Kids say the funniest things!

At the Musk Ox Farm on Mothers Day.

Logan is the one smack dab in the middle of this picture.

Me: "Logan, you look so much like your daddy!"

Logan: "well, you look like a boot. An old lumpy boot."



Me: "gee, thanks."



I sure do love that kid! Even if he says I look like an old lumpy boot.

Easter Eggs

We colored Easter Eggs for the 2nd time this week.

All the eggs from the first batch got eaten up.

Here is Logan with the bowl of freshly colored eggs.

And Austin, our main egg eater.

And Brandon, getting creative with crayons.

Poop scooper

I scoop dog poop, Austin scoops the snow man poop.

I think he got the better job!

Musical mattresses

Toddler beds: Pros - lightweight, cheap, convenient. Cons - lightweight, don't last til they are 18, easily movable by even the wimpiest of toddlers.

Logan does not like sleeping in his own room by himself, so he often will drag his mattress over to our room and sleep there. Well, Austin is in that "monkey see, monkey do" phase and decided he wanted to drag his mattress over too. He sleeps with us everynight still but he still has his own toddler bed in their shared room. Once they got their mattresses all set up next to our bed, they weren't exactly in the mood to close their eyes and go to sleep, so I had to keep telling them to go to sleep. They didn't, so I kicked them out of my room. I told them to take their mattresses and go sleep in their own room.

Logan: "I AM NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER SLEEPING IN YOUR ROOM AGAIN!" (There might have been a few more "evers" but you get the picture.)

Austin: "ever, ever in your room." (The monkey hear, monkey do syndrome.)

Dave: "wow, that was easy! Think they will keep their word?"

They grab their respective mattresses and proceed to attempt to stomp out of our room in a huff, well Austin can't wrangle his fast enough, so.....

Logan: "Austin, move OUT of the way!"

Austin: "YOU ELP ME!"

Logan: "I think we can fit a tow truck in here."

They finally get their mattresses back into their own room and they don't want to sleep on top of them, they want to sleep under them. Dave and I were laughing hysterically by this point, so I had to get up and get a few pictures.

Austin attempting to get his mattress set up to sleep under it.

Logan underneath his mattress.

This was all good and fine, until Austin thought it would be much funner to jump on top of Logans mattress. Logan was not happy when he got pinned underneath. I went back to bed...Austin followed asking for "ma-nahs" and then Logan came back, with his mattress in tow, to our room.

10 minutes later, all was quiet.

Cookie Time!

YAY! Its time to decorate cookies!! (I fully expect a huge mess.)

Lots of yummy, sticky frosting!

LOTS of yummy sprinkles, too!


And last, but not least, you have to lick the knife!!
Makes me wonder who licks the knife in the bakery?

Austin and Logan had a blast decorating cookies. They both decided that daddy needed more than a couple nicely decorated cookies too. Logan served his up to daddy, daddy ate them willingly. Then Austin got off his chair with plate in hand and promptly fell, 1 cookie landed on the floor. Upside down. I helped him pick it up and said it would be just fine. (I am the only one who saw!) He then tripped again and 2 cookies landed on the floor. I helped him pick them up again and said, "they will be just fine" and then Austin headed straight for daddy with his fine confections and said they were all for daddy. I laughed! Hard!

Star Wars Exhibit

I actually didn't take very many pictures and this is the only one I will post. They specifically requested no "flash" photography so even though I lugged my damn nice camera around, I mostly obeyed the rules...mostly.

This was at the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) transportation station. It was interesting building our little cars with the magnets and then having them levitate through the thing. As you can see from Autumns expression, she is totally thrilled beyond thrilled.

The whole thing was pretty cool though. Just seeing all the things they used in the movie, the ginormous Chewbacca dudes are really ginormous. We had a fun day!

A gift

For christmas, my brother Pat and his wife Lindsey sent me a bulb to plant. They must not know that I am terrible at growing things and also keeping them alive. I thought I would give it a shot though and miraculously I have had LOTS of these blooms and this time 2 popped up and they happen to be in my wedding colors. Does anyone know if it will just keep on keeping on or do I have to spot it one of these days? I know NOTHING. I get a bloom, it starts to fall, I cut it off and put it in a vase and then another one grows and I repeat all over again.

Safety first!

For some reason, whenever daddy drives, both boys INSIST on wearing some form of head protection. :o)

Baby Shower for Ruthie and Baby Elee

Sue and I hosted a baby shower for Ruthann and Baby Elee. It was a lot of fun....Here is Ruthie in her new homemade wrap with Elee resting peacefully inside.

The cake I made...supposed to be a baby bathtub with rubber ducky and bubbles. It had a chocolate layer, yellow cake layer with white chocolate strawberry ganache filling and fresh strawberries and buttercream frosting.

More pictures

Brandon dressed up as an old geezer...we got the mask at Walmart and the clothes at a second hand store. His best buddy Atillio dressed up as an old lady. I wish I had pictures of them together, but I don't.

Here are my super heros. Austin in the sweet shades dressed up as Batman and Logan was spiderman. They had a fun time getting candy from the few houses we went too.

Sharing some life in pictures

Brandon has wanted his hair dyed of some sort for a long time and I finally agreed...AFTER school pictures were taken. He wanted to do some blue spikes but decided to keep it the way it was after I bleached out some.



While I was working on his hair, his 2 brothers fed him spaghetti that we had on the table after dinner.

Thankful for Every day!

I am going to try and get back into posting and sharing pictures....I know I have been slacking. I have been struggling lately with life in general and trying to keep up and keep sane, LOL.

We had a big scare with Austin on Saturday and it reminds me of how precious life is. I was actually just trying to try and "live in today" before this happened and I almost wanted to throw that out the window and keep on worrying over what could happen, always thinking the worst case scenerio when it comes to my kids, but I turned it around and am trying my hardest to just live and let my kids live and enjoy every minute of the time I have with them. Doing this I have found that I am calmer and actually do enjoy the little things more. Taking my kids to the store, joking around, just being with them and spending time, hugging, kissing, interacting, etc.

Austin had an episode where I thought he may be in serious jeopardy of actually dying. I hate to sound so dramatic, but that is what it was. We still are not sure of what happened, but are thinking it may have been a seizure. He was white as a ghost, turning blue and on and off unresponsive for around 15 minutes. We had no idea if he hit his head, ingested something or what was going on so it was a complete mystery on why this was happening. By the time the ambulance arrived, he was awake but dazed looking and by the time we got to the ER he was alert and talking again. Bloodwork was normal, x-ray normal, etc. We will be going to his regular doctor today to try and brainstorm and possibly schedule some more testing to see if we can get to the bottom of it. I was frantic, begging him to stay with me and at the same time wondering what the hell I would do if this was the end.

Anyway, always remember to enjoy life, live every day, tell those around you that you love them, hug them and try not to worry about tomorrow or the next day or next month. Live IN today.

I am so grateful that I have this time with my children and my family. I am grateful that I had so much time with my Grandma Ione who passed away on September 25th. I am grateful that I was able to make it to her funeral, and spend that last little time seeing her off on her journey. I am grateful that I got the opportunity to talk to her on the phone just hours before she passed on. I am grateful that she was ready, calm and had lots of family surrounding her. I am grateful.