Time to Update

I have been so overwhelmed with life these days I have let this blog as well as other things that I need to be doing.Things seem to be going like crazy. I have been working more but life keeps going on. The nice thing is that Ryan and Cameron are starting to get along better.

I found this a while ago when things got really quite downstairs. Ryan loves the quilt blocks on my bed because they work well as an intersection for his cars. Now he is even starting to draw intersections on paper and using his cars on it.

To another child who got quite so I went hunting for child number 2. I also found him upstairs but her was reading a book. He did this for about a half an hour it was great.

Proof that the boys are getting along better they decided that they where going to watch TV together and kick mom and dad out of there bed. They look pretty comfortable to me.

My little ham

My other ham

Trunk or Treat

This year our ward had it's normal Trunk or Treat the only difference is that Blaine was in charge of it in a round about way. Blaine and his buddy Tim have been called as Activities Committee co-chairs for our ward. Our ward hasn't been known in the past for having the greatest activities so we are trying to change that. We also have a wide range of ages in our ward. For the past few years for the trunk or treat we have had a chili cook off but it has been outside and it was dark and you really didn't get to see anyone because it was a mad house with kids trunk or treating. This year we decided to do things a little different. It was just our ward and we did the Chili cook off with cornbread and homemade root beer in side two hours early so around 6:00 so some of the older members of the ward could come and then they wouldn't have to do the trunk or treat. We where just counting on about 150 people. Well it was a little better than that we had about 275-300 people. We have four booths set up for the kids to do like a fishing one from the bishopric, a cupcake walk, and a bean bag toss then a place set up for the kids to make sucker ghosts. All of it worked except the bean bag toss. We had so many people that they started sitting on the floor to eat and so one of our games ended up being blocked. But still it was a great time. Blaine had to work that Saturday since it was a clipper weekend so I was running around like a crazy person. Thank goodness my mother in law took the boys we used most of her decorations and cleaned out her kitchen of utensils used her expertise in making root beer like they did at girls camp so there is no way that it would have been such a success without her. This year I even made Blaine dress up we have been married for 6 1/2 years and he and I have never dressed up. I think the last time I dressed up was in college so it was kind of fun.

Ryan was an Army Man

Cameron was a Fireman

Blaine was a Jailbird

and mom was a ballerina I made a tutu for myself like the ones we make at work. The problem is that Blaine forgot to focus the camera and it was like 11:30 at night and I was pooped but at least you can kind of get the picture.

The reason why I said that we where in charge because Blaine's co-chair had hunts for three weeks in a row so Tim wasn't really around until that day. It all came together and everyone said that they had a great time so that is all that really counted. Next activity our Christmas dinner that we haven't done in a long time so that should be nice.

Halloween Party

Ryan had a Halloween party at school the Friday before Halloween. The kindergartners are allowed to ware there costumes and then they do a parade for the school. Then they change back into there normal outfits. Of course Ryan didn't want to dress up as usual so I god him BDU's so he could be an army man he of course called his pants "camping pants" and then I got him and Army shirt for the surplus store and he was happy.

He didn't handle the big group of kids in different outfits and I told his teacher that he didn't handle Halloween very good so she said that she would hold his hand and that he would just stand right by her. That made him happy and he did really good.

Cameron had fun in the stroller watching all the classes walk by.

I get to help out two mornings a week in Ryan's classroom I do the Homework folders I was able to help out for the afternoon Halloween party they got a lot of good loot the even better thing is Ryan didn't freak out with having me in the classroom. That has been a big issue the past few years and this year he is okay with it.

These are all the kids at Ryan's table getting there picture taken with Mr.Bones

A few weeks ago we went to Flagstaff for Kenny's baptism. This was a really important event not only for Kenny but for Ryan as well. He has seen two of his other cousins get baptised but they where girls. Ryan really looks up to Kenny so we needed Ryan to see his boy cousin get baptised so he will know what to do in a couple of years. We left early Saturday morning since his baptism was at 10. Ryan got to ride up with Grandma and Papa in Grandmas car and then Cameron got to ride with mom and dad.
Found out that Cameron still gets super car sick. He threw up three times on our way thank goodness I wasn't alone this time so I had help cleaning him up. I was even more grateful that I didn't put him in his church outfit he had a couple others we got there about a half an hour before it started so we ran to my sister in laws house and threw the car seat cover in the laundry along with all the yucky outfits and did a bad thing of not putting Cameron in his car seat on the way to the stake center. Thank goodness it wasn't that far away. There where 10 kids getting baptised that day so it took a little while but everyone was being good.

Afterwards we went back to Kenny's house for lunch and let the kids run around and play again.

Ryan was really bummed that we had to come home but I had to be back at church the next day so we promised him that we would go back up soon to spend the night.

Papa passed out after the long day. You can see that his kids love to do things to him while he is asleep. So the tie flip and the can of Pepsi how long will it take before he wakes up from everyone laughing at him.

