tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57824534829793100572012-02-07T02:25:59.961-07:00When you put weird things together you get a great result!Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.comBlogger3221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-62305682847167733782012-02-06T08:46:00.003-07:002012-02-06T08:53:39.039-07:00

This morning I decided to do a muffin tin breakfast for the boys. They were all pretty excited. Especially Scotty since he is gone to school at lunchtime now so he hasn't had a mtm for awhile. They had cinnamon toast, milk, scrambled eggs and pears. I have tried to get them to try cinnamon toast in the past and they refused, but plop it in a muffin tin and they gobble it up and declare it

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When most kids are transitioned into a big kid bed their parents have the fun job of getting them to stay in their beds. Not us. Nope, we are working on getting Collin to get OUT of his bed!! He won't get out of his bed when he wakes up in the morning or after nap time. And he doesn't even call us anymore- he just lays in there and coughs!! I don't know why coughing came to mean Mommy will

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I had to laugh at this blog post. That kind of conversation with my boys drives me crazy!! I love them, but sometimes their irrational thinking and non-stop talking gets to me. And all 3 of my boys are chatterboxes. Occasionally I want to run screaming to my room and lock the door behind me! I don't though. Not because I'm a mature, patient Mom.....but because I know if I do I'll be

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As this year comes to an end we have an end of an era of sorts at our house. We have had someone sleeping in a crib for over 6.5 years now- but not anymore! Collin has been able to climb into and out of his crib for a couple of weeks so we decided to convert his crib to a toddler bed. The other 2 boys never did learn to climb out so we kept them in the crib until they were 3 and potty training

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-44920137631908421152011-12-27T15:42:00.004-07:002011-12-27T18:25:17.278-07:00

We had a really fun Christmas this year. We celebrated on Christmas Eve with the Lawrence's, spent Christmas day at home together and went to church, then we celebrated with the Dunn's on the day after Christmas. Everyone had fun and we have some great memories.These faces are awesome!! Gotta love the big mess pictures!Grant was excited about his big, metal dump truck.Collin loved his truck

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I caught this shot without the flash and it shows Grant's awesome dance move of hitting his own butt.All the boys do that move. I think it might be a boy thing. No comment on whether or not I have ever done it.

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We are having lots of fun getting ready for Christmas this year. The boys love counting down the days and eating their candy from the advent calendar every day. They are having fun coming up with ideas for homemade gifts they can make for their cousins. Last Saturday Miles, Scotty, my Dad and I went to a local production of The Nutcracker. And then Miles' parents kindly had the boys sleep over

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Since Grant's birthday was on a Saturday he had his birthday party the same day, so it was a full day of celebrations. He started off the day waking up to balloons on the floor. He and Scotty slept downstairs that night so he was really surprised to see the balloons down there in the morning.Then he opened his presents from us and his brothers. I love his happy face in this picture.Daddy

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Grant is 4 today!! He is so excited for his birthday. He's been talking about it for a long time- it's been so cute! Grant has had an adventurous, fun year. As most 3 year olds experience, he has been figuring out all his emotions. And there have been a lot of emotions! He graduated from speech therapy right when he turned 3 and his speech has really blossomed. He says a lot of funny,

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Miles and I decided we should play Scrabble. Neither one of us has ever been very good at it. I have only played a couple times ever and I remember being very bad. So, for some reason, we (mostly me) got all excited about playing. We went out and bought it and sat down to play after the kids were in bed. We had to read the rules and decided to play the shortened way by ending when someone

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I always have a lot to be thankful for. I am very blessed. We will be enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with Miles' family this year. Good food, good company and fun games. Couldn't ask for more! The thing I am most thankful for is Miles and our boys. They make me so happy. A few Saturdays ago Miles was gone early rock climbing with some Scouts and the boys and I were hanging out on our bed. (

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We all had a fun Halloween. They boys were excited to get their costumes and they were worn a lot before the official day.Every year we get all the Lawrence cousins together to take pictures in their costumes. It's always a wild adventure, although as they get older it's getting easier. This year wasn't bad at all.Collin as a construction guy or Bob the Builder or Hard Hat Harry. He would

