Pictures Past

I haven't taken many pictures lately, but I wanted to post something other than a picture of a bag...I know you all want to see my kids anyway. :)
So these are pictures from my photo album, I do have cute kids that are just the love of my life. I was telling my sister that I don't know if Heavenly Father is just preparing me for all heck to break loose, or if I just really love my kids, because I can't help but just want to squeeze them all the time, I love holding them and kissing them. Even waking up in the middle of the night to nurse Elle, I just want to squeeze her, she's just so petite and fun. Calvy is such a boy (even thought the picture aboe does not portray it...his father would be proud (0; ) he is always jumping, climbing, growling, play punching, tackling or just being a spazz and running around the house like a chicken with it's....you know the rest. I love my kids. It's great to be a mother and wife, I have a great family and a great life here in Iowa.
Hope all you Mother's out there are still loving your full time job. Some days are hard, but know that you are not alone, there is always someone else out there chowin down some "death by chocolate" after a hard day.

I am in LOVE!

I am in love with my husband of course because he is the love of my life and also because he got me such a great Mother's Day gift in which I have fallen in love again. You should all check them out. They have bibs and little totes, seriously just check them out, they have too many cute things.We weren't able to celebrate Mother's Day this last Sunday so we celebrated last night. It was so nice, we left the kids with our super good friends and then set out for dinner at Texas Roadhouse. After dinner we stopped back to check on the kids and to nurse Elle, then went out for a movie, which true to our history, we walked out(a little too much violence), but we had a great night. We went to Walmart for a few things we needed, then got our kids and watched a movie at home. It was a great night. Thank you my sweet Husband for giving me such an awesome present and such a great night. I love you so much!

I like Happy endings better...

So I couldn't leave the blogging world ending with such a sad or melancholy ending. So here are some fun pics for you to enjoy.
Yes, that is really truly Sour Cream, he loves it. I caught him doing this after we were all done eating. I had agreed to let him lick to spoon, but later caught him taking bite after bite.
It is his trademark to fall asleep in the weirdest places and positions.
I really hate this picture, I am not a fan of the weird face/smile I am giving and am looking a little fuller in the face than i want to believe I truly look, but it is fun. This was taken a few weeks back at a Saturday Night Church Dance, this is Cory, she is one of my YW. I love all my girls so much, I wish I would have had a chance to get a picture with them all.
Super cute Calvy "blowing" some bubbles. Most of the time he didn't even need the wand, he had so much soap on his mouth all he had to do was breathe and bubbles came out.
Elle, sportin her new pants from Aunt Mattie, that don't quite fit yet, but she can pull them off, she knows how to send out the vibe. "It's all in the arch" ;0)
So I couldn't leave the blogging world without ending with such a sad or melancholy ending. so here are some fun pics or the kids.

Happy Mother's Day.

Well, feeling inspired by my last comment on my last post, I wanted to write a little something f my Mother's Day and share some fond memories that I have of my mother.

This morning Alsy and Calvy got up and made me breakfast, which is especially thoughtful considering Alsy stayed up till 2am and got up around 7 am to do it. When it was ready he came and got me out of bed. It was delicious, bacon, sausage patties,sausage links, homemade waffles with chopped up strwberries and whipped cream, omlets with ham, onion, green chilies, and cheese; orange juice and last but not least a fruit tray including kiwi. It was so great. Then we got to complete our breakfast with a little service. We dropped off a plate of our same breakfast to out neighbor who is a single mom. It was so great, she invited us in even though she wasn't expecting us (we were all in jammies and her house was not expecting visitors either, which made me feel right at home (0: ) It was a great morning. I was asked by our RS president to sing on Mother's Day, in a quartet. So we had been practicing for a few weeks and the night before my voice decides to break up. I called and let them know that I might not be singing. This morning I woke up and did not have a voice...well I had one but it was definitely NOT a singing voice. So I was planning on not singing, but as I walked out the door I decided to grab my music, in case they wnated to fins a replacement. Just before our 2nd hour I was asked by our RS pres if I would still sing. I was a little confused anda little pirturbed that she wanted me to sing in my condition, but I agreed to practice and try it out, planning on telling her that it just wasn't going to work, that my voice was just too far gone. But while practicing it started to get better, don't get me wrong, I was cracking and fluctuating all over the place, but it wasn't horrible. so we decided that I would sing, I asked them all to say a little prayer for me, and we went on our way. In our 3rd hour when it was our time to get up and sing, our RS Pres made a little comment that my voice was not up to par but that I was going to sing anyway. We got up and it sounded great, my voice still cracked and was completely nonexistant at times, but it sounded good. They even decided that it sound so good that they asked us if we would sing in Sacrament Meeting. So there you go, next time your RS Pres asks you to do something you feel is impossible, remember that they are called of God and inspired in ways we may never know. Thank Kathy, I really enjoyed singing and I can't wait to sing in Sacrament Meeting.

