Moline Family

Birthday Boys!

2010-07-29T19:15:00.005-06:00

I have a great deal of blogging to do, so get ready for the posts to come fast and furious. I am starting with the boys birthday's. Poor Chase, his birthday was in April and I am just barely posting it, but that's how I roll so here it goes.

We started the day with a birthday pancake breakfast!

This was his favorite present from mommy and daddy and he had not stopped riding it since.

His one request was to go to Chuck E Cheese's. For those of you who know me well, it is NOT one of my favorite places, but how could I say no, it was his birthday after all. He had a blast!

Marina, Skyler, Chase, Gavin, and Britton

Britton's Birthday!

Britton's birthday was in July and we were trying to make it through without having a baby before his big Super Mario Party (Korver came 4 days later).

These were the mushroom cupcakes!

This was the prize box they received if they passed all the levels of our water games.

Stars!

Part of the levels that they had to pass to move on to the next on. We had swimming, hula hooping, slip and slide and water balloon toss.

Britton in the Mario hats that we made!

Even his gifts were Mario.

Celebrating with Family.

His favorite present. He is becoming quite a good little roller bladder!

Happy Birthday Boys! I have the cutest 7 year old and 4 year old in the universe!

Introducing.....

2010-07-29T18:31:00.005-06:00

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 we welcomed Korver J. Moline to our family. He was born at 5:01pm weighing 7lbs 5oz and measuring 20 in long. We love our baby boy so much. He is pretty adorable if I do say so myself. Britton and Chase are in love with their new baby brother.... a little too much. They want to hold, touch, and kiss him a lot. I think they are sick of their mom saying things like "Don't get to close" and "Don't touch the baby". I am so happy that they like him so much though; they are going to be great big brothers. This summer has been a bit of a whirl wind trying to fit in vacations, getting ready for this baby to come, and having him arrive. I do have many pictures to share of our summer fun, so stay tuned. And you better believe that there will be a lot more pictures of this little guy.

Easter!

2010-04-05T12:01:00.005-06:00

I love Easter: spring, flowers, candy, teaching my children about the Resurrection, and my handsome boys. This year we started off the weekend with a party at Grandma and Grandpa Moline's. I neglected to get pictures there, so I will have to get copies later from Grandpa Moline. That evening, we let Brady go to the Priesthood session of conference while we went to see "How to train my dragon". On Sunday, after conference, we had a get together with my family.

Here is the family. Try to ignore that I am looking a little fat in this picture. I am 6 months pregnant, so that must be my excuse, right?

Britton, Chase and cousin Lizzy

Britton on the Easter Egg hunt.

Chase found a water gun, which was his favorite find, but he broke it a couple of days later! Good thing I know where to get one.

Finding Easter baskets in the morning

Chase

Britton

The boys got to wear their Easter outfits the week before Easter this year since Easter fell on conference weekend. It was hard for me to get a normal picture, since they just wanted to be silly.

I have some pretty darling boys if I do say so myself!

Happy Easter!!!

The Happening's of the Moline's

2010-04-05T11:35:00.007-06:00

My picture feature is working again. Yay! I don't know what was going on for a couple of months, but now it is time to catch up.

St. Patty's Day!

St. Patrick's day is very important at our house because Shalynn is Irish, so she makes it quite festive. We had balloons, green decorations, all green food, green clothes, and treasure hunts. Tons of fun!

I don't know why these pictures came out so small!

Shay and Chase

Chase and Britton after their treasure hunt.

Even I was festive.

Cute Britton.

Britton Playing Basketball!

He is quite the basketball player too. Last game he made 3 shots. Great Playing buddy!

Toothless!!

We went and saw How to train your dragon on Saturday and when we got home Britton wanted to pretend to be Toothless the dragon. That was a good idea, because about 1 hour later lo and behold...... he was toothless. At almost 7 years old, he finally lost his first tooth. He was very excited since most of his friends have already lost several. Congratulations!

Its a Boy!!!!

That is right. We will be having our third boy! With Brady counting for at least 2 boys and Britton and Chase as the 3rd and 4th; I feel like I am on to my 5th boy. Our house is pretty wild and crazy right now, but we are about to add to that. We are very excited to add our baby boy to our family in 3 months.

Why no pictures?

2010-01-15T16:38:00.005-07:00

Okay, so my blog will not allow me to add pictures and I don't know why. I have all these pictures waiting to be posted and I can't do it. Any suggestions? It will let me add video, but not pictures and it has been this way for a few weeks.

