Tulips

A few weeks ago, we took a sunday afternoon drive up north to see the tulip fields. They were ten times better this year than last, and we really had fun. Here's some pictures from the day:

counting my blessings---in embroidery

I am thinking of joining in on this project:

let's count our blessings

I had come across it when they were doing their most recent 39 squares project, and while intrigued and interested, wasn't able to get myself in gear fast enough to participate.
And now, they are starting this new round and it has such an amazing theme and I just love it.
I don't know if I will be able to keep pace with them, but I would love to do this project. Hopefully, I will be able to post soon that I have begun.....
I have to find just the right material (I really like the coarse linen-looking stuff the host, Amy, uses for hers. I don't think I have any, but I'll look in my scraps....) and find my threads (actually, I know where they are, I just have to get them out) and get started!

Want to do it with me? It would be so much fun!

Also check out Amy's 39 squares site and the post where she embedded a video of all the people who participated in the last round...such inspiration and creativity!!!

Easter Fun

HE IS RISEN! JESUS IS ALIVE!

We had a very simple and sweet Easter.
Saturday night, Jon and I filled plastic eggs and hid them in the living room for the boys to find in the morning.
Sunday morning, the boys found all their eggs, and we got ready to go to Church.
In the afternoon, we went to my inlaws' for Easter dinner and had a very nice time.

Liam showing off the eggs we dyed Saturday evening:

He wasn't too please with me asking him to look at the camera.....he wanted to keep looking for eggs!

They had alot of fun!

reading, rockets and a big boy bed

I thought I would share some fun pictures from this past week or so. Enjoy:

David loves to sit and look at books. He'll do it for a long time!

Liam made a "rocket ship" with his shape blocks.

After a week of David consistently climbing out of his crib, we have transitioned it into a toddler bed. Here are the boys, pretending to sleep.

new bike

Here's Liam showing off his new bike!

400 posts and then some

Somehow or another, in the past few months, in the midst of being newly pregnant (and quite sick), and all, I failed to notice that my blog was creeping up on it's 400th post.

This is post number 409.

That's a lot of life, thoughts, pictures and blurbs shared. A lot of time depicted.

Silly, random thought: the grease stain on my pants from while I was stir-frying carrots for dinner and one jumped the pan looks a lot like a wee little foot print. Makes me excited for October. I have to admit, I am hoping for a girl.....but will love a boy if it turns out to be. I can't imagine having three boys running around my house, but then, I have a hard time imagining a girl as well.

Housesitting Vacation

We went and house sat for my parents for a week while they took a vacation to Maui. It was a nice little vacation for the boys and I as well!
We played lots with Pam and her family, enjoyed visiting with my brother and sister in law, experienced a big wind storm which made the power go out for two days! We also had a couple adventures just the three (well, four really) of us....we went to the Marine Science Center and explored the new trail that has been made just minutes away from my parents house!

I seem to be in a pretty major picture taking slump, and only took a few while there, but here are some of them:
Liam took out the vacuum all by himself the first day! So nice!

This amazing hollow stump is on the new trail near my parents house. It was a big hit with the boys!

More from the trail:

The boys had both sacked out for a late nap:

blog hiatus

I know, I know....I made a big announcement and then disappeared from blogger-land. I am sorry. I have been very sick (1st trimester is always hard on me and this time has been no exception)...and to make matters worse, I've been completely void of blogging inspiration and have been lacking the desire to do much of anything except sleep. I am so far behind on my picture taking too. It's crazy.

Liam's birthday was great. We spent the late morning/afternoon at the Children's Museum here in town with one of Liam's good friends and his family. And we had the Butcher side of the family over in the evening for dinner, cake and presents. Then over the weekend after, me and the boys went to my parents house. So nice!

Well, that's about it for my update...thanks for having patience with me!

Riddle Reveal!

Okay---for those who didn't read the comments on the last post....

The "main" answer to the riddle is: I am pregnant.

The specific answer to each riddle is a pregnancy euphemism.

#1: "Up the Duff" a very obscure and slightly vulgar one, but we could easily take a picture to go along with it, soo.......

#2: "Stork Watching"

#3: "Bun in the Oven"

Hope you had fun! We sure did! Now, I can ask that you keep me in prayer for this. I have been incredibly exhausted and "morning sickness" has kicked in with a vengeance! Hard to be a good mommy when I am either "passed out" in bed, or kneeling over the toilet.

Riddle #3

I think we've managed to keep you guessing throughout this game. Well, this one might be a little easier. Hope you are having fun!