merry Christmas

Well a little late but that is normal here.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  We sure had a great one and it even felt a little more like Christmas with Grampie down.  I wish we could have family down every yr for Christmas.  Reminds me of my Christmas as a child and my Grampie and Nannie stayed with us.  The boys were so excited Christmas day running around before we sat down to open our stockings.

But I will back up a week before Christmas....

Grampie showed up  Sunday night, so the boys didn't see him.  Grampie even stayed up till mid night our time, shocking.  However we heard not pitter patter at 3 am but cluck cluck up the hall.  3 am really we just went to bed 3 hours ago. Tom got up and found grampie and told him just like he would the boys to go back to bed...It was hilarious actually.  So grampie when back to bed but still got up at 5 am yup just 2 more hours.  We heard him but he was a little quieter but still set the door sensor off to Like Noah says "a bad habit".  Lucky he didn't wake the kids but did us.  Well I won't go step by steps our days with grampie but will cover some of the funny episodes.  Poor grampie got a few lectures and sent to bed a few nights.

Well  grampie got question a lot about his bad habits haha and no there was no coaching on our part.  But made Tom and I laugh at lot.

Than there was a morning Noah came out and told Grampie that he had to walk a certain way like him and grand dad( something I can't describe and you have to see) but he imitate Granddad gate, as Granddad legs aren't good and does have trouble walking, however Grampie is completely find.  But tom and I were dying laughing in our bed listening to him and trying not to wake up Lucas who slept in our room.

Grampie also got lecture of breaking rules the first few days.  Noah informed him that we do not leave the table till we are all done especially to run out and do his bad habit.

Also told him he can't through his bad habit on the ground when he was done, and grampie told him he wasn't.

Oh and the first few days Noah reminded not that grampie need to be reminded to wash his hands when he leaves the bathroom. Grampie told him he never forgets! lol

Lastly Grampie even got kicked out of the kitchen after trying to pick up the very hot pan with his bare hands and than throwing it back down firing a glass of milk at me.(yes we were all laughing)  Grampie did help out with the cooking and it was greatly appreciated too.

There are many others but I will stop there.

We all loved having grampie here but I think we'll all complain it was too short of a trip(sorry Grampie but it was)  however is was awesome to have him here for Christmas Day.

The boys got spoiled from grampie and the boys loved every moment.  I also got to go to an appt kid free woo hoo. haha that doesn't happen never often, and grampie survived (one boy napped though the whole time haha)

So back to Christmas, I can't really describe it all but say it was very warm(not meaning temp, but yes outside was warmer than Canadian Christmas.  Grampie had great weather I think it was 15C out his whole trip and had no rain, not our normal winter but nice) and magical Christmas.  The gifts were a hit and not sure but the boys did very well this yr( I guess picking things up all yr helps with that(one of Lucas gifts actually was bought in 2009 for Jonas but than we didn't give it haha), and I think I actually cooked my best Christmas meal yet. Last yr meal was a disaster as I didn't know the oven didn't cook at the temp it said and we had a very under cooked and un-editable turkey.

Oh and over the week Lucas has learn to say hockey,and thank you! he's growing up too fast.

I hope all you had a great Christmas.

4.5yr, 3yr and a 14 month old

When did this happen!!!  I have no idea but this is where we are today.

Noah
is in preschool and loving it,  I am sure he would have no problem going all day and more than 2 morning if we could afford it and if I really wanted him to but I don't really want him too. He has next yr when he will be gone all day.  I am extreamly happy that I get to be with my kids for the first 4 yrs of their lives all day because let's face it after that it less time with them when school comes into play and if they develop the i don't want to be around my parents.

Noah has grown so much I don't even know where to start with him.  He loves to spell, draw, color, play dough, has a very good and healthy imgaination, pretty sure he can ride a real bike if we had one(birthday present next yr), as he can lift his legs up and glide down hills and everything on his balance bike.  He into planets, starts and space right now too.He learning to tie his shoes, knows how to do all his zipper and buttons for probably almost the last yr.  He a sponge for knowledge which I love!

Jonas
just turned three some times I am like didn't he turn 3 last yr which is hard to believe because in many was he is so advanced for his age but than in so many ways he is his age. He know almost all his letters now has trouble with the first 5 but can sing the song.  He is riding his balance bike a lot better over the last few months.  He is my rougher boy and loves trucks and cars I think a little more than Noah, Loves to color and crafts and play doh too. He can put on his shoes and get dress himself for quiet some time now,  He still shy but I think Noah was till about 3.5 when he started to not be so shy so maybe in June he'll come out of his shell a bit more.

Lucas
 is another wild man and rough too like Jonas but I think Jonas is teaching him.  He is sort of a mess right now not sure what is going on with him.  He doesn't like to sleep and his mouth has be bugging him for a long time and I even tried a teething necklaces and I have to say I think everyone is on crack and just think they work..  It hasn't done anything for him.  I got him sleep well again at night just in time for our vacation which of course disturbed that(not too bad but enough).  He tries to be like his brothers a lot.  He can run pretty good now(not like his brothers but he's not walking, its a sort of funny run), he practicing jumping can't quite get both feet off the ground but sometimes one(he better at it when holding on to stuff),  He is very vocal not in words but you know when he wants something or is not happy with you!  He can say dad, mum, uh oh, wow apple, chicken(last too not often but has been said), has said baby at the dr office but have't heard it again, He's trying to say train and plane. Of course Bell for Bella,  He  growls for a dog sounds, can meow,  grrs for a bear, knows elephant sounds but won't do it all the time. Love the bath and shower and will trying to walk or climb in if he not already in. Can walk up stairs but haven't master going down.

I know I have missed a lot of other things that the boys can do and like doing but I am getting forgetful,  I think over the yrs since having kids my mind has gone to mush.

Well Tom's work launch to the public today, so happy day for his work embrane.com   Which probably mean more work hours haha.

 The house is neglected as normal no work has been done to it since three months after moving in.  except putting board up in the attic over the family room so we can store some stuff up there but that is not completed yet as the heating duck needs to be insulated(the old stuff is falling off and cold air comes out at the vent instead of hot air.

Not much else is going on with with us.

Vacation

Saturday Dec 10th

Life on Maui is so wonderful (actually the word "wonderful" doesn't do it justice). The weather is unbelievable even the bad day are gorgeous! Haha.  There is no extreme heat, no heavy humidity, it just completely comfortable all the time.  We have been to the beach every day so far but one day we drove to take a train ride.  It took a little over 1 1/2 hours to travel 12 miles but the boys had fun. However the drive up and back, the train ride than lunch left Tom and I exhausted(the boys were too) and a headache for me.  So no moving anywhere the next day.   Tomorrow is Jonas birthday and he is so excited to turn three.  He told me that tomorrow he is going to be bigger and will be a big boy haha.  I love my little men. They sure make me smile.  So we are leaving the day up to him.  Most important is going to the store and getting a small cake for the big day, with candles.  And I managed to pack some new lighting McQueen cars in the suit case for his present.  Which I know he is not going to let them out of his sight. :).

