Rain, Rain Go Away!

It has been raining here for the last 2, almost 3 weeks. There were two days when the sun came out which are the two days the boys were too sick to go out. We are literally SICK of being inside. Luckily, Dr. Trey came to the rescue and prescribed some great ideas for keeping us busy! 

Up close and personal! The boys got a new magnifying glass and love going on exploring adventures. I'm not sure but if you look close enough I think Trey is happy??

While waiting for the rainbow to come out we had a day where we learned about colors. Trey had so much fun mixing food coloring and then we painted things for each color. 

 Our first try at a blanket fort was a huge success. The boys loved it! Kaden pulled his box of books in there and spent the afternoon looking at all of them!

Trey & Kaden love playing games on the computer. Trey does all of the playing and Kaden does a lot of pointing. I love watching them play together and having something to entertain them while I make dinner. Hopefully our next post will include sunshine! 

Happy Valentines Day!!

Happy Valentines Day!! I am always to excited on the holidays to wait all day so we always seem to celebrate at breakfast time. We had the table all decorated so the boys were so excited when they came downstairs! 

Puppy love from Gram & Grandpa LeCheminant! Thank you the boys loved them.

So in case you didn't know Jeff LOVES baseball!! Since Valentines is all about our loves we thought we would share some of that love with the boys and get them a baseball tee. They loved it although it has been raining for a week so we have been hitting it in the house and I am not really loving that but, I am sure it will be fun once we can take it to the park!!

We also treated ourselves to some delicious "Heart Attack" pancakes! Actually it is the homemade syrup that will give you a heart attack but it is so dang good it is totally worth it! 

For weeks Trey has been asking me if he can drink buttermilk so I finally told him he could for Valentines day thinking he would forget about it. Of course he didn't so as soon as we were done opening gifts he went and got a cup and asked for his buttermilk. Well the pictures explain the rest!!

-BEFORE-

-AND AFTER- 

I felt really bad cause I knew he wouldn't like it but it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen! 

The Bush Man

Here is Trey pretending to be the Bush Man! If you read my previous post this picture will make more sense. The Bush Man, by the way, is an apparent homeless man who dresses up like a bush down at the Wharf in SF and tries to scare people. Almost every visitor we have had we have scared them with him so we have had many laughs! 

One "Wicked" Weekend

Most people laugh when I say 'I love my mother-in-law' but seriously, I have the world's greatest mother-in-law!! Last weekend Jeff had to go to Florida for an APMA Conference and in case you don't know, I hate being alone. So Jeff's mom Jan came out with her friend Liz to "take care" of me and I was spoiled instead. The first night they were here we went and saw 'Wicked' in at the Orpheum Theater in SF. It was amazing!! I totally recommend it to anyone and everyone who can get tickets. Thanks again Jan it was an awesome night! 

Saturday we spent some time in SF mostly down at the Wharf. Trey loves it down there! All the trains and the crazy musicians it was like a dream come true for him. One of his favorite things to do is watch the Bush Man scare people as they are walking by. So later that weekend we took Liz to see the Oakland Temple and as we were walking around the top looking at the views all of the sudden Trey was no where to be seen. We started yelling for him and all we hear is " I'm the bush man!" We started laughing because we couldn't see him until he jumped out from the bushes to scare all of us! Thanks again for such a wonderful visit & we'll see you again soon! 

Is it really January??

Two weeks ago Jeff had an afternoon off so the boys and I decide to meet him in San Francisco and spend the afternoon at the beach. We went to Ocean Beach and even though we have been there a lot of times this was the first time it was warm and sunny! The water was freezing but that didn't seem to stop our boys! 

While we were sitting there it dawned on us...it's January, it's 70 degrees and we are playing at the beach. Why are we moving away from here??

Trey and Kaden could spend hours playing in the sand. We ended up burying Trey a few times so he would stop throwing buckets of water at me. Little stinker!! :)

It was such a wonderful afternoon and hopefully we will get plenty of beach time in between now and June! 

Bedtime Stories

When your husband is gone before the kids wake up, in surgery all day and home just in time to tell your kids a bedtime story about his day this is a conversation you might have.

Mom: Trey stay right by me there are lots of cars in the parking lot.

Trey: Yeah and the cars go really fast and they can hit you.

Mom: That's right and we don't want to get hit cause that would hurt.

Trey: And if you get hit really hard then the car will just smash you.

Mom: That's right. We don't want to get smashed so stay by me.

Trey: The cars will just come and they will smash us and flatten us and then we would have to go to daddy's and get surgery and he will cut us open.

Mom: Let's just stay by mom and be safe.

Trey: Well if we had to get surgery at least we would get to see daddy!!

Our Little Sunbeam

So I am a few days late but Trey became a Sunbeam this week and I wanted to share some pictures of his excitement!! I thought he would have such a hard time leaving nursery because he had such awesome teachers, but he did pretty good. He was sad not to see his nursery teachers but was happy to finally be with the "big" kids! It's kind of weird to finally have a "big" kid!!