It feels like it has been months...

So much has been going on the past few weeks...this may be a long post.
We went to Smithfield, Health Days. That is where I grew up and Health Days was always a big deal. The boys loved the parade, but there favorite was eating pancakes at the fire station and hanging out with all of the firemen and their trucks. That weekend was also Mothers Day weekend. I wished my Mom a happy Mothers day one day early. We got home in time to go to bed and in the morning I awoke to breakfast in bed. It was so cute. I got blueberry, stuffed french toast, hash browns, sausage and juice, it all came along with a pretty pink rose in a vase.
They are they sweetest boys ever!
Mayson and Jackson in a fire engine


This is my cute niece, Machesney...on mothers day her and her sisters and Bailey dipped strawberries in chocolate. They ate every strawberry before they even had time for the chocolate to set up. Machesney is such a chocolate girl, I chased her around to get pictures of her. She couldn't get enough, notice the chocolate on her knuckles.
I got to be a chaperon for a field trip to hogle zoo with the kindergarten. Mayson had his cute little girlfriend, Jessica Stimpson for a partner. They had so much fun together, I caught them cuddling on the bus...so freakin cute!

My little Jackson had a cute program at the preschool he goes to. It was kind of a graduation, but he still has 2 yrs. of preschool before kindergarten. He was so adorable. Front and center on stage, singing his little heart out. I videoed it, I'm going to try to put some of it on here. Here are a few pictures taken after the program.

MY BABY RIDES A BIKE WITH NO TRAINING WHEELS

Off he goes!

We have been telling Jackson that if he can ride his bike with no training wheels, he would be able to ride the 4 wheeler when we go camping this summer. Well, he must have gotten the itch to go camping and ride the 4 wheeler because he decided he wanted his training wheels off! He had ridden his cousin, Tanners bike pretty good a few weeks ago, so I figured he could do it. He rode his old, bent bike for a few days, then his daddy decided he could use a new one. He was at preschool when we went and got him a new bike and when we picked him up from school Ryan showed him the bike in the back of the truck. His eyes have never been so excited, he about jumped out of Ryan's arms. Anyway, he is riding pretty good, not so good downhill, but he'll get it!I also walked into my bedroom the other night...this is what I found. I just think they are so stinkin cute (especially asleep) I just had to grab the camera. We had no idea they had crawled ino our bed and gone to sleep. We just thought they got really quiet. Ryan and I were downstairs watching a movie.

Behind Again

I got behind again, but this time I have an excuse. My computer has been on the fritz!! That is a nice way of putting it, I've been so frustrated with it, it has actually made me cry a little. A word to the wise, if your computer asks you if you want to download Internet explorer 8...DON"T DO IT!! Come to find out that was my whole problem. A computer genius at Schlumberger told Ryan how I could get rid of it and it is back to normal now.

We had a great Easter, just the normal stuff. I did have my cute niece and nephew here this year it was fun. Grandma Erickson did her annual egg hunt and the kids got spoiled as usual.

Easter morning trying to get a good picture before primary.
4th time is a charm!

We also went to Saint George this past week for Maysons' spring break. It was fun, we got to stay with Ryan's little sister, Katie, who is in Hurricane. Her little boys are darling my boys loved playing with them! We had nice weather the 1st day and a half we were there. We left on Wednesday afternoon and drove home in a snowstorm.

Jackson, Mayson and cousin Caden
Mayson was quite the climber, he climbed up everything like a monkey

This weekend, I had a baby shower for one of my girlfriends I went to high school with. It was down in Smithfield, so the boys and I went and stayed with Grandpa Low. After the shower, we went over to my brother, Jeffs' house and played with his kids. They are all getting so big. Saturday morning, Jeff and Tanner had built a bike jump. Well, Mayson showed up and was all over that. He was riding Tanners bike, which is tiny for him, but it was his only option. By the end of the night it was discovered that he had broken out the bearings on the front tire and could not be fixed. I felt horrible, I also knew how it would be at my house if the weather was nice and someone had broken one of my kids' bikes. So off Michelle and I go to walmart to get Tanner a new bike. We split the cost and upgraded him a size in the bike world. All is good there I think. Hopefully Tanner is the only one that will break his bike on the jump now. LOL

Mayson and Grandpa Low
Jackson with Grandpa

We had a good visit with my Dad, who is home alone for a bit. Mom is still taking care of Grandpa Mohrlock in San Diego. I could tell he was happy to have visitors. He played with the boys for hours. Jackson teased him with his blankie, Mayson asked him 100,000 questions about everything imaginable. It was fun. Then they got Grandpa to break out the pellet gun and let them shoot at buffalo targets. Talk about the highlight of their LIVES! They would hit the metal target and it would make a ping sound and their little eyes would light up. Mayson got the hang of the sight very quickly and was shooting really well by the time they were done. Jackson would me staring at me while Grandpa aimed then he would pull the trigger...PRICELESS!! I wish I had gotten my camera out on several different occasions during this little trip, but I suck and only got pictures of the best part!

