February Love

2/4/2015

Callan had pajama day at school and he chose his "elf man jammers!"  I was hoping for a more casual sweats kind of look but these are his favorites!

2/5/2015

We got to spend time with our Payson fam.  We fed the ducks at Salem Pond.  Fin was absolutely in heaven!

 We ate some dinner at Cafe Rio before heading home.

2/6/2015

We got to babysit baby Isla while Kate and Trace went on an anniversary date.  She was such a sweetheart! Love that baby girl.

2/7/2015

Easton celebrated his 100th day of school.  They had to make a poster with 100 things on it.  I gave him a few ideas and he chose balloons.  I was blowing them up ALL NIGHT LONG.  He blew up 5.  I blew up 86.  That's 91.  That's literally all I could do.  He drew all the strings and we called it good!

That night we got to go out to dinner at Epic Casual Dining for our sibling date night.  Mom and Dad gave us all gift cards for Christmas.  It was fun and the food was good!  Tyson says it was fantastic!

2/8/2015

Then back to Sandy for Sunday dinner.  Fin is suddenly very much in love with the babies.  He just wants to kiss them all the time.

2/12/2015

We got all the Valentines ready for the school parties.  It was kind of a lot of work!  They each took a "shooting for brownie points" Valentine to their teachers and a "You're Kool" valentine to their classmates.

Callan's party was first.  I found just a little tin mailbox for him to take to preschool.

2/13/2015

Easton made his own monster Vday box.  He chose an idea from Pinterest and I helped him a little.  He made the hair and arms all himself.

2/14/2015

Valentines morning the boys burst into my room as usual.  Easton asked me what my favorite animal was and the next thing I knew there was a Valentine on my pillow with hearts and bunnies.  He's such a thoughtful boy.

Tyson had to sleep on Valentines day so I took the boys to Wheeler Farm.  It was a gorgeous day for mid February! In the 60s I believe.    We had lots of fun seeing the animals.  Especially Fin!  Then we had a picnic and played on the playground.  

 Love these Valentines!

 2/20/2015

While Thomas and Amanda went on a cruise, Steve and Arlene brought the boys over for a sleepover!  It was so much fun!  These cousins love to play together!  Saturday morning Tyson and Steve went fishing and then we all met at the Treehouse Museum.

 Easton with his latest black eye pulling weird faces.  He is a weirdo.  And I like him.  I keep thinking about some old family videos where I acted the exact same way.

2/20/2015

The boys got to have a double sleepover!  After the cousin sleepover they got to go to the Grama and Grampa Cook sleepover the next night!  Tyson and I went out to dinner and watched Captain America.  They had an awesome penguin themed sleepover!

2/21/2015

When we went to pick up the boys my parents said Fin had a rough night.  He was having trouble breathing and the next day he wouldn't sleep.  We thought for sure he would be the first one asleep in the car but he still didn't sleep!

Before going home we went to the Bean Museum for Tyson to turn in his entries for the photography contest.  

 2/23/2015

After more rough nights with Fin we decided to take him to the doctor.  It was a different doctor than we usually see and he wasn't very nice.  But anyway he had RSV.  Thumbs down.  When we got home from the doctor he and I finally got a nice long nap.

 2/24/2015

The next day I finally got him to fall asleep on the rocking chair.  Such a sweetheart.  He doesn't deserve to be sick all the time!

 2/28/2015

This is him saying sorry to Grampa Cook for getting him sick too!  He had a run in with my treadmill and got a scab under his nose which did not make it fun to wipe his yucky nose all week!

 I don't know which one of the boys took this picture with my phone but it basically sums up the week!  Fin and I stayed in PJs and played with toys every day while he slowly got better.

And that was February!

The Baby Blessings

The babies were both blessed in January.  Somehow they got missed in my January post.  Isla Katherine Rodgerson was blessed on 1/24/15.

 We didn't get a Page family picture because everyone was still sick.  But we were all there.

Jackson Dan Doyle was blessed on 1/25/15.

It was such a beautiful day that day we had to take advantage of the warm weather!

