Double Date

We went on our first REAL date since having Kaiden last night. We've been out, but never for this long before, and it was really nice. We had plans to hang out with Luca and Live, and decided rather than hang out at the house with the little boys, we should all go out instead. Zander and I don't get out to movies very often, and Despicable Me looked pretty darn funny, so we all headed down to Provo to go see it. It was hilarious! I hadn't seen any previews so I went into it blind and with no expectations, and was pleasantly surprised. Really good, funny movie with a feel good ending that's not overboard on the cheesiness.


After the movie we headed down to Red Robin. I never ate at that place until I met Zander, and we go every 6 months or more now. The more I eat there the more I'm liking it, and finding more items on the menu that I like. Last night I got the Bruschetta Chicken Sandwich and it was AMAZING. Everything I wanted in a chicken sandwich.


After gorging ourselves on burgers and bottomless steak fries, Z and I went to go pick up the boys so we could get them home to bed. Luca and Live came over to the house a little while later and we all shot each other a bunch. Ok, really we just shot Zander a lot. He ended up being the Sheriff every game I think.


All in all a fantastic night with fantastic friends.

Minutes Old

I just discovered that we had these pictures when I plugged the camera in today. I didn't know we had them. I was kind of busy being sewn back together during all of this and wasn't too aware of what else was going on. But isn't he cute all squashy and newborn looking?

Happy Birthday Noah!

I know, his birthday was over 2 months ago. But better late than never.

Noah's birthday was really low key this year. We had a few people over to have hot dogs, open presents, and of course, eat some cake as well.

My Boys

Aren't they adorable together?

We may not have a swimming pool...

...but we have a bucket!

Happy Face

Guess who learned how to smile?

Dinosaurs...... er trains

Since Thanksgiving Point is running their yearly $2 Tuesday campaign right now, we thought it would be fun to take the boys to the dinosaur museum up there. All morning we were talking about it as we got a bag packed, shoes on, and loaded into the car. We got up there and quickly realized we weren't the only ones with this brilliant idea. Evidently EVERYONE in the valley wanted to go today too. The line went halfway around the building, and it's not a small building either. So rather than wait in Disneyland length lines to see something we can go to pretty much whenever we want, we decided to bail on our plans.I remembered that there was a little train station something on state street in Lehi, and decided we should go see what it actually is. I've gone past it a bunch of times and always been curious. Turns out that it isn't much. There's a small museum on railroads, which was closed, and a few train cars on the tracks behind the building. The building itself was built in the 1800's and is now under the guardianship of the Lehi historical foundation.


It wasn't much, but Noah, who is obsessed with trains right now, thought it was cool to be able to touch the train cars.

Horses!

Last night we went to my Uncle Doug's house for a bbq cookout and horse riding type adventure. The kids did surprisingly well on the "long" ride to their house in Syracuse, Kaiden actually slept for most of it which is an achievement for a baby who hates the car as much as he did. When we got there Noah very proudly informed us "I found that house!" Originally I thought that it was just going to be my siblings and parents up there, but it was a much bigger deal. All of Doug's kids were there, as well as my Aunt Sonia and cousin Rob that are here for a bit from Alaska. It's been a LOOOONG time since I went to any extended family function like this, and it really was nice to see some of the family.

The highlight of the evening was of course riding the horses. Granted we were just in the small corral, but still, a horse is a horse (insert Mr. Ed theme song) and I'll take what I can get. Doug has Tennessee walking horses. Their footfall pattern is different than most horses and when you get them into their gait it's a very unexpectedly smooth ride. Z went out and rode Rose before all the kids were done eating. After very patiently waiting his turn Noah got to ride up on top of Baron. I got on Baron a little later. Noah also got to help feed the chickens with his grandma. Highlight of his little life.

An Update

Kaiden is asleep, and Noah is contentedly sitting on my lap watching Caillou via Netflix online (yay for dual monitor), so I thought I'd write up a bit about what's going on lately....and I'm drawing a blank. Is that sad? Life has been really busy, but I suddenly don't know what we've been so busy with. Let's try this format and see what I can come up with.

Kaiden

This 'little' kid is getting to be a lot of fun. He's out of the "baby coma" phase and is now cooing, smiling, and laughing. We also started him on medication for acid reflux (Prevacid) about 2 weeks ago, and it has made a huge difference in his little life. Before we started the medication he just seemed miserable all the time, and cried accordingly. He's a lot more pleasant now, and sleeps a lot better in the day as well. For the most part he does really well sleeping at night. I think he's in a growth spurt right now, so nights have been a bit rough due to insatiable hunger, but most nights he goes 6ish hours sleeping.

Noah

We're officially potty training Noah starting today. We've had him sit on the potty every night before bed for about 4 months now, and he pees 95% of the time. So far today he's been on the potty I think four times and peed each time. I'm really optimistic at this point on the potty training. He adjusts really well to changes, and really hates being dirty or messy. Ask me again in a few weeks how this is going and hopefully it'll still be optimistic.

This kid really is hilarious. I'm constantly laughing at the things he says and does. He's a total spaz and learning things ridiculously fast. We took him to the aquarium a couple weekends ago and he loved it. Everything except for the bright green tree frogs. They scared him for some reason. We all liked it enough though that we bought season passes, so if anyone ever wants to go to the aquarium, we'll glad take you with us!

Zander

He'll be officially done with this semester as of this Wednesday. We're really really excited for that. It'll be nice to have a bit of a break from school for a few weeks before his FINAL SEMESTER starts up this fall. He's also looking for a new job, which will be a fun new adventure to get into. So if anyone knows a good company that's looking for an awesome front end/UI designer, let us know!

Emily

When I think about my life, it sounds really boring. There's not a lot of glory in staying home taking care of two boys all the time, but honestly, I'm really happy with my life. I'm feeling normal again after having a baby, and we're really getting into a good schedule. I have my days of course, but for the most part, I'm really very happy with my life and where I'm at.

Noah & Eva Meet Cupcakes

CUPCAKES!!!!

Eva was excited. Noah dove right in.

And made a huge mess of his face

Happy children

For some reason they decided to eat their toes too

When the cupcakes was gone, we had to wash hands, faces, and feet.

and yes, this post was re-done about four times