more pix

Family pictures!

We had our pix taken on friday by Ashley.

She does Jada Love Photography, check out her site

(it's on my blog) her pix are great!!

The kids had so much fun, we went to murray park

and the kids played on the playground for a while so

Ashley was taking pictures of them without just posing

but Brooklyn kept pausing in a pose whenever she saw

the camera. Then they would say

' I wanna see!!!" or "take a picture of this, (strike a pose) and take a picture of me". She did a contest a little while ago and we won! I was so excited! I 've been wanting to do pictures of the family but we just have not had any money to do it so I am so glad I actually won.(I never win anything!!!) Anyway if you are wanting pictures done I highly recomend Jada Love photography! these pix are from her site I don't have my copies yet so I copied them so I could post this.

picture tag

My cousin tagged me the other day. The rules are that you tag 4 people and you have to put the 4th picture in your 4th folder on your blog. Well here is the 4th picture on my fourth folder...

Nate and I started laughing when we saw what picture it was. So random. This is brooklyn prob about a year old. Gotta love the hair!! I'm surprised how much she had at this point. It really wasn't that thick but it looks like she had alot.

So now I tag Kayleen, Bethany, Debbie and Renee

I went to Good Things Utah With Kayleen today!!! It's our day off from being mommy and we are starting off right!! Daddy is coming home early and I'm not coming home

Ok maybe at some point but not for a while.

and he's off!!!

Tanner is now in preschool!! He was so excited and had to wait a few weeks before his schedule was all set up. He kept talking about the bus and asking if he had school everyday.
So when the bus arrived he ran out the door without shoes or a jacket or anything. Not even a bye mom! Then once he was back inside to get his shoes on, He couldn't do it he was to excited. He kept going around in circles around the shoe. It was so funny to watch! He made bread dough the first day and I had to cook it for him as soon as he got home. i'm not sure if it was actually bread dough or an easier mix but he ate it. (this is Tanner) it smelled like dough but was dried out and didn't rise at all. it could have been flour salt and water for all i know.
He gets to work with a speach therapist which I'm so glad for that. It's also great for him to be away from mommy for a few hours a week and play with other kids.


Preston wants everything in sight now to be in his mouth. Esp if it's food. So I was eating a cookie the other day and he was on my lap, he saw it and tried to grab it so I moved my hand and he started yelling at me! It sounded like he was chewing me out. I grumbled about it and gave in, giving him the cookie to slime up. Brooklyn was standing by and said "well mommy, what's mine is yours!" Ya, esp. if your mommy


I went to Brookie's SEP conf with her teacher today. She is doing Great in school. Her teacher Mrs. Morgan wants to switch her to a higher reading level, the books she has been coming home with, she just breezes through. most of the time she does not need my help.
She said all the kids love her and she is very popular among the boys. uh oh!!!!! She has been kissed by a few and Mrs. Morgan has had to have a talk with the class about that. She said "I don't envy you in 10 years or so, good luck with that."
She had an area where she writes what needs to be worked on for the students and didn't have anything she could think of for brookie. i have no idea how I got such a smarty pants child.

Bows

Yesterday I was doing Broolyn's hair and decided she needs more bows. I don't have very many and they cost to much to get the cute ones. So I went online and looked at other poeples bows and on one blog there were instructions even! So instead of going to bed as I probably should have, I got out the ribbon I had and made a few bows for Brookie. The first one I did I even had Preston on my lap, trying to eat the ribbon while I was trying to use it.

He really is a handfull. He is so hyper lately, which I really don't think I need another child with excess energy, and when he is excited and bouncing all over it gets the other 2 giggling and excited. Any way, they were in bed already, thankfully! I stayed up till 11:30 making bows. They were turning out so cute that I was excited and not tired. In fact I had to take a Unisom so I could go to sleep. And before school this morning we went to buy more ribbon and clips/barretts to put the bows on! It helps that Joanns was having a sale and the ribbon I was buying was marked 2 for $1. Which actually ended up 4 for $1 and if I had known that before I left the store I would have bought double the amount of ribbon. O well at least I got a great deal!!!

