Adam was invited to go on a "Cast n' Blast" trip through his work over the last part of this week. Their lumber supplier took a couple of guys from Hubble Homes and they went up to Lewiston and did a pheasant hunt and steelhead fishing trip. They had a great time and had a really productive hunt and fish! We have about 10 pheasants in the freezer and 2 huge steelhead,
Adam caught the biggest one -35inches!!! Adam makes awesome steelhead and I'm excited to look up some pheasant recipes and try them out. Anyone have any ideas for me?
I have been wanting to get a Wii Fit for a while now and had some Christmas money to spend. For the last 2 weeks I have called and gone to stores in the hopes of finding one and have had no luck. Nintendo is a stinker in the way they distribute their Wii's and highly sought after accessories to their Wii's. Finally I called Target yesterday and they said they would have some this morning. So, after feeding Mason this morning, I got both boys in the car at 7:45am before church (Adam was duck hunting with my dad and Chad) and headed to Target to be there when they opened at 8am since they had limited amounts. I saw a few people standing outside the door waiting for them to open and was a little nervous there might not be enough to go around. Then I realized, as I'm getting out of the car, that I forgot my purse! So, I jump back in the car, get home, run in and grab my purse and drive back to Target. Thankfully we only live 5 minutes away! When I got there they had 3 left and I nabbed one! Yeah, I'm so excited!!! Adam and I tried it out this afternoon and it was really fun! It measures your BMI and you make a goal of where you want to be in a certain amount of time. Then you can do all sorts of activities in Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics, and Balance. My favorite one today was Hula Hooping! I wish I had had the camera while Adam was doing it, it was hilarious! It's pretty fun and good exercise too!
Mason was sleeping, Cole was playing quietly in his room, and I was getting some vacuuming done before fixing lunch. I should have gotten a clue from the fact that Cole was playing quietly in his room. I went in to check on him and found that he had discovered the zipper on the bottom of his bean bag chair! There were tiny styrofoam beads all over the floor of his room! I must be growing as a mom because despite my frustration, I still went to find the camera for a picture:-) He thought it was great to have "snow" inside and as he was rolling in them said "Look mom, I'm laying on these!" The joy of being a 2 year old! 
Another day we made brownies. I got a step stool for my birthday and to Cole it is his step stool whenever I am making something in the kitchen. He is now able to pronounce his "s" sound when asking to use it, as before he would say "Mom, can I tand on my tep tool?" And of course brownies help to melt away the post baby pounds so it was good for me too:-)
Mason will be a month old on Sunday and I can't believe how fast it has gone! He's been sleeping so well at night and getting up once around 3am to eat and then will get up again at 6:30-7am for the morning. Lucky me, I'm now getting about 7-8 hours of sleep with only one nightly interruption! It feels great!!! He's cooing a little bit and loves to be talked to. He looks very intently at whoever is talking to him and will often reward them with a big smile! I really need to capture more of those on camera. 
which is amazing to us! We are so excited that we get to have our little baby out and about for good now - God is good!!! The doctor will tell us for sure tomorrow if we can return the "suitcase" and what other follow up he has. Hopefully soon I can just have a normal maternity leave without taking Mason in for labwork. At three weeks old he is such a joy and we're so thankful for him! Here's a couple more pics - Cole getting snow to make snow cones (they were good:-)) and Mason in a cute little outfit! Love my boys!!!
and just being noisier and awake more! We have his bilirubin checked again on tomorrow (Monday) morning and will hopefully be able to keep him out for good now! I'm preparing myself for it to go up though and have to put him back under the lights just so I'm not totally crushed if it happens. It very likely could still be an up and down game for a while longer. God knew that I needed a little break though so he gave us the weekend off! 
