Beautiful Weather=No Time to Blog!

I feel like I was doing so good blogging for a couple weeks (days?) there. Then this BEAUTIFUL weather came upon us and I am once again MIA. We have been busy doing things like staying outside from 9:30-7:00. Seriously that happened a few times. By the time I thought about dinner it was really time for bed! I love the beautiful sunshine in March though. We had a few 80 degree days. Yes, I am still in Minnesota! The last few days have been rainy, but we have still had time to get outside for a while and ride bikes and go on walks. I love how good the boys sleep after a full day of sun!

A look at our life the last couple weeks via cell phone pictures. Enjoy!



Taking Sammy for a little walk



Playing with the umbrella



Exhausted after a full day of playing outside and visiting family





First Bonfire of the year!





I found some old pictures while doing some spring cleaning :) Me and my sister Janelle



Doing a little thrift store shopping on a rainy day!



Beautiful sunset on an evening walk



Looking for birds with Auntie Meg


We have been busy busy enjoying this weather and are hoping it doesn't go away any time soon! I would love the weather to be like this year round. Who says global warming is a bad thing :)

Love Love ♥

Some Random Sentences

I think cloth diapering was one of the best choices I've made.

I love looking for new, fun printed diapers. 

Joshua has been seriously potty training for a few weeks now, and went about 4 days without an accident. Lately he has decided he wants nothing to do with it and I feel like we are back at square one. I've heard this is common though so I am not too worried.

Samuel is taking a few steps now. I think he needs to get to the chiropractor because his left hip looks really stiff when he tries to walk. 

We are supposed to hit 50 degrees tomorrow. We will definitely be spending some time outside :)

I have had a head cold for over a week now and it is showing no sign of leaving. Forgive me if I would rather spend my "alone" time curled up on the couch watching my favorite shows like Army Wives and The Voice than sit on the computer blogging. 

The only reason I am on here now is because I have been spending way to long on here looking at new cloth diapers to add to my stash. I'm hoping to buy a few more next time we get paid and get another step closer to washing them every other day. 

I discovered these adorable overnight undies that I am gonna try out for Joshie. Hopefully they will last through the night. We've been having some issues with him waking up soaked.

I have 3 loads of laundry sitting upstairs waiting to be folded, honestly I don't think that will happen until at least Wednesday. And by then it will be 5. 

My dog always sits in really weird spots staring at nothing. I'm not gonna lie, sometimes he makes me think there are things in my house that I can't see. It's definitely creepy.

We have been working on letters with Joshua. Well mostly A. He seems to know it, until you show him another letter and he thinks that one is an A as well. I guess we have to start somewhere huh?

Joshua has discovered that he can leave his bed on his own. I was hoping he wouldn't discover that. He thinks its funny to get up every couple minutes and lay in our bed when we are still downstairs.
We did pictures of the boys the other day at my parents. Joshua threw a fit and smashed his head into my mouth and chipped both of my front teeth. Nothing major but man is it annoying. Hopefully we got a good picture out of the whole ordeal.

I NEED to get some sleep now. My children enjoy waking up at 7:00 AM for absolutely no reason and then be little crabs all day long. It is oh so much fun for us all. 

So long friends. What is on your mind? 

Love Love ♥ 

Who Knew??

Toilet paper rolls could be so much fun!

Ok maybe that last one didn't have anything to do with toilet paper rolls but he is so stinkin' cute I couldn't resist. Love Love ♥

Cloth Diapers, Potty Training and a Big boy bed!

We have had quite a few changes around here lately! We have been slowly making the transition to cloth diapers. After realizing we were spending over $300 a month on diapers and formula I knew something had to change. I figure if we buy enough to at least cloth diaper at home, they will pay for themselves in about a month. Not bad at all considering Sammy will be in diapers for quite a while still and Joshua will be using them at nap time and bed time for a while. Plus they are so stinkin cute on my little guys How can you not love that little dinosaur butt :) Joshua has officially been in his "big boy bed" for 3 days now. We decided Sunday to take the side of his crib and see how he did. He refused to nap Sunday, he kept asking for the cover for his crib (the railing). But we didn't put it back on and Sunday night I laid him down with a couple books and he was out in a few minutes. The books seem to be doing the trick. We went in to check on him before we went to bed last night and this was how we found him He was laying on his belly reading books when we left him so my guess is he fell asleep and slipped off his bed. He wasn't phased by it though. Ryan put him back in his bed and he didn't wake up. Joshua is also on day 2 with no diapers and no accidents! He has decided all of a sudden to be a big boy. It took a while for him to get used to holding it when we were in public but he seems to be catching on. This makes me so happy :) he is getting to be such a big boy! Hope you all are having a fabulous week! Love Love ♥

A (quick) trip to the pumpkin patch

We have been meaning to get to the pumpkin patch for a couple weeks now, and we finally got there on Sunday! We planned it for Sunday because that was supposed to be the warmest day of the weekend and we aren't fans of the cold. We got to the pumpkin patch around 11:45 and started off on the inside activities.




