April Happenings--2015

This month seemed to be a busy one.  We had Easter, Casey's Spring Break, and Casey's softball team started.  We had so much fun during the month of April.  Here is a little of what we did in pictures. 

It seems like whenever I clean the house it gets destroyed again by the time Casey gets home from work.  I usually clean the house after the kids go to bed and before I go to bed so it's nice and clean when they wake up.  This particular day I couldn't stand the dirty house any longer so I cleaned it and sent a picture of the clean house to Casey.  Proof that it was clean at one point in the day. 

Easter fell during conference weekend this year, but we pretty much celebrated the week before and the week of.  The week before we celebrated with Casey's family.  We roasted hot dogs over an open fire and had a Easter egg hunt for all the little kids. 
The weekend of Easter we took the boys to the neighbors Easter egg hunt.  Our next door neighbors invite all the kids 12 years and younger who live on our street to their annual Easter egg hunt.  Mason and Tanner had a fun time.  The following day was Easter.  The kids woke up Easter morning to find that the Easter bunny had visited our house.  They had so much fun putting all their good into their Easter basket.  We celebrated with my family this year.  We had a yummy dinner then we went outside and let the kids find all the great finds the "Easter bunny" left.  Grandpa also took the kids of 4-wheeler rides.  We enjoyed every minute of Easter. 

Went to the park.  We try to make the make a weekly occurrence.

Mason got sick during the middle of April.  He had a high temp, threw up, and wouldn't eat anything.  One night he was up all night.  I finally got him to sleep by bringing him into bed to lay by me after Casey left for work. 

Casey's Spring Break was also during the month of April.  He worked the first couple of days at his school, the next couple of days at the shop, then had Friday off.  We decided to take a little day trip to the Hill Aerospace Museum.  Mason loved every minute of seeing the huge airplanes.  There were so many there that I thought it would get boring for him after awhile, but every plane he saw he would just say, "oh my."  I'm so glad we took the boys to see the airplanes and we will definitely be taking them to the air show that will be going on there next summer.  After the museum we ate our packed picnic lunch at headed home.  It was such a fun day spent with our family. 

My mom and dad were pruning the big tree outside their garage.  My brother got a huge forklift from work so they could be raised high enough to reach the higher branches to cut them down.  Mason sat in amazement the whole time.  Mason loves stuff like this, big mighty machines of any kind.  While Mason watched the forklift work, Tanner played in the sandbox.

One day I was sitting in Tanner's rocking chair.  He came and put his head right in between my feet. 

One afternoon Tanner had woken up from his nap before Mason.  Tanner crawled into Mason's room, climbed up to his bed and was trying to find Mason. 

Tanner had eaten a blue Ring Pop.

Our yard was completely torn up this month.  Mason loved watching the back-o tractor tear our yard up.  Hopefully we'll have sprinklers and grass in by the beginning of summer. 

I cut my hair.  This is the shortest it's ever been.  I was so sick of Mason and Tanner using my hair as leverage to pull themselves up that I cut it off.  It's a little hard to get used to, but it'll grow back...right?

Tanner eating dinner in my mom's ancient high chair.  This is the same high chair she used for us kids when we were little.

Ashley, Mabel, and Mason at the Park one day. 

Tanner loves Virginia style enchiladas.

My mom and dad have worked in the Mt. Timpanogos temple for about 7 years now.  Because our temple district is changing they will no longer be working there.  I'm so sad because I know them working at the temple has brought many blessing to our family.  Hopefully they will get to work at the Provo temple soon.

Mason loves popping popcorn and sitting on the couch as a family and watching a movie while eating popcorn.  This has become a weekend tradition.

 We got to go to the annual Crandall family hot dog roast.  This year Mason was old enough to help daddy roast his own hot dog.  After eating hot dogs and s'mores, Mason and Tanner got to go for a tractor ride.  The tractor ride has been a highlight in Mason's life.  Mason loves tractors and to be able to get to ride on a trailer being pulled by a tractor was beyond exciting for our little Mason.

Mason loves books.  I often find Mason, in the mornings, looking at the pictures in his books.   

March Happenings--2015

Here is our life in pictures for the month of March. 

1.  Went down to the shop to eat lunch with mom and dad.  Mason loves riding the fork lift, four-wheeler, or tractor with grandpa when we got down. 

2.  One Friday night Casey put Tanner and Mason is the hamper and swung them around.  They both loved every minute of it. 

3.  I was putting Tanner down for his nap and Mason came and laid down on my legs. 

4.  Our almost naked Mason riding his trike. 

5.  Tanner eating a saltine cracker.  He doesn't love them, obviously. 

6.  Celebrated St. Patrick's day.  We wore green and ate dinner on green dinner wear.  That's about as festive as we got. 

7.  We love living close to Ryan and Meg.  One night I walked outside to get the mail and they happened to be driving by.  They got out of their car and Mason and Mabel played for a bit while Ry, Meg, and I chatted.

8.  Playing outside one day, where Mason started posing on the stairs.

9.  One day I went over to Amy and Jared's.  The kids were outside playing.  Bud came running inside and told me that Mason had black all over him.  I went outside to find Mason covered in dirt.  It was all over his hair, mouth, hands, clothes, etc.  Him and Ash had found some gardening tools and were taking turns spilling dirt on each other. 

10.  Mason and Tanner

11. Mason got into the stickers.

12.  Casey took me on a date to go see Cinderella.  We brought Mason home our extra movie theater popcorn.  That night we went on a walk and when we got home Mason ran to the cupboard and grabbed the popcorn popper.  Mason loves popping popcorn with dad.