So since I'm having so much fun making them I was wondering if anyone would like to buy any? Brookie only needs so many bows. I don't know if it would be worth it so I would like some opinions. How much do you think people would be willing to pay for 1 , 2 of a pair...?

so much snow!!!

So the other day when it snowed, we ended up with 6 or so inches. This picture was taken at 8 AM

Brooklyn and Tanner got out of bed that morning and came into my room to wake me up, as usual, by tickling my feet. Then they usually open the door to the balcony, which is in my room and play outside. Brooklyn opened the door and started yelling It's snowing! over and over again. She was totally excited! So after a hurried breakfast both of them had to get the snow clothing out and then played in the "backyard" for over an hour and a half.

They had a snowball fight, which even made it's way inside (but I don't care that much cuz the walk out basement is not finished), and after watching Brooklyn eat the snow by sticking her tongue out, Tanner wanted to try. So he layed down on the ground and started to lick the snow off the ground. I guess it could be worse.

They had so much fun and Iwas glad that most of their winter stuff still fits!

we should all vote this way...

Brooklyn came home the other day excited because she got to vote for the president of the U. S.
She told me about the 2 guys who were running. Her freind Dallan voted for Obama and she was upset, he was supposed to vote for John McCain. I asked her why she liked McCain better and she said "because he has blonde hair just like me!"
She watched the news all last night and was so sure he would win. When she woke up this morning her first question was "did John McCain win mom?" When I told her no, she actually started to cry!

more halloween

I wanted more pix on my blog but could only do so many in my last post so here's more.



The kids thought the pumpkin carving was smelly. Brookie was gagging ( but that could have been partly cuz she was sick) She did a cat and Tanner chose Thomas the Train (of coarse) for his pumpkin.

Preston was kept entertained with a sucker. He was so excited to eat it too. And sticky. He ate the whole thing and wanted more. The kids had one in front of him and he was bouncing like crazy, he was so excited.
He was very giggly for a while after too.




We dressed him in a warm lion costume and
I think he was pretty stinking cute.
Tanner was spiderman with the large boo boo's (he came up with that on his own- "Look mommy, I have boo boo's!) He has been wearing that costume all month. He even wants to watch spider man movies all the time right now. so silly. brookie was a fairy this year and a tiger at the fair that we went to. You know, you can't show up at 2 events wearing the same costume!
I was a southern bell. I borrowed my mom-in-laws hat and dress from her singing group for my costume. Daddy was a pirate. His was last min. and we tried to find an eye patch, but no luck. o well.
Now we have enough candy to last us the next 6 months or so and then we can start to look forward to the next halloween!

Halloween!

We went to a fair that Draper city put on and the kids had their faces painted, went fishing, made cool glittery pictures and a bunch of other fun things.

I am the homeroom mom for Brookies class so I'm in charge of doing the parties and we had an awesome party! The kids went fishing for pumpkins and bats, made cute bats, had halloween stories. We did a relay race where they had to put together a skeleton, a neighbor put together a cute book for the kids to color that was similar to brown bear but was brown owl instead. It turned out really cute. Then we made monster head apples. This one is brookies, the eyebrows are the best!
She was sick with the flu all week. I was worried she wouldn't be well in time for Halloween and then miss out on the fun, but luckily she was well enough to go! She was so tired though. She didn't last long with the trick or treating. That's ok though we still ended up with tons of candy!!
This is at Gardner Village. We went to the Witch-a-Palooza or whatever they call it. The kids love to go and see all the silly witches they have on display. All the pix I took of them infront of the witches, one or both are not looking though. This is the best I got that day. This year they didn't have as many silly displays we were a little dissapointed but the kids still had a good time.

cooking is so over rated

There's a reason I love to bake. The stuff looks yummier, tastes yummier and you can put it together, stick it in the oven and forget it till the timer starts yelling at you.
Nate is always giving me a hard time about cooking. Even things like mac-n-cheese are annoying to deal with.
I have a habit of forgetting that I have something on the stovetop cooking. I'm all about multi-tasking so when I've got something in a pan, I figure its going to take so long til it's done so I can go downstairs to grab something or put a load of laundry in upstairs . The problem is that once I walk away, I no longer think about what is on the stove.

