I just got back from watching the Hunger Games and it is AMAZING!!! I am so stoked about it that I'll probably have a hard time going to sleep now because I'll just be thinking about it. I loved loved loved it. Me and Nathan have been so excited for this movie for awhile because we read the books and the movie definitely doesn't disappoint the fans but I also think it catered well to those who haven't read the books and it explained the things very tactfully that non-readers may not have understood. Plus, they cut all the corny lines to make the scenes more real and not awkward and thankfully they skillfully portrayed all the violent scenes. They of course had to make slight changes to make it movie ready but they made all the changes in the right places, like the places that you wanted changed anyways. It was perfect. absolutely perfect!!

our car broke down and dad tried to fix it but couldn't so we ended up taking it to the shop but the boys had a good time helping him.
15 weeks...I think
So I went to get my hair cut at one of the beauty colleges on Saturday because I hadn't done it in almost a year and I slowly began to notice that all the hair dressers were wearing green, it was St. Patricks day and I didn't even know it, so as soon as I got home, we all got dressed up in green and we made ourselves a green smoothie. I went to the store to try and find some green candy but ended up getting gummy bears and picking out all the green ones. Then we played a game with the kids where daddy would hide a green thing in the room and then the boys would come out and find it and would get some green gummies for their prize. the boys had fun and then we had a little family dance party and me and Nathan tried to slow dance together for one song and be romantic but the boys kept trying to wrestle between our legs no matter where we moved and Benny came up and would press his head against Nathan's buns making it very uncomfortable. They're funny little guys. Here's a family pic of everyone in green.

The boys got the reading bug

daddy and the boys in green

Nathan was able to find an internship for this spring semester and it's in one of his favorite places... Arizona! He actually got it with his cousin Brandon so he's very very excited to be working with him because he thinks the world of him. So we'll be packing all of our stuff away in a storage unit soon and basically just be taking clothes and bedding with us to Arizona. We're very excited for a new adventure. The timing will work out just so that we will come back, have a few days to unpack and settle into our new apartment here in Rexburg and then we'll go to the hospital and have our baby so things will be very close together.

Benny was proud of this drawing and willingly posed for a picture with it. Benny is so smart and sky rocketing with his language skills. He can memorize passages from his favorite books and recites them to me and he memorizes dialogue from his favorite movies and recites that as well and he tries to use big words for his age like "embarrassed" or "frustrated." At least I think they're big.

Benny has displayed the more social, people-person personality and Ephraim has started to display his personality as the helpful one. He loves loves to help me around the house. Here he is helping me take the laundry out of the dryer and then I hand him the stuff from the washer to put into the dryer. We're quite a team together. He also loves fetching my boots and coat form me when he knows we're leaving the apartment. He also does the same for Benny. He's a very sensitive, sweet, and helpful soul.
can't resist those sleeping pics

vacuuming in the snow

so cute

rain or shine, the grass needs to be mowed!

I signed Benny up for gymnastics and he loves it. The pictures aren't great because I'm behind glass but oh well. Of course his favorite part of gymnastics is the treat at the end.
here he is jumping over cones. It's so cute watching the kids doing gymnastics.