judd's birthday

My mom came up this last week and we got to do some fun things together...like manicures and take the boys to see baby animals and things like that. But an AWSOME thing she did for me, is she bought me all the stuff I would need for canning! And she bought some apples and we canned apple pie filling that we made from scratch!!! It was so fun! and what a process, but in the end, these beautiful Jars made it all worth it!!! It will be SO benificial b/c we have TWO apple trees that grow delicious apples, and we have rasberry bushes, and cherry trees and plum tree's too!! So I will be making jelly and canning apples all summer and fall!!!! I can't wait!

THese are my boys! They are outside any second of the day that it's not snowing, or raining. We had ONE day of 65 the rest have been high 40's, but with the wind, well, you just don't want to go outside. On one of the nicer days, Jackson said, "can you get my wagon?" So Judd pulled the wagon out and Jackson loved pulling Porter around the yard!

This is Judd's little birthday party we had. My mom was here for this too, so she made us dinner, that was nice! And we got cupcakes from the cocoa bean which are HEAVENLY!!!

We are going to have another party, I think when Judd's mom is in town, and his brother was out of town too, so more pics to come later!

And this is Judd in his scout uniform! He has the 11 year old scouts and I thought it would be funny to put this picture on here, even if he thinks it's not funny =O)

Ladybugs!

SO, for the last 3 weeks or so we have been find -I mean the boys, have been finding ladybugs in our house...at first I think it was just the same one they kept refinding it. But now I am convinced there are several! Spring is coming. Porter LOVES the bugs, so does Jackson, but Porter is so fun to see he giggles and squeals and loves to have them crawl on him. It's nice for me, A single ladybug can entertain Porter for 5 whole minutes!



We have been putting the ladybugs in the vegetables we have been starting. Porter has one on his finger, and you can tell he is excited, hehe. We know there are hopefuly no aphids on these leaves for the ladybugs to eat. But I have no where else to put them.

I opened a couple bags of beans into a cardboard box and the boys play with them every now and then...it's a "special activity" But it has kept us sane through the winter months...

We have had the beans about two months now....maybe I'll try planting them outside in a few weeks...don't worry, we wont eat them!
But they LOVE to put their hands in the beans and scoop them with measuring cups and hide their little toys in them....? I don't know how they think of these things...but it's what we have I guess, until we get a sandbox!

I know, it's been a long time

It's been a while and I have been just doing the same ole same ole with the kids...yeah, we mix it up a bit, Artic Circle for lunch, then some days McDonalds. We also play with play dough, color, watch tons of movies, and the boys wrestle like crazy!!! SOOOO when they go to sleep (Porter is on a one-nap-a-day- schedule...finally!) I get to play. hehehe
So this, turns into...

this...

and I made this one too....=o)


And now I am stuck!!! should I make the blue run diagonal????

Or, Straight up and down?????

I just don't know what to do? Tell me what you think...The flowers are diagonal one way, or straight the other....I just can't decide, What do you think?
When the blue runs diagonal the quilt is bigger...but that doesn't matter b/c either way I'm going to have to add borders to make it fit a king size bed!

awfuls

ME: Jackson, what do you want for breakfast?
Me: Do you want some waffles?

JACKSON: YES! I want some awfuls!

Update

Well, as some of you don't know it is snow days up here in Rexburg. The temperature has been about 9 or 10 degrees, but the news says it feels like -31 after windchill. YEAH, I KNOW! So we have been cooped up inside by the fire, slowly going crazy!! Well, today it was 30 above and we decided to whip outside to build a snow man! We had a lot of fun!
Jackson and Porter in their snow gear...Jackson is singing his cares away!

Porter Baby!

Our snowman! Porter was outside for a good 20minutes before he decided he'd had enough! I just took him in and let him stand up in our BIG window and watch us finish up the snowman...It was really cute so see Porter poking his head over the window seal to watch Jackson and I finish our snowman.

Jackson had a lot of fun. He did alot of the work, He's gotten to be a pretty good snowman builder! He loved it when I put the scarf on the snowman!

Last weekend we had the cousins up from Nevada! Jackson got to spend some good quality time with Triston, they are really good boys!

And Porter loved having someone smaller than him around! Porter and Weston!

Thanks Jack and Jenay for coming up to see us! We can't wait to see you again!

Jackon's Birthday

Jackson turned THREE years old. January 20th. We celebrated his birthday on the actual day but I am just barely posting it! We had a BIG spaghetti dinner with grandma and grandpa and Jenny and Leo. (Juston and Nicole were in the hospital with their new little baby) But we had a lot of fun!
A big bite of cake!
Jackson also got a mini basketball from grandma and grandpa and a hoop to go with it, from his other Grandma and Grandpa, Which BOTH the boys love to play with!

Jackson also got a flute, which Porter loves to play with
The great, the wonderful, the "I've been waiting since before christmas" IRONMAN!! I was SO excited for him to open this present, I thought it was going to be this big HURRAH, I got the video camera out, and he opened it and said..oh, ironman. And just stared at it....it was very anticlimatic


Jackson got "How to Train your Dragon" he LOVES this movie, we have rented it 6 times from redbox... so I thought it was time to buy it (and we have watched it at least 6 times since)scroll down for more birthday!

Jackson's Birthday!!

YEAH!! A family pictures, they are rare and you can see why, haha! Happy Birthday Jackson!!

I made him an Ironman Cake and he was pretty dang excited over it. I think he was more excited about the ironman cake than he was the ironman toy! It was an Ice Cream cake I made from scratch and I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out. Just as good as Baskin Robbins! (not as pretty though)


Now last year for his birthday breakfast I made him Mickey Mouse pancakes, so I thought, HEY why not make it a tradition?!?! So I had a lot of fun making these for Jackson.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON! I love my little boy!