Goggles

Carter cracks me up
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He loves his swimming Goggles
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Wears them all the time
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I particularly love this picture
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With his dirty face and cheesy grin
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I Love You Carter!!

Mommies Do Crazy Things

In looking through some pictures recently, I've found that there are more pictures of me pulling faces or doing something crazy for my kids, trying to get them to smile, than there are of me just smiling.

Take these for instance. This was me trying to get Mason to smile one night while we were taking some random pictures of him.


And this lovely picture was taken a couple weeks ago when we had friends over and were trying to get her kids to put the goggles on to take a picture. The boys thought it was hilarious that I was wearing their goggles. I must say though, I think I'm looking pretty smokin hot in them.

Tender Young Green Beans

Yummy, right?!? We fed Mason his first jar of baby food tonight. Tender Young Green Beans. He wasn't sure about it at first, but he ate the entire jar, and eventually began to like it. I'm so happy that he is starting to like eating real food.

Kelly fed him some of it, and Mason enjoyed it much more than Kelly did.

We haven't put many bibs on Mason, and he was mesmerized by this one. Especially the green beans smeared on it. He just kept grabbing it and staring at it. It was really funny!

No Pukey-Pukey

I couldn't not post this little video of Mason and Kelly. Mason has such a cute laugh, and the only person that can make him laugh is Kelly. Tonight Mason barfed a little bit on Kelly. After he cleaned it up they sat on the couch together and played. This is a little video clip of them together.

Happy Valentines Day

With Love!

Heart Attacking

The boys wanted to get Kelly something for Valentines Day this year. When we were at the store they saw balloons, and wanted to get them for him. So I decided that we'd get them, and cut out a bunch of hearts and heart attack his car while he was at work.

We drove up to Salt Lake and stopped at the Maverik on Foothill and bought him a Diet Dew and some cookies that he could enjoy on the way home too. When we got to his work, I called one of his co-workers and asked him where Kelly had parked. He wasn't sure, so we looked on every level of the parking garage for his car. It was on the very last level we checked. Go figure.

I gave the boys some tape and a bunch of hearts and they taped them all over his car and on the windows while I tied the balloons to the outside of his car. We also had a bunch of little hearts that I let them throw all over inside the car too. Landon and Carter loved doing it. They especially loved it when other people would walk by and give them high fives or say something to them. They thought it was hilarious!

This was what it looked like when we were done.

In our hurry to get it done and get out of there before he was finished for the day, I forgot to put his drink and cookies in the car, so he didn't get those until he got home. Kelly said that he walked right past his car thinking "some poor sap is gonna hate cleaning that up" and then he realized that he was that "poor sap!"

It was a great activity to do with the boys. They loved doing it and were so happy to see their Dad when he got home that night. We'll definitely do it again!

Making Pizza

Growing up Kelly's family made pizza every Friday night. He wanted to make pizza's with the boys so I made some pizza dough and when he got home, the fun began. We let the boys help make their pizzas first. So we rolled out the dough and let them spread the pizza sauce and put their toppings on. They did a really good job and were very meticulous.

Then it was time for our pizza. Kelly rolled out the dough a little and then tossed it up in the air to help stretch it out. The boys were in awe! They thought it was so cool!

Our pizza turned out really yummy!

After dinner we watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and played. The boys wrestled, and even let Mason join in a little. They tackled Mommy and tortured Daddy. Mason sat patiently watching it all and taking it all in, occasionally yelling and screaming out to join in the madness.

We had a great night. I can see why Kelly's family would do it every Friday. It's a lot of fun, and it got all of us cooking and playing together. Something that we don't do enough.

Valentines Day Party

Today at school Landon and Carter had a Valentines Day Party. They each got to make a valentine for each person in their class with a sucker attached and take them to pass out. They chose Toy Story valentines from the store and each of them told me which ones they wanted to give to each person in their class. It was so cute seeing the ones they would choose for the boys compared to the girls.

They were also focusing on the color pink for the month and she told them to wear pink to class. So I went out and bought each of them a new pink shirt (and one for Mason too). They were really excited to get to school today.

When I picked the boys up from school they had so much to tell me. They each told me about all the valentines they got from everyone and were really excited about all the candy. Mrs. Nicole had them make a valentine bag for all their cards to go into. It was so cute!

I'm happy that the boys have been able to do preschool this year. I know that they have learned a lot and they enjoy school. I think this year was better for them socially, than academically, and I hear that's normal. It still amazes me the things they learn every day. Things that I would never think to teach them at their age. I'm really glad that we made some sacrifices so that they were able to go this year.

Welcome Home Daddy!

Kelly got home from Philly last night. We are all SO excited to have him home. Landon, Carter, Mason and I made him a Welcome Home banner and hung it up for him. They were all very helpful in putting it together and coloring. We had fun making it too.

It was really late when he got home, and the boys were in bed, so I was his welcoming party.

The boys didn't get to see him until he got home tonight. They were so excited. They asked me every 5-10 minutes if Daddy was on his way, or when he would be home. They love him so much! It was a tender moment for me watching them light up and run to their Daddy tonight when he walked through the door. I'll admit, I got a little teary eyed.

Oh, and I guess I should also report: Kelly had a great trip, and was able to build some good relationships with the people he assists in Philly too. It makes a huge difference in their working relationship once they've met. Here's to hoping his job will get even better.