soccer...spring 2016

Another soccer season has come and gone... so fun watching these boys.  They are quite good at soccer! Bridge scored close to 10 goals every game and was always getting in trouble at practice for not passing when they would scrimmage (who passes at age 4??? no one...absolutelty no one.).  Parx scored a few goals every game too.. at this age they do pass a little!  They were both little stud muffins out there!

 

ONTO BASEBALL...

Carbon Monoxide adventure...

 

We had a fun little adventure a couple weekends ago!

Ty was cutting the concrete for our basement window with a gas powered saw for so long that all the carbon monoxide alarms starting going off like crazy and our house reaked of gas! Not to mention i could hardly see from one end of the house to the other becuase of all the crazy dust and dirt flying everywhere...IT WAS A MESS!!!!

 

Sooo off to the hotel we went... we spent one night there and swam at night and swam again in the morning.  The kids were in heaven and we had a blast. It was a fun little stay-cation.  They ask to go back to the hotel all the time now...

 

 

Fever Seizure

First scary ER trip for this family.  My poor Max had a seizure a couple weeks ago because his fever sky rocketed so fast.  It was the worst day ever to have a sickly baby as I was in charge of keeping my friend out of her house so her kids could decorate for her surprise party that evening.                  

That afternoon I put Max down for a nap and he was totally healthy... when he woke up he had a fever of 104.2. I had to pick up Brit in 45 minutes so I gave him some meds and took him with me to dinner with Brit and Kim. (Ty was working the entire day on a big project).  At dinner he started acting normal and having a little fun...sitting on the floor reading a book and running around our table. The meds kicked in and all was gooooooood.

We took Brit to her party and he just sat on my lap on the couch.  He started doing some weird twitches and would shake a little when I was holding him but he'd just stop and then be ok for awhile again.  Then Ty got there around 9 pm and grabbed him up to say hello and see how he was doing!  Next thing I knew Ty had a super funny look on his face (I hadn't even had time to tell Ty about the weird stuff he was doing) so i ran over and grabbed him becuase i thought he was going to throw up and his lips were turning blue.  We ran to the bathroom and he stood there with his eyes rolling back in his head and then he just passed out. It had been 4 hours since his meds and his fever was back up to 104.2.  We raced to the hospital and we couldn't get him to wake up for 30 minutes! He was so out of it.

The good news is that my sweet baby is just fine and i'm soooo grateful it all happened right when Ty walked in the door! I definately needed him at that moment...it was pretty scary. I think we both held it together quite well though :). With an exception to Ty's psycho driving... I was afraid for our lives.

I got so many snuggles for 3 days and even had a sleepover with him the night of the seizure.

I was ready to see him happy and healthy again! 

awwwwww these kids of mine are such a blessing!!!

Max is 2!

Our little one turned 2... He had a great birthday full of well... not that much :).  Big parties don't happen over here until they actually care...so dinner/cake/ice cream, balloons and presents it was! He loved it! All the attention was on him and he enjoyed ripping open his presents and loved everything he found underneath that wrapping paper.  He's just so dang cute.

 

This kid is all boy...ALLLLL boy. He loves being outside, loves shooting hoops, playing catch, going fishing, taking Bear for walks, playing with "guys" and "animals," making us fake food, having races, throwing rocks. The list could go on for days... he's a busy little fart. 

He is so much more friendly now but still thinks people can't see him if he turns his head and doesn't look at them.

His finger is always up his nose when people look at him..it's an awesome nervous habit.

He says what seems like a million words. My favorite phrase being, "Thank you mama," which he says after I hand him anything. And he just started to say, "I love you mama." Melts my heart.

He also loves to tell on Bridger for hitting (even if Bridger is no where near him). He says in a very loud voice, "HE HIT BRIDGER."

He is so helpful and is always cleaning up everyones wrappers or anything he finds that needs to go in the trash...he is quick to clean up the toys when its time for bed...and tattles on the other kiddos if they get up from eating or don't clear their plates. The older boys just love that.

Max has also hit a phase where he wants to be totally independent.  No more booster chair for meals, likes to drink out of the big boy cups, he tries to spit when we brush his teeth...he's growing up so fast and would love to be able to keep up with his brothers.

