No more terrible 2's....I hope!

Well Kaden's birthday isn't for another week but we decided to celebrate the special day early since Chris was going to be gone. I was worried he was going to be sad not having all his friends at his party. He talked about them the whole way to chuckee cheese. But once his cousins got there and the fun started he was not at all disappointed. We had a fun time!
All he talked about for weeks was how he was going to have his party at Chuckee cheese. How could I say no to that when he was so excited about it!?

He asked for a Jungle/Madagascar cake for his party. He also told me for weeks that this was the cake that was going to be at his birthday. I hope it was what his little mind was set on!

Thank you everyone for making this such a special day. It is all he has talked about since and he is already talking about next year! He has already informed me that next year he is going to have a monster party and cake! We will see what happens in a year?

Crazy, crazy crazy!

My head has been spinning. These past few weeks have been crazy! I am so proud though of my hubby! He finished his second year of law school (one more to go)! This summer is going to be crazier then ever. Chris got an internship working for Intel in AZ! We are so excited because this is such a great opportunity for Chris since he would like to do patent and IP law! Because it is just for the summer the boys and I are just going to bounce back and forth between Utah, Washington and Arizona! We are so proud of our Daddy, even though we will miss seeing him everyday!

Things that make you go ew ew ewh...

I know I am a slacker I have felt so overwhelmed in my life lately that the blogging has been pushed to the bottom of the list! I decided to visit my family during finals after realizing it was going to be a long week of no sleep and a teething baby. We had a great time and I had a lot of help from my family. I wished they lived closer the extra hands and naps were so much appreciated! We went nonstop and I think my kids were so exhausted they slept better than I have ever seen them sleep. Too bad that didn't continue after we got back home.
Here's what we were able to see and do...thanks family we had fun & miss you guys!
We spent a long weekend at my mom's condo in St. George while we were there we found this cute little park downtown and my kids loved it when we weren't in the pool Kaden was begging to go here...

Beck also loved it but for other reasons. Everytime I would turn away even for a minute he was chewing at the red rock or trying to get a drink. His mouth was covered in red dirt eeeeewwwwhhhh!

There was a little river, waterfalls and splash pad and lots of red rock stepping stones...little boy heaven!

We love to visit the museums and had never gone to the Discovery Gateway. It was a cute museum however we had to battle the two elementary grade schools that were there it was complete chaos but that didn't stop my busy boys!

"Look ma an onion...looks like something I should eat yum yum!" EEEEWWWHHHH! What don't little kids put in their mouth YUCK!

We beat the millions of gradeschool kids to the helicopter and Kaden thought this was awesome he had it all to himself!

I know you have already thought to yourself eeewwwh a couple of time and if not then I will really get you with the next think that makes you go ew ew ewh! So Kaden convinced mom and grandma that he needed an octopus that blows bubbles. He is obsessed with bubbles lately and we went through many containers of them! The day we got the bubble blowing octopus machine we went outside to see him work...even though it had been raining. There were many snails out on the sidewalk because of the rain. My boys really hadn't seen that many snails so they thought it was neat and were inspecting them QUITE closely, one snail in particular was in the middle of the sidewalk and not moving very quickly. Kaden was so funny to watch blowing bubbles and jumping up and down with excitement. Beckham was also cute curiously inspecting the snail. I thought I need to run in and get my camera. My mom was kind of watching them from the entryway (it was cold and I was only gone like literally 30 seconds). I came back out and said, "where did that snail go, did Kaden move it?" just as I looked down Beck looked up with his big brown eyes and check poking out like he had a huge gumball in his mouth. I realized about the same time as my mom was squealing that it was in his mouth. I literally was dry heaving as I was fishing the slimy chocking hazard out of my 10 month olds mouth! EEEEEWWWWHHHHHH! I am gagging now writing this...YUCK! Seriously how would that have been 10 month old chocks on snail (wonder if that's ever happened?).

The bubble fun probably isn't that exciting after the snail story but he thought it was the GREATEST thing ever!

And here is Beck I'll let you guess what he did with the sidewalk chalk? It shouldn't be hard to figure out!

