Ouch

This is what happens when you leave your wife at home with two cranky kids and an overflowing toilet and go enjoy a powder day!  Just kidding.  There really isn't anything funny about knee surgery to replace the ACL and repair the meniscus.  Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.  They used a cadaver ligament, so we have been joking about the zombie knee!  RIP to whomever donated the part.

More odds and ends

I'm so excited it's yard time!  Iris loves the swing and Miles loves the sandbox.  It's a nice change of scenery from the living room.  Of course, the forecast is for snow tonight, but that's spring in Utah for you!

And a video just for fun...

This is what she likes to do inside the house these days.  Every book gets yanked off the shelves. 

Fort building

I love this next picture because he is SO excited to be "hiding" in the fort.

Odds and Ends

My goal was to add something to this blog at least once a week.  There hasn't been anything too exciting happening.  Just some odds and ends.

We started taking Miles to swim lessons.  So far so good.  He tells the teacher he already knows how to swim and that he wants to go down with the scuba divers who practice in the deep end.  Someday little man!  We are hoping he will be good to go by summer so we can play at the Rec Center pools and hot have heart attacks when he jumps in.

Miles made this treasure map at daycare.  Jeff did the coolest thing.  He hid a pack of gum in the sandbox in the backyard and they followed the map to it.  Very fun.  Thanks Sarah!

I got the dreaded sick baby call on Monday.  Iris had a high fever so we all headed home for the day.  I am so thankful for Jeff's parents and all their help.  They drove down that night and stayed for a few days until she was better.  They have saved us many hours of sick leave, and it doesn't look like she's really sad about having her arms full of grandkids, does it?!

Obviously she is feeling much better now!  She loves to eat whatever Miles is eating.  She got the leftover apple and went to town on it.  I think she is up to 8 teeth now. 

Poor Bella.  I keep hoping Miles will take it easy on her and just show her some soft love.  She gets harassed on a daily basis, but still comes back to him for more.  He thought this was so funny, and really I have to agree :)

New Snowshoes

Winter weekends can make me a little stir crazy.  Some days I love spending hours playing playdoh and watching kiddie movies and reading books.  But some days not so much.  We hit REI yesterday and got Miles a new pair of snowshoes.  He loved them in the store when he tried them on and I was hoping he would still love them just as much on the trail today.  Success!  He was so excited to put them on and he loved it.  It was a pretty day.  Iris zonked right out in the backpack.  My goal was 20 minutes and we far exceeded that.

All geared up and ready to go!  I was up with Iris the past two mornings at 4:00 AM, so I was wishing I could have a little of his energy!

Wishing the backpack strap didn't do such a great job of accentuating my belly roll, but o well!  I was out enjoying the day with my babies and that's what really matters, right?

A Not-So-Typical Friday

I prefer uneventful Fridays to the one I had yesterday.  It started with a visit from Roto Rooter.  They blasted through some tree roots so we can now flush our toilets again.  A terrible way to spend a few hundred dollars. 
Next up...a call from Jeff saying he blew his knee out up at Solitude.  Fortunately, after 24 hours, he's guessing it's just a sprain, but a visit to the doctor on Monday will confirm that. 
And finally...I ordered an IPod on Ebay a month ago.  I waited patiently even though the original order said I should have it in a few days.  It finally arrived yesterday and it's a fake piece of junk.  I selected black as my first choice and silver as second.  Lucky me.  Not only is it fake with a menu in Chinese that I may never figure out, but it's hot pink.  I'm getting ready to drag the kids to the Apple store to confirm it's fake before blasting the seller and demanding my money back. 
Jeff did manage to fly to California for the weekend to see his grandma.  She has not been doing so well.  I hope they have a great visit.
Hoping for another typical Friday next week.

A Typical Friday

Just hanging out.   

Here is a mighty dinosaur parade with Sue the T Rex leading the pack!

Showing Iris how the dinosaur will bite her finger.

This made me laugh.  Thanks Aunt Jen and Uncle Greg for the dinosaur.  It still freaks me out after 2 years!  Glad she just found it funny and not frightening.

And this...just a pair of new shoes for Iris.  I found them on Baby Steals.com.  I always call her my little bird, so they seemed perfect. 

Adam and Sarah's visit

Adam and Sarah came to town for the weekend.  It was such a great visit.  I looked forward to it for weeks and weeks, so of course it flew by.  My parents watched their 3 kids back in Indiana for the weekend, so I'm quite sure that right now they are lounging in their Lazy Boy chairs and watching anything but cartoons on TV!  We dropped Miles and Iris off to spend the night with Jeff's folks, then headed up to our timeshare at Wolf Creek.  It was AWESOME to have quiet, adult time.  We had a nice lunch out, checked out the Dew Tour at Snowbasin, and just relaxed together.  It was a treat since we do most of our conversing on the phone for 5 minutes at a time with chaos in the background. 

I included this picture because of the bling Adam is sporting.  Our friend hooked us all up with VIP passes to Powder Mountain, so we were required to wear those.  Cat skiing was included so we got to try that out.  It was a blue skied, beautiful day up there.  Perfect!

I just liked this picture.  Our gear...including my new birthday snowboard!

A big shout out to the grandparents for making it possible!  It was great to be away, but so sweet to see Iris' reaction when I walked back in the door!  Miles was probably sad to go home since Grandpa took him to the Kids Museum AND the Dinosaur Park!

It was a sad trip to the airport yesterday morning.  I wish more than anything that we lived closer and could get together more often.  It was a great weekend.  Our next gathering...hopefully Loon Lake for July 4th!