Mo-sure

If I haven't ever said it, my 2 year old is hilarious! Mo-sure! (okay sorry that was lame, but still worth a half-smile)

A new friend at volleyball asked Ammon: What's your name?
 I'n Mo-Mo. (giggles)

In the car:
Mommy, I got it - I got a wittle moco. (a booger)
me: Oh, yummy.
It's not yummy, it's yucky.

After most everything he eats or drinks: It's dehwicious!

On occasion he'll walk up to me and say:
I've got nothing behind me. See? See?
me: What's behind you Mo?
Nothing, see? (switches hands behind his back) See?

This was from today:
me: Mo are you poopy? (totally stinks)
No (giggles) I'n not.
Who changed you?
Daddy! (more giggles)
Daddy's in Florida, are you tricking me?
NO (more giggles)

my hands are cuL-ean! (he adds emphasis to all the L's) Love that kid!

A future artist

 Lucas came home with the following illustrations:

 Before he had drawn himself in 2033, I told him he'd be 26 and could be married. He looked at me like a crazy person and said 'No, I'm not going to do that.' 'That's what your dad said too, he was married and had one kid at age 26 - good luck with that' :) So when I looked at this paper - I asked about the 2 dogs he was going to have. He just laughed and said yep.

Lucas has a very kind, understanding, and patient teacher......with a sense of humor. haha!

Why the ninjas? Well because the enemy of a groundhog is a bobcat and people. :)

To the new

A few new things happening around here:

Lucas lost tooth #2 to a set of vice grips courtesy of Jeff (on purpose, the tooth needed to come out); also growing his molars in the back.

Lea lost her first 'eye' tooth - still questioning if that was supposed to come out, but it did and we hope something grows in it's place.

Survived 2 rounds of this bizarre flu going around. 

Jeff received a job offer and accepted it. Talked to his supervisor to give notice and was informed he was on a short list of people to be 'let go'.....whew, all in the Lord's timing right. We've been through that before. 

#1 - offered to leave in lay-offs, job was killing our family, no job lined up, took 9 weeks to get a job

#2 - let go and no job lined up, took 3 weeks

#3 - job first, then leave....(I like this plan a lot better) :)

I think we needed the stressful situations to help us prepare and keep us humble. We've been blessed to find employment so quickly each time.

Found a guy who can keep our cars running without draining our bank account. sweeeeeeet!!

New callings - Jeff is teaching the 12-14 year olds Sunday School class.

I'm the Relief Society Secretary and back up for when the Primary needs one too. Which I LOVE!

Oh we're going to Paris and London, my parents are coming to watch the kids. Romance is in the air.

We're spending more time outside - it's beautiful here this time of year! Love Arizona winters!!

Trying to be more involved and saying yes more than no to my kids. I'm a firm believer in the word no, but sometimes (alot of the times) yes is what needs to be said before I squash all the fun out of them. 

We had the 'talk' with Lea the other night. Not how I envisioned it going - mostly because it was 9 pm and in our kitchen, but it works. Was hoping to have a special night out for her, but she asked about sex, so we answered. For probably an hour.

life is moving right along.

MLK day at the park

 What do you do when the kids are out of school, your husband has to work and everyone is going crazy inside?! We go to the park. A 'new' park. We skip the one closest to us that we can see from the sidewalk and walk to the neighborhood down the street for a much quieter and cleaner park to play. I thought it was much colder than it really was outside and we came prepared with coats, gloves, hats and shoes/socks.......you can see we quickly ditched all of those items to play in the cool sand and warm sun. 

Dump out the sand toys and get to work making 'cakes'. (and try my newly found skills on the camera)

 any chance for a photo-op - how cute is this kid?!

 I was there too. :)

 and the reason we like to put sand on the end of the slide.....

 (she smiled!) :)

EmbellaSnaps™

Interchange your style with the EmbellaSnaps™ interchangeable embellishment system.
I love new things, crafts, gifts, etc. I love to be able to say, I did that! :) I'm also a 'need-to-know' sort of person. I love to know how a product came to be, a good back story will get me more interested than just trying to sell me a product. That being said, you can read about Natalie's mission (inspiring, right?!) and how EmbellaSnaps™ came to life. Now I don't know Natalie personally, but I do know her husband (we grew up together, college and then parted ways after that, but still friends). So thank goodness for facebook and being able to benefit from someone else's talent. :)
Here's how I got hooked on EmbellaSnaps™! If you know me, I'm not girly, never have been, working on that. A dress is the last thing I ever wanted to wear outside of church and well, fancy accessories have never been my thing. I didn't know if I would even be able to use the flowers she made, but I thought they were so stinkin' cute I just might buy them for my girls.

Well, I did something on her facebook page, shared a contest she was having or something and won 2 free flowers, but I had nothing to put them on so I wanted to order a headband for my girls. She sent that free too! We got the items and my littlest girl who is NOT girlie like myself, absolutely LOVES this headband and flower! She wore it for about 3 days before the my oldest girlie girl took hold of it. I wanted to show the flowers in 'action', but I don't like throw pillows and other things that will eventually be used in a pillow fight, tossed off the bed or beat up by my kids. :) I did however have a plain bag that needed a feminine touch. So check it out. It's super easy - the flowers attach to a magnet on the headband or in my case a bag too. It was simple to attach to the bag (took less than 1 min) and adds just enough girl-ness that I love it!!

 Here's the white flower and then the yellow. So dang cute and fairly inexpensive (most of the flowers these sizes are less than $5!)

 How cute would these be on a knit hat for the winter?! Now if I only had a hat to attach the flower too. Natalie said she puts an 'attachment' on her daughters shoes so she can interchange the flowers to match her dresses for church, family pictures or every day wearing (some flowers come in pairs - CUTE!)

Go to facebook and 'like' her page, try the website and create a new, simple, beautiful style!

testing, say cheese!

 Sadly, I dropped my very nice camera on the pavement at the zoo back in December and broke the lens - it could adjust, but not smoothly and took some major 'breaking' to get it to even do that. I found a brand new lens for $45 on craigslist! Regularly $200! It's not a big zoom lens - it's the one that originally comes with the camera body and this person didn't use it - my benefit!! Trying it out in the parking lot of her apartment complex in Downtown Phoenix.

 do you like Abbey's goose-egg on her eyebrow??

 Having never had the instruction manual and not being a professional photographer, I decided to find out how to use it properly. I found some good videos on youtube, then went to work taking random pictures. (it's a work in progress)

 I made the clipboards for Relief Society, will probably make some for the kids teachers for teacher appreciation too. Super easy once I got the spray adhesive and gave up on the mod-podge.

 my willing test subjects. :)

 work in progress...... haha