Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!

I just had the greatest birthday. Thank you to everyone who called and emailed and facebooked - you made me feel great! Scott is the greatest at making my birthday really special. He does all those little things that just make you fell spoiled. He only had to work for a few hours yesterday(quite a miracle really!). He made me French Toast for breakfast, took me out to lunch, and took care of dinner too. He made me a cake and did all the dishes. AND he got me the best gifts!! It was the best day ever. If only everyday could be a birthday!




Check out my new purse - which I LOVE!!!!! Scott had a friend pick it up in NY, NY. It was exactly what I wanted. I went out today and smiled to myself everytime I could get something out or put something in my new purse!

once there was a snowman...

We went out to visit Scott's parents last week. Just for fun. They always seem to be coming to our house and we rarely drive out there. So we made the trip and spent the afternoon just visiting. Moses and Grandma took advantage of the sunshine and made a snowman.

Moses named his snowman Igloo. I thought that was a pretty good name for a snowman!

Grandma sent this picture a few days later.

In the sun he melted...

First Hair Cut

Kael's hair was getting a bit shaggy. Even Moses said he looked like a girl. So I decided it was time to let him finally get his hair cut. Just a little around the ears and from the forehead. It doesn't look that different but much neater. He didn't mind it too much, but he didn't make it easy on Grandma either. He wiggled way too much! He looks so much better now! People are again stopping me in public to tell me what a beautiful baby I have. (They stopped doing that for awhile). Here is the after picture.

Just the two of us

The joys of a weekend away. Already this seems like such a long time ago. Just before Kael got sick, Scott's parents watched BOTH boys for us for 3 nights while we went to Banff. Scott had a medical conference in Banff and I tagged along. It was so great. I don't really ski or snowboard, so I just spent three days feeling completly relaxed. I even slept until 11:30 one day! (okay, I got up and 7 to got to a lecture with Scott, then went back to bed at 8 and stayed asleep until 11:30). I didn't know I still knew how to sleep in. Scott went to a bunch of classes and meetings. I felt bad for him, but he seemed to enjoy them. It was an amazing three days.

The first night there we were too excited to sleep. We were so used to being tied to our hotel room that at first it felt funny to check in and then just leave again. We went into town and found a place that had a live band. (Alright, I admit it, this place was a bar. Although bars are much more pleasnat to be in now that Alberta has a no smoking bylaw. It didn't even feel like a bar, more like a resturant.) The band was suprisingly good and we had so much fun just listening to music and dancing. We used to love to go to live bands before. I felt so young - not that I'm really old but sometimes I think when you have kids you have to act older than you are or feel. It was a great start to our weekend.

The next night we drove into Calgary (a little over an hour away) and went to a Calgary Flames game. I love live hockey and Scott loves all Flames hockey so it was really fun for both of us. It was even better that the Flames beat the Minnesota Wild by a whopping 4-1!!!! In football score that would be like 28-7! (Just for those non-hockey people that read my blog - you know who you are). As you can tell from the pictures, we sat way up in the nose-bleeds (hockey tickets are actually expensive up here in Canada) but the little people were still bigger than when we watch on our TV - tells you how sad our TV is!

The trip seemed too short, and we had to come home to a sick baby. But I am so glad we went. It is great to know that I still enjoying hanging out with my husband and he is still my best friend.

Not again!!!!

Kael was in the hospital again this last week. Another respiratory problem. I'm starting to feel like Natasha!! Kael had a cold for about a week and then it moved into his lungs. He was having to work pretty hard for every breath so Scott and I felt it would be best to take him in and have is oxygen levels checked. Scott called me Tuesday morning and said the ER was pretty empty and I should come in quick. A few phone calls to find someone to watch Moses and I was there 30 minutes later. The ER was pretty empty, but it still took almost 2 hours before I saw a doctor. A chest x-ray, two breathing treatments, and another 2 hours later and he was being admited for overnight observation. Kael's oxygen levels were all OK, but the doctor was worried about his labored breathing. I was talking to Scott and I don't know that I would have been admitted if we lived in the states, but I think it was a smart preventative move ont he part of the doctors. I have to admit, I was dreading another hospital stay. But he was only in overnight and we were blessed once again to have Scott's parents so close. They were able to come and take Moses to stay at their house. I don't know what we would have done without them. Kael is much better now, back to his usual happy self!

Same pink PJs, same crib, same room. That's right, we were admitted to the same exact hospital room! I'm starting to think of it as my own personal home away from home.

Poor Moses... it's his genetics!

Our friends, the Leavitts, came to visit us from Vancouver. They have two little boys - Tommy is 3 (3 months older than Moses) and Sammy is 18 months old. While they were here the boys would climb onto our window sill and jump. Moses really tried to do it too, but he isn't as coordinated as the Leavitt boys, so it was a little trickier for him! Notice in this video that Sammy (the baby) gets up twice while Moses is trying to get up once and the only way Moses finally does make it up is by pulling on Sammy's arm! I apologize for the video quality - I haven't yet figured out how to avoid backlighting while shooting directly in front of a window, and by the end I couldn't help but laugh so there is some camera shake! (I tried so hard to hold it in!)

Mom and Dad and Waterton

My parents came to visit us for Moses' Birthday. They stayed for a week. We had so much fun with them. Moses loves them both and Kael seemed to like them a lot too! One day while they were here we took a drive to Waterton National Park. It was cold and snowing outside, but they have these little enclosed picnic areas with woodstoves. So we gathered some wood, bummed some matches of the nearest lounge, and built a fire and had a picnic in February! Talk about making memories!

Moses is 3!!!!

So Moses is 3 years old already. I can hardly believe time has gone by so quickly. He is such a wonderful boy and I am so ridiculously proud of him and everything that he does. Still, I can't help but think, "Weren't you just born yesterday?"

To celebrate we had a small family gathering at our home. By small I mean 9 adults and 8 children - I love big families! Moses loves his cousins so it was perfect for him!

Moses' cousins gave him a buzz lightyear toy. He LOVES it. He has slept with it every night since his birthday. And to show his apreaciation he gave his cousin a big hug! This picture makes me laugh - Moses and Brody are into it, but Rhett seems to think it a little crazy!

Kael is stealing the thunder just a little bit. We are still a few months from his birthday but he ate his fair share of cake. And this was the clean picture!

Moses in a box

So Moses fits in a box! We discovered this the other day while playing with an empty diaper box. Moses would crawl in and ask us to fold the top down, then he would jump out and surprise us. When Scott got home he started carrying him around to other rooms in the house as well He would want to jump out in the bathroom, then his bedroom, ect. It was a cute little game - but that's how it always starts.

So Scott decided it would be funny to play a little trick on our basement tenants. He took the box downstairs, knocked on their door, and asked them to hide a box there for him. He told them my birthday was coming up. Scott expected Moses to jump out and scare them and we would all have a good laugh. Well instead, Moses started whimpering from within the box, crying, and saying, "No Dad, don't leave me here!" Completely acting liked he was trapped inside. So what could have been a funny little joked turned out to be a creepy, awkward, weird situation. Although, I still get plenty of laughs out it. Moses hates the box game now...

Old but Necessary

So obviously this movie is old, because it was when we were in Drumheller this summer, BUT, as I was going through our little clips.....I just loved it. So I had to post it. LaShauna will get so angry because now everything is out of order, but it's about 1 am and she is asleep on the couch, so I'm at least safe for a little while!