Bed Time!

One of my favorite things lately is our bedtime routine. My kids just make me laugh!

First, it starts out with Dallas. He drops down to his belly and army crawls backwards to the stairs. The funniest part is that he drops down about 4 feet away from the stairs and it takes him so long to find them with his feet! By the time he manages to get to the bottom the older two kids are running around starting the 20 questions. "Mom, where is my soft blanket?", "Dad can we watch Golden Compass tomorrow?", "Oh I forgot a drink!" and so on... :-)

Dallas LOVES his blanket and lately he has been cuddling with it as it COVERS his face so he runs into walls and things! Ha ha! Pretty soon its prayer time and they are tucked into bed with millions of blankets done just the right way, the door is cracked just the right amount of inches and we sneak upstairs. Of course no night would be complete without the last minute "MOM!" over and over again until I want to pull my hair out. Why do they always wait until I hit that top step to ask me one last thing? Oh but I love those little crazies and I wouldn't have bed time any other way.

He finally learned to go down the stairs!

Yep! He can't see a thing!

This is my little Dal. He loves to hold his blanket up to his ear while sucking on the end. Silly I know!

Brooklyn is my little stinker. There are never any just smile normal pictures with her! HAM!!

Sweet little Mason bug. The first to crawl into bed and the first to go to sleep without coaxing.

Night night Griz!



Sick baby

We've all been sick in our house lately. Jer sounds the worse but he went to the Dr. on Monday. I took Dallas to the Doc yesterday and she said he may have RSV. She wanted to see how he did with a nebulizer at home first. So far I love how well it works! Best of all, we weren't immediately giving Antibiotics and sent home. This way we get a chance to see if it is just a virus and maybe get better. I just am not a big fan of Antibiotics for little kids. He absolutely hated the mask but he was just too cute when he tried to lick it.



Primary Talk

This Sunday Brooklyn had a talk about Heavenly Father speaks to us through the Prophet.

We prepared early this time and Brooklyn was able to practice reading her talk every night to us.

This Morning came and I didn't even have to stand up there with her. Mason was a big helper and held up the picture of the Prophet for her and I was able to sit back and listen to her. She did such a good job!

It makes me so proud to see her grow! Pretty soon I will blink and she will be a teenager.

Great Job my little Brooklyn! You are such a ray of sunshine in our lives. We are so lucky to have your sweet spirit in our family! I hope you keep up the good work! I look forward to watching your testimony grow!!!

1st black eye...

Today our land lord's realtor came to take pictures of the house so he can put them up on his website. I was going a little nuts making sure things were straight and put together. (We did JUST move in) Things were bound to be a little scattered. We explained to him how nice it was to have the basement as a play room. I was kinda priding myself on how great it is to let the kids run around downstairs in the basement. They could basically roll around as much as they want.

Well, I was proven wrong tonight. Mason was trying to tag Brook while she was running and I guess she didn't see the bottom steps. She face planted and got her very first black eye. I don't know if any other mom's feel this way but I get conflicted when my kids get hurt like this. 1st I wonder why they don't listen to me when I ask them to STOP running and 2nd I feel terrible when they are hurting. I tend to start out stern and then I always melt and it drives Jer nuts I think. Ha ha.

Poor Brook was SO upset. I think she was mostly afraid that she looked bad. She looked in the mirror then came out and said, mom its purple! I told her yes and it just needs to go away with time and that she needed to keep the ice on it, it would help with the swelling. Then she said, but I don't want to look bad!

Poor little girl. I hope she'll learn to not run around when we tell her to.... Probably not, but I can hope.

Little family get together

Jer's sister Courtney was on spring break this past weekend, so she and Preston drove up for a visit.

It was Preston's Birthday so we had a little party for him at our house. The kids were super excited to do something for Preston for his Birthday. They had an idea to make him cards. I was pretty impressed that they did so well. We had cake, presents and some yummy dinner. After that, the boys went and put in a water heater with Jer for our land lord and us girls stayed to visit and play. Courtney, Brook and I danced with a game on wii called just dance. It was lots of fun. I'm so glad we actually have room now to entertain. It was a short visit but it was so nice! Thanks guys for coming up!

Courtney was giving Pres a hard time about being 31. I didn't have a 3 candle so she just put the 65 cause you know... he is SO old! Kidding!!!

Preston reading our funny card we gave him.

Opening presents

Courtney sneaking a pic with Brook and Mase.



Happy St. Patty's Day!

 Guess there wont be any pinching in this family today! :-)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone!