Baby Tattoos...

These pictures were from awhile ago, but I came across them and remembered that back when I took them I had wanted to post them. It was a day that we had been inside all day and I was trying to find something to do to entertain Ashton & Gunnar before dinner. So I found Ashton's fake tattoos from his Christmas stocking and put a few on each of them. They were just too cute on Gunnar and it was funny to me that right after I put them on him he immediately went over and grabbed this red car and pushed it all over the floor for about half an hour while making the car sound effects that I swear are built in to all little boys!

Don't worry the tattoos washed right off in the bath the next day.

Vroom Vroom!

First Swimming Lessons...

We never did get around to putting Ashton in swimming lessons last summer, so I decided to get him in the beginning session this spring. We're trying it out at Mountain Crest and so far it's going good. I like that it goes for 4 weeks and he just goes 2 days a week for 35 minutes. Assmuming he passes on to level 2 we'll probably put him in the next session too or maybe later this summer.

(Even though he informed me that he doesn't really need to take lessons since he

"already knows how to swim.")

He couldn't stop smiling when his teacher first took him out in the water...

But then she had him try to dunk his head under and he sucked in a bunch of water...oops! He cried for awhile but then he was fine.Happy again waiting for his next turn with his teacher Elizabeth (easy name for me to remember Beth!)

Visitors...

The past couple of weeks we have had some family come to visit us and it has been lots of fun! Especially for Ashton and Gunnar...they love to see new people other than Mommy and Daddy.
First my little brother Jordan stopped by for an afternoon on his way back to Missoula from Evanston. Long enough to get his hair cut and play with the boys for a little while. Ashton LOVES it when he comes...but Jordan tends to always be a little behind schedule so if he says he's going to get to our house sometime in the morning, he usually actually arrives in the afternoon, so I get to hear from Ashton over and over again "When is Uncle Jordan EVER going to get here???" Then when he finally does he can't stop smiling. It was fun to see you Jordan!

Then last week my sister Kelli and her fiance' Jimmy came to see us and stayed a couple nights on their way from Farmington, New Mexico to Boise, Idaho. They are both traveling nurses and are going there for their next job.

It will be nice to have them closer so we can try to see them more often. Ashton and Gunnar both loved having them here too.
It was also Grandparents week at Ashton's school last week so my Mom and step-dad came down on Tuesday to spend the day with him at school.

They were only going to stay for about an hour, but Ashton didn't want them to leave so they stayed the whole time. Sounds like they had a lot of fun and of course Ashton loved having them there! A lot of times Grandpa Harry has to work on weekends when we plan things so it was nice that this was something that was during the week that he had a day off for and could come to.

Walking for real now...

After Gunnar took those first steps about a month ago, he still didn't really care about walking too much. He would take a few steps here and there, but would mostly rather crawl still. I think since he was sick for a couple weeks he just kind of forgot about it. But then while we were in Price he stood up by himself (without holding onto anything) for the first time and after he figured that out and practiced it a bunch he really started walking a lot last week and now he's getting pretty fast and it is so stinkin' cute! I love it! I love how proud of himself he is and I just love how he looks so small and wobbly still. Another stage that goes way too fast. I love these pictures from a few days ago.

He just looked so cute that day and was having so much fun practicing his new skill!

Another fun scrapbook weekend...

My longtime friend Mandy (we go back to 1st grade!) lives in Idaho Falls and had an all day scrapbook day there on Saturday. So I went and stayed with her Friday night then stayed again Saturday night after scrapbooking all day that day. I got 18 more pages done! I had gotten all organized a couple nights last week, so I had my pages all ready to go and it was fun to use Mandy's stuff.

I always love the drive to Idaho Falls...it's so pretty and such a peaceful drive by myself. It flies by every time. I hadn't seen Mandy's little boy Dylan in almost 2 years, so it was fun to play with him and see how much he's changed since then. What a little cutie...such a mischievious look in his eyes all the time!

Too bad I forgot to even take 1 picture while I was there!

(so unlike me I know)

I did take pictures of all of my pages when I got home though.

Here are some of them...

