Wedding Pictures

So, we had my cousin's husband take the pictures for my wedding with his digital camera. This was seven years ago. Because of the lights in the area we had the reception, all of my pictures had a yellow cast to them. We all looked jaundice. Tonight, I finally figured out how to correct the color enough that I finally feel like I can justify spending the money to get the pictures developed.

(the picture is actually taken the day before the wedding by Spencer as we drove around town getting our license and other last minute tasks.)

what our kids do

So tonight Spencer was building a bed frame for Monkey. This required that he use his table saw. So he is out sawing and Monkey takes his square off of the saw and Spencer doesn't see what he does with it. By this time Monkey had come in to go to the bathroom and so Spencer comes in and asks him what he had done with the square. Monkey calmly tells Spencer that he had put the square under the dirt. So Spencer goes out to see if he can find it in the backyard "under the dirt." A couple minutes later Spencer is back in and gets Monkey dressed (Monkey has to take all his clothing off when he goes to the bathroom) and then takes him back outside so that he can take Spencer to where the square is. By this time I am awake and can tell that Spencer is upset and so I go out with Monkey to have him show me what he had done with it. I go into the backyard and I can not see where there is any dirt that has been disturbed and so am at a lose to know what Monkey did with it. So I come back in the house and look to see if Monkey by chance had brought it in the house. I still had no luck. Monkey keeps insisting that he put the tool in the garage, but there is no where in the garage that he could have put it. About an hour after we had started looking Spencer calls my cell to tell me that he had found it. When I get back outside he points out where he had found it. Monkey had put it away. There are clips on the side of the saw that the square slides in and that is where Monkey had put it.

Monday morning blues

So Spencer made the comment this morning about what the kids think when we allow them to climb in bed with us in the morning. This stemmed from the fact that yesterday morning about six thirty Bub came in and climbed into bed with us and fell back asleep. At night we insist that they sleep in their bed, but in the morning it is okay for them to come climb in bed with us. I have to agree with his reasoning as to why we allow it. In the morning we are still half asleep and would like to sleep longer and if that means that we have a little boy in bed with us than we have a boy in bed with us. I guess the whole reason I bring this up is because Bub has never fallen back asleep in our bed when he has come in. He is definitely a morning person.

So this weekend Spencer got shelves put in our storage room for our food storage.

This set up is a lot easier to use than the shelves up in my pantry cupboard in my kitchen. (Which I think that the pantry cupboards are the stupidest cupboards someone ever came up with. Having the shelves so deep make it so inconvenient to find anything in them.) After we finally got all the can that we could fit on the shelves along the one wall we came up and tried to figure out what items we now needed to buy to add to our growing amount of storage.

The joys of Mothers and milk

Okay, so two days ago Bub decided that he needed to poor himself a glass of milk. I ended up having to mop up a half gallon of milk. So then today I am upstairs and come down because I hear liquid dripping. I come down to find that he had again tried to poor himself milk. So I send the kids up to their room so I can clean it up. As soon as I let them back down and leave the room I again here liquid spilling. Although today it wasn't a full half gallon of milk at one time, it ended up being that much when you add both spills together.

Now lets add that to the fact that they decided that my laptop keyboard didn't need to have any of the keys attached to it anymore and lets just say that I did not have a very good day!

am I or am I not

So I have been getting sick on and off for the last couple of months. Because of how it comes and goes I keep thinking that I might just be pregnant, which we are trying for. However, every time I have taken a test it has come back negative. Now the nausea is terrible and I don't want to take another pregnancy test just to have to come back negative. I keep thinking that it was so easy to get pregnant with Monkey and Bub (which I got pregnant with both of them before I had really thought about even becoming pregnant) and now that I am actually trying to get pregnant I am finding that it isn't all the easy!

what kids do

Spencer helped the kids get the family room clean up two nights ago of all their toys. So yesterday they were again playing with their Duplo blocks, but just playing on the floor wasn't enough for them.

house work

If there is one thing that I am not good at it is house cleaning. I hate this job. I am home all day with the kids and so this should be no big deal, but for me it is terrible. I will get the house clean and then something will happen and I will just not worry about it again. When this happens it gets to the point where it just seem over whelming. And I beat myself up because I know that if I had only kept up on it from the beginning than it wouldn't be so much work to try and catch back up. This is the cycle that my life goes through. I hate it and one of these days I am going to break the cycle. I just hope it is sooner rather than later. i really would like for my kids to grow up feeling like a clean house is the norm and not when only when we are expecting company.

