Wednesday, October 7, 2009

santa claus or jesus?


Me and Spenc started watching The Chronicles of Narnia this morning while Parker was at school and it was at the part where the children meet Santa Claus and he gives them gifts. Our conversation went something like this:


Spencer "Mom, who's that?"

Me "That's Santa."

Spencer "Oh, I like that guy."

Me "He's pretty cool, huh?"

Spencer "I like Santa, but not Jesus."

Me "Well you can like them both can't you?"

Spencer "No Mom, I can only like one at a time!"

Monday, October 5, 2009

4 months



Mataya is 4 months old. She loves to laugh, wiggle, and sleep! We love her more and more everyday. She went to the doctor this morning and she weighs in at 14 lb 8 oz. She started sleeping through the night at 3 months old. She still loves that thumb and it helps calm her down at nap time and bedtime. We love our smiley, blue-eyed girl!

happy monday

Happy Monday! Spencer had to make a nice little snuggle spot for he and Mataya to lay down.

rainy sunday

We had to go outside for a bit and brave the weather on Sunday afternoon. We had been inside all weekend watching conference and the boys were getting a little stir crazy so out we went all bundled up. I wanted Parker to stand under our tree so I could get a picture of him. He is a goofball for life I tell ya! He thought he saw a bug on a leaf above so that's what he is looking at. And heaven forbid if it landed on him!
On Saturday we went outside in between conference sessions and pulled up all of our poor dead, frozen flowers and planted a bunch of bulbs. We planted a total of 145 bulbs.....yeah! I'm so excited for next Spring and Summer when those little guys start popping up. We also planted 2 trees in the last couple of weeks. We are sad that it is suddenly so bitter cold out, but we love the new weather. That love affair won't last come January!

Monday, September 28, 2009

saturday is a special day

Our Saturday started out with a bang. First it was off to the bike and safety fair. When Parker heard that he could take his bike and ride it through an obstacle course...he was there.
Parker did this about 13 times....he would go and just get right back in line. Spencer sat safely by my side eating chips and popcorn. It all started out innocently enough. I was looking for an attachment to my vacuum so I asked Cory to move our couches to see if it was under there. That led to cleaning under the couches and then taking all my decorations outside and dusting and washing them. That led to cleaning off the kitchen cabinets and then somehow I was on the ledge over the dining room cleaning away. It turned into an all day cleaning event, but when we were done it felt awesome. I don't think our house had ever been that clean in the almost 6 years that we've lived here....now if we could just paint we would be in business:)
The boys love it when the ladders make an appearance in the house it provides hours of entertainment. I love our vaulted ceilings, but cleaning them....ugh!

our day of doctors

We had a very busy day last Wednesday. Spencer had a doctors appointment at Primary Children's with a gastrointestinal doc and later that same day Parker had a dermatologist appointment in Bountiful. Cory took Spencer to his appointment and I made two trips to Bountiful that day once to pick up Spencer and the other to take Parker. So Parker has a wart on the tip of his nose and it's quite annoying for him. People constantly ask him what it is and adults will attempt to remove it with a tissue because they think it's a booger. I will spare you the pictures, but we took him in and the doctor put some liquid stuff on it to kill it, it got blistered up and is about to fall off. The poor kid has had it for about 3 years and it has been ripped off or fallen off about 4 times. It's in such a weird place that we wanted to get it removed. So we spent a lot of time driving on Wednesday. Being a kid is grand you can make an airplane with your hand and "fly" it out the window.
Yes, I even take pictures while driving. At least I wasn't texting:)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

uh...wow!

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