Tuesday, June 19, 2007

a boy & his pillow, our ladies man, and other random things....

So I think I am going for a record here. I am posting this and my last post was on Sun. I guess that is what staying at home with pink eye will do for ya. Anyway, we have some new pictures of pretty much nothing exciting but I figured why not post them, I know at least the family will think they are something special.



So here is our sweet but ever so moody Landon and his beloved pillow. When he was almost a year old he started ripping the entire crib sheet off. It made me so so nervous so I took the sheet cut off a square and then let him have that. He called it is la la and continued to carry it with him and suck his fingers for a little while longer.
Then we decided that he needed to stop sucking his fingers so we took the la la away and put some nasty tasting stuff on his fingers. To no avail this did not work he just attached himself to any pillow he slept on. Here we are almost a year and a half later and as you can see he still loves his pillow (although instead of using any pillow near him, he now has to have this one) and he is still sucking his fingers. We have tried finger guards and taking away the pillow. He somehow finds a way to get the finger guards off leaving a sore on his hand where he would pry it off (which makes me feel bad) and he then finds some other pillow to take along with him. I have pretty much just decided that I am now just being lazy with it, hopefully he will out grow it since I don't think they allow pillows in kindergarten.


At one point or another this school year I think Ethan had said he would marry every girl in his class. I used to think he was just saying it to tease them, but after working in his class and seeing it for myself the girls liked him as much as he liked them. The following statement from Ethan was just one of the problems he encountered in his quest of marriage

" Mom do we have a map?"
Yes

"Well I need to look at it because I told Madison the only way I could marry her is if I could find her house on the map of California."

Well good luck on that quest Ethan. At least I know it would keep him busy for longer than 5 minutes.





I only put this picture in to remind myself that every once in awhile my kids really do like each other.

Landon and Mackenzie







Well, this is how jared found landon in our bedroom one day.
I am pretty sure it would take more postage than this to mail him somewhere.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Happy Fathers' Day!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!

So today is father's day and since I have not made a post in awhile, I figured today should give me a really good reason to. Since I didn't get jared a gift (we have all had pink eye) I thought I would just post some of the things we love about him.



I Love Jared because....

-he is the father of my children

-he is a hard worker

-after a long day of work and then helping with the kids and dinner, he will still rub my feet because he says my day was probably longer and harder than his

-he inspires me to do all the things I should do just by doing them

-he encourages me in everything I do

-he tells me I am a good cook even though we may have eaten nothing but cereal for the last three nights

-he truly helps me with the kids more than I give him credit for

-all the little things that sometimes frustrate me (contantly checking gas prices, taking forever to decide on a pair of shoes, researching prices then buying something then researching it again just to make sure he got the best deal ect, ect) really do make me laugh when I step back and think about them

-he will watch all of my chick shows (america's next top model, the bachelor, grey's anatomy) with me with few if any complaints

-he can make up bedtime stories for the kids as he is telling them

-he has taught me many many sometimes hard to swallow things about myself

-he is my best friend

-he has seen me at my worst(which can be pretty bad) and still loves me

-he loves the Lord, the gospel, and serves in all of his callings to the fullest extent

-he almost always lets me do things my way even if he would rather do it a different way

-he is the best father and husband the kids and I could have ever asked for




We LOVE DAD because......

ETHAN
-he takes me golfing
-he plays dun dun dudun dun with us
-he reads to me



LANDON
-he helps me look for my pillow
-he helps me get my pillow out of the washer
-he makes me lunch
(landon has a serious attachment issue with his pillow)



MACKENZIE (i couldn't totally understand what she was saying, but I know she love these things)

-singing with daddy
-helping him outside
-swimming with daddy



WE LOVE YOU! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

My New Favorite Shopping Places

So we have been a little busy with the end of the school year ( I didn't think getting to the end of the school year would be busier than the beginning of the school year) We have also been working hard on our backyard which I will be posting pictures of as soon as I dig up our plants that have already died and take them back to replace with live ones. Apparently I do not have a green thumb. Anyway, in the midst of all of this I have some discovered some great online shopping sites. Some of them you all know about but they have add some way cute stuff and I need to share!


http://www.downeastbasics.com/ This has to be my all time favorite place for good cheap clothes. They are way cheaper than Shade Clothing and I like the way they fit better (slightly looser). They have added some great dresses and they are also selling swimsuits!
These guys have the cutest swimsuits ever. Plus they aren't a bad price (around $60) which isn't that much more than you would pay at target if you go when they first get their swimsuits in (which you have to do in order to get something you want). They also have the cutest shirts and dresses and from what I hear their fabric is lighter which is really nice for the hot summers!


These are by far the cutest dresses I have seen in a long time for the money. A friend told be about them so I haven't purchased from them yet but I soon will. If anyone has bought anything from them let me know how they fit!


I am always looking for cute clothing that is already modest or can be made modest relatively easy. If anyone else knows of any other great clothing sites post them in a comment so we can all share in the wonderful joy of shopping for things we can actually wear!!!!!

