January 28, 2013

Dashtyn's First Birthday Party

We had a party on Saturday with our family and friends
Snowman/winter theme!! Snowman cupcakes & cake, snowman pretzel rods, snowman almond bark Ritz crackers and snowflake sugar cookies
Birthday boy was timid at first about the cake but he soon got the hang of it and dug right in!!
Birthday boy was getting really tired before cake time so we opened gifts right away


the big kids were anxious to help!
we did get out a couple baby goats and Dash and Corbin fought over them which was pretty cute because even though neither of them talk they sure could express what they wanted!!!
It was a great weekend with family and a good party! We will be doing a little cake and gifts at home on Wednesday for his actual birthday! :) Sunday night after everyone left he got REAL crabby I though the was sick, turns out his is not he just teethes hard, and nothing is helping!! :( :(

January 24, 2013

Sick & Busy

So right after Christmas/The New year Chasen went back to school for one day and had his ear tube taken out the next. It was a scheduled apt. so no more tubes for him!!!
I worked the first Friday in Jan. which was kind of nice since I hadn't been in 4 months, not much had changed and it felt good to go back.
that Saturday we had a movie night and made movie snack necklaces

Then the next week Chasen went to school one day and by the next day at noon he was complaining of a stomach ache, so I sent him to bed he woke up 3 hours later and still didn't feel good and just wanted to lay on the couch. still complaining of a stomach ache but no puking.
I had to go to work that night (they called me and asked and I said yes before I knew he was sick) so if he was gonna get sick I wanted him to do it all before I left so Ean didn't have to deal with it, well around 3pm that day he spiked a 102.9 fever!!! Yikes!! and started complaining of a sore throat :(
Never did puke, I went to work and took him to the Dr the next morning and his strep throat test came back negative. So he just had a virus. He had to stay home from school that next day.
Then following week, which was all last week we spent at home just relaxing, cleaning and watching movies, no one else ever did get sick. So Ean and I went on a mini vacation this sunday/monday to cedarburg, WI.
Ean had bought a groupon for $115 we got a room at The washington house inn. It was like a bed and breakfast, but bigger, had 34 rooms.
they had a complimentary wine and cheese hour every night which included good Wisconsin cheese, my favorite was the almond Swiss, strawberries, blackberries, grapes pretzels and honey mustard!
they also had an amazing breakfast in the morning....everything home made and recipes online!!
even with out the deal Id say its a bargain, better then doughnuts, toast, cheerios and waffles!
so anyway the rest of the groupon included 2 tickets to the movie theater, which was playing Here Comes the Boom!! it was good and funny!
 and also included 2 tickets to tour the winery in town. and a $7 coupon for amys gourmet apples. we got a chocolate covered heath apple!! and shared it with Chasen.
we also went up to the Michigan lake just to look! It was really pretty and REALLY cold!!
But I wanted to walk out there so we did and I swear my eyeballs almost froze.
It was really windy! :)

The boys stayed with Grammie and had a good time! And were pretty good, I think :)
It was nice to get away but this week has brought on more sickness as chasen woke up at 2am tuesday night/wednesday morning and puked alllllll over, which meant we were giving him a bath and doing laundry at 2am. We all fell asleep and in about an hour he puked again  this time in our bed :( but we had him laying on an extra sheet and it wasn't much puke so we just rolled it up and threw it on the floor and went back to bed! lol *sigh*

hopefully we can all stay healthy for Dashtyns 1st brithday party on saturday!!

January 9, 2013

DASH

he is just the sweetest cutest thing ever!
still rocking the 2 teeth on the bottom, 
waiting for the other ones to come in on the bottom, cause he is working on them.
he got this prefect shirt from Grammie for Christmas.
Grammie found it before ean and i were ever pregnant, 
then she lost it and found it in time for Dashtyn's first Christmas.....
It was meant to be!!

January 8, 2013

Winter is Wonderful

Why,  hello Maggie!
we went outside today but it was to windy for me and dash
sunny but cold with the wind
 we have done a lot of art work, including clay
the green and purple figure is the bird from Aladdin when he is posing
in the garden as a pink flamingo
clever, I thought 
exploring with his head light
and football watching with popcorn (ill admit I like the TV for football)
since Christmas week until today Ean has been home....working 4-6 hours in the afternoon.
it has been beyond wonderful. tonight he will get home around 7, which is so much better then it will be when spring hits. :(
Dashtyn has realized that dada is a lot more fun them mom
and now prefers him over me! :)

January 6, 2013

Last But NOT Least

Grammies Christmas, and I should title the post
"This is why I hate the holidays" lol
 All the kids were running on no naps, lots of candy, a weeks worth of spoiling, non stop presents and non stop traveling for my kids.
chasen and garin were in rare form and at one point garin tried to open chasens present, chasen got mad, hit him and garin pushed him, chasen hit his head and ran out of the room crying saying this this why i hate the holidays...... *sigh*
he did come back to open gifts!
We all got some great things and had great first day of 2013
 
 
 

January 4, 2013

NYE 2013

So we were back to North English just a mere 24hrs after leaving, to drop the boys off before we went to dinner and the piano lounge with some friends!
I dressed the boys up for Grammie and from the sound of it Dashy wanted to ring in the new year lots of times up at 11, 1 and 3....what we didnt know at the time was that he was working on a double ear infection
The Crew!


It was a fun night!
and I think we all felt like this in the morning :)