Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Funny Children!

I don't know if every mom feels like their kids are so brilliant at entertaining them, but mine our. I woke up this morning to Luke. I got him out of bed trying desperately to get him to sleep just a bit longer since I was up with Austin. No go. So I let him roam around the room for a few minutes while I dreaded the thought of getting out of my warm bed. I had left down the tread mill yesterday. I sat up to check on the little man and their he is.. pretending to walk on the tread mill with a cheesy grin like 'look mom I'm like you.' Funny kid!

We had a great day of mess making yesterday. Tad came home to cake mess and lots of toys out. We had a great time! At one moment of the day I looked at my children (both of them humming ---like mother like son) just playing on their own so nicely. I had to take a picture.

Funny boy! Austin wanted to cut his own finger nails. I being a parent who wants her children to be independent, but safe had mixed emotions about it. I thought okay. So he cut his thumb. Then Mr. Independent had to put on the band aid himself. I had to document the good job!
We had so much fun with Courtney and Max last week.
We loved having them here. Come again soon!!!



Yes that is a pull-up bar in Austin's room. He has to be like Uncle Heber. Good guy to be like so we put up the bar.
We took cookies to all of the neighbors for family home evening. I'm trying hard to be proactive in my search for normalcy in this big move. I made the cake for a charity for developmental children. I didn't know that when I signed up for that, but I was glad when I found out what I really signed on for. Oh and Austin is pretending to eat the cake. Ha ha ha. What a corker!







Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Well we are so excited to have our first visitor from our home town to our new house that we were doing a little cleaning. Austin volunteered to do the vacuuming. He discovered the fun of vacuuming.


Since we are having company I could finally take pictures of my clean put together house. So here we go:
Tad & I's bathroom. Favorite feature: jetted tub!
Tad & I's room. Favorite feature: the closet! (pictures shown of closet in previous posts) & having my treadmill in a great location.

The kitchen. From pictures
Front Door

Living Room
Bread making day!
Playing with playdough. We can't help but make messes despite Tad's encouragment!



Just a little sneak.
After I took the playdough away....sad huh!

I was going to throw away these little ice cream cup spoons, but then I thought why not make puppets. Austin and I had a great time making spoons into Diego, Dora, Boots, Mom and a few other friends. Well thats about it for us!

Monday, November 09, 2009


Well we are so excited to have internet in our house after 3 years without it. Thanks for all of you who have let us use your internet...you're great! We have made the big move to Iona, ID. We are settled into our house and just starting to get back into the swing of things. We are excited to have a semi-normal routine. The boys are a little confused by this routine. Often Austin wakes up with an agenda, such as "I go to Kiah's house for two days and Mama Marie's for three." We are enjoying video chats with all of our relatives. How cool is that, that they are only a click away. I'm loving my new kitchen. Tad did a great job picking it out. Believe it or not all of my kitchen stuff fits into it too hehe:) The boys like to hang out around the island while I cook. What cute helpers I have!

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