We have four days left and we fly out on the red eye on the fourth day.  Not looking forward to that flight as Lucas is not a little baby any more like the last red eye I too back to NS and hates to sit still.  But fingers cross that they will all sleep.  We don't have anything else planned just the beach.  Man I love it here the water is a little cool at first dip but completely warm almost  like bath water once you are in.  All the boys love it and we sit on the beach and let the water crash into us, soaking us from head to toe.  It going to really hard when we are back to reality on Thursday. Thankfully Christmas is not far and grampie and dad(a little more than normal) will be around.

Happy Hallowe'en

Well like always I didn't get everything done for the boys. One day I hope I have it together. However the boys didn't seem bothered but I didn't get the cookies done or I didn't get one of the pumpkin craved. However the boys got their pumpkins done and the got their costumes on and oh my we got candy. Noah was going nuts, Jonas was still shy at going to the door but would still run to the next house to the drive way and than need us to walk with him. Lucas really didn't get it since he'd go to the door and give them his candy and than throw the candy that they gave him on the ground, it was funny.

Lucas and I came back early to hand out candy and we got 60+kids, we didn't count last yr and ran out and this yr we have way too much but it seemed that we got about the same as last yr so now I think we know how much to buy for next yr.

Here are a few pictures of our Hallowe'en.

Dancing Lucas

This was taking a while ago not sure how long but before his first birthday! We are a little slippery where we have one sock on and one sock off but that is how we roll lately. Sorry for all my talking I know it's annoying but what can you do!

So Last few weeks have been exhausting but than that is parenthood. We had some virus lately and too many teeth trying to come in at the same time. Last night we got about 6 hours of sleep so hopefull we'll get back to getting some sleep again.

Lucas had a not so good birthday since he had a fever which turned out to be Roseola in the end. He is growing pretty good, 21 lbs 8.5 0z and 30" tall. however they are going to keep an eye on his height for a while because even though he is almost in the 70% i think for height he has fallen off his growth curve with a spike downwards. we are hoping that the other measurements were taken after a growth spurt and the just hasn't had it this time yet. However we aren't to concern but it just something we have to watch for a bit. Since he had a fever and the rash at the appointment his needles had to be delayed which wasn't too up setting for me haha. not looking forward to getting those 1yr shots. Hard to believe my baby is one yrs old now, where did the time go!

Happy 7th Anniversary

It's been 7 years since one of the most amazing days of my life!!!! It hard to believe we tied the knot 7 years ago. Some days it seem like yesterday and some times it seems like many moons ago. However it doesn't really matter how long it has been because these to crazy love birds are deeply in love!

Back Swinging the K bell

Well after much humming and hahing and trying to work it in our budget I found a class that isn't exactly all I want it to be(meaning I wish it more than one morning a week) I found an exercise class that I can attend. I am back working out with Kettlebells. First class was this morning and man did it kick my butt. It feels so good to have my body healed from having Lucas. Who thought it would take 10 months to recover from having an uncomplicated birth but than I guess getting sent home with Vicodin(a very strong pain med) something they rarely send ppl home with, normally it's 600mg Ibuprofen(which I never took after Noah or Jonas...in fact I still had the full bottles of Ibuprofen they sent home with me after having them) and almost getting sent home with a walker it wasn't completely uncomplicated. But than having a fast labour with a 10lbs 2.1oz baby(which everyone assumes I had a c-section but I didn't) which do to the intensity and speed of labour broke the blood vessels in the whites of Lucas eyes. Anyhow that can all be read back in his Birth story. It feels good to be able to exercise once again and not be in pain and to be able to run hold my sons it is great. I know I am going to be a good sore tomorrow!

Anyhow my workout oh my did the instructor kick my butt. I had sweat going everywhere, dripping it off me hitting the floor! I was tired, out of breath and feeling good. I feeling I have long to feel for such a long time. A workout like that can make the worst/hard day of your life feel great and that glass you thought was half empty to be over flowing full. So I am excited to be back into the exercising life. Now I just have to try and fit my home work into the other 6 days a week, fingers crossed I can but at least I have that one day which is better than no days!

On another note.

Noah is loving Pre-school which makes me so happy and makes life a little easier than if he was crying and not wanting to go etc. Jonas and Lucas play together when Noah is at school and seem to be happy to play together. I can really tell the age difference between Noah and Jonas when Noah is at school. At many times in the pass it didn't really seem like there was a 17month difference between the two but lately it coming more and more apparent and has been hard to not treat Jonas like Noah but I have been trying very hard to remind myself that Jonas will be three in Dec and he's not 4. That sounds funny but Jonas has acted so much older than he really is. I mean this kid walked early, talked in my mind very early he has even done a few things before Noah has and Noah watches and than doesn't them after seeing his younger brother. I think that is why he might have done some hitting behaviour(out of frustration where we have been fault of treating him older). So I been working hard and looking back at what age did we do stuff with Noah, which has helped.

Now I am hoping I have learn from my mistakes with Jonas and don't treat Lucas like he is older than he is, where he seem to be on the fast track too. This kid as more words at this point than I think at least Noah did for sure. He walked before 10months, waves, claps, even got teeth early compared to the other two boys, The most hardest thing for me is accepting he will be 1 YEARS OLD on tuesday! I know some might rolling eyes and thing I am lame etc but really I am sad about it. Time just goes faster with each kid. I remember noah's first yr so well, jonas went a little fast but oh my goodness Lucas well I don't even remember it and it is also true that you don't take as many pictures as you do with your first child. But not having a camera for the first 5 months of your kids life doesn't help either :(. SO we were going to celerbrate this

Adjusting to Adding Pre-school to our life

It's been a while and I apologize...Just the normal crazy life and not a lot of time lately. I was told that when we got Noah in school that it would sent a routine and things would fall into place. LOL I am laughing now b/c right now I feel like I am swimming and just staying a float lately. But I guess the good thing is I am still swimming right???

