Day on the Farm

Superstition Dairy Farm, Mesa, Az

We spent the day out at dairy farm with cousins. Bryan's cousin Cara and her husband Brian and their two kids came into town for the weekend, so we took the kids to the farm. We always try to get the kids together, so they will have the chance to know their cousins. Benjamin their oldest is 3 and the youngest is 1 year old. Bryce and Benjamin had a great time playing with each other. At the farm we saw sheep, goats, horses, chickens, rabbits, and TONS of dairy cows. We got to feed the animals by hand, and try 12 different flavors of milk, we took a hay ride around the farm. 

Bryce's break out. 

 Bryce gave daddy and mommy a good scare. We were all outside playing and we had just started a fire for the evening. Bryce climbing up into my lap to watch the fire and I noticed that his hands/arms/legs/mouth were breaking out with these huge hives/boil looking things. After watching it for a few minutes and noticing it was spread quickly Bryan decided it was best we took him up to urgent care. Thank goodness we gave him benadryl before we left home, because urgent care could of cared less that our 2 year was having an allergic reaction to something. After waiting for a good 4 hours, I knew Bryce was fine and wasn't going to die. We still have no idea what broke him out, but we are making a trip to the allergist next week. Hopefully they will be able to help us and find some answers. 

Daddy's turns 29! 

 Bryce and I made a trip to the grocery store for all the fixings to make daddy's birthday cake. As a tradition I always make Bryan his all time favorite cake. His favorite cake is a homemade German Chocolate Cake. Bryce and I are walking down the aisle to pick up the german chocolate and the coconut, Bryce spots the sprinkles cake. He grabs my hand and as mommy come, I found daddy's cake. I walk with him over to what he thought was daddy's cake and I could not tell him no. It was so cute that he had picked out the cake and the frosting with sprinkles. So, daddy got 2 birthday cakes this year. 

 The boys made daddy a birthday card with all different kinds of stickers...Elmo, Toy Story, Bob the Builder, and much more. Bryce picked out the perfect cactus, and Isaac got daddy some new gloves and tape measure to go with his tool chest that mommy got him.

Daddy's birthday evening out...Dinner at the Yard house. At the yard house they offered over 150 beers on draft. Boy was Bryan in heaven. After dinner we walked right over to see the new movie Sucker Punch at the IMAX. 

Three Happy Boys! 

Bryce completed his first puzzle (50 pieces).

Yum Yum Ice Cream

St. Patty's Day

Today we went GREEN! We started our day off with GREEN pancakes in honor of St. Patrick's Day. 

The boys just thought that was great to have green pancakes with green sprinkles. 

After our green pancakes we headed out the door to gymnastics. Bryce is loving it and doing better and better every week. Today mommy had a major pregnancy brain fart. We were out the door my 9 like we always are for gymnastics and I stopped by Starbucks for a morning pick me up and go and we were on the road. I kept looking at the clock thinking to myself why are we so early. We pulled into the parking lot at 935, Bryce was excited to get out and start is class. I kept telling him we are a little bit early so we are going to stay in the car for bit. So, we sat in the car and played around with each other. About 945 I decided we could go ahead and go inside...I walk in and the class is going, I was really confused. Was I late or what? Bryce ran in and joined right in and I stopped for a minute and looked at my clock and realized class starts at 930. WHAT WAS I THINKING?? Bryce has been in this class for a 4 weeks now, I should know what time it starts. 

Coconuts

Have you ever tried to break open a coconut? If you haven't you should try sometime. After you break open your first coconut you will have TONS of appreciation for store bought coconut. 

Our neighbor over waters her yard, and it has created a mud hole in our yard. Bryan dug it out and was going to fill it in with rock. Well before he could get the rock in the hole the boys were back in it again. Isaac prefers to be in the water, and Bryce feeds toys to Isaac. Bryce has figured out that he gets in trouble when he gets muddy, so Isaac will be the one to get muddy and Bryce still gets to have fun throwing toys in the mud.  

Grandpa's Day! 

 Grandma and Aunt Carole are vacationing in Ireland over spring break. Grandpa's birthday happened to fall the same time grandma was going to be gone. So, we had grandpa over for the day and spent great quality time with him. Grandpa joined us for build and grow at Lowes. He helped Bryce build a basketball goal with a ball launcher. 

After finishing up at Lowes we headed over to Babbo's Italian Eatery for a yummy lunch. The afternoon was a laid back relaxing afternoon, went Bryan spending some good time watching a movie with dad. The evening followed up with a pork roast for dinner, and Bryce's favorite park GRANDPA'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. I had no idea what type of cake to make for grandpa. Everyone said chocolate, and I was thinking to myself that is just way to easy...so I decided to spice it up a little bit. Bryce and I made grandpa a double chocolate cake with a layer of thin mint ice cream in the middle. I just so happened to have some thin mints left over for the girl scout cookies, so I topped the top of the cake with thin mint cookies. I'm not a chocolate lover, but the cake was yummy.

