What kind of shoes are you wearing???

The cutest thing happened the other day I just have to share with you. We are trying our hardest to get out the door quickly for swimming lessons but every kid cant find something. So i'm getting a little short with them. Then Ian (my 4 y/o) comes out of his bedroom with one flip-flop on and says "MOM, I wound one whip-wop but i tant whind my other whip-wop!! Tan you heop me whind my odder whip-wop???? PLEASE!!!!" Oh, how can you not laugh at that!!! That turned my whole day around! I just love that his alphabet only has about 20 letters! I just love how much (and how) he is talking!!

cover your kids eyes and ears!! WARNING EASTER BUNNY SPOILER!!!

So the last few Easters have not been good. Either I have a puking child for 24 hours during Easter or seriously I remember that it is Easter at midnight the Saturday night before. Yea, that happened but I have really good reasoning to have forgotten.

Last year I bought baskets that seem durable and have a cotton lining so this year we are going to fill them with kid made "grass" and the Easter eggs that we decorate and put them out on the couch before bed. (this is kinda a Christmas stocking theory) Then the Easter Bunny will come by and take the decorated eggs (my sister in laws idea) that we put in the baskets the night before and hide them for the kids to find in the morning. Then he will fill them with fresh fruit, spring colored packaged breakfast bars or mabey homemade muffins?? (i heard that since the puking child may have been a result of too much candy in the morning and a flu bug at the same time sweets wont be the only thing in the basket, too tempting with no alternative!) BUT he will be putting some treats in to be enjoyed later in the day BUT not too much. He may also put books and good toys in and mabey a movie, all Easter themed of course.

This helps with the few problems i do have with Easter....

Cheap ugly baskets that get thrown away or broken before the next easter, having 2 sets of easter eggs 1 set the kids helped decorate and one set that is decorated that the kids dont know about that "the bunny" leaves, And last but not least too much candy. That is always one thing i over do every christmas and Easter with my thinking that only one handful of candy will make the basket look empty.

So there's my new Easter Ideas, I am so excited to do this! With Easter being almost 2 weeks away i'd better get working on this!! I'll deffinatly be taking pictures and will add them to this post after Easter! See you then!

Being pregnant is...no fun.

I don't know many women who love to be pregnant. Seriously the first trimester is no fun. My poor daughter the other day was pretending to puke in the toilet! Why do kids always pick your least flattering experiences to imitate!??

I cant wait for the 1st trimester to be OVER! I love the middle of pregnancies, you start to look pregnant and you can do anything!

What does a Snow Angel look like?

Joshs parents took Isaac and Ian out to their cabin for a little vacation (Isaac and Bilbo were there for 10 days and Ian and Elaine joined them for the last 4 days) While they were there Bilbo and Elaine showed them how to do snow angels. They had a lot of fun. Then Bilbo saw Ian fall face first instead of back first. He rushed over to Ian and helped him up. Ian was crying by now. He asked him "what are you doing, your suppose to fall back first?" Through tears Ian says "but I wanted my snow angel to have eyes! (sob sob)"

that boy is just too cute!

Josh is just a big KID!

I finnally figured out what type of parent I am.....I am a single mom with 4 kids (not three). So for the last year (ish) we have been trying real hard to get the kids to stop playing with thier toy tubs. It is really annoying when they dump ALL the toys everywhere just to play with the toy tubs. So one day a few weeks ago I heard a ton of laughing and saw Josh run out to the kids room . He looked satartled when he saw me and was laughing. Of course I am still in mom mode (i have been policing toddlers all day) And say "why is the toy tub on your HEAD??" Josh says "were being Mushroom People!!.......and besides the tubs were already empty!" Umm, yea, I now know why the kids are still dumping their tubs!

He is the funnest amount of carzy and the best amount of parent when needed! he is the BEST!

The Boy and his Scissors!

I just found this among my posts that i started but didn't finish, so here you go.


Every fairy tale need is a princess and a villain. Here is the villain.

He's a cute one, but some times his imagination gets him into loads of trouble, I think that its because he is a crazy, fun loving boy. Its a fact that he has even driven a toy ride on car straight off the top bunk. Seriously when he hit the floor he shook his head and looked a little stunned because it should've been pain free, but that story is for another day!

Along comes the princess.........Of course every princess has prefect hair but thanks to our villain, she does not. He decided a haircut was in order so to the chop shop she went. Ian grabbed Ian sized hand fulls from her head and snipped off about 4 Ian sized hand fulls out of her hair! I was pretty sad to come back in the room from switching the laundry to find clumps of princess hair everywhere!! It was rough!

I am happy to inform that her princess hair is S-L-O-W-L-Y growing back. And there will be a happily ever after until the villain strikes again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope your day was great, Mine was wonderful!

In an earlier post I said that I wanted to enrich our lives and learn the true meaning of thanksgiving. Well we had a few learning times about being thankful and about the Pilgrims and Indians so many years ago. We also had a wonderful thanksgiving FHE the Monday before the joyous pig out day! We talked about the 10 lepers and how only 1 came to give thanks, more should have. We also made a thankful tree at FHE! It was alot of fun. I made a TON of leaves and we wrote things we are thankful for on them. What the kids were thankful for was the cutest part. They were thankful for things like....Castles, the Wii, Wall-e, the Rocketeer, Family and Primary Teachers! Then we taped them to the tree! It really turned out GREAT! The kids really LOVED this part.

Ohh and don't look too close at the door, It has been sanded but not painted. Here's just another one of my projects that will get done......someday!