Slacker

I have been such a slacker at posting and I have actually had a lot to post about, but never seem to be able to find the time to do so. Hmmm, I wonder why... could this be the reason?

Getting into make-up, and deciding to eat it...

emptying my box of garbage bags...for the 5th time in one day, OR...

getting her out of the toilet and toilet paper for the hundreth time in a day. It looks like I need to train 2 little boys to keep the bathroom door shut and my hubby and I need to install some cabinet locks! Then maybe I would get a little more done besides clean up mess after mess. I think Hannah is my busiest baby by far, and now that she is getting better at walking, I am sure it will only get worse.

I feel really bad that I never posted pictures of Mason and his first season of T-Ball. It has come and gone almost 2 months ago and I am just now finally getting around to posting about it-I still love you Mase!

He had a great time playing. This kid has one heck of an arm and a great swing! He could whack the ball all the way out to the grass, he just wasn't very aggressive in the outfield. He'd rather stand back and watch all his teammates tackle each other trying to get the ball, then get tackled himself-in a way I didn't blame him, but it drove Wade crazy that he wouldn't try to go after the ball more. Maybe next season he will feel a little more comfortable with it!

Don't little tots looks so cute in uniform! We love you buddy!

First Steps!

It's official-Hannah began taking her first steps a week ago last Sunday! I knew she would be an early walker because of how busy and determined she is with everything else, I just didn't think it would be this early-9 1/2 months!

She really likes walking to her big brother Jakob and then...

crash landing into his arms! She is still pretty wobbly and falls alot, but is making great progress for her age. She will be chasing her 2 brothers down in now time!

Thanksgiving

(The Boys-Jakob, Carson, Austin & Mason-These kiddos have so much fun together!)

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving with Wade's family in Panaca. It was a little rushed and crazy getting there, but we had a good time! Wade had to work Wednesday night and didn't get off work until 6 am Thanksgiving morning, so by the time he got a few hours of sleep in we didn't get to Panaca until 3 pm and lucky for us everyone was kind enough to wait until 5 pm to eat dinner! (I don't think I have ever had Thanksgiving dinner that late in my entire life-it seemed kind of weird!)

All the kids at their very own table anxiously awaiting some turkey-the poor things were starving after waiting all day to eat!
The best part about Thanksgiving was getting to spend a few hours with GG Jones. Since she has been in the rest home, we don't get to see her very often. Hannah enjoyed playing with her hands and the shiny sequins on her slippers-it was really cute to watch them play together!

Hannah is 9 Months Already?

Wow-I know I say this everytime I post about Hannah, but I really can't believe how fast the time is going by. Hannah turned 9 months old on the 6th. I took her in for her well-check last week and she weighs 20 lbs. and was 28 in. She is in the 80th percentile for height and weight. She growing fast and learning so much! She is still a very happy baby and I always get asked if she is always so happy and yes, she really is. She has become really head-strong though, when she sees something she wants, she puts her mind to it and gets it one way or another. She has also become very busy-I thought girls were suppose to be sweet, clam and mild, Hannah is really sweet, but I'm not sure about the calm and mild part-she is always right there trying to keep up with her brothers! Here are a few pictures of some of the things she has accomplished in the past month:
She has learned to wave bye-bye. It is so cute! Now she can really say bye to her Daddy when he leaves for work and loves to wave at the cars driving by when we are hanging out in our front yard!...
She has learned to clap. She claps when we say yeah or if she hears clapping on the t.v., she will stop and clap with the t.v.!...
She has also begun the beginning stages of walking-yikes! We bought her this little stroller about a month ago and as I was putting it together I thought maybe I was jumping the gun a bit, but she took right off like she had been walking with assistance for months! Ever since then she is getting faster and faster. She has also learned to balance herself to stand alone, without hanging on to something and will stand in the middle of the room for a good few minutes before falling down. I am afraid her walking is not too far in the future-I think she is just anxious to be able to run around with her brothers!

Her favorite hangout these days is unfortunately the bathroom. I swear she is obessed with the toilet and garbage can-yuck! I try to keep the door shut, but with 2 boys going in and out all day, sometimes it gets left open and she bee-lines it everytime she gets the chance. Last week I found one of her binkies in floating in the toilet-yum!

She also LOVES to be outside and lucky for me, the weather has been so beautiful that we have been spending many-a-day outdoors lately. She loves watching the kids in our neighborhood, going for walks in the stroller and her favorite-eating rocks! I have decided that for now she is far from being a girly-girl, she seems to be attracted to everything gross and dirty! I guess that's what happens when she has 2 older brother to look up to and copycat!

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween/Nevada Day this year! This is not one of my most favorite "holidays", but I try to make it fun for my kids. I think we had so much fun this year because Wade was actually home with us for the first time since he started working for Metro 4 1/2 years ago!

