Some days...

...these boys fight like crazy!

But then there are moments like these that I love...

Recent stuff...

It seems like it's been a long time since I've done a normal post (whatever that is)...so anyway here are some things that have been going on around here...

Aunt Kelli has been staying with us and it is so nice to have her here. We all love it! Especially Ashton and Gunnar. They beg me to go in and wake her up each morning. I try to hold them off till 9:00. She is so helpful with them and with everything else we have going on all the time.

Ashton has been in gymnastics for about 6 weeks now. He goes once a week for an hour and loves every minute of it. I have yet to get any good pictures of him doing it, but I'll keep trying.

It's so fun to see him getting so excited about it!
It will be intersting to see if he likes soccer and T-Ball as much...

The other day he looked so cute dressed for school, I had to take a bunch of pictures of him. Honestly 95 % of the time we see him in his various pairs of pajamas, so it's refreshing (and surprising) to see him in cute clothes! He literally gets dressed 5 minutes before we have to go somewhere (not very willingly!) and then before I can blink when we get home, he's back into his pajamas! I don't think Lars ever sees him in clothes except for church or if we go out to eat on the weekends! Love the pajamas Ashton, but you sure did look handsome this day in your clothes ;)

Gunnar on the other hand just wants to be naked!

He has learned so much earlier than Ashton did how to get undressed! And he just wants to stay that way. He's been taking his diaper off and going into the bathroom and throwing it in the garbage, getting up on the potty and peeing lots of times this week. I guess I should be excited and really start working with him, but I'm just not ready for potty training again yet! He seems too little to me still, but I know I should try. He's doing really well, but I have a feeling he is going to be so much harder than Ashton. He is one stubborn little guy!

He will be 2 on Sunday and boy is he acting like a 2 year old!

Here is one of his latest injuries...

(he looks like a little piggy..haha!) Not nearly as bad as Ashton's split chin, but it was a good little cut. Aunt Kelli the nurse advised us that it wasn't bad enough to go in for stitches. And it's healing up really good now.

He sure does keep us laughing all day... The other night while Lars was out of town fishing, we had Brianne and the boys over for dinner. I just grilled some hotdogs (yes I figured out how to use the grill...okay the neighbor helped me, but I did it!) Anyway Gunnar ate all of his and then I hear him asking me for

"more hot-diggity-dog Mommy." He cracks me up!

I love all of the cute funny things he is saying right now and the way he talks. I love it when he comes up to me and says "What you dooney (doing) Mommy?" And I think it's so funny that he calls Grandma "Glamma". She says it's because she's so glamorous :). Aunt Kelli is Aunt Telli.

He still most of the time calls Ashton Aggie, but a few weeks ago he actually called him Ashton and I have to admit it kind of made me sad!

Which reminds me, we got Ashton all registered for kindergarten last week. He did great on the little readiness test and they said he is all ready to go. This week he (on his own) has started sounding out words and gets so excited when he gets one right! Hard to believe he will be starting to read!

Oh and I guess I never posted pictures of Gunnar's new crib tent... That has been heaven by the way. It really just gives me peace of mind that he's not going to hurt himself trying to get out! And after the initial loving it, then hating being in it (realizing that he couldn't get out)...he doesn't mind it at all. Money well-spent!

And I can't forget these pictures from St. Patrick's Day. Ashton's little friend Jace called that morning wanting to know if Ashton wanted to get his hair spray-painted green with him for school. They had some extra green spray paint left over from Halloween...well Ashton's favorite color is green, so he was totally excited for me to do it. And I think it turned out so cute! His teachers loved it too!

Gunnar was napping when I did it, but when we went and picked him up from school, he took one look at Ashton's hair and said "I want green hair!", so I sprayed a little on his when we got home......but then he wouldn't cooperate for any pictures.

Other than that we have had a few nice days, so they boys have already been enjoying the swings and sandbox and I think they'd prefer to be outside all day.Gunnar has learned how to blow bubbles and ride his little scooter he got for Christmas... Too bad it's winter-ish again today.

I'm praying for nice weather this weekend so that on Sunday we can possibly move Gunnar's birthday party outside.

Here's the invitation I made for it...
I guess that's all for now!

little by little...

I'm getting caught up on my scrapbooking...

I took off for the weekend and stayed with my friend Mandy in Idaho Falls. We scrapbooked all day on Saturday and I was able to get 21 more pages done! As time goes by I notice that my pages get more and more simple...I'm kind of in a "get as many pages done as possible mode", just so I can feel like at some point I will be caught up.

Even though I realize now that I probably never will be!

Oh well...we had a fun weekend. It was a nice little getaway for me! Lars stayed home with the boys and besides Gunnar being a little sick, I think they had fun too.

Look below to see some of the pages I got done...

Scrapbook pages slideshow..

Happy Birthday...

To my two cute cousins Ashley and Beth! Hope you two had a great day! Love ya :)

What do you think?

Everyone always says that Gunnar looks just like Lars and people say that Ashton looks like me. I do agree in some ways...obviously Gunnar has red hair & fair skin like Lars and Ashton has my skin tone and I think my smile. But my Mom always thinks totally opposite and says she thinks Gunnar looks a lot like me and thinks Ashton looks just like Lars.

Anyway she showed me this picture of me (when I was 3 or 4) in her wallet, next to the one of Gunnar.

I do see a resemblance now!

What do you think?

What happens in Vegas...

Stays in Vegas.
Or ends up on my blog...