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Happy Halloween! We have 3 very excited boys today! Grant and Collin were excited about their "fooky" muffin tin lunch.They had goblin toes (cheese puffs), monster fingers (grapes), ghost blood (milk), ghost pb&j, witches teeth (corn) and a spider (Babybell cheese) on a spiderweb (spaghetti).Here is our construction guy and Mario gobbling up their spooky lunch. Scotty got a very similar lunch

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-53814615145686045932011-10-27T22:40:00.004-06:002011-10-27T22:56:51.436-06:00

Everyone was excited for Grant's preschool Halloween party and parade. He was excited for obvious reasons, and we were excited to go watch the adorable costume parade. There isn't anything much cuter than a bunch of 3 year olds parading around in their Halloween costumes.Grant and I had fun making sucker ghosts for his treat contribution.He drew almost all of the faces on by himself. He made

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I had another day of a grumpy boy made happy by his muffin tin meal! Yay!In today's muffin tin they had a bat shaped ham sandwich, mandarin oranges, corn, water, pretzels and a chocolate donut for a treat.Grant went right for the bat shaped sandwich, Collin went right for the donut - I'm not surprised!Stop by Muffin Tin Mom to see more MTMs.

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I bet that Grant and Collin think this to themselves sometimes. They are at a fun age when their language is developing and they say the most adorable things....but sometimes, it's a bit hard to understand. I'm pretty lucky that I get to spend my day with two little ones that say the cutest stuff. And lucky that they are patient with me when I need some extra help to decipher what they have

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When lunchtime came around I had two grumpy boys. When I told them they were having lunch in a muffin tin they turned into two very happy, excited boys!They had PB&Js, grapes and carrots with ranch to dip.My two monkeys singing the monkey and the alligator song.Grumpy moods are officially gone!Stop by Muffin Tin Mom to see more MTMs.

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-44739334014274041092011-09-07T23:29:00.003-06:002011-09-07T23:42:35.639-06:00

Grant had a great day! He was so excited to go to preschool. He has been talking about it for months and always wanted to drive by his preschool. He was really happy when the big day finally arrived.Here's the big preschool boy! I can't believe how grown up he looks.Very excited!His "best friend Collin" wanted to be in his picture too. They're so cute together!Following the alphabet down to

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One night Grant put his legs into the arms of his pajama shirt and couldn't figure out what was going on. It was so funny! Today he was saying he wanted an ice cream sandwich. I was asking him if he wanted to eat it while jumping or twirling and then I said dancing and he said "No, I dance when I have to go to the potty, Mommy!" Ha ha ha!! Grant is very excited to start preschool on Tuesday.

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-18925356604602961852011-08-29T13:05:00.003-06:002011-08-29T13:12:58.375-06:00

Today I remembered last minute about Muffin Tin Monday. Grant and Collin were so excited to use our little bear muffin cups. It's so fun to see how happy this little thing makes them. It was also our first Muffin Tin Monday without Scotty, so that was a bit sad. Grant even put a muffin cup at Scotty's spot because he forgot that he's at school. They happily ate and asked for refill after

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-45480338944919353722011-08-28T16:53:00.007-06:002011-08-28T22:26:26.990-06:00

I'm a Soccer Mom! (Good thing I already have the minivan!) Scotty is playing soccer for the first time this year. We weren't sure how he'd like it since all invitations to play with Miles in the backyard were quickly dismissed. But after the first practice he said that he loved it. Yay!! Each game he plays he is getting more aggressive and learning more and more. He enjoys it and we enjoy

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Scotty had his first day of first grade yesterday. He was excited to go and a little nervous too. After we dropped the girls off that we carpool with after school, he said "Mommy, you haven't heard about my first day yet!" He couldn't wait to tell me all about it. He said he had a great day and likes first grade. His teacher is nice and they read lots of stories and had lunch and had 3

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That would be my jitters- not Scotty's. I'm so nervous about Scotty going back to school! This summer has flown by and now my baby is starting 1st grade. He will be gone so long everyday. I will miss him so much. I am sad that his free time will be very short, if at all. I love for my kids to just be able to play and use their imaginations. They are great at it too- not once have I ever

