Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sorry this is a picture of me nursing, but it was too funny and you can't see anything.


Ok, so I had to take a break from decorating and laundry to write this down. Calvy has been so cute, I just can not forget this time in his life.
So this is the beginning of the story telling, and there are a lot of them.
So Calvy isn't feeling very well right now(see pic 2) so today we've just left the T.V. on and vedged out. Alsy cam home for lunch today and while he was making lunch I was feeding Elle, Calvy wanted to be held so he climbed up. The way he had to lay was right by Elle little bottom(see first picture). At it is typical of little Elle to pass some frequent gas while eating. So right after Calvy lays his head down and gets nice and comfy we hear a little sound "down there". Alsy and I are laughing when Calvy's little head pops up and says, "stinks" and then lays back down. It was so funny we could not stop laughing.
I love this little boy he has the funniest, cutest personality. After getting home from AZ and all of us being sick I finally got us unpacked. I had to get some Spring cleaning done too, new clothes and seasons changing, it is my least favorite thing to do in the world, the house is covered in new clothes and old clothes, winter clothes and summer clothes. It's a mess and it lasts for days because did I mention that I do NOT like to do it. So anyway, once I got it all done I cleaned the kids room and made their beds. Calvy ran into his room and laid on his bed and yelled "thank you mommy!" Looks like even little kids appreciate a clean home, they do notice.
This little boy has the best manners he's just such a sweetie. While changing his wet diaper I decided he needed a good wipe down, so I wiped his little bum and before I even got the new diaper on him he looks and me and says, "thank you". When I notice he's cold and I put a blanket on him he says "thank you", when we give him food he says "thank you" and so many other times that I can't seem to remember. He's just so sweet, he's even started saying, "you're welcome"....well from him it's more like "wehcome".
He is really into pretending right now too, he'll say "dinner time...lunch time...snack time..breakfast" which ever one applys and he'll hand us a pretend plate of food, and when we say thank you he says "wehcome" and then repeats it till we can no longer take it. He loves to play house, I want to get him a little kitchen so bad.
He is obsessed with picking.(See third pic) The second his socks are off he he starts picking his toe-lint. He'll sit forever and pick at Elle's toe-lint. Once he picked to hard for too long, Elle started to cry so I made him stop, but he just kept saying "nuh-er one" he didn't get the one piece he wanted to I had to pick it out and show him before he would let it go. He is so funny, when he picks something he sticks with it, he never gives up.
Well, I had so many memories that I wanted to get down because I didn't want to forget them, but I can't remember them. I guess next time I'll have to do it faster.

Little Elle is so big. She always wants to stand when you hold her, and is always smiling and laughing. She is not sleeping as much as she used to and is so aware of her surroundings. She is learning to use her hands. She loves when her little brother plays with her, she hates to be alone and she is constantly trying to sit up, she never seems to just relax while she's awake. She is such a sweet and pretty little girl we love having her in our family, I want a dozen more.

Alsy would say he is getting so big too, we are currently trying to get ourselves onto a workout rediment...it has been a failed attempt so far. He is really succeeding in school, he is doing really well in his classes, and is doing very well at work. He is the Assistant Editor for his school Newspaper, the Beacon, and he writes 1000 word essay every month. He has found that he is much better at writing then he ever thought. Hw really likes it, it has helped him to find his voice and has made him realize his stance on Chiropractic and other topics. He is an amazing husband and father. We are truly each others best friend, we look forward to ALL our time together, even the five monutes I see him in the morning for prayer. We are trying really had to be good parents and create a good home for our family so we can raise our children the way we feel is right. We have prayer together morning and night, we read scriptures every night(most every night) and we have prayers with Calvy every night. We have implimented FHE, we have a song, prayer, lesson and a treat the classic FHE. It's been so fun, yesterday we learned about families and the Temple and Eternity. We love to be parents and love to see our children grow.