The festivities began with the ward Trunk-or-Treat on Wednesday evening. (Wade did not get to attend this with us and I was ready to go back home before I even left the house-the kids were being kind of rotten) and I didn't really want to put up with all of them by myself. But I gave it a shot and it turned out to be a fun night. The kids were pretty excited to get candy and I had fun visiting with friends and seeing all of the cute costumes go by. When we got in the car to go home Jakob got a piece of candy out of his bag and began to open it when I hear Mason yell at him to stop eating his candy because Mommy hasn't checked to make sure it's safe to eat. (He had been learning about Halloween Safety in preschool and he was obviously listening to every word they told him!)

Then on Thursday Mason had a Halloween party at preschool and was excited to see all his friends in their costumes. Jakob didn't have a "party", but they did do a costume parade, which we were able to go watch and I made some sugar cookies to take to his class during lunch. As Jakob and I were handing out the cookies one of the little girls in his class raised her hand and said, "Are you his mom?" I said, "Yes I am!" She then said (so sweetly and innocently), "You are soooo pretty!" My heart just melted! Aren't little girls so sweet?

On Friday (Halloween/Nevada Day) the boys began the day with a playdate and then Mason got to go to a Star Wars birthday party! He was extremely excited. Wade and I were able to go and vote and then we came home to carve pumpkins. Wade was so sweet to gut out all 5 pumpkins by himself while I hurried to shower and get ready for the day. Then he and I carved them (the boys really could have cared less, we were outside and so were their friends-what's more fun?). After pumpkin-carving, I made some chili and cornbread and then we took the kids around the neighborhood. We made it to the top of our street when the complaining began, "My legs are tired, my bag is heavy. Can we go home now?" We told them we are just going to walk around the block and head home. When we got home they could not wait for trick-or-treaters to come to our house so they could hand out candy. Mason was out in our front yard yelling at people to come to his house to get some candy! He also felt it necessary to tell some of the kids (and even a mom) that you should say thank you when someone gives you candy! He is such a hilarious kid and has no problem correcting you when he thinks your wrong! Wade let Hannah have her first succor and boy did she love it-she was sticky from head to toe! (It was quite a fight trying to take it away from her.) We had a fun time being together as a family this weekend and look forward to all the upcoming holidays to create more fun memories and traditions!

My Exercise Buddies

Trying to loose baby weight/weight in general has never been an easy task for me, I'm just not one of those lucky women who gives birth and comes home from the hospital in their size 2 jeans. Unfortunately I have a huge sweet tooth, I am not a disciplined eater and I am not a good dieter, so I have come to realize that exercise will have to be a permanent part of my life for as long as I live, which is not a bad thing, but can sometimes be challenging with the little tykes around all the time. I have a membership to the gym, but it just hasn't quite worked out with Hannah and school and babysitting, so I have found other ways to incorporate the exercise into my daily routine and luckily the kids are good sports about it and actually enjoy going with me. Hannah loves it sooo much, she falls asleep everytime! (I would say that's better than screaming her head off in a gym daycare for 2 hours, right?) Mason loves going because he either gets to play Jakob's DS all by himself or listen to the ipod. I am grateful that they are willing to cooperate with me so that I can do this for myself each day-it's one thing that is important to me and one of the only parts of the day I take for myself. I also owe a big thanks to Wade, because on his days off he is always willing to keep the kids so that I can go all by myself! Love you all tons for helping me while I try to lose these last 10!

(P.S. I am also thankful for all the massive hills that I live around-makes for a much better workout!)

Why, Why, Why...

does my blow dryer always have to quite working right in the middle of me blow drying my hair? This is the second time this has happened to me and it always happens mid-process, never before I start and never after I've finished. I guess I felt overly frustrated and annoyed this morning when this happened to me because all last week I concentrated on exercising and getting ready for a bridal shower that I had to put on, that I never really took the time to do my hair. So this morning I went for my run and came home and hurried and showered and started to get ready so that when I had to pick the girl I babysit up from kindergarten I would be ready for the day and not feel frumpy all day long (like I usually do) and I was on my last layer of round brushing when my blow dryer decided it was done. I let it cool off, tried every other outlet and nothing-I was so mad! So my morning that seemed to be going so smoothly came to an abrupt halt and I left the house with a half-done, frizzy-haired ponytail and back to feeling frumpy! So tonight I went to Target to spend money that I wasn't planning to on a new blow dryer and hoping for a better hair day tomorrow!

P.S. I've been thinking that maybe I should just chop my hair off so that it doesn't take me 30 minutes to blow dry. I just can't decided if I like having long hair that takes forever to do or short hair that I can't put in a ponytail when I need to-hmm?