A Little Something Fun

These are a few images we took while we were in Monterey for our anniversary. I had to share some pics of the sardines from the aquarium and from our drive around Pebble Beach. It was an amazing weekend getaway. I would recommend it.

Staples, Saturdays, and Shoes

Boy have these boys kept us busy. I am smack dab in the middle of birthday hullabaloo and knee deep in spring I wanna clean mode. We are hoping that before too long we will be able to find a new place to live so cleaning isn't a shuffle of items from one hiding place to another. But until then our days look a lot like the images above.

Many have asked to see pics of Padraic's staple so we have offered up one of those for your viewing as well. I promise to post some pics of the birthday boy soon. Enjoy.

St. Patrick's Day!

So I was going to post some stuff last night about St Patrick along with some pics of my boys in green, but our night turned out to be way more complicated than expected. But I'll get to that later.

So Tuesday when we were talking about St Patrick's day with Silas and how we were going to have Uncle Mitchell and Matthew over for dinner. And he stopped and looked at us very thoughtfully and said, "Mom, when is St Silas day?" I about lost it. So we explained to him that it was PaTriCK not PaDraic. He spent the rest of the day correcting us when we said Padraic and thought we were talking about St Patrick. I must admit I have a hard time typing Patrick myself. I'm so used to to typing Padraic.

And oh Padraic. We were talking at dinner about insurance and I looked at Padraic and said to him "hay no hospital visits this year, dude." And we all laughed. After dinner the boys went to clean their room so they could watch a dvdv. We put them up on the bed put in a Shaun the Sheep disk and went back to the table to hang out with my brother and sister-in-law. A few episodes later I heard a thud and as I headed into the room Padraic began to scream. Thank goodness Uncle Mitchell and Aunt Sarah were there so they took Silas for a sleep over with Matty. Padraic was a trooper at the hospital crying very little, he really just wanted to go to sleep. So he got stapled up and we were on our way home before midnight. What a holiday.

All I wanted was corned beef and Guinness and I got so much more.

Consolidation!

Okay so after months of ignoring the fact that I have not kept up on Silas and Padriac's personal blogs I have decided that it is time to consolidate. I wish there were more things in my life that could be consolidated.

Between work, our 5 year anniversary and upcoming birthdays we have been a family of whirling dervishes. I has been so much fun, though. The boys are at the perfect ages to be this busy. Silas is exited about learning new things and just soaks it all up. And Padraic is Mr Curious and wants to figure everything out and explore. (Although as we speak he is throwing a major tantrum...love the high pitched scream.) I can't wrap my brain around the fact that Silas will be 4 in just a few weeks and Padraic is closing in on 2.

Adding to just being a mom of two very active boys in November sometime I started working again. I became the "director of children's ministries" at our little Church that is now in Monrovia. I'm having some fun and totally being stretched.

Ooo...okay so Jonathan is not home right now so I am trying to make myself as tired as possible so that when I shut down I'll just fall asleep. But I just looked up at the clock and realized it was 1am. That wouldn't matter much if my boys actually slept, but unfortunately my children have decided that it is way more fun to throw tantrums and scream and get really moody at the drop of a hat than to sleep. This has become so ingrained in my life that even when Jonathan and I go away and don't have the kids with us, like we did last weekend, I can't sleep any later than 7:30. Jonathan doesn't seem to have this problem. He will happily sleep anytime, anywhere.

That being said I so need to get some ZZZZ's. Thanks for checking in with us.