Tulip, Tulip, Daffodil?

After all these years of loving the tulip festival, I've never been two weeks earlier to the daffodil show.  I was craving some sunshine and really any excuse to visit the gardens again.

So pretty, right?



Our Basement

It's DONE!  So, let's take a little tour...

The Bathroom

Wesley's new Room

 One day he'll get new bedding, but this works for now and it's usually covered in 10 different stuffed animals anyway. :)

Wesley is loving the magnet board. 

It's huge, I'm talking 4ft x 8ft!  Perfect for every last drawing he can't bear to throw away.

Jack's new Room

I think I like his room best and he thinks it's awesome.

 I love the prints in here.  The top left one is a quote from Abraham Lincoln that says
"Whatever you are, be a good one."

 And don't worry, he got a nice big magnet board too.

So, after a year, we are finally done with all construction around here and couldn't be happier with the results!

A Boy's Trip

What?! I could hardly believe it myself, Brad just isn't big on travel.  But last month he met up with his brothers for a weekend in Las Vegas.   They're boys so there aren't many pictures, but they kept themselves busy playing golf (Brad hates golf, but he drove the cart :)), going to a UNLV basketball game (of course), a rugby game, and the temple.  Not your typical guys weekend in Vegas, but Brad had a good time with his best friends. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We're not Lucky.

We're Blessed

with these three little cuties.

Reading

It took a whole 35 minutes but Wesley read every last word of Dr.Suess' Green Eggs and Ham tonight, all 62 pages worth!  It might have taken a few minutes less, but he repeated "I'm so proud of myself! Are you proud of me Mom and Dad?" about 5 times.  Yeah Bubba, we are super proud of you!

Friends

Ok, I forgot my camera so this is the best I've got from our night out with Matt and Michele. 

They invited us to the Jazz game (vs the Minnesota Timberwolves) last night and we had so much fun.  We love Matt and Michele and always have a great time with them, but the game was fun too.  We had awesome seats and the Jazz won (111 to 105) in overtime. 

Building a Barn

Last Saturday Lory and Chris invited the boys over to help "build the barn".  Lory bought them little construction sets with real tools, not plastic hammers, but a real little hammer and gloves and measuring tape and safety goggles and tool belt, the works.  They measured and marked and hammered away, loving every minute.  Obviously Wesley and Jack weren't actually going to build anything, but we fooled them.  These boys can't wait for their next project... garden boxes.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, these kids have

the. BEST. GRANDPARENTS. EVER.

A little bit of Snow

It hasn't been much of a wet winter, so the kids like to soak up every bit of snow they can.  It finally came down again today and the kids played for over an hour in Tate and Ellie's backyard, while us moms got to stay warm inside!  They made a sledding hill in the corner, ate handfulls of the powdery snow, and came in a little wet.  They loved every minute.