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-16439259904551775492011-08-16T13:01:00.004-06:002011-08-16T15:05:02.871-06:00

Today for MTM we had turkey sandwiches, water, kale chips, grapes and strawberry yogurt. I finally tried kale chips. I have seen tons of people making them and posting about them on their blogs, so it was kind of like peer pressure! Anyway, they are pretty good. I don't think their just like potato chips though. And my kids didn't gobble them up like they do with potato chips. Scotty

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-40809344352142603642011-07-28T22:43:00.007-06:002011-07-28T23:15:23.088-06:00

Here is my belated post about our camping trip to City of Rocks in Idaho. We had a lot of fun. I was a bit worried about the trip considering I don't really like camping and we had never been camping as a family. Turns out I don't mind camping-- except the sleeping on the ground part. I don't think I'll ever come to like that!! (I may have uttered the words "I hate you" to Miles after a very

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Grant is killing this potty training business. He has been doing so well. Today was his 7th day in a row accident free. Yep- he's awesome. He had a few accidents the day after training- they all happened in the bathroom while getting ready to go. He just had to figure out the timing. Then two days later he had another accident when he was playing outside, waited a bit too long to come in

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-57562176396480968072011-07-14T20:02:00.004-06:002011-07-15T13:48:46.670-06:00

The title of this post is one of my favorite songs from the video It's Potty Time! Check it out here- it's awesome!Collin was so excited with all the potty talk this morning that he decided to give the potty a try.Unfortunately, he didn't realize the child seat was not down and fell in! It was so funny!!! By the way, so far we love this toilet seat. You can see the child seat that is

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-1822817301423437762011-07-13T23:01:00.004-06:002011-07-13T23:35:49.447-06:00

We embarked on a new adventure last weekend- our first family camping trip! I was nervous about it because I'm not a huge fan of camping. And I hate sleeping on the ground! But we ended up having a lot of fun. I will post some pictures and tell about the fun things we did. But, tonight I am getting ready for our adventure tomorrow- Grant is being potty trained! I feel he is finally ready (

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Nothing says summer than practically giving yourself a brain aneurysm while blowing up the kiddie pool under the blazing hot sun. But, see Grant's face?And Collin's face?Those faces make it all worth it! Even when the unknown hole in the pool requires repeated blow up sessions while two boys are splashing me like crazy!They started out splashing high.The tongues really made a difference.They

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We had a semi red, white and blue muffin tin meal. Happy 4th of July!We had raspberries, corn, watermelon, grapes, strawberries and hamburgers.Stop by Muffin Tin Mom to see more MTM posts.

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-81917567185384500122011-06-27T23:10:00.003-06:002011-06-27T23:18:01.745-06:00

We were so excited to take our boys to Day Out With Thomas this year. We went when Scotty was 3 and Grant was a baby and we had so much fun we were excited to do it again. We told them we were going to go on a train ride but didn't tell them about Thomas. When we pulled up they saw him and started yelling "Thomas!" It was a fun day!Posing in front of Thomas.They got tattoos. Grant was scared

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-90099026133218000342011-06-22T23:10:00.001-06:002011-06-22T23:12:17.940-06:00

I guess Collin does look a little like me.

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My friend Jodee posted this quote on her blog and I really love it."Extraordinary moments can happen in the middle of ordinary days. I was on a mother-daughter dinner date with Calli, who was nine at the time. Through a mouthful of macaroni and cheese, Calli giggled as she recounted a game of freeze tag she played during recess that day. Then it hit me... I will spend eternity knowing Calli as

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-5162473366081927892011-06-13T12:43:00.003-06:002011-06-13T12:49:19.306-06:00

When we were at the store today we found some little two pronged picks. The boys got so excited about them, so we came home and figured out what we could have for lunch that could be eaten with their new "tiny forks"!In our new bear muffin cups they had green beans, chicken nuggets and pears.They loved eating with the tiny forks. And they're boys so two are already broken.Collin was not eating

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-24570696785855869212011-05-31T23:33:00.005-06:002011-06-01T00:01:46.926-06:00