Well Noah's Preschool is going awesome, he loves it! He wakes up, gets dress right away, eats and is at the door waiting to go. I love it and I have to say he has made it so much easier on me with the fact that he wants to go and loves going. I don't know what I would do(well i would take him out probably) if he cried like some of the girls and boys we know(but then they are about a yr younger than him...I don't get why some parents push their kids to grow up when they aren't ready). I say that but than I know I am hard on Jonas sometimes b/c he acts so much older than he is at times, I have to remind myself he and Noah aren't the same age....I think it will be good for him that he gets held back a yr from school(I get an extra yr with him and Lucas too b/c the cut off for school is Sept 1 down here). Noah is also learning the days of the weeks at home b/c he wants to know what days he has school, soccer, dad softball etc in order(he knows the days things are on. But we are practicing what day comes after what.)

Anyhow I am always running place to place which I know other parents of older children know all about it! I listen to my sister has told me all the running around they do with my nieces and nephew. I can really see where my life is going and it's not about to slow down anytime soon... It like as soon as I drop Noah off and get home I am running back to pick him up, or on Thursdays if we are running behind Tom runs Noah to school and I take the other two boys to Music class and than race back to get Noah, than home for lunch, Lucas's nap, try to clean up the place so I can make supper and than it's bath, supper bedtime routine, do Lucas bed time stuff to get him to bed, and clean up the kitchen and finally bed for me oh my haha.

There just doesn't seem to be a moment to sit down!

My niece Violet Marie Flynn

This little princess came into the world with lots of drama, don't know the whole story but this little pink bundle of 8lbs 6oz was born on her grandparents drive way and deliver by her father, as well first girl to be born in a family of 4 brothers and 7 grandsons.

I want to bake/cook

bSo what do I want to do today but cook and bake. How hard is that to do with three boys around?, very!!!!!! Plus I am trying to loose the extra weight that lies on this body of my and to have baked goods, even homemade bread in the house is just not a good idea with me, a person like myself loves food.

So I look at recipes and dream of making things. I dream of cooking fancy dinners like I use to do for Tom and I(now they were fancy for us but probably not for others) before the kids but who has time to do all that prep work etc. Especially when so many of my simplest meals don't turn out b/c "wait how much did I put in"... before getting interrupted and distracted or helping someone open this, close this, reach this, help with this, solve fights or problems. The list goes on. haha

No not complaining!!, just saying in my house I find it hard to do things that i use to do b/c of oh so many distractions. Now the boys love to help with the baking(I am making sure they know how to bake and cook...My future daughter in laws hopefully will love me haha Just joking) and well we do run into some of the same problems with quality b/c they all want to put stuff in, see into the mixing bowl and hold the raw eggs(oh hold on tight but not too tight please don't break the egg by accident, I don't want it all over the place....that is what goes through my head when they are holding the eggs.).

Than the big reason I don't bake as much as I want to is b/c my waist line! I don't have my mom here to monitor how many times my hand dips into the cookie tin, or pie plate or brownie pan etc haha. What can I say I am an addict to eating. the melting and chewiness of chocolate chip cookies, or the oooey gooey brownies, or the zestfulness of the lemon or key-lime pie. How about the cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger etc spices that just fill the house and make it feel so great and just dipping a ginger snap cookie into a cup of tea/coffee or for me as a kid and still now a glass of milk. I could go on people like really, on and on. No self control and eating like you did when you were exercising 5 days week and pregnant does not turn out well during the timestimes that you aren't pregnant and it took 10 1/2 months to recover from having that baby(whole other story that is not going to happen here), and couldn't exercise(thankfully I am back or trying to get back in that saddle).

Some of my favorite memories as a kid was either baking with my mom or was when I finally went to school is walking home wondering what smells were filling my house, wondering what mom might have made. Opening the door and having the smell wrap around you was so comforting and to this day special. I can't wait to make those memories for my kids. nothing like coming home from a long school day and having a oatmeal chocolate cookie, made with love!!! Miss ya mom.

Okay going to go clean and dream of a thinner waistline!!! Oh and Please Hand stay out of the bag of Chocolate chips that are sitting in the cupboard, open and lonely Haha

Hair cut

Not even a curl here and very girlish but that is what happens when mom doesn't wash his hair the night before and it's not humid to make it curl. Today however we drove by the hair dressers and it was jonas that asked for a hair cut and I was ready for sure to do it. So happy I did.

There goes the curls...

And my beautiful Little Man!!!

Proud to be a parent

Parenting is not easy and there might be moments that you wonder if your decisions are the right ones. Everyone does what they think is best for their children too. But those hard days where you are tired, exhausted and can't even think, can sometimes make you question the way you do things, or at least they do for me.

HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!

There is a flip side to that those days though; where your heart melt, words of wisdom and knowledge are repeat from your sponge absorbing(meaning it in a good way) children that I love so dearly!!! There a moments all the time and many times a day that I am proud to be the parent of my boys. They can melt my heart in an instant, make me laugh with their silliness, and make me want to hold them tight and not let go. It is wonderful to be a parent even through the challenges they hand me.

my little drunk man.

Life at the zoo

Well that is pretty much what our house feels like, and most of the time I don't mind at all. We are all trying to adjust to being back home now after over 3 wks of being back in Canada seeing our families, well the three boys and I!

It was an unexpected trip which was bitter sweet, So we tried to make the best out of it. I am going to focus on all the great things on our trip in this post.

Our families finally got to meet Lucas which made us happy. We stayed at my parents for a while and the first three days our family was almost complete but just missing Tom. My parents had 12 grandchildren there and they all had a great time together! I have to say I enjoyed seeing them all play together and the Boy having a great time with their cousins. My older nieces and nephew were awesome with the younger one! Every morning they ask if they were going to see at least some of their cousins. We did some beach trips with my sister Sandy and her family and it was a lot of fun and the boys loved every moment with their cousins.

We did a trip up to NB to visit the Flynn families too. We stayed at mom Flynn the first night for a rest before driving the last hour to Trevor and Sarah's place. I as so exhausted from the drive that I am glad I stop at Mom's b/c I fell asleep putting the boys to bed. I never got in my pj's or finished making my tea, eat the peach I cut and lastly never finished talking to Mom(sorry mom). Well the boys had a great time with Sean, Hayden and Rowan. I have to say they all did really good pretty good playing together and not too many arguments over toys! I loved the fact that Rowan would come up and cuddle with me on the couch and fallow me, I even had some bushy eyebrows for him to play with too :D. Miss ya little buddy. We were happy that Uncle Dan, Aunt Genevieve and Victor could make it out to see us for the BBQ. The dark brown eye's victor has are going to stop many girls in their tracks. I was a little sad I didn't get to play with him but since I am a stranger I figure it was best I didn't pick the little man up but I did steal a quick game of peak a boo with him when he was play on his cousins play structure! The were all awesome boys.


