7 in one day!

Ok... I've been AWOL for about 2 months on my blogging... so here you get all my posts at once. I just spent 4 hours (in between getting breakfast for the kids, etc.) posting what we've been up to for the past little bit.... so don't forget to scroll down and look at them all! (there are 7!)

HAPPY EASTER

Here are pics from Easter. I couldn't get a good one of the kids... Austin kept making these weird faces (it didn't help that he was eating jelly beans during this photo shoot) and finally he smiled and Em was showing too much leg and making a weird face! :) Oh well, cute kids anyway... Happy Easter!

Lice and Boot

This sounds like a fun post, huh? Well, 2 weeks ago tomorrow I found lice in Emily's hair. We have no idea where it came from. It was spring break when I found it, but I guess she could have gotten it at school before spring break! I found it when I was doing her hair for church... needless to say, none of us went to church that day because I didn't know who had it in our family. That day was filled with lice treatment shampoo and brushing out Emily's hair for 3 hours, vacuuming the floors, furniture, matresses, doing laundry, laundry and more laundry (it took me 1 week to finish all the laundry), and bagging up stuffed animals. It was pretty much a nightmare. Our heads itched the whole day, but I guess it was all in our heads because Emily was the only one who got it! Steve buzzed Austin and Noah's heads as a preventive measure. Every night the rest of that week was filled with me brushing out Emily's hair for 2 hours at a time. It was not a pleasant experience for either of us. A huge thank you to my friend, Lanae who let me use an all-natural treatment and comb she had from when her daughter had it a couple of months ago. It worked soooo much better than the pharmacy version. I am convinced the lice would have come back if it wasn't for the all-natural treatment and comb... it actually kills the eggs, so they can't hatch and lay more eggs. Here's Em during one of her treatments... I can't believe she has a smile on her face... she was crying and whining usually the whole time. Oh and she didn't make it to school on time the whole next week because she didn't go to bed until 10pm or after every night during the treatments. Ok... that same week I found lice in Em's hair, I broke my foot. Wow... what a week. I don't even really know how I broke it. I ran 5 miles on Saturday and the next day I woke up and my foot was swollen and sore. I waited 4 more days, but it just seemed to be getting worse. I went to the podiatrist to get x-rays... the doc said I had a stress fracture and I can't run for 2 months. He gave me a really cool boot to wear for 2 months. I'm so bummed because, first of all, I was training with my friend, Joy to run a 10-k at the end of April, so that's out. And second of all, running is my best form of exercise and helps me stay in shape. I actually can't do ANY exercise that I usually do for 2 months! YIKES! I came to the conclusion that I will do my pilates dvds every day while I have my boot. What a great week, huh? sorry... no pics of my boot yet.

Gardening, Worms, and Sprinklers

A couple of weekends ago we decided to change our flowerbed out front. I weeded for like 3-4 hours! Steve was in charge of picking out the flowers/plants since I was in charge last year and I didn't like how it turned out (plus I was too tired from weeding to go to the store and make decisions). He picked out white, purple and yellow flowers. He said they were Easter colors! :) Planting (sorry, no pictures of me weeding)

The boys were fascinated by the earthworms. Noah was all over playing with them, but Austin wouldn't touch them! They finally picked one to be their pet and put it their bug "house" with dirt and named it Wormy.

It was dark by the time we finished... we turned on the sprinklers to water the flowers... the boys had fun running through them in their clothes.

Here's the finished garden. We still have to put mulch down, so I don't have to spend more time weeding...

Bike Ride to Blockbuster

Since we got new bikes for Christmas (and a trailer) we decided to go on a bike ride. We've been on many, but this time instead of staying in our neighborhood and going to one of our parks, we decided to ride a little longer... to Blockbuster! It was downhill on the way there, but uphill as we rode home. Emily did great. The hardest part of the whole trip was agreeing on the movie! Here are a couple of pics of Em on her bike and the boys in the trailer.

The many faces of Em

Em stole our camera and took about 10 self portraits... so when I was looking through the pics one day there were all of em's cute faces... here are a few of my favorites.

Emily turns 7!

My Emily turned 7 on February 22nd. She's our sweetheart... Happy Birthday, Em!

The Easy Bake gift... She's been asking for forever!

She had her friend birthday party at the Ceramic Cellar with the theme of High School Musical. You'll never guess what gifts she got with that theme. Every girl got to paint their own little ceramic figure and we had pizza and cake. It turned out really fun.

We also had a family/cousin party the day after her birthday where she got more HSM stuff!

Story Time with Dad

Good New Music

Here's some good music I've discovered through reading sxsw reviews. check em out...

Frightened Rabbit - myspace

Basia Bulat - myspace

Sons and Daughters - myspace

This is the soundtrack of our life lately...

The Story of Stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.