Saturday Fun

This past Saturday we had a great day working out in our yard and cleaning out our garage. It felt great to be out of the house and not getting rained on. After a long day of work we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream and came home and played baseball. What a great day!

Spring FINALLY!

Here are some pictures of our front yard. We have loved being able to enjoy our yard this year. Doug & I planted lots of flowers and a garden for the first time. (We did plant a garden in Arizona once, but we planted way too late in the season and it just baked in the sun.)
The previous owner already had some beautiful flowers in. We added the purple and red, but the rest was already here.
Our garden.
We planted tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peas, red and green peppers and yellow squash. The boys have loved watching the plants grow.

It's a .....

Friday we went to the doctor to have our big ultrasound and find out if we are adding to the basketball team, or starting on the cheerleaders. When the tech started she kept saying how active the baby was...just like the boys. Then she measured the head and said it would be probably another 8 pounder...just like the boys. Then she took a peek to see if it was a boy or a girl...and it looked just like the boys. Yes, we are still working on the basketball team.
When we told Andrew the news, he cried which didn't help me at all. Our house will be a wild and crazy place, but we are truly grateful that he was healthy and strong! Now comes the hardest part...coming up with a name. Doug and I have a VERY difficult time with boy names. We have had girls names picked out from when Andrew came along. We might call him baby Hobbs until he is old enough to pick his own name. I think this might be the only way to have peace in our marriage. Hopefully someday I will get to use the girl names. Till then, we will start playing the lottery so we can afford missions or maybe Doug will have to take up poker. (He loves to watch poker on TV.) Everyone at church today said, I guess you will have to try again. My thought was...is everyone CRAZY! I don't see myself with 10 children TRYING for a girl.

Pictures from the last week

Once Jacob turned 2, he has started this crazy thing. He likes to put things in lines. He is very precise about where things go. All day long Jacob makes lines. His plate, cup, fork & spoon all have to in a line for every meal. He will make lines across his room, down the hall and down the stair. I'm not sure if he will be very organized when he gets older, but it is fun to watch him. Here he is in our basement and then at Leslie and Melinda's house we kept him entertained giving him things to add to his line so we could play Rook.


For Andrew's birthday we went to our most favorite place, Chuck E Cheese. We only go there for birthdays, so it is a big deal. Andrew has been counting down the days until he turns 4. Everywhere we go he tells people he is 4.

Andrew got Play Doh for his birthday. We have had a lot of fun playing with it.

Andrew chose a Scooby-Doo birthday cake. It was a lot more difficult than Jacob's Elmo. I was happy with how it turned out though. I think we might start a new tradition next year. I'm not sure I can make more difficult cakes.

The other night Doug decided it would be fun to have an indoor snowball fight. He went and got all his socks and then the boys had a sock fight. Now Andrew and Jacob want to have a sock fight every night.

The other day I was downstairs running and I could hear the boys upstairs laughing. I decided to go and check on them. I found them making funny faces at each other with their glasses on. It is fun to see them play together, although they seem to get in more trouble together.