Blazers Games.

In March Bo and I were able to go to a Blazers game and sit in the At&t box. We had a blast! I'm not a big sports fanatic and rarely watch sports at home, but I love going to actually see them in person I guess I just love the atmosphere. While there I told Bo how much I wished that my Dad was there instead of me because he had never been to a professional sporting event. A bunch of people over heard me and offered tickets to my Dad so a couple of weeks later Dad, Mom, Brooke, and Aubrey all came up so Dad could go with Bo. I'm so grateful for Bo's co-workers the tickets given to us were from someone that didn't even know Bo that well just heard through the grapevine that my Dad hadn't ever seen the Blazers play.

Easter

For Easter I made Will a vest, bow tie, and hat. I love dressing him up like a little man, it makes me giggle. We spent Easter at Bo's Grandma and Grandpa Scotts it was a relaxing day with good food followed by an egg hunt just for Will. I made him his little easter basket as well. I love being able to make special events more memorable by adding little homemade touches to it. I'm never going to be one of those amazing moms where 99% of the stuff in their home is homemade, but I love adding little touches here and there so that our holidays are a little unique.

Happy 93rd Birthday Grandma!

I told Will it was his Great Grandma's birthday and he wanted to sing to his "grandma with the green bird" he really loves Grandma Ellsworth when we visit my parents and Grandma is there he always sneaks into her room and visits with her I love sneaking peeks of them sitting together and her patiently teaching him how to be gentle with her bird and telling him who the people are in the pictures in her room. Will has hard time getting used to people and talking to them and it amazes me how he is completely confident when he talks to her. It is probably because he can feel how kind and loving she is. I love my Grandma Ellsworth, I love her sense of humor, I love her adventurous spirit and I'm so proud that she is MY Grandma.

Will is 4

In March Will turned four and for me it was a big deal. To me three still sounds like a baby/toddler age, but four means next year he'll be five which means (gulp) kindergarten! I kinda had a panic attack when I did the math. Will was so excited for his birthday this year for a whole month before his birthday he would come to me daily and say "Can we sing happy birthday to William" he was also obsessed with birthday hats and would put his little blue sand pail on his head and yell "Happy Birthday to William!" The Sunday before his birthday they sang to him in Primary and it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, my little sister Evie was visiting and we were both laughing so hard. You see Will is a little shy especially in Primary so when they asked him to come up I didn't even expect him to do that, but he went up there allowed the birthday hat to be put on his head while they sang to him. I wish I would've taken a picture he had the funniest look on his face it was like he was conflicted between smiling as big as he can and pretending like it wasn't a big deal. When we got home it was all he would talk about. The Thursday before his they had a preschool party for him which meant he got to bring M&M cookies with him to share with his class it was his favorite preschool day ever!

The Morning of his actual birthday was fun I gave him his very own noise maker which I'm sure the neighbors loved hearing at 7 in the morning. He also woke up to a giant Lightening McQueen balloon greeting him.

I had to finish Will's cake so he had M&Ms and Kit Kat bars for breakfast. then I realized that I forgot to buy ribbon and needed more M&Ms and because Bo was still asleep I took Will to the store with me and allowed him to pick out his own ribbon and a toy from the dollar section (hey we already spent way too much!) at Wal-mart.

I had to put a picture of the cake because it was the first one to turn out!

Then after opening a few presents and eating actual food we headed to the children's museum. We had tons of fun I didn't get many good pictures because I was having as much fun as Will. 

After the childrens museum we headed up to Hillsboro to spend the day with Gma and Gpa Scott, Cheryl, and Carly where we played with new toys, opened more gifts, ate a Will friendly dinner of sweet potato fries, chicken strips, fruit salad, and garlic bread, and had cake.

Will had such a great day that he fell asleep before he opened his last two presents which made the next day just as exciting since we left the light saber that he has been asking for, for six months to be opened last. It all turned out how I wanted it to go so I was happy, but I'm very grateful that birthdays only come once a year!

First Day of Preschool

We finally found a preschool that wasn't $300 a month or really scary looking for Will to go to. I contacted the teacher in late January and found out that the 2nd semester started in March, but they were full so she put Will on a waiting list and we got in! I was nervous because when Will went to school in Rexburg the first two weeks he would cry every time I dropped him off. So I went in with him and explained to the teachers that it would take him a couple of weeks to warm up and he may cry and he turns around and says "Bye Mama" and ran off to play. Every preschool day he has he happily runs into the class and when I pick him up he asks if his friends can come home with us. The only thing I don't like is I wish they had the spy rooms like BYU-I preschool so that I would be able to know if he is paying attention and being cooperative. He is having fun and I'm happy I have 2 1/2 hours off two days a week!

Valentines Day.

We had a pretty laid back Valentines day Bo was swamped with work and school so Will and I had our own fun. I took him to the store and let him pick out his own gift because I'm a lame mom and ran out of time to get everything done Will picked out an orange stringy blob with eyes that lights up when you hit him and he named it Alfie. Then I asked him what he wanted to do go to the movie Gnomio and Juliet or go to "kids gym" (thats what Will calls it, its an indoor playground for kids 7 and under). I was hoping for the movie, but Will of course picked kids gym. After kids gym and some shopping we came home ate pizza and watched Word World, Super Why, and Elmo Valentine movies. It wasn't a big extravaganza and  I actually think Will enjoyed it more than when we make a big deal about things and try to push him to be excited.

Christmas

Funny Boy

Can You Believe Thats a Puppy?

We had a very laid back Christmas. I still have to get used to the fact that no one in Bo's family will ever wake up before 7 am even on Christmas. Growing up there was always tons of excited kids in my family so we would usually have all the presents unwrapped by 6 am. So now I have it imprinted in my head that I have to be up at 5 am on Christmas morning. So I had about 21/2 hours before Will even woke up. Will was excited to open presents but it kind of drove me crazy because he opened his stocking and just wanted to play with his helicopter and scooby doo plane and I wanted him to be excited about opening the rest of the presents. He also got pretty overwhelmed since he had Bo, Carly, and Cheryl just staring at him while he opened presents. The funniest part was that when he opened up his remote control car he just kind of tossed it aside because he didn't know what it was so then I put the batteries in it and started playing around with it and he went completely crazy! In the afternoon we went over to Bo's Aunt's house for dinner it was nice Bo's cousin brought her huge PUPPY with them which Will just loved so he was pretty well behaved which is always nice!