Coming July 2010......

2009-12-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

That's right! In July we will welcome a new member to our family. We are very excited, but currently living in survival mode. I have been sick, so we take care of the essentials everyday (eating, bathing, dressing, school, and sometimes we get to a load of laundry). Obviously, blogging has not been one of those essentials. The kids are a little indifferent about the news so far, but get a little more excited and ask a little more questions every day. When we first told them, Britton thought we were lying. I am not sure why because we don't often lie to our children, but he did not believe us. He now does and is excited that the baby will come shortly after his 7th birthday. Chase told me he will hold the baby and will not drop it! That is good to know. Brady is convinced it is a girl because I have been so sick,(I keep reminding him that I was sick with both the others too, it has just been harder this time because we have more going on in our lives). I am not even going there, because I am usually wrong and while I would LOVE a little girl, I also think there might be another boy waiting to join our family. We will just have to wait and see.

School, Soccer, and Bike riding!

2009-09-12T14:33:00.000-06:00

Well, it is official, we are now ALL back in school, except for Brady who is back to work. With all this happening, life has been a bit crazy. But when is it not, right? Britton started Kindergarten this year and it was especially hard for me to send him. I really just want to keep him at home. It has been two weeks now and I still keep telling myself it is only temporary. What ever gets me through, right. Britton technically had two first days of school, so here is pictures of both......

I don't know about him, but this is how I felt about sending him to school.

Chase, Britton, and car pool buddy Ethan.

This is Chase's first day of preschool! He is in mommy's class this year and he has already voiced quite loudly that he wants to be in Brittney's class and play with Skyler. Poor kid, I mean he hardly ever gets to play with Skyler :)

Peace! This is what we are praying for with him in my class!

Besides school, Britton has been playing soccer!

And Chase anounced today that he was going to ride his bike without training wheels. Brady tried to help him for a few minutes, but Chase just got mad at him and told him he wanted to do it by himself. Brady came in and a few minutes later I looked out the window and guess what I saw?

My wild child 3 year old taught himself to ride his bike. Yay and Aaaaahhhhh!

By the way, we did put a shirt and helmet on him after this!

Not my little boy anymore!

2009-07-20T16:08:00.000-06:00

Britton turned 6 years old on July 9th. Six is just so big; he is not a preschooler anymore. I have tried to keep him little for as long as possible, but he just keeps growing on me. If I could keep him little and home with me forever, trust me I would. Britton is my little buddy; we love hanging out together. You can tell how old he is getting because he is so smart and acts like a such a big boy. We had a fun-filled day of activities for his birthday. We went to see Ice Age 3, had swimming lessons, and then it was off to the zoo!

We play a game at our house where Britton is Crocodile Man and Chase in Rhino Boy. Here they are in character.

All he wanted was a nerf gun!

The Saturday after his birthday, we had a little party!

Blowing out candles!

We wrapped up the night with our own little firework show!

Britton is sweet, caring, a good helper, brother, and friend, talented, fun, and the best giggler in the world!

Free Car Wash!

2009-06-19T21:27:00.000-06:00

We were at my parents house today and we decided there were a few things that needed washed!

This side of the car got washed and rinsed about 10 times and that was it! The rest of the car is still dirty, but we had fun!

Britton said that his bike was going to be so shiny that the girls were going to think he was awesome! He then chuckled and said "just kidding". :)

Who wouldn't want these cute faces washing their car or bike?

My Sweet Boys!

2009-06-05T22:21:00.000-06:00

I have the cutest boys ever, have a look at some of our new pictures!

In other news, Preschool Graduation!

2009-06-04T23:06:00.000-06:00

Preschool Graduation! Preschool is over for the year and now it is time for summer planning.

Here is Britton with his Preschool teacher and me with my most favorite student! I loved having Britton in my class and I can't believe the year is already over. I am going to miss him so much, he made going to teach all the more worth it. I will never forget this experience with him. Next year it is Chase!

Singing songs!

Britton as Jack in "Jack and Jill"

Great Job Britton!