Well on our trip home and the last month Lucas has changed so much and dad could tell right away.
1. Lucas took his first steps before we left and before Tom left for Ottawa. But he is now walking 8 step in a row, he does prefer walking on carpet or rugs, than hard floors at the moment.
2. He can drink from a straw
3. clap his hands
4 .the day before we left he stood up in the middle of the room with out any help or assistance. It was all him with nothing around.
5. He also started saying UH AH instead of UH OH when we had pizza with Grampie before we left NB when he dropped his straw on the floor.
6. And just being home for a little over a day now he is already getting up and walking after the boys, He walked the whole length of our family room after Jonas. It not going to be much longer now that he is going to want to walk all the time and say good bye to crawling.

7. waves bye

I am sure there are other things but that is all I can think of.
He is having a hard time yesterday, hoping today is better. He got so spoiled with our families cuddling him and holding him so much which he does not get here or I wouldn't be able to get things done so there was lots of crying.

We still have some jet leg a bit and getting up too early and waking up some at night but I am hoping that will end soon. Especially for Lucas who I think only slept through the night 2 when we were home which were the first two nights. Now that he is in his own room and I am not worried about waking anyone else up

Well I have to say we came back to beautiful windows though. I love them I just wish I got the before and after pictures of them, which I was hoping but Tom didn't think of it when they were installing them but I will try and take some photos of them anyhow and show you the finish product. I do have to call them back thought to see if they can do something about our screen door b/c the lock on it is not really good and Bella can actually unlock the door and gets out. Hopefully something can me done. So now hopefully next summer we can get another project on the house done. But for now I will keep looking at my windows!

just another update

Not too much going on here. Tom leaves Thursday very early to fly to Ottawa for four day for Quentin's wedding. Pretty disappointed me and the boys can't go but not much we can do about that now. Money sucks period. I do hope he'll have fun b/c lets face it we sure don't get to go out or do anything fun together, and he pretty much works no stop so I really hope he can have some fun even though I am seriously jealous!

Well it sure now that the Flynn family is going to finally have a girl in the family. Tom's brother Dan just found out that they are having a girl in late September. So I am pretty sure everyone is very excited! So congrats to the two of them I know Genevieve really wanted a girl.

Well we get our windows soon Got the new credit card in the mail so we can pay for them woo hoo just what we need more credit haha. Well at least it will hopefully keep the summer heat out and the winter cold out. Tom and I are really excited to have a working patio door than the windows. So next Thursday they start and I am hoping it will be a one day job but the book Friday too just in case.

Got to get on the ball and get Noah's pre school papers done. he's suppose to start next month. Seem strange starting school in August but the do down here and they get out the beginning of June. It's going to through me off big time since I always think as August as summer since it still is really.

Lucas is starting to walk. Just a few step here and there. Very different from the other two boys. Once the other two took even two steps they were walking the next day none stop but there is no hurry for him to get going fast, well at least I don't think he should hurry. But I have no doubt he'll be going full steam at the end of August for sure.

The boys are in bed and I am just waiting for tom to get home and putting off cleaning...sigh I really wish I had a live in maid or someone to walk behind the boys and Tom to pick up everything they just drop and leave around. But I guess that is what I am here for right. Mom's work never ends. Well should run because nothing will get done if i keep sitting here now will it.

I need to post some new pictures I know but I was hoping to edit some actually but at last I have no time to do that so I will just post the un edit pictures, soon.

what a day

Well Lucas had his 9 month and his %'s are going down a lot now.He is now 29. something % for weight down from 90+% from birth and his height is 78% down also in the high 90%. He is totally one of our kids. So he is 19lbs 8oz and 29 1/4 inches at 9months. He is babbling non stop and I find he is very much like his big brother Noah , right down to expressions and looks. The only think I am not liking very much is since we were all sick last month we are not sleeping that well at all and it is wearing on me. Looks like I will be doing some sleep training again....so so tired. He is just not happy today and is screaming like mad if he's put down and will not sleep, it like he got needles too which he didn't.

Well Noah completely surprised me today...He had to get some needles even a TB skin test for pre-school and he screamed and cried like I never heard before in my life, he even yelled Stop that at the nurse and get it out!!! He has never really cried at all with the needles and I had to pin him down and he cried all the way to the car. He made Lucas and Jonas cry in the injection room. Tom will becoming for his next set of needles which most likely will happen next month I think.(he doesn't have all his needles yet). And he still screaming now and than about his arms which I know are sore but he will for get about it and play and t have all of a sudden remember and he can't lift his arms and screams...long day. Jonas is tired too so he's just hitting and screaming...is there a full moon today?!?!
Well in the dr. office, Jonas started screaming he had to pee so I ran out of the room with Lucas and Jonas to the bathroom down the hall and Noah stayed with the dr and talk her ear off that she was laughing when I got back. She told me he told her all about his birthday and that he is 4 now, he had a bouncy house at his party and he spelled the word Zoo. I didn't even know he knew how to spell that yet but he has been pretty much learning a new word each day I would say, He has duck down, cat,dog, his name, mom, dad, and so many more. He is such a sponge these days and every day I am in a spelling test and it's is getting harder for me b/c he is picking out much bigger words and the English subject is my worst subject and my very weak point sigh.

Well I am still waiting on Lucas's passport to come. I was really hoping it would have been here yesterday. Jonas's passport came in a week but I guess this time around it's not going to happen :S. Still hoping any day now.

Well Tom will be leaving in a little over a week to Ottawa now! Completely and ultimately down in the dumps and I could say depressed to some extent that I can not go with him. I haven't been back to see our friends in Ottawa since we left and what more fun could it be to go back for one of our friends wedding!! Money sucks is all I can say I wonder if I will ever get back there I love that city and our friends! I know it wouldn't be the same life with the boys there but still it suck that I can't go to the wedding too. But tonight I am going to see Deathly Hollows Part 2 I am so excited I an't even express myself. I love the HP movies/books and As well getting a little get away from this day is just what I needed!!! Woo hoo can't wait the movie is going to be awesome!!!!!!

Before and after

Well it not finished but we finally got furniture!!!! Woo hoo. still need like end tables, stuff on the walls but that is not a big thing. We have paint touch ups and well actually you can't see it but the seems of the wall paper under the paint are starting to show and cracking. Not sure when we'll deal with that but now we can sit in this room. I love being able to sit and read in the room and in the winter I can't wait to sit comfy and watch the fire. The boys love the furniture too. I am not sure if these are the pieces we would have picked out if we didn't have the boys with us. I like the look but not sure if they are really comfy. Shopping for furniture with three kids is pretty much not a good thing but what can you do. I figure if we don't end up loving them than well if the family furniture ever breaks these pieces can go in there and than we can get new pieces for the living room but some how I don't think the family furniture will die. hahaha. Anyhow I want a mirror in a white frame over the fireplace and have that wall painted a light blue with the other walls an light cream color I think sort of like the color behind the couch but more yellow than brown it's a very light beige. I have some wall decals to go up like a small tree with birds but not sure if I want to put them up where I know we have to remove the painted over wallpaper(this really bothers me because it is not easy to remove, I think I have ruin the drywall in Lucas room and I worry that we may have to replace the dry wall, which in this house in order to get done mean I have to hire someone to do it, unless there is some crazy person that wants to help me out. haha I was hoping tom and I could put the walls up in the laundry room this summer but I don't think that is going to happen at all. sigh But Hey look at the living room we have furniture :)

Noah's Party

window it is.