January: Reclaiming Winter Break

1/5/15 Tyson celebrated his 30th birthday!  Old man!  He has taken some really awesome pictures this winter like this wood duck from Beus Pond by our house.  He is such a great dad and works so hard for us and we love him!  The boys and I ordered Olive Garden to go and had it for him when he woke up that day (at 5PM).

 He loves a good tiramisu!

 For FHE that night I need to make some cut out figures of the boys so I told them to strike a pose and this is what I got.

1/7/15 Fin finally got to go out in the snow!  Good thing, because it sure disappeared fast!

1/8/15 Naughty babies are sure hard to be mad at when they're so cute!

 When everybody was finally better from all their ailments we made a list of all the fun things we wanted to do since we totally missed out on winter break with sickness!  I had bought a Groupon for tubing at Soldier Hollow.  We loaded everyone up one day and when we got to Park City I realized I was supposed to call and make a reservation at Soldier Hollow.  They said they were full for the entire day.  Luckily, Tyson had just been fishing/hunting in the area the day before and had driven past Gorgoza Park outside of Park City.  We ended up there and it turned out to be perfect for what we needed! 1/9/15

 1/11/15 Cute boys ready for church!

1/12/15

1/16/15  We made these cute shelves.  I'm so excited about how they turned out! 

1/20/15 We got to spend some time in Payson!  Those boys love playing with cousins and with their Grandpa!  Callan got some birthday Batman legos! 

 1/22/15 Fin fell asleep with Tyson on the couch.  We have to cherish these snuggle moments!

1/23/15 The boys went to their first "official" sleepover at Grama and Grampa's.  The sleepover was Willy Wonka themed.  Callan found the golden ticket!

Callan woke up to presents at Grama's the next morning for his birthday and had birthday toast with candles.  That's what he wanted!

Tyson worked Friday and Saturday at our neighbor's pharmacy in Layton.  We love that he's able to do other jobs on the side with his schedule!  Friday night I dropped off the kids and met Tyson.  We grabbed dinner and went to Get Some Guns & Ammo to practice shooting.  I did really well on the close up shots!  Unfortunately there were some incidents!  I pinched my skin while cocking the gun and then a hot bullet casing went right down my shirt!  And of course my garments were tucked in so it just sat there burning my stomach!  Crazy. We had a much needed good night's sleep!  

1/24/15  We got the kids the next day and got ready for Callan's birthday party!  He wanted to have a couple neighbor friends over for a t-rex party.  Tyson did an awesome impromptu pin the tail on the t-rex drawing.  The kids each colored their own tail.  They played some fun relay races and made fossil cookies.

 And we had some fun with photoshop.  They boys thought it was kind of cool.

1/26/15 Tyson and Grampa Cook took the boys skiing at Alta.  It was Tyson's first time too!  Tyson said the boys were being so lazy! They thought it was the hardest thing they had ever done!  But they did it and we were proud of them!

 While they were gone I received my results from my Ancestry DNA test.  I was very surprised that I didn't get more of my German ancestors' genes!  

Callan had his 4 year check up.  Everything was great.  We talked about his terrible leg pains at night.  He's been having them for 2.5 years now and at that point he was having them 3-4 nights a week.  It makes me so sad when he wakes up screaming and in so much pain!  I asked the doctor if we could do just a basic blood panel and make sure there wasn't something obviously off.  He agreed that the frequency and duration made it very strange and wanted to look into it further.  After that day the growing pains suddenly decreased drastically!  They've only been about once a week ever since!  I bet the doctor thinks I'm crazy!  I haven't taken him in for the labs yet.  I figured we'd give it a little more time now that it's not every night.

1/30 And because I can't resist a sleeping baby picture!  We have had such a hard time getting Fin to bed at night.  He used to go down really well, but lately he just wants to sit in the recliner with Tyson and watch a Jazz game.  One night on our way home from Walmart I said to Tyson, "I have an idea.  Lets put the older boys down and then you hide so Fin doesn't see you.  Don't sit down and watch TV or he'll want to sit with you."  From the backseat Callan yelled, "Mom!  Dad can do whatever he wants!  If he wants to sit down in his chair and watch TV, HE CAN!"  That Callan is very protective of his daddy!

1/31/15 A miraculous picture of Collette with all her nephews and niece - everyone looking except sleeping Isla!