For our anniversary trip this year we went back to the same place in Park City that we stayed at last year. Miles and I spent two nights there and had a nice, relaxing time. We slept in (which was heaven!!), saw Pirates 3 and had fun spending time together without a million requests for drinks and a gazillion diaper changes!It is so beautiful there. We love it.The hotel had a special in May

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-88669934517035438782011-05-19T00:15:00.000-06:002011-05-19T00:15:00.820-06:00

Happy Anniversary Miles! Thanks for being brave enough to take a big leap with me 11 years ago! I love you!!On our anniversary this year we are going to go to the wedding of my cousin in the Salt Lake City temple. That will be so fun to attend a sealing on the 11th anniversary of our sealing. I am so grateful that families are forever and that I can be with my amazing husband and our boys as

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-57759441437472891382011-05-16T12:41:00.003-06:002011-05-16T12:46:56.649-06:00

Today is Scotty's first official day of summer vacation so we've been having a fun day not having to get ready for school! When I said it was lunch time Scotty asked what day it is and when I said Monday he went over and got the muffin tins out- great idea! I was scrambling to get lunch stuff together. I think a trip to the grocery store is in order.The boys had multi grain Club crackers, peas

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-71760680413296156272011-05-15T22:44:00.002-06:002011-05-15T22:51:59.075-06:00

I had a nice Mother's Day. I had my Mom and Dad over for dinner on Saturday night and we had a fun time with them. On Sunday my boys gave me some flowers, a book and they drew me cute pictures. Scotty also had a card that he painted and a picture he painted with his handprints made into flowers that he made at school. Collin had a cute little thing he made in nursery. I need to scan them and

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-48217334234760267242011-05-11T22:56:00.000-06:002011-05-13T14:53:07.572-06:00

I have found Grant and Collin in some funny sleeping situations lately. It's like they are messing around one minute and out like a light the next!Here's an old one of Scotty when he was three.I wish I could fall asleep so easily like that!

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For Easter the boys got some new paint and they each got a wooden letter of their first name initial. After putting them off for a few days I finally let them paint them. Letting them paint is always something that seems daunting and I avoid it, but then when we do paint it ends up being fun and not really a big deal. Why don't I remember this when they ask to paint the next time?? They had a

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-13732294867654155842011-05-02T22:49:00.002-06:002011-05-02T22:58:23.629-06:00

We had a fun Easter. We did our baskets Sat morning and later went to my parent's Easter egg hunt- and forgot our camera, so no pictures of that :-( The boys had a lot of fun finding the eggs. Sunday we watched a video about Jesus and the boy asked lots of questions about the resurrection. It was nice. Their Easter goodies. Checking out their stuff.For some reason when the other two ran out

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-47604385251673661642011-04-27T22:35:00.002-06:002011-04-27T22:41:04.913-06:00

I got these cute shots of Grant and Collin reading some books. All my boys love books. Hopefully that love will continue for the rest of their life.This is a common view for me as I change Collin's diaper. He loves books the most. I spend a lot of time during the day with him on my lap reading books. I love it!! He always takes a book to bed with him and when he's upset he wants to get a

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Poor Collin has a couple big owies right now. He was outside playing yesterday and I heard him crying. I went out and he was coming over with a mouth full of blood and he had smeared it up all over his face. Mouth injuries are scary because of the amount of blood and you can't tell what has happened. It was so sad. Scotty said that he had fallen off of our retaining wall.Whatever happened it

Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430902983135191460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5782453482979310057.post-89663833300884254072011-04-18T13:49:00.003-06:002011-04-18T23:32:46.123-06:00

We decided to be brave and let Scotty have a birthday party with his friends. I've been intimidated to do this, but decided that 6yrs old is a good age to give it a try- they're not too young and not too old! We waited until last Saturday so that there would be a better chance of good weather so we can have the party outside. We lucked out with a beautiful, non rainy day. We had 8 kids show

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...Dad sends the boys out in the snow wearing their pajamas to play!Isn't this cute??Collin fell down and didn't want to put his hands in the snow to get up, so his brothers came to his rescue. These boys are the best!

