I couldnt resist another video

this little man is a maniac in the tub. just give him a few inches of water and he is sooo happy, its hilarious. His best moves are his belly flop slides, i captured a few here.

My Baby is walking!!!

Coleman has been taking steps for weeks now but this last week he had finally gotten it down. So cute to see such wobbly steps, and he is so proud of himself. Now he just needs to learn how to stand up on his own so he doesn't have to crawl to a table or something.........Im scared for my Christmas tree!

Batter Up!

So its another season of baseball. This season I really love Jack's team, "The Dolphins"....Justin, not so much. Half of the team are girls and all of the parents are teachers, so they are all very non-competitive and just want the kids to have a good time. Jack LOVES it and so that makes me happy.

Before and after each game they do this cheer.
"Who are we? The Dolphins!
What do we play" Baseball!
What do we do? Our Best!"

My Rant.....

Does anybody watch "The Rant" on the Las Vegas News station? Its so funny to Justin and I to hear people get all hot and bothered about things. Well today I have a lot on my mind and I am just feeling like ranting. I will probably delete this post shortly but, i just need to get it out! So here we go, my RANT....

1. Online bill paying, you have to use it. It saves me so much time and money on stamps and you can choose the exact date the bills are delivered....but every couple of months it seems there is some sort of a blunder (by me) and when it happens its like major panic. Like when I paid $1,500 to the power company instead of $150, or like this month when I schedule all of my bills to be delivered on the 5th of November (payday) except I miss changing the date on one, and of course that one is a mortgage payment.....whoops! I go to check our account and it is in the negative because that bill which should not of gone through until the 5th has just paid.....yeah not good!

2. Driving with dogs in the car...Okay so every time I see people driving with their dogs, the dogs are crawling all over them while they are driving.....NOT SAFE PEOPLE! If you have a dog and you do this, I still love you, and sometimes I wish I could have the same love of animals that you do (I said sometimes I wish that, most of the time i just think animals are nasty....I know i am cold!)

3. My house...oh my house, it is a serious cause of stress for me. No matter what I do this place is a pig sty. And I try, I really try...obviously not hard enough. And I used to pride myself at how good and clean my house looked. I give up! And that makes me feel like a failure. Of course it doesn't help that my couches have been back ordered and I have had camping chairs and an air ma tress in my family room for the last week, or that my carpets are horrible! I am grateful for what I have....that's why it should be cleaner...and the laundry and the dishes NEVER stop!

4. Food.....my boys are starting to eat more and more. My grocery bill is almost doubling and our income is the same.....problem! And I know it will only get worse, everyone always says, "just wait until you have 3 teenage boys!" I know, i just hope and pray Justin is bringing home more bacon. Maybe that is when my food storage will come in handy!

5. Speaking of teenage boys...last night at our wards "Trunk of treat' I made a comment to my friend how I hate the ugly nasty older boy costumes, they are so junky. Then she says to me, "Well you better start liking them because that is your future!" And it hit me....crap that is one bad thing about all boys....nasty Halloween costumes.

6 About Halloween. I think the economy has affected the quality of candy coming from people. My boys hardly got ANY chocolate for mom.........darn!

7. Coleman is sick and has been extremely clingy today...Problem, he weighs like 30 pounds and my arms are dying!!!

8. Our one outing of the day was going to the Redbox to get some movies for the kids...they get all excited, i get all excited that they will be occupied for a couple of hours. So we go to the first one, its says something like "Performing maintenance" so we drive to another one....same thing. Not to mention they are right in front of Mc Donalds so now the kids want happy meals. This guy that was there said he just came from another location too and same thing. So I come home without any movies, mad kids and nasty happy meals.

Ok that is it.....as if that hasn't been enough. With those thoughts, i hope you are having a great day!

Trunk or Treat

So as you can see we went with the Toy Story theme this year and the boys were thrilled. Coleman even stayed in his outfit the entire time and seemed to enjoy it. We always have a blast at our ward trunk or treat and this year was no exception. It is like the Halloween event for the kids. Jack and Lincoln made there rounds as quick as possible and then headed straight back to the car to hand out candy, they were so excited to do that.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Primary Program

Here is Jack as we were leaving for church. He was really excited for the program. We kept the program really simple this year which is a think why it was such a success.

Jack's part was, "I am created in the image of God, which means I look like Heavenly Father." He had it memorized and said it pretty fast and slightly in a baby voice...but that's okay he made up for it in the singing department. Jack sang his little heart out to EVERY song and he knew EVERY word...yeah he was that kid, the one who is slightly off key and singing loudly.....it was really cute, he was also trying really hard to smile as he was singing which made it even more hilarious to watch. We were very proud of him!

I can't believe that next year Lincoln will be up there too!

Pumpkin Patch

The boys on the little train ride.

Lincoln in the bounce house.

My "little" pumpkin! (not much little about this kid!)

The boys with Grammy

So the closet thing to a real pumkin patch here is in the K-mart parking lot, but the boys could care less. They had a blast. Grammy was in town so that was a lot of fun.