That being said...HE LOVES HIS BROTHERS... I should say HE LOVES HIS FAMILY.  He LIGHTS UP when anyone comes home....and he must have a hug and kiss if anyone leaves.  It's the cutest thing in the world when Ty comes home from work...his little legs are going a mile a minute with excitement and he runs so fast to get him as soon as the door opens.

WE LOVE THIS BOY... We can't get enough of his craziness. 

 

STATS:

Height: 35.25 inches 79%

Weight: 28.14 lbs 61%

 

Daddy left him a cute birthday note when he went to work...

 

Dad and mom snuck into the cake a little early...whoops. Max doesn't really like cake anyway :). He's all about the ice cream.

 

Trying to get him to put 2 fingers up... no luck!

 

Some random pics of Max around his 2nd birthday... 

 

Readin and poopin 

 

HO HO HO....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I realize I never put any pics of my kiddos at their school programs up. BUUUUUT I only have one of Bridger as Rudolph :) oopsies. They both were fantastic and so super excited about it.

 

All dressed up for Christmas Sunday... Parx was out shoveling snow and looks a little chilly.  

 

Our winter wonderland...snow snow and more snow.  We had a snow day the day before Christmas break and a snow day the monday after Christmas break. It's been soooo fun sledding and playing outside.

 

 

Max really didn't like the snow...AT FIRST! Now he's a crazy snow eating, sledding fool. He still doesn't mind looking out the window at the kiddos playing in it though (in his boots of course).

 

LEAVENWORTH with our besties. 

 It was an adventure... on our way our friends car broke down so we spent some time at Fred Meyer while Ty went and picked them up and we crammed 10 people in our car and 10 in the other running car. It was fun! There were thousands of people there though...we could have done without that. 

The lights were beautiful and the kiddos had a blast sledding even in the FREEZING cold.

CHRISTMAS TIME!!! We had Ty home for 2 weeks and it was soooo AWESOME. How will I survive without him?? and without my parents?? They were here for 10 days (with an escape for 2 nights to Leavenworth in the middle)! We had a blast...a mega blast.  We stayed up late everynight playing games and did lots of fun christmas activities with the kiddos.

 

Christmas Eve jammies... followed by Christmas lights scavenger hunt in our jammies and a few games before bed :).

 

Bridger's Santa...

Max's Santa...

 

Parx's Santa 

 

 

Christmas dinner...these crazy carnivores.

 

 

And my Jello freak.. 

 

And my roll freak... 

 

This puzzle..oh geez this puzzle (the paint all over the table cover added extra difficulty).  999 pieces later we FINISHED! 2 nights up till 2:30 am... many many many hours later...one piece missing the entire time. SO FRUSTRATING. Can't even begin to explain the time we wasted looking for that one piece. Next year we might scale down to 500 so the kids can help a little more. This one was HARD.

 

The extreme puzzlers. yes we modge podged the crap outta this sucker. NEVER will we do it again.

 This year was full of firsts... Ty finally decided to tell us about this amazing river he heard about and the boys spent 3 days fishing their lives away. Even if it was 18-20 degrees.  It'll be a post all to itself with all the huge fish they caught! I mean HUGE!  Parx was in HEAVEN.

Tay came up for the last weekend of the break to help Ty frame the basement and fish and they are all coming back in like 3 weeks because that's how amazing it was.

 Fishaholics... it's in our blood.

 

We went sledding A LOT...

 

This smokin hot grandma was so proud of her lego creation... Bridger bailed on her fast so she built it by herself. It took atleast an hour... but i'm thinkin closer to 2.

 My main squeeze and his day after Christmas addiction... only the first store right here.

 

Shout out to Tay for all his help framing, dad for painting the stripes in the nursery and all the edges on my accent wall, and of course mom for hanging with little Max while I enjoyed a day out fishing and the million other things she always does to help me! They are simply the best.

Pic from their mini honeymoon to Leavenworth.

 

We had a wonderful Christmas with some AMAZING people. 

We also had time to reflect about the true meaning of Christmas and watched short videos of Christ with our kiddos for 25 nights straight in December.  We all enjoyed the stories of His birth and the miracles He performed on this earth.  It ended with his crucifixion and resurrection and we know that what he went through was for each of us and we are so deeply grateful.