So, this is us in our house in March 2009. We are getting through life, and most of the time we are loving it.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Here we go again.


Ok, I took Shanda's advice and put the clock in the corner. This is where I had it originally but it was really hard to arrange the pictures(it may not seem like a hard concept but it totally is for me). Anyway, I'm not sure I love it this way, I like the clock off to the side but I'm not loving the arrangement. Jourdan, you said to do Black and White photos. Now I am torn, I love black and white, but I am LOVING the color. What do I do? I am wanting to hang this in my bathroom, but now I think it might be too cute(thanks Cassie) but I don't know where else I would put it. And then if I paint it all black I definately have no other place to put it other than their bedroom, it's the only other room, excluding mine, that is black.
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea getting everyone's advice. I'm going to bed.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Change...still need help.


Ok, I changed it up a bit. In the original I had put a clock but then took it out because it took up too much room, but I changed it up a bit because Alsy and I love the dimension it gives. What do you think? Should I leave it like this or change it back.
Thanks for all the input about the colors. I'm not sure I was specific enough though, by colors I meant colors of the frames, the pictures themselves will be color. Now tell me what you think.
BTW I am going to hang them colored, and see if I like them, and if not, I will take them down and paint them.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

I need YOUR help.


So I was totally inspired to get my house decorated when I saw my sister's houses. I swear I am the one that was lacking a bit in the good taste factory, I'm pretty blah. Our house consists of hand me downs and garage finds, I have never bought a piece of furniture...well we sold the T.V. Armour and bought a new one, does that count? Does it count if my mom made up the difference because the new one was more that we sold the old one for? :0)
Anywho, I had this cute idea spark from my sister Jourdan's house, she is amazing at decorating and having an eye for things. So she has something like this in her house and I was trying to kind of copy it in my own little way. Please tell me what you think. I wanted to paint everything black and put a piece of black backing on the whole thing. But now that I see all the colors I kind of like it.
Give me your in-put.

Monday, March 23, 2009

St. Patty's Day Parade


We all had a lot of fun, it was a long parade so we got lots of beads and candy. Although I did buy my shoe that morning so I ended up walking the LONG walk back to our car with a nasty blister on my heel. I think people thought I had something wrong with me because I was walking so funny. They probably thought I needed to see a Chiro... ;0)


Funny Story.


Ok, so you know the QTips box, how it has the pictures of all their many uses? Well Calvy saw this and bent down and touched his face to it. I was brushing my teach so I couldn't ask him what he was doing. But when he came up from rubbing his face on the box he said, "Eye-boughs clean" Then he did it again and this time I paid closer attention. He was rubbing his eyebrow on the little tab that's left after you open it(see picture) to make it clean. I'm not really sure why he thought to rub it on the tab, he's pulled the actual QTips out before and used them...I thought it was really funny, but it's not seeming so any more. ;0)

Photographer?...Me?







I am so excited, so this last trip home totally got me excited about taking pictures. My sister, Jourdan, totally made it seem easy so I noticed today that we had some pretty good light and we weren't going anywhere so I decided to set up a little photo shoot. I used my playroom(because it has huge windows at the front of the house) and the reverse side of my bedspread. I LOVE how these turned out. I wish I could have gotten more with Calvy but he was not doing it, even with an ice-cream bribe. I am going to attempt their Easter pictures this week or some time soon, before Elle grows out of her dress. I'm so excited! I decided that I didn't need to pay someone for Calvy's 2 year pictures and I can stop feeling guilty thatI never took him in, I'll just do them right here. That's if he'll cooperate. Enjoy, and if you live close and want to do a photoshoot please come over, it's fun. I don't have a fantastic camera or anything, but the pictures come out pretty good if the lighting is right. Or if you want to use your camera and just want to use my "sweet set up" that's cool too. This is seriously so fun, I love it. Hopefully we'll sell our Jetta soon and we'll be able to buy ourselves a nice camera.






Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tagged

8 Item Tag

Here are the rules:
1)Post the rules on your blog.
2)Answer the six '8' items on the tag.
3)I tag: No one. Sorry I'm a party pooper, I'm sick I have the right.

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. John and Kate plus 8
2. Little People Big World
3. 18 and Counting
4. House
5. Honestly can't think of any more, 8 is too many, we don't have tv any more. But I have
6. watched Madagascar about 16 times in the past 3 days. Calvy calls is "Gas...car"
7.
8.

8 Things I did Yesterday:
1. Took a bath
2. cried
3. blew my nose
4. took a bath
5. changed diaper
6. blew my nose
7.internet
8.change diapers

8 Things To Which I'm Looking Forward:
1. Spring
2. Summer(Swimming, lets hope I complete #3 before #2 happens)
3. Losing 60 pounds (20 left)
4. Well I kept all of Jill's answers except for the new baby thing, not lookin for one of those right now. :)
5. Camping with Friends this Summer
6. Organizing
7. Yard Work
8. Making extra money

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. CHIPOTLE
2. Filabertos
3. On The Boarder
4. Taco Bell(Does that count as a restaurant?)
5.Texas Road house
6. Habaneros
7. Panera
8. YC's Mongolian Grill

8 Things on My Wish List:
1. New Phone, touch phone would be nice.
2. WARM WEATHER
3. Sell our Jetta
4. Have my baby sleep through the night
5. Paint and decorate the rest of my house
6. Spray paint EVERYTHING in sight, black.
7. Lose some more weight.
8. Just to have a long vacation with me and my husband.
9. Go back to AZ.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Too Many Pictures and Too Many Experiences


I have so many pictures and stories and experiences from our visit it AZ that there is no way that I can neglect my kids that long. Calvy is already asking me to play with him. So I did just a few pictures. This one is Calvy playing outside and helping G-Pa M clean up some dead branches from the backyard.

This was our first day there, Calvy was playing with cousins and wearing his Aunt Lyda's hat and eatin pretzels. He just saw this picture and started asking for pretzels..gotta love that toasted salty bread.

My awesome sister Jourdan did a photo shoot with us, it was mostly for little Elle, I didn't get very many on my camera but she got over a 100 and she's sending them to me soon. I'm so excited to see how the others turned out, her camera is way better than mine. Doesn't she look so sweet? Oh, my sister Mattie just got a new camera too, she is the one who took the family picture on my header. So cool huh? I totally got hooked up, no I just need a new camera, everyone is sick of hearing me say how much I hate mine.

We went to the Big Bass Pro Shop, you know I never noticed how offensive that shop can be. Maybe I'm just a bleeding heart for animals, but it kinda made me sick to see how many animals they had stuffed.
My parents' neighbors have horses so we went back and showed little Calvy. He also got to ride on a tractor with his daddy. It was a lot of fun being back in AZ for a while. But now we are homw and all sick. I cam home to Mastitus, and Elle came home with a cough and double ear infection, and Calvy with a cough. And poor Alan came home with a family he had to take care of, while going to school. I am finally feeling better, I still don't feel very good a little weak and I've got a head cold too. My goodness, this winter better be over soon, I am sick of being sick.
We love all of our family in AZ and we miss you guys already. I can't wait for summer.

Ok, catching up.


Ok, I am following through on my challenge for my 4th pic in my 4th folder. Turns out, my fourth folder was my ultrasound for Elle, but they won't download so I chose my 3rd folder.
This is one of my very good friends, Anca. She is from Romania, this is her and her dad standing in front of their home in Romania. She's an amazing girl, super driven and such a good friend. She moved here from Romania just over 5 years ago, I think. She is living with her boyfriend(who will soon be her husband...we hope) and is going to school to be a pharmacist. She's awesome. I love you Anca!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Tagged...4th pic on my Fourth file.

...Ok so I forgot that I was on my mom's computer so I don't have my pictures, but I swear Camille I am going to do it.