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Don't they look adorable??? When I was in St George I bought them these shirts and ties and I think they look so cute wearing them! They weren't too thrilled to wear them but after everyone had them on they admired each other and decided that ties are pretty cool. I love these boys!!!

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I haven't done a muffin tin meal in awhile so I decided to do a snack tin today. Scotty had a friend coming over after school and I thought this would be a fun snack for them. And hopefully less messy than the popcorn they had last time that somehow ended up all over the basement!We have bananas, Goldfish crackers, cucumbers and apples. I gave them a sword pick to eat the stuff with. They

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I was so excited about a month ago (I can't believe it's been a month!!) when my friend Sharon's darling baby girl was born. She was born on Collin's birthday, March 12th. So fun!! She's so sweet and she's a true miracle baby. She has such great parents and an awesome big brother. It's so fun to be around a baby girl again. The last one for me was my 9yr old niece Kennedi! Emma just *might

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While driving home today right before nap time:Collin: Mommy, I tiredMe: You're tired?Collin: YeahMe: Ok. We'll go home and go to bed and take a nap.Collin: No. No. I awake. I awake Mommy!When I went in to check on Collin one night I saw this. It made me laugh! I guess Collin fell sleep while Cookie was reading him a story!

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Today was a big day for Grant. He had his first official "rest time". When Scotty was outgrowing his afternoon nap I had him do an afternoon rest time. He needed some down time and I still needed the afternoon break. He would go downstairs and watch a movie and/or play quietly by himself. It has worked out great and he still wants to have his rest time when he has a day off of school. We

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Scotty is 6 today!! This past year has been a big year for Scotty. The biggest change was graduating from preschool and then starting Kindergarten. He also got glasses- which he loves. He has grown up so much. He is such a great big brother and has been so cute with his brothers this past year. He plays with them really well, helps them and they really look up to them. This past year

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We were lucky to be able to spend the weekend in St George for the annual Utah Press Association Convention. My Dad's newspaper, Tooele Transcript Bulletin, took top honors this year at the awards ceremony. Yay! My boys should receive an award for the loudest guests in the hotel! We really had a good time. We went to dinner at Priate Island. I think the boys were a little scared at first

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Collin's birthday party was fun. We had Thomas decorations and Miles made a Diesel cake. (Diesel is his favorite character from Thomas) We had family over for his party on Friday and then on Saturday we went to Disney on Ice. It was all a lot of fun. He loved being silly with his grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins and had fun opening his presents. We had a good time at Disney on Ice.

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Believe it or not, today is Collin's 2nd birthday! We can't believe that it's been two years since he was born, but...Collin seems older than 2! He is so adventurous and mischievous, we forget that he is so young. This year Collin learned to walk, run and climb and doesn't ever stop. Except to read books. He loves to read and takes a book to bed with him every night. I'm so glad that he

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Today Grant tried "rest time" instead of nap time. As you can see it didn't work out so well for him!We got home from getting Scotty from school about an hour after regular nap time so I decided to just let Grant rest instead of nap so that he wouldn't be sleeping too late. He was so excited. I have a feeling he will try really hard to negotiate a rest time everyday now!

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Last week I was able to throw a baby shower for my friend Sharon. She used to live right next door but moved about a year ago. She has an adorable 4yr old little boy, Miles, and she is expecting a baby girl this month. I was so excited when I heard they were expecting and then even more excited when she found out it was a girl. I totally forgot to take pictures of the shower, but I did take

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Miles and I went to St George last weekend to attend the Parade of Homes. We went with my Dad and the boys stayed home with Miles' parents. We always bring them a little surprise when we go away and they get so excited. This time we found Star Wars lightsabers that light up and have M&M's in the handle for Scotty and Grant. For Collin we bought a thing that has a sucker in the bottom of the

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Collin has discovered that he loves boots. He can get them on by himself most of the time and is so proud of himself. It's really cute.Here he has one of his and one of Grant's on.Now he has Scotty's on.This time he got both of his own on.And more of Scotty's.