13.  Mason lined up all his trucks one night before going to bed. 

14.  One morning Mason and Tanner were playing.  Mason came running out with these Shrek ears on. 

15.  Mason wearing shorts and flip flops for the first time with year. 

16.  Building "Myrna's house" with our new Lincoln Logs.

We had a fun filled March. 

Tanner at 12 months and Mason at 30 Months

Tanner is already one and our little Mason is already 2 and a half.  I can't believe we'll have a three year old in just 6 short months.  Mason turned 2.5 on March 16th and Tanner turned 1 on March 25th, so I took them both in on March 26th for their well child visits. 

Here is 30 facts about Mason at 30 months old:
1.  Mason weighs 27lbs. which is in the 19th percentile.
2.  Mason is 35 inches tall which is in the 28th percentile. 
3.  Mason is doing so much better with talking.  You can pretty much get him to say anything.  Sometimes he is still a little hard to understand, but since I'm around him all day I can pretty much tell everything he says. 
4.  Mason loves trucks of any kind.  He loves digger trucks, monster trucks, etc.  Every time we see any kind of truck driving down the road he says "big truck."
5.  Mason started helping saying prayers recently.
6.  Mason also started singing with me when I sing him his songs before he goes down for naps and bed. 
7.  Mason is a great eater.  He pretty much loves anything, except meat.  When he eats meat he'll just chew on it for like 15 min.  When I realize it's still in his mouth, I usually have him spit it out. 
8.  Mason loves Tanner.  He'll call Tanner: baby, brother, or Tanner, but usually baby. 
9.  Mason loves to have Tanner in the same room as him and shut the door to play.
10.  Mason usually sleeps pretty good through the night.  He loves his big (queen sized) bed.
11.  Mason prefers dad over mom right now.
12.  Mason is pretty shy and will usually not talk in front of people he's not around a lot.
13.  Mason loves to be read to.  I think he'd sit on my lap and listen to stories all day long if he could. 
14.  Mason has recently learned how to count to...3 :)
15.  Mason knows almost all the colors in the rainbow.  His favorite color is blue.
16.  Mason still has a bink.  I'm trying my hardest to get rid of it, but sometimes it's the only thing that will really comfort him.
17.  He has a favorite blanket that he calls "blue."
18.  Mason loves riding on the four-wheeler, tractor, fork lift, and any other kind of mighty machine he can get on.
19.  Mason loves to ride his little Harley Davidson trike.  Recently he made me get out a rag and clean it for him.
20.  Mason says "mommy you're pretty" and "love you mommy."  When I hear him saying these things it melts my heart.
21.  Mason loves spending time with cousins and grandparents.
22.  Every morning when I do Mason's hair he'll always tell me who's hair he wants.  Sometimes it's: daddy hair, Bud hair, Parkey hair, Myrna hair, Linny hair, Oakey hair, and Amy hair. 
23.  Mason loves  to be outside.
24.  Mason takes one 2.5-3 hour nap/day.
25.  Mason still doesn't like ice cream.  He's not a really big fan of treats unless it's cookies. 
26.  Mason loves getting in the tub each night with Tanner.  The two of them together in the tub makes the biggest water messes.
27.  Mason loves going to nursery each Sunday.  If he can't go due to being sick he'll throw a huge fit. 
28.  Mason loves to help do anything:  clean, empty the dishwasher, make the bed, help grandpa at his shop, etc.
29.  Mason wears 2T clothes and size 7 in shoes. 
30.  Mason has the sweetest personality.

We love our little Mason.  He's been such a joy and blessing in our family. 

Here are 12 things about Tanner at 12 months old:
1. Tanner weighs 17 pounds and is in the 4th percentile. 
2.  Tanner is 28 inches tall and is in the 12th percentile.
3.  Tanner's head is 18 inches and is in the 48th percentile. 
4.  Tanner has been tricky to get to eat.  He seems to be more interested in playing then he is in sitting down to eat.  I usually have to distract him with a few toys in order to get him to eat anything.  For some reason milk is very hard on his tummy and he can't keep anything dairy down.  We've been buying him Soy chocolate milk to drink which he loves.
5.  Tanner wears size 12-18 month clothes and is in size 4 diapers.  He has small feet and hands.  Tanner also has the blondest/whitest hair I have ever seen. 
6.  Tanner loves to laugh.  He is pretty much ticklish everywhere.  I love tickling him and hearing his belly laugh.
7.  Tanner loves getting in the tub with Mason each night.  As soon as he hears the tub turn on he quickly crawls to the tub.  He could spend hours in the tub if we let him.  I have a feeling he is going to love the pool this summer.
8.  Tanner also loves the dishwasher.  He could be 3 rooms away from the kitchen and he still manages to hear me open the dishwasher.  Loading and emptying the dishwasher when he is awake is nearly impossible.
9.  Tanner says mama and dada.  He also waves, claps his hands, and plays peek-a-boo.
10.  Tanner loves being held.  When he is down on the floor he'll crawl up your legs and wait for you to pick him up. 
11.  Tanner has 4 front teeth, 2 on top and 2 on bottom.  He also started getting molars this past month.  He has 4 molars 2 on top and 2 on the bottom. 
12.  Tanner usually wakes up once in the night for a bottle.  He usually eats about 5-6 oz. of bottle per day.  One 3 oz. bottle before bed and one in the middle of the night.  He pretty much just winged himself off of his bottle.  It's a struggle to get him to drink even the 6 oz. per day, but I have so much milk saved and I don't want it to all go to waste, so I try my hardest to get him to drink at least 6 oz. per day. 

We love Tanner so much and we are so grateful he is part of our family.