The land!

This morning before church, I was still not feeling well and was in bed when Ben and the boys were getting up and getting ready for church. I decided to stay home. Jeremy, over the last year, has developed quite an imagination and decided that he wanted to create a 'land'. He proceeded to find just about every blanket and pillow in the house and lay them out in the living room and kitchen. Of course Mom and Dad were impressed and wanted to catch it on film. Later, when the boys and Dad were ready to go to church, I thought they all looked so cute because they all wore their blue sweater vests and I tried to get a picture of them altogether but Alex didn't want to and then when I tried to take the picture outside, the camera didn't want to take it. So here's the pictures I got of my handsome boys!

UTA Frontrunner

Yesterday, we decided to take the kids to ride the new Frontrunner train that runs from Ogden to Salt Lake. Our plan was that we would go to the Gateway when we got to Salt Lake. Well all good plans can go up in smoke. First off, I rode down earlier in the day to the station in Pleasant View near our house. The internet said that the free rides would start at 2PM. But when I got to the station, not a soul was there. So I went to the one on 25th and Wall. Lots of people there. Both boys had fallen asleep so Ben and I waited and planned to take the 5PM train. When we got back there, we found out that the wait would be about 2 hours just to get on the platform. We really wanted to leave but Jeremy was determined to stay. When we finally boarded the train, it was crowded and we were told that we should stay on the train and not get off or we wouldn't be able to get back on. The last train was leaving coming back from Salt Lake at about 9 and we didn't get on the train until almost 7 and there would be a 2 hour wait again to board again. So we decided to ride it down and back and just get off. Jeremy quickly found that he was bored of the ride and wished we could get off. He and Alex ate all the snacks I had going down and were ravenous (so were Mom and Dad) coming home. Many families were in the same boat as us. So when we got back to the station in Ogden, I had a headache and we were all starving! So I think we can say we rode the train!!

Alex's 2nd Birthday!

We wanted to share pictures of Alex's 2nd birthday, which was Wednesday, April 16th. Alex was a little cranky at his birthday because he, myself and Ben took a quick business trip to Atlanta, Georgia from Sunday to Tuesday. This would be Alex's last airplane ride free. He did pretty good though. He didn't want to look out the window though and kept shutting the shade. So he was tired on his birthday and took a nap just before everyone came over for the party. He wouldn't smile for Grandpa when he was taking his pictures but started to warm up once we got him his favorite, pizza, which he ate while opening presents. Grandma had been nice enough to bake his cake the day before his birthday, with Jeremy's help, and she and I decorated it on his birthday. He got lots of Elmo things and was pretty happy with what he got!

Conference weekend

I have to admit, along with a lot of other people, I wondered how conference would be without President Hinckley. I had seen for so many years, President Monson being a counselor that I wondered how it would be with him as the prophet. I didn't know much about him except for always enjoying his wonderful stories. But as I stood in the conference center during the solemn assembly, I could feel the Spirit so strong testifying that he is indeed the prophet now. It was wonderful. I enjoyed so many of the talks and look forward to reading them in the Ensign. Ben was able to attend all of the sessions on Saturday and the morning session on Sunday. I went to join him with the kids for the Sunday morning session and we thought we could watch it in the Joseph Memorial building. The kids had other ideas. As we parked to walk up to the building, both boys had been asleep. Alex woke up and proceeded to throw up all over Ben and I. We were in quite a shock. Luckily I had brought some clothes to change him in. We kind of thought it was a fluke and so we headed up to the JS building after having a picnic. It was quite crowded there but we were able to find seats in the chapel. Alex grew weary of sitting in the chapel and I took him out. He was running around by the windows and all of the sudden, blahh all over one of the couches. I proceeded to grab Ben and we went to the bathroom. We had to wheel Alex out to the car with just his diaper on and a blanket. We really wanted to go to Ben's granddad's to see all the family after conference and thought Alex could stay in the car. So we headed over there and we ended up sitting outside and things seemed okay. Jeremy had complained of a stomach ache on and off and then blahhh!!! All over the lawn at Granddad's. We then proceeded home with Alex throwing up a few more times in the car. He continued to be sick Monday today. Jeremy seemed to be fine Monday but I kept him home from school. Well then today he wakes up and runs into the bathroom and ends up having the yucky diarrhea all over the bathroom floor. Then he threw up a few hours later in the living room. So it's been a fun one!!!
Here is a picture I took before we headed down to Salt Lake, pre-throwing up!