Fathers and Sons

This is the beloved weekend of the Fathers and Sons campout. My boys have been looking forward to this moment ever since it started to get cold last fall. They love to go camping. What do I love about it? Jared takes 2/3 of the kids, and it is just Tallie and I. :) We are going to have a girls night. We are going out to dinner, and we are going to take bubble baths and paint our nails. We are even thinking about camping in the front room and watching movies and eating popcorn. :) I love Fathers and Sons. Gives us all a chance to recharge. I love spending time with my baby girl too. Who wouldn't? :)

Goals

Well, I completed one of my goals for this year. I ran in an official 5K today. Got a shirt, and a number and everything. :) No pictures though. The race started at 6:50, and I didn't want to get my kids up that early, just so Jared could get a pic of me running down the street. One of these days, I will have to reinact it for the photo op, but I am sure there will be more to come. In fact, I am getting ready to register for another one. It is a midnight 5K. Should be fun!! :) I didn't come in last, I started out running, and I finished running, and I ran in the middle. Just not the entire way. ;) I haven't been able to train like I wanted to, because of illness and asthma attacks, but I will continue to train for the next one at the end of May.

Cute Hair!!!

I have come across some fabulous blogs that show how to do the cutest hairstyles. One is here, and the other one is here. Both of them are AWESOME!! I have tried a few different styles from each site, and I do new styles almost daily on Natalie. I love it! Here are just some of the different ones I have done. I forget to take pictures of all of them....

Hope you guys with girls out there check out these blogs, and start doing some cute hairstyles yourselves. ;)

One more thing....

I remembered one more thing that I hate.

Potty training.

Why can't toddlers just wake up one day and say, " I'm done with diapers." And actually mean it, and have no accidents whatsoever? Gah!!

Natalie has decided that going #2 on the potty is soooo not for her. *eyeroll* I wish she would learn here real quick, that it is the coolest thing in the world.

10 Things I Hate

1. Laundry. It never ends, and I can never seem to keep up with it. At least 2 out of the 3 kids can put their own clothes away.

2. Dishes. Same with laundry. Neverending, and I can't keep up.

3. Bickering. This is my nails on the chalkboard. Makes my skin crawl...

4. Kids sleeping in my room. I don't mean babies. They are oblivious to things around them. I am talking about 7 and 5 year olds sleeping on the floor in my room. Hello? I need some privacy dudes. Get out!

5. Allergies. I have them BAD!! Nothing seems to work for them for very long either. It is like my body gets used to all of the allergy medicine out there, and just stops working. Sucks.

6. Nasal Polyps. With the allergies comes nasal polyps. For me at least. They don't go away either. For me at least. 95% of people with nasal polyps can get them surgically removed, and they don't return. I am in the 5%. I have had surgery TWICE! I have to do it again. :(

7. Ear Infections. These suckers hurt so bad. I feel so bad when my kids get them, because I know how much it hurts. I hate losing sleep when they have one too.

8. Junk mail. Why can't everyone save a tree, and stop sending me all this crap that just gets put straight in the recycle bin? I don't need 258 credit cards thankyouverymuch.

9. Scared. I hate being scared. Since I am deaf in one ear, and sometimes my hearing isn't all that great, I get scared pretty easily, especially when Jared comes around the corner, and my back is turned. He has a very light step, and he forgets to mention he is there before he starts talking...scares the crap out of me!

10. Headaches! Why do we have to have headaches? Is there really a point to them besides making us miserable? Didn't think so. That is the biggest thing I could do without. I can tolerate the rest of the list to some degree, but headaches....nah. Shoot me now.

Natalie-ism part 2

Funny story.

Natalie is sick. She has croup and an upper respitory infection. Went to Instacare today to get meds for her. Wasn't too bad. Came home, got dinner ready (Easter leftovers-thanks Elizabeth!), and while we were having dessert, Jacob was trying to snatch some of Natalie's frosting on her cake. She didn't like it anyway, but she had licked all of the top of it. So, we told Jacob not to eat it, because she was sick, and we didn't want him to get sick too. And, please don't let Natalie drink out of your cup. So...convo.

Jacob (in his sweetest high-pitched voice): Na-lly, you can't drink out of my cup, 'cuz you are sick, and I don't want your germs.

Natalie: I NOT SICK!!! DADDY SICK!

Which is funny to me, because Jared is sick. He has strep. She thinks only one person can be sick at a time I guess. Maybe you just had to be there...or maybe you just have to be as sleep-deprived as I am these days. ;) I thought it was cute.

Natalieism

This is a recent conversation I had with my 2 year old the other day.

N: Mom, I hungry.
Me: You're hungry? What do you want?
N: Um...eat.
Me: Okay, what do you want to eat?
N: Um...lunch.
Me: Okay, what do you want for lunch?
N: Um....EAT!!

*eyeroll* This conversation can go as long as I let it. Finally I usually give up and say, do you want a sandwich or a quesadilla?

Natalie: Burrito!

Hope you enjoyed our lunch conversation. :)

From Piggie Tails to French Braids

I just can't believe how much Natalie's hair has grown over this past year. This is a picture of her last year in Feb. She had just enough hair to pull into two little piggie tails on the top of her head.

This is her hair taken yesterday in french braids! All that hair in one year! That is crazy! I'm glad that she sits still and lets me play with her hair. :) When it is freshly washed and combed, it goes halfway down her back. When it dries, the bottom half of her hair is so curly, that it shrinks to just below her shoulders.

I can only imagine how long her hair will be next year, if this growing pattern continues....

Another Birthday

Yes, it seems that the last few posts have been about birthdays, but such is the life when you have one a month. :) Well, this time it was MY birthday. I woke up to find 1 dozen beautiful red roses on the table and the sweetest card from my hubby. :) Then, the boys did their chores without fighting me on it! That is a gift in itself. It was a very relaxing day. Took the kiddo's to Jumpin' Jacks to let them burn off some energy, since it was raining all day. Had a late lunch, and then Grandma and Grandpa came over and took all 3 kiddo's to the movies. :) Jared came home early from work, so we just hung out for a little while, until it was a reasonable time to go eat dinner. We went to Applebee's. I love that place. Yummy food, healthy options, great price. Came home, kids got home, put them to bed, and then I went shopping for myself. I haven't done that since christmas, when my sister made me go. ;) I went to Deseret Industries, and came home with 2 pair of capri's, and a jean skirt for $16! I love shopping there. The best present that I got yesterday by far was when I stepped on the scale, and looked down at my weight. I am down 60 lbs!!! That felt great. Anyway, no pictures today. :)

Birthday party

This is Natalie's birthday cake. Isn't it beautiful? I thought so. :)




This is Natalie's birthday cake 4 hours before her party.



I tried moving it from the table to the counter, and the cake slid off the board right onto the floor. I was devastated. I called Jared, who happened to be out with the boys running errands, just sobbing. He couldn't even understand what I was saying, and thought something was wrong with Natalie. It was very sad.

This is Natalie's birthday outfit. She liked twirling in her skirt. She didn't really want her picture taken though. I'm quite lucky that she was semi smiling in this picture.



Well, being the great mom that I am, I spent the remaining 4 hours before her party, making another birthday cake. Luckily I had most of the extra ingredients on hand, and Jared ran to the store with Natalie for some more frosting. She was trying so hard to blow out those 2 candles. :)



This is one of the gifts she recieved. She loves her Dora purse and earrings.

It was a fun party, and the kids had a blast.