A blog to share the goings-on of our family...about our three children (affectionately referred to as "monkeys"), about living in Texas, about my frugal coupon shopping, and about anything else that may strike me...so that we can seem just a bit closer to faraway loved ones.
There's going to be a daily post for a while here while I catch up the past three months...enjoy!
Our tree out front bloomed just beautifully and the monkeys obliged Mom for some poses... As soon as Mom's pics were done, they were off on bikes. Since Carter has learned to ride with no training wheels, it's his constant request to be riding. Joshua and I even bought bikes so we could all ride together. And to my surprise, I love it too! It's perfect fresh-air family time!!
So I was going to start this post with "we go to this place where there's water..." but I decided to do a little Googling so I sounded a bit more educated about where we live lol! So let's try this slightly more informative introduction...
There's a very nice park and waterfront that we found one day while driving around after going to a new fish market to get fish for sushi. Turns out, thanks to Wikipedia, that it's the Boise River, which is a tributary of our beloved Snake River. There's a very nice play structure the kids love to burn some energy out on, and then there's the ducks and geese. What classic family fun it is to feed these webbed footed friends! They will eat pretty much right out of your hand... Em made fast friends with this hungry guy... Carter much preferred feeding the quieter, slower ducks than the pushy geese... When the geese got closer, Carter opted for climbing into the safety of Daddy's lap. This shot caught the cracker mid-air when this fast goose snatched it from Joshua's hand. Poor Carter had really had enough of the geese. You can see him staying very close to Trevor and asking where the nice ducks went lol...
It's really starting to sink into my head lately how the kids are growing up and time is flying. For the 14th time, we dyed eggs as a family... And sleepy monkeys came downstairs to see what the Easter Bunny had brought... And we headed outside to hunt for eggs... Emilee is still happy to join in looking for treasures... And for some reason, this was a particularly important egg to Trev... We had a very nice, quiet family Easter day. After church we hit Home Depot and got some pretty flowers and bordering and spruced up the front of the house. And remember that very important birthday watering can? It came in very handy after all the flowers were planted!
Carter continues to amaze me. We went to a birthday party at a bounce house place and there was a rock wall in the corner. None of the other preschoolers wanted anything to do with climbing it, but Carter was all over it. The lady harnessed him and up, up he went!! As soon as spring sprung, Carter was out trying to fly his kite. God bless the Dollar Store and these kites that actually work for a buck!
Joshua surprised me with a trip to California to surprise my mom for Mother's Day! He's at home wrangling the monkeys and I got to spend three days with my Mom and Dad. The best part of my trip was heading over to the coast (ooooh beach-in-Idaho, where are you? lol) and spending the day with my parents AND brother, David, and enjoying the gorgeous ocean and sun. I know having my brother and I together with her and Dad meant the world to Mom. It was a very nice and relaxing trip...thank you, honey!
Now I'm at the airport, headed home to get Mother's Day hugs from my own monkeys. Hope they were fairly nice to Daddy while I was away :-).
Happy Mother's Day to all the special moms out there!!
I am SOOOO sorry it has been almost a month since a post! Life just keeps getting away from me and "extra" computer time like this is scarce.
This is *sniff* our last skiing post for the season. We had the.best.time.ever skiing as a family! It was the best investment and just so awesome that all five of us LOVE it...yay for family time! So here's the last videos and pics of the season. They are a combo of the last two trips we took up. I took the monkeys by myself one day over our Spring Break, and then we went one last time as a family the following weekend.
Carter was so excited to ski that he hung onto his skis ALL the way up to the resort. We couldn't get him to let go for ANYthing! Em skiing alongside of Carter Em waving from the chair Trevor taking a quick rest at the top of the "big hill" Em snapped a pic of the boys and I I made a collage of my fav shot of each of the monkeys and I on the chair lift
Here's Em cruising down the "big hill." You can also see what I was talking about a while back about being worried about Carter falling off the "cliff" that's on one side.
This is a clip of Carter and I rounding the 180 degree switchback on the "big hill." It can be tricky for adults to make, and here Carter zooms around it like nothing haha! And then we catch up with Em, who was waiting for us.
Carter and Emilee cruising...
Emilee took the camera for a while (we are working on her keeping the camera steadier) and caught a clip of Carter and I (and Trev is in there for just a second too)
Trevor LOVED going down the black diamond runs. NO FEAR in this kid, I tell ya! He convinced Joshua to go down a run that was part black diamond and part blue square (one level easier than black diamond). This is a clip of the two of them coming down the bottom half of that run. The video makes it look pretty easy but believe me, it's FAST and DIFFICULT. (You might want to watch it twice so you can pick out who Joshua and Trevor are cuz it's easy to spot them at the end.)
This one is Carter and Joshua skiing down the "big hill." Joshua had Carter playing a game of "point which way to go" and then had him practice coming to a dead stop (if you turn up your speakers, you can hear Carter make the "errrrrrrt" screech to a stop sound).
Last but not least, a video of Trev skiing. It shows him pretty calm, meandering down the hill. That's usually not his style, but you probably won't see any of his crazy black diamond antics any time soon. I REFUSE to go up on those hills with him and when Joshua goes, he's more focused on getting down in one piece than filming :-).
So we noticed lately when Carter rides his bike that he barely taps his training wheels side to side...a tell tale sign it's about time to try taking them off. So this morning Joshua took him out to give two wheeling a try. It was a little rocky...
But after a pep talk from Daddy, he tried again after dinner and viola!!
Yup, just four years old and riding a bike with no training wheels...GO BOOG!!!
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