Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom. You are one funny lady, and I don' t know what I would do without your support in my life. Thanks for helping me now be a Mom, I am truly grateful for your example. Thanks for being a fantastic fun Grandma to my boys, and a best friend to me.
I hope you have a fabulous day. I hope you get to relax and feel pampered. I hope Dad cooks you a great dinner, David does ALL the dishes and doesn't leave any to "soak" in the sink over night. (yeah right!) If I was there I would have made you this cake.......and then we would eat it all and the calories wouldn't count because it is a holiday, at least that is what I would keep saying as we gorged ourselves silly into a sugar coma! I love you Mom.

What we have been up to...

"School Time"...we try to have this a couple times a week. Taggy does colors and shapes, and Thatch works on his letters, numbers, and simple reading.

We went to Keeneland a couple Saturdays back. Keeneland is a BIG deal, and they take this horse racing biz-nass SERIOUS around here. Amazon.com has a big tent every year and all the managers go and eat and drink (I'm not talking soda here kids) and then go watch the race. We didn't know too much about it all, so we were stuck in traffic for 2 hours trying to get into the area. It was nuts. We were there for about 30 minutes before having to head home to relieve the baby sitter. Nonsense. It was really fun to see this little piece of Lexington culture though.

I thought I would document the view from our day...waiting in riduculous amounts of traffic. At least it was a BEAUTIFUL day!

Thatcher lately has been making lots of "inventions". This boy is a smarty pants and it is going to be some serious trouble for me I can already tell. He learned about pulley's and simple machines from Sid the Science Kid (who says TV rots your brain?:) ) Now he is obsessed with making contraptions with pulley systems.
Thatcher also has been going around the house saying "Ni hao!" and "Tou Shur". He seems to have his Daddy's knack for picking up languages. He loves to learn new words in Spanish (Dora!), Chinese (Kai-lan), and Italian (Todd and I). He is one funny kid.

Here are the boys yesterday morning showing me how their "trap" works!

While Thatcher is our inventer and language master, Tagg is our creative boy. He loves to play with his cars and toys and make them have conversations with each other. He has the funniest immagination and we love seeing what he is going to pretend doing each day. The other day he pretended that he had a pet bird that he would cuddle and nuzzle and kiss. He kept this pet bird in an old plastic easter egg and anytime he went to do anything else, I would have to baby sit the pet bird.

Thatcher has become SUCH a big helper around the house, he LOVES to help me clean. We have been giving him more "chores" around the house, and he has been really good and doing them!

Todd and I have been staying up late making shirts for the boys to wear to Disney World. We are SO excited to go! (3 Days!)

Family shirts...

The boys shirts...

Good Job Carrie Prejean

Love to read stories like this. Good for her for standing up for what she believed in, I am sure it was hard for her.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! We had a wonderful Easter this year. The boys were really excited about all the eggs, bunnies, baskets, coloring eggs, and the Easter egg hunt. Thatcher found the stash of Easter Bunny goodies the day before Easter, so he wasn't surprised at all by his loot. Taggy asked me, "what is this?" and I said, "the Easter Bunny brought it to you!" and Thatcher added "nuh uh...you gave it to us, it was all in your closet!" Great. 4 years old and the magic is already gone. Nice. Oh well. Anyway, the boys had a great Easter morning filled with too much sugar and lots of fun Easter toys. We enjoyed being together as a family, going to Church, eating a yummy Easter dinner and most importantly celebrating and remembering such a wonderful event, the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. We know that he did suffer and die for us and three days later the garden tomb was empty as he conquered death, with "healing in his wings". We are grateful that because of Him and through Him we are able to be together as a family forever.

Sugar Fest 2009

Tagg finding the hidden eggs in the couch

Hunting for eggs

Showing off their goods

The frenzy begins

Pretty excited about their Easter Baskets

Pre-church photo shoot...

Post-church photo, slowly coming down off a sugar high...

Grand Finale Cake

I just finished my Wilton course 2 cake class last night! It was so fun. I totally love this new little hobby. I signed up for course 3 next month and we learn fondant and tiered cakes, which I am really excited about. Here is my grand finale cake. Two disclaimers about these photos: excuse the dishes in the sink, and for those of you cake decorators out there, don't look to close at my basket weave! It was the first time I had done it, I am going to keep practicing.

Library Time

We have been going to the Library a few times a week for Library time. They do such a fun little program here, with songs, books, learning, and a project at the end! It is really fun and the boys love it. Well Thatcher loves it, Tagg is still too antsy. So the other day Tagg was in the kid play area playing with Thomas the train and Thatcher was listening to story time. As soon as the teacher started the music Tagg booked it down to the story time area and starting doing this...

It was so hilarious I really had to hold back laughing. Tagg the spazz. Love it. The kid has got rhythm though. He loves to dance and shake it. Whenever I have the music on in the car he will bop his head to the beat. I love it.

He's FOUR!

Thatcher turned FOUR on March 23rd. First of all let me tell you I cannot believe that it has only been four years since Thatcher joined Todd and I, but also that these last four years have gone by SO quickly. We cannot imagine our family without our Thatcher. From the very beginning Thatch has been ahead of the game. He was three weeks early and raring to go, and he hasn't stopped since. Always curious, always wanting to learn, always one step ahead, he is a complete delight and brings us so much JOY!

Thatcher had been giving me very detailed instructions on how exactly he wanted his whole birthday to go down, so the pressure was on! He woke up to the house decorated and a big birthday breakfast with his fav, waffles with chocolate chips. This year he picked Wall-e for his birthday theme, and I made him a Wall-e cake. Todd joined us for a Chuck E. Cheese birthday lunch and lots of play time. It was so great to go to CEC's during the day, nobody was there! We had the whole place to ourselves, the boys loved it. We come home for cake and presents. It was a busy birthday day for our big FOUR year old.

The birthday boy! We gave him a Wall-e pin that said, "Birthday Bot", he wore it all day and wouldn't take it off!

The little birthday 'table scape' as Sandra Lee calls it.

Decked out, Wall-e style.

Excited boys playing with their Wall-e favors.

At Chuck E's showing off his button, sticker, and his age.

Birthday lunch of pizza and pop, I would have a picture here of Tagg too, but apparently he has been on a diet lately cause we can't get that kid to eat more than two to three bites.

A friendly game of air hockey, I told Thatch to take it easy on his old man.

Only in Lexington my friends, the Kentucky Derby horse ride.

Cutest little kid. Geez I can't believe how big he is!

Tagg trying to grab the ski balls.

They LOVED this ride.

I had to put this picture on here. Doesn't he look like one of these little 5 year old beauty queens with their fake smiles? I couldn't/can't stop laughing at this.

End of the day, you know it is time to go when they start getting this look. Mission accomplished.

Wall-e cake.

Present time...

Loved that I caught this expression...

He can't wait to make his birdhouse! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Monson!

He loves the ant books,dvd, and ant farm too! Thanks G&G Monson!

Legos.

Guess Who? Thatch loves games!

Thanks for the soccer ball Grandpa Bishop!

The aftermath of the cake, little finger prints in the frosting...