Never to be Spoken - PICTURES!

I have been needing to take new pictures of the boys, our house pics are so out of date. Truly its sad how fast time goes. We were going to head over to Kiddie Kandids the week the went out of business... glad I didn't do that.
So tonight I am walking around picking up the house, thinking about my mental list of things I haven't done yet and I say "I'll take pictures of the boys tonight while Darren is at YM's" (Yes I am admitting that I talk out loud to myself, not as bad as my sister :) but yes, I totally do it! Knowing full well that "Pictures" is a word that no parent should ever mutter out loud... I've done it. And yes, about 3 minutes later I hear Weston hit the floor and start to cry. I come around the hall corner to see him scooped up in Daddy's arm... sobbing. I tell Darren - I sad it! I knew I should not have said it - but I said it. Darren then ask's what... Pictures, I said!
Weston is officially taller than the bottom of the kitchen counter that he used to so innocently run under, this time it did not work and left the mark to prove it. Sorry my little Westie :( I hate to see my kids hurt. But I pulled out the silver spoon and no bruise was left :)

This is such a sad face :(

What has been going on...

The last month or so has been life in all manners of the definition. I think of that country song 'sounds like life to me' whenever I want to complain or think this is hard... nope it's Life and it's not always going to be easy. And no we haven't had anything major, just constantly on the go. so here is what the Steck's have been up to...

**The boys started baseball, so we have practice 2 days a week for Bryson and 1 day for Preston, which is manageable. Except Monday is a 5:00 and 5:30 so our FHE has basically been moved to Tuesday for now. I got their schedules for games and put it on our home calendar to view it all at once, we have baseball 4-5 days a week for 5 weeks starting April 5th... oh nelly how am I going to keep up with it all? But the boys are enjoying playing and having fun
**Sick, sick and sick... Bryson started us out and then Weston and then Preston and then Weston took a hard turn bad with antibiotics, then Daddy who is still recovering. It's been a long 4 weeks of someone not feeling good. I somehow have scrapped by healthy, or maybe I was too focused on everyone else to notice I was sick!
**Weston turned 2 - which I know I already blogged about - but it brings me up to the next subject. Why is it that when your child turns two that somehow invites people, even strangers to tell you "it's time to start trying"?? It doesn't so much bother me with close friends, but I have sure heard that question a lot, some one actually asked me, if fact drilled me about how I must be pregnant! Wow... time for a diet. So no, just for the records, Weston is 2 but I am not pregnant!
**The boys started back 'on track' in school which I and they were excited for. Its great that by the third week they are both so ready and excited to get back into school and the routine again.

Aside from that we have been staying in with the sickness and plugging along with baseball. Hopefully we will have some new pics coming, we are looking forward to a fun spring break, and a wonderful Easter Conference Weekend!

An Olympic Outting

The boys were super excited for the Olympics this year, I'd like to think that it was because they enjoyed watching it... but really I am certain it is because of the Wii Winter Olympics game that they got. I can dream, can't I?
The day before closing ceremonies we decided to take the boys to show them that the winter Olympic were actually here. We heard from a client of mine to take them to the Olympic Park Museum up in Park City (by ski jump) - I was a bit hesitant, didn't want it to be boring. BUT if you haven't been there... take your kids. It was super fun and the boys really enjoyed looking at the actual equipment, videos, uniforms and everything else that they had to see.

Preston trying out the Luge

Bryson on the Luge

Preston on the skeleton - out of all the Olympic events this would be the one I could see him doing. It is just crazy enough to fit his personality.

My boys in the bobsled, you can barley see Bryson and Preston's heads

A better view of the boys in the sled

Darren - OK, so I am sad to admit that we live in Utah and neither of us ski :( but if we did I could only imagine that Darren's face would look like this on his runs.

Darren a bit more serious

Bryson downhill skiing :)

Preston - apparently something caught his eye in the opposite direction of where he is skiing.

Weston, just doing what the big boys do.

The interactive Super G race the boys played

A slalom game the boys tried to play. You have to roll a lead ball through the course, it was pretty hard to be geared towards kids.

