Monday, May 9, 2011

Mother's Day


I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day. I really know that I would and could not be happier being anything else but my children's mother. I love watching them grow. They are each so unique. Jesse loves to help me unload the dishwasher, every time he hears me open it he comes running to be my little assistant. Porter loves to do hard work outside with his dad. If there is a shovel or tool involved he's there and will stick with it until the end. Eliza is our little artist. She will imitate my stick drawings exactly and she could color for hours, which has become a very nice thing during sacrament meetings!

As I heard of a baby that passed away this morning and another friend giving birth to a baby boy almost at the same time, my heart was very grateful for the blessing it is to be a mother, to bring God's children here and be able to help them grow. Oh, but they are helping me grow soo much too! I looked at them a little different and was a little softer today, the way I want them to remember me being.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Easterish

 We kind of got Easterish this year. We went to our ward's easter eggstravaganza and had a blast. On Sunday we didn't get Easter Sunday pictures as a family because it didn't happen before church and after church {some} kids didn't want their picture taken and {some} kids were asleep... But here's what we got:


Spring Break 2011





For Spring Break we went to Oregon. It was such a nice trip. We went to downtown Portland to see the big City of Books bookstore. It was everything I dreamed it would be and the kids LOVED the children and education section. They sat for an hour and read book after book. I could live there. The kids favorite part was going back to the hotel to swim of course. The next day we went to the Tilamook Factory and tasted delicious cheese and ice cream. After that we just drove up the coast stopping at the different beaches and lighthouses along the way. The next day we went to the zoo. It was a great 3 days and we would definitely love to take any family coming this way to visit there. It is totally worth the drive!!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Some Family Pics



We went to Utah recently for a special wedding and had a wonderful time with our families!! We took advantage of other people's nice cameras to get some family pictures. We really treasure the time spent with our families now that we live far away!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Now that's using your brother

 I walked into the living room the other day and saw that Eliza was stepping on Porter's head to get something off the top of the piano... He was a willing footstool. What a brother!

Butterfly Pillow

 Eliza saw me working some new pillows for our room and she really wanted one too. So I gathered some scraps and remembered this blog tutorial and made this:


Thursday, February 10, 2011

++four++

Eliza is four today. What a girl. I know she came to us to teach me so many things and to love her brothers and dad like only she can. We are so much alike, and so different. Her sassy-ness from me, but not her perfectionist side. Her ability to laugh and love from her dad. 
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As I've been subbing in her sunbeam class I saw her crossing her legs like a lady. 
I thought it was funny and then I saw that she was mimicking my same pose. 
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She has always seemed very grown up in a lot of ways, but she'll always be my baby girl. 
Happy Birthday Eliza!

*it was only fitting that her best friend's brother was born on this day too. happy birthday baby will!*