A House Full of Boys

FINALLY Caught Up!

I got so behind on my posts while I was sick with this pregnancy...I'm finally able to get off of the nausea medication this week...now if we can just stop getting the flu in this house! We've had four rounds of it this winter already, and the kids all had flu shots...so frustrating! Hopefully, we'll all be well for Christmas! It feels good to finally be caught up on the posts...I know there are a ton of pictures, but I had a lot to catch up on!

Random Silliness...

Last night at dinner, I gave Aidan a drink without realizing he brought his own drink up to the table from earlier that day. The next time I looked over this is what I saw! One has water and the other rootbeer, so luckily it's not too bad of a clash! lol.

Snow, Snow, Snow, SNOW!

We got a TON of snow this week. The kids are in snow heaven!
Such a cute little face!

My kids with one of the neighbor kids playing in our front yard.

Braving the storm in his car ;)

Piano Recital

Gavin had a piano recital last week. He worked really hard for it and memorized his songs, but he always had the sheet music up as a backup. I told him to bring his music just in case, but when he walked in the room for the recital, one of the other kids said, "Hey, you can't use your music." So, when it was Gavin's turn to go up I tried to hand him his music, but he said, "No, that's okay." I think he thought he wasn't allowed. He got up there and went slowly through the first two measures of the song and got nervous and forgot the rest. He ran from the piano all sad...poor guy. I felt so bad for him. He had such a good experience with his last recital, but now he says he's "never doing a recital again!" Luckily, everyone still clapped for him and congratulated him afterwards on how brave he was to go up there and how hard it is to play in front of everyone. I think he'll still try it again next time...
Here he is getting his prize after the recital...I think he was feeling a little better by then...especially since the kid who told him that he couldn't use his sheet music went up there and also forgot his music and stopped partway through to say "I forgot!" I said, "see Gavin, other people forget too, and it's okay."

Gavin's Class Christmas Party

I was able to help out at Gavin's School Christmas party. They made gingerbread houses and had hot chocolate and got all hyped up on a sugar high...it was great fun.
Here's Gavin enjoying the festivities...

Here are my two little helpers enjoying the party.

Belly Post

20 weeks along...1/2 way there :)

Black Friday Shopping

I'm not a big Black Friday shopper, but there were a couple of good sales that were worth getting up for at the Wal-mart. We were all at Jason's parent's house for Thanksgiving, so my sister-in-law Angie, and I got up in time to get to Wal-mart by 5:00 am...luckily the Wal-mart is only 5 minutes from their house. It was a good thing we got there when we did because by 5:10 am everything on sale was GONE!
Here are Angie and me first thing in the morning...aren't we pretty! lol ;)

Haircut!

I was growing my hair out to donate to Locks of Love. I think my hair grew faster when I was pregnant because suddenly it was so long it was just unmanageable! One day I just couldn't take it anymore and called up a salon and took Connor and Aidan with me to just get my hair cut that very day. It feels so much lighter now...I love it! Jason kind of misses my long hair although he loves me no matter what of course! I told him I'd think about growing it out again to donate it, but in the meantime I'm just really enjoying the shorter hair :)

Laundry, Laundry, Laundry...

We have had endless laundry lately (more than usual anyway) to catch up on since I've been sick and Jason's been busy trying bring home the bacon and fry it up too! Here's a picture of Aidan taking advantage of one of the laundry piles :)

Halloween

Here's the one and only picture I got of the kids for Halloween...I guess I'm not as picture-happy when I'm feeling nauseous (morning sickness...) But, the kids had so much fun getting their candy...of course. Even the wind and rain didn't put a damper on these happy trick-or-treaters. Jason and his brother took the kids around while I stayed inside with Jason's parents passing out candy.

October Conference Weekend

In October, the ladies on Jason's side of the family traditionally get together over General Conference Weekend (a world-wide broadcast from our Church and prophet) to scrapbook, quilt, stamp and just plain laugh and visit. It's always a really fun time that I look forward to spending time with such great ladies.
Here we all are...no makeup and all...that's the best part about hanging out with just the ladies :)

Soccer!

Gavin and Connor both played soccer this year and LOVED it. Jason and Aidan and I had fun watching their games and enjoying nice Summer evenings outside. It also gave me something to take my mind off of my morning sickness. We were all sad to see the season end, although it did make our evenings a lot less busy not driving back and forth to practices and games. Here are a few pictures of what our Summer evenings looked like at the Soccer games.