Mothers Day

I'm not sure how mothers day goes for other moms, but it is pretty much just a normal day around here...not that I mind! What would mothers day be if I wasn't the mommy? Luke made me the cutest little flowers in Primary and my mom got me some pretty tulips and had us over for dinner. And Caleb got me a sewing machine! YAY! I'm super excited, my other one was trashed when we had the fire, 2 years ago!

What A Birthday!

Today is Calebs great grandma Abby's brithday! She is 103 today! Isn't that amazing! She is quite the character too. She has always called Caleb 'cable' (no one knows why either) and she just has the funniest things to say. Happy birthday Grandma Abby!

When the weather gets NICE!

What I mean by nice is NO WIND! Yay! So we had family home evening at the park with, well, most of my family! It was tons of fun. 2 of my nephews are playing little league this year so ofcourse there was a baseball game (i'm using that term loosely). Orin was our master chef (using that term VERY loosely!)

Wills twins (ali and blake) and Egan..cute kids!

Orins wife Minette. Poor girl has super high blood sugar. How the heck is she supposed to get through the last 8 weeks without CHOCOLATE!

Don't mess with him when he is 'in the zone'

Grandma helping Ali 'run the bases'

Rex was helping Ali (truth be told, she probably would have done better on her own j/k)

My mom helping Blake hit the ball

Caleb giving Tyrel a hard time

Scout o Rama!

Sandy (mother in law)
Caleb and Ryan, it was cold and windy

gila monster, so gross

Great horned owl

burrowing owl

Caleb and his dad Ron

Caleb is the assistant cub master in our ward, and my brother Will is the cubmaster...I know, you gotta watch both of them...

A couple of weekends ago we had the scout o rama. Caleb was working when they had the meeting so he didn't know what was going on but like 3 days before the event he learned that our ward didn't have a booth (some people just do the very minimum, you know what I mean?) Anyway, so Caleb called his mom who works for Arizona Game and Fish Department. She runs the Adobe Mountian Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (http://www.earthodysseyonline.com/ good article just done on her). At his facility they take in wildlife that have been injured and they either get them healthy enough to survive back in the wild and release them into their natural habitat. but there are some animals that do not get to go back, she has a couple of eagles that have injured wings or animals that people have cought and imprinted and she uses these animals to educate the public. It is really fun. I have got to see some crazy animals up close that I would never have seen otherwise.

Anyway, so we convinced her to come set up a booth for the Scout o Rama. It was soooooo freezing cold and the wind was HORRIBLE! But they were troopers and stuck it out and it was a Huge success! So thank you SOOOO much Sandy!

The last month....or so.

Today is our anniversary, 7 years! I can't believe it.

Ryan wakes up about 5 almost every morning and won't go back to sleep until I bring him to our bed, he loves to snuggle!

These boys LOVE baths! I got Ryan out of the bath tub and put him in the living room to go get pjs and a diaper and he hustled right into the bathroom (oh yeah, he started crawling a couple weeks ago, 10 1/2 months)

Our super sweet neighbor gave Luke a kite and he decided to hook it onto his bike and make it fly

I never thought I would ever see him in a suit, but he looks good huh?

RSV

Ok this is getting so old. I took Ryan in yesterday to the doctor because he has this cough that will not go away, no matter what we have tried so I asked to have some chest x-rays done, and my awesome doctor said he would do whatever I wanted because I am the mom, and if I think there is something wrong then it needs to be addressed.

So he gave me a paper and I took it to the imaging center, waited 2 hours with 2 boys, through lunch time and everything (luke was the best he has ever been!) to get 2 x-rays and then waited a couple of hours for the images and the radioligist report to get to my doctor. So when he did call me, he told me that this is the exact reason he listens to moms when they say something is wrong with their kids.....Ryan has RSV.

Have I ever mentioned that I absolutely LOVE my doctor? When Luke was 4 weeks old he had RSV and we spent some time in the hospital, but before that he had given me every phone number he had, pager, home....everything, and I called him so many times and he was so nice about it and he even made a house call, had me come to his house, (when caleb was sick too) and he called several times over the weekend to see how things were going. Sweetest doctor a mom could ask for.

Anyway, so now we are dealing with this too....how fun. but it is really weird because he has never ran a fever, or acted sick other than the cough! So I don't know what to think.....its all just puzzleing to me.

Easter

So the easter bunny came to our house....and stayed! Caleb was so against this, thats why I didn't tell him what I was doing until I had the rabbit in hand, at house. haha! Anyway, my cousin had some bunnies and I thought, what the heck! The boys LOVE him/her, we aren't really sure (hence only 1 rabbit!)

Anyway, we had a wonderful easter and hope everyone else did as well!