MY MOM

Who would fly to South Carolina and organize, move things, hang pictures, buy lights (because none of the bedrooms have overhead lights???), take us to Sam's, hang out with my boys, take us to dinner, and a million other things. And on top of all of that sleep in Luke's room and for all of those who don't know Luke is a HORRIBLE sleeper. I think he wakes up about five times crying in the night. MY MOM!!! Aren't mom's wonderful? What would this world be like without mothers? My mom was so hopeful and such a good sport!! I am lucky enough to have the greatest mom in the whole world. Our family would not make it without this lovely woman. Thanks mom we love youand miss you like crazy!!!!

Riverwalk Cafe

We also ate at a yummy restaurant called the Riverwalk Cafe. They had really good seafood and the boys loved it because they could throw peanut shells on the floor. Unfortunately, they did not quite get it was just the peanut shells we throw, poor waitress, but we did leave her a good tip!

At the Riverwalk Cafe, eating peanuts.

Mommy and Luke at the Cafe.

Ezra after getting soaked in the water with all of his clothes on!

Luke trying to decide if he likes it and Ezra about to run and jump in a huge pool of water on the sand.

Myrtle Beach

A couple of weeks ago we decided to take a quick weekend trip to Myrtle Beach. It was a great getaway from our crazy life. The beach was beautiful. It was clean, warm water, white sand, fireworks, music playing, and yummy food. Ezra loves everything about the beach, the sand, the water, and the seashells. Luke, we are working on!

Pigsty

So, the other day Ezra, Luke, and I had nothing to do, after the sixth straight day of rain. (We received a lot of rain because of hurricane Fay that hit Florida.) We decided to go check out the local library. Suprisingly, it has a really neat children's area with art tables, couches, lots of really big stuffed animals, a table full of puzzles, a puppet theatre, story time, days they do art projets witht he kids, and other fun activities that go on during the week. The library is decorated in the theme of Where the Wild Things Are and it has trees and a mural of the monsters and is really really neat. Ezra loves the library and he picked out a bunch of books for us to read. One of these books happened to be a book called pigsty, by Mark Teague. It is a great book about a boy who doesn't keep his room clean and pigs come and take over his room. Well for some reason Ezra really internalized the book and now is always concerned about us leaving his room or the house messy in fear that pigs will come and live here. It is hilarious, aren't three year olds sweet!

We are Here!

We are finally here!!!! After a whirlwind three weeks, we finally made it to the beautiful South Carolina. We have had an extremely busy and exciting last three weeks. It started out with an awesome and amazing trip to Alaska with the Olsen fam. We had an incredible time seeing bears, eagles, eating, whale watching, viewing glaciers, zip lining, eating, dancing, playing cards, chatting, oh and did I mention eating. We arrived home on Saturday and Spencer was driving a huge, 26 footer, Penske truck with all of our junk to South Carolina on Thursday. Needless to say we were in quite a rush to get everything packed and on its way. We were suprisingly successful, but not without many long nights and help from lots and lots of good friends and family. Thank you again everyone! While Spencer was driving the monstrous load to SC we were living at my mom's and trying to tie up all of the loose ends.






















And.....now we are here! It is a beautiful place (the pictures are just a couple that we have taken of the scenery and campus here) and there will be posts to come to tell you about our adventures in the old SC.

Ezra is Three!

My little baby just turned three! It is hard to believe that Ezra is already three. I was just thinking about the first year of his life and it seemed like an eternity, but it is crazy how fast it really goes by. This year has brought so much fun and excitement, of course with the challenges. We have done everything from potty training, transitioning to a big boy bed, learned letters, sounds, numbers, how to pray, learned all about the apostles and prophets (his latest kick since President Hinckley died and general conference), how to kick a ball, how to talk back to your mom, how to help mom, how to share toys with your little brother, how to hit, use potty words, kill things, talk about blood and guts, laugh when you fart, wrestle with dad, and of course we have played hours and hours and days and days of Thomas the Train. This year has been a blast. It is so fun to watch them grow and learn. They grow up so much between two and three it is hard to believe. He has turned from my little baby to a little boy and I have loved almost every minute of it.

Ezra really wanted to celebrate his birthday at Jungle Jim's and so that is what we did. We packed up my sorry attempt at a train cake, his stuff for his new bed, and invited my parents and the Biesingers to come along. Ezra got a bike from Grandma and Grandpa and some awesome pool stuff from The Biesinger. We also had a party with Spencer's family on Sunday where he cashed in on tons and tons of Thomas Stuff he was ecstatic.

Little Lukers

As all of you know I have been MIA for the last several months. But, I have decided to recommit myself to blogging and so here we go. I plan on attmepting to catch up in a series of posts over the next couple of days, but we will see. I am just going to start with some random pictures of my little Luke. He is getting so big and he is cute as ever. My mom (who is an amazing photographer) took these super cute pictures of Luke at Ezra's birthday and I just had to post them.