Discovery Children's Museum, SLC Utah

Justin had a business trip to Salt Lake so the boys and I decided to tag along. While we were there we went to this fun children's museum and to say that we loved it would be an understatement. We spent all morning there and then went back that night while Justin was working. They had all sorts of fun things, and my favorite part was the children's city where the kids could shop, dress up and just play like they were adults sooo fun!

I now wear underpants and I am PROUD!!

So now that Lincoln is potty trained I swear every time I turn around he is stripped down to just his underwear. He is frequently showing everyone that he can his "awesome" characters or whatever he happens to be wearing that day. Here he is at the park. I was reading a book and i tune around and see this cute little kid just playing...i guess he was hot!




The other day at Jack's baseball practice, Lincoln and one of the other kids brothers were playing at the park. One of the parents comes up to us and says..."Ummm your boys have taken off their clothes".....Lincoln said they were playing water slides.

I am hoping the cooler weather keeps Lincoln's clothes on. But i am sooooo happy he is not wearing diapers. Two down one to go!

I couldn't resist! The Boys were laughing so hard.

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Jackism's

Last night we were sitting at the table ready to eat dinner,I brought out a pitcher of lemonade and set it on the table. Next thing we know we look over and Jack is drinking from the pitcher.

Me- "Jack what are you doing?"
Jack- "I learned it from daddy."
Justin- "Jack only daddies can do that"
Jack- "Well daddy I am just practicing to be like you!"

So funny, and of course I just gave Justin that look of, "see you better watch it, Jack wants to do EVERYTHING you do."

Homework

So we no longer have tears in the morning about going to school. I think he is finally used to the schedule.......Phew!

I am loving hearing all of the things that he is learning in school, all of the little sayings that his teacher must say in class, like, "is this my kindergarten best?" and "One drop, not a lot" (when applying glue) and singing LOTS of songs. Which is perfect for Jack because for those of you that know him, you know he is like a little jukebox. So I am really happy he is learning songs to help him remember how to spell and read words. He also started telling his friends and Lincoln, "you cannot talk when someone else is talking"....I love that one.

I'm so proud of you Jack, you are growing up WAY too fast! He just brought home is first little thing for a school fundraiser and, Oh Crap...its cookie dough and all sorts of sweets!

Rain Gutter Bookshelves

**excuse the mess under the bed, I was to lazy to pick that up after I took the picture....but there you go, this is my real house!

Kiley and I made these rain gutter shelves the other day, We got the tutorial here. They were super easy and I am so excited about them...The boys can now finally see all of their books.

Girls Trip

So I have desperately been in need of a get away with no kids involved, so when I heard that "Legally Blonde" the musical was in LA, last week, I knew I HAD to get out there. So I called 3 of my closest friends and we went....just like that. Thank you to our husbands for not even questioning it and staying at home with all of the kids.

Here we are at the Pantages theater, excited for the show....Which by the way that theater is so old and AMAZING, so ornate and just neat.

Shauna recommended this small little quaint restaurant called "Toast". We were really hoping to have at least one celebrity siting, when much to our surprise, there she was.....THE Kim Kardashian eating at the same place, and here is the picture to prove it......Ok so maybe we missed her by 10 minutes....can you believe that, 10 minutes, we were bummed. So yeah this picture is slightly doctored...Justin isn't the only one in the family with photoshop skills! We were so funny and star struck that she was even there, our waitress showed us her signature on the ticket and everything. Funny story when we were leaving we wanted to take this picture and the lovely girl we asked was a total B. When Kiley asked for one on her camera she said, "Can i please just take one!"....Oh people are so nice!

So you may say, "Oh please the Kardashian's are not even celebrities"...so this is why we are such close friends, we all watch there show and we even considered going up to Calabases to go to DASH (their store)......so yeah, she IS a celebrity. I would have been happy seeing Heidi and Spencer!

Here we are inside the theater. I was in heaven seeing that show. And i really think that Heaven will be like one HUGE musical with all of us singing and dancing....I love it, it was really hard for me not to bust out and sing all of the songs at the top of my lungs. I may or may not have been humming though!

We made a stop at Ikea on our way home...Kiley got a bed for her daughter and so we were a bit scrunched on the drive home, and when i say we, I mean not me...I was driving!

Look at that smoke, there are crazy fire there right now, at night the sky was all lit up from the fire. Strangely I didn't smell it though. And there is the famous HOLLYWOOD sign on the mountain. I did start singing "Unwritten" and pictured us driving in a convertible (from the Hills, if you aren't as cool as me to know that)

Michelle, Rissa and Kiley at Brittany Spears star....Naturally we picked the most talented celebrity. we went to the Hollywood and Highland mall, where the Kodak theater is. I had no clue there would be so many freaks there in costume, to try and get people to take pictures with them.....The Joker, from Batman....so creepy!

All and all, a great trip....girls are you on for next weekend?

Oh Crap!

Coleman is CLIMBING