The McCall Winter Carnival.....Almost

Our computer is fixed, all thanks to our friend Kelson. Him and his family came over on Sunday and he was able to get is all working for us.

Now, about the subject of this post. Every year at the end of January/beginning of February McCall (a small town up in the mountains north of Boise) hosts their annual Winter Carnival. Andrew and I have been a couple of times, but we haven't been for 3 years. Well, this year we decided we were definitely going to be going. So on Saturday morning we had breakfast at home, packed a lunch, put all of our coats, hats, mittens, boots, etc. in the van and headed up the mountain prepared for a fun day of seeing fun snow & ice sculptures.

It is about a 2 hour drive up the mountain. After a little while, I put in a Thomas & Friends DVD for Keagan to watch and Deker ended up falling asleep (which is really unusual for him). About an hour or so into our drive, I hear some funny noises from Keagan I ask him if he is OK and he tells me yes. A couple of minutes later, I hear it again look back at him and he has a little bit of vomit in his hand. I tell Andrew to pull over, Andrew gets out, cleans him up (thank goodness is just a little bit). While we were stopped, Deker woke up which is not a big deal.

We get back on the road. I turn off the cartoons and tell Keagan he needs to look out at the road because I think he is getting car sick. Fast forward to about 15 minutes later (we are now about 30 minutes away from our destination), and I hear some more funny noises from the back. Ask Keagan if he is OK, he tells me yes. Then I hear that awful noise of somebody throwing up, I say to Andrew "Keagan threw up again", he looks at Keagan (he can see him better) and Andrew says "No he didn't". So I look back and my eyes come upon Deker with vomit all over him, then I hear the noise again, Look at Keagan and he has vomit all over him. I tell/yell and Andrew to pull over NOW. Again, thank goodness we were right at a turn off. I get out of the van, try to help and immediately have to walk a good 5-10 feet AWAY from the Van and tell Andrew, "I am so sorry, but I can't help you right now."

So, poor Andrew has two boys who have vomit all over them and their blankets (aka their security) and a pregnant wife who can't handle the smell and is as far away as possible. While Andrew is getting the boys and their car seats cleaned up as best as possible with a few dozen wipes, I made two attempts to help him, both times I get kind of close and immediately have to back away again. Because this was a day trip, I didn't think about bringing any extra clothes for the boys. I found a pair of pants back from when we potty trained Keagan that Deker could wear and and pair of Andrew's old pajama pants that we put on Keagan just so he didn't have to sit in his underwear the entire way home.

After they are as cleaned up as we can get them, Andrew put them in their car seats with no shirts and makeshift pants and clean blankets which we happened to have in the back. Thank goodness I had some plastic grocery sacks in the back which I was supposed to recycle at the store which Andrew was able to put all their clothes and blankets in.

So, with about 30 minutes left until we get to our destination, we have to turn around and head back home because we had no extra clothes for the boys. We were worried about the boys throwing up again on the way home, but thank goodness both boys immediately fell asleep and didn't wake up until we were done with all the windy roads.

We get home, eat the lunch we had intended to eat in McCall, put the boys in the tub and then figure out another way to make this day fun. We figure for some reason, the boys got car sick (which they have never done before) because they were just fine the rest of the day.

Unfortuately for us, instead of seeing This....We got to head back home with boys who looked like this...

Then that evening, Andrew had the fun job of taking off the car seat covers, opening the bags of clothes, rinsing everything out and getting it all in the washer. Because once again, his pregnant wife still couldn't handle any of the smell.

It's a Boy!

On Monday, I had my 2nd Ultrasound. We were finally able to confirm that this little baby is a boy. It is weird to think that I am soon going to have 3 boys. The two I have right now have so much energy, I hope I will be able to keep up with all of them.

I don't have any pictures to post at the moment, because our computer decided to stop working on Monday. (I am at the library while Keagan is at preschool this morning.) I think we have a virus or something. But a friend of ours who knows all about computers said that he would come look at it sometime this week. Hopefully he can fix it and we will be back up and running soon.

Close Call!

I have one particular blessing that I have been counting lately. That is the blessing of having two boys and not yet having to take a trip to the ER with them. There have been some close calls, but luckly (Knock on wood) nothing too bad. Last evening was one of those times. Andrew and I were just starting dinner and Keagan and Deker were playing in the living room and down the hallway. There was lots of laughter coming from them, then all of a sudden we hear Deker start screaming/crying.

