up winning in the bottom of the ninth with an RBI triple!  There were fireworks after the game and Hunter couldn't stop talking about how much fun he had.  I love that there are all sorts of things to do here with the kids that we might not have had the opportunity to do elsewhere.

I had to end with the sweetest picture ever from naptime today.  Melts my heart...

Mase Man

As I was looking through my pictures a few days ago, I noticed a trend.  Mason is a little clown! So this post is pretty much a slideshow of how silly he can be!

Row, row, row your boat in the Sam's cart

"I keeled the spider!" (After stomping on it several times, he went and got a towel to pick it up. Good thing it was a plastic spider!)

Making silly faces at lunch

He got into Mommy's mascara! At least he knew where it went!

Trying to look through the binoculars backwards

He wanted a back rub from Daddy after Mommy got one

He wanted to throw the fish back in the water

While still healing from falling over and hitting his forehead, he decided to jump down from Taylor's window seat and bite a hole in his tongue.  He's determined to give Mommy a heart attack, I believe.

Swimming in the dogs' pool

 

Chowing down on the fry sauce, like a true Idahoan!

Helping Aunt Kelly get the brownie batter off the beaters!

 

As I'm getting ready to fix lunch, I look over and see that Mason is two steps ahead of me!

As silly as he is, he is still such a sweet boy! (Especially when he's asleep! ;-))

Catching Up!

Since my last post, there has been a ton of things going on in our lives, so it's going to take me a few posts to get it all in.  We spent almost the entire month of June in Alabama with my parents, mostly just hanging out and being lazy for the summer.  We got the kids going with the library's reading program and they devoured lots of books;  we even went on a bear hunt or two! ;-)  I was able to get a few books crossed off my reading list as well during my break from school. 

One of the few books I read

We took a few days to explore the area and visit a couple of museums and local tourist attractions.  The kids loved standing next to the waterfall at the dam because it covered us in a cool mist on a blazing hot summer day.

The overlook at Wilson Dam

One of the waterfalls by the dam

 

The bigger waterfall that gave us a good misting

The water temp was still pretty cool for June

The kids had to squint because of all the mist! It sure felt good though!

 

We spent a lot of time just hanging out and enjoying the company.  The kids sure loved hanging out with Mimi and Poppie.

 

Especially when Poppie gave them tractor rides!

 

Taking a nap with Mimi 

A lazy afternoon of Farkle and cheese puffs

Teaching Tay how to play War (that's Daddy's war face, lol)

The kids spent a week at VBS and had a blast!  They're still singing the songs they learned!

 

When Marcus and I were still dating, one of the first restaurants we went to in Alabama was Casa Mexicana.  We have a framed picture of the two of us at the table.  This trip, Casa was one of our last restaurants to go to, so we thought it was only fitting to get a new picture showing the difference of 10 years.  We've both aged a little bit and we've certainly added to our family a lot! It makes me wonder where we'll be in another 10 years...

 





Being Two is So Hard!

Monday, Marcus took the two big kids fishing on the pier all day, so it was just me and the Mase-man home by ourselves.  He plays pretty well by himself for the most part, but when he doesn't get what he wants, look out! 

 

He asked for cereal for breakfast and wanted to be independent and get his own.  We see how well that went, haha!  At least he tried to clean it up himself.  I think three Cheerios ended up in the trash and the rest ended up getting spread around the floor until I got the big broom out and swept them up.

After breakfast, we played for a while and I had to go out and get a few things out of the shed, so I let him play outside.  He didn't want to come in and threw a fit when we went inside for lunch.  As I was getting lunch ready, he put on Mickey Mouse on the TV, which I had told him not to, so when I turned it off and brought him to the lunch table, this is what I got:

That lasted about 5 minutes, after which he calmed down and looked sleepy, so I asked him if he wanted to eat his lunch and then go lay down for a nap.  Emphatically, I got "NO!" So I let him sit there while I ate my lunch.

I look over a minute later and he's decided that his banana maybe isn't so bad after all.  He ate the whole banana and part of a sandwich, all while clinging to my arm like this.

 

It got quiet a minute later and I started hearing deep breathing, so I look over and he had fallen sound asleep on my arm, haha!  



 

 

I'm telling you, being two years old must be super exhausting!

27 Weeks

Well, the end of the second trimester is finally here.  This is the last week and I'll be in the home stretch.  Miss Paisley is definitely making her presence known lately.  She kicked me so hard the other night that she almost knocked my Bible off my lap!

 

She likes to be active mostly after breakfast and when I'm lying in bed at night.  I've been having way more heartburn, especially in the evenings after dinner.  Other than that, my energy is still up and I'm feeling really good!

 

We've pretty much gotten everything packed up that we aren't in the process of using.  The last week we're here, we'll have to get the rest of the kitchen stuff and all the furniture ready to go, but other than that, the packing is essentially done!  We've taken care of everything that needed to be repaired around the house--so proud of Marcus for changing out the water heater by himself!!  He saved us almost $400 by doing it instead of having a plumber come. 

 

Last night, Marcus had a brilliant idea and gave the kids the water heater box to color on.  It kept them busy for over two hours before they had to get baths. 

 

 

So much fun for them!



Mother's Day 2015 - Park Evening

After we left church on Mother's Day, we went out for lunch at Applebee's and then went home and the boys laid down for a nap while I finished up some homework.  Taylor and Daddy bought me some beautiful roses, a Mother's Day card, and some Twizzlers, yum! :)

It was a gorgeous day, so we decided to grab a pizza for dinner and have a picnic at the park.  We all had a blast.  Everybody got in on the action, even Daddy!

Taylor helping her brother! Proof that it does happen occasionally! :)

Mase munching on a breadstick

Daddy and Hunter racing across the lily pads.

Mason trying to figure out how to get down, lol!

Miss Paisley and I relaxing on the bench.

 

This was right before Mase decided he wanted off and almost flew into the mulch, lol.

Tay and Hunter swinging like a crab.

Whee!!

We saw this cool flower; I have no idea what kind it is, but it was beautiful!

 

We drove home with the windows down and enjoyed the sun going down.  I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's Day!  I even got a back massage, which is a little slice of heaven for this pregnant mama!  :)