Spring Break fun for $10 or less a day

One week down and one to go. Overall we had a pretty good week. We did not have any plans to go out of town so I knew I had to keep the boys busy doing fun things around town. I started out the week with a plan to do something fun each day. Bad weather at the end of the week made us change the plans a little but overall I think the boys had a fun week.

Monday- My friend was nice enough to watch baby for me so the boys and I could go have some fun. We went to the dollar show ( really it cost's 1.50) and saw Bolt. The movie was actually pretty cute. After that we went the library and then we stopped at Qdoba for lunch. Total spent $18. This was our splurge day as you will see.

Tuesday- Skate City here we come!!! Little did I know how popular Skate City was going to be. When we arrived there was a line all the way out to the parking lot. Once we finally got inside the boys had a lot of fun. After a couple of hours of skating we left and stopped at McDonald's on the way home for french fries and ice cream cones. There is a red box right outside so we picked up Madagascar 2 to watch when we got home. Thanks to the boys school we had coupons to skate for free and only had to pay 1.50 for skate rental for Dylan. Total spent $ 7.

Dylan helping his friend skate.

Wednesday- Off to Denver we go. We have a membership to the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver so that was our destination. We happened to have some guest pass so our friends were able to come with us for free. We spent most of the day there and the boys had a blast. On the way home we dropped of the movie we rented the day before and picked up a new one for Thursday. Jax got to pick and his choice was Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Total spent $1

Let's have some fun.

Playing with moon sand.
Jaxon making blue goop.

Thursday- The weatherman was calling for a blizzard so we went to Target early in the morning to pick up a few essentials. That included food for baby,Dr Pepper for me, Root beer for the boys and Mac and cheese for lunch! The boys had some friends over to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua and we watched the storm roll in. Total spent $ 0

We took this picture about 3 p.m.

This is our backyard a little while later.

Friday- The storm wasn't quite has bad as I thought it would be but it did leave enough snow for the boys to play in. Surprisingly the spent most of the day outside playing together. Total spent $0

Watch out here comes a snow ball!

The jeep wasn't going anywhere.
Taking a break in the sun.

My sister and her family are coming tomorrow and will be here all of the next week. The boys are really excited to play with their cousins and I have lots of fun things planned.

One a different note Ally is almost 7 months old. We got lucky for the first 6 months and she escaped without getting any of the colds going around. Our luck came to an end when she came down with bronchitis. She was pretty sick for about ten days but thankfully she is back to normal now. She loves to sit and watch her brothers play. She has her two bottom teeth and her two top teething are coming in. This has meant some sleepless night this week as she is in some pain. We finally got smart and started giving her Tylenol the last couple of nights. I hope they come in soon. Here are some recent pics.

Our sweet baby girl.

Whose a big girl now?

No more laying down now, it's sitting up or nothing.

Catching up in February

Febraury was another busy month in our home, between dodging the illnesses that our friends and their kids had to losing every basketball game that we played this month it was interesting. Allyson is getting bigger and bigger every month, I am cherishing her being a baby and the love the smiles that she has for me every day when I come home from work. Allyson started eating fruits and vegetables last week and Sommar has advised me to never feed her a whole container of peas in one sitting again. I guess you live and learn. Her first tooth is starting to come in, I tried to get a picture last night but she was not very helpful in letting me hold her mouth open, her tongue down and take a picture. She is also getting close to scooting a little, she has the belly pivot down well and seems ready to start on her superman exercises. The boys are great, Dylan was a square dancer in his school play last night and he seemed to have lots of fun. Jaxon is becoming more and more like me everyday and I am not quite sure how to deal with that, he is going to cause us heaps of trouble. The boys start soccer next month so our weeks will be even busier again with twice a week practice and Saturday games so we will look forward to the next few free Saturdays.

Allyson ready for her Jillian work out

Allyson showing off her first solid meal.

Dylan square dancing...this is why Sommar doesn't let me take pictures

Do you remember when....

Brandon set up a new screen saver for our computer where it just picks random pictures that are saved on our computer. It has been neat to see pictures of the boys pop up from when they were little. That coupled with the fact that Ally rolled over for the first time this weekend (that will be my next blog) got me thinking about the boys when they were little. Can you remember when each of your kids rolled over, started crawling, walking or talking? It makes me sad to say that I can't. I look back now at when my two boys were little and I can remember wishing away the days of them being babies and wanting them to grow up too fast. Because they were only 13 months apart I think I was a little overwhelmed with taking care of two babies and I know I didn't enjoy them as much as I should have. I see that now that we have Ally and how much our whole family, the boys included love to just sit on the floor and play with her. She is already getting so big way to fast. I regret not taking the time to enjoy the boys as babies more and I am not making the same mistake with Ally. While the boys are at school I get to spend my whole day with her. I am enjoying all of the one on one time and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I realize now you can never get back those cute smile's that melt your heart and the quite moments of cuddling. Here are some of the cute pictures of the boys when they were little.

