Deans hair cut

Say goodbye to all those curls. I couldn't take the crazy hair any more and buzzed it off myself. I know its kind of sad to say goodbye to something so cute. It just had to come off now Dean looks his age. He's not our little baby anymore. He is going to be the big brother this year around thanksgiving.

Wyatt 1st sleepover

Wyatt's first sleepover with is best buddy Champ. The Purneda's invited him over while I was gone on my trip so Paul could have a break. Aubrey said they had a blast playing together and then watching a movie with popcorn. They were so cute when it was time to go to bed. They put out the sleeping bags and told each other bed time stories until they feel asleep. Aubrey said she was nervous that Wyatt would get scared and want to go home. Wyatt surprised her he wasn't at all he just rolled over and fell asleep. Wyatt said they had pancakes for breakfast and that it was really fun.

Ammie's and Lyle's home away from home, do you love it. I think we will call it St. Sophias. Blue is the color of the day, blue rainy days, blue mosque, first stop. Love it, love it.

More pictures to come with a faster internet site.

Turkey

Turkey Time no not the bird, its time for my mom and I to go to the country, Turkey. Most of you have asked or are asking why Turkey? Well it's because my mom and I were both watching "Where in the world is Matt Lauer" on the Today Show. Matt was cooking near the Blue Mosque. My mom called me for our daily phone call. I told my mom that Istanbul looked so cool and we should go there. Well that's all it took that day she looked up her travel group and found that it was fairly inexpensive compared to Europe. That is why Turkey. It has been so interesting to see the reaction when I tell people that we are going. Some look at me and say "Why there? What's in Turkey?" Others that have been there or have known someone that has gone there they say "You are going to love it there its so great and there is so much to see." A week ago I was a little nervous to go, I had all kinds of weird dreams. But now I am just excited. We leave tomorrow in the morning. We will be gone for two weeks. This will be the longest I have been without my boys. I will miss them lots but I wouldn't travel half way across the world for just a week. We are planing to call and hopefully skype them a few times. Paul is such a good dad he will be with them the whole time. My mom and I are going to blog about our daily adventures on Traveling Pansies. Go and look on it while I'm gone. This is one of many cool things we are going to see.

St.Pattys Parade 2009

Grammy insisted that everyone go to the parade this year even Paul. He wasn't that happy about it, but Paul came, and in the picture he is even smiling but I think he faked it. It was a nice 40* outside and hundreds of crazies came out to watch more crazies walk down the street with green wigs and kilts on. I'm also a crazy because I was loving the whole thing. This parade is really long it should be 2 hours. We left 2 and1/2 hours and it still was going strong. St. Patty parade has lots of dogs and horses in it, which Jack and Dean loved. Wyatt was loving the candy that they would throw out. Paul and Grandpa Gary stood in the sun the whole time, they would also take the boys up and down the escalator. Grammy took us out to lunch after. We had a great time this year, can't wait until next year.

Its coming..

Spring is almost here! My crocuses are coming out. Wyatt and Dean love finding new flowers in the flower beds. I can't keep Dean from picking them. I need to remind myself to plant more early spring bulbs next year. Flowers are a delight when the snow melts. The boys got to go play in the sandbox the other day. This time of year the boys love the sandbox and I hate all the laundry that comes with it. Oh well. I would much rather do laundry then have two crazy boys bouncing off the wall inside.

Dean turned 2

Saturday was Dean's 2nd birthday. We did some fun things in the week with our friends. We went to Chucky Cheese and bowling. So on his actual birthday we didn't have much planned. We went to the Draper Temple open house in the morning. Then we just hung out all day. I made a cake and called Grandma and Grandpa Gillespie and Gregs family over to help eat it. We had a mellow day but it was fun for Dean.




This is Rebekah, Dean's cousin, I think they look more alike than Dean and Wyatt.

GREEN THUMB AND THIMBLE

So I started another blog just for all my creations like this one. I thought long and hard for the name of my new blog. I probably even asked you what a good name was. I was looking at Paul's veggie quilt that I made him this last fall. It came to me that the name needed to have something to do with gardening or mowing my lawn. It also had to have something to do with quilting. So with the great help from my friend Lyndsay we came up with Green thumb and thimble.

I hope I will always have some kind of project going to keep the blog alive. So If you get a moment check it out. I always love comments and ideas.

Valentines

We have had a great Valentines day. Wyatt got to make his first Valentines box and pass out valentines to his preschool class. We made valentines for all of Wyatt and Dean's friends and cousins that we will pass out today. Paul had flowers sent to the house, my favorite, tulips. I got the boys a valentine video. Which they are watching as we speak.




Grammy played a trick on us this year. She told Wyatt to be looking for a valentine in the mail. So everyday Wyatt would bug me. He would ask a few times a day, "Mom have you checked the mail yet. I have something coming from Grammy." Finally after a week and two days the valentine came. Come to find out Grammy waited a week to send it. I'm going to kill her if she does that again. But the boys loved their valentines that came with 10 bucks, which we have already blew on Legos.

Helmet boys

Top photo is Dean with a snowboard helmet on. Bottom is Wyatt at 19 months old with a kids bike helmet on. These are the first of many helmets Wyatt and Dean will put on, hopefully. I hope they will wear helmets when they bike, snowboard, skateboard, motorcycle, sky dive, bull ride, or whatever else that is crazy and fast.