We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Ian is such a funny kid, he loves music.  Here he is giving us a show with his toy trumpet Rockin out on the keyboard, he knows which buttons to push to make different beats and songs and dancing, he asks to dance to "Rio" almost daily. When he isn't practicing his musical talent he watches football with dad (yeah Ian that is how I feel about the sport too)  builds forts with Maddy  lets Maddy read him books in the morning so mom can get an extra few minutes of sleep  and loves to snuggle with his family, mostly with his mom, but here he was letting Madelyn hug him on the couch

On a beautiful, brisk fall day we headed down to Navy Pier, we love it down there.  We let the kids each pick a ride to do, Rylan chose the swings. . .  and Maddy chose the Merry Go Round  On the next weekend we took the kids to a popular pumpkin patch, Bengstons!  It was cold again. . .  they had a train, a petting zoo with goats, llamas, cows, sheep, a cow, and a zebra!  Ian LOVED feeding the animals carrots, until a goat bit his little finger! Don't you just love M'Lynn's Chewbacca hat?                                        The best picture we could pull off with the kids and their pumpkins.  Rylan and M'Lynn's pumpkins, Our ward had a Harvest Dance one Saturday night and since Scott h...

I live in the best ward!  There are a lot of women my age, all are as different as can be but we all share one common thing, a love for Christ. Everyone is so nice and really good about including everyone, there are no cliques and when one sister wants to go do something she invites everybody and usually there are a couple other women who want to join in, movie nights, dinners, crafts, game nights, and. . .Mud Runs!  I was at a dinner with some women and they started talking about doing a mud run coming up so I decided why not! We spread the word and pretty soon we had a pretty nice group! It was a 5K which is about what I try and do at the gym, plus there are obstacles, and lots of MUD!  Ok so the mud was really only at the end of the course, but it was still lots of fun. My friend Lisa made shirts for us with good ol' puffy paint and a T-shirt sale at Michaels. They said "Muddy Mormons"  yep that's what we are!  There we all are before...

This little guy is just growing up too fast! He is 20 months old!  He is so full of life and curiosity that we all just watch him in amazement.  In the past couple weeks he has really gained a vocabulary and has been putting words together like, "help me mommy!"  He loves to be with everyone, and when he has to go to bed without his brother and sister in the room with him he throws a fit!  He definitely is a momma's boy and prefers her to do things for him.  He is getting more comfortable with M'Lynn and he calls her" Binn." His favorites things to eat are: Yogurt (yo-yo) Bananas (nana), Cookies Eggs He does NOT like to eat vegetables, and I am always trying to sneak them in smoothies and other foods that he loves, the only ones I can get him to eat are potatoes, and sweet potatoes His favorite things to do are: watch Rio, Little Einsteins, and Caillou swim play outside pick up Rylan from the bus climb stairs throw rocks ...

4 years ago today we fell in love with this little face,  Our little princess turns 4 today!  She wanted to have her first party with friends this year, so yesterday we put together all of her favorite things for the perfect party: dress up, tea party, shopping, dancing, playing games and eating sweets! First of all I gotta hand it to my party planning partner, M'Lynn.  I am so glad that she was able to help out! Scott had to work, and lets face it, he wouldn't be caught dead at a party like this!  We converted our living room into a spa, the girls came in and soaked their feet,  and got a pedicure.  They read books while waiting for their fancy toes to be done.  We did a little make-up and we were going to do hair-dos but the girls didn't want to, so we moved on to the next activity. Games!  Pin the bow on Hello Kitty (which was drawn by M'Lynn)  Limbo  Dance freez...