Peach Days Weekend

This past weekend was Peach days in Brigham City. Brian and I are big fans of Peach days. We both wondered what it was about peach days that made us like it so much. The parade always seems too long and the carnival ends up being kind of a trashy event. We decided that it is definately the family visit that we like so much. Watching a parade with the Droubay's is very entertaining. They all have really funny comments to make about everything. This year was no exception. The problem we ran into this year was and excessive amount of candy being thrown. Adin could not stop eating it. It was an eating fest for Adin and Gabi. I am surprised that neither of them ended up vomiting right there.

The carnival was very entertaining this year. We took the kids to ride some rides. Chris and Jeni have kids that are our kids exact same ages. It works perfectly because they love going together. It was so cute because Adin and Aliza rode together on a couple rides and every once in a while they would look at each other and start talking. We are not sure what they were talking about, but it was adorable. Aliza was also putting the moves on Adin. We made a classic Peach Days memory with Chris and Jeni. We were waiting in line for the kids to ride some trucks. All of a sudden a rather large hispanic woman decked another woman in the face. When the woman staggered from the blow the hispanic woman starting punching her in the back of the head. It was broken up and the lady that got punched left screaming, swearing and crying. The hispanic woman picked up her little girl (about Adin's size) and was checking her lip a lot. From what we could gather we think the girl that was beaten accidentally knocked this little girl over and her mother reacted by beating the woman up. It was crazy and a classic trashy Peach Days moment.

We stayed overnight mainly because we were too tired by night time but also because our kids love to visit grandma and grandpa 'bay. Adin seems to have a special bond with his grandpa 'bay and Meg said that she wanted to stay there forever. On Sunday, Brian needed some quiet time to do some reading for school. I decided to drive up to Logan with the kids and visit my grandma. It has been WAY too long since I have been up to see her even though it hasn't been nearly as long as she thinks it has. She thinks I haven't seen her since Meg was just a month or two old. Really I have seen her 4-5 times since then, but her memory is really going. She was really excited to see the kids and I hope that she remembers it. Even though she isn't completely with it it was still a lot of fun to see her.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Busy Week

We finally have Brian back!!! It has been so much better. We ended up having a pretty busy week. My mom came for a couple days which was a lot of fun. The kids had so much fun getting to see her. We also had Mike and Kelli come over so that Mike could help us with some electrical stuff that came up. It all started with a visit from a handyman to simply repair a couple outlets. He left telling me that it were him he wouldn't sleep another night in our place without getting smoke detectors in every room. He said that the guy (the jerk) who previously owned our place thought he was a wiring genious and rigged up all these crazy things and that live wires were just sitting inside our walls. Needless to say both Brian and I were freaking out. Mike came to our rescue though. He is brilliant. He sorted everything out and checked everything in our walls. He did have to fix quite a bit of stuff, but it wasn't as horrible as our handyman made it out to be. We did learn some more really interesting stuff about the man who decked our home out as a bachelor pad. Apparently he had mounted a TV on his celing above his bed. Also, he had cut a square hole in our bathroom wall and put a TV there as well which helps to explain the surround sound in the bathroom. We know he had a TV in the kitchen as well. This guy was a nut. Here are the cords that Mike removed from our master bedroom walls.

My brother also stopped by to measure our built in TV shelves for custom cabinets. My brother has worked with custom cabinetry for many years now and he is hooking us up. Yea! I will post a before and after of that when we get them in.

We took the kids to Raging Waters on Saturday. It was quite the experience. Thankfully my sister Charisse ended up coming too. Looking back, we don't know how we would have done it without her there. Meg was a scaredy cat. She would not go down ANY slides. There were many tears. Finally she started playing in the kid land on a tiny park type slide. She also like the wave pool and the lazy river. At least she ended up having a good time. Adin loved the wave pool until a wave pushed him and Brian under the water. Then he was really freaked out and it was difficult to get him to go back in the water.

It is so wierd that summer is over and all of these swimming places are closed. This summer has flown by for us. I have always loved fall. Brian starts school tomorrow. He is completely freaking out. Not only does he not want to go but he said in all seriousness that he would rather work at pretzelmaker than go to school. I think that was a little dramatic but at least it shows how much he is dreading it. I am hoping that once things get moving at school and he knows what is going on that he will like it. Meg starts preschool in 3 weeks. That freaks me out. We'll keep you updated!