FYI did you know you can make your own chalk? Kaden saw this once in the store so when grandma told him she would take him to the dollar store and let him pick something out he was certain he was getting animal chalk! What grandma didn't know is my 2 year old remembers everything and unfortunately for grandma the animal chalk wasn't at the dollar store. It was actually fun to let him make his own animals and colors. I'm not 2 and I thought it was neat!

What did you get free this week?

I should say (almost) free. I don't normally do posts like this. My family already tells me I am the cheapest person they have ever met ( I think they mean frugal...or maybe cheap). I am tired though of people asking why do you coupon....uh to survive law school!!! Or people saying "oh I don't have the time" or my personal favorite "I just end up spending a lot of money on things I don't need". OK come on people! The following was just this weeks SPLURGES!!! And neither of these purchases took longer than 10 minutes to plan and who doesn't need deodorant, soap, toilet paper, Easter basket stuffers, excedrine (a two year old and 9 month old...enough said). So in other words if you don't have the time or don't ever buy these things then I will keep my opinions to myself...but seriously come on?
This transaction rung up at -.73 (yes that's negative) then with tax I ended up paying 39 cents I needed toilet paper and deodorant so would have easily paid that for the TP alone. I actually got two johnson's buddies but already put one to use.

This transaction was an online order. I got the socks, shirt and shipping for the grand total of (ready for this) $1.08. Yeah it's not the cutest polo but I knew St. Patty's day was coming and Kaden's wardrobe is a little lacking in the green dept., and I ALWAYS need clothes that can get destroyed! Anyway enough said I will step off my soapbox and you probably won't have to endure reading anymore posts about couponing.

Happy Monday!

The sun is shinning, my flowers blooming, playgroup today and spring just around the corner it's a happy Monday here!

End of our trip...

We have been busy busy busy. Chris was in San Francisco for a Moot court competition last week so my boys and I went to the coast to meet up with my mom and sister. After Chris flew in and met us and we headed to Seattle. It was such a fun time and we loved spending Valentines and Presidents weekend together in the city. Our drive home was beautiful and we were within 30 minutes of being home and ended up stuck on the highway in literally a parking lot for about an hour. We were probably a half mile behind a horrible wreck. One man was killed instantly and two were life flighted and in serious condition. It was a head on at approx 70MPH and the two cars were extremely mangled. More than any in a wreck I have ever seen. I was up a lot last night thinking about these people injured and that we were within a minute of the car crossing the median. What would have been the outcome if we were just a minute further up the highway when this occurred. I feel lucky, grateful blessed that we weren't but my heart goes out to those struggling for their lives.
Photo from Krem.com

Everything in its place...

Is your house like mine? Every winter when we are cooped up a little more I notice all the cupboards that need organizing or the wasted space in which we could free up more room and have every little thing in its place. Chris had some free time during Christmas and together we came up with some solutions to give us some much needed space and organization.

This project I had to tackle alone but it actually went pretty quick and easy. The boys room is a sailboat theme and I found this fabric and thought that would make cute organizing totes for the boys closet. I made them out of cereal boxes quick easy and cheap...they are even collapsable so when I don't want to use them under the bed they can go!!!

I'd like to say I made this beautiful shelf on the wall but I have to give credit to Chris. He made these in my parents garage in the freezing month of December what a good sport. I painted it but I had the luxury of doing that inside our house where it was warm (probably killed a few brain cells from the fumes but not as many as by always seeing the books in piles or tipped over on the book shelf). I love them and now (almost) all the books are where Kaden can see them when he wants to read a story!

I have to admit at first I wasn't down with this idea but a friend of ours in her kitchen had an on the wall spice rack. I was worried it would look to busy for the kitchen but actually love it! All the spices are right where I need them and I don't have to dig through the cupboards. We had this towel rack (yup towel rack) in the bathroom as a decoration. Chris hated that its sole purpose was to hold towels that were just for decoration. So a few weekends ago we went to home depot routered some boards painted and adhered them to the towel rack and wa la new spice rack.