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

3 Things.......

Three things I'm afraid of:
1. Speaking in Church
2. Going to the store with all three of my kids
3. Laundry (the amount of laundry I do really does scare me)

Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. Ethan & Landon
2. Mackenzie
3. Jared

Three Things I Love:
1. Jared and the kids
2. Playing the piano (my mom always said I would and now I can say I believe her)
3. Watching all my favorite TV shows on my DVR without commercials

Three Things I Hate:
1. Laundry (even though I hate it and it scares me we really do wear clean clothes)
2. That I am not good at keeping in touch with people
3. People that don't have kids because they don't like them, and then don't want to share this earth with people who do love kids and have them (I have met plenty of them)

Three Things I Don’t Understand:
1. Traffic
2. Why complete strangers will try to get your child to stop throwing a tantrum in public (do they honestly think I haven't tried to get them to stop, it completely baffles me)
3. How anyone can find anything at discount stores like Ross, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, honestly I spend more time four-wheeling with my stroller over all of the stuff that has somehow ended up on the ground.

Three Things On My Desk:
1. Bills
2. Sippy Cup
3. The Computer

Three Things I’m Doing Right Now:
1. Typing of course
2. Listening to the hum of my refrigerator (which means my kids are asleep)
3. Waiting for Jared to get home from meetings

Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. Go back to Hawaii with all of my family
2. Finish Dental Hygiene School
3. Sing in the Mo Tab (I would love to do this but since you audition then sing with the alternate choir for 3 yrs, then if you're still around you get to sing with the real deal and since I don't live near utah and probably won't anytime soon, it may not happen in this life)

Three Things I Can Do:
1. Play the piano/Sing
2. Find anything (ask jared, without me he can't find anything, literally)
3. Remember the smallest most insignificant anything (again refer to jared)

Three things I Can’t Do:
1. Sleep (I really hate it too)
2. Not stress about things
3. Make dinner two nights in a row (it truly is utterly impossible for me)

Three Things I Think You Should Listen To:
1. The Gospel/Spirit
2. Your Parents (I should have started this sooner)
3. Music (all kinds except for the trashy stuff) & Stephen Colbert (watch him on Comedy central)

Three Things You Should Never Listen To:
1. Comments people make to you when you are anywhere with your kids and they are crying
2. extreme liberals & liberal media
3. Global warming crap! (Volcano's emit more harmful gases per eruption than years of industrial pollution) we all know how it's going to end anyway right?

Three Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. to cook without a recipe
2. to sew
3. to relax

Three Favorite Foods:
1. Cafe Rio
2. strawberry shortcake/strawberry freezer jam
3. Grilled meat that is tender moist and seasoned well

Three Shows I Watched As A Kid:
1. Saved By The Bell
2. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (my sister cried when it went off the air)
3. Silver Spoons

Three Things I Regret:
1. Using all of my wedding budget (whatever I didn't spend we could keep, should have skipped all of the stuff no one remembers. Take some nice pictures, have a really good lunch/dinner with close friends and family and call it a day)
2. Not buying a house when we started dental school (we did buy one half way through, but we would have made a killing if we would have done it sooner)
3. Not taking hardly any pictures of me pregnant (if it weren't for my mother-in-law I wouldn't have any. Thanks Donna)

3 People I'm Tagging (Who now have to post this on their Blog with their answers):
1. Everyone who reads this! I love finding new stuff out about people I already know
2. Anyone who reads this!
3. Anyone and Everyone who reads this (you can even email to me if you want to start blogging)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Sweeter than Cake!!!

So I can pat myself on the back for taking that sweetest picture of all time of Mackenzie! Somehow it didn't end up in the picture but she did have a bowl with a piece of cake in it and while I was waiting to take a picture of her eating that she decided that the piece I gave her wasn't big enough.



Since she and Chloe (my sister's little girl) have birthday's only a few day's apart we just celebrated them together at a park here in town. The kids had loads and fun and really wore themselves out. It was a nice relaxing get together since nobody had to worry about cleaning up their house after everyone left. The kids just ran around and everyone got a chance to visit (not that we don't see each other almost daily).



I can't believe that she is already 2 years old. Time is just flying by. Everyone has been asking lately if we are going to be getting ready to have another one, the thought does cross my mind once in a while but then my daydream of it is interrupted by one of my kids screaming, fighting, or breaking yet one more thing and the thought quickly and I mean really quickly passes. We haven't totally put it out of the realm of possibility but it will be another little while before we really decide. Besides I think we really should let some of Jared's siblings take a turn in providing some grandkids! That means you T & Erk!



















Monday, April 16, 2007

Ward Pinewood Derby

Our favorite babysitters!

Nikki Sagers & Emily Judd
A few weeks ago our ward had a pinewood derby. It has to be one of the best ward activities I have ever been to. I think making a competition out of using power tools to make a wooden car is a sure fire way to get every last man and his entire family to any ward activity. Jared definitely got into the spirit of things. His car (or skateboard) won most creative and did go pretty far in the rounds or heats as they call them in the pinewood derby world. The kids had a great time and so did we since our two favorite babysitters were there so we had a couple of extra eyes to keep track of kids!