Pictures

Here are some pictures I finally uploaded off my camera. Just stuff the boys have been doing lately.



We were slackers and didn't get a card in the mail on time for Mother's Day. So the boys made Grandma Jane an e-card that we emailed to her. Luckily, Grandma Walker lives here so we got her a real card on time for Mother's Day.




Jack loves to try on shoes. He doesn't discriminate. Men's or women's, doesn't matter to him. Here he is my church black church shoes. I sometimes have a hard time choosing between the two as well.




I'm surprised Jack could even stand up wearing Robby's backpack. He wore it around until Robby had to go to Scouts and wasn't happy when it got taken away.




My kids love watering the flowers. Fortunately, they can't turn on the water themselves or my flowers would be drowning. I'm not good at remembering to water the flowers though, so it is nice that the boys remind me.




I made this apron for Owen since he loves to cook so much (mostly cookies). But when Jack gets a chance he likes to wear it too.




Owen's cousins got him this awesome sucker at Disneyland. Unfortunately, it kept getting dropped and broken. Eventually, the sucker that was left mysteriously "disappeared" into the garbage. Thanks Payton, Fallyn and Mayce!




Owen got soccer goals for his birthday. Now that the weather is nice he is outside playing whenever he can find an opponent. You probably can't see but he is also wearing his shin guards. The shin guards are used for everything these days: soccer, running, bike riding, etc.

Easter, Finally

I know Easter was over a month ago, but here are some pictures. We hadn't a pretty low key Easter weekend. Robby was lucky enough to be able to take Saturday off so we went to my friend Melanie's parent's house for an awesome Easter egg hunt. Later that day we dyed eggs with Robby's sister's family. On Sunday we had dinner with Robby's parents and the kids did another small Easter egg hunt with their cousins. It was nice to have a weekend with Robby for the first time since tax season began.



Here are the kids after the Easter Egg hunt. Owen wouldn't look at the camera because the sun was too bright and Jack was too busy transferring eggs from his basket to Owen's for some reason. So this is the best picture we got.




The boys with their baskets before getting everything out.




The boys after they emptied their baskets. Since we have early church they didn't get much time to look at them. Last year Robby got up with the boys on Easter and they ate their chocolate bunnies before I even woke up.

Changing Up the Blog

So I have been resisting changing my blog. Then tonight (since Robby is working at home and I'm bored) I decided it was time to make it look a little cuter than the basic layout I got when I first started this thing. After way too much time (I won't admit how much time) I finally picked a layout and at the same time realized why I don't usually do this kind of stuff. I have issues. I can't for the life of me just pick something and be happy with it. I have to make sure I have seen everything and then I have to try most of them. It's exhausting. Robby makes fun of me because I do the same thing even when I am making a Primary handout or something. I have to download a new font and that in itself takes way too long to pick out. In the end I know all the kids probably don't even make it home with the handout I have spent hours on, but for some reason I can't help myself. I blame it on my mother. I got all my OCD-ness from her and my son is now inheriting the OCD gene. For example, he won't touch finger paint (too messy), his blankets have to be perfectly tucked in at night and for awhile his blankie even had to be folded in a square, until I stopped this because I got sick of waking up in the middle of the night to refold the blankie in a square. This is only the start of it. His preschool teacher even told me Owen is one of her most 'meticulous" students. I guess this is a nice way of saying obsessive-compulsive. Poor Owen, it's not his fault. It's just in his genes.

By the way, the "cub scout badge" blog layout was a close second to the one I finally chose. Maybe next time.

St. Patrick's Day

I know this post is really late but I finally uploaded all of my pictures onto my computer from my camera.

On St. Patrick's Day we really didn't do anything exciting. But Robby came home at a decent time (8 PM) so we decided to have dinner with him. Actually, we had green breakfast for dinner. We had green waffles, green eggs, green Orange Julius, and bacon. I thought it would bother Owen that everything was green but he thought it was really funny. He kept saying, "This isn't Orange Julius, this is Green Julius!" The eggs were VERY green because Robby had a little mishap with the food coloring. They looked disgusting.

VIP

This week at school Owen is the VIP. So last week Owen's teacher sent us home with a cardboard cutout of a person to decorate that will be on display during Owen's VIP week. Owen decided he wanted the cutout to wear the same clothes as he wanted to wear to school. So we took pictures of his clothes, stretched and pulled them to fit in Adobe, then printed and cut them out. We also took a picture of of Owen's head and did the same thing. We then printed out graphics of some of his favorite things: soccer, the book "Russell the Sheep" and a hammer because he wants to be a builder when he grows up. We put everything on the cutout and this is what we got. Robby said it was really cool but kind of "eerie" how much the cutout looked like Owen.


I'm not sure what else being the VIP entails. I think Owen gets to be the special helper and he gets to bring show and tell this week. By the way, he was the VIP this week because it was his turn alphabetically.

Still Here

I swear we are still alive. It has been especially weird and crazy tax season this year. We are so excited that there are only two weeks left! Hopefully, life will return to normal again.

Last week the boys and I decided we had had enough of tax season so we took off to Portland to visit my parents. The boys had a blast and we were sad when we had to leave (although glad to see Robby). It was a nice break from the tax season routine. As soon as my dad sends me the pictures I will post them.

Other than that we haven't done much of anything the last few weeks. We are just anxiously awaiting April 15th!

Crazy Jack

Jack is nothing like Owen was as a baby. If you told Owen not to do something, he didn't do it. Of course, with Owen I figured this was due to my excellent parenting skills! However, Jack was sent to humble me. He does not listen and gets into everything. I now realize how good Owen was to me, despite being a bad sleeper.

A few weeks ago, my friends Meredith informed me that her son Ryan, who is four days older than Jack, started climbing out of his crib. Initially, I though poor Meredith, that sucks! Much to my dismay, Jack started getting out of his crib not even a week later. I was sitting in the family room with my parents and Robby after putting the kids to bed. Not long after I heard footsteps. Jack walked right out, sat on the couch and cuddled up to Robby. I immediately accused Owen of helping him get out. But Owen insisted Jack got out himself. Hoping it was just a fluke, I put Jack back in his crib. He then repeated to get out 8 times in about 10 minutes.

When Owen started getting out of his crib I just told him not to and he didn't do it. Not so with Jack! We finally had to go in his room and turn his crib around backwards. Poor Jack is now in a cage because the bars are higher than his head. It makes it hard to get him in and out, but worth it because he is trapped!

Here is the crib now that it is backwards!