WE'RE BACK!!!!

It seems like it has been so long. For a couple weeks we didn't have internet with the move. We got it at the begining of this week, but I have been super busy on a project I will show you later.

We are adjusting to the new place. Brian still isn't living with us. Today is his last day as a Social Worker. As of now, it is 8:00 pm and I just got off the phone with him and he doesn't know when he will be leaving work. He is just such a perfectionist that he doesn't want to leave anything undone. He will have one week off and then will start the begining of his never ending program :0)

For the last couple weeks we have been unpacking and settling in. Here are a few pictures that were taken since I last posted.

Right before we moved I wanted to take Meg to a drive in movie. It isn't something you can do most places. We saw Wall-E and she is still talking about it. She thought it was so fun. I am not sure if she like the movie or the junk food more.
I wanted to take a picture of the kids by our old house. I don't think either of them will remember much about it, but at least they will be able to see where they lived.

Meg is LOVING the swimming pool litterally 20 yards from her front door. The only problem with it is that she wants to go every day. It's hard for me to go alone with both kids because Meg wants to stay in the pool and play and Adin thinks it is great to run around on the deck (grrr). One time Adin climbed off the steps and out of the pool to chase a dog that someone brought. I told Meg to stay on the steps and ran to get him. A few steps away I turned around to check her and she wasn't on the steps anymore. She says she slipped off. After that experience I am much more hesitant to go by myself.

Meg has been my best pal these last few weeks. It's funny because she is only four but I feel like I have depended on her so much while Brian was away. Not just for help, but just for companionship. I haven't been as excited about putting her to bed at the end of the night as I usually am (I only say excited because by the end of the day I am usually so worn out).

As many of you know, the last 3 weeks have been a Droubay moving extravaganza. Jeff and Amy and Chris and Jeni and me and Brian all moved within a very short period of time. Jeni and I traded kids on our moving days. It is so nice to be down closer to family again so that we actually have someone to watch them. Gabi and Meg are cute together, but Adin and Aliza are cuter. They call each other baby and follow each other everywhere.

Adin has hit a major spurt. He has changed so much in the last few weeks. Everytime Brian comes home for the weekend Adin is saying more words and acting more grown up. All of a sudden, Adin and Meg are playing really well together. Adin thinks he is hilarious and will do all sorts of crazy things to get a laugh out of me or Meg. He has learned to say Meg's name. Yea! Meg has been waiting forevery for that. The first day he said a very clear "Meg" all day long. The next day it changed to Mug. Now it is always "Muggie" It is so adorable. Unfortunately for Meg, this also means he can tell on her. If I am not in the room when Meg hurts him, he will come to me crying saying "Muggie Owie". Then I know that a time out is in order. Meg hasn't learned to lie yet so all I have to do is ask her what she did and she will tell me.

He will now repeat any word that you say. It is crazy how fast that has happened. Meg loves to play a game where she says a word, any word, and then he will repeat it. 75% of the time he gets it perfect.

He came up with the ensamble above all by himself. He loves to wear hats and glasses or mixed combinations of the two. He also likes purses. The other day he went to Walmart with a pink Sleeping Beauty purse with feathers on the handle hanging from the crook of his arm. Brian would have died.

Last but not least, the project that has kept me so busy. Brian and I both really hated the facade on the fireplace. It was such an eyesore in the front room. The reason I decided to do it was because it was a project I thought I could do for really cheap but it would have a lot of impact. There are SOOO many changes we want to make to the condo that I just really wanted a project I could do right now. Thanks to my wonderful brother Brian who had the tools I needed and some extremely handy advice that made is so I could cut perfectly straight lines with a jigsaw, I was able to accomplish this. It was actually more work than I thought and I might be a little prideful about the final results. I think that it drove the kids crazy because it was all I worked on for a few days. I also painted a small spot of the color of paint I thought I wanted on the walls and let's just say that was a complete waste of a gallon of paint. It looked horrible. Our couch is kind of an olive green color and the rest of our decor colors would go with anything. I am open to ideas about paint color. Feel free to list ideas on my comment section because I am clueless right now.

Now that we don't have dial up anymore (YEEEEEAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), I was able to post this video from B's birthday. I love this video. It is so cute. Just turn off the volume because all you will be able to hear is a not so great singer singing really loudly. :0)