So about 4 or 5 months ago we started talking about what we wanted to do for our big 10 year anniversary. We started out with big ideas, but then it just kept getting closer and closer and we kept putting off planning anything. We'd asked Lars' parents back in November I think if they would be willing to watch the boys for a few days while we went somewhere. They of course said yes and Aunt Shelley offered to help out as well. Well as it got closer Gunnar just seemed to be getting more and more attached to me, so we just kept trying to decide if we should even go anywhere. We really just wanted to go somewhere warmer than here (not hard, I know) and finally decided that we'd rather be within a fairly short driving distance than have flown somewhere, just in case we needed to get back... so we decided on Vegas. After the 3 hour drive to Price, it was just about 6 hours to Vegas. So we left on Sunday to go to Price.

(entertaining the boys on the way...)...then we stayed 2 nights there with the boys, then Lars and I drove to Vegas on Tuesday. It was so hard to leave. Gunnar cried and screamed reaching for me and screaming "MOMMY!" as we walked out. I couldn't help but cry with him. I felt so bad! I knew he would be fine in a little while, but it was so hard to walk away from him like that. Ashton gave us a hug and kiss and said bye without a second look.

I think we called to check in on them about 5 times every day! Gunnar mostly just had a hard time in the morning and a little at night, but was fine during the day when he was entertained. They said in the mornings he would say

"I WANT MY MOMMY RIGHT NOW!" Poor little guy :(

I sure missed this little face... I'm glad he missed me too :)

Anyway we had a fun trip.

We stayed at Bally's which is just about in the middle of the strip (right across the street from Bellagio).

Tuesday when we got there, we checked in, then walked down the strip and found this italian restaurant called Maggiano's that Lars had heard good things about. It was yummy!

Then we caught the Treasure Island show on our way walking back to our hotel. That night I went to bed early while Lars played poker at our casino. One of the things I was most excited about on this trip was sleeping, so I had to take advantage of that!

Wednesday we got up late and found our way to this restaurant called... Lars saw it on Food Network and really wanted to check it out.

Look at his meal! It was huge!

After we ate we walked around a little more, then actually went back to our room and had a nap because we knew we'd be up late that night. We had tickets to the 10:00 pm showing of "O" at Bellagio. It's one of the Cirque Du Soleil shows. Check out the little video here.

My friend Annilee (who I've known for about 14 years, but just recently in the past year or so got back in touch with through blogging & facebook!) lives in Vegas and hooked us up with tickets. She and a friend met us for dinner that night, then we all went to the show. It was amazing! Really unbelievable what the acrobats can do. It made me want to come home and stretch! Thanks again Annilee...it was SO fun to see you after all these years :)

I only wish I hadn't chosen to wear my heels that night. We walked so much and my poor feet were killing me. Enough so that I took my shoes off and walked barefoot on the disgusting Vegas sidewalks most of the way back to our hotel!! Gross I know, but I had to choose between gross and pain.

Thursday we had a really fun day...We just ate in one of the restaurants at our hotel for breakfast, then Lars played in a poker tournament and won! It got down to the final two (out of 23) so he and the other guy decided to chop the pot and each won $375!

Way to go hun!

After that we went to the Price is Right show that was at our hotel. It was pretty fun actually. We didn't get called up or I guess I should say down, but it was fun to watch. Anyone remember this guy from that old gameshow "Supermarket Sweep"? His name is David Ruprecht ...I actually do remember him...anyway he was our host. Kind of funny! Here's the cheesey picture they took of us on our way in!

After that we went and ate at PF Changs down the street, then got ready to go to another show. That night we went and saw Terry Fator at the Mirage. He's the singing ventriloquist that won America's Got Talent in 2007. I remember seeing him on there and also on Oprah. Anyway he was awesome! I really would tell anyone going to Vegas to definitely go see him. We laughed the entire time! So funny and entertaining! We even got to meet him afterwards...it was a fun night!

Friday was our anniversary and our last day there. We didn't have a whole lot planned, so we just went to a late breakfast again, then drove over to the outlet stores and shopped for awhile, then came back to our hotel and hung out. Then walked down the strip for awhile and went to M&M's World......the MGM and went and watched the "Dueling Pianos" at NewYork NewYork. We had been hearing about it and it was fun to watch. Two guys playing pianos and singing in a little bar...taking requests and pretty much being able to play anything anyone requested.
Then after walking clear back to our hotel (we did A LOT of walking!). We got ready for dinner and not feeling like walking anymore we ate at another one of the restaurants in our hotel and it was actually really good.

We had yummy fish tacos!

Oh I forgot to mention that it was Nascar weekend in Vegas so on Thursday and Friday it got really packed everywhere. We got to see the Nascar semis parade down the strip. It's amazing how big of a deal Nascar is! One of the drivers...Kurt Busch (no clue who he is) was signing autographs in our hotel. The line was forever long.

Anyway after dinner we hung out in our casino for awhile and I put $20 in a 25 cent slot machine and after about 5 minutes I won $28! Lars was laughing so hard at how fast I pushed the CASH OUT button! Hey I wanted to go home and say I won something!

So after walking away from that, he sat down and played poker for a few hours, so I sat and watched and made friends with some people at the table. It was a fun night. I finally talked Lars into leaving so we could get some sleep before we had to drive back to Price on Saturday.

So we had a really fun 10th anniversary trip.

It was definitely bittersweet though...kind of hard to celebrate knowing what my sister is going through right now. I thought about you and prayed for you a lot Kelli. Looking forward to seeing you soon :)

As for the boys...they had fun with everyone in Price, but they sure were happy to see us when we got back. I could hardly wait to grab them and hug them! Fun to have a break, but so hard to be away from them.

Anyway thank you Nana, Papa, Shelley, Mat, Ali and Hunter for everything! We really appreciate you :)