Crazy Lake Powell Vacation

2009-06-04T21:58:00.000-06:00

Day 1

After a long night of travel, locking the keys in the car, and a broken window on the car (yes another one), we finally made it to Lake Powell! Sometimes I forget to rotate my photos, but look how cute Chase is in his new swim goggles.
A little swimmin the first day!
A storm blew in and it got a little cool, so we had to bundle up.
Chase keeping warm. Notice the bandaid? He scratched his nose.
Once the storm blew in, we had to find ways to entertain outselve inside the houseboat. And when I say storm, I mean 2 1/2 days of non-stop down pour with no breaks and cold weather.
So..........we played games, slept, and watched the sky for hopes of blue sky. There were none.
Ocasionally, the kids got tired of sitting in the houseboat and braved the rain to throw rocks into the water!
These were our neighbors, and we kept up out good spirts by being glad that we were not in tents =)

Playing in the rain!
Then warming up!
The boys played in the shower since it was to cold to get in the Lake. But the shower is lake water after all, so it was kind of like swimming!
Finally, it cleared up enough on the last two nights to build a camp fire!

Yay! on Day 4 we got sun and time for a little fun!
Until..........the boat broke down. Then Grandpa Trace had to pull us back to the houseboat.
And Shay and Brady.

I had to stay in the boat obviously and make sure that they were doing a good job=)

Once the boat was fixed we hurried as fast as we could to get some sking in before the next storm came in. Jamie Sking!

Brady wakeboarding!

Chase pretending to ski!

Britton getting ready to ski!

And my favorite part: Britton sking! He did so great! I was so proud of him. This was his second time sking because he did it for the first time in September. He was really nervous this time but he tried it just for his mom.

While we were there, we did get to celebrate Aunt Shay's Birthday! Happy Birthday Shalynn!

Day 5- Time to go home. As you can see another storm is blowing in.

Here it comes and it was crazy! Wind, HUGE waves, dead battery, flooded boat, falling children, wet adults, near drownings. You get the picture!

Scared Jamie

Frustrated Brady trying to fix the boat again!

All said and done, it was a crazy trip, but we really did have a lot of fun and relaxed a lot. However, all things considered we were happy we we arrived home without a hitch!

Happy Birthday Chase!!!

2009-04-27T17:23:00.001-06:00

I can not believe that my baby is 3 years old. I have no idea how it happened either, because I swear I just had him. As you can see from the picture below, he is about the cutest kid out there; no offense to all of your cute kids.

We started the day off with a trip to the Dairy Farm with the preschool. Even though Chase is not technically in preschool, he got to come because it was his special day.

Chase with his very best friend and partner in crime Skyler
Chase petting a 3 day old calf.
Britton petting a baby calf. The dairy farm was a hit and I think they may have even learned a thing or two. We followed the farm with a picnic in the park and since we have been lucky enough to have daddy home, he got to come too.
Later in the evening, we had a party and I decided to bake my very first cute cake. I have done regular cakes, but nothing like this. Thanks to the help of my friend Brittney, I accomplished it. I have to say, I think it turned out pretty cute.
My two cute boys!

Present Time!

Chase got a new big wheel, so he will hopefully stop stealing the neighbors.

Blowing out the candle. It took several tries and probably a lot of spit. YUM!

All of his presents.

I failed to mention that Chase was a little sick on his Birthday, but he still managed to have some fun. After all that parting you need a good nights rest.

Chase is happy, spirited, sweet, imaginative, loud, strong-willed, cuddly, and crazy. He makes us laugh everyday(except for those few moments where he tries his very hardest to send me to the crazy house). He has been a blessing in our lives everyday since he was born.

Luck O' the Irish

2009-03-23T09:35:00.000-06:00

In our house, we take St. Patricks Day very seriously. Over the years my sister has convinced all of us that we are truly Irish. Even if it is only in heart. We started of the holiday with a Breakfast at Brady's Parents house on the Saturday before. If was a lot of fun filled with green pancakes and treasure hunts.

This is our family with our St. Patrick Day headbands that Shay bought us.

Britton and Chase with all their cousins and Grandma and Grandpa Moline
Kiss the Cook! Shay came over on St. Patricks Day to bake cookies with the kids and make us an all green dinner. This was very much appreciated since I was sick on that day. She is a fantastic chef.
The Dinner consisted of green pasta, green salad, green garlic bread, and green punch, followed by green cookies. It tasted really good, much better than it looked:)

The family enjoying our dinner

To finish the night, Britton had his first basketball game with Itty Bitty Hoops. It is for 5 and 6 year olds only, so you can imagine how that is to watch. It was a fun experience.

Britton has been counting down the days until the next Tuesday so he can play basketball again. He thinks it is awesome and his favorite sport ever. Even though he only has played it once.

