A Plane Family Story

I can't believe that my baby is ONE!! 

It is so different having a little boy after two little girls.  He loves to pick on his sisters and his dog, eating, being outside, and getting into anything that he should not be into.  Now that he is walking, or I should say running, I can hardly keep up.  I know last year Mike wasn't to thrilled with the idea of having to share his birthday with his son, however, I think he really enjoyed it this year.  He ran out and bought Mile's a birthday outfit, a Curious George shirt and a pair of sport shorts that match his daddies, and carried him around like a very proud daddy.  Since Miles was only turning 1 he couldn't tell me what he wants, I let Mike pick out the cake design (or rather the cupcake design).  Perry the Platypus, or I guess it would be Agent P since he had a hat on was the design choice.  We had a small party with family and close friends.  It was the perfect get together, not the big ta do the girls party was.  Yes, I was very grateful for that.

Watching Miles open his gifts was one of the cutest things I had ever watched.  He would open one gift and be so intent on playing with it that he would try to take it out of the packaging.  When that failed and one of the adults would take the toy to open it he would through a fit, desperately trying to get his toy back.  We would give him another gift to open, but he didn't want anything to do with it.  So his sisters would unwrap the new gift, give it to him and instantly everything was ok, until we would take and open the new gift.  Why do they package toys for little kids so well.  Don't they know that they are impatient and that they need to be able to get to it now.  My sister-in-law says she will take everything out of the packaging before she wraps the gifts so they were already to be played with.  Why didn't I think of that?!

 

Mike's parents and his brother and his family all came down for the weekend.  We had a wonderful birthday dinner, played games, and caught up.  It was great to have the whole family together.  Izzy has really missed seeing her cousins since we moved back to Twin, so you can imagine that she thoroughly enjoyed it.  Thanks everyone for making this such a special day for both Mike and Miles. 

The girls pick this shirt out for Mikey for his birthday.  Izzy was so excited!!

Love you all,

The Plane's
Mikey, Stefi, Izabella, Abigail, and Miles

It has been over a month since I have found time to post.  Working the graveyard shift full time and taking care of three young children keeps a mommy very busy. 

So much has happened this month that I would like to give you all just a quick overview.  Mike lost his job at the beginning of September and things have been very stressful at home, both emotionally and financially.  He has been applying for a lot of different jobs and has had a few really good interviews.  Last week he was offered a job in Twin Falls, Id with a small company called Best Notes.  It was an interview that came by word of mouth from a very close friend of ours.  It was Tuesday night when Jared called Mike and told him that his Home Teacher had mentioned that the company he worked for was looking for a computer guy.  So Mike took down the phone number and called the next day.  After talking to them briefly about his qualifications they asked him to send his resume.  About an hour later Mike was called for an interview that evening.  I knew the minute Mike walked in from the interview that this was the job he wanted, the job he had been waiting for.  Oh No I thought!  I knew the job didn't pay as much as some of the others he had interviewed for, and really didn't want him to get his heart set on this one job.  After 12 hours of giving Mike every reason I could think of not to take this job if it was offered to him, it was my turn to meet the guys and wives at Best Notes.  They called on Thursday and asked if they could take Mike and I to dinner.  I have to say after about 15 mins I knew this was the job.  So here we are, moving back to Twin Falls, ID.  Coming home in a way.  We are so excited and just can't make the move fast enough.  Mike will be starting work on Tuesday, November 1st and hopefully we will be moving into a home here on November 5th.  I am currently looking for a job and I'm very hopeful that my interview with St Luke's hospital will go well tomorrow.  I will also be starting school at CSI, College of Southern Idaho here in Twin in January.  Finally after 10 years, I'm going back to school and I'm going to get my RN. 

As you can see so much has been happening.  In about two weeks time everything will finally be slowing down and I will be able to get back to blogging.  I have a lot to catch up on so get ready for a posting over load. 

See you soon,

The Plane's

Izabella's favorite thing in the world is to climb, and climb, and climb...She's my little monkey!!

She also likes to hang on the bars at the top of the slides just before she goes down.

Abigail is not to sure of the slide yet.  She usually needs a little push to go down!!

Just a picture of my smiling "Big Girl"

There is this row of "swinging mushroom", according to Izabella, and getting across them is quite a feet for her.

Abigail loves to try her hand at it too, she just hasn't quite mastered it like her big sissy has.

My beautiful little girls!!

Even Miles gets to enjoy the park!!

Smiling for the camera!!

Man how time flies when you are really enjoying life!!

I have to admit that it's pretty darn cute!!

Love ya,

The Plane's 

This was Izabella just after we got to Lagoon.  She rode one of the small roller coasters just after we got to the park and didn't like it at all.  It took us about an hour to talk her into riding another ride.  Even then she wasn't a big fan.  Mommy and Izzy took the train ride around the park to look at some of the animals and she fell in love.  
After lunch we went on the wet rides and she was so happy.  It wasn't until after we came back from picking up the younger two for our evening as a family that Izabella really got excited about the rides.  So excited in fact that she road every ride in the kid part or the park, twice!!
Izzy couldn't wait to ride the boats and really wanted the purple boat.  Mike and I told her she would have to take what they gave her.  That made her very unhappy until she was given the purple boat to ride in  :)!!
Even though I wasn't really sure about the big faris wheel (I'm a little afraid of hights) Izabella loved it.  She loved being able to see everything

Izabella Arrow Plane in a plane!!
Abigail was so excited to come spend the evening with our family.  She loved the dip and dots we ate just after we got back and she loved all the rides.  Next year will be so much fun when the girls can ride together.  Greatfully Abi was very happy just watching Bella and having daddy's full attention!!

Izzy driving a car...What a scary thought!!
Having sooooo much fun!!

Thank you Grandma Char and Nicole!  We had such a wonderful day and it was so good to see you all.  Erin, Chris and the boys, we were so glad to see you and and glad you could meet Miles.  We really can't wait to make this a yearly family trip!!

Love you all,

The Plane's

For family home evening last night Mike wanted to Make sugar cookies.  So I went to work and made some cookie dough.  Then after dinner we let the girls roll our the dough, cut out shapes, and decorate them.  Talk about a huge mess; it was even more fun though.

 This is Miles enjoying the evening from his little high chair.  He talked and drooled the entire time.

 Abigail made her own cookie by making a ball and squashing it into a sort of circle.  Then she picked this pretty yellow frosting to decorate it.

 Izabella decorating her pink butterfly!!

 The family decorating cookies!!

 So hard at work!! Thanks Aunt Jessica for the cute aprons...We love them!!

 Enjoying her cookies...or rather the frosting off her cookies!!

 Izzy loves doing things like this.  I think she really enjoyed herself.

A picture says more than words...I think Abigail really enjoyed herself!!

It was such a fun night and I think the girls learned a lot of good skills.  I love being able to spend a relaxing evening with my family, laughing and enjoying each other completely.  However, if you ever get sugar cookies from the Plane family, you may want to check each one for little tongue marks.  I can only see so much!!

Love you all,

 The Plane's