Our latest update...

We havent' been up to anything real interesting lately - mostly just house hunting and playing at the park. We've pretty much decided on which part of Phoenix we want to settle in, now it's just convincing someone to sell their house at the price we want to pay - we'll see how it all works out.

We also love Arizona in February! We spend a good part of nearly every day at the park. I have a handful of girlfriends that meet regularly there and our kids just play together. Today I didn't even call any of the ladies, but sure enough when I got to the park, two of them were already there! We've been really blessed with good friends in Arizona, making our transition here a ton easier! I will say this though, the other day I was totally missing Provo. I'm not sure if I was just craving Smart Cookie or what, but I had a flash back to a spring in Provo and it made me a little homesick.

Here are a couple photos of the boys:

1) German wearing his "Appane-copper" shirt. 2) German playing "Happy Birthday Time" - read "Go, Dog. Go!" for a complete understanding of the entire set up. 3) Eli being his cute little self!

Happy Valentine's Day - Read at Your Own Risk!

I need to vent my frustrations and Joshua is at work - my saga could get yucky, so as I said, read at your own risk! Our day began bright and hopeful- Joshua wasn't supposed to leave for work until 9:30am, thanks to a carpool issue. We decided that it would be fun to go out to breakfast for Valentine's, instead of dinner. Luckily we were running a little behind schedule because right as we were literally buckling the boys into their carseats Josh's ride called and said he was 2 minutes away - an hour early! Thankfully we weren't sitting at U.S. Egg enjoying a beautiful blueberry pancake with fresh squeezed apple juice as we had planned.

The saga continues, German's hopes were up to go to a restaurant and I felt bad letting him down, especially since we were already in the car and everything. Due to some recent bowel issues I didn't want to take him to fast food, so there we were sitting at the breakfast restaurant and the bowel issues that we thought were finished came back in full force. Let me give all of you mother's some advice: There is absolutely no reason to go to a restaurant by yourself with more than one child. You'll end up spending a lot of money for a meal that you don't get to eat and you can't even enjoy a little time with your children. Just stay home!!!

After our second diaper change there, I figured there would probably be more to come and I was out of diapers, so we went home and grabbed some back-up. You'd think that I'd learned my lesson and would just stay home, but no, I wanted to take the boys to their Valentine's Day party! After two diaper changes there, German said, "I take nap, go home and take nap." So we did! (But not before another diaper change!) Now I'm about to end and go change yet another diaper before we head out to make our 2:40p.m. doctor's appointment. Oh, and by the way, Eli also had a massive blowout somewhere in the middle of all that!

The good news: German had one bowel movement on the toilet last night! (It was about to come out in the bathtub, so I pulled him out of the tub and sat him on the seat - maybe it'll be exciting for him once he's feelint better!)