Grandma Day

I have been spoiled over the past 4 years by Cathy coming over every week so I can get out to run some errands. For our last "Grandma Day", she treated the boys to a morning at Recess. They had sooooo much fun! Thanks Grandma Cathy. These boys are going to miss you!!!!!!

Make room on the couch Uncle Craig and Uncle Brent!

We've got another calculator junkie on our hands. Eli spent half the weekend adding numbers with the calculator on Joel's phone.

the first sign of spring

Last week Joel pointed out a robin to Eli and said "seeing a robin is the first sign of spring". Tonight as we were heading outside, Eli was looking at the birds and said, "Mom I just saw the 70th sign of spring".

Easter weekend

What do two 4 year old boys do after they declare "not hungry" during dinner and the popcorn comes out???? They decide eating a little dinner to get some popcorn isn't such a bad idea. I heated up a plate of food and told them to eat a few bites before they could eat the popcorn. They sat their bottoms on the counter and ate all of it. Eli and I made a trip to Krista's over the weekend so we could finally meet Brady. We got there on Thursday night just as it started to snow. We didn't do much over the weekend, but with 4 little boys we managed to keep busy and have fun. After church yesterday, we went to my Grandma's for Easter dinner. The kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt, and then we left around 2:00. I wanted to get home before Noah went to bed.

birthday party

We had Eli's birthday party at Grandma Cathy's tonight. Eli chose frogs and lizards as a theme and wanted steak to eat. When I asked him last night if he was excited about having steak for his birthday dinner he suggested that we bring our steak sauce because sometimes Grandma and Jennifer don't have steak sauce. The meal was delicious, and Grandma had steak sauce. When it came time to blow out the candles, Eli insisted that he have all the frog candles that came in the package. Therefore, he got to blow out 6 candles instead of 4. In the spirit of the frogs and lizard theme party, I pulled out this old frog t-shirt for Noah to wear. Eli was pretty sure he was going to wear the shirt instead of Noah, so I suggested that we take a trip to Kohls to look for a different frog shirt. We found one, but Eli picked a bug shirt instead. (Noah ate this whole plate of cake and ice cream and washed it down with Eli's sprite). Thanks for the fun party Grandma!!!!

Thanks Aunt Jennifer...

for the yummy birthday doughnuts!

Birthday Boy

Today was Eli's 4th birthday; I can't believe it! We had a little snack party with Luke, Jake and Chase today, and he will have another party on Saturday at Grandma Cathy's. We were going to take him out to eat tonight, but he decided that we should just pick up food and bring it home so we could keep playing outside. What did he pick for his birthday dinner???? Long John Silvers of course. I went to Arby's for the rest of us. Luckily he told Grandma that steak is his favorite food, so we have that to look forward to on Saturday.

Finally

some spring weather!

WHAT A TREAT!

Grandma Cathy came armed with ice cream, cones, and sprinkles today!

Wave the White Flag

So here we are in day 4 of "daddy in charge". You can see by the picture that I have lost all control. Noah seemingly decided to wear just socks and shoes of his choosing, while foregoing the rest of the ensemble. The toy of choice is a case of water where they hide cars in the hole and take them out. Loads of fun. I have even reinstated the gate on the stairs to keep them contained to one level. Wonderful Aunt Jennifer volunteered to take the boys for the morning and saved what's left of my sanity. Full-time parenting is much more exhausting than I ever imagined. Thankfully mommy is feeling much better and will resume control tomorrow.

Surgery Recovery is Hard Work

This is Noah after a hard day of helping mommy recover from surgery. Having daddy take care of him must be mentally exhausting. On a side note, I got to attend my first story time and was clueless. Nothing like having 3 year olds tell you how things work and where to go!!! All is going well with our patient. With all of our surgeries over the last couple years, I have decided that I am the Six-Million Dollar Man and Heidi is the Bionic Woman. Hopefully we are done for awhile. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

surgery went well

Thanks Mom and Dad for the flowers. As you can see, I am not the only one enjoying them. Thank you Cathy and Jennifer for your help today, and thank you husband for taking such good care of the boys and me.

I was right!

After talking to Krista yesterday, it sounded like the baby's name would be Dylan. I see my mom has Brady written on these pictures that she sent.

Baby Gundberg

It's boy number 3 for Krista and Brent. I'm not going to write his name yet because knowing Krista and Brent it will change tomorrow. Everyone is doing well, and I really wish I could be there! CONGRATS!!!

Crazy weekend

Friday- I had a doctor's appointment at 9:00 and found out I get to have my gall bladder removed on Thursday. We left our house around 11:00am, fed the kids in the car, stopped at Krista's to pick up Zach and Drew, dropped them off with my mom, and got to Craig and Jen's around 6:00pm (poor Noah didn't get out of his carseat once). Saturday- Joel and I met with our realtor and looked at several houses. Of course the only one we really liked was one we had seen many months ago and never got out of our heads (it was also the most expensive). We spent Saturday night swimming at a hotel with my whole family (minus Brent and Krista who were supposed to be having a baby which never happened). Eli had a blast!!! Sunday- We decided to put an offer on the house, so we went to meet with the realtor at 11:15 thinking we'd be on the road in time for kids to nap. WRONG!!! We spent 5 hours in the realtor's office doing something that should've taken an hour tops. We finally got on the road at 4:15pm. The original plan was to leave Monday, but we decided to leave Sunday to avoid a snowstorm. After driving through terrible fog and only stopping for food once and gas once, we finally got home at 11:45 pm. Noah did get out of the carseat once but it was only long enough to get a diaper change and pajamas. We are very thankful for our good little car riders and very scared, nervous, and excited about our new house and new location. I am also excited about my new baby niece or nephew who should be here sometime tomorrow as Krista is being induced in the morning. I'm sad that I will not be able to go visit this weekend!!!!!

not much new here

Noah still likes to be naked (I found him like this at 7:15 this morning). Then, when we came downstairs he was very upset that we couldn't find basketball on TV.

oh Noah!