So far behind

I am Sooooooooooooo far behind in my blogging it's not even funny. Life has been SUPER BUSY I am going to try and do a recap but I am sure I will forget things and put them out of order but it is better that they be documented right? Ryan had October Break last week I don't know who it is a break for cuz it totally messed ups his schedule and made things really bad for when he went back to school this week but we will get to that in a minuet. Report of Ryan for the 1st grading period has gone pretty good. I had parent teacher conference this week and found out that he is doing better than even his teacher thought that he would. We still have a few things that we need to work on but we will get there. He still will not stand for the pledge or the moment of silence he knows it because they did it at EMECEC I think the difference is that they did it just in there class room now they do it over an intercom and so it is loud and we all know how much Ryan doesn't like loud noises. One of the big things that we where all worried about this year would be that Ryan had a hard time sticking up for himself. Well not so much any more. Really that is the opposite he is a little to aggressive now so we are having to work on that. As well as some potty issues we will just say daddy needs to teach him how to use an urinal without taking his pants off all the way. Oh the joys of being a parent. Ryan for the most part likes school and is starting to get a lot of friends. Back to October break that weekend all the boys where suppose to go camping. Ryan had been looking forward to it for a while asking and counting down the weeks then the days until he got to go. Tuesday he got really sick and Ryan NEVER gets sick but when he does get sick he is super sick. I took him to the Dr on Wednesday because he was just not Ryan lye around and do nothing. Come to find out he had an upper respiratory infection and that it was super contagious and it could take10 day for him to get completely over it and back to himself again.The really nice thing is was that he lost his voice for 3 days. I am sure you can see where this is going yep no camping for Ryan. I knew his little heart would have been broken so we took the calender down and just didn't talk about it praying he wouldn't figure it out. That Saturday Daddy and the boys hung out since I was helping throw a baby shower for my sister in law Shelley who is having triplets so she needed one. Sunday comes around and Blaine and I both had to be at Ward Council so we took the boys to Gma Matthews we did our meeting then Choir practice went back to the house to get the boys ready to go and Ryan was looking sicker than ever. Since the choir was singing that day Linda stayed home with the boys until Blaine was done singing with the choir then he went back withe the boys so she could come and teach her primary class. Come to find out as soon as we walked out the door Ryan started throwing up. I got a text half way through Relief Society that Ryan threw up again I didn't know that he threw up once so I decided to head back over to the house to see what was going on. Ryan ended up sleeping most of the rest of the day. When Gary got home from camping remember we never told him where Papa was only that he was out of town. Ryan was halfway conscious on the couch and Gary came in with his pillow he just broke down because he knew where Papa had been. I have never seen him so sad. He ended up staying home from school on Monday but went the rest of the week. I was early release all week because of parent teacher conferences it made life a little crazy. If this wasn't enough the week before this Cameron had tonsillitis so that was not fun and then I got sick so it was not a happy time in the Matthews house. Now that the weather is cooling down it makes life better and nicer for all of us but not for Cameron. The breathing machine is coming out again and the allergy meds are back in full force. I have been working more Blaine has been working more as well so we don't do much around here. Good news is that we are all on the mend and looking forward to the holidays I think.

Now for some fun pictures.

My Cameron is getting so dang big and cute he tried on Mommy's hat.I love love love this picture my boys don't get along very often and this day Ryan was saying he wanted to hold Cameron's hand we where going to load up and take Ryan to school and I look back and this is what I saw.

Cameron has recently started to climb on everything thing it is great. NOT!!!

Ryan has been watching a lot of Handy Manny lately and so he decided that the washer was broken so he took his screw driver and fixed it for me. What a good little man.Cameron has found the real use for straws he has been starting to eat a little more real food instead of just bottle to so we are liking that more.

Cameron's started to get out of bed one morning and I guess he was quite ready to wake up because I walked into his room and found this.

Ryan loves to walk home from school to Gmas house he and his best friend Aaron. It is do cute to see them together.

One of these things doesn't belong?????????

Cameron loves to watch Ryan play racing game (Mario cart) on the wii. He gets his own steering wheel and pretends like he is driving. He didn't want to take a nap he wanted me to play since Ryan was at school so we did for a while then he couldn't keep his eyes open anymore but notice that he still has his racing game.

How young is to young for slave labor. I had to work Saturday and I asked that the boys take all the rocks out of the planter bed because I want to plant some flowers. I get this text and they did it all the rocks are gone just a little more work to do then off to planting.

I have more to blog about but this is enough for tonight. More to come is Kenny gets baptised Shelley's baby shower plus more.

Giveaway Wednesday

I love love love all of there stuff. I got a pillow case for Cameron and since then he has been sleeping. Now I just need to get the rest of us some check it out.
GIVEAWAY WEDNESDAY

Pueblo Sept 2010

Back a few months ago when went to Gpas family reunion people started talking about doing another Bird Family reunion. We had one a couple of years ago in Flagstaff so the talk was that we should have one at my dad's house since they have over 65 acres. The Next day when we got home this idea of having this thing next summer turned into Labor Day weekend. Holy cow after some rush planning we figured out a way to make it work. Of course it falls over Clipper week so that made our life a little more crazy but what was decided was my grandparents and I where going to leave on the 1st and drive to Albuquerque I would drive my car with my two kids and they would drive there car. We would get to my dads in Pueblo on Thursday the 2nd and everyone else would show up on Friday late night. We did it that way so it would be better on Gpa and that he would had a day to recover after we got there. The trip started out very interesting since we didn't even get to the Roosevelt lake turn off and Cameron threw up all over the back seat. No more bottle for him on windy roads. After 10 hours we finally made it to my parents house.

We brought the Wii so that Ryan would have something to do so here he is playing baseball with his Uncle Dan. Swing batter batter swing. FYI Ryan won.

Cameron loves that they have the same rocking chair that we do at home.

Some of the boys watching Ryan play bowling.

Rich and Wendy and there kids where suppose to get here late Friday night but they got such a late start that they had to stop about 4 hours out so they could get some sleep. After they got here we all went to a great Mexican restaurant to get sloppers.Slopper: Open face hamburger with french fries cheese and green chili. Only in Pueblo

This I guess was the kids table or I guess the 18 and under table.

This was the big kids table I guess.
Cameron hasn't been sleeping very good the past few weekend. His naps have only been about 20 minuets here and there so he fell asleep as soon as we got into the car so this was about another 20 minuet nap. Yep I am sunburned we are up higher so I walk outside and burn.