Happy 30th Birthday, Jon!

The big 3-0! I didn't know what to do this year, I wanted to do something big, but it really wasn't doable. I also wanted to do a surprise. Jon was more probing this year, so the surprises surround his gifts didn't hold up, but I still was able to do a fun surprise.

Thursday, we went to the Jazz game.

Friday, we had a date night in Provo: Trying on running shoes for Jon at Runner's Corner.  The shoes are great and he has been able to finally run again without pain. (This week, April 12, he ran a 5k in 29 mins with no pain!) Then we had dinner at the Bombay House. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!.

Saturday, we were just going to have a family day at home...or so Jon thought.

But first of all, here is the perfect carrot cake! Isn't it beautiful!! Although I'll never stray from chocolate, each year do I enjoy this cake more than the previous year.

We had a pacho-narty for lunch-a munkafest/nordy pastime.

Then I surprised Jon and told him we were going to The Canyons Resort to stay the night and swim and just have a little getaway. (With his Canyons season pass through work, he gets a free night in winter and one in the summer at the resort. It was perfect!) We took the boys with us. After lunch we went to see the sequel to Diary of a Wimpy kid. It was pretty entertaining, but boys loved it and Max will randomly say, "Loded Diper"-not my favorite.

Then we went to Wingnuts for dinner and headed to the hotel.

There were 2 hot tubs on the roof. The ground was heated which was awesome!! This pool wasn't as hot as the other one.

The boys had fun with their diving sticks and we listened to people from around the country, talk about how Utah has the best snow on earth. After that we headed inside to have the birthday festivities.

Pardon all the pics, but I think Max and this interaction is so cute! Daddy is opening Max's gift to him.

I love how excited Max is! Soccer cones. (The original gift from Max was retro New Balance shoes, but they were en route. So we got these for Max to give so he wouldn't be left out.)

LOVE this!

Zac's present to Dad. They are reading the tag that Zac wrote by himself.

This is Zac excited anticipating look

New running shoes-Sauconeys

Sorry, I occasionally need some of me on this blog...

If you know Jon, you know this card is perfect!

A bit irritated with the button inside...hahaha!

We were pretty worried about setting the smoke detector off by using candles, so I just held the lighter on til he was ready to blow out the flame.

After a bit of a rocky time getting the boys to share a bed and an early morning with cable to entertain the boys. We had an AMAZING breakfast at The Cabin, a breakfast buffet at the main lodge. I so wish we could have all gone skiing, but that was not in budget this year! Then we all rode the gondola down to the parking lot and back. It was a great time! And so fun to do something different! Happy 30th Jon, this year's gonna be great! I love you!

Random Documenting

Max doesn't get the concept of NOT drawing on the carpet, and for some reason he always does it with the dry erase marker!! Luckily, the carpet clean and bristly brush work pretty well. We no longer have markers where the boys can get them.

Max has the most uncomfortable sleeping positions in the carseat

It was snowing and very sunny all at the same time-weird

see the shadow on my arm

Jon's department at work got some Jazz tickets, so we got to go to the game last week. We were on the 13th row. It was great! This was my second game and although the game was close and went into overtime, we still lost :(

View from our seats (I just looked at the blog post from that last game we went to, and its laughable at the difference in our view!)

The last time I went to a Jazz game we were way up at the very last row!

Since the Jazz kind of suck...or really do, this year. We took our time and got to eat at the California Pizza Kitchen instead of eating game food. It was a fun night!

Early St. Patrick's Day

Well, I have a few more posts that I keep forgetting to write up. This is the first year we did something for St. Patrick's Day, and it happened to be a day early. I am the 8yr old scout leader, and we did a St. Patrick's Day party on the 16th, and Zac's preschool party was on the 16th. Since I was already doing decorating and snacks for both parties I decided we'd just go with it.

In the morning, the boys found that Lucky the Leprechaun had made some mischief around the house....

He also left chocolate gold coins

There was some other odd things too! These canning jar rings are coming from the lazy susan, where a note was left and lead up to the fridge door!

The milk was green! (The Koolaid was already for the parties.)

There was a tower in the family room

The note from Lucky was backwards! We had to put it up to the mirror to read it!

Zac (tired) showing me his gold

Max's gold

After lunch I went help with the treat for Zac's preschool party. I made these rice krispie clovers with green sprinkles.

All packaged up

I also got some mints in gold wrappers

I also served green milk, and Lucky Charms.

Then after preschool it was on to the Scout Party. The boys had a major say in the planning. We had pizza and green koolaid, ate doughnuts on a string, had a watermelon eating contest, and a silly string war. We finished off with green slushies and more doughnuts of course!

Green Wreath

Sorry for all the pictures, but I LOVE this wreath! I don't even know why! Maybe it's because its fresh and green? or because I love having something on the door for the current holiday? or because I love the little bit of glitz? or because it was $12 to make? or because it came together so quick and easy? because I got just the right amount and kind of supplies to put it together? none wasted and no holes! and I actually made it? Or because I like it better than anything the stores had? or because its for St. Patrick's Day but is subtle?? I love the hiding gold coins and foil clover garland!

Anyway, my friend Emily and I decided we'd get together once a month or so and do a craft. I had been wanting to make a St. Patrick's Day door hanging for some time. I needed something to get me from Valentines to Easter! (I'm working on gathering things for an Easter one too!) I went to JoAnns and since it was only like a week before the holiday everything was on sale 50% off! And I had coupons for sale items too! It was great!

Little Boys and Their Fits

Max hasn't begun huge fits ......no that's not exactly true. He'll start crying for something seemly so ridiculous (yesterday, he did it when Zac splashed in puddles and got Max's pant leg all wet) but he can work himself up within a couple minutes to where he can't breathe and starts the beginning signs of passing out from lack of air: losing balance and pitching backward while I'm holding him. Luckily, he never has passed out. I have no idea what I'd do if he did.

 He is a very stubborn kid. (I read a book about strong-willed children last month and it has really helped and opened my eyes to understand/deal the strong-willed.) Max is much more stubborn than Zac.

This is his defiant, "I'm NOT eating dinner, just chips and sour cream" look.

When told he won't get anymore sour cream until he eats a bite of dinner, he has to get down from the table and throws himself on the floor. But this is pretty much the extent of his fits. He'll get sent to bed otherwise, so he controls himself.

But Zac, that's another story!! He really struggles to control himself. He is very sensitive to emotions. (Which also has its positives, because he can be really in tune when someone in the family needs help.)  I don't even know why he is throwing such a huge fit. Its also interesting that he can go from 5-60 in less than 2 seconds! You'd think he was 2 yrs old with this fit!

Sad, I know. But I just had to document it for the future. These fits are a lot less frequent as he is getting older. I think lots of it has to do with being hungry and tired. He doesn't sleep as much since the boys have shared a room. He can tell when he is falling asleep, whether its nap time or nighttime and he'll hum or sing to keep himself awake. In the morning he doesn't sleep in.