So, Noah was MIA for a little while the other night. I knew he had gone upstairs, but I waited a while before I went to see what he was up to. I found him laying in our bed with Joel's glasses on just watching a little TV.

birthday party fun

The boys had fun on the treasure hunt at Tyler's party last night. Well- Eli had fun. Noah got distracted by Don's bike on the porch during clue #2 and then was very mad that we didn't let him stay on the porch and play with it.

"A Hat"

Someone thought he was hilarious during breakfast this morning!

REINACTED FOR BLOGGING PURPOSES

I just happened to be upstairs and heard this little voice saying, "mommy, mommy", and this is how I found Eli. I let him take a book to bed at naptime which obviously fell on the floor somehow ( I can't imagine). Anyway, Eli will not get out of his bed, so he was stuck like this trying to get his book. My dad thinks this invisible fence around beds is great for kids!!!!

Auntie Krista

My sister made a last minute decision to ride down with a friend who had a wedding here Friday night. She was under strict rules from her husband not to go into labor (due on the 20th). I haven't heard from her yet, but I'm thinking she must've made it back home! We went and saw the movie Juno which I really liked. It made me laugh; it made me cry.... my favorite things in a movie. It made Krista nervous that she was going to go into labor.

sweet dreams

I just had to post this picture of Eli reading to his teddy bear tonight!

learning how to bowl

Joel went bowling tonight for the first time in how many years? Anyway, he was trying to teach Eli his awesome form before he left. Of course Eli wanted to go bowling too, so I had to explain why a 3 year old can't go to a smokey bowling alley at 8:30 on a Tuesday night.

learning how to dribble

Noah went in the basement to play this morning. I thought it was a little quiet, so I went down to check on him. I found him in the store room with his ball. I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "dibble".

back-e-ball pease!!!!!!!

I was seriously getting yelled at because I couldn't find the sports section when I brought the paper in this morning.

bribing mom

After saying "no" to several requests for candy before 8:30 this morning, I was telling Eli to get dressed so we could go run some errands. He said, "Mom, I'm not getting dresesed until you give me candy!".

a new fashion trend???

You saw it here first!

18 months old today

yeah!!!! Noah won't watch a Baby Einstein movie, but we had to watch basketball instead of American Idol tonight. He was even jumping on the couch saying, "go, go, go".

shoo hoops... pease

That's what Noah says when he wants help making baskets. Jake's and Chase's love for shooting hoops must be rubbing off on him. All Eli ever wanted to do with this thing is hang animals from the net.

They're all in there!

The boys love Noah's new fire truck. It looks like I need to give the drinking and driving lecture already. The pop isn't open; he just thinks he needs to carry one around all the time.

Birthday party fun

We celebrated Grace's 5th birthday tonight. The boys had fun trying to break the pinata. Eli is pretty sure that Grace will be sharing her new makeup with him. Thanks for the pictures Cathy!

Friday night sleepover

We went to Jennifer & Rich's for supper last night, and Eli begged to sleep over. I don't know what time this picture was taken, but guessing by how fast Eli fell asleep for his nap today, it probably wasn't very early!

poor Noah

He's trying so hard to get the phone. He sure can yell when he doesn't get his way!

I can't believe...

I didn't take any pictures of Joel spending his whole morning taking Noah's crib apart (I must've been too busy trying to keep Noah away from the power tools). No, Noah is not getting a big boy bed. After trying to figure out how to make Eli's room look bigger, we decided to have the boys swap rooms. Now, Eli's full-sized bed doesn't take up the whole room, and the other room makes a cute little nursery. I think we've watched a few too many episodes of "Sell This House".

bored already??

So, today was the first day back with all my boys. Jake and Eli went to preschool although it was a little hard to drag them away from the new toys and get out the door. After preschool, it was lunch and nap time. Once the boys were up from their naps (around 3:00), they bounced around from new toy to new toy. At 4:00 Eli looked at me and said, "Now what should we do?"

Christmas pics

This is as close as Noah would get to Santa
Grandpa Jim was able to come spend Friday afternoon and Saturday morning with us. He got in on the Santa visit and some card playing (he was amazed with how much we eat. We didn't even finish the bag of chips that was on the card table.) Thanks for making the long trip!

the cousins

Eli playing Pretty Pretty Princess with Jen and Katelynn. He didn't want to put on any of the jewelry.

more Christmas celebrations

Christmas #2 was at my aunt Connie's with my Dad's side of the family on Christmas Eve. We weren't planning to head up north until Christmas day, but we left early and my parents at the get together. We stayed at Krista and Brent's for two night. Somehow, Santa found my boys at Krista's, so we had Christmas #3. Then, it was off to Craig and Jen's for two nights. On Friday, we went to my parents' and the kids had a nice visit with Santa. Noah wouldn't sit on his lap, but he didn't scream either. We waited until Saturday to open the rest of the presents. New Year's Eve was spent playing cards, and then we drove home yesterday. We tried to get organized today, but that didn't work. I did however get a bathroom painted.