Easter Photoshoot

I think I am the only person who didn't put my kids in their Easter outfits the week before Easter, we waited until the week after. But- it was worth the wait! Look how handsome they are! This was Josh trying to get them to do a GQ pose. I thought it was so funny!

AZ dreaming

Family, Friends, Conference, White Mountains, full lakes, BBQ'a, Surprise Baby Shower, Lego store, Lego bride and groom photo shoot, cousins galore, feeding/holding chickens, smores, picnic at the lake, laughter, dirty faces, fresh eggs, lots of pine trees, memory lane, AZ dreaming and feeling home... we had such a great time in AZ and didn't take near enough pictures. Here are a few of the ones I happened to catch!

Here are Max and Turner riding the train at the train park in Scottsdale. My cousin Julie took the day off to spend with us! We had such a great time! We brought her nephew along with us and what boy doesn't love trains!

Here are the 3 of them from behind. It was a great ride!

They also had a carousel and the boys loved their rides. Turner even had a sad moment when he was saying good bye to his horse!

That night the whole extended family all gathered together for a BBQ and an Easter egg hunt! It was so fun! It was Max's first Easter Egg hunt and no one had to tell him what to do. He went crazy! Here is my cute sister helping him. He wanted to hold all the eggs and didn't want to put them into basket :)

Turner had a great time too!

Here are all the boys with their loot!

After the shower the family surprised me with a baby shower! It was such a surprise and I felt so special. I have never been able to have a shower with my AZ family so it was pretty cool. I really loved everything and thought it was neat that everyone got something for both babies! These are the adorable cupcakes my cousins made- aren't they so cute!

I was sad that I didn't get any pictures while we were in Show Low or Prescott. We had a lot of fun with family and friends. The whole time we dreamed about moving to AZ as soon as we can. It was so hard to come back to real life! It really was such a great trip. It was the last week that I could travel so it will be short trips for a while for the Thomson family. I am sure we will attempt to make the trek when my parents come home from their mission- the whole time we kept wondering what it will be like with double the children!

Max's 2nd Birthday!

We had an awesome day on Max's birthday! Josh took half a day off and we were able to spend some quality time together as a family. Here are the cupcakes that I made for preschool to celebrate his birthday. The kids loved them! We had a family party that night with Josh's parents. I think his Cheese smile is so funny! I can't pull out a camera without getting this! It makes me laugh!

Here is the tractor cake that I made. This kid LOVES tractors. I was thinking that it didn't look much like a tractor but when he woke up from his nap and came into the kitchen where I was putting the finishing touches on the cake, he exclaimed "tractor, tractor!" I realized as long as he loved it, that was all that mattered!

He actually blew out his own candles- it took 2 tries. Probably not the best idea since he had a major runny nose but- what is a little bit of snot between family?

He loved his cake! We loved celebrating how much love and laughter this guy has brought into our lives over the last 2 years! He really brings so much into our family and I don't know how life would be without him. He is so funny and is always making everyone laugh. He is such a good kid and loves everyone!He is into every thing just like any 2 year old should be. He plays great with others and by himself. He is such a joy and we love him so much!!!

Jack and Jill

Those who haven't heard, we had our ultrasound (almost 2 weeks ago now!) It was on Max's birthday and I have never felt so much anxiety! We took Max to McDonald's for his birthday and then headed over to the Dr.'s office. My doctor doesn't do the big ultrasound so that the tech. can take more time with everything. After more waiting (of course) we went into the ultrasound room and got started. Now I know their job isn't just to figure out what you are having but as most of us know that is the #1 question- I guess along with, "Is everything OK?" So we start on the first baby and everything looks great. She says that it looks as if they were sharing a placenta which can only mean identical twins. She was very perplexed by the placenta as we later figured out I was having a contraction (non-labor) at the same time and she was confused by a separate mass. Then she continued on with baby A and discovered that it was a boy! She said that she was going to finish everything on that baby before she went to the next one (I was frustrated with that.) She kept mentioning that they were sharing a placenta so I said "That means identical twin boys right?" She then decided to go and check the gender on baby B. She took a look and said "yep! another boy!" My heart sunk a little. I had felt that it was a boy and a girl since I got pregnant and it was hard to let go of what I had been feeling. I should be use to it by now as I thought both of my boys were girls. Josh could tell that I was a little sad and he came to comfort me saying: "it will be fine, we know how to do boys." I had told myself that if it was both boys that I could be upset for a few minutes but I knew I would fall in love with the idea eventually. As Josh was comforting me she stopped and said, "wait a second, I think I was checking the same baby, they are really close- hold on" she then confirmed that she was in deed checking the same baby and decided to check the other baby. The she said, Oh wait, wait- this one is a girl! I was so excited- exactly what I had thought and wanted. She said that their placentas might have fused together or they might just not be able to see the brake. Everything looked healthy and good! After Josh took the print outs and sat down with Turner to explain what was in the pictures, Turner came over to me and said "I get a baby brother and a baby sister!" He is very excited and every time we go to the store he wants to buy something for them. We are pretty excited too!

