Sami's 2nd grade Animal Report

For Sami's 2nd grade class, they were assigned an animal report. They got to pick their Animal that they are reporting on. Sami picked one of her 2 favorites. She picked the White Tail Deer (the other favorite animal is a Dolphin.) Sami wrote the report at school and then had to make a project to go along with it to show at school. We decided to try her hand at sewing and sewed a White tail deer family. Sami did great.

Grandpa Jim came to art night at Sami's school where she got to display her report on her desk. She was beaming.

The next day the 2nd graders all displayed their projects in the gym for the rest of the school to see. Lucy was so proud to see her little baby deer twins out for everyone to see.

Logan's date with Mom

Our sweet Logan!! He is quite the character. Most days after preschool, Lucy ends up going out for a play date and Logan ends up coming home with me. It really got to Logan this time, and I felt that he needed a special mommy and him date (with Huddy Buddy too.)

I took him to lunch, he picked Pancakes so we went to IHOP.  

After we were seated he exclaimed for the whole restaurant that he now wanted Mac and Cheese. 

The waitress thought that this was hilarious and made sure he got his Mac and Cheese quickly. He was so hungry that  he was eating with double utensils.  He is quite the funny man!!

Fun and Silly Tradition!

I read on Pinterest that if you take a cardboard box and attach it to your stairs, it makes an awesome indoor slide.

This is an accurate statement!! We played for 5 hours straight on this toy. Hudson was a slide hog. And wouldn't let anyone else go on it.

Highly recommended!

Hudson has discovered the AWESOMENESS of the car carts at the grocery store.

The kids have started playing board games together without Matt and I. These are 2 of our Pretty Pretty Princesses.

Matt started a Saturday night tradition. Dinner downstairs while watching the old school Batman episodes. The kids love this . . .including Matt. They even yell out the "Bash, Zoink" and all other words on screen during the fight scenes.

Definitely one to continue on with.

Sick . . .again . . .blah!!

Hudson is sick again. Not as bad as last time, but still pretty bad. Lucy fell asleep Sunday night watching a movie and Eston decided to use her soft tush to his advantage. Hudson wanting to cuddle with anything that had a pulse, moved in on Eston. Pretty darn cute!

Feeding the Masses

Matt was asked to feed the Relief Society for the big Birthday Meal. They asked us to feed 80 people fro under $175. Mission Accomplished . . .kinda!

Matt did wonderful. We had Chicken Cheddar Puffs with Armenian Rice and Green beans. My favorite part was that we feed 80 people on 8 cups of rice . . . that's making things stretch.

Here was our little chef in training . . .eating his dinner in the corner of the church kitchen.

"I hope they call me on a Mission . . ."

The boys get dressed every Sunday for church and every Sunday, 1 of the 5 kids tell me how much they look like a missionary. This Sunday since all the boys were dressed on time, I made them all missionary tags, and snapped their pictures.

These will be fun to look back on when these three are older.

Girls next. . .

Poor Sick Baby (or Babies)

The kid's had a fun Valentine's Day, but had I known it was the start of a SICKLY EPIDEMIC at our house I would have tried to enjoy the time more. Lucy had gotten what we had thought was the 24 hour flu bug the weekend before Valentines. She had thrown up in the car and then was out for 24 hours and then back to her normal self (or so we thought). I went in the day before Valentine's day on the 13th to see the doctor for a sore throat. I was informed that I had a severe case and was extremely contagious. The Dr. then asked if anyone else had been sick. I told him about Lucy being sick with the stomach bug 5 days earlier and the slight sore throat she talked about. He told me to take her in to get tested for strep that day. Matt took her to get tested even though she was acting 100% better. YEP, she had a severe case of strep even though she didn't look it. Apparently, if strep goes untreated it can turn into Rheumatic fever. Glad we went in and got her an antibiotic. Lucy has gone from throwing up, to strep, to throwing up, to a cold. Currently she is in good standing.

I also learned in this time frame, that children under the age of 3 (or 2 1/2) do not get Strep Throat. So I was told that I did not have to worry about Hudson getting it since he was only 12 months old. The one thing that I have learned about Hudson is that he is not your average child.  He started  getting Diarrhea, and sleeping a lot and wouldn't eat. I took him in to the doctor and told them I wanted him tested for Strep. Sure enough, Hudson was positive. Way to prove the medical world wrong Huddy Buddy. It was a long 2 weeks with him. He ate hardly anything for 1 week and looked like this for the entire 2 weeks.

As sad as he looked it was really cute and a lot of fun cuddling time.

The only problem is that he wanted to cuddle the whole time and not be set down. Normally that would be fine but since I myself had Strep I just wanted to lay and sleep myself.

Couldn't choose what pics to share. He is just cute and sad.

With being sick there was just a lot of laying around and cuddling. Eston got treated for Strep even though it was never confirmed. He just wanted some love and attention. Logan just wanted to do what Eston was doing, and Matt was the caretaker of all of us so he was exhausted. I love this photo.

I am glad to say that we are all doing much better. On a side note, I mentioned that Hudson is my one of a kind kid. We found out the month before all this that Hudson has an allergy to Penicillin. Oh, and is Lactose Intolerant. He keeps us guessing.

New Camera Fun!!