Catch Up

Well to catch you up a bit on our lives lately... we moved back in with Roy and Keebler so that we could save up for Aaron to go back to school this fall. He loves working at the greenhouse and so he's decided to go into Ornamental Horticulture. What is that you may ask? It's basically learning all the ins and outs of the whole growing process of plants, and just all you would want to know about plants and more so he can further his career in the greenhouse business. Anyway, we kinda feel like bums living here and having a third baby, but what can you do. So we're living in the compound and our computer won't connect to the internet for some reason? Obviously I can use my mom and dad's for the internet but all our pictures are on our computer. Hence, I'll have to add pictures later some day when it's all working. In other news Tatton is riding his fine bike that we purchased at the d.i. for $5, Lincoln is SO close to walking and the baby is just growing right along. It's always nice to finally feel the little guy moving around! I'm so glad we've finally had some warm days and the boys smell of sunscreen. I love it! We are itching for summer and hopefully soon I'll be able to post some pictures of our summer adventures!!

And Then There Were Three...

Well, Aaron and I have been dying to let people know that we've got a third little peanut on the way!! I am 14 weeks, which is the longest we've ever waited to spill the news, but we were waiting until we knew if it was a boy or girl this time. So, drum roll please, at my appointment yesterday we found out that it's another little boy! I can't say I'm disappointed by any means, since there is nothing but sheer joy about awaiting for a sweet little baby to come, boy or girl. But we were not surprisingly hoping for a girl this time, hopefully the 4th time will be the charm. My dad actually watched Tatton and Lincoln while Aaron and I were at the appointment yesterday. Afterwards I called my dad to let him know the news because Tatton has been quite determined that he was going to get a baby sister (there was a small fit that followed) But as I told my dad the news he just laughed for a minute, knowing that we were hoping for the opposite, and said, "Well, the world is in great need of good missionaries." And with that I felt a complete change of outlook on my being a mother and raising these soon to be three little missionaries. So although I don't get to buy any pink this go around, we are extremely excited to have a new little guy come into our family. I cannot wait until that special time in the hospital. I so look forward to that mini-vacation in the hospital, kind of like at the temple, there's not interruptions, no stress of daily life at home, it's just me and Aaron spending the most wonderful time with our new baby. Needless to say August 11th can't come soon enough!!

A Little Help!!

I am looking for a wire sewing form like these ones for example:

or even smaller "jewelry" type ones that could sit on a table. I'm decorating for New Beginnings in Young Women's at the end of this month. If you know of anyone nearby that has one that I could borrow, I would greatly appreciate it!! Our theme for the evening is Personal Progress: A Pattern for Life... and we're decorating with sewing stuff just in case you wondering why I'm randomly looking for such an item.

Cutting Back

Yep, we're cutting back in this house.

Apparently we don't need a crib, Lincoln can just sleep on the floor.

And who needs a special stool in the bathroom when you

can just do this instead:

And toys, who needs toys? Certainly not our kids.
Lincoln is now at the crawling, standing up on anything,
going through every drawer and cupboard phase. So
we thought who needs Santa to come and bring toys
when you can just play with everything in the kitchen!

5 Years Today...

and couldn't be happier!

Meet Buzz, Woody.......and Jack

Halloween this year was a lot of fun!

We started out with doing a little pumpkin carving,

got dressed up as the coolest duo around, Buzz and Woody,






went Trick-or-Treating in the rain with all the cousins,


stayed entertained in the rain while the kids stocked up on candy,

and got a puppy!! What little boy could ask for a better Halloween?!

Jack, our little chocolate lab. aka: Tatton and Lincoln's best buddy!

It's That Time of Year

Well it's officially October so the fall and halloween decor are finally up! I LOVE this time of year. I love the colors, the cool weather, the sweaters and coats, the leaves, the decorations, high school football games, pumpkins and canning. So here are a few things we've done this fall to celebrate the season so far...

My Mom found these little masks, unfortunately I missed the picture of my her wearing it, but Tatton thought they were pretty cool.

Lincoln trying on my cat ears from last year
We should have waited a year for Tatton to be Nacho, he willingly wore the wig around finally.
Seems like someone always has to get sick this time of year. It was Lincoln this go around, with a combination of cutting his first tooth. I love snuggling with this little guy.
The Circus, need I say more...
Camping up in the Uintah's, the leaves were gorgoeus, just you wait for the next picture.
This was the scene of our hike while camping, pretty huh.
Us on the hike. Might I mention that we went on a weekday with the fam so Aaron wasn't able to get off work, hence the look of a single Mom.
Me and my 2 favorite little guys.

Tatton being a cute big brother.