Getting bigger!

I went to the Dr. yesterday and we got 2 strong heart beats! It took a while because the baby on my right side is a wiggler and as soon as my Dr. got the heart beat the baby would squirm away. We didn't get an ultrasound but we will get to have the big ultrasound next week so I am trying to be patient. I measured 24 wks (cm?) So at least I am not meausring twice as big as the weeks I am but sometimes I sure feel like I am 38 wks!

A day at the Airplane museum

Sat. was such a fun day for our family. We decided to head to the Airforce Museum. We love it because it is FREE! We also love it because my 3 year old happens to be in love with airplanes and my 31 year old happens to know everything there is to know about airplanes. Well, that last statement might be a stretch but he once wanted to be an airplane mechanic and comes from a big airplane family. His grandfather is somewhat of an airplane expert. Right before we left I was checking my FB and a friend that Josh works with happend to post that he was headed up to the museum too! As soon as we pulled in we spotted them in their car. Carin and Joey (esp. Joey) love to spoil our kids (esp. Turner) he made sure he gave them lots of candy and even bought Turner a diecast airplane at the gift shop. Needless to say Joey is his new best friend. One of the best suprises is that they added a hands on section to the museum where the kids could play with toy airplanes, dress up like astronauts, and learn all sorts of fun things about science. We will be back soon!

St. Patrick's day in pictures!

We had a great St. Patrick's day and hope that you all did too!

Where in the world...

... did he pick that up? We just came downstairs to get ready for preschool and as I turn on the light Turner stuck out his hips, struck a pose and said "I feel sexy!" Heaven knows he hasn't heard that from me in a long long time! This kids makes me laugh everyday!

Loving it!

This is Turner's first self portrait (that you can figure out what it is.) He drew this on Saturday. I couldn't be more thrilled! I think I was more excited about this than the first time he went poop in the potty. I love art- creativity is one thing that I value so much. I am not a very good artist but I married one. We have been waiting and waiting for this day to arrive but didn't really know how to cultivate it. Turner just hasn't seemed interested in art at all until recently. He loved painting... to make a mess, but not really to create anything. He has since drawn a lot of pictures and I can't wait to see how much he grows artistically.

Something Edible

Today in preschool we talked about changing wheat into bread. We took whole wheat- Turned it into flour- it was so cute because the kids thought that when I opened the container it would be flowers not flour. I tried to explain the difference to them but they just had to see it for themselves. Some of my kids you could tell that they had helped their mom in the kitchen a few times- some of them you could tell had no idea!

Then I asked the if they were ready to eat it and explained what else we had to add to the flour to make it bread. We tossed it all into the bread maker while we went onto other things and put it on the dough setting so we could cook it in a regular loaf. I didn't get a picture of the dough but I gave them a little bit to touch after each step so they could feel it and describe how it changed. so it went from smooth and hard to soft and powdery and then sticky and squishy to YUMMY!

(this picture is why flash sucks :) but I didn't have a lot of time to mess around with the camera as the kids were getting very impatient to eat some of their bread!) They were in heaven!

My recipe for one loaf of bread:

4 c. whole wheat flour (I use hard white because that is what my family likes best)
2 t. yeast

1 3/8 C. Hot water

1 1/2 t. Salt

3T. Oil

3T. Honey

Put it in the bread maker and then pull it out and toss it in the oven on 375 for about 25-30 min.