Daddy is off camping

Bryan headed off early this morning on a backpacking trip with his dad and cousin. Needless to say I've been a little lost without Bryan home. I'm home all day with the boys and we all look forward to 5 o'clock everyday. Dinner, playtime, baths, and so much more with DADDY. I find myself thinking about him all the time wondering is he okay, did he make it to camp, did he have everything he needed. I was happy to see that tonight was a full moon, Bryan has a little extra shine while he is sleeping in the mountains. Only one other time in our 7 1/2 years we have been together where we did not get to talk to each other ALL DAY. If anyone knows Bryan and I we are always calling each other throughout the day. Today has been very hard for me, and I'm sure tomorrow will be even harder. But I am so happy that Bryan has the opportunity to do things like this with his father. I can not wait to hear all the stories he will have to tell.   

 I was trying to convince Bryan to take Isaac with him. He fit in his hiking pack and everything.  

The boys are ready to go camping. We are going to take a camping trip sometime in April and I'm sure the boys will go crazy. 

Time to spray! 

Nice black widow spider Bryan found at the base of our house outside! 

Baby check-up

We had another check-up on Baby McGee #3 this week. Our ultrasound is schedule for April 5th, and we should be able to find out the sex of the baby at this visit. Mark it on your calendars!!! 

March 2011

Spring is here...oh wait we live in Arizona and we don't have spring. Summer is here! The weather has been beautiful, but hot. Today we went to the park and not thinking to put sunscreen on because it was March. Well, this white girl got a little toasted. Just another reminder that we live in the desert. 

Two cool dudes! 

Speaking of living in the desert...Bryce has been begging me to go to the beach. I keep trying to tell him we live in the desert and the ocean is a long way from where we live. He has been to the ocean twice in his life and the kid remembers. 

The boys have really started playing with each other, and it seems to be that they are enjoying each other a little more everyday. Between fighting, and arguing they have been sharing, building blocks, and train tracks together. Bryce was disappointed in Isaac the other night when he got of the trampoline and would not jump with him. "But mommy I want to jump with him"-Bryce. Isaac walks around "where are you; where are you" looking for Bryce. 

Bryce is in his 2 week of gymnastic and he has been doing an amazing job. He is flipping and flopping all over the place.

This is Isaac new trick. My money is on the fact that he will be our first kid in the ER. The things he does and attempts to do scares the day lights out of me. Not so much this video clip, but climbing onto of the monkey bars, taking a head dive off our king size bed, standing on the tricycle to get onto the swing. 

Home Depot Workshop

This is a practice run for boy scouts. We got to build a race car and race them. 

I am not sure why I bother cleaning their rooms. Isaac's favorite thing to do is push over his toy organizer. Needless to say it wasn't cute after the first time, and he didn't think it was very cute to get a spanking after the first time either.  

Daddy planting strawberries with the boys. Next we are planting watermelons.

What happen? "Brother did it"-said Bryce

Day out with Thomas the Train! 

Bryce is in LOVE with trains, and he thinks the world of Thomas. So Mommy and Daddy decided to spoil him rotten and make the drive down to Globe (2 1/2 hours) to spend the day with Thomas. We dropped Ike off at Grandma and Grandpa McGee's and started on our way to Globe to see Thomas the train. The whole way there Bryce was asking us "where is the station" over and over again. It's so cute to see him so excited to  see and ride on Thomas. Our tickets for 12:45 to ride on Thomas so Bryce was pretty worn out and ready for a nap. We got get seats on the train it was first come first serve. We sat right behind Thomas the Tank, we cheered him on as he pulled us up the hill. After our train ride I stood in line for 1/2 hour to get our picture in front of Thomas. While I was standing in line holding our spot for the picture with Thomas, Bryan and Bryce were having fun in the bounce house, and riding on the mini James train. 

It was a weekend all about Bryce...earlier that weekend daddy and Bryce went on a guys night to see the movie Rango. This was really hard to for Isaac to understand what was going on. All Isaac knew was he wanted his daddy, and he didn't his daddy to leave him with mommy. He cried and cried for his daddy, after about 10 minutes he forgot about wanting daddy. So, I decided to spoil Isaac for a once and we went to Target to get his new favorite thing...ELMO. Everything is ELMO ELMO ELMO, he will sit and watch elmo song on youtube for about 20 minutes over and over again. He loves his elmo books, toys, pictures, videos everything or anything that looks like Elmo. 

Isaac wanting his DADDDDY

Isaac convinced himself that daddy was home from work (when he really wasn't), and he cried until daddy got home. He is ONE BIG daddy's boy. 

Isaac where are your toes?

Would you say the kid needs some new pj's? These pj's have been passed for through 4 kids. I think it's time to retire them.