The big corn pit with a slide (seriously Joshua was in heaven)

And we stopped to look at some spooky Halloween decorations (by spooky I Mean, no one was scared of them and the babies LOVED them). My little sisters got their faces painted, and I failed at taking pictures. Oops.

Sammy stayed nice and warm snuggled up in his stroller (oh yeah, it wasn't warm, did I already mention that?)

Then we headed out to the chilly pumpkin patch, where it started raining approximately 2 minutes after we got outside. Awesome. Needless to say we didn't stay long, we got our pumpkins and got out of that chilly weather!

Ok, maybe we stopped to ride a tractor or two along the way

But mostly, we got our pumpkins and got out of there!

  Joshua and Megan always have to get a picture together when we go somewhere, that's the fun part of having an aunt your age. (not really, the fun part is playing with each other ALL THE TIME). But I love pictures of the two of them together :)

I hope you are all having a wonderful fall season. We are still sick here... we just decided to brave the chilly weather to get pumpkins! Then afterwards brought Joshie to the doctor and it turns out he has croup. So we have him on meds, and he is taking nebs every 4 hours and tylenol for his fever. We  hope it leaves soon!




Love Love♥

Sick Babies (again) and a haircut!

I feel like every other post I make is about the boys being sick. It is getting old. Real fast. Joshua had a cold for a while, then Sammy got it, then they both got better and I got it. Now it has started all over again. And to top it off Joshua has been wheezing and having a really hard time breathing today so it looks like we might be making a trip to urgent care today! He is taking a nap now, after a neb (it pays to have siblings with asthma :). So we will see how he feels when he wakes up and then decide if he needs to go in or not.

I hate sick babies. WAY more than I hate being sick. Seriously, If I could take this from them and have it myself I would do it in a heartbeat!

We haven't been taking many pictures lately. I guess its not my top priority when we are all nasty feeling.







So you get a few cell phone pictures :) One of Joshua clapping. Seriously, clapping is his new thing. He claps and says "YAY" constantly. It started with the potty training, I would say yay every time he went. This turned to him praising himself, and everything and everyone else we see haha. He cheers for Deuce when he eats, for me when I change Sams diaper, and even for Sam when he rolls over. He is our own little personal motivator.

And one of my big 5 month old Sammy! He is doing so good sitting up on his own. This outfit he is wearing in this picture, Joshua wore when he was about 14-15 months. Sam is a beast. 5 months old, weighing like 2 pounds less than his 18 month aunt, and wearing 12-18 month clothes. I guess I just grow em big :)

Yesterday I did something I have been wanting to do for way to long! I cut my hair. I cut 12 inches to be exact and donated it to locks of love. I didn't think I would miss it, but I do. It has been SO long since my hair has been this short. Seriously, I don't even remember when. But I think it is starting to grow on me. I took a shower, dried and straightened my hair all in about 25 minutes this morning. Before it would have taken me at least 25 minutes just to blow dry it. Major plus with two kiddos who don't like me doing anything for myself!






crazy right?

I hope you are all having a great day! We are getting ready to watch the vikings game, hoping its a good game and not a total disappointment like last week.

Love Love ♥

Where has this week gone?!

Is it for real Thursday already? I feel like our busy weekend just ended. I am definitely not complaining, just wondering where the time has gone! We have done nothing this week. But I am gonna do a little weekend recap, yes I know its WAY late. But we had a busy weekend :)

Saturday-
So Ryan and I both graduated from a little school called PACT charter school. Teeny tiny compared to public schools. On Saturday they had an alumni/homecoming day thing so we decided to stop by for a bit. There was no one there (as expected) and we ended up just letting Joshua play on the park for a little bit and then we came home for naps! Oh and Joshua got to touch a BUS! He loves buses and trucks lately. I didn't realize how many there were on the roads until he started pointing them out to me. Every. Single. One.




Saturday evening Ryan's cousin Travis got married! So we got all fancied up and went to a wedding. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so here are a couple cell phone pictures and a picture of the bride and groom stolen from facebook :)


My beautiful MIL and baby Sam



Me and my handsome little man Josh



The beautiful bride and the groom

Congrats Travis and Erin!!

Sunday-
A few weeks ago my in-laws invited us to go to a vikings game with them. So we ended up going to the Vikings/Lions game on Sunday. What a game! I've never been to a football game before. To be honest, I'm not even sure I've watched a whole football game before. But it was a lot of fun :)

The Vikings ended up losing 26-23. Even though we went into the second half ahead 20-0. Apparently we aren't a 2nd half team. We would be 3 and 0 this year if we only had to play the first half! Instead, we are 0 and 3. Ridiculous.







We had a fun busy weekend! Now the boys and I are all sick and can't seem to get rid of these coughs and sore throats and icky noses. I feel like we just got over this... I am not a fan of this time of year! Hopefully it won't last long. Tomorrow the boys and I are going to check out lifetime fitness and hopefully get a membership! It will be nice to have somewhere to go on those cold snowy winter days to have some fun :)

I hope you are all having a wonderful week! We are looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend at home.

Love Love ♥