Bu-By March

Here are the last pics I have from March of my fabulous kiddos, that is until I find the Easter egg dying pics.

M LOVES her backpack. J has one that he brings to preschool, and M clued in pretty quickly that taking your backpack with you is the big kid thing to do. She got this one for Christmas and it has hardly been left home alone since.

And that's a coin purse she's holding. But she just thinks it's a super-cool plastic butterfly.

Ok, J is a skinny little man. He is naturally a thin kid, plus he is totally obsessed with exercise and has a nice little boy six pac. But he is not a shortie, so when he wears pants that are long enough for him, they're too big in the waist. I finally found a belt for him, but on the last notch it's only as tight as his pants. I guess I need to feed him more ice cream and hope he gets fat enough for his pants to stay up.


I looked up from taking pics of the kids and this is what I saw.

Isn't he looking all sweet and sugaree? : )

And then the last member of our little family tried to charge me.

But I held my ground and she dodged away at the last second.

I don't know how anyone gets a nice picture of two year olds. They know you want something out of them, and being in the terrible-two state they are in, they rebel against you and secretly laugh behind your back.


But almost four year olds and somewhat well trained dogs, and sometimes even husbands usually cooperate pretty well and may even give you 5.3 seconds to take a couple of pictures.




Yay! March is done, and now I'm only 1.5 months behind. Coming soon...April.

More, more, more...

More long lost pics from March.


You should see the other guy. Arrrhhh!

Then we wiped away the fight and brewed up some home-made root beer, which happens to be just about the best tasting thing you could drink...ever. It reminds me of girls camp every summer. They always made us root beer. That's Aunt Jane to the left and Mom to the right and M stretching out after the brawl.




So back to Easter. Where in the world are my egg dying pics!?! It's like the Carmen San Diego game. They are lost in the abyss that is my computer. I am actually really meticulous about organizing my photos, but someone who was not me, that might live in the same house as me, and is over the age of 5 (but I'm not saying who), may have been really sweet and nice and downloaded the photos for me, and I'm not sure where they might have been put. I know they're there because I've seen them, I just didn't see where they got put. They'll show up one of these days.

But the good news is, I have my pics from Easter morning.
Here is Nathan really enjoying the moment.


He's hard to outdo, but here are the kids enjoying the moment even more.


...and their faces stuffed with Easter candy.


From there we got ready for church, went to church, came home, napped (except J, or course), then went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for an uber delicious ham dinner because there is no other dinner to eat on Easter than HAM. Yum. I love traditions.

March

Ok, forget February. I was good in February and can now move on to March. Spring weather arrived in March and the kids and I started spending a lot more time outside. Here are the crazy faces of my outdoorsey children.







And with spring comes spring flowers.


And then there was St. Patrick's Day, that wonderful Irish holiday when the leprechauns come out to play, little trouble makers that they are. One day we will catch one and convince it to share it's secrets, like how to get to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. We came close this year. It ran out so fast is spilled a trail of money from our trap clear out the front door.






And that's March.

Oh wait, wasn't Easter in March this year? Now were did those pictures wonder off to. I know we took a lot of them. I'll be back with colored eggs and purple-fingered children.

Here we go...

As promised...backposting...here is what I missed waaaaayyy back in January.

This was the morning Uncle Peter was going back to Louisiana after Christmas, which calls, of course, for last minute pictures. No, we did not procrastinate bath time so long that J was gooey enough for scraps of paper to stick, he saved his In 'N Out Burger stickers and went a little nuts with them on this morning.





And here is the ever so patient (snickering in sarcasm) Nathan holding my camera bag for me. But really, he was patient on this particular day.


I know we weren't cleaning the garage, but I think J might have been hinting that we should.


Ohhh, and bowling. We went bowling and J loved it and we had so much fun! We should join a bowling league. Do they have some kind of families with little kids who all really suck at bowling leagues?






And if you come to visit us and we all congregate at Grandma and Grandpas and the kids eat lots of sugar, this might happen to you... They love their Auntie Sarah!


Alrighty, there's January. Coming soon: February

Shame on Me!!!

My cousin Kim has pointed out that I have totally sucked at blogging, although she put it much nicer than that because she is a very nice person. And I've missed some exciting things, like J's 4th birthday. So I will backlog. I swear. I might have to start back at Christmas though. That was only five months back, right? And how many pictures could I have taken in five months? Just a little more than a few, like a few, few hundered...it's do-able. I swear. (Do I sound like I'm trying to convince myself?)

I'm off to edit, or at least organize enough to edit.

Old Sacramento

I have this rule that I will only go through my own personal pictures on chronological order. That way I don't skip ahead and forget to go back. And trust me, I'll forget. But I broke my very own self imposed rule and skipped. Yes, I know...shame on hypocritical me. The kids and I went to Old Sacramento as part of our "we didn't make it to Utah" vacation. We had so much fun and I wanted to see the pictures of my crazy little ones so bad I couldn't wait. So now I guess I need to put some reminder stickies on my monitor:

Myself,
Don't forget to go back and edit the pics you skipped.

St. Patrick's Day is in there...

Look to see if you missed any more.
DON'T FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A kid could think they're in heaven in Old Sac. Maybe not Disneyland heaven, but they have kettle corn, saltwater taffy, ice cream, horses and trains which in my kids eyes are pretty close. We saved the ice cream for last as a bribe to be good. As for me, I just love walking around and looking at all the amazing buildings and the wood walkways. And you can't leave Old Sac without stopping in at the Railroad Museum. They have actual full size trains inside. Some you can climb on and walk through. One even jiggles around a bit so it feels like you could be riding somewhere, but when we left it, we were still in the museum. We spent all kinds of time downstairs looking at these feats of engineering, then headed upstairs to the toys. There are toy trains all over the place, but the best part is a huge working display that you could press buttons to control. The sun even sets and rises in that train world behind the glass. But enough of my rambling, on to some pics...

J's first time playing with a Jack-in-the-Box

My favorite pic of the day

My dad discovered the goodness of kettle corn, but for some reason

didn't want his picture taken with the delicious treat.My mom

Self Portrait. There was a mirror in the ceiling

of the elevator in the Railroad Museum.

This train was HUMONGUS!!!

Parts

Doesn't she look adorably sweet? The bribe
And last but not least, an actual picture of my kids together. It's a mirical!