Valentines Day Surprises.

Our first surprise came in the mail and was from our lovely Denver Lyssa. We love her and her family. Liam and Sean are always so excited to get a package in the mail. Thanks so much Lyssa for the chocolates and gum. We love you.

Here is Sean decorating his sticker activity that came in the Valentine package. Cute.

Here is Adam also happy but he is happy because he is eating yogurt, one of his favorite snacks.

Later we decided to head to Washington DC to play for a few days. We made the reservation when the storm came so I tried to cancel but they wouldn't let me so we went up there and there were no problems. Once again, the people here just aren't used to much snow. We got a hotel that had a lovely pool so we did a lot of swimming. It was fun.

My sleepy Liam after some fun swimming and adventures.

Sleepy Sean. We watched movies and ate out and played at the mall. We also went to the Museum of Nature and Science. We explored that for an entire day and that was lots of fun.

Here is the George Washington Monument. You can see the snow here. It was a storm but nothing to get too scared about.

D.C. looked very pretty with all the snow. There were people out cross country skiing and walking around and playing in the snow. It was lots of fun. We met my cousin Megan and her son Owen and explored together. We had lots of fun.

When we got home we celebrated Owen's second birthday. My cousin Megan has been living in Mexico for nine months and she made us some delicious authentic Mexican food. It was yummy.

Here we all are eating cake and opening presents. My kids always love having a party.

Megan got a transformer pinata and the kids loved breaking that open.

My strong little Adam going at is with his bat. He is my cute little man.

My lovely husband got me some beautiful flowers for Valentines Day. He arranged them himself. Sometimes he studies at home. Here he is watching his VCU video lectures. He is getting smarter by the week. Good job toodle loo.

The flowers a few days later when they bloomed. I have always loved star gazers. Michael has always been a good flower man.

A few days later another package came from Grandma and Grandpa. Here are Liam and Sean with lots of smile. Opening.............Oh man, remote control cars. Pure coolness. The boys were super excited. There was even one for Mr. Adam.I kind of love this picture bc this really is the face that Adam makes when we tell him to say cheese. This looks a bit scary but this is his cheese smile. Picture this along with him saying "eeeeee." He's really cute. It's good that we have these little people in our lives to crack us up and keep us laughing. Here is Liam driving his car. Not only did Grandma send remote control cars, which were actually found by Grampa at Lowe's, thank you so much but there was also other treats. She sent girl scout cookies, yummmmmm. She sent wonderful books to keep our library collection growing. Thanks to her, we have MANY good books that she has purchased for us. We got various other treats and the package was so nice and so much fun. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa St. John for the wonderful package

Adam and Sean always playing and coming up with new adventures while Liam is at school.We also gave Adam a hair cut this month. He made it the longest of all the boys. He comes from my hair genes, he doesn't have much. Liam and Sean both got their first haircuts much earlier than twenty months of age. However, Adam had one piece of hair that was a bit out of control. See following..And so we cut it. We just did the old buzz job. He liked the feeling and was a good sport. Before..

After...

His hair makes him look a lot tougher now. Before he would act tough but he had cute curls and a "baby" hairdo. Now he is pulling off his tough act much better. He used to be known as "Tuffy" when little Ryan lived with us last summer, bc he always thought he was so much more tough than him.This is a pic of Sean and his little pre pre k class that a few of us switch doing in the ward. It is fun and the kids are cute. This week was the letter Q so we made queens out of toilet paper rolls. It was fun.

This is a pic of Michael and the boys. One night he was pretending to intabate all of our children. Michael is always thinking about school. When he is home he brings his school brain home. Then he does interesting anesthesia things on us. It is fun having a medical person for a husband. At least I know he will always be able to take care of all of us, and possibly anesthetize us. Good good.

Adam is not so sure.

Liam is making a terrified face. The others think it is quite interesting. Oh my lovely husband.

Well anyhoo, that's just a little bit of what we've been up to. My little sis Allyssa just had a baby boy and Twila just called me and told me she had her little Walt and I'm feeling all those crazy baby feelings again. Oh man, sometimes I wonder when those feelings go away. For now I'm glad I have them because I want a few more little St John people in my life. I love these boys and we have lots of fun playing. Liam had a lovely report card so I told him he could get a reward at Target so he picked Mouse Trap. We've been playing some Mouse trap around here.

