XOXO - Eric D

Happy Birthday Goose! Sometimes you check my blog and so this is really for you - the whole 34 years of you. I love you because you danced with my car door the first night I met you. I love you because you still hold true to your title "The Good Time Kid." I love you because you still tell the same old one-liners and stories that you've been telling for the last 8+ years and then look at me to see my reaction - yes, they're still funny - to me. I love how you find humor in EVERY SINGLE moment. I love you because your BOYS adore you, watch you, copy you and so sometimes it feels like there are four of you around here = me laughing a lot. I love you because when I whine you tell me exactly what I need to hear and not what I want to hear. I love you because you've worked hard for everything in your life and I like it that you prove me RIGHT - I married the greatest guy around! Happy Birthday ERIC D!


P.S. HOT!

Up too late...

I'm up late again...shopping online, browsing a few magazines, picking up the last few toys of the day. I've got a long, but not urgent list of things to do tomorrow and instead of getting some shut eye, I'm sitting in my cozy warm house (that I haven't left all day today) feeling extremely grateful for such a priveleged and LUCKY life. I'm not particulary sentimental - I throw out everything, I don't write long, heartfelt journal entries and I rarely cry (got that all out of my system years ago - think long, long awkward stage of Junior High). But lately I wish life would SLOW down so that I might be able to savor a few of my life's greatest joys - namely: Ethan, Drew and Ty.

Go Mitt!

Just a little plug for the best guy for the job...

Not even close to being free entertainment...

...but better than paying the cover for Johnny B's. Plus I now have pictures to show their future girlfriends and (only if absolutely necessary) blackmail.



This is General Grevious who apparently has four arms. We only have three lightsabers and so he had to figure out a way for laser beams to come out of his fingers. I'm guessing by his face that General Grevious is a bad guy. Totally "in-character."







Super Drew found the dress up bucket.



What exactly is he trying to get away with?


P.S. Never let your kid eat a Brazilian Nut on the way to Utah, in the middle of nowhere, without cell service unless you have a supersize bottle of Benadryl in your glovebox. Case in point:

Happy 30th Birthday Annette!

Bring on the HEAT!

I have never in my life been so excited for 100 degree weather. From this moment forward (okay from March forward) I will be tan, cool and relaxed...while my kids do cannon balls. We are really looking forward to summer.

How to Build a Swimming Pool

Step 1: Paint big blob on dead grass.



Step 2: Let it rain for three days straight - then let your kids play in this pool so they appreciate the real one.



Step 3: Bring in the heavy equipment and do some cool tricks like pop-a-wheelies and stuff. (Entertains small boys ages 2-4 for HOURS!)



Step 4: Oooh and Aaaah over big hole in your yard while trying to imagine less dustier days ahead.



Step 5: Plumbing and rebar and electrical work - which can't be easy. The rebar guy was really nice and listened to our kids scream for over an hour while we gave them haircuts on the back porch. Really nice, patient guy.



Step 6: Everything else...which will have to be posted later since this is as far as we've come.


Three weeks till completion...make your reservations now for Spring and Summer 2008!

Christmas was great blah, blah, blah

Here is the same old Christmas post that you have already read. Same great day, cuter kids (I get to say that because I'm their mom :)). Here's our pics to prove it...

Christmas Eve anticipation...who's excited?

Christmas Morning...waiting and waiting and waiting.... my job is to be the guard while Daddy gets the camera ready.

"Santa Rules!" - that's a direct quote by the way.

Yes that is one piece to a drum set. NO we did NOT buy it for our boys. Grandma Mimi did. Yes my ears are always ringing. Yes Ty has learned to sleep through drum practice.

Baby Ty is groWING (and drooling!) Happy first Christmas baby!

After Christmas we drove to UTAH to see Becky and Tim's new house, play in the snow and enjoy our old college town. We had soooo much fun despite the below freezing weather the ENTIRE time we were there!

Just before takeoff!

Breakfast with Charity & Tiffany and their families. So much fun! Thanks girls!

Between this and the drum set - look out Osmonds :)

Alas...she blogs!

I lied. I thought that if I posted that I would be blogging that night, that I might actually do it. But apparently I cannot be manipulated. Even by my own self. Nice try.

Blog That!

You'd never know that on my LLLLLOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG list of things to do and do better in 2008 is to blog regularly. (Also on the list is going to the gym, reading my scriptures and keeping up on the laundry.) Good thing I have all of 2008 to work on these things. But really, I'm going to blog TONIGHT when the kids go to bed. Barring any unforeseen messes, disasters or perpetually closing eyelids. You never know.