Andrew went to get him and when he first picked him up, didn't see anything, then a minute later when Deker finally let us look, we see a HUGE bump forming on his forehead just above his nose and right eye with a scratch in it. Luckily it wasn't bleeding or anything. Then as the evening wore on, we noticed that he also scratched the lower part of his nose and his upper lip.

Today, the swelling on his forehead is really down and it is starting to bruise a little and his lip is only slightly swollen, but you can really see the scratch lines down his head. Above is a picture of how he looks this afternoon. To me, it looks pretty painful, but he is playing like nothing happened.

Unfortunately, we have no idea what happened. They were playing down the hallway and we are assuming Deker fell and hit is head on something in his room, we are thinking maybe the corner of his dresser, but we really don't know. All I do know, is that this wasn't the first time either of them have been hurt and it definately won't be the last.

Is it a Boy or a Girl?

Today (Tuesday) was my 20 week ultrasound. I was really excited to see this little person and find out if it was a boy or a girl. Unfortunately, this baby didn't want to cooperate very well. The bad news is that we aren't 100% sure if it is a boy or a girl. The Ultrasound Tech is only about 68% sure she thinks it's a

BOY


The good news is that the baby didn't cooperate enough that she didn't get to see and measure everything that she needs to, so in 4 weeks we get to have another Ultrasound and confirm that this little one is a Boy.


So, unfortunately I can't really start buying and making things for another month. But at least we know that with the things they were able to see and measure, everything looks good and healthy.

Christmas!

Wow, we had a wonderful Christmas. On Christmas Eve we drove around looking at Christmas lights. After we got home, we each opened one gift that had matching PJ's that Andrew and I made. Then set out cookies for Santa that Keagan, Deker and I had made earlier that day.
When the boy's woke up the following morning, they found their Santa gift and looked in their stocking. They both got computers which they have loved playing with. In their stockings were doodle boards, fish & fishing pole (which Andrew and I made) and a few treats.

For breakfast that morning, we made Santa Pancakes which were very yummy. I found the idea last year on Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. Here is how they turned out.

After breakfast we opened the rest of our gifts. The boys each got a toolbox with a toolbelt (that Andrew and I made. I found the idea on Here), books, puzzles, firehat and few other misc. things. After that, we spent the rest of the day, playing with our new toys, relaxing and packing for our trip to Nevada.

The next day, we traveled down to Southern Nevada to spend some time with my Mom and Dad, brothers, sisters and their families (27 people in all plus 2 on the way). I don't have many pictures from this part of our Christmas, but should be getting some soon.

We exchanged our gifts (the adults drew names earlier in the year as did all the cousins). On Sunday we all went to church with my parents then had a very delicious Christmas dinner. The girls then escaped to throw a little baby shower for my sister-in-law Melissa who is due in 2 weeks. Then back for yummy dessert.

Deker was quite taken with the babies (his twin cousins Emmalyn and Brooklyn). Anytime they were in the room, he wanted to hold them. Hopefully that is a good sign and he will be a good big brother when our little one arrives. Keagan had a blast playing with all his cousins and was quite upset to be leaving.

We had a fun time this weekend getting us more in the mood for Christmas. We started off by going on a Sleigh Ride with Santa Claus. It was pulled by 4 strong reindeer (an ATV) and Santa even had christmas music for us to listen to.

Here is us with Santa on our sleigh ride.
Here is what the whole thing looks like (This wasn't taken by me, it was from where we found out about it).

Then on Sunday morning, we decided to have Christmas Tree French Toast which turned out very yummy!

Yummy Peppermint

This time of the year always makes me want peppermint candies and all things peppermint. Around Thanksgiving, Andrew and I bought a package of peppermint oreos and boy were they delicious.

With Andrew gone today (he left Wednesday morning to drive a route to Eastern Idaho and wont get back until this afternoon/evening) my two little helpers and I put on our aprons and got into the kitchen this morning to try our hand a making our very own homemade Peppermint oreos. The boys and I had so much fun mixing, licking the spoons and bowls (the most important job) and rolling all our dough into little balls.

Keagan wanted to roll all his into little snakes and Deker just wanted to do what the rest of us were doing. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of us while we were working but here is a picture of the finished product. They were are so Yummy! I just posted the recipe on Smithalicious, you can check it out by clicking here.