Not much to say

Well...I promised Charisse to update my blog every week, but this week has been very uneventful. They are pouding Brian into the ground at work. It seems like if they get a hard case that someone else can't handle they give it to Brian. His most recent case was given to him because the girl who had it before was too scared of her client to work with him anymore. Yikes! It seems like he is in court at least three times a week. He says the hardest part of his job is being yelled at all day long by clients and just having to take it. We will both be very relieved when he is done working there.

Since the last few days have been snowy, my kids are more cooped up than ever. As soon as it was warm we started going to parks and getting out of the house more. Now we are back inside. My sweet little Adin has started throwing tantrums. It is typically because I won't let him do something dangerous (i.e. climb the piano) or because I won't let him eat something that he has already had too much of.

On the bright side he has also started saying "Love you" He says it to me every night before I put him to bed and he said it to Brian for the first time today when he left for work. It is so sweet. Notice my little poser/dancer in the background of these pictures. She cracks me up. After I took these pictures and a couple more she wanted to see them on the camera. She looked at them and said "Oh, that's so sweet, isn't it mom?"

I was just about to type that hopefully I would have more to say next time, but I guess there is something to say for uneventfulness.

It has been a busy few weeks. Charisse called me last night and told me to get with the program so I promised an update. I love blogging and I love checking other people's blogs. First bit of ginormous new is that we called BYU and accepted their invitation to their Ph.D. program. Yikes! Brian is very nervous about all of it and so am I. Now we are begining all the prep to come down. We will get our "packet" from the program in mid May so we don't have any specific details about when it starts or anything. We have started watching the housing in Provo and actually found a little house that looked perfect and it was right by campus. It wasn't available till Fall but that worked perfectly for us. Somebody already snatched it up before we even had a chance. That makes us feel a little worried about the competitiveness of trying to find a place and our disadvantage of living too far away to see them first thing, but I am sure it will all work out in the end.
On Friday, we drove down to Springville for Gabi's princess birthday party. Meg had been excited about this for a long time. She had so much fun. All the girls looks so cute. Jeni's sister Holly dressed up like Giselle from the movie Enchanted and suprised the girls. It was amazing how much she sounded like Giselle. The girls loved it. I feel like it is something Meg won't forget.
Then on Saturday we drove down to Springville again. This time it was for the annual Droubay Easter egg hunt. This is always one of my favorite events of the year. It was hard this year because I needed to help Adin and I put Brian in charge of the camera so that left Meg off to do it by herself which she did quite well. By the time I finished with Adin Meg had an overflowing basket of eggs and I missed seeing her find them all. It's hard to split your attention. Adin got the hang of all of it very quickly and loved to plop his eggs into his bucket.

Sunday morning we got the kids up for Easter baskets which was kind of funny. Meg went right for her new princess figurines and movie. Adin saw his new toy but moved it to the side to get to his candy. Within 3 minutes of being woken up and groggy he was shoving candy into his mouth.
It seemed very appropriate.

We got to go to Brigham City on Easter morning at 8:30 (that is what time the meeting started) for Amy Whitehead Jager's (my best friend from High School and Brian's second cousin) baby blessing. We had, amazingly, left the house on time, but Brian wanted to make sure that we made it for the blessing. I was going about 60 on the old Highway. Brian told me I was being a slow poke and to speed up. I increased my speed to 65 and told him that if I was going to speed up he would have to keep his eyes open for cops. Well within 3 minutes of that comment I was pulled over on the side of the road getting a speeding ticket. GRRRR! What makes it better is the fact that I hadn't put our new insurance card in the car yet and that I hadn't grabbed my license because I thought Brian would be driving. Isn't all of that so lovely. The cop was nice and didn't cite me for the insurance or the license. Phew. He also didn't ticket me for the full amount and dropped it to 9. It still makes me so mad. Luckily this time I am not completely to blame with Brian as my accomplice. The amazing part of the story is that we made it in time for the blessing.
Here are the kids in their new Easter clothes. I could not get Adin to hold still for the life of me. I tried to get one with both of them in it but Adin was always running out of the picture. I think that he looks like he is enjoying torturing me.
We decided to start a new tradition as a family of an Easter picnic. It didn't work to well this year because the kids were more interested in playing than eating. It was fun to spend time together though.
After Adin went to bed, Meg and I colored Easter eggs. She had fun, but thinks that she really needs to eat them all now. I keep explaining that they are no different on the inside than regular eggs that she has eaten in the past, but she thinks that they will somehow be more special since they are Easter eggs.

This is just a picture I had to throw in. Meg and Adin have started holding hands in the car. It is really sweet. Adin usually has a death grip on Meg's hand. Adin is not a car kid and holding Meg's had seems to calm him. You will probably noticed Adin's face. These ones are from taking a nose dive off the arm of the couch into some candlesticks.

Thats it in a nutshell. I promise I will update sooner this time.

What we have been up to

What have we been up to? Not a whole lot. Here are a couple things I could think of.


My sister Sarah graduated from hair school this last week. One of her final projects was a look alike fashion show. We drove down and Sarah did Meg's hair and make up and she wore her Glenda dress. There were princesses and movie stars. Edward scissor hands won. This is a picture of Meg practicing walking the cat walk. She curtzied and spun as she walked.

This is Sarah with Meg practicing where to walk.

This is actually during the fashion show. I was video taping and I had the lady sitting next to me snap a picture. That is why it is kind of blurry and cut Meg off. It's still fun to see her in the actual show.

Adin is busy as ever. He has had a couple injuries as a result. I am completely irresponsible and left my flat iron warming up on the bathroom counter. Adin climbed on the toilet and touched it. I held his hand under cold water for a long time then I carefully inspected it and couldn't see a burn so I started to wonder if he had even touched it. Well, the next day he woke up with an enormous blister. This picture was taken two days in so the blister is actually smaller than it was originally.

The day after the burn Adin was playing with Brian in his room and fell and hit his lip on a storage container that holds all of his balls. He is smiling here so it is hard to see how swollen it is. Poor kid.

On Saturday, Brian and I went on an all day date. It was SO fun and so overdue. Sarah is moving back to Maryland this week so we snatched her to watch the kids for the day before she moves. First we did a session at the Salt Lake temple. It was so beautiful. We have done a session there once before, but I didn't remember how amazing that temple is. Next we drove up to Sandy and met our friends David and Amber to see the U2 3D show. That was really cool too. Brian will be going to it again because he loved it so much. I can't really describe what it is like. It was just really cool. Then we went to eat. YUM! I always love to go eat without two kids. It seems like most of our dinners throughout the week are cold because the kids need so much help with theirs. Then we ended the date by going to the Jazz vs. Nuggets game. That was an absolute blast. We were kind of hoping that it would have been a closer game so that it would be that much more exciting. It was still a lot of fun though. The people in front of us (a 45-50 year old couple that must have just started dating) kept standing up and dancing. They were really shaking their butts right in our faces. It was a mix of gross and funny. Then the old grandma behind us was really yelling at the top of her lungs at the players and ref. It was all hilarious. It was so much fun to get away and do something with just the two of us.

That's about it. For those of you waiting to hear our final decision about BYU, stay tuned. Brian said he really wanted to call BYU with our answer by the end of this week.