435 Pictures

It's been a while since I've uploaded pictures to our computer, and since the last time I uploaded pictures, I uploaded 435 pictures tonight. I don't have the patience to go through them all, so here's a few of the things that we did in pictures!

We went to Ryan's work Kickball game!

Brig, Michelle and Tam helping me prep our wall for painting!

Michelle had some awesome tips to help make the paint job look better! Thanks Shell!

Coal playing on the ladder.

Tanner, Sierra, Coal and Bailey

Max helping us paint the next day!

B and Max helping us paint!

First coat

Tam and Coal dancing

Finished product! Really bright

 I have way too many pictures to go through tonight, so I will post pictures from Memorial Day later this week :)

Awesome!

Ryan got me the best "Mother's Day" gift ever!!! A kitchen-aid!

This week has been going well! On Monday we had a follow-up doctor's appointment for Tate's arm and everything seems to be ok! The brace helped him for a week so no cast is needed and he will probably be wearing the brace at night to make sure that everything stays ok. He had baseball practice today and every once an a while when he would catch it would hurt, so he'll keep wearing the brace. 

With spending more times with the boys it is fun getting to know them better! A cute thing that Jennie did before she went down to Cali was put up pictures of the family and write cute notes to the boys! Here's one of the picture's she put up! I love it!

While Mom's away...

Tate=11, Lincoln=7, Chandler=14

 While my sister is down in California for a while I get to spend a lot of time with these boys! They are a fun bunch of kids to hang out with and I'm really enjoying it!

So far this week...

I have taken Tate to the doctor's because he fell off his scooter on Sunday and his right hand has been hurting him a lot, so he had an X-ray on his arm, which the doctor found a small fracture, so he is currently wearing a brace to see if that will help, and next Monday we will go back to find out if he will need a cast! Thankfully, Tate is a lefty so he is still able to do his homework :)

Lincoln does Karate, so Monday, Wednesday and Friday means Karate and he loves it and is doing awesome!

Tate and Lincoln are involved in Baseball, but because of Tate's injury he hasn't gone to baseball this week, but tomorrow will be Lincoln's baseball practice...

Chandler is involved in Tennis so he gets home anytime between 5pm and 7pm most days. 

 

Other than that it consists of making sure the boys are doing their homework, reading, chores and eat a good dinner. It's really been helping me be better at making dinner too! So far this week I've made Mango and Ham Cilantro Quesadilla's mmmm and Homemade Shepherds Pie! I didn't know how easy it was to make Shepherds pie! Too bad I can't ever make it at home with Ryan...

My brother-in-law Rob is doing such a great job and putting everything together for dinner's and what the boys have planned for the day. Once I get off work, I head to a neighbor's house and pick up the boys and head home, once we're home, there are 3 little white boards that Rob has written on for each of the boys of what they need to do that day or what they have planned, it usually consists of getting homework and reading done, a chore and if the boys have a sport or scouts/mutual that night. It's very helpful having everything written out, all I have to do is make sure the boys stay on task and get it done. 

Lincoln and his friend Evan at the awesome park yesterday!

 Last night I came home to find these...

So pretty! Thanks Ryan!

Tonight, after eating leftover's for dinner, Chandler showed me how he makes Muddy Buddies! They are sooooooooo good! He did a great job!

Muddy Buddies

While Lincoln was at Karate today, I stopped by Walmart and found this for Ryan! I'm pretty sure he's going to love it! It's a shaved ice machine and 6 flavorings.

Things are going great and it's a lot of fun getting to know my nephew's even more than I already do!

Before I forget

 Lots have gone on in our lives the past few weeks. Too many details to explain. But I've been spending a lot more time with my family :)

Chandler (farthest right) turned 14! This Sunday we went to his ordination and on his birthday he played Tennis and was the only one on his team that won that day! Woot woot Chandler!

Nicole- You'll enjoy this haha we added some "Mormon Ads" to Chandlers bedroom

Yesterday we went up to Brigham City for little Ty's baby blessing! Here's Ty and his Dad!

Here's one of Sam actually smiling

The guys that were in the circle during his blessing

Us at the blessing

We had a brunch at the nearby high school in their common's area and the kids loved playing everywhere!

Other things that we have done this week is we saw the Avengers movie! It was amazing, best action movie ever!! 

 

With all the stuff that's going on right now, I'm going to be working part time at work for a few months and I'm pretty excited about the change. I'll be working Mon-Fri still but 11am-4pm. Yay for change! And I will be able to see Ryan for a little bit before I go to work!