Day with Grandma

So I had to take the kids into Salt Lake today. I knew I wanted to stop by and visit my Grandma so I called her when I was about half way there. When I asked how she was doing she told me she wasn't having a very good day and that she wasn't able to keep her food down and needed someone to come visit. I thought maybe I would take her shopping with me, but wasn't sure she was going to be up for it. So anyway, I stress all the way to Grandmas. (My sister calls me the family worrier and I am.) I am hoping that she is just having a bad day and just needs to get out of the house, but preparing myself for the worst. I get there and she is ready to go shopping with me. I had just kind of planned on going somewhere there close because I needed to take the kids in to get their shots. Talking with her it kind of sounded like she would be up to spend the rest of the day with me so I dragged her along to the doctor's appointment. I know she enjoyed the day. I enjoyed spending the time with her. And although it was a little stressful worrying if she would forget in the middle of a store it was so nice to have her there to help me with my kids. I don't know when I will manage to get back in, but I need to take her and do it again. (Hopefully the next time I won't have a doctor's appointment in the middle of our time together.) When we dropped her off at her place Bub said in his sweet little voice "bye grandma." I wish I had had something to record it because how he said grandma was precious. Besides it was the first time he had ever said grandma.

When we went down for my great uncle's funeral Jen, Drew and I remembered times that we had spent with our Grandma Great. My kids are too young to remember much of went on today, but it makes me so happy that we are able to spend the time having fun with Grandma. Although I did hear stories multiple times and had to remind her what we were doing, I was able to be with my Grandma today. As tired as I am right now, it was a very good day!

Middle of the week

So I am taking the kids into Salt Lake to get flu shots. I am wondering if this is really worth the trip. I had hoped to make it a day with the whole family and then I found out today that Spencer can't make it after all because he has a safety meeting that he has to go to in Wells. I am not very happy about this. I was really looking forward to spending the day with him as well as being able to buy myself some new pants. The new pants will have to be put off again.

I hope to get a lot of my Christmas shopping for extended family done tomorrow. That will just leave me trying to figure out what I want to do for my kids. I am excited to be staying home for Christmas again this year. All though we have to make trips to visit both families before or after the holidays it just seems less stressful not being at my parents or his parents on Christmas itself. We will be making a trip to Fillmore two weeks before Christmas and a trip to Vernal sometime in the week following Christmas.

Now if only Thanksgiving could be that spread out. For the last three or four years we have gotten together with my family the weekend before Thanksgiving for our Thanksgiving dinner. That left Thanksgiving open for all of our in-law's. However, this year no one was available for the weekend before so we are going to do it the Saturday after instead. This means that we will be making the trip to Fillmore on Wednesday, having Thanksgiving dinner there. Going to Salt Lake on Friday and spending the night. Picking up my Grandma (if we can convince her to come out with us) Saturday morning and going to Vernal for dinner. I told Mom I would get Grandma there if someone else would get her home because I don't think that she would want to spend the night and I refuse to make my kids to that much driving in one day.

It really is no wonder holidays are so stressful.

Bub

I had to share this picture. We were sitting at the table at dinner time, which was a little later than we normally have it, but still before seven. But Bub hadn't taken a nap and so he looked like he was going to fall asleep in his dinner.

Quilting

I finally finished the quilt I started for Monkey before Bub was born two and a half years ago. He finally has a quilt that is big enough for the twin bed that he has been in for these last two and half years (the reason I started it). The biggest problem now is getting him to use it. He told me last night that he will use it tomorrow. So after he fell asleep I went and put it on him.

I found this "pinwheel" design and was able to use my embrodiery sewing machine to quilt it. It took me about five hours to do the 96 designs, but most of the time was because I had to hoop each place individually and then make sure I had the start point where I wanted it. Now that i have it done I think maybe I should have used the larger design on the middle of the squares instead of in the corners, but it still turned out nice in my opinion. It is bright which is my favorite part of it. Monkey's favorite part is the pinwheels and butterflies.

But now that I have the twin size quilt done I need to get the crib size one back from my mom. (She was going to pin it for me where I had just had Bub and didn't have time or energy to do it myself.)

Halloween

I forgot to get the camera out and take pictures of my little Spidermen.

Monkey had a party at preschool yesterday. They asked me to help so I was able to go in and help the kids with their Halloween craft project. This included a LOT of glue. (which these are four year old kids so quite a bit of the glue ended up on the table!) They were gluing Halloween pictures and foam shapes onto the outside ring of a paper plate that they had painted orange the day before. There were kids that all they wanted to do was glue one or two things onto their wreaths and then there were others that needed to make sure every available space was covered. Each child has their own personality that shines through.

It was kind of funny that Monkey did not want to wear his costume to school. He wanted to be Spiderman so I bought the costume for him and then he did not want to wear it to school. He is very much a creature of habit. He doesn't wear costumes to school any other day and so it wasn't acceptable to him that he wear it on Halloween. I took it with us to school so he could put it on when he saw that all of his other friends were wearing theirs, but he still did not want to wear it. He did put it on to go up and down our street trick or treating. (That is all we did this year and they were perfectly happy with just those few houses. In fact both of them were in bed before 8:00.)

Bub was a little upset this morning because kids came a stole our pumpkins and smashed them. I had thought they would have left them alone because we hadn't carved them, but they didn't.