Snowmobiling Fun!

2009-03-12T17:14:00.000-06:00

Life has been crazy at the Moline house and there has not been much time for blogging, however, this past weekend we had the chance to go snowmobiling with some of our best friends. This trip was some much needed fun for our family. Mike and Emily Snow invited us up to their family cabin for a weekend of winter fun. Just a side note (it has been a year now since the Snow's moved out of our neighborhood and we are still having a hard time adjusting).

This was Late Friday night after we snowmobiled 7 miles in to their cabin. The kids were freezing cold and cuddled together to get warm.

Brady doing a cool pose for me as he tries to get his snowmobile un-stuck.

Me and my two boys

Chase, Britton, Spencer, and Bennion all ready to go snowmobiling (actually they were pretending that they were astronauts).

Britton and Chase. Chase would only ride with mommy. Obviously he already knows who he should trust. Britton on the other hand was already to drive his own.

Brady pulling Spencer and Britton on the Sled.

Brady and Britton finishing up their last ride. As we snowmobiled out on Saturday all the children fell asleep except for Britton. It is not easy driving a snowmobile with a sleeping child on your arm, but we all made it.

Thank you to Mike and Emily for being such great friends and for a wonderful weekend that hopefully will become an annual tradition.

Get those Tonsils Out!

2009-02-02T21:52:00.000-07:00

The day came, I always knew it eventually would, for both my kids to get their tonsils and adenoids out. For a few different reasons, we had to take Britton to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor who decided that it would be best for Britton's tonsils to come out. During our visit, we mentioned chase and some of the problems we have also have with him. The doctor wanted to also see Chase and his tonsils were even worse than Britton's, so here is where the story begins of getting both kids tonsils out at once. I have to say that I was really worried about this surgery,(I know you are all thinking "Not Jamie, she doesn't worry"). However, things went so well and Britton and Chase were so Brave.

This is Chase getting wheeled in the wagon to surgery. For those of you who know Chase, you know that he was not going to go easy. When the doctor took him from me he screamed "MOM" and tears gushed down his face. I could then hear him screaming bloody murder as I walked away. I wished the doctors good luck and walked away with tears in my eyes. Later they told me that he screamed for a moment and then climbed in one of the doctors laps and talked to him and was so good. They even used the word ANGEL. Apparently I need Dr. Ferguson to come work in the nursery at church.

While I thought Britton would get a little weepy, he just hopped in the wagon and said "Bye Mom".
So I missed all the pictures when they were sleepy and coming out of anesthesia, because I was busy comforting and being a good Mom. This is Britton when he was all the way awake.
Chase with his red popcicle face.

Britton and Chase sitting together on the hospital bed.

Sharing a wheel chair out to the car to go home. Doesn't it look fun to have your tonsils out. Seriously, my kids make it look fabulous.

Until it is recovery time and then it is not so fabulous.

Chase has done a little better recovering than Britton. If you can't tell by his face, Britton is having a harder time.

The tonsils came out Friday and today is Monday. The kids still are not eating much or feeling that great( we had some tears still today from pain), but I think they have done pretty good. We will just keep eating popcicles and taking pain medicine. We are really hoping that this helps with some of their health issues and Chase's terrible sleeping. If not, well were not even going to go there, just stay positive

Sledding

2009-01-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

This was our first sledding outing of the season. We had so much fun and it was a perfect day for sledding. My sisters friend Tyson took us up to his families cabin up by Paradise(this is by Logan). After sledding we built a fire and roasted hot dogs and smores. Britton had the time of his life. His exact words were " Sledding is the most awesome thing ever". Chase did not quite feel the same way. We had a few tears and several "my hands are cold, but after some food and warmer gloves, we saw a hint of a smile from Chase. Here are some of our favorite pictures:

Britton right after he face planted it

Chase- if you look close enough, you can see a tear

There is the small smile we got

Brady and Britton making their way down

Chase and I, this is the only picture I was in. I guess that is what happens when you are the picture taker.

Britton and Auntie Shay

Thanks to Shalynn and Tyson for a great day!

In The Blog World Now!

2009-01-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I have officially entered the world of blogging. I put it off forever, but finally came to the conclusion that it was time to share my cute family with all those friends and family that we do not get to see that often. I can not promise I will be great at it, but we will see. I will be posting pictures of our recent sleding outing very soon. Be patient, it may take a while to get this blogging thing figured out. Bye for now.