Well we bit the built and I am very nervous if it was right or not. But since we could get financing with interests free payments for a yr we decided to go for it. We'll have new windows probably sometime in August. The papers are all signed and they were supposes to come this morning and do the final measurements but they called to say the person that was suppose to come out was really sick and couldn't make it. I have to say I was extremely relieved and thanking whoever was looking down and realized I had enough going on with sick kids. The house is a disaster and I was already running around trying to pick up things...which is not going well b/c the littlest one of all hasn't been sleeping and only wants to be held(which is actually sad to see). So next Wednesday they will come out and than it's 4-6wk wait, than 1-2 day insulation. So excited now everyone one in our neighborhood won't hears us anymore.

So we had Noah's 4yr well child dr appt. I took all three kids hoping she could look at them quickly. I knew what ever Noah had the others had. So we get there and some how they aren't sure how but our appt got cancelled during the night(they are looking into it). I was extremely tired and well could have cried but I was tired too. I just asked what do they want me to do. I didn't care what it was I just wanted to know. Anyhow they managed to get us in fast which was nice but bad too because now they are rushing us and well I don't think everything got looked at properly and not all my question got answered. Anyhow during the appt she quicky listen to Jonas lungs and said we need to make an appt Jonas and Lucas to get better looked at. So back out into a waiting room with three sick kids which all had temperatures, till the next opening. Noah and Jonas wearing mickey mouse hospital mask but over all well they did okay for not feeling well. Jonas whine A LOT and kept crying to go home... I have to say the staff was wonderful to us, that I can't complain about it too much. I was just exhausted and it was a long day. Noah and Jonas have walking Pneumonia and are antibiotics, Lucas I am pretty sure has it but since he was only just over 24 hours with the symptoms and not 5 days like the boys it was to soon to tell but I have to keep watching him. We are hoping that I got the virus but have had it sometime in my life so that my body has the antibodies and Lucas is getting them through me(yay for breastfeeding is all I can say). So they are on some pedilite too but I can't get them drinking it it and of course they hate the medicine I had to pick up(they say it's too spicy...LOL). So I am fighting with them trying to get them to drink fluids(This house has more juice in it than the last 4 yrs...which they aren't into grape, mango stuff tom pick out or the orange and apple that they normally have on a rare occasion) so hard on the head, but I think they have peed twice today woo hoo.

However Noah stats are in and he is 31 1/2 LBS and 39" tall. Noah also has an eye appt with the Ophthalmologist to get his eyes looked at since he is having some trouble reading now and than. Not to surprise that he's having trouble seeing. Tom and I haven't really passed on the best eye genes to our children sadly.

Well Jonas and Lucas got weighed too at their sick appt and

Jonas at 30 months weighs 28lbs 15.5oz

Lucas at 8 months weighs 19 lbs 7.5oz

HOT

There is no other word to say with that but HOT HOT HOT. I don't like it, even the walls are sweating and having sick kids with fevers in this heat is not much fun either. So it's 95 and don't ask me what it feels like b/c of course it feels hotter than that. Normally we have the heat but not the humidity and normally it cools down at night but last night it did not and it was already 86 at 10am. Lucas is having trouble napping b/c it's so hot, not having AC on days like this really sucks.

right!

So not much is getting done and I am going crazy b/c I can't seem to get stuff done and the place is getting more and more a mess, and I am in just in survival mood!!! So hope things get a little easier around here. As well for this weather to go away.

Oh to be BOYS!!!

Noah sing.

Noah is 4!!!!!

It is 4:30pm here and 4 yrs ago my water broke and I was in labour for 15min by now, CRAZINESS. That day tom and I ran around getting last few mintue things and of course me complaining I was going to be pregnant forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was an amazing day we laughed all the way to the hospital about how we just got into the apartment and my water broke Hollywood style, like really as far fetch as you can get. I didn't think it was ever going to slow down hahaha. I even said how am I going to get to the hospital it won't stop. haha. Labour was quick too, which shocked the dr and nurses. It was an amazing day all around.

How is it he is 4 yrs old. The love I have for him, the dreams I have for him to be happy and full of life. To fall his dreams and to remember family comes first, and to give 100% of yourself in everything you do even if you fail or succeed. I want my children Happy.

Today is bitter sweet, we had plans and everything but Tom came down with a really bad flu yesterday and has been in bed since noon yesterday. So a lot is not happening today, But we are making the most of it. We made cupcakes for today and than I will make a Cake for Saturday. Tom rented a bouncy house for the boys and I have no clue if 4 of Noah's friends are coming for the Cake and BBQ but I think has soon as Noah see the bouncy house he won't care in the world if friends come or not. He still hasn't told us what he wants for his birthday, which is strange because he always know what he wants and this time he is just blank. We did get him a new hat he wanted and when he decides we'll pick something up for him.

I find myself happy but also sad, his life is just going by so fast for me...As any parents realize(I am sure... if not I am not sure how that is possible) and I think of our parents and Grandparents and how they see all of us. I have to say that it makes me realize that Life is way to short and I need to forget about things that don't work out well or take forever, to happen. Sort of funny how we complain well at least I do. Than before you know it yrs have gone by. Oh the heart ache and stress just to bring Noah into our lives and now he is four and we have three wonderful boys that we are proud of and hopefully we'll be lucky to be blessed with more(no there are no babies coming here...but we do want more just not sure when...just to make that clear)

Well to my big man on the block Happy Birthday Noah We are proud of the boy you are becoming!

video of Lucas and what he likes doing all day long. and update

Hope yo love the little guy we sure do.

So I updated it on the window house vent entry but I will say it here. So the real quote wasn't 73k thank goodness but it was 7,300. However he missed a window s and missed one bathroom window which needs temper glass(it's in the shower so that the price went up but was lower than what I heard on the phone. The quote is for the basic window and I wasn't crazy about having plastic window locks. Metal locks seem more safe for me! Anyhow we need to know today if we are doing it to get the deal since the windows are about 12,000k on sale which ends today. So that price is way better than 73k but still it's a lot of money. Maybe windows will wait and we'll try and build the deck and grass out front. Big lesson here is don't take important messages when you are sleep deprived(lucas is on another growth spurt) and have kids yelling in the background.

