Bottoms up

It might as well be called "drink this if you want to make it to St. George alive tonight".

President's Day in PC

1 weekend. No kids. Park City, UT. It was great. We slept in, ate way too much, shopped, boarded, slept some more, watched the Olympics, and hung out with good friends. Thanks Ed & Diane for watching the boys! And thanks Mom & Dad for the condo!


A view from the condo. It looks so calm.





At least Eric is paying attention.



Happy Valentines Day!

Stuff

A while ago I had to go digging in our "storage unit/garage". I was looking for winter clothes to wear to Park City over President's day weekend. Luckily, I found everything I need fairly quickly, but digging through everything made me miss my stuff. It's gonna be like Christmas morning when I finally get to open all of these boxes again.

Super bowl Salad

I think it needs to be said that Eric ordered a cobb salad for his main course on super bowl Sunday. Hot wings? No. Ribs? No. Burger? No. A cobb salad. This is how much he likes a good cobb. So, a cobb salad we made.



How ironic it is that just the night before we were playing the Not-So-Newlywed game at Sarah's Valentine's party and when asked what Eric's catch phrase is I answered, "I'm a Man!". He got this from some football coach who kept repeating it in an interview, I'm a man! So he uses it when I ask him to rotate the laundry or make the bed or get up from the couch - "but don't you see, I'm A MAN!" A MAN WHO ORDERS COBB SALADS.

Lucy Jean is 1

Anne brought Lucy down for a quick visit this week - just in time to celebrate her 1st birthday (this saturday). She is our miracle baby and has come such a long way. I think she is the most chill one year old I have ever met. She sure didn't start out that way!
Happy Birthday LUCY!

Pretend City

I am thinking I will just post the few pictures I have from our visit and leave it at that.



The lady in the back totally ruined this for me....

fixed

Ok, the video is fixed now from the previous post. For some reason it was set as private. It's really just to prove that they sing the song all. day. long.

It all started with his Halloween costume

I don't need to remind you that my kids are hooked on legos. OBsessed is more like it. Cohen has moved on from his Lego Spongebob obsession to Toy Story and Indiana. The problem is that Indiana has accessories. Hat, sword, gun, satchel - he's decked out, and if one part goes missing we are in trouble. I am woken up every morning by Cohen saying this - "Mom, I can't find my Indiana Jones guy, he's in my bed, go find him." So, last night Ed & Diane took the boys to Target to pick out a toy. I think they were feeling bad that they had been sick for a few days - but I guess Grandparents never need a reason. Well, they came home with these....


....notice the age requirement for these things (7-14). Translation: Ed and I put most of Ethan's together while Ethan put Cohen's together for him. The entire time we were building the Temple of Doom the boys were singing/humming the Indiana theme song. Duh duh duh duhhhh, duh duh duhhhhh... duh duh duhhhh duhhhhhhh, duh duh duh duH dUH. I didn't get it on tape last night but I did this morning when I came downstairs and caught them playing with their new loot. I hear it at least 135 times a day.

Delivery

Why does this make me giddy? It came in the mail yesterday and just opening it made me happy. Now...what to make?

E for Emmett

Rachel just had her THIRD boy and so we celebrated last night. Unfortunately, I wasn't on the ball about taking pictures of everything.... but I did remember to take some of the cookies I made before I left. Welcome, Emmett King Owens!

Here's what I think about this gift

1. I don't have a girl.
2. I'm not planning on having a girl.
3. Green Bay is out of the playoffs, booo.
4. I wish it was my size.
5. Maybe it will fit Lucy?
6. Don't give Eric any ideas.
7. I need to put it in a box so it stops eyeing me from the shelf.
8. I miss the midwest.
9. Please Cortney, don't buy me any more baby clothes.
10. But, thank you for thinking of me!

the weekend

FRIDAY: eric worked, tried to stay up and watch a documentary but fell asleep around 10:30. went in to check on ethan's number (they have been in bed for two hours at this point), they were both in ethan's bed watching videos on an iPhone. went on a rampage, took any and all nightlights out of their room, slammed the door and tried to fall back asleep.

