Phil and Teds

I finally got my Phil and Teds stroller! These strollers are SO ridiculously expensive it's not funny! So why did I get one you ask? Because our Combi...well Matt escaped that stroller in the mall and was lost for the longest five minuets of my life! I had gone shopping with my mom, we were at Crazy 8. We let Matt get out to sit on the bench to watch the TV they had in there. My mom was watching him while I looked around. Well I went up to pay and Matt was in the back. My mom said she would meet us out front. I kept looking up to check on Matt probably every 3-5 seconds. I could see his shoes under the bench so I knew he was still sitting there. So I get done paying and call to Matt that it's time to go. I call again and nothing. The lady said she would go get him while I put my things in the stroller. She came back and looked worried. She said he's not back here. I said the little boy in the army coat? and she replied yeah he's not in the store. I ran back there and sure enough it was a little boy with the same DC shoes on! I ran out in the mall and started calling his name and running around like a crazy person. My mom started looking the people in the store left it to find security and started calling his name. My biggest worry was that we were right by the food court and if somebody had walked out with him or if he had slipped out the doors when people were coming in or going. I was heading back to talk to the security and the lady in the store came running over holding Matt. I was so relieved...he had gotten in the elevator and couldn't get out.

SO I decided to get my phil and teds and that it was worth every penny to not have to ever go through that again!

We have had a lot of people stop us to ask us question about our stroller. Our trip to IKEA that should have only taken a half hour ended up being and hour and a half because I had three expecting moms stop me to ask TONS of questions about it. I love it because it not long like all the others. We can take off the back seat so it is a single stroller so when Matt is to old for a stroller I can still use it with Peyton and just take off the back seat.

My Poor Car...first ticket too!

This happened the day before we were supposed to move on base. I decided to go get groceries and take them to the new place so we didn't have to have them sit in the fridge over night and then haul them with us the next day. Well..I was sitting at a light (on my way to the new place), it was red at the time and Peyton was crying. I don't know why but I was looking in the rear view mirror and talking to her to calm her down. When I looked back the light was green, the girl in front took her brake light off and started to move. So I pushed on the gas and (since it's touchy sometimes) gave it to much but the girl in front of me put quickly put her brakes back on and I couldn't stop in time. So I hit her And she hit the person in front. Therefore the person in front should have gotten the ticket right? They stopped for who knows why which caused the person behind them to stop which made me have to stop but hit instead. Oh no, the stupid cop gave ME the ticket! I was so mad, it my first ticket ever!

The repair shop called a few days later wanting to know the mileage on the car because they weren't sure but they thought it might be totalled. We could only be so lucky if it were. We love our ion. But a quad coupe isn't the best for a family car. Since suicide door make it so hard to get car seats in and out. We were hoping it was totalled but not at the same time because we really like not having a car payment!

Now you can't tell that there was a piece missing above the orange light!

That was from the last accident last year!

My cute bunnies!

I saw these cute bunny ears when I was at Target the other day. So Wayne put them on Peyton. She kept trying to reach the tip of the ears to pull them off. It was entertaining to watch. Matt decided he wanted to try them on to but every time i tried to take a picture he's throw them out of the cart. Then he tried to put them back on Peyton poking her in the eye during the process.

New Play set..and Peyton's walking!

It is finally warm enough to kick the kids outside to play! I think we were all getting really tired of being inside all day with not much to do.
Wayne and I started looking around for a play set for the yard. We wanted something fun but not expensive. I thought about a swing set but I didn't want to be out ALL day pushing Matt. Once he is on a swing it is incredibly hard to get him off. We found one on craigslist for 250 that normally sells for around 600.
Peyton is also enjoying being outside. She laughs when the wind blows through her hair...a fun new sensation for her. She has learned that it's not fun to watch Matt play out side and just watch threw the door. So she will scream and bang her head on the door until you let her out. She is very content to just walk around and watch Matt go down the slide.

I decided it would probably be better to play in the shade.

Time for a bath after playing outside. She was trying to climb in with all her clothes on she was so excited.

Some Random Photo's

Just some random pictures I thought i would share.

This shopping cart makes for a better shopping experiance!

New House on base.

We finally got our new house on base. We had been waiting for a year. Some day I will get it clean enough to take the camera for a walk through. So for now here are pictures.

front room

dining/computer/playroom

Kitchen

upstairs hallway. Peyton's room first Matt's second. Storage closet on the right, bathroom straight ahead.

Peyton's room and Matt's is the same. There actually bigger than they look.

hallway from master bedroom to Matt's room.

Master bedroom and it was WAY to big to fit into the picture!

Master bath

walk in closet!

Small backyard but big enough for Matt and Peyton to run around in.

My new washer and dryer...LOVING the red!

Peyton's room

Matt's room

Matt's cool night light.

So tired from all the unpacking that she fell asleep in her high chair.

Our Trip home

Unfortunately I didn't take to many pictures of our trip home. But here are a few.
We had fun but two weeks sure goes by way to fast! This trip was a surprise to our familys only it wasn't to much of a surprise for mine since my dad accidentally told my brother Chris, and then told my brother Nathan. But nobody told my mom so that was good. She kept asking when we would be able to some home and I just kept telling her I wasn't sure maybe April for Peytons first b-day. I told her it just depends on how many days leave Wayne has. We had bought our tickets in November and I had to keep it a secret from my mom which was hard and i almost gave it away a few time! She kept asking when we were going to go see Avatar because it was such a good movie and we needed to see it in theaters. A few days before we flew home she asked me if we had seen it yet and I said no but we are definitely planning on seeing in this weekend....little did she know we meant with her ;)
So we flew home and it was a VERY long 9 hours of travel time with two stops and NO plane changes! With two little kids that makes it hard because when we landed Matt always thought we would be getting off and would get mad because we wouldn't let him out of his seat. But we finally made it with only a couple little tantrums.
Then we headed to my moms school to surprise her. That was fun! We sent Matt in with my dad and Nathan while we waited with Peyton in the hall. My dad walked in with Matt and said I found this little boy wandering the hall do you know who it is? Well my mom was having parent teacher conference with one of her students and the mom offered to take him to the office. My dad said no that's ok and asked again if my mom knew who it was. She said am i supposed to know who this is? Because he looked like Matt but it couldn't be because we live in VA and arent comming out until April. So Wayne and I walked in and she was SO surprised and was crying a little, she was so glad to see us all. It was a great surprise.









Matt and his cousin Taryn

Playing with some trains in the hall during Relief Society, because it's funner to play in the hall than to sit on the floor and play with them in Relief Society?!



Another reason we couldn't stay in Relief Society...Peyton's loud squealing.

Her fish face impression, cute huh!








Smelling all the seasoning in grandma Hansen's cabinet. He smelled every bottle and there were a LOT!











The last time he was on this bridge a year ago, he had to crawl up one side and climb down the other.

"Hey mommom, look it's Nemo Fish!!"











Matt thought the cow looked cool until my mom took him up to "milk" it then he didn't want anything to do with it.



Playing the indian drums. She was loving that.