Katelyn says. . .

For those of you who know Katelyn, you know that she is VERY verbal. It has been really fun to hear how much her vocabulary has progressed especially during the past year. One of my favorite things is to hear how she interprets even common words and makes them her own language.Here are a couple of my favorites:

Emalade = Lemonade
High Mu School = High School Musical (we LOVE it)
Mommadad = Mom & Dad (somehow we magically merge into one person when we are in the same room together
Mmmm, alicious = Mmmm, Delicious (usually said after she has convinced me to share my diet soda)
Lasterday = Yesterday or any measurement of time that isn't the present
Sirfy = Thirsty (again often used when convincing me to share my diet soda)

A couple more funnies -

On Easter, Katelyn was eating a big chocolate egg and I suggested she share with her mother. She looked back and forth between me and the egg for a while and finally said, "Mom, would you like to share my chocolate"? Before I could even answer she whispered, "say no thank you mom" and quickly inserted the entire egg into her mouth. I guess sharing wasn't as appealing to her as I thought it would be.

Because we really love drama in our house, when Katelyn gets too tired, too sassy, or just simply doesn't get her way I get told - "You've ruined my life". I seriously thought we had until she was a teenager for her to realize that our mission in life was to ruin her life.

Mother of the Year

Today has been one of those days so I thought that now that I'm a blogger I can vent on my blog!

I had big plans to take the kids to the city to see their dad at his new office, go the aquarium, go to dinner, etc. You see, today is the first day in a long time that the sun is shining, the wind isn't blowing, and it might actually hit 50 degrees. Not only am I dressed in something other than sweat pants - I'm even wearing a necklace!

We didn't quite make it out the door. Katelyn was more than tired and did nothing but temper tantrum the entire morning.

SO - as I'm sitting here feeling sorry for myself that I didn't get to go out and enjoy the decent weather I thought I would post a couple more pictures of our last week.

The other night while fixing dinner I found out that Katelyn could climb into my washing machine. I wanted to be upset and tell her how dangerous it was, but she looked so cute that I had to run and get the camera.

Jake also managed to get his first head wound this week. I have no idea how his little fingernails caused so much damage, but the poor kid looks abused.

I'm certain that these two pictures are enough evidence to convince you that I should be nominated as the next Mother of the Year!

Here's to eating out tonight, Diet Coke, Cadbury mini eggs, and a quiet afternoon with both kids napping!

Babies Don't Keep

Yesterday was Jake's 4 week birthday. I can't believe how fast 4 weeks flew by. I decided that it was about time to get off my rump and start cleaning up the 4 weeks of accumulated clutter in our house. WELL, wouldn't you know that my calm, content, and sleepy baby decided to only be calm, content, and sleepy if he was being held. At first I was a little frustrated because my day wasn't going the way I had planned it to, but I remembered a little poem that my mom used to have hanging in our house and I decided to relax!



Cleaning and scrubbing
can wait 'til tomorrow

For babies grow up
I've learned to my sorrow

So quiet down cobwebs
Dust go to sleep

I'm rocking my baby
Cause babies don't keep







So I spent the day with no shower, in my comfy clothes, and without getting as much done in my house as I had wanted to, but I enjoyed every second I spent with my little guy and my little girl in my rocking chair - cause babies don't keep!

Future American Idol

Please forgive the fact that a technically challenged mother was behind the camera (I keep forgetting that I can't take vertical movies) and enjoy the entertainment that fills my home!

Easter Celebrations

We had a wonderful Easter. We celebrated the "bunny" events on Saturday with a treasure hunt to find Easter baskets. It was so much fun and every egg that Katelyn found was exciting.


We also blessed our sweet little boy. It was a nice blessing and we were so grateful to have so many good friends in our ward who have become like family help us with the blessing.

Katelyn looked so pretty in her new Easter dress which (if I can brag a little) I found on sale for $7!


















After church, we colored our Easter eggs and had our friends Shane & Meredith Jacobs over for a fun Easter dinner. As you can tell in the picture, Katelyn had had enough fun and excitement by the time we got to dinner time!

The only thing that could have made Easter better would have been to see the temperature get out of the 30s!

The Hesitant Blogger

OK, so I consider myself fairly "with it" when it comes to trends, but for some reason I have been putting off joining the wonderful world of blogging. I will admit that it may have been a slight stubborn streak. I have never been much of a writer so the thoughts of writing anything that anybody would want to read was a little overwhelming. I've never been much of a journal writer so we'll see if I'll be able to keep this blog updated! AND - if you know me well at all you know that I probably cross the addict line when it comes to making my Heritage Makers books so I thought that having a blog might somehow take away from that.

I have reformed! With inspiration from people like Tami Weaver, Merianne Jensen, and Melanie Gunnell (whose blogs have become part of my daily computer routine - right after I check my email) I decided I also wanted a way to tell my friends and family what is going on in our lives.

SO - here goes nothing! I'm officially welcoming myself to world of blogging!