What is not broken

Well this is one of the 5 bowls we have left out of the set of our wedding setting, isn't it beautiful....hahaha

Our plates are like this too and cups etc. We are trying to get a new dinnerware but we haven't found anything we like and we are picky on the bowl style. We actually weren't fawn of this set but someone started it as a gift so we just went with it. No... Tom and I weren't throwing dishes at each other either. They have broken in the microwave, dishwasher which they are suppose to be safe for both, as well a few have fallen too. The dinnerware might not be strong but at least our marriage is!!!

Why you ask...

Do I not write a lot about the house or happy stuff about the house. Because just as I feel better about the house other things come up. I know this is all about owning a house and there will always be something but could they be lest costly for once. Before I get into the new surprises here, lets just go over what we had to do already. Sorry I need to vent this out...

So we have:

1. replaced the roof and added rain gutters-we knew this and was one of the cheaper things but had some hidden extra cost as they found a third layer of roofing which isn't allowed so not sure how they got a third lay put on.
2. the wood floors- however new damages took place even before we took owner ship and cost more than it should have.
3. oh than the furnace die and had to be replace that we didn't expect.
4. Bathroom started leaking
5. got the molding put back up but won't hire that contractor again
6. Had to upgrade the electrical box for the house so our stove worked that wasn't expected
7. dishwasher got put in
8. fixed the carport structure it was falling down and at the time we didn't know if we wanted it or not(we probably should have just taken it down.
9. Had a tree fall on the house lucky no big damage but lots of time cutting up the tree.
10. Almost forgot we had to rebuild half the chimney.

Now list of things that have happen since we moved in and keep popping up.

1. there appears to be water leaking in under one of the doors into the family room.
2. there is a leak in the laundry room not sure if it is just the washer or a pipe.
3. found out that they painted over wallpaper, could not tell till now, the wall paper seem to be lifting off the walls
4. oh kitchen wall is chipping off yup more wall paper but a piece fell of and it looks like there is mold behind it all.
5. we eventually need new plumbing but that one we are holding off as it not to bad knock on wood.
6. we need a deck built and well since it looks like we fail with our grass we need to get that fixed.
7. need a water softener for the house we have hard water.
8. We need new windows since I don't believe the the glass is temper which is a little scary especially with the kids. I have to say one thing I like about the house is all the natural light, we have very large windows that I love but am not liking so much at the moment. Because I think most of them are going to have to be custom made. We got the quote for our windows project yesterday evening to be a min of 73K yes that is 73,000.00 actually there is also 7 cents in there too(the guy even said that haha) That is for the lowest grade replace window which I am not sure what that means. Which I have a feeling we didn't want the bottom base windows, especially if you look at resale value. We have to meet with him to see the break down of the cost and look at different windows. So 73K does 12 windows and one patio door. Patio door needs to be replaced because right now we lock it will a piece of wood so the door can't slide open. Huge update here and well it still not the best but sooo much better than above. Never believe an over tired mom trying to listen to an important call with kids yelling in the background. So the quote wasn't 73k Hallelujah!!!! Oh my goodness I could kiss the ground. Tom is never going to let me live it down either, however we still aren't sure if we can do it right now but it's about 12k. Which when you compare it to 73k sounds wonderful right!? 12K is the sale price with free insulation which is up our alley but you know there is always a catch....Sale ends tomorrow. Lots of talk going on tonight...
9. Oh and the kitchen needs to be gutted and redesigned so at least I can have some cupboards, a at least one drawer to put our silverware in and I counter would be nice. We looked at temporary island but we need one that is not open b/c the kids would just pull everything off and in the end they aren't cheap.
10. the big picture window in the family room is letting water in too.

I am going to stop there because I am finding it depressing. The windows was the tipping point for me the other day especial after our car needs to have a new front bummer which the quote came to more than that trip to Maui. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There was no accident but you know how sometimes ppl pull up too close to the parking stones and you hear the scrap. Well between Tom and I, Tom has a tendency if you compare the two of us to do it more often, which we don't do that often. But the one time I drive to the store and decide to park in a different area in the parking lot. Where there was actually a curb in front and didn't realize the front of the parking spot dipped down and up. We don't have a low sitting car either. Scraped the under the front bummer and it didn't sound too bad but something got caught and when I backed out a little well it didn't sound good and to the eye it doesn't look bad it's not like it's falling off and only if pointed out do you see the problem(the person at the body shop didn't think it was bad at the first look) but when we got it looked at of course the functionality to the bummer is compromiser and we need a whole new bumper. sigh things can really suck at times.

Okay anyhow I got to run the boys are quiet so that is probably not a good sign in this house.

We have a VACATION book!!!!!!

We bit the bullet and booked a Family vacation. Probably a stupid move but I think we all needed it. Tom found a sale to Maui and all four tickets with taxes and fees included under 1,000 dollars. We tried to go on a trip last decemeber before Jonas turned 2(I hate how 2 and up you have to pay for a seat, I think they should move it up to 3 yrs) so we only had to pay for three seats but it didn't work out. Anyhow all four tickets cost less than two tickets home to the Maritimes or Ottawa, crazy I know but sadly true. Our last vacation was when Noah was 16 months and I was almost 8 months pregnant with Jonas. So it will be over three yrs...38 months to be exact since our last vacation but who is counting right haha. Jonas is so excited to be at the beach for his 3rd birthday. I guess we'll have to have a small party for him before or after our trip.

I am happy we have this trip b/c I have to say I was pretty sad that only Tom will be going to Ottawa for Quinetin wedding at the end of July. I haven't been back to Ottawa since we left to move here. I miss our friends we had there and we aren't the best at staying in touch with them, so it would have been nice to go back with the kids. As well I am a bit upset that it doesn't look like Lucas will be Baptized in the same church the other boys were. Not sure how we are getting him baptized this yr but we have to look into it. Add on the family Flynn reunion which we are missing. Than the stress of this house few more things have crept in like the possible mold issue which they were probably hiding) and Tom's work the list goes on. But now with the excitement of this trip and the fact Grampie will be here Christmas day, December is looking pretty good!

Anyhow we are going to Maui an island I love so much and is so relaxing which is eating and going to the beach and sleeping and being a family. LOVE LOVE LOVE this type of vacation with family. I miss going to countries we haven't been to before and sight seeing but with children at least small children this is the vacation that I want!!!