See, when you bake, not only do you have a yummy smell pulling you back to the kitchen but it's usually in the oven and the timer is set to remind me.
He thinks its so funny that I instantly forget about say, dinner cooking, but I would much rather do just about anything else than cook dinner.
He usually has to step in and save whatever is cooking so it's edible. ( He was just standing behind me reading over my shoulder and that was his insert)
I guess I'm lucky I have him watching out for us.
The nights that he is at work late the kids usually get cereal or a pb&j.
I'll bake cookies or brownies or things I 've never tried before any day.

tanner is going to preschool

Tanner was evaluated today to go to preschool through the Jordan School district. He is not speaking well and that is going to be the main focus but he qualifies for the preschool class and not just the speech therapist. He is in the 1st percentile with his speech, 9th in social, 25 in academics.
They will also focus on his peer abilities. Since moving he is terrified of playing with other kids. He wants to play but only dares if there is only one on one play. I was at a neighbors house the other day and he would not go inside the house where I was cuz there were a bunch of kids there. Another time I was outside chatting with a bunch of our neighbors and all the kids were out playing, he would not come outside. I carried him out and he clung to me. When I put him down he ran into the house and locked the door. At the eval. the teacher asked him something about his friends and he told her about his buddy Pyper. But he has no friends so far here and it's sad.
He gets to ride a bus to the school and he is excited about that. Brookie takes the bus home from school and Tanner always wants to ride also. I think it is going to be wonderful for him. Make him feel like a big kid like Brookie.

I figured it out!!!

I fugured out how to change my background and I didn't even use my hubby.

I wish there were more fonts to use I guess there prob are somewhere. That's just something else to learn.

So brookie is sick today, she has been asleep on the couch for 4 hours now. She wakes up, stares into space and goes back to sleep. She told me her tummy hurt around 11 and I tried to get her to eat and do all I could think of to get her to feel better before school thinking I'd just take her late if she started to play and run around. But she has slept through all of school for today so I guess not.

I have been kept up all night because of this blog btw. I keep thinking about things to write about instead of sleeping and when I do finally go to sleep, Preston wakes up and I start the process all over again!!!

He woke up prob 8 times last night. It's hard to remember for sure, it might have been more. I'm so tired of him not sleeping! He has been doing this for the past 2 weeks. Before then he was just starting to only wake up 1-2 times during the night. He even had 2 nights that he slept through the night. So what gives? I can't keep this up or I'll be a walking zombie. (I won't need to dress up for halloween though)

I got some bread made while brooklyn was asleep

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Tanner and scissors

so the other day I was sitting at the computer and Tanner decided he wanted to cut something. It's his latest hobby.
I wasn't paying much attention to him till I heard him say cut mommies hair and felt the scissors in my hair. I spun around pretty quickly so he didn't get much, luckily! I guess I should prob pay more attention to him so he does not need to resort to dractic measures to get my attention. He did get a good talking to about how only mommy cuts hair.
Hopefully I can keep the cutting to paper from now on.

So I now have a blog...

I decided it's time to jump on board and do a blog.

I won't promise to be good at it though. But it is a good way to keep in contact with my friends on the other side of the mountain. I have not figured it all out though and it's 11 pm so this is the start and end of today.

Here are my 3 monkeys. Brookie and Press look so much alike, poor Tan, not only is he the middle child but the odd one out when it comes to resemblance