The sun seems to never ever come out here. It is so sad. I just want to go outside with some sunshine. I miss all my people and I'm excited for the Warners and their new addition. I'm also excited for Allyssa and Brian and their new baby Jack. Congratulations to you both and thanks again to all the lovely people who sent us packages. We LOVED them. OK, until next post.

Feb 2010

So here we are in VA still. Recently we've been having some snow weather. So here in VA when it snows the people shut down the town. The max we got at one time was maybe 6 inches and church was shortened and delayed, school was canceled for two and a half days for Liam and Michael's school was canceled for a day. It was quite silly but we enjoyed having some "snow" days. The snow here has a lot more moisture in it so it is perfect for building. I have some pics of our snow play and snow man but they are on Michael's computer. I am excited bc I just got a new computer and it is helping my life here in staying connected to the world. It makes a big difference when you're home alone all day every day with no other adults to be able to look at blogs and check email. This semester I have a new attitude. Last semester was a bit rough but I am almost back to my happy self living life as a mom to my cute little boys. Anyhoo, one night after a snow day Michael was being a bit silly and taking pictures with Nurse Parks. Some of you may have heard and maybe not that Michael's program got taken over by VCU, (Virginia Commonwealth University). The director of his program quit and some things were changing. Anyways it's been a roller coaster ride but they are ironing out the details and back to work trying to become CRNA's. Nurse Parks is a cardboard nurse who stood in the health sciences building and one of the days when all the students were frustrated with what was going on Michael decided that since ODU's program was shutting down he would take nurse Parks home with him. Thus Nurse Parks lives at our house now and helps Michael study. Here is Michael sleeping with Nurse Parks. He found his shoulder quite nice. You may be wondering whose dog this is. We were dog sitting for a family in our ward for this puppy. The boys enjoyed having a pet for a weekend. Oh my Michael. He cannot wait until this program is over. He is working his bottom off and trying really hard to do well. Really he can't wait to get the heck out of here. Less than two years left. We made some flowers for Valentine's day. Actually I was in charge of project group for church so I used Teri's wonderful idea of flowers. It was fun and then last night for FHE the boys wanted to make some so we made the FHE topic about love and for the activity we painted flowers. It was good.While Liam goes to school every day Sean and Adam play together. They are pretty cute together. Here they are building a fort.

Say cheese.

These next pics are on a snow day when we were painting again. Liam is a little artist and loves to draw and paint. He's pretty good on top of it. It is really fun to watch your kids grow older and learn about their talents. It's pretty awesome having the opportunity to be a mom to little people who are growing every day and discovering who they are. I'm excited to find out more and more about these boys.

Here is Adam. Not the greatest painter yet but still enjoys it.Sean is a very careful painter. He is very good about getting his paintbrush very clean between colors. He puts a lot of thought into every move.Here is Liam. We were at Michael's buying some craft stuff and they each picked a model car to paint and build for one dollar by the way. Anyway he really wanted an easel. He said that every artist needs one so he settled for a 99 cent painters pallet. We created an easel and he went to work. You cannot tell but it is raining and almost snowing, or sleeting? in the background. This place is sooooo wet. I always wondered about those rain boots you see at the stores and why you would buy those unless you bought them bc they were cute but now I understand what they are for. Here there are puddles galore. You need rain boots bc otherwise your feet and pants get wet. In CO you can get away with no such thing. You may need snow boots but not rain boots.

The cutest boys in the world, ok maybe in my world.

These pics of Adam make me smile. He is one happy cute kid. Third kids are pretty lucky. They have constant entertainers above them and their parents have pretty much figured out parenting. Adam is a wonderful little person to have around. Last night during FHE he was singing to all the songs and doing all the motions. He sure is funny and cute.

OK people, if anyone needs an east coast trip I am here in Norfolk, VA. Come visit if you'd like. Maybe this part is mostly for Jen who is to buy tickets to come in Mar or April. Ok, we miss everyone and have a happy Valentine's day.