When mommy is away

When I came home from school tonight this is what I found.

Let it snow, Let it snow, let it snow.

Today we decided to bundle the kids up and let Sam have his first fully suited up rump in the snow. The kids loved it and we learned a lot for the next time, including the need to duck tape Sam’s gloves on.

Keith blew up a tube and towed the kids around for a little bit. The kids loved it.

.... until they fell off.

Keith's Nightmare

If you know me you know that I LOVE Halloween. It is my favorite holiday, and I have been known to take it a bit far at times. This year we are doing the wizard of oz; Lily is going to be Dorothy, Sam is going to be a flying monkey, Keith the scarecrow and I let Lily choose mine, which is the good witch. Everyone’s costume was fairly easy to find but mine. So as we are watching the movie for the 100th time (thanks to Lily’s obsession with it) I realized that her dress just looks like a bad 80’s wedding dress. So I hit up the DI’s and found one that will do, and am going to dye it pink in the bathroom tub. When I came home and showed Lily, like a girl, she just had to try it on. Hence the picture below. It gave Keith a lot of heat burn and a sudden urge to get a gun out and clean it. I think it was adorable.

My funny monkey children

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, life in the Mecham house is always on the move. Things are going well right now, Keith is still home and should be home until they deploy again in the spring ( fingers crossed ). But with the military you never really know what to plan on. I am still trekking along with school, if everything goes well I will be graduating in the spring and hopefully be taking the NCLEX by the end of spring or early summer. Thank heavens it is getting close enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some days it is all that keeps me from climbing a clock tower. But even with the prospect of losing my mind, I love learning more about nursing and can’t wait to finally walk in and say; “Hi, my name is Sadie, I am your nurse today.” Instead of, “ how is your pain? Oh you want something, ok let me go hunt down your nurse.” No I don’t really say it like that, but you get what I mean.
Keith and I actually had a day off at the same time this week, so we took the kids to Wheeler Farm. I always seem to forget how cool that place is. The kids had a blast feeding the ducks, riding the pony, the wagon ride, and seeing all the farm animals.


Lily loved the pony ride. She is still talking about how fun it was to ride Marshmellow, and how Marshmellow is her favorite pony friend. I may scream if I hear the name Marshmellow again today. But you have to admit, there is something so cute to see a happy little girl on a pony. sigh....

Lily just being cute. She actually stopped and said, "look mommy I am cute take my picture." and when I turned around there she was all posed and ready. She is so cute it kills me.

Yes, that is my little man helping daddy and grandpa tile the mantel for the fire place. He was playing in the pool and that is why he is half naked and not wearing shoes.

Silly little man. 18 months going on 18 years old.

Lily is now in full time preschool. I can’t believe how big she is getting. It kind of freaks me out to think that she is starting kindergarten next fall… My baby is all grown up. Lily absolutely loves preschool. Her teacher is the same preschool teacher that taught Keith in preschool. She is so wonderful, all the more reason to be sad when she goes to kindergarten.

Samuel is getting so big. He is almost 18 months and into everything, but all he has to do is give you that big smile and you just melt. I do believe that he only comes with two speeds asleep and running. It never ceases to amaze me how so much energy can fit into such a small body.

4th of July weekend

Yes I know the 4th of July was a while ago, what can I say I am a slacker. Fourth of July was a ton of fun. We took the kids to Hogal Zoo on Friday the 3rd. Hogal Zoo does a military appreciation weekend for all military and their families where you get in free. The kids loved it! I don’t know how I was ever entertained going to the Zoo before I had kids. On the 4th I got cancelled from work, so we just bounced around BBQ’s with family. Lily stayed up with her aunt Keeley and watched the fire works for Sandy City. Then had a sleep over at grandma’s. We took Samuel home and went to bed. Yes we are party poopers. But it was a great weekend.

Happy Fathers day

This was Keiths fathers day present.
This is a Bushmaster AR-15 modeled after the M-4 with the shorter barrel. It also has the adjustable rear stock. It is hard to see from the picture, but it has tactical rails on the front grip and there is a removable scope for it. Also this comes with the 22 cal converter kit so it can shoot the .22 and the 223s. He is a happy little boy.

Holy sweet mother of stamps

This Saturday Keith and I decided to do a little yard saleing. There was a huge one at daybreak that was pretty much all of daybreak. We found some amazing deals. Keith got some big florescent shop lights for the garage and the shed for $5. We got a toy tool work bench with all the parts for $5. This pretty much filled up the car. We went home to off load and go back, as all of that was just from the first street of yard sales that we stopped at. We decided that 2 cars might be a better idea because we were looking for large yard toys for the kids. I made it back to daybreak before Keith. Once we found each other again we went back to shopping. There was a yard saleing stamp’n stuff. I thought it was a great deal. I got a set of large stamps for $15, mean while Keith was grinning like a little school boy. He then told me that the reason he was late getting back to Daybreak was he stopped at another yard sale on the way and got a few rubber stamps for me. We went back to his car and he opened the trunk. I just about screamed. He stopped at a yard sale that had a whole table of rubber stamps from stamp’n. they were all listed for $10 - $15 a box, ( still a good deal) he was not sure which ones I would like so he just asked out of curiosity how much for the whole table? The husband of the women saleing them said $100. DONE!!!! The women was not so happy and looked like she was going to throw up. She asked if he would at least go up to $120. Still done. For $120 my wonderful husband bought me 615 rubber stamps. Easily almost $1200- $2000 in stamps. We figure it was about .20 cents a stamp, and $1.80 a box. It is AWSOME!!!!! Me likely.