This and that

Belated, i know! For Mother's Day, my littles got me some hiking shoes (on sale, for 40% off, which makes it better!) and a hoodie and took me out to dinner the night before. The real present was that during dinner, that were relatively well behaved and i didn't have to take anyone to the bathroom during the meal. Now that is a good evening!

Joe got me The Business of Being Born because, well, he knows me. Check out the trailer, good movie!

Well, as of last night, everyone in the house has had the stomach flu except for me. Riiiight. And Joe leaves tomorrow until Sunday. I am really really hoping that i don't get it with the three children in my care. We shall see, i suppose.

Ooooo, our most recent adventure. Earlier this week, i was walking to our back deck and heard a hissing sound. I didn't think much of it. Sunday night, Joe was outside and he noticed what sounded like dripping. He went to investigate the crawl space under the house and, sure enough, the pump that controls our well had sprung a leak. So we didn't have running water from Sunday night until today at about noon. And Issy and Isaac had the stomach flu all night. I'll let you use your imagination at how unpleasant that was. Thankfully, it is all fixed now, we all had long showers this afternoon, and the laundry doing has commenced.

It has been pretty cloudy/rainy/cool the last week, so not a lot of naturey things. It usually starts out nice in the morning and rains in the afternoon, so i have been taking a morning walk around our neighborhood and it has been awesome. Just me and my thoughts in the beautiful mountain air for half an hour. Nothing could be sweeter at this point.

So there is our update!

The hike, the random and kitchen dancing

The hike

So, the littles and i took a hike the other day. The first half was great... the second half, notsomuch. Liam wanted out of the carrier but wanted to wander off, Isaac tripped in the dirt and it put him in a bad mood. And Liam was very very angry when i put him the car and screamed at the top of his lungs most of the way home. Good times.

Thought that this one was adorable. I turned around and the three of them were following me in a line. I felt a bit like a mama duck.

Trying to get a picture of the three of them: the Drama Queen is posing, the middle child is disgruntled and the little one is distracted. Isaac also had whacked his head on the ladder of Issy's loft a few hours earlier, so he had a big goose egg on his forehead between his eyes.

We can finally reach the river! So gorgeous with all the melt we have been having lately.

Running ahead.

Oh, gracious, i love this picture so much. He is so ridiculously adorable! I need to look at this picture every time i feel like i am at my wit's end with him (which is at least five times a day).

The Random

Issy and Isaac took a rest in me and Joe's bedroom this afternoon and i told them they could play with the Potato Head Family. When i came into my room later, i found Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head enjoying looking out the window at the rainy weather.

They were playing "Joe and Erin"

So this is what the "whacking the head on the ladder" incident has become... two large black eyes. Poor kid. These two pictures are funny... he was in a bad mood because he hit his elbow and i told him i wanted him to give me his best sad faces for my picture. I think the top one might be more "pensive" than sad, and the bottom one is just scary. He ended up laughing by the time i was done taking the pictures.

Kitchen Dancing

And what says "It is almost dinnertime" like some jamming to 80's music in the kitchen.

My kids favorite

My babes love to sing and dance with Laurie Berkner. Warning though if you haven't heard her, the songs are super catchy (but some of the least offensive kids songs out there) and might be singing them for days :)

My amazing cuties

And with the head tilt. Silly gal
Too sleepy at the table. Lunch still all over his face.
Pretending to be Mr. Potato Head
A boy and his dog.

Well, a partial update

Well, guys, i was going to do a more comprehensive update, but it is taking forever and ever to upload pictures to blogger tonight, so we'll just take it easy. I promise i'll finish updating soon. I am purposely being vague when i say soon ;)

Here are some pics from the end of April. The snow had mostly melted and we were raking all the leaves from the fall. It is so good to see grass again!

My dedicated husband.

And the three little helpers

That night, after our hard work, we treated ourselves to our first campfire of spring. Roasted hot dogs and s'mores.

In the next edition: We have been spending a ton of time outside and really relishing the return of warm weather! If you are dying to see more pics right now, check out Joe's blog, it is in my links list on the right of this page!

Sorry my readers!

I have been catching some flack for not blogging in over two weeks, and i send my apologies into cyberspace. I will try to blog sometime later today/tomorrow, and it'll be a good update, for being so patient with me :)

Liam and i just got back from an amazing morning walk. Just thought i would share :)