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This year Miles and I are having a turn with each other for date night. When it is our week, which happens once a month, Grandma babysits and we go out. But last week we decided to do a family date night since Miles and I were going away that weekend. It's amazing how doing something different, yet simple, at dinner can make the kids so excited!First, we covered the table in newsprint and let

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For Scotty's Valentine's to his classmates we made these. I made them for our boys last year and I was excited to be able to use them for the classroom this year. Scotty and I had fun putting them together.I went into his classroom party. ("Party" being kids going crazy all over the place trying to pass out their valentines and trying to eat the candy as it's appearing on their desk.) Scotty

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I decided last minute to do a muffin tin lunch today. Since I hadn't planned ahead I just scrounged around the kitchen to see if I could come up with anything Valentine-ish. The boys had peas, a heart shaped rice krispie treat with little candies on top, milk, heart shaped grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup and Craisens. This is Collin picking out the candies from the rk treat. I think that

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I found a simple recipe for fondue that sounded so good, but we didn't have a fondue pot. A few days later I read somewhere someone saying that they use their crock pot for fondue. So we decided to give it a try and it was so yummy and fun!Scotty's friend was over to play and got to join in with us.We ended up having to get Collin his own bowl of cheese so he could dip his fork in his own

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When Scotty went to his 5yr old check up he struggled a little with the vision screening. The Pediatrician said it wasn't too bad and to just wait until he did the vision screening at school and see how that went. They did the vision screening at his school in December. Then in January we got a letter from them saying that he couldn't see the line appropriate for his age and that there were

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We also had fun at the cabin going snowmobiling and sledding. Getting ready.Grant, of course, wasn't so sure about the snowmobile! But even though he was almost crying when he left, he ended up loving it. He even fell off and didn't seem to mind one bit!Scotty has been before and loves it.We went sledding out in the road right in front of the cabin. It's a great spot to sled. This was our

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Last weekend we went to my Dad's cabin in Alpine again. We had a really fun time. On Saturday Miles and my Dad took Scotty and Grant skiing at Jackson Hole. Scotty has been once when he was 3 and this was Grant's first time. They had a lot of fun and both did great. Grant was a little unsure at first, but once he got going he liked it. Scotty did really well. He picked it up quickly and

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We finally finished phase 3 of our kindness tree. We decided at the beginning of December to put Christmas lights on the tree. Then the excitement of the tree waned and we had a hard time remembering to do it, so it took us a long time to finish it. But we finally did and we all decided to go to McDonald's for breakfast. The boys thought it was super cool and fun to play at McD's in the

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Collin found this blow up baby floater thing in my room and he loves it. He carries it around with him and calls it his boat. He's so cute!!Then he found these goggles and loves wearing them. He is all ready for the pool!

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While I was downstairs cooking and eating dinner on our play kitchen with Grant, Collin was upstairs in my room doing this:This is the first time any of our boys have written on our walls. We're not surprised Collin was the first one to do this. Stinker.He was remorseful and when I told him he needed to go to time-out, he said "kay" and went to his room. I'm thinking that Miles will need to go

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We have wanted to put in closet organizers for a long time. We put one in one of the bedroom closets when we were getting ready for Collin's arrival and it has been great. But our closet and Scotty's closet need something done. The builders put in one shelf across the top and the clothes rod and that is it. We also wanted to get a desk for Scotty so that he can move all of his "invention"

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No, it wasn't the ob! We decided to take Grant and Collin to see an allergist. Collin has had issues with dairy since he was born and throws up if he has more than just a little. Grant has had chronic stuffiness for years and we thought it might be from dairy. Our own experiments of taking him off dairy has helped his stuffiness immensely. But I wanted to know for sure and also to get some

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I didn't have it together to do MTM yesterday, so I did it today. My nephew Logan was here today and he enjoyed a fun lunch with us. The theme this week was muffin cups and liners only. I had bought some Wilton silicone cups to use with Scotty's lunches, so we had lunch in square cups today.The boys had peas, apples and a star PB&J sandwich.When Scotty first came to the table he was upset

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We had a couple good snow storms in December and the boys had a lot of fun going outside to play in the snow.Collin was so excited to go out that he put Scotty's boot on all by himself!He wasn't too thrilled with getting bundled up, but he loved it once he got outside.Daddy is lucky to have such a good helper.Scotty built a very impressive dam.Then they decided to build a snow fort.Scotty's

