Had to Share

Okay so I just had to record a few random moments for posterity.

Tonight we were driving home from Costco and Rylynn asks, "Hey mom why was the girl sitting on the baby?"  I said I don't know, why?  She said, "because she was babysitting!!"  Then busted out laughing hysterically.  She said she made it up all by herself and I have to admit it was quite clever.  I just love how she thinks she is so funny!  She gets that from her mom:)

In Beckett news:

I had to do something I haven't done in over three years yesterday... clean out poop from the bathtub!!  I forgot that kids did that.  Seriously.  When he did it I was so caught off guard and then was like oh yeah I remember when Rylynn and Carter did that.  Anyway, of course it happened the two days after I had just scrubbed the tub.  Also this afternoon before lunch I was trying to blow dry my hair quickly before making lunch and getting the kids out the door.  So I came down the stairs to Beckett on top of the counter with a fist full of cookie and cookie crumbs all around him.  The cookie jar lid was off and all the cookies inside were smashed to crumbs.  Nice!  I just made a double batch of my favorite cookies and most of them were demolished by one little chubby fist.  He is definintely busy these days.  He has learned to move the stools and climb up on the counters and it is definitely making me stay on my toes.  I can't get too mad though cause he's just too dang cute. PS the above picture is Beckett's morning yogurt bath.  Rylynn was nice enough to snap a picture for us:)

These two love to play together and create elaborate towers and games every morning.  I love seeing their creativity and friendship grow, but it makes for a messy house!  Also to update on Carter, he had to have a hearing screening yesterday because he is back to asking us to repeat what we say 2 and 3 times since his tubes fell out in January.  The tubes made such a huge difference in his life but I was so bummed when he got another ear infection immediately after they fell out.  The next step is removing his adnoids to see if that helps.  Poor kid has my terrible ears.  He was a really good sport about his hearing test and he actually did a lot better than I expected.  His left ear is still a little weak, but that's the one that was infected about a month ago so they think it is still healing.  We will see.

And finally, in random family news, we found out today that my brother Jordan got accepted to the BYU MBA program!!!  We have been praying for him for months and the kids were so excited to hear that their prayers worked!  It was a sweet moment and a great testimony builder for them.  We are so excited for you Uncle Jordan!

Happy February!

So I have been the worst blogger ever, but let's be honest, January and February are boring!  Especially January, it never ends!  So to combate this sad trend, some of our friends hosted the coolest party ever.  It is called First Friday and they do it every year after the Christmas/New year's hype wears off.  They change the theme each year and this year's theme was superheroes!  We each had to come up with our own superhero name, costume, powers/abilities, theme song, as well as weaknesses.  It was so hilarious.  

Here's the whole gang!

Here are our awesome hosts, Latin Spice and Mustache man AKA the Albrechts.

I was supermom and Garrett was Tort man.  I sewed my little utility belt and Supermom cape.  The kids were loving the cape!  Notice Garrett's ridiculously large bling on his pinky:) Rylynn's costume jewelry!

Okay these are our friends the Beykirchs and everytime I think about them or see this picture I just laugh.  They went ALL OUT!  Loved them!  I seriously couldn't even tell who they were when they walked in the door.  Their characters were brown hornet and I forgot the other name from Fat Albert. 

All the super women!

And the super men!

So we played some fun games and then we rocked out to sing star.  I had to post this picture because Damon(Batman) totally reminded me of my Dad while he was singing.  He had all the same moves and was soo into it.  Garrett and I were dying laughing.  I don't know if he realized what an awesome compliment that was when I told him he danced and sang just like my Dad, but we loved it:)

I also got my craft on this February and made this cute Valentine's Day wreath out of cupcake liners.  We have a craft group and let's be honest, I am not so crafty, but when someone else is in charge, I usually enjoy making things.  So I gave it a try and I love how the wreath turned out.

Over the weekend before V-Day Garrett was gone on an overnighter with the YM so the kids and I made the traditional sugar cookies ourselves.

We had lots of fun decorating this year since the kids are getting old enough to not make an enormous mess!

Well maybe not this one:)  He sure liked licking the frosting off those chubby little fingers though.

Carter was very meticulous about his sprinkles.

We even made Daddy his very own plate!

The kids also helped with the decorations!

For our actual Valentine's Dinner on Monday we had this yummy asian chicken salad that we all love and then for dessert we had chocolate turtle fondue with strawberries and bananas.  So yummy!

Then the kids got to open their Valentine's bags.  They were so excited because we got Carter "Despicable Me" and Rylynn got "How to Train my Dragon."  They have wanted those movies so bad lately.  So we threw them in with all the other candy and goodies.  They have been watching them NON STOP!

Beckett was in heaven with his balloon and endless suckers.  I'm so happy to have so many adorable Valentine's in my life!  Okay so maybe February isn't so boring, but January was too long!