Hope it's warmer in Salt Lake...

Daniel and I are off to Salt Lake City for 10 days! We are going down to watch Mark's little brothers and sisters while his parents go on a long deserved cruise! We are looking forward to spending time with family and hopefully a few friends. Saturday we are going to the Mayan restuarant to celebrate my birthday and then Mark heads back here to work Mon-Friday. And then back down to pick us up the next weekend. We can't wait, this will be our longest trip over at the Babcocks and I'm sure the kids will get sick of me but it will be nice for Daniel to have kids to play with every day. We'll be taking lots of pictures and I will keep bloging so... to be continued...

Today....

So how many things can go wrong in one day? Apparently many...it started at 12:01am when Daniel finally went to bed for the night, or so I thought. He woke up at 4 and took my place in bed so I slept on the couch. Then he woke up for good at 7, unloaded a box of cereal onto the floor, got into some painting stuff (I caught him before it was too late), got into my make-up, threw toy cars into the bath (while I was in it!!!), threw a tantrum at the gymnastics and almost jump off the tramp 5 ft down into the pit (I caught him there too), hit every kid in the McDonald's play place, screamed all through Kmart and Les Schwab (we broke a wheel on our car on our way out to run errands-ugh! and we were there for 1.5 hrs), scattered a box of checks, unloaded every toy in his closet and didn't play with any of them, and finally he almost took a trip down the stairs in his ride on car (once again... mommy saves the day!) And these were only a few of his tasks he performed today, joy! I read my friend Tiffani's blog and it sounds like her day was similar to mine, sorry...maybe if you come up for a visit we could just lock the kids in a padded room and go shopping while we pay a babysitter to watch them for a whole day. I would have payed a lot of money to have Daniel be watched by a babysitter today!!! I can't complain too much because I think the little bugger is asleep and it is only 7 o'clock...maybe i just jinxed myself. The problem was mostly me, I was so cranky today that my fuze was 2in long, I've promised to be better tomorrow. Thank goodness Mark volunteered to do the dishes tonight!

Ice Fishin and 4-wheelin

These are pictures from Mark and Daniel's ice-fishing trip they went on with my uncle and cousin. The other boy on the 4wheeler with Daniel is my cousin, David. They had so much fun and they caught 30 fish!!! They went out again yesterday with one of Mark's work buddies and his boy, but I don't have any pictures of that.

Winter Pictures

So this is our house, I don't think I have put a picture of it up yet so there you go...and then there is Daniel and I at the Church History Museum, Daniel and his cousin Lexi, Mark snowmobiling with the guys from work and Daniel shooting the Deer we see on the side of the road with his realistic rifle (don't worry folks we won't be getting him a real one for a real long time!).

Daniel's Birthday!!!

We had a blast at the gymnastics playing and opening gifts, now Daniel sings "Happy Birthday" to himself every day. He got a lot of gifts, including... a nerf gun (Justin and Courtney), playdough (Clews Family), Trucks (Gramy and Grandad), golf clubs-spiderman backpack-Cars movie (Ash and Daddy), and my parents are giving him another truck that we will get this weekend. Over all it was tons of fun and Daniel loved his cake from Dairy Queen that had a deer on it.

First Post of the Year

So we are back in town from being in Salt Lake for Christmas and Island Park for New Years. I have some pictures I will have to post but I need to get some from my family first. We did have a lot of fun and Daniel got a lot of fun new toys, but he got sick last week while we were at the cabin and is just now feeling a little better. A double ear infection will do that to ya! Now we are back to our normal life but are feeling the loss of all the money we spent on Christmas stuff, my surgery and Dan's doctor bills. Also this week is Dan's birthday, Jan. 31 is mine and Mark's is Feb. 17 so we don't have too much relief in sight. Happy New Year to everyone and I hope your resolutions work out for you and that this year is better than last.