crazy crazy

Things here are going crazy. We've been sick with more than our fair share of illness for the last 3 weeks. Today it the first day in a LONG time that everyone seems to be feeling healthy.

Tomorrow I am FINALLY taking Kate in to get a Physical Therapy evaluation. I am really interested to see what they have to say. She is officially 11 months old and still isn't crawling or scooting. She still won't bare any weight on her legs and freaks out when we put her on her hands and knees. I'll be sure to update tomorrow night with what they find out...if any thing.

For the good new, the weather is starting to get nicer. It was hot (95) on Monday but is back to the upper 60's today with a lot of wind. With all the good weather comes the nasty mosquitoes. We're going to have to call the city and have them come out and spray....It's really bad at our house, swarms so thick that you can sit on the couch in the living room and watch the swarm fly back and forth across the back yard. Yuck!

Devon is REALLY busy with work. It's unbelievable and a true blessing. He seriously has more to do then hours in the day. He has been able to land some big contracts and they have been giving him more work than his crew can handle...plus he still has other jobs coming in, so he has started to look for people to start a second crew. His business partner has jumped on board full time and has been a great help to Devon. He is catching on quickly and although there is a lot to learn he seems to be a natural at dealing with the plants and seeing the end product in his head. It has been great for Devon to have someone to bounce his ideas off of. But, even with Levi's help, he is still easily gone 12 hours a day then comes home and does office work for at LEAST another 2 hours. It helps a little that it's staying light outside longer, the evenings seem to zip by faster for some reason and going out with the kids makes the days also fly by.

That's about all the news for now...oh other than Austin...he's being good and for the most part just being the same funny, jabbering little boy but to my surprise he knows and can recognize - in any order about 20 of the 26 letters of the alphabet!! He also know what noises most of them make! He will be 2.5 at the end of the month and I haven't even been working on them with him. He watches PBS in the mornings when Kate naps, and sometime in the evening after baths he'll watch "The Letter Factory" so when he started pointing out letters to me and I sad down and started asking him what the different letters were that I was drawing and he knew almost all of them it blew me away!! So, three cheers for Austin Hip Hip Horray!

Up and running

After what to me seems like forever I have finally opened my new etsy store!!! I have posted some fun vinyl graphics and hope you stop by if you get a minute. Right now I am offering free shipping to the first 10 sales!! Come check us out, just click HERE

Austin

I've taken a lot of pictures lately but haven't been so good at posting. Here are some pictures of Austin having fun with friends. Hopefully more will come as the weather keeps getting warmer.

Easter

Easter this year was great! It was fun because Austin was so excited to find Easter eggs. I think this was the first holiday he kind of understood...or at least understood that there was something fun to get all excited about. He even go so excited and caught up in the fun that he had his first accident in his pants in public....oops! Good thing it was at the end of the activity and we were outside!
Saturday morning we had a fun ward activity at a ward members home. We had strawberry and whipped cream topped pancakes YUM! Then the kids had a fun Easter egg hunt with more Easter eggs than I have ever seen in person. The kids had a blast, the weather was nice and everyone seemed to have a great time. It was nice to be able to sit and chat with friends and let the kids go play.
Sunday we had Easter baskets for the kids and had a few treats hidden around the living room. Church was at 9:00 so we did a quick "Easter morning" then headed off to church where we had a truly wonderful Easter Sunday. The speakers were amazing and the spirit was very strong in all our meetings. It was perfect. After we got home everyone took a nap while dinner was cooking then at 4:00 we packed up dinner and took it over to a friends house. We currently don't have a real dinning room table so we couldn't do dinner at our house so we brought dinner to theirs, it worked out wonderful. It was full Easter meal with a spiral honey roasted ham, corn, green beans, a wonderful potato dish, Rhodes rolls, and of course Jello. For dessert we had raspberry pie and I think we were all so stuffed we couldn't move. We had so much fun with our friends and the kids were being so good playing with each other we even had time to learn and play a new game. We may have even had time to play it twice but Devon was getting ready to go to Portland, Oregon on Monday and he still had to get some things together so we had to go. It was a wonderful evening and I'm glad that we got a "real" Easter dinner and had friends to share it with. Oh yeah, and on Sunday afternoon it was such a beautiful day that I took Kate outside and we had a mini photo shoot. It was a lot of fun.
Here are pictures from our wonderful weekend....oh and some of the play date we had with our friends making Easter Eggs.

Photo shoot gone photo shop!

Kate's Easter Basket

Austin's Easter Basket

This is how Kate usually is if I am not holding her. I seriously have to hold her all the time....oh to be so loved.

Just Kate

Kate and her rediculous front teeth LOL Austin "hunting" for eggs

I think the strawberries must have been sour. LOL

Our Friends Rachelle, Katie and Maddox

Austin was such a good helper.

Things That Make Me Happy

Austin and Kate laughing at each other in the back seat of the car.
Austin saying his own prayer (the other day I gave him some crackers for a snack. I saw him walk into the kitchen put them down on his little table then fold his arms and bless them before he ate them LOL)
Austin and Kate playing together in the tub.
Devon getting busy with work.
Family
Sisters
MSN
Cheap Airline Flights
The fact that any time we drive anywhere we can see: cows, sheep, horses, chickens, a llama, a buffalo, swans, ducks and goats.
Driving in the car and having Austin telling me everything that we pass...mommy bus, mommy tractor, mommy truck, mommy sheep....
Kate and Austin both sleeping through the night.
My calling
Being able to stay at home
Warm and Sunny spring days
Baby animals
Austin singing

There are many other things that I am grateful for, but these are the things that at the thought of them bring a smile to my face.

Create

I hope that this is able to uplift, inspire and give hope to you like it has to me.

Check it Out

Hey all! I finally and officially have my Vinyl Blog up and running. The name I decided on was Chickadee Vinyl. But Love Letters, submitted by Jill, was a close second. To check things out on my blog visit me at my Chickadee site. I don't have my new Etsy store up yet but it will be up by the end of the week. Wish me luck.