The Lyon's Den

Sorry It's been so long everyone...We have a super slow internet and it takes forever to load my page let alone a post with pictures! I had to wait for a day where I had much patience and that doesn't come very often these days. Let's see...what are some highlights of the last two months.

Well, this week we sold our dog Nia. We posted her in the paper wednesday and we had a call at 6:45AM and the lady came and got her with money and everything by 7:30. Insane!!! We got several calls and probably could've gotten more money for her. I know I should feel sad about selling our dog but I mostly feel relieved. Kelman needs to grow up a little before he can have a dog because he was always hitting her with pillows and trying to torment her. Even though he did like her. Plus she had sooooo much hair all over the house; it was driving me crazy. Especially when I started finding it in my dinner or the thought of it mixed with brand new baby things. I really think she's in a better place cause she's got a nine month old boy Corgi to play with. It'll happen again someday for us.

In January, Aaron and I were able to get away for a night and go to Sacramento to this really nice bed and breakfast spa resort. The way everything was set up was sooo nice and relaxing. I just wish we would've gotten a room in their newer building because the old house we were staying in; although it was very nice, the windows hadn't been updated and it was quite noisy from outside traffic. Other than that it was very nice and we got to go to the downtown plaza the next day and just enjoy shopping with no kids. We even met a very nice couple during wine/ sparkling cider and cheese hour the night before. Although, we suspect it was a married man and his mistress on a get away for the weekend from LA. Who knows.

As I'm writing this I'm realizing I don't have anything really exciting to tell about the kids, or any new pictures. I will get on that soon. I will tell about Carter though. He has been having some bum issues since at least december. Don't quite know what's up with him but he HATES to go potty because it hurts him so much. On the diet regimen and meds we have him on right now it's not so bad but the kid's gotta learn to go on his own. We are taking him to a pediatric GI specialist in two weeks so hopefully we'll get some answers. The doctor says that as a side effect his skin as been really rough so we're having to do stuff for that as well.

I guess as some other news on the boys...we moved the twins into Kelman's room!! Big BOYS!!!! They're in big beds now and are loving it...a little too much. Brechin and Carter would play for hours at nap time before falling asleep so we've eased that up by separating them for nap time now that we have a free room. I kept Brechin's toddler bed up in their old room and he naps in there. Now to make up for the lost 2 hours of play time together, they play for about that long every night before falling asleep. Kelman falls right to sleep on the top bunk but not the twins. We're trying to break them of the habit but it's hard. I sat in their doorway last night in hopes it would keep them in their own beds (Carter tends to climb into Brechin's bed and play). But they were so funny to listen to I couldn't help laughing so I don't think I helped settle them down much. We usually have to stick Brechin in the other room for a while until they both settle down...almost to sleep and then return him to his big bed. They cry and hate being separated though. I'm glad I have some time before this baby comes to get this all figured out.

Oh yeah....and we get to find out if we're having a boy or a girl in just over two weeks!! YEA!!!

Okay so onto the title of this blog. Micah and Sarah sent us a really fun date night idea for Christmas. It was a Yuba Sutter Mall Scavenger Hunt. We were to go into the mall and find certain items and play certain games. And to also take pictures while doing it. At the end we were to share a snack in the food court and play mall bingo. it was hilarious. They had pictures on a bingo card of things such as a cigarette, crying baby, turban/east indian man, ipod, fat belly and lots of other funny things. Surprisingly it took a long time to get a bingo. No turbans out that night. After bingo they treated us to dinner at Chili's...YUM!! Here are some pictures and descriptions of our fun night.



We had to go into a store our spouse wouldn't shop in and pick out an outfit for them to try on. This was particularly funny because we went into Images (a gangster store) and we got in so much trouble for taking pictures in there. An old man worked there and came and gave me a hard time about it and said "how do I know you're not spying to check on prices in another store". Totally lame. Then on Aaron's way out of the store he stopped him and asked him to remove his shirt (button up) and show him what was underneath to make sure he wasn't stealing. For one...like that baggy stuff could fit under his clothes...and two, why would we take pictures of ourselves committing a crime. Lame old man!




We also had to go to GNC and do the body weight/fat test. And my belly HAS grown since this picture.


We had to go into the arcade and race eachother on a game, which I won and also play games for tickets and buy eachother a prize. We bought some candy, fangs, and cute little rings.


We had to try on some shades at a sunglass stand.

We had a blast...thanks Micah and Sarah!!