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Today is Miles' birthday! I'm sure that he's going to have a fabulous day! I, again, must tell all of you how wonderful Miles is. He is such an awesome husband. Better than I ever imagined I would have. He is fun, kind, very unselfish and very patient and forgiving with me! He's an awesome Dad and our boys love him so much. Everyone who meets Miles likes him.I love you Gorgeous! I hope

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For Christmas the boys gave me a new alarm clock. I've had my old one since I was 12. It's been a great alarm clock and I really liked the height. But the knob to turn the radio and alarm on and off, set the alarm time and the clock time broke so I never knew if the alarm was really set and slept in a couple times because it wasn't. So I finally told Miles that I needed a new one. And I

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For Scotty's 2nd Christmas when he was 21 months I decided to do paint handprints and frame it to give to Miles to put in his office. It turned out really cute and Miles loved it. It went much smoother than I had been expecting. When Grant's 2nd Christmas rolled around I did it with him too. He had just turned 1 at the beginning of the month so it was a bit harder than Scotty's, but not too

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Before:After:We had a great Christmas! We hope that you did too!

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I got to go to Scotty's class on Friday to attend and help out for their Christmas party. Scotty was really excited that I was coming and I was excited to go! They made gingerbread houses and paper sack reindeer and had some treats. It was fun. The kids were so cute making their houses and it was fun to see all the different ways they decorated them. Here's Scotty with his house:The class

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Imagine my surprise to find two Jedi's running around my house! Or, for these two 3yr olds, maybe Jedi in training is a better description!

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Grant had his first trip to the dentist this week. I was not looking forward to the appointment. He did not want to go and when we would talk about it he would just say "No dentist." over and over. We got there and they have a fun train table and he had great time playing with it. When it was his turn to go he just sat there at the table saying no until the hygienest told him he could take a

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On Monday night we went to the annual Transcript Bulletin Christmas party. It's always a lot of fun and this year was no exception. Santa comes and the kids get a huge bag of fun little toys and tons of candy. We had a really yummy dinner. They do gift giveaways for all the employees. Miles won a couple little knives- not so thrilling to me but Miles was excited! They also do basketball

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Since Grant has no interest whatsoever about using the potty, we tried reverse psychology and told him that he can't use the potty until he's 3. The other day I was changing his diaper and he was crying and protesting so I told him that if he learns to use the potty he won't have to have his diaper changed anymore. Then he says this: "Me no 3, me 2." I laughed so hard!! Then when I told him

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Grant has reached an exciting big boy milestone- the big boy bed! It's not an official big boy bed..it's his crib converted to a toddler bed, but he can get in and out himself and that means big boy! He was so excited when we got it ready for him. He screamed and immediately climbed on it and started jumping. His brothers quickly followed and they had a grand time. We talked about the big

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Today is Muffin Tin Monday and I actually did one today. The theme for the month of December is Holiday. I didn't think I had anything but it's always surprising what you can come up with when you scrounge around the kitchen!They had milk, a Christmas Kit Kat, Santa quesadilla, green & red (really orange, but we squinted and they looked red!) veggie chips, Christmas tree quesadilla and green

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Grant had a fun birthday. He woke up to this:He was so excited about all the balloons. It was very cute- even him continually hitting me on the head with one at 7am!He came out to the family room to this:He was nice enough to pose for a picture before ripping into the presents.He opened the smaller ones and was having so much fun playing with the Kid K'nex that he forgot all about the big

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Today is Grant's 3rd birthday!!! He's been so cute waiting for this day- some days he is excited for his birthday and some days he doesn't care. Grant is such a great kid. He is fun, smart, loving, funny, energetic, determined and happy. He still loves to snuggle and I love that so much. We snuggle everyday after his nap and we both must have our snuggle time! He is a great brother and

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To help certain members of our family (who shall remain nameless) get along better and be kinder to each other, we started a kindness tree. Whenever we saw someone doing something kind we would put a leaf on the tree. When the tree is full we get a family prize. It worked AMAZINGLY well! The kids have been really excited about doing nice things for each other and for us and have been good at

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Grandpa Steve (Miles' dad) invited the boys up one evening to decorate Halloween cupcakes and cookies. He had lots of fun decorations for them to use and let them do, and eat, whatever they wanted. They had so much fun. Steve loves to bake cookies with his grandkids and they love it. He has more patience for the mess, broken egg shells, and spills than I do!Scotty really enjoyed decorating.