Not too much is going one. Jonas has fully entered the I do it phase which seemed to happen and exploded over night. He can now dress himself with shoes now as well as buckle himself into his carseat. It's the I DO IT! which at times can be frustrating especially when you want to get somewhere but you aren't allow to help.

Lucas finally said MUM last night while yanking on my pants. he also hold onto the back of my legs and walks a little with me. I am not making him do it but he does it when I am trying to cook.

Noah not up to anything new at the moment but I am sure there is going to be a new skill coming up soon.

The boys room

Still working away on the boys room. I have yet to order the right color circles(bought these circle a while ago b/c I couldn't find what I wanted) and construction truck wall decals but I have found them.

Mr. Wobbles

I walked in and found this he already got half way and I had to put him back a bit to get the video. sniff sniff why does he have to grow up fast. Not even 8 months yet. Still love him though.

Flying our kite last November

The boys in the leaves last yr.

Okay pictures of our house before we moved in.

front of our house

Part of the back yard

Looking down the hallway from the entry and Living room. main bath would be right there on the left before walking down the hall. Noah and Jonas room is the first

door on the right, Lucas's is the next right and master is the door at the end on the left.

So this if the converted garage into a famly room. The door on the right side of the picture is our laundry room and small storage room.

This is our living room that still only has my rocker and at the dinning end which you can't see in the photo is where tom's mess desk is. I hope one day to buy an old drop lid or rolltop desk so I can just close the door on the mess.

Master bath (only a shower)

Main bathroom

This is Lucas's room and guest room.

This is the boys room

The master bedroom and a picture of the floor how we found it after the seller had the termite damage fixed(in my eyes doesn't looked fixed some thing is missing)

The kitchen. the dishwasher is now where the cabinets are by the fridge. That is all the storage we have. the microwave sit where the laptop is in the picture so no counter space. i put a cutting board arcoss the double sinks(at least I have a double sink!)

We're just not stopping

Here Another one of the little man, I have a bunch of old ones but i am having problems loading them up on my computer b/c apparently I am out of space, I also lost or my phone got stolen at tom's softball game(juggling to many things I guess, so a lot of videos I had are gone). Anyhow enjoy this one.

watch what I can do

I thought this was over do. Especially since none of our family except Nannie got to meet this little man and even now he is acompletely different baby since she flew back home when he was 5 days old.

guilty

So when I was little and my grandparents came to visit(my mom's parents). Sundays you can't doing anything but sit and read, make a meal and that is about it. We couldn't play cards or laundry etc. I like that concept I have to say and I wish i lived it more like they did. I try not to go to the stores etc. But sometime Sundays are the only day I can work on the house a little or pick up something with out the kids while tom is home. Today we planted a bush and cut dead parts of the rose bushes and well tom was chopping out part of a stump and went in with the kids while I took some swings at it too. My neighbour who reminds me or my grandfather came over and first ask what I was doing and than said that is what I have a husband for hahaha. But made the comment that I already know. "You're brave to be working on Sunday" I have to say I ran into the house and well i think if I do anything from now on it will have to be in the back of the house. I already feel guilty I haven't joined a church down here. They don't have any United of Canada Churches here but there is a Presbyterian church that might be similar to the church I use to go to. I know I need to get the boys into to church too. But the classes don't start till 4yrs and before that at this church they are in the nursery(seems a little weird to me). I would just like to go to church and not draw attention to us or me. We might get there yet b/c I need to get Lucas baptized and I don't think we'll be getting home before he is a yr since I like having them baptized before a yr.

I wish things seem to be more simpler at times. Or I wish I didn't feel like I make thing more difficult than they really are, I can be so chicken some times.

House

So I know I have been horrible and have not really posted much about the house. We moved in here when I was almost 7months pregnant with Lucas. Which means tired and exhausted. I myself will pat myself on my back b/c I myself unpacked every single box and sort of put it away hence why there wasn't much time to write about the experience. I have to say that before looking at buying houses I love to go look at houses but when we were looking to buy it was not as fun and I sort of didn't want a house right away I would have been fine living in the apartment at least till Lucas was 4 months or so. I would want to be out of there now though with him moving around. But Tom got it in his head we need one before the baby, and if we didn't find one by the end of July were were going to move most of the stuff in a storage and rent a month to month expensive 3 bd apt till we found one or something like that.

So many things happen in that time frame, a lot of ups and a lot of downs. We put bids on two other houses. On I like a lot except for the kitchen and it had nothing to be done to it. But the seller decided not to sell it in the end. The second house was small but on a 10, 000 sq ft lot. Didn't need any work either but was small(happy we didn't get that one). We and just I and the kids looked at a lot of house and lost track. Glad it is over. If we have to move I hope we can just build our house, I already have a dream house floor plan but I don't think that will ever happen. At least not down here. Okay back to the house we got.....At the end of June we'll have owned(well the bank owns it we just pay them for it) this house for a yr, and on July 19th we'll have been living in the house for a yr. Progress well since we moved in on the July not a whole lot, and since Lucas came nothing has been done. Well nothing except me putting up some

curtains for closet doors and the valances in the boys room and sadly one picture on the wall. Sad I know but the fact is that I have two boys that don't nap and a very fast growing almost 7month old who doesn't have any plans for slowing down sigh. it's hard to try to paint, sand and work indoors and out side since Lucas still loves to put stuff in his month, in goes grass and dirt. I was hoping it would be easier once Lucas was here(where I could move around better not being pregnant) but in fact it's been way harder to get the time to do stuff besides every day up keep and I am no pro at keeping up with all of that either.

There are times I love the house and a lot of times I get frustrated with the house and hate it. Mostly I don't hate the house really, I hate our situation in getting stuff done and I can't do anything with the house to make it what I want it to be. The smallest task which I could do in a day with out kids takes months to do. I have to admit there have been many tears over this place. but I love it to in my own way. I can't see us living anywhere else at times and I dream of the day it will be how I want it to be. Anyhow it's home, and it is what it is. So today I have one room clean haha sad I know and I realized I don't have pictures of the house so I will post pictures of Lucas's room. It's not complete at all but will probably be like this for a few yrs. Unless I become super mom with super powers.

Well that is the 360 in one room. Hopefully I will get back before a yr with another room. Maybe the living room since it still has no furniture in it but some like to use it as a dumping ground not naming any names haha.

You have to be kidding me!

I leave the family room for a moment go back towards the family room only to meet this...


Yes I know it's a cute face and I love this face but come on we aren't suppose to be climbing the stairs. Thankful we only have the two steps in the house which is one thing I love about this house. He managed to get up one step but got stuck. Only a matter of time now.

His other favorite things do is this. Jonas was climbing on me just when I went to take this photo and I missed his foot in the air but you can see some of his leg behind him, in the air.