The canning extravaganza. It's been harder to can this year with the little guys. So Aaron and I usuallly wait until they are asleep, and then we end up canning into the wee hours of the night to get them done. It's been a lot of fun. The salsa night with our friends Natalie and Sheldon has been by far the most entertaining. We were up til about 4am and you should not can when you are that drowsy, somehow the salsa did turn out.

Milk for Trade

Last Friday night Aaron and I went to the football game and left the kiddos with my Mom. Lincoln is pretty stubborn when it comes to eating from a bottle, but when he's finally hungry enough he'll do it. So Aaron and I came back from the game and were in the kitchen saying hi to Tatton, and talking with my Mom, my sister Kristin and my sister-in-law Lauren, Lincoln was asleep in bed. They were all making pies and cinnamon rolls for a Thanksgiving dinner we were having the next day while Royce and Lauren were visiting from Connecticut. Amidst all this I hear...
mom "did you confess yet?"
kristin "kathy!"
me "confess what? what are you guys talking about?"
kristin "nothing"
i go and pick up George, my nephew, Kristin's baby.
mom "oh look, see now you guys can trade, a little tit for tat"
me "what?"
kristin "kathy!"
mom "Lincoln was just screaming and would not take his bottle"
me "he wouldn't drink any of it? did you finally just feed him some food like bananas?"
mom "well he was so hungry and wouldn't take anything, and he was just screaming"
kristin "so i said just give him to me and i'll feed him"
mom "and it was like instant relief, it was just what he wanted"
kristin "he looked at me for a second, like you're not my mom, but he ate"
me "you nursed Lincoln?!"
kristin "yup, he tanked up and went right to bed, and he's still asleep"
me "oh my goodness, poor kid. he's got a little kristin in him now!"
mom "see so you should go feed george now, do some milk trading."

Needless to say I did NOT feed George. I have a strict my kids only policy... I don't know how Kristin did it. I don't think I could feed anyone else's child. I'm grateful because she calmed down my child and fed him, but I don't know, it still baffles me.

Tattonisms

Tatton is talking really good, we think, for a 2 1/2 year old. But of course there are some little things he says that aren't quite right but they are just too cute to correct right now. A few that I want to remember are:

"Fik-its"= Fix it

"I wanna hold you"= I want you to hold me

"To finity yond"= To Infinity and Beyond (Buzz Lightyear)

"Yestertime"= A hybrid of yesterday and last time

"Remembertime"= A hybrid of remember and last time

"Happy Birfday Time"= Happy Birthday

"back-da-boos"= caboose

"skoo mees"= excuse me

And lately he's been using Kara or Aaron instead of Mom or Dad. It completely throws me off and just makes me laugh. For some reason to hear it from Tatton's little voice is just so funny. He is learning songs in nursery now and it's completely taken me by suprise how fast he'll learn them. Out of nowhere he has learned I Am a Child of God, Book of Mormon Stories, Follow the Prophet and a Turtle Song. I just can't believe how big he's getting.

A House of Order

Everyday it seems like there is so much I want to get done, and I think I only accomplish half of it, on a good day. I can't believe how much time Aaron and I had before kids, holy cow that was a luxury. I thought we were busy then, boy was I wrong. When Tatton came along I felt like I had no time, I was constantly carrying around and taking care of a baby all day. I look back now and realize how spoiled he was. My goodness did I use my time unwisely then. Now with Tatton and Lincoln, I say I hardly have time to get anything done which is more true than it has been now but I know I can do more if I become more organized. And I have to become better with my time because I'm pretty sure that we'll be even busier the older our kids get and the more we have which is a little frightening! ah! So I'm saying so long to the days of still being in jammies at lunch time, no more waiting until I don't have clean underoos to do laundry, no more going to bed with dirty dishes still in the sink, no more scattered and cluttered craft room, no more Tatton finding a dead bug on the floor and telling me that I need to vacuum!! I'm sure you guys think I'm gross, it's really not that bad all the time, some days are just worse than others. I've seen so many crafty cute ways to be organized, which unfortunately involves a lot of time (that I don't have) to sit down and make all those crafty things first, and then go through the house to organize it. But alas, that's my goal. My house is getting a complete makeover and I'm going to schedule and plan out my days and hopefully feel good at the end of the day knowing that I did everything that I needed and wanted to. "A house of order" really is important and I've slowling been learning what that means to me. Being organized and being able to stay on top of the cleaning/laundry and start each day clean means I don't have to spend most of the morning cleaning up from the night before which means I have more time to devote to actually playing with my kids and at nap time I can have some me time to scrapbook, blog, sew, create things and not feel guilty, instead of using that time to do laundry or mop the floor or something that I don't look forward to. Anyway, that's my rant about that. I wish there were more hours in the day, less sleep time and more awake time to just do everything, and more sleeptime for kids would be nice. But since that's not going to happen I'm going to make the best of the time I do have... starting tomorrow, since I've used the boys' naptime to blog and search out some crafty organizational things today...