Jax.... I think Ally looks a lot like him
Dylan couldn't wait for Jax to get big enough to play with him
Dylan at the park
Dylan playing in the sprinklers

Dylan ready to play golf with dad
We used to call Jax our "old man"

Christmas Morning

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Grandma and Grandpa B came from AZ to spend Christmas with us and the boys really enjoyed that. We went out on Christmas Eve and drove around at looked at all of the lights. We even found a house that had all of it's lights set to music. You tuned your radio to a specific station and the music played in you car while you watched the lights. It was really cool. Then we went home and had hot chocolate and then it was time for the boys to go to bed so Santa could come. They were very excited this year and could hardly sleep. Dylan came to see us about 3 am and I told him to go back to bed until 6. He was back again about 5:45. They were ready to go right at 6 am. After presents we spent the day playing with all of our new gifts. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

The boys waiting to see what Santa brought.
Yea!! We got what we wanted.
Dylan with an AZ cardinal shirt w/ his name on the back

Jaxon got a new bike with handle brakes.

Thanks G and G Green for the game!
Ally got some tights from G and G B
By far Jaxon's favorite gift... Bakugon
Thanks G and G Green for the radio.

To cold to go to school?

This post is for our family and friends back in AZ. After having a snow day last week for what seemed like no apparent reason I thought for sure the kids would have at least a two hour delay this morning. It snowed all morning yesterday and then in the afternoon the sun came out just enough to melt the snow so it could freeze again overnight. When I went to bed at midnight I thought we would have a nice lazy morning and I could sleep in today. No such luck. Not only did we have to get up on time it was FREEZING outside. When the boys left for school it was -3 degrees. The news said it was -18 with the windchill although it didn't seem to windy to me. I bundeld the kids up before they left and they didn't seem to mind the cold. It has warmed up a little, as of now it is 2 degrees. As I am sure you have guessed my day will be spent cuddling with Ally on the couch!!! Lucky for me I have the Survivor finale on tivo! Anybody who hasn't seen it come on over!!

The boys on the way to school.

Ally's Photo Session

Lucky for me I have an awesome friend who happens to be really good at taking pictures. Not only that but she loves to take pictures of Ally. So instead of going out to get Ally's pictures taken we had a photo shoot at our house.Ally is three months old now. She is still a happy baby and has just discovered her tongue. She loves to stick it out and the boys think it is hilarious. She definitely has all of us wrapped around her little fingers! Thanks to Rachael for all of the great pictures!!!! I also have to say thanks to Rachael for the header on my blog. She happened to take all three of those pictures and put the header together for me!! What would I do without her?? The photo's below speak for themselves.

This last one was not taken by Rachael but I thought it was cute.

Catching Up

Well it's been a while since my last blog so here's what's been happening with us. Brandon took a day off of work a few weeks ago and the boy's had a day out with dad. They each got to pick one thing they wanted to do. Dylan choice was to go to build a bear workshop and Jaxon wanted to go hiking. It was a little chilly so we tried to talk him out of that but had no luck. The weather turned out to be O.K. and they had a great time. They left after breakfast and by 5 p.m. Ally and I were feeling kind of lonely and were looking forward to them coming home. We had spent the day at home keeping warm and reading a book. Well I was reading and Ally was sleeping!! Here are some pictures of the boys fun day.

Jax with his bear, Tom Brady and

Dylan with his bear Dilly

They boys hiking at Garden of the Gods. Dylan climbing up the rocks.

Jax striking a pose.

After Garden of the Gods the guys drove about an hour away and went hiking in the woods. They came across this tepee and the boys thought it was really cool.

We haven't had much snow this year so the boy's have been waiting patiently to go sledding. We finally had a pretty good snow storm and Brandon took the boys to the school to sled down the hill. They have been asking for a snowboard but I think we will stick with the sleds for at least one more year. Once again Ally and I stayed nice and warm at home. She's still a little young to be out on the hills. Maybe next year!

Even though Ally wasn't able to go sledding I had to get a picture of her with the boys in the snow.

Although we haven't had much snow we have had some cold days. One day this week when the boys left for school it was only 10 degrees outside. The boys didn't seem to mind at all. Of course I decided the errands I had to run could wait another day!! I case you haven't noticed a theme, when it is REALLY cold outside or snowing I stay nice and warm inside. I guess that's what happens when you grow up in AZ!