Lars had fun with the boys again going to the fun park and the park at the school. It was such a beautiful weekend, I think they were outside for most of it. Oh and don't worry he'll get his guys weekend starting on Thursday. He and some of his long time friends are going on their annual fishing trip this weekend and he also got out Sunday when I got home to fish up Logan Canyon. It was a way fun weekend for me...I'm glad we can both get out once in awhile to spend some time doing our hobbies! Oh and this time when I got home Ashton ran to me and jumped into my arms saying I missed you Mommy! I love you! And Gunnar hugged me off and on for about the first hour. Fun to be away, but I sure love to come home to my boys! I missed them too.

Cute preschool stuff...

I've been meaning to post these few pictures from a couple weeks ago when Ashton's preschool class was learning about baby chicks and got to have a couple in their class for the week. First they got to see the eggs under the lights...

...then when they went back a couple days later they got to see (and hold) the cute new little chicks after they had hatched. It was Tallie's day to drive Ashton and Jace so she went in and got a few pictures of them. Thanks Tal!

Especially for this one...

I love it!!!

Both the look on Ashton's face and on the poor little chick's whose head looks like it's about to be popped off! Too funny!

Yesterday when it was my turn to pick them up, they were so excited because they'd made these cute stick horses. They rode them all around the garage when we got home (since it was so rainy outside!)

They sure get to do some fun stuff at their little school!

Easter Weekend...

Like I said in my last post we went to Price for the weekend. We got out of here around 1:30 on Thursday and actually made it the whole 3 hours without stopping! It was the most peaceful trip I think we've had so far with both of our kids. Gunnar (of course feeling horrible) slept for over 2 hours of it and Ashton watched Bolt, then just hung out the rest of the way with hardly any whining! We mostly went to see Lars' Mom since she broke her leg and had surgery the week before last. She's doing well, it's just still hard for her to get around at this point. She can use a walker and wheel chair then eventually crutches. I think she enjoyed having us all there to take her mind off of itOn Friday we went over to Lars' sister's in-laws and all the kids colored Easter eggs and had pizza...Then the rest of the day Ashton played and played and played with his cousins Ali and Hunter outside at Nana and Papa's.

It is heaven for him there...he LOVES his cousins!

Here they are playing a wicked game of tetherball...

Then playing in the little fort they always make outside..Gunnar still wasn't feeling very well with his rash, so he was pretty attached to me all weekend. Saturday it rained pretty much all day so we just lazed around the house and Ashton played inside with his cousins all day. That night we gave him an Easter present from us...this fun game called "Flippin' Frogs" (thanks for recommending it Tallie!) so that he could play it with his cousins before we left. It was lots of fun! Even for the adults. Kind of addictive!

I love this picture of Ashton...he was getting so mad at first because he couldn't get his frogs to stick on the tree!

Hee Hee! (classic Ashton!) The whole point is to flip as many of your frogs as you can onto the branches of this tree before it closes up and whoever ends up with the most frogs still hanging on wins.

Simple but so fun!

Yesterday we got up and the boys found their Easter buckets with all their goods in them...Ashton was so excited to find his filled with Toy Story 2, swimming goggles, ...a Buzz lightyear camera, a little lantern (which already doesn't work...

I better talk to the Easter Bunny about shopping at the dollar store!)...and lots of other fun Easter stuff! Gunnar had fun digging stuff out of his too......and he loved his goggles! Too funny!

The Easter Bunny found these cute buckets at Hobby Lobby and had so much fun personalizing them!!!

Thanks to my great neighbor Carrie and her vinyl lettering machine! Love how they turned out! So fun!

After all that excitement we got ready and went to church. Always an adventure. We had to show up about 20 minutes early to get a seat, so by the time church was about half over we had two very squirmy whiny boys on our hands.

Gunnar was cute the first half though loudly saying "Hi" to everyone around us about 17 times!

It's been fun this year teaching Ashton about why we celebrate Easter (besides the Easter Bunny and Egg hunts) and fun to see him understand more and ask all sorts of questions.

After church we went back to Nana and Papa's and packed up our stuff, ate lunch and Ashton got to play a little longer with his cousins. Then we left around 1:00 and had another mostly peaceful drive home! Lars tried to stop off at Sportsman's Warehouse in Riverdale not realizing it would be closed on Easter...(darn!). So we got right back on the freeway and made it in 3 hours again. So nice!

Our happy travelers...It was a fun weekend!

When we got in the house Ashton found that the Easter Bunny had made a quick stop at our house while we were gone to hide a few eggs. He was a little disappointed they all had the same boring thing in them and kept asking why they did.

Geez...the Easter Bunny was busy being crafty with the buckets alright????