Darren taking a shot at it

Bryson and Preston lighting the Olympic Torch

The actual metals on display - they are much thicker then I would have imagined

This Olympic icon is made from Lapel pins... the picture doesn't show it well, but it fades in color from blue to red to yellow... pretty cool

Bryson loves the ski jump, we were hoping to catch them practicing, but no one was out today.

Bryson and Preston at the ski jump

This is the aerial hill, for practice purposes.. it is so super steep

But made a great sledding hill for the boys! Darren found this sled on the side of the building so he took it up the hill and down went Bryson

Darren taking a turn on the sled, Preston would not go down... it was too steep for him

What is snow with out a snowball fight?

By the bobsled which you cannot even see into so the boys were not interested ... thus the snow ball fight started.

Bryson taking a shot at Daddy.

After the Olympic Park we took the boys to McD's - official sponsor yah know - and then we were heading to the torch when we noticed we were short on time, Weston was asleep, so we skipped that part. We headed back home for Weston to nap and then took the boys over to the Olympic Oval for some speed skating. Bryson loves speed skating, he would really like to start doing that. The boys had a great time here, so much fun in fact that we credited our night and applied it to a family annual pass!

Bryson taking his first round on the ice, these little blue walkers they have are Genius... but they don't make them in my size :(

Preston on his first round... he is funny he basically runs on the ice picks

And Weston didn't like it!

Bryson and Preston out skating together

Weston and Me trying to get him to skate - it really freaked him out having the skates on the ice, he was good with them on the floor, not the ice!

More Weston, he made it about 50 feet before he was DONE!

Preston taking a rest

Darren learning to skate...

Weston, enjoying the night

This is what Weston did most of the 2 hours we were there.

Darren and Preston finishing up their lap

Bryson got brave and no longer used the blue walker, he does pretty good, but needs to glide a bit more. it is still more of a walk, but he is doing great!

Preston showing me how to skate and then slide!

Mascara AGAIN

OKAY - So I understand that I seriously need to not leave this child alone ... ever ... OR I need to put my make-up under lock and key. This is what he thought would be fun for today, but it seems that he is having a gender crisis. Trying to put it on his eyes and then giving him a beard - I love how this little guy makes me smile.

I wanna be a Cowboy

My boys wanna be Cowboys - there is nothing cuter than boys in boots... ok there is, watching them walk. Boots give a sway to their step that is adorable.

Preston recently discovered that he had cowboy boots. We had bought these originally for Bryson and Preston to wear for Halloween when they were cowboys. But now Preston loves them and has shown Weston that he has some too.

Preston and Weston showing off their boots

Close up of Weston's boots, they are so tiny and cute

Weston is loving morning picture time, He seriously looks so cute.

Cousin Night - AFTERMATH

The big boys have been begging for a cousin night for the last couple months and between the wedding and dad weekends we have had a hard time finding time to make it work. So we found a Saturday night that would work since our church starts at 1:00 for both Kari and I, I didn't have my RS meetings so we did the cousin night.
Darren and I went out to dinner and a movie that night and then went back and picked up Weston, I still don't think he is big enough to stay over. The boys had toys everywhere and were wired and super excited! ... Jason had to work that night so Kari did cousin night alone. The house sure feels empty when the boys aren't home and we just don't feel right not having them home with us. Sunday I went and got them around 10:30 knowing that any earlier they would have a fit.
We got ready for church and the boys, still being wound up were asked to have some quiet time to prepare for church. I walk out of my room to see Weston on the floor in the boys room passed out, Great I think... I love the late church schedule. So I go out to the kitchen when my eyes catches Preston sleeping on the chair, Oh good... were is Bryson I think... yep... passed out on his bed... did I mention that church starts at 1:30 and it's 1:15 when I find them all asleep.
Gotta love waking up the boys from a dead sleep to go over to church, Oh the joy of COUSIN NIGHT AFTERMATH....

Bryson at least got comfy on the bed

All snuggled up in the stuffed animals

Weston, completely asleep. These were the shoes he picked for church, no we didn't let him wear them.

My favorite part of this picture is the red stain from a Sonic Slushee on the carpet.

Preston curled up in a ball, he can sleep anywhere when he is tired

A better view of how much room he had.

Thanks for a fun cousin night Aunt Kari and Alex... the boys had a great time