Now, onto some of my favorite memories, or just favorite things I remember about my mom.
I remember when growing up we used to make tents with blankets and chairs and rubberbands. This one time my mom, who usually helped us, decided that we would make a really big tent, and it was. It had to have taken 6-7 blankets and chairs, it took up almost the entire living room, I remember that if you wanted to walk down the hallway you'd have to crawl through the tent. It was so much fun, she let us sleep in it and keep it up for a few days. Back then we never understood why we had to take them down at all, but now being a mom and experiencing household messes, I am really grateful for a mom who put up with things like, HUGE tents taking up half her house so that us as kids would be able to have a good time and enjoy ourselves.
I also remember a time in Highschool when I was getting ready for one of my Proms, I think it was my Senior Prom, and my mom had been in Utah visiting with her sister I think who might have just had a baby, I'm not really sure. But she drove all night and all morning to make sure that she was there to help me get ready. I wish now that I would have realized the pressure she was under to get home and be there for me. I know at the time I wasn't grateful, and it breaks my heart to think of how I treated her at the time, and wish now that I could relive that day and do it different. I hope my mom knows how much I love her and appreciate all that she has done for me in my life. I am who I am today because of her. She is a great mother sho loves her children and wants nothing more than for us to be happy.
Make sure you mother knows that you love her, don't let her assume, tell her. You never know when it may be too late, or maybe you'll just be like me and wish you could have done it differently. Happy Mother's Day.

Hello Out There!

I'm sorry, I know I have taken a break from the Blogging world, and I'm sure I was greatly missed. I'm sure you all missed my amazing stories and amazing insight into the game of life. Well for all of you who have missed my stories, and even for all of you who have not, I have a few stories to tell that I definitely want to remember.
This story is about my sweet Calvinator, he is such a funny little boy, I don't see how anyone who comes into contact with him can not fall deeply in love, he is just that sweet. ;0)
So I don't remember where we were at when he did this for the first time, but he has done it several times since. So because I don't remember the first time, I will tell you of the time he did it at our Chiropractor visit. I bet you really want to know what he did, don't you. Well, here you go. One of the Chiro's at the office was trying to make friends with little Calvy by trying to get him to say "hi" which didn't work. So he tried getting Calvy to give him "high five" which also didn't work. Then he even tried bribery, he offered him a dinosaur toy, which also landed flat. So the Chiro went back behind the reception desk and just kept smiling at him and saying hi, then Calvy looks at me and says "mommy, I don't want to smile" and after saying to him "ok bud, you don't have to" he would try his very hardest NOT to smile, but never succeeded, so he'd end up covering his mouth, which would end up making me laugh and smile, which in turn would make him repeat, "mommy, I don't want to smile". We did this several times before we got called back. It was so hilarious the first time, and every time he does it actually. He just looks so sweet, and is so sincere that he does not want to smile so he tries so hard, and then when he ends up smiling he gets a little upset and tries his hardest not to smile again. It's almost like when he has the Hick-ups, you know how you can't control them. He gets so frustrated when he gets them, every time he "hick-ups" he covers his mouth and says "no, I don't want it" meaning, I don't want to "hick-up". It's really cute. Anyway, so the Chiro visit was on Thursday and just yesterday he was sitting in his booster seat eating lunch and we were laughing and talking, and then he stops and says "mommy I want to smile" so thinking he was doing the same thing, and not quite understanding what he truly said, I told him again, "it's ok, you don't have to" and he says "no mommy, I want to smile". Understanding now what he was saying I said "ok bud, go ahead" and so he gives me the biggest, cheesiest smile I have ever seen him do, it was so cute. We would take turns smiling back and forth. Calvy is such a fun little boy, I love him so much, it's so fun to have times like these, it makes the harder times much more bearable.
Well, I hope you like my stories and I hope they make sense, because I am not a fan of proof reading my own work, I LOVE to proof read Alsy's work but that's another story. Love all you out there in the blogging world. And to all you Blogging mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day.