SATURDAY: eric worked again, woke up at 7, I was his first patient. i needed an onlay redone from a previous dentist. took the boys to jump and shout, came home, tried to start my church lesson. eric called, locked his keys in the ignition, needed his spare. Ugh. eric comes home, gets a wild hair to take the boys off-roading in the Rover. "ok, but I'm not coming to rescue you for the second time today if you get stuck". famous last words. they leave, i'm still trying to finish my lesson. eric calls, uhhhh jos,..... i'm stuck. more like, i thought i would be really cool and drive through a 3 foot puddle of water and the engine shut off. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME" (edited for a G rating). so, diane gets in her car to go out and rescue the boys (i think she felt the need to go otherwise divorce might have been discussed shortly after arriving at the scene). thankfully, a HUMMER (eric's embarrassment at this point is at an all time high) was there to save the day. he towed eric out of the puddle so that diane didn't have to, and probably wouldn't have been able to. i get the boys home, feed them dinner, and ethan starts to panic, "mom, i think my tooth fell out - MOM, i swallowed my tooth!!"

poor kid was devastated so we wrote the tooth fairy a nice note explaining our situation.

and wouldn't you know, she came anyway! start getting the boys ready for bed when a genius plan pops into my head. not wanting to repeat last nights fiasco, I pull ethan's mattress off his bed and put it in diane's sewing room. ethan is loving this idea, cohen not so much. both boys ASLEEP by 7:30. better than sex. tow truck finally makes it home.


we go to our friends house to hang for a bit, watch an illegal copy of lovely bones, not recommended, talk some nonsense and go home to bed.

SUNDAY: boys ended up sleeping 12 hours, hasn't happened FOREVER, eric woke up and went straight out to his car - it STARTED! got ready for church but had to leave early for choir. i guess eric wasn't ready right at 1:00 because everyone else showed up but him.
I text him at 1:15 - where r u?
e: printing my lesson.
j: hurry up!
1:20 - e: where are mom's keys?
j: what's wrong with your car?
e: uhhhh, won't start.
j: bleep. i am listing that car on craigslist when i get home.
1:30 eric arrives at church.
2:00 cohen falls asleep just in time to take him to sunbeams.

3:00 - i teach my lesson, go home, have some lunch, rotate some laundry, watch some football, car is still dead.
5:30 - i list the Rover on craigslist, anyone? anyone?
7:30 - watch Favre lose, lame. but on a positive note, boys are in their beds. asleep.

Will Monday ever come?

Easy journal

Ok, remember when I had a ventfest and posted THIS? Well, today I am eating my words - I gotta give props to one of "those" bloggers. Her last post on the 5 year journal actually had me intrigued. I went to the website and come to find out, there are tons of versions of this book. It's genius because it's formatted for just one line a day. Something I think I could handle. I bought the Mom's one line a day, I wish I would have started this 6 years ago when Ethan was a baby. I was horrible at writing down his firsts. I was thinking of buying a bunch for future baby shower gifts but I've got too many burp cloths lying around I better give those instead!!

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Here's to 5 years

Ok, I guess I did have one thing to blog about. Ethan's D (diagnosis/diabetes) Day. He chose to celebrate at Chuck E Cheese. Ugh. Of course, I couldn't say no but I did suggest we eat somewhere else. Frozen pizza is not my thing. Eric surprised him with donuts, seen very infrequently at this house because he LOVES them - probably because he never has them. Then we moved on to ChuckE, played 30$ worth of tokens between the 5 of us...which only lasted a little over an hour. Grabbed some ChicfilA and them home to open a gift. He really deserves this day. We should probably celebrate it more often because of how well he does with all that goes along with the disease. He is a major stud, patient, brave, and never questions why. I am so lucky.

Homebody

There hasn't been too much to blog about this week other than the weather. We've been shut-ins for the past week due to the crazy storms we've been having here. California sure shuts down at the slightest chance of rain, but this was a little more than a sprinkle. Tornadoes? In Southern California, who knew? I love me some crazy weather, the stronger the better!