Springtime

sT. pAtRicK's

We have a tradition where we make a leprechaun trap each year to see if we can catch a leprechaun. We attempted again this year, but once again he escaped. He did, however, drop some of his gold behind that Noah and Jax found, along with some of his footprints. Maybe we'll get him next year!

Behind

I'm a bit behind, I've been meaning to post since the middle of last month. We had a fun spring break in Utah! Since the boys and I left a little earlier than Ryan, I never got around to blogging while we were there. Here's a little glimpse.

Noah had a little party at preschool, so he and Jax chose to make little robots to give for their valentines this year, similar to last year's from family fun.

We had fun making a gazillion cookies, some for the bake sale and some for us to pig out on

I've never used stencils to decorate. I had a fun with these.

The boys are not picky eaters, they love crab, sushi, etc. I found crab on sale, so crab we enjoyed!

Jax chose to have a Snowman party all on his own and it turned out great!

The snowman pinata

We had a "snowball" (we used ping pong balls) toss and the kids all received a gold medal

Jax's favorite- white doughnuts. We made little snowmen out of them.

Cheeseballs. I love it.

We visited the gateway children's museum, it was great! We ran into a lot of people we haven't seen in a while.

Celebrating Great Gma Burt's bday @ McGrath's. You would never guess she's 82!

We woke up to leave Utah @ 4am. This is what I woke up to. :)

fiRsT bIrThdAy

Birthday boy!

Mmm...

Jax told us Collin wanted a hippopotamus birthday, hence Moto moto

To celebrate February birthdays we went with some friends to a fun place here in Omaha, much like Chucky Cheese, but with a little more to do and a lot cleaner too! :)

Plinka plink

This past weekend we got a piano. I'm so excited! I wish I would have listened to my mom a lot better when she begged and begged me to take lessons (she secretly wanted me to be a concert pianist:)). But no need for regret now that Noah and I are both going to start learning. Noah is so excited too! I wasn't going to start him until next year but since he has an amazing attention span and focus, I think he will do great! I love having a piano in our home and listening to Ryan play. I hope to play half as good as he does some day. :)

who woulda thunk

I LOVE this little guy.
I never would have guessed he would have RED hair
Ry tells me I'm spoiled b/c I wanted one of each and got it :)
Or that he would have a PEANUT allergy
scary ER experience over Christmas break
That he would have cute little funky TEETH
those bottom lefties are geminated/fused
And be this HAPPY and smiley all the time.

Brrr...

It is frigid here! I know we are not the only ones feeling it, with all these low temps everywhere. I must say, Collin's not too fond of it and neither am I. This morning it was -2, (not factoring the wind chill), and the high for Thursday is -1. We probably will become hermits for a while now, I'm torturing my little ones taking them out in the cold. Ryan went back to school today so we are back to the ol' routine. I really enjoyed our break and felt the spirit of our Savior so strongly during the holidays- I hope that I keep feeling it the same way the whole year through.