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No theme for MTM today.For lunch the boys had Fresca, pretzels, corn, a ham and cheese sandwich on Bagel Thins, pears and applesauce with sprinkles.Notice the grass outside? It's white with snow! Scotty was apprehensive about the sprinkles in the applesauce so I told him that they were Christmas sprinkles and then he was excited to eat them. And then he wanted to make the corn and pears be

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We were so excited to buy this monkey costume for Scotty's 2nd Halloween. All 3 boys have worn it now and it has been so cute on all of them.Scotty found a play banana at Gma Kath's house just before Halloween and insisted on keeping it. He carried it in his pumpkin bucket.Grant HATED the costume at first! But as soon as he figured out that he was getting candy, he forgot all about the costume

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We had a really fun Halloween. We hope that you did too!We had Monkey Boy, Mario and Jedi Master Plo KoonI LOVE this picture!He really is a monkey, so this costume is perfect for him.Grant HATED the mustache! I made him look at himself in the mirror and take some pictures before I let him take it off. He cried the whole time it was on!Collin loved scooping the pumpkin guts out. The other boys

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I made Scotty a Halloween lunch to take to school this week. He had a ham sandwich with cheese ghosts on top, cheese puffs, a spaghetti spider web with an olive spider and a jack-o-lantern apple.When he got home the apple and one cheese ghost were still in the lunchbox. He told me that he really liked them and didn't want to eat them! I wonder what he was planning to do with them??

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We had so much fun getting Collin's 18 month pictures done. They were taken by Keiauni Beagley and she was so good with him. He was shy at first and did his best to not look at her. She had lots of patience and let him warm up on his own time. Then after he warmed up he wouldn't sit still for more than 3 seconds! He's a challenging one to photograph and she did a great job and we got a lot

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My kids love these videos. We watch them over and over and over so it's easier to post it on the blog then find the email. We're excited for Halloween!Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!We also did a Star Wars one. It's funny- and Miles says it sums up the movie pretty well!

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Someone is having a hard time with the 2 naps to 1 nap transition.

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The theme for MTM this week is pumpkins. We went to my Grandpa's 82nd birthday party last night and they had a bunch of pumpkins from their garden for the kids to take home. The boys chose a tiny orange pumpkin and a white pumpkin. I've never seen white pumpkins before so we are excited to have a ghost pumpkin for Halloween. Tonight we will be picking our 2 pumpkins from our garden- so

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The big yellow slide. It taunted me every time we would attend the Utah State Fair when I was growing up. Even just driving by the fairgrounds I would see it and daydream about it. I wanted so badly to go on the big yellow slide. Nothing else. No other ride called to me like the big yellow slide did. But I was not allowed. Denied the thrill. All because my Mom once heard that someone put

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It's Muffin Tin Monday again! There is no theme this week so we just did a regular lunch.We had milk, a cheese train, ham on toothpicks, pretzels, apples and grapes on toothpicks. It's amazing how much more fun food is when you put it on a toothpick!Be sure to stop by Muffin Tin Mom to see more fun posts.

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We finally did another muffin tin lunch today. Scotty asked to do it and then he helped me find the food for the theme of shapes. It was Collin's first muffin tin lunch and we also had my nephew Logan over and so he got to join in too. It was fun!We had oval olives, triangle corn chip, star pb&j sandwich, circle bananas, square cheese and rectangle Club crackers. The favorite shape was the

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What is it about jumping on beds that is so fun?? Whatever it is, my boys sure love it!Look at those faces! Pure joy!Size doesn't matter when it comes to crazy, mad men jumping.The 4 of them jumping on the bed made me a little nervous, but we lucked out and didn't have any disasters.

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