6 Years and Counting, Plus an Update

Happy Anniversary to us! Unfortunately, we aren't even together...but Ben was working all day so I feel a little better. We came to Utah to go to Moab for a little Purdy family vacation - Lynette and Jon are moving to Florida this week for school and we will miss them! So, that meant I was gone for our anniversary and mother's day. (I was going to make Ben make us dinner...because then he couldn't say we will just go out to eat because it was Sunday, but that's another story:)) Here's a little reminiscing from the days of dating:
Lake Powell - first trip:

Bryce Canyon:Right after Ben got home from Alaska:Going fishing:
It's weird to think that was seven years ago...it just keeps getting better.

Finals are over and Ben officially started his fourth year rotations on Friday. It has been crazy, crazy busy so far. There's a lot of patient care and paperwork, and emergencies, etc. I'm thinking I better start getting used to it, because it's going to last for a year...and realistically probably ten or more, but we'll work on one year at a time! Ben also got released from the bishopric and we got a new bishop last Sunday.

We get home on Wed and I'll post pics of Moab, it's been a fun visit!

WSU CVM Green Glove Dance

For anyone familiar with vet school traditions, this is from The Junior Review. It's a night of 'skits' about teachers, inside jokes, you name it. Here's one clip from the night...it's really cool. If it doesn't work here it will take you straight to the youtube video link. If nothin else it's a good song! Down - Jay Sean. Ben even got roped into doing a skit...I haven't seen it yet, but I'll see it when he gets the recording:)!
Finals are coming up, starting on Monday. Good luck Ben! We are giving him plenty of time to study by heading to Utah on Tuesday:) Then...no more studying!! Until Boards in December... He starts his fourth year rotations on Friday, beginning with large animal theriogenology. They are typically two weeks each, most in the vet school hospital, some large animal, some small animal (mostly large for Ben, just a few required small animal). He will have several rotations that are in different places around the country. His first "away" rotation is in Oklahoma in July.
Okay, and unrelated to Ben's schooling. Today Cody was eating an apple and out of the blue he said, "My belly says: I want apples!" You had to be there, but it was funny:)

The Letter "O"

Ok, so just a clarification with Macey (who is 16 months :)). She has said exactly two sentences. She doesn't speak in sentences. It wasn't supposed to sound like that, she just picks up on 'word stuff' fast. After dinner tonight she came walking in with our alphabet set letter O and held it up and said "O" over and over. Ben and I just stared at each other and then Ben said "well you should work with her more." We had been talking about the letter O a lot with Cody.

I love Pullman this time of year. We love driving to Moscow through all the fields and seeing tons of tractors out plowing their fields. Picture soon to come.

One of my favorite things about Cody: his laugh is so contagious. I have tried to get it when he's watching a movie. He just makes everyone in the room laugh because he laughs so hard. And it's a cute laugh. I really want to get a video of it, but once he knows it's just not the same.

As of Late

Just an update. It's finally getting to be sunny outside and we love it! We've gone to feed the ducks, see the bears, play at the parks, walk outside. It rained a couple days and one of my friends commented that they were trying to figure out what to do and couldn't figure out what they had done all winter!

This is Cody, Tucker, Macey and Kimber. We watched them for some of our friends a couple days a week this semester. While Cody will miss his friend Tucker we will not miss the chaotic messes:) It just pains me to look at this picture and the mess! And I'm not saying our house is always clean, it's just overwhelming here. Tucker would always sing this song while he was here "I love Cody, he loves me..." apparently they're family:).

Cody wanted to show off his new ball.

7 Steps to Clean granola off living room floor:

Step 1: Wash sticky pieces off of baby's feet and hands and brush off pants for now.

Step 2: Start sweeping up big pieces vacuum won't suck up.

Step 3: Move baby and reclean feet.

Step 4: resweep

Step 5: reclean baby's feet

Step 6: resweep

Step 7: vacuum (dodge children who pretend it is chasing them.)

Yesterday Cody kept laughing and saying Look at Macey! I told Cody I was almost done with the dishes and I would be right there. Macey had taken the box of granola (that incidentally I had seen her carrying...why didn't I think that through?) and dumped it all over the entire family room. This is after most of it was cleaned up because I didn't dare take a picture right at first.

I had Macey stand in time out for a minute. She knew what it meant since Cody spends time there, but didn't seem too terribly upset-I wasn't yelling at her; it was funny. She seems pretty torn up about it, right?

Also, I realized how neglectful I had been in saying that Macey walks. She has been walking for a fair amount of time, but I just never posted it. I think it's because it was SO gradual. I definitely think the kicker was that she realized she could carry things while she walked, but not while she crawled. It is SOooo nice. She still wants to be carried in unfamiliar settings, but in general she walks. She is also talking a lot more. The other day she pointed to a ball and said "There's a ball." her first sentence:) Today we went in to get a jacket and I told her it's because it was chilly outside and she said, "Me chilly." I love hearing all the words she says in her little voice, especially the newest intelligable one "Tody" (Cody). This 7 second little video just shows her cruising around.

Cody was playing with 'play clay' and he loves to cut it into tons of little pieces, which he explained, but my camera's card memory was full.

Wild Weekend

This week was the craft fair, which means we had visitors! Amy and Blake flew in for the weekend. Unfortunately the craft fair took up most of our 'play' time, but we still had so much fun!! We got to go to the vet school open house. They had rides with Seamus the draft horse and we pet some goats, horses and cows. Cody, Blake and Macey had a lot of time to play together. They all LOVE baths. I am still going strong with my goal of not taking any pictures of the people that visit us.(Just kidding) Someday I will remember.

The award for the weekend though goes to Ben. He singlehandedly took care of all three kids most of the weekend, and did a great job! I'm so impressed.

Here's our booth for the craft fair. I'm so glad I did it. I learned a lot and didn't make much money, but we had fun. It was fun to see the people that go to the fair. A woman looking at the blessing dresses made the comment that they were really cute, but her little toddler would get so dirty running around on the ranch in it. Another person commented that the watches were cute but they could get one for half the price at the hardware store. Maybe the wrong venue? Haha. I imagine you would get funny comments like that wherever you go. I have to give all credit to Amy for any watch I sold-she sold them all, and a ton of other things too. I just don't have it in me to do it. Probably because I can't afford anything frivolous:)

Amy and Blake, We are so glad you guys came!!! Thank you Thank you, we loved it!!!

One day about two weeks ago Cody woke up and started asking me questions. Then he kept asking questions throughout the day. Ben and I were talking about it a couple of days later and we realized the age of questions has started. I think it is such a cute stage, but I was thinking he would ask all these insightful questions about how things work and I would know all the answers. But I am realizing not only do I not know all the answers to the questions he asks, but some of them are weird questions about why there are spots on the ground and why the something isn't moving. Having said that I love his curiosity and thirst for knowledge. It's amazing what he picks up at this age. Last night when I had to leave for a minute he told me to drive safe, put on my seatbelt, take my purse and keys, and be good. I love it!

CRAFT FAIR Coming Up

The Craft Fair is in Pullman and this year I decided to participate! Check out my blog to see what we're up to...and hopefully if you're in Pullman we'll see you there:)

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