6 months

Lucas is fallowing this brothers to the T's.

He was I believe 99% for weight and has dropped down to 60% at 18lbs 3.5oz and is 28 inches long which is still in the 90's%. Dr said mostly do to all his moving which she was shocked he has been crawling for a month now to the day. So we showed her what he can do and he crawled a crossed the room and out the door in no time on our way out. He is so fast now. Apparently even Noah was considered an early crawler at 7 months which I thought was the normal time but I guess I was wrong. She thinks he'll be walking early too since Jonas walked at 10 months and Noah walked at 12 1/2 months. I guess we'll just see anyhow here are the boys growth comparison.


Noah
birth 7 lbs 12oz 20"
6 months 14 lbs 1.5oz 26 1/4"

Increase of 6 lbs 5.5oz 6 1/4"


Jonas
birth 8 lbs 11oz 20''
6 months 18 lbs 3.5oz 28 1/2"

Increase of 9 lbs 8.5 oz 81/2"






Lucas
birth 10 lbs 2.1oz 22"
6 months 18lbs 3.5oz 28"

Increase of 8 lbs 1.4oz 6"

Crazy Jonas and Lucas were pretty much the same size at 6 months. Looking in Jonas baby book it appears he slowed down right after 6 months, Noah and Lucas slowed down before. I love how different and similar these boys can be!

Changes

Well I though that I would write about all the new things that are going on with us, since all our loved ones back home don't get to see us.

Most of the new things are with Lucas. 5 months was the big changing point for him.

• 5months 1 wk he started crawling now he is very fast and nothing stops him
  
• 2 days before turning 6 months he said his first word daddy, not da da but daddy to tom's face.
• Sitting up on his own actually when he was 4 1/2 months but at five he was doing better and longer. Now at 6 months he can hold it for more than 5 mins if he doesn't want to move. At music class he just sits and stares for about 10mins the other day.
• The day he turned 6months he got his first tooth.
• He can stand while holding on to things and if sitting in your lap on the floor he can pull himself up into standing but he' still wobbly.
• Love his jolly jumper and goes absolutely nuts in it and we only have 3 loops of the chain left, he's is going to be the first one to out grow it in this house.

Noah

• Can spell a few words and write his own name, with no help at all.
• He is still shy in big setting when we aren't involved so I am hoping this next soccer class helps(we had our next soccer class since I started writing this and it went wonderfully that mum was almost crying and dad was just as happy when he saw the last 15 mins of it)
  
• He'll be starting preschool 2 days a week in august(did you know schools start in august not September?) for 3 hours a morning.
• Noah has been getting himself dressed for over a yr but mum sometime tweaks our outfit choices lol.
  

Jonas

• Jonas has been potty trained for quite some time now. We started before moving, we had a short set back when Lucas came but was back on track with in a week or two. Still the rare accident but that happens more at home when we are playing hard and scared to stop playing and can't quite get to the bathroom in time or have harder pants to pull off and don't make it. But like I said it not often.
• we can count to ten, and a little with our fingers, we can see our ABC. We are still working on recognizing letters and numbers though.
• We can get dressed a little on our own but most of the time we still want help

Tom and I

WE are getting older haha, something our parents probably don't want to think about and something we don't want to either.

Tom's work is going well, he is still enjoying it. Which is the most important to us.

I am busy with the kids and the house(even though I am not making great progress on the house which is frustrating to say the least)

We are all healthy and happy so I shouldn't complain, too much.


Well this has taken a few days if not weeks to write and my time is up, so I am sorry for all the mistakes you might find reading this if you choose to do so. But if I don't hit the publish than you won't even get this to read.

Trip to Tahoe

I can never find the time to write on here these days. From time to time I start but am never able to finish, plus I figure since I never write here anymore no one checks this long forgotten blog. As well it is not like we do a lot of exciting things: so there is not a lot to report.

This week Tom took a few days off(a break before the storm of work to come) and we took the boys to South Lake Tahoe. The drive up was one long crazy trip. I have to say I am proud of our boys because it was such a long trip up. Will try and write about that adventure later. But they did well and no we don't travel with DVD player, but the boys do watch the GPS a little and I think Jonas was coloring and spelling on the iPad I feel blessed our boys travel really good. Noah did cry a bit during the last 10 miles or so because his bum hurt, and let's just say after what we went through everyone's bum was killing them from sitting so long. Jonas woke up two miles from the hotel and vomited all over his blanket. Lucas did well. So lots of adventure for us.

Any how we had lots of fun in the snow and swimming in the pool. It was an awesome family trip. I have to say I love our family trips! I don't really get families or couple that don't vacation together. There are so many memories we made and shared it is completely priceless. We keep talking about our trip and I know we will for a long time. Tom and I keep laughing at the sight of Noah coming back in from sledding, he was so tired his eye were almost shut, but he had the biggest smile on his face, he was a pretty funny sight to say the least.

The second day we were there we went to go to our sliding hill but the dump trucks took it over since it was snowing so much while we were there, that we we did the gondola ride up the mountain and than went into the pool. I have to say from skiing when I was a kid you use to take the chair lift or t-bar up the mountain to ski down. However I know the mountain back home are like peanuts compared to the Sierra's but it feels weird that you have to take the gondola up and down the mountain to to get to the chair lifts to go up the mountain further so that you can ski down the the top part.The view though is amazing!!

Lucas started crawling that week. He's a week earlier than Jonas was. Thankfully he not fast but he does get around quicker now instead of rotating in circles to move.

We had a wonderful time, I can't say it enough" I absolutely love family vacation" where there is no schedule and you just wake up and plan one thing and go from there. I have some pictures but they are on my phone(so they aren't that good) and this has taken more than a day to write so it will have to wait till next time.

Ps. short version our our drive up. Made it up with no problems until the last 16miles from town. It was snowing the whole time and the traffic wasn't moving we didn't know why for a long time and than we found out it was closed both way for avalanche control; meaning they put dynamite in the snow on the mountain and induce and avalanche and than they have to clean it up. It was a long 4 + hours sitting there. Mean while probably 40 min before traffic picked up again we realized our car battery died. Tom left the lights on and it didn't help I had my phone plug into the car for the GPS. sigh Luckily probably 7 cars back a group of young men had jumpers and the car in front of us helps us up...fun time in the Flynn Vacation. Oh and driving with chains is not fun at all. it's so bumpy and you can't go over 30 mph so long. I miss good studded snow tires when driving in those road condition. We finally got there at 9pm something could have been close to ten. exhausted and sore and tired. We were luck the trip home was smooth and uneventful, oh and only took 4.5 hours haha.