I need to get caught up!!

I know, I need a spankin...I've been a blog slacker!! I am going to combine my last week or so into one post.
I'm also going to go in the wrong order, I know naughty huh?

Ryan came home from his 8 day hitch at work on Tuesday night around 8:00, I had let the boys stay up because they were excited to see him. They were downstairs when he got home, I was on the computer upstairs. They boys trampled him for a few minutes then he came up the stairs...I turned around and he was holding a dozen of the preetiest colored roses I had ever seen! This NEVER happens! I just about peed my pants! He is the sweetest boy, when he wants to be. He said he thought I sounded a little blue on the phone and thought the flowers would cheer me up...It did, except it brought tears to my eyes, it did again just typing this post! Anyway, I was very excited about it! That is a HUGE thing for Ryan to do. Oh and then today, we were talking about it and he said he was looking for daisies, (which are my fav and I had no idea he knew that) but they didn't have any! I love this boy so stinkin much!!

Last Friday night, I also helped with my niece, Baileys birthday party with her friends. They wanted their hair done, manicures, pedicures, the works. Bailey, her mom, Tracy and 2 of her friends came up to my house and we dolled them up. Afterwards, we all went to eat at Don Pedros. It was such a fun night. I was super excited that she wanted me to help, since I get so much girly time and all! While we were at dinner, I made Mayson a 3 dollar bet that he would not eat a jalepeno. So, he had to be tough in front of all of the girls, he totally did it. He was playing it cool for quite a while, then the burn really set in. Even the little, mexican waiter was giggling. We were all busting up. He is such a funny kid, we love him. Anyhow, here are a few pictures of our fun night. Tracy has a great picture ofo the pepper bet on her blog, I forgot my camera!
This is my other niece, Megan.
This is Bailey
This is Tracy, giving Emily her manicure

Mayson and Jackson were the photographers by the way. I have countless pictures of walls, tongues,etc.. I chose to not post any of those.

And last, but not least, Mayson had a wrestling match in Morgan last night. He got third place. After his first to matches my video camera was out of disc space, so I took still photos of his 3rd match. I am slow with my camera. He pinned this kid, when they raised his hand at the end, I missed it. You should have seen the ref roll his eyes when I asked him to do it again so I could get a picture of it. What us moms won't do for a kodak moment! Anyway, tonight is the last match of the season, it's in Kemmerer. I'll keep everyone posted on how he does tonight.

Maysons Award at school

My monkey can read!! He won't do it for me, but he'll do it for just about anyone else. He got an award from the Principal at his school last week. It's called the Eagle Scholar. He was so proud! So were Ryan and I! It says, "You know all of the sounds of all the alphabet lettera and you're very good at sounding words that are not on the word wall."

We are very proud of you Mayson, good job on being super smart!!

More Wrestling

Mayson has been hard at work...with wrestling that is. Last week, he had 2 matches. The first one was in Coalville. He got 2nd place there. Here he is with his buddy, Korter, and lil bro.

The next night, he wrestled in Randolph. He was awsome! He was doing this hilarious sprawl, we nicknamed it the spiderman sprawl. He ended up with 1st place that night. He has been so into wrestling this year, it surprises me, last yr. he wasn't all that into it.

This is Mayson in Randolph with his first place medal. This is one of his best buddies Braxton who also got first that night. They were pretty hot stuff!

I was totally unprepared for this day!!

So, I never in a million years expected this day to come...so soon!

Last week, I, was tending some kids, one of them, Austin, had preschool on Thursday, and I had told his mom that I would take him and pick him up. I pull into the parking lot of the preschool and Jackson, unbuckles his seatbelt and says..."Thanks mom, BYE" I said oh no no no this is Austins preschool and you aren't big enough for preschool. He then informs me that he is big and goes in the potty. He went in, hung up his coat with Austin and walked into the classroom with him. The teachers there just looked at me, I said, this little man wants to go to preschool. They said, then let him stay. He had absolutely no problem being left at school! It broke my heart, I wasn't prepared for that. He is going back on Tuesday and I get to fill out paperwork. BOO HOO!!

Here he is with his bunny he colored.

This is my baby with his friend, Austin.