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.

Lost Camera and Tag

So, I lost my camera and that is why there have been no updates for so long. But, good news, I got a new one for Christmas and so we will be back in action. Yeah!!!!


Tag-you're it!
The name of this game is to answer the following 10 questions and then tag 4 other friends to do the same on their blog pages...

Best thing you cooked last week...I usually cook a lot. But, with all of the holidays and now that we are in San Diego nothing. I guess I cooked a really good spinach and pasta salad for Christmas Eve.

When was the last time you cried?
I am definitely not a crier. To be quite honest, I have no idea.

Five things you were doing 10 years ago:
1. I was in junior high and was loving it.
2. I was on the swim team at Brighton High School
3. Talking on the phone a lot.
4. Hanging out with friends.
5. Taking dance and piano.

Five things you were doing 5 years ago:
1. Getting married to my sweet, sweet husband.
2. Trying to finish up my undergraduate degree.
3. Moving into Pinnacle Reserve Apartments
4. Working with little kids at the Boys Ranch
5. Trying to do sharing time with 5 little sunbeams running around.

Five things you were doing 1 year ago:
1. Vacationing in San Diego
2. Vacationing in Arizona while my husand was in China
3. 8 1/2 months pregnant
4. Loving every minute of staying out home with my little Ez
5. Hanging out with the Young Women.

Seven of your favorite hobbies: reading, working out, going to dinner, hanging with my family, vacationing, taking pictures, shopping, and being with friends.

Five favorite foods:
1. Frozen Blueberries
2. Jamba Juice
3. Bread
4. Chocolate
5. Sushi

Five places you've been:
The Carribean, Several countries in Europe, Florida, New York, & DC

Five Favorite Memories:
Giving birth to two sweet little boys, getting married to my wonderful husband, my freshman and sophomore year of college, going to europe with my family, seeing ezra after coming home from a long week at girl's camp, and too many more to mention.

I am tagging: Brooke, Shanna, Di, Annie, and Sis

October 2007

I had Ezra and Luke's pictures taken at Trolley Square in October and I thought they were so cute. Janelle of Atellier Photography did such an awesome job. Of course both my kids got really sick the day before we got pictures and so neither of them were cooperating, and Luke usually loves Ezra but wanted nothing to do with him. However, she got some really great ones. I love the cute close-ups and the ones that they are interacting, so cute!

Ezra & Luke