I want to move to St. George

I can't even talk about the cold snowy weather....  :{    

If only we lived in constant warmth!! Oh what a life that would be.....

Our trip to Sunny and Warm St. George, oh how I miss you already

Hiking with the boys

Thatcher with my Dad

A random girl at the top of the Dixie Rock wanted to show Thatcher a lizard she had caught

Hiking with the fam....my dad and sister Jen shared in the fun times

Is it sad that I once went through these narrow rocks without any stuggle at all??

Luke didn't even know how much fun he was having, but it was a lot!

We found this really cool trail by my grandma's house that we went rollerblading on. It goes along riverside drive and clear out to Bloomington I guess. It was so pretty!

I could barely keep up, Mat is so speedy on those rollerblades!

It was much harder for me to push AND try to rollerblade at the same time

This is the first time we'd been to the sand dunes, it was awesome!

The boys loved it

Thatcher and Luke of course only had enough energy for one way.... they got to be carried on the return trip. Thanks daddy!

We found this fun restaurant called Pirate Island that we ate in the last night. Thatcher was so excited, he loves pirates! (hence the name of our blog address, in case you wondered why we chose that ridiculous one!)  It was all pirate themed, the waiters were dressed as pirates, they had a huge arcade to play in..... but the food.....the food was not good!! I think  in most themed restaurants this is the case, sometimes you get lucky, but we were not.

This is how we entertained ourselves on the long drive home.... thanks sour gummy worms.

The joy of St. Patricks Day!!

I think Thatcher has as much anticipation for St. Patricks Day as he does for Christmas morning...What did those crazy Leprechauns do this time?! He even wore his green pajamas to bed so he would be prepared....

They managed to turn our breakfast green....AGAIN! Oh, They're tricky! This time they didn't just get our eggs and milk, but our oatmeal too. I know, nothing looks more appetizing than green oatmeal

Even little Luke enjoyed eating green breakfast....

I'm glad Thatcher was not agitated like he was last year when he didn't appreciate all the effort it took those little Leprechauns to to break into our house and cause such mischief.  Nope, this year he loved it and was amazed.

 He made sure he and Luke had on plenty of green in celebration of this magical holiday.

 

 He had a treasure hunt at school and managed to find some gold....how lucky is he? 

So fun to have a four year old who loves St. Patricks Day

February Fun

So February was a crazy month! I'm sure January was too, but I'm not good enough at blogging to keep it up to date like I should. I usually hate February, last year it seemed like the boys were sick the whole month. The weather is usually horrible, I feel trapped indoors…. This month I was getting excited for Valentines Day and Thatcher and I decided to do some decorating. . .  we got as far as our front door with home made signs and cut out hearts. . . amazingly crafty, I know! He got to hand out fun little valentines to his friends at school that he was so exited about.

 We had some friends come over to help make Valentine cookies. The boys had so much fun playing and decorating the cookies

… well mostly playing.

                

 The cookies still turned out delicious and festive.

 We were feeling pretty lucky around the 12^th of the month that no one in our family had been sick yet. We had a trip planned for St. George on the 13^th for Presidents weekend, but that day Luke got really sick and had a hard time breathing so we ended up at Primary Children's instead.

We were really lucky to get in right away. He immediately got hooked up to oxygen and was given breathing treatments every two hours. He was also hooked up to an EKG machine, pulse ox, blood pressure…. It was really sad to watch him laying there kind of helpless to do anything.

     They ended up admitting him and we spent three days in the hospital with him.

I think the hardest part was trying to keep him in the bed the whole time. He was attached to so many things he wasn't able to really get up and walk around. We took turns sleeping in the bed with him 24/7.

Primary's is such an amazing hospital. They have a lot of things to try and keep the kids entertained. We had a huge movie selection to choose from, toys, books, food… I think he would have actually enjoyed being there under different circumstances.

His nurses were incredible, I really felt like they cared about him. One of them brought him this awesome truck that he got to take home with him.

Being there really made us appreciate the health that our kids have. It's such an amazing hospital, but not one we like spending time at. I really feel for those families that have to spend weeks or months or more up there with a sick child.

 Here he is in the cute (by cute I mean scary) hospital p.j.'s they gave him to sleep in

We felt really blessed that Luke was able to improve as much as he did, it was so great to see him with all of his energy back on that last day. He was back to being his happy self and we felt confident he would continue to improve once we got him home in his own bed.

Mat and I had a memorable valentines to say the least. We got to spend it together eating ice cream from the hospital café and watching Nick and Nora's infinite playlist while little Lukey slept by our side.