First Day

Kaitlyn had her first day at preschool this past week. She had a lot of fun.

Family Home Evening

Our family has had a rough go with family home evenings in the past. With Mike in school...I've been a little less than motivated to get them going. But, now that he has finished and we can all be together as a family for it I am trying to give it a go. So, tonight we made our Family Home Evening Chart. The kids were really excited to see their names on the chart and loved helping out in FHE. I really hope we can get this into one of our favorite habits.

Preschool

Well, it's another school year and Marquis is attending preschool again. He loves Miss Tiff's preschool! Miss Tiff is a wonderful teacher who lives in our ward. She does an amazing job with Marquis and I'm sure all of the rest of her students too. This year Marquis has really improved. Marquis loved preschool last year but was still really hesitant to go. He would cry before we left and then sometimes when we got there. This year is a complete change...he begs to go and this past Friday when he was too sick to go he cried because he wanted so badly to go to school. He even asked me if I would take him to see Miss Tiff so he could tell her he was sick. Such a sweetheart!

Kaitlyn is also going to be attending a little preschool group. Some friends of ours are getting together to teach preschool to our 2 1/2 year olds. I'm not sure how it will work with our schedule but we're going to try it out for a couple of weeks.

We're all doing well. Still waiting for a job opportunity...and enjoying having daddy home with us. We love you all and miss you too!

Choices...

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything so let me give you an update on what I'm doing. With Mike still studying ALL the time for the Bar Exam he isn't able to work. We have our student loans to cover us for a couple of months but after that....something has to be done. I thought about it and prayed about it and I considered two options. I could go to work part time or I could try to find something I could do from home. After a huge debate within myself...I decided to give the bow making a try. ( A huge thank you to Christine for teaching me how to make the bows!!!) I have joined with my twin sister, Susan, in a business endeavor. We set up a blog www.sistersbowtique.blogspot.com to sell our bows. In August we should have our website www.sistersbowtique.net up and running. It's been a crazy month trying to get things ready and just finding out how to get this going. I'm stumbling through it and I hope we can make this work. We aren't in this to make boco bucks just something to help supplement. I wanted to make the bows as affordable to others as I could. So, feel free to check us out. Let us know what you think and please be honest. We can use all the help we can get! :)

Mike's Law School Graduation.

I couldn't have gotten a better Mother's Day present than this. I am so proud of Mike. He's done such a great job balancing school, church , and his family. He's an awesome daddy and husband!

Easter 2009

I know I'm a "little" late in posting our easter pictures...but here they are anyway. :)

Eating their bunnies.

Gathering up the candy the Easter Bunny left at Grandma and Grandpa Zobell's.

Sweet little Kit Kat.

Our Big Boy....growing up so fast.

You know you're a mom when...

A few weeks ago while the kids were playing I heard Marquis scream like he was hurt. I went over to him and he was coughing a lot and pushing on his stomach. I asked him what was wrong and all he kept saying is "I'm trying to get it out Mommy." I thought, hmm is he getting sick? Then upon further questioning I found that he had swallowed a coin. Yes, my four year old swallowed a coin. So, after calming him down and telling him that he would be alright, I gathered up the different types of coins and asked him which one he had swallowed. He pointed to the dime. Well, I guess if you're going to swallow a coin the dime is the smallest.... Now, Marquis has a history of swallowing odd items. The two worst would be a nickel and oh yes, that monopoly piece...the wheelbarrow. He was around 18 months old and that was the worst week in my life. Luckily, his body was able to rid itself of it but the poor little guy was in misery.

Well, a few days after he swallowed the coin we traveled to my sister Susan's house. He hadn't yet had a bowel movement since swallowing the coin. While we were at a Walmart Marquis started to act odd. He was kinda pale and said his stomach hurt. My first thought was he had some kind of stomach bug. We put him in the back of a cart and he just kept complaining. He wouldn't sit up straight because he said that hurt. Ok, now I'm thinking back to the coin. Great, we're out of town and I have no idea how our insurance works out of state. So, we quickly leave Walmart and I start making phone calls to his pediatrician. They told me to take him to the ER. So, first we went back to our hotel we had to find out about our insurance and locate the nearest hospital. While we were there he said he had to go to the bathroom. So, I took him and YES he pooped...now can you guess what I had to do? Yes, I became the search party for a small coin....wow, never thought I would be doing that....it's one thing when they are in diapers....anyway, no coin.... Great, now what? Marquis immediately was feeling better and after confirmation from the nurseline we wouldn't have to take him the hospital. The rest of the week I had to keep "searching". I must say I was MORE than estactic when the coin finally came out. Yes, indeed another nickel...not the dime he thought he had swallowed. Oh the joys of motherhood!