Blogging Hiatis

So....It's been over a month since my last post, so I thought I'd do a little chatching up while I still can. WARNING: MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PICTURES IN ABSOLUTLY NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!

A couple of my friends that I haven't seen in awhile were begging me to post a picture of me being fat and prego (OK, so maybe they didn't exactly phrase it like that)....so I thought I would appease them, but I guess also for journaling purposes I may want to look back on this and be greatful when I'm skinny again!

So, friends....here you go! Me at 8 months pregnant...only 38 days to go (but really, whose counting?).

When people say it takes a village to raise a child I now completely know what they are talking about! We are loving the good weather and Simon is having a ball playing with all his buddies in the neighborhood (and there are many!). I think we need to post different colored flags in the front window for each kid we have at our house...that way you can just look out the window and know whose house your kid is at at any time. Great idea, huh? This is Simon's best buddy Kamden. They are one a couple days apart in age and I'm sure we are all in for some serious trouble from these two in the future! Quick story....they both have power wheel four wheelers and one day decided to go to the park by themselves without telling anyone. Funny, but can you say "grouded"?
Simon turned 4 on April 10. I can't believe my little man is 4 already! He is so funny right now and is getting so grown up and indepentant! I'm kind of loving it! He loves Spongebob and wanted a Spongebob party. My amazing mom made this cake for him (don't worry mom, I won't tell anyone about the first attempt!).

And he finally got the 4-wheeler he has been dreaming of! All of the neighborhood kids have one and yes, I became that mom that had to have what the other kids have! He has been having a blast on it....and getting into trouble all at the same time! (see the above story!)

For his party they also played "Pin the pants on spongebob". I loved it and thought it was so cute! Thanks mom for thinking of it! Grandpa Mike even had some fun playing it. :)

Usually for Simons birthday we go to Hogle Zoo. Due to the lack of funds this year, we decided to just hit Willow Park. I think Simon liked it just fine. My mom and dad came with us and Simon got to have some great grandpa bonding time!

We have spent plenty of time with grandpa on the real 4-wheeler too! Simon looooooves the 4 wheeler!!! (I think grandpa kind of does too!)

My grandma sent Simon a birthday card in the mail (seriously....there still is nothing funner than getting mail!). I love this picture, cause she sent some money for Simon in the card. Can you tell he is excited???

We did lots of Easter Egg hunts!

And of course some car trouble! But luckily Cody is a man of many talents and was able to save us a lot of money by fixing it himself! Hooray! And of course had to have a lesson with Simon on auto repair! :)

Simon also had his Special Day at Preschool. It was so fun to go and watch him. They sang a song to him and he got to show the class pictures of him and tell all about himself. I won't lie...I got a little teary! (It's the pregnancy, OK!!!)

So....now you know what we have been up to this last month! Not to mention Cody has been working really hard on finishing a room in the basement for Simon. It's been a busy month and I"m sure the next month is going to go by quickly!!! YIKES!!

Kidney Cancer Awareness Month

So, March is Kidney Cancer Awareness Month. I decided to change my blog to an orange theme (I am slightly color blind, so my oranges and reds look very much alike...hopefully it is indeed orange.). My amazing brother in law is fighting the ugly cancer right now, so I thought I'd do a little blog post for him. Hayley and him had these awesome bracelets made (sorry, no pic of it) that say "Travstrong" and I've had a ton of people ask me about it at work. Probably because I'm not really one to wear jewelry. I love this bracelet, and Trav....we love you! Is it inappropriate to say "Happy Cancer Month"?? Ya, probably. I'm not great with words. You all know what I mean.

Kids Say....Part 2.

Did you know....Simon is a warewolf? He is. Truely. In his mind, he really thinks he is a warewolf! He has noticed that he has two teeth that are really pointy...this must indeed prove that he is a warewolf! He has learned to howl like a warewolf and today he asked me when he would start growing hair on his hands? I just laughed and said I don't know. He thought for a minute about that and said "I hope that doesn't happen till I'm a little older cause I think that will scare the kids in my preschool class." Correct. That would indeed scare the kids! :)

He also has informed us that warewolfs are really really really good at playing Mario Kart. So, he has been playing Mario Kart non stop lately. I'm not a big fan of kids spending a lot of time gaming, and I'm afraid we have created a monster (literally!). But, it is winter and it is pretty entertaining to watch him play!

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

I have to post this one more for my own memory cause it made me laugh so hard.

I was getting Simon ready for a bath and as he was on the floor taking off his socks he says to me
"Mom, remember when I was a baby and I wasn't such a problem for dad."

I laughed so hard! I told Cody and he chuckled, but I think it made him feel bad. You see, Cody has been the stay-at-home-dad the last couple weeks, so he is with Simon a lot. And Simon is 3 and is truely such a little rascal lately! So, unfortunatly it's Cody that ends of being the "punisher". So, apparently Simon has interrpreted this as "being a problem for dad."

It gave me a good chuckle for the night!

Cowboy Up!

I know....right? So cute!!! Simon has been obsessed with being a cowboy lately! And I can honestly say that it is by absolutly NO influence from Cody and I. We are not cowboy folk here! I think he must have spent some time with my Grandpa Downs in heaven before he came down. :) He loves to ride his toy horse "Ponytail", and is determined that he is going to ride bulls when he is older (um...I'm pretty sure I get the last say in that one!). He watches the movie "8 Seconds" about once a day and can't wait to try out the "Mutten Busten" this summer in the rodeos. What have we done? Where did we go wrong? Since we don't listen to country music at our house my sister brought over a couple CD's that she burned for Simon full of cowboy music (he only likes the boy cowboys to sing....no girls!) It just really comes to show that you can influence your kids, but they still have their own little personalities!

I love you Simon!

"Whatever you are, be a good one!"

-Abe Lincoln-

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Blah! Ugh! Geez! Sometimes I wish I could just have a free pass to go and just get stone cold drunk!

Prayers

We have been trying to be better at saying prayers at night with Simon. I always look forward to hearing Simon pray. It just absolutly melts my heart and no matter what he prays for (it does get interesting) you can always feel the spirit in the room.

Tonights prayer consisted of this....

"Bless the race cars that they won't crash. And bless the bears in the zoo to be nice.
Amen."