Whata March

It's been a pretty eventful March. The weather is finally nice out so we went camping (turned into the kids first slumber party), cooked dutch oven potatoes & bbq chicken, took a day trip to Fort Loudon, went fishing, went out on the boat (1st time of the year), spent lots of time on the trampoline, got the rabbit fence up around the garden, & went paintballing with the scouts.

From 2/20 to 3/5 Nate was in India (Mumbai, Pune, Kolkatta, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Haldia, & Delhi. Trains, plains, & automobiles. Quite the experience (cows, poverty, monkeys, CRAZY drivers, festival holi, missionary experience (not the sharing the gospel kind :), very productive business trip)).


For spring break the Tanners came over. We went skeet shooting, paintballing, to the jump house, to Johnson City to eat dinner & visit with Brian and Kathy, and started our own polar bear club for Jordans birthday :) Good times.

Quick catch up

So we haven't posted in a really long time but I want to bulletize some of the things we've done over the past few months and hopefully I'll get around to writing more later. Since last post:
* Nate went to India for two weeks for work.
* The Tanners (Cindys sisters family) came to visit for spring break. We went skeet shooting, paintballing, to the bounce house, and to see Brian & Kathy in Johnson City.
* Camping / paintballing with the scouts above the Tellico Trout Hatchery (17 boys & 7 adults). Great time!!
* Slumber party at the Pulvers :)

Making up for lost time

Cade had a rough time last month starting off with an ear infection, then the stomach flu for a week, then RSV to top it all off. He was miserable and hardly ate a thing for 2 weeks. Well, now he's catching up and putting on the few pounds he lost. Yesterday for breakfast he had 8 bowls of rice crispies. No joke. He had another bowl for lunch with some pizza. He ate a couple more bowls in the evening plus whatever else he ate. Then this morning he at 4 pieces of french toast. He just kept asking for more and more and how could I say no? Needless to say he is feeling so much better and is back to his normal, happy self.

January 2010 events

January was a really fun month (other than the fact that the kids have been sick for 1/2 of it. Ok the beginning and end was fun :)). We went over to Nashville and spent the weekend with some friends. We'd gone to the temple and when we came back it was hilarious to see how the kids fell asleep. We also went around the Vanderbilt campus looking at the geese and the squirrels.



We went for a walk the other day and it was cute to see Kaitlyn pushing Cade & Sadie in their strollers. Then this weekend it snowed so I pulled the kids up and down the street in a laundry basket. Our neighbor saw us and brought our a real sled for us to use for a while :)



"THANKS AUNT CATHY FOR THE NEW DRESS!!! I LOVE IT!!" Kaitlyn

Mover and a Shaker

I was out of the room for no more than 3 minutes and this is where Sadie ended up. When I walked into the room I saw Cade and Kaitlyn but no Sadie. That was a weird feeling because she doesn't walk, let alone crawl yet. I knew she couldn't be far but I didn't know I'd find her under the chair. She rolls, slides, and shimmies to anywhere she can get to. Time to keep a closer eye on her I guess.

Sorry honey :)

Tuesday I went home for lunch, packed a bag and headed to Ohio for meetings. I'd been driving about an hour when Cindy called and said that Cade had puked five times since I left. Twenty minutes later she called to tell me that Kaitlyn had whoken up from her nap and puked twice. Later that night Sadie puked. By the time I called to tell everyone good night Cindy was beat and I pictured all the kids were sleeping with her with their puke bowls.

The next day Cade and Sadie had diahria and were both extremely needy. I got home that evening, ate dinner and headed to scouts/YM/YW.

Then I came home yesterday and had to tell Cindy that I'm going to India for a couple of weeks in February.

Needless to say Cindy's had better days. I think I need some flowers :)

Hang in there hun!!!

T'was the week after Christmas break

We had a great visit with friends and family over the holidays. We did the cross country treck from Knoxville to Idaho Falls in 30 hours. We spent a very fun week in IF where we tried to become Ninja Warriors, played games, had parties, stayed up late, ate & ate & ate, celebrated Kaitlyns 4th birthday, and had a fantastic Christmas surrounded by family.




We left ~11:00 pm Christmas night and drove 8 1/2 hours to my parents house. There we played a lot of rock band mario kart on the Wii, played a bunch of board/card games, ate like kings again, went paintballing, went to the temple (very nice with family), & just had a fantastic time!!



Finally we started the 30+ hour trip home. Luckily we were able to stop and visit family in Oklahoma City for a day (very fun and a much appreciated break).