Happy Birthday Katelyn

Okay her birthday was actually back on the 17th but I am a little behind due to all of my knitting projects (More on that later). Anyways Katelyn turned 1. I can not believe how fast the last year went. She is now walking and saying things like "dada" and "uh-oh". She is so much fun. She loves playing with her brothers and will even wrestle with them. She always has the biggest smile. She still has no teeth which has made meal time interesting. She loves to give hugs. Her favorite person is Daddy and she has the best belly laugh I have ever heard.

Here are some pictures from her 1st birthday party.

Here is Katelyn with her favorite person in the whole world. Her Daddy!

Here she is trying to blow out candles. She could not figure out what was going on.

Here she is opening presents another thing she did not get.

We also celebrated her birthday at John's parents. Here she is eating cake and then opening presents.

Halloween Part 1

Well we had a great Halloween this year. The kids ended up going to three parties along with trick or treating on Halloween night. John and I even went to a party.

John and I in our costumes. Isn't John a cute Winnie the Pooh?

Here are my cute kids in their costumes.


Here are the kids at my family Halloween Party. They got to decorate pumpkins with stickers and hit a pinata. They had a great time. Also the baby in the turtle costume is my nephew. I loved his costume he looked so cute.

Katelyn's New Trick

For the past several weeks this has been Katelyn's favorite thing to do. I don't know why she loves moving the stools around so she is enclosed, but she does. She even tries to do it while the boys are sitting on the stools eating breakfast or lunch. Here is a video of her doing it. It just makes me laugh watching her. You can just see her thinking about the best way to arrange the chairs.

Fire Wood!

We had an early snow this year that wasn't good for many of the trees in the neighborhood being that most were still full of leaves. Unfortunately it was too much for one particular neighbor's tree and it ended up splitting from all the weight. They were kind enough to let us have the firewood in exchange for helping haul it off.

Around 4pm today John's dad came up after work with his truck and chainsaw and they got to work cutting the bigger stuff up. At 5pm a bunch of guys from the ward showed up to help with the rest and between John's dad's truck and another neighbor's trailer, they got a load of wood over to our garage (above picture) and everything else loaded to take to be mulched.

Thanks again Egans for the firewood. It's very much appreciated!

Happy Birthday Jacob!!

Today Jacob turned 3. Last night we had my family over and opened presents. I think his favorite present was the electronic Thomas the Train. Tonight we are headed out to Chuck E Cheese's. It should be fun.

Here are a few things about Jacob that I want to remember.

1. His favorite show is Curious George.
2. He is an excellent bowler on the Wii. In fact for family night one night he beat us all.
3. He loves to play with Katelyn and make her laugh.
4. He thinks his older brother knows everything and loves to follow him around.
5. When he wants me to hold him he says "I want to hold you."
6. He wants to do everything himself.
7. His favorite food is Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches.
8. He loves to be silly. Even when he is getting in trouble he makes funny faces.
9. When he gets hurt the first thing he wants is a sippy cup of milk.
10. His nickname is Jakie.
11. He loves to say "that is awesome!"

Happy Birthday Jacob we love you.

Haircut Anyone??

Friday Ben decided to give himself a haircut. He claims he was trying to help me out because I had told him he need a haircut.


The bad part was that he had soccer pictures first thing Saturday morning. John and I went out Friday night so I didn't have time to fix his hair. Then Saturday morning I had forgotten about it until I looked at him eating breakfast 20 minutes before we were suppose to leave. So I had to give him a quick buzz before we left. The sad part was that even cutting his hair with a number 2 there is still one part that is shorter. This is because he put the scissors next to his scalp and cut. At least he is a boy so we can just shave his head. Although I hope he never does it again.

Update

My husband has been giving me a hard time because I have not blogged for a while. So here are some things that are going on in my life.

1. Potty Training. What more can I say. This is never a pleasant task. I always hope I will have one of those children where I show them how and they never have an accident. Unfortunately this is not the case with Jake. In three weeks we have come a long ways but we are not there yet. He is really good if I just have him go every 2 hours. He is not so good at realizing he needs to go and going in the bathroom or telling me. If he tells me he has to go potty it is because he has already gone. Sometimes I think I should put him back in diapers but then I worry I will have to go through the past three weeks all over again.

2. Dinner Swap. This has been amazing. I was lucky to team up with three great cooks. So I make dinner on Mondays and then for the next three days I go and pick up this nicely prepared dinner. So far all of the meals have been fabulous. And dishes are so easy since I don't have a cooking mess.

3. Yard Work. I am finally getting out for some much needed yard work. Unfortunately I had this weed vine that kill two of my bushes. So I have ripped those out and I am planting another bush and some flowering perennials. I love planting and going to the nursery but I hate pulling weeds. Also I am not very good at coordinating plants. One of these days I will figure out my yard.

4. Fall. My absolute favorite time of year. I am so excited it is cooling down this weekend. 80 degree weather is not on the list of why I love fall.

5. Decorations. My kids have been so excited to decorate for Halloween. Ben saw that the neighbor had put spiderweb all around the front of her house. One day while leaving for school he saw her outside. He ran over and asked her where she got it so we could buy some. She told him the spider store so now he insist we head to the spider store to get our own.

6. Milk. Last night I called Rosehill to reduce our usually order by a 1/2 gallon because we have too much milk. Instead they added a 1/2 gallon. Now we really have too much milk. I guess we will have to make brownies to go with all of the milk.

7. Turning 30. On Tuesday I turned 30. I honestly don't feel any older but it is weird to think I am 30. I feel like I am so much younger then all of those 30 year olds I babysat for as a teenager. The thought that my babysitters look at me like I looked at the people I babysit for is depressing.

8. Gray hair. Speaking of age I have gray hair. I was blissfully ignorant of this until my little sister Anne so kindly pointed it out. I was always planing to go gray gracefully and never dye my hair but when I made that plan I thought I would be 40 when I started to go gray not 30.

Well I